Hey bros, Logan Paul thinks he deserves a second chance... Earlier this month, the YouTuber star landed himself in a possibly career-ending controversy after releasing a video which which showed him traveling to Aokigahara, a forest in Japan often referred to as "suicide forest" because hundreds of people have taken their lives there, and filming himself and friends almost giddy when discovering a deceased person who had committed suicide. Immediately there was an avalanche of anger and outpouring of dismay towards the 22-year-old and his decision to post the video, which was entitled "We found a dead body in the Japanese Suicide Forest…", to his YouTube channel. In the video,...
- 1/16/2018
- E! Online
YouTube has made the decision to remove Logan Paul's channels from Google Preferred, which forms YouTube's top content into packages for advertisers. Deadline reports that YouTube made the decision on Wednesday, while also announcing that Paul will not be in the next season of the YouTube Red series Foursome. YouTube has made these decisions a little over a week after Paul posted a controversial video of his time in "Suicide Forest," which appeared to show a dead body. The video has since been removed from YouTube and Paul has apologized both on Twitter and in a video, but the backlash against him continues. On Tuesday, YouTube posted an open letter on Twitter addressing Paul's...
- 1/11/2018
- E! Online
Update: YouTube is addressing Logan Paul's controversial video from the "Japanese Suicide Forest." In an open letter on Twitter, the platform expressed their disapproval of the video that was removed one day after it was posted. "Many of you have been frustrated with our lack of communication recently. You're right to be. You deserve to know what's going on. Like many others, we were upset by the video that was shared last week," the statement read. "Suicide is not a joke, nor should it ever be a driving force for views. As Anna Akana put it perfectly: 'That body was a person someone loved. You do not walk into a suicide forest with a camera and claim mental health...
- 1/10/2018
- E! Online
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