Logan Paul is a known YouTuber and his start to 2018 has not been that smooth. In fact, he is really struggling with some sort of things that he did recently. When billions across the world were gearing up to welcome the New Year with all kinds of positivity, Paul was giving the finishing touches to his one of the most controversial videos on YouTube.
Paul released a video carrying images of a suicide victim’s corpse hanging in a notorious forest in Japan. The video was taken well by the people all across the world. They rejected the video as it was insensitive. The video was conceived by Paul as he decided to film a video in Japan’s Aokigahara forest which is also known as “Suicide Forest.”
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The Aokigahara forest is notorious for the reason that many people have committed suicides there. As per reports, 200 people attempted suicides in the year 2010 and 54 out of them were successful in taking their own lives.
Paul said that he wanted to create an entertaining content with also carried the elements of excitement as the place is also haunted. While Paul was going through the forest, he spotted a corpse hanging from the tree. Instead of stopping, he went ahead with the shoot and filmed the body hanging from tree.
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When Paul uploaded the video on YouTube, it suddenly started attracting backlashes from the people. People blasted the idea of making video at a horrific place such as this as most of his viewers were young children. They doubted that this kind video may affect the children. Also, people also took this video as insensitive to victim’s family.
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Seeing the backlash from the public, Paul decided to apologize for releasing such kind of video. He claimed that he is “a good guy who made a bad decision”. YouTube also decided to cut its ties with this person.
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Paul also demonetized this content so that he would not receive profit from its views. He also donated a million dollars to suicide prevention agencies. After facing backlash, Paul returned on January 24 with new vlog mentioning ways for suicide prevention.
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Recently, Paul revealed that his parachute failed to open while he jumped from an air plane. He wrote on Twitter, “here’s a photo of my empty pack after i had to cut away my main parachute bc it didn’t open… i can tell you – the feeling of the blue reserve parachute opening & functioning properly was miraculous… this has never happened to another student before at this school. LP lives on (sic).”
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This was not the first time that Paul had put himself in danger for his vlog. In October, he said that he lost almost 15 per cent of his right testicle when he landed on chair. Here is also the picture of Paul’s parachute which failed to open.
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Paul also appeared on “Good Morning America” and said that he is remorseful for the video that he uploaded recently. He wrote in a tweet, “I’m going to be honest… I think parents should be monitoring what their children are watching more. Every parent I meet whose kids are under nine or an age of, like, 12, I go, ‘Hey, you let your kids watch my stuff,’ and they go, ‘Yeah, what am I going to do?”
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However, no matter how hard Paul is trying to move ahead from that video, people are in mood to forgive him. People are coming strongly at this 22 years old after his parachute failed to open.
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“Apparently Logan Paul had his life flash before his eyes today,” wrote Twitter user Brian Koerber. “Too bad Karma didnt do her job… (sic),” wrote Keynote. “What if it didn’t open. Would he want someone to vlog his dead body?” added Faye Dawson.
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“Humans make mistakes that’s a part of life. God had a plan for this young man and this was a part of it. He should have the chance to be forgiven for what he did. Everyone does. He apologized and acknowledged his mistake. He’s just a good guy who made an honest mistake (sic),” wrote a more forgiving Twitter user called Sarah. “it’s too bad you can’t vlog your life flashing before your eyes. Would be his worst video yet (sic)” quipped another Twitter user.
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The internet is the place where one can get the easily. But, it is very difficult to sustain that fame. It is only possible if someone is having very sane approach to what he/she does.
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