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.
1Paul released a video carrying images of a suicide victim’s corpse hanging
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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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2The Aokigahara forest is notorious
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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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3Paul’s video started receiving backlashes from people
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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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