Furious fans call for Kai Cenat to be banned from Twitch claiming latest video of ‘hanging’ stunt went too far

Furious fans are calling for wildly popular livestreamer Kai Cenat to be banned from Twitch, after he was accused of taking things too far by broadcasting a hanging prank to thousands of people. 

Cenat, a wildly popular livestreamer with 13.5million followers on Twitch, was seen ‘hanging’ a man during a broadcast after he was asked to pull on one of two ropes in front of him. 

Video footage from the livestream showed a shirtless man, later revealed to be magician Max Major, standing on a yellow stool with a noose around his neck, seconds before Cenat pulled the rope. 

Screams could be heard as the man was pulled upward and those around him brought him down immediately. 

Cenat was heard telling his cameraman: ‘What the f**k? Wait, no, no! I’m not getting banned! N***a, I might get banned! Is he good? I’ll stay here. I’ll stay here! Can I stay here?’

But it was later revealed that the man being hanged was YouTube magician Max Major, who pulled an elaborate prank on him. 

Major said he knew Cenat would try and outsmart him, and deliberately planned the trick so that the streamer would choose the ‘wrong’ rope. 

Despite knowing it was a trick, the internet was up in arms over the video, with one social media user saying of the clip: ‘Kai Cenat should face a ban following that hanging incident. Whether it was a stunt or not, there are children watching him.’

Another agreed, writing on X: ‘Prank or not. Kai Cenat should be banned for showing that on stream. He saw the set up and everything, and never stopped it. Just ridiculous.’ 

One bewildered fan said: ‘KAI CENAT FAKED A SUICIDE ATTEMPT ON STREAM AND THEN ACTED LIKE HE DIDNT KNOW WHAT WAS HAPPENING??’ 

‘I’m not digging Kai Cenat hanging that guy as a stunt, but even if he didn’t know he should’ve immediately shut it down’, said a disgruntled fan, adding: ‘I’ve been a subscriber for years & I’m extremely bothered – suicide isn’t a joke.’

Another wrote: ‘Why the hell is a hanging even part of a Kai Cenat stream?’

Others lambasted Cenat for his callous reaction to the hanging, with one person writing: ‘Did he seriously say “I might get banned” after literally hanging someone?’ 

Max Major said in a video following the stream: ‘What you don’t know is that was all according to my plan. See, at the start of my performance, I said that tonight was all about choices. 

‘But not just the choices that you made tonight, but the choices that you made since the day that we met. Since the first time we met, you pushed me, you challenged me, and you wanted to see me fail. 

‘And I thought tonight, I’ll give you exactly what you asked for. You see, you thought the game was for me to influence you to make the right choice. 

Video footage from the livestream showed a shirtless man standing on a yellow stool with a noose around his neck

Major said he knew Cenat would try and outsmart him, and deliberately planned the trick so that the streamer would choose the ‘wrong’ rope

Max Major, the magician who organised the prank, has over a million YouTube subscribers and more than 400,000 followers on Instagram

Kai Cenat (pictured) is a wildly popular livestreamer known with 13.5million followers on Twitch

‘But all along, I plan to influence you to make the wrong choice, and I knew you’d pick the red handle.’

Though Major was safe and in control of the situation, Cenat said he wasn’t happy at all. 

‘Let ’em go! He wants n****s to look… we just look like Black people that look crazy. That’s what they want the things to look like. It ain’t worth it, bro. 

‘Us screaming at him, we just look like a whole bunch of Black n****s that look crazy. So, let god handle that, bro.’

Max Major, the magician who organised the prank, has over a million YouTube subscribers and more than 400,000 followers on Instagram. 

He worked with Cenat in 2023, showing him a card trick alongside rapper G Herbo. 

Major first became known to the world after appearing on America’s Got talent in 2020, showing off his magic skills. 

He described himself on his website as a ‘world-renowned mentalist’ who specialises in ‘real life Jedi mind tricks.’