Social media star Kai Cenat appeared to hang YouTube magician Max Major by the neck in shocking footage – but it was later revealed it was all just a sick prank designed to scare the viral streamer.

Cenat’s livestream showed Major, 40, shirtless on a raised yellow platform, with his hands tied and a noose around his neck attached to a counterweight. He asked Cenat to choose between two colored ropes and pull one.

When he selected the red rope, the noose immediately hoisted Major into the air, who seemed to begin to suffocate as the panicked crank and his friends stood helplessly by.

‘What the f-k? Wait, no, no! I’m not getting banned! Na, I could get banned! Is he good? I’m staying here. I’m staying here! Can I stay here?” Cenat said frantically to a cameraman.

The footage showed doctors surrounding the fallen wizard, but Major had one last trick up his sleeve.

Hours later, he released a YouTube video revealing that Cenat had unknowingly fallen prey to an elaborate ruse specifically designed to scare him half to death.

“If you’re watching this, it means something went terribly wrong… but what you don’t know is that it was all according to my plan,” he said in the video.

“Look, at the beginning of my performance I said that tonight was all about making choices. But not just the choices you made tonight, but the choices you’ve made since the day we met,” he said, claiming he had been meticulously conditioning the Twitch star all along to choose the red rope , marking the culmination of the joke in motion.

Cenat is known for pulling off his own pranks and the elaborately staged ‘hanging’ segment was several hours into a marathon stream held specifically to increase his subscriber base. So it’s entirely possible that Cenat was involved as well.

However, he later slammed Major for what he called a “selfish” stunt, claiming the YouTube wizard with 1.1 million followers wanted to make black people look bad.

“Let him go! He wants people to look like black people looking crazy. This is how they want things to look. It’s not worth it, brother. We yell at him, we look like a whole bunch of black Ns that look crazy. So, let God handle that, man,” he said later in his stream.

The stunt isn’t the first time a hanging has controversially entered the world of livestreaming.

In 2018, YouTuber Logan Paul uploaded a video showing a dead person hanging from a tree in Japan’s ‘suicide forest’. He later apologized, claiming he was just trying to raise awareness.

Cenat, 22, who has more than 20 million followers between YouTube and livestreaming platform Twitch, caused chaos in the Big Apple last July after appearing in Union Square to give away a PS5 video game console.

A huge crowd flowed through the area, throwing bottles and other items at officers and bystanders. Cenat was unlicensed and initially charged with inciting a riot and unlawful assembly, but Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg later dropped the charges.