Logan Paul Vlogs
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Paul has a huge audience that is mostly comprised of young
people—with almost 4 million Twitter users, 16.1 million Instagram followers,
and 15 million YouTube subscribers. He’s been making web videos since he was
10, and moved to Los Angeles at 19 to become a star.
In late December, Paul and his friends traveled to
Aokigahara, a forest at the base of Mount Fuji in Japan, to film a video.
Aokigahara is known as the “suicide forest” because hundreds of people have
committed suicide there. That’s a pretty well-known fact (there’s even a [bad]
horror film set in the forest), and it’s certainly why Paul went there. The
video was uploaded with the title “We found a dead body in the Japanese Suicide
Forest…” and begins with Paul explaining, “This is the most real vlog I’ve ever
posted on this channel.” He adds: “With that said, buckle the fuck up, because
you’re never gonna see a video like this again.”
While filming, Paul’s “Logang” purportedly came across a
dead body hanging in the forest. Instead of turning off the cameras, notifying
park officials, or acting like a decent human being, he called to the body,
“Yo, are you alive? Are you fucking with us?”
To end the video, Paul says, “That’s the life, this daily
vlog life. Guys, I said this in one of my first vlogs, I have chosen to
entertain you guys every single day.”
The idea that Paul wanted to raise awareness about suicide
with his video is laughable—laughing at shit is literally his brand, and he
even has a video titled “FAKING MY OWN DEATH PRANK! *crazy reaction!*” (with 23
million views).
Paul’s Aokigahara video got 6.3 million views in just 24
hours before he took it down because the internet told him he was being an
asshole. Then he apologized in a video that is monetized, meaning every click
puts cash in his wallet. Now he’s “taking time to reflect” to keep up
appearances that he’s very sorry about what he’s done and is thinking very hard
about how to be better.
He doesn’t need a sponsorship deal from Pepsi (which he’s
already had) to keep being a millionaire. He’s making money off apologizing.
And so is YouTube. This decree also goes to them for caring so little about
what kind of garbage is on their platform that they didn’t even remove the
video and instead issued this weak-ass statement about the situation:
As expected, social media conglomerates continue to prove
that they don’t care about the safety of their users so long as they’re getting
clicks.
To bring this back to those twins I saw everywhere: Dudes
like Logan Paul are a dime a dozen. There are tons of cis white dudes on
YouTube, Vine, and Instagram with no capacity to really reckon with the moral
implications of their content or fame.
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