However, Twitter user took issue with Paul's perception of his fanbase. Twitter user tweeted (shown below, left), the whole world does not hate you there are still people that love you and that will not turn there back on you just because of 1 mistake that you made i don't hate you at all i still love you no matter what goes on i even bought some of your new merch." Online, people were mixed on the interview. "I am a good guy who made a bad decision…I will think twice in the future about what I post." /5ju8WPA4HV- Good Morning America February 1, 2018 He also discusses his being dropped from Google Preferred, which provides advertisers an easier path to content creators.įULL INTERVIEW: YouTube star LoganPaul speaks out, one-on-one with MichaelStrahan. He believes this his content is not for children and that parents should be "monitoring" what their children watch. In the interview with GMA's Michael Strahan, Paul discusses his experiences since the infamous video's release, particularly speaking with the parents of children who watch his show and the violent reaction from people online. On February 1st, 2018, Paul appeared on Good Morning America for an exclusive interview (shown below). Shortly after the post was made, Logan Paul, presumably referring to his ongoing "Suicide Forest vlog" controversy, responded to the comment with "lawlz u tellin me." The comment (shown below, left) received more than 1,900 likes in 18 hours. On January 31st, rapper and recording artist Cardi B posted a picture of herself on Instagram with the caption "They trinna crucify me like they did Christ." The post (shown below) received more than 1.5 million likes in 24 hours. The moment and the backlash made national news and was covered by Twitter Moments, Select All, The New York Times, and more. He stated that he intended to raise awareness about suicide prevention and noted that he made a lot of content every day and was swept up "in the moment" (shown below).ĭear Internet, /42OCDBhiWg- Logan Paul January 2, 2018 Actor Aaron Paul (no relation) tweeted his disgust at Logan as well (shown below, right).Īfter a day of backlash, Paul took to Twitter to post screenshots of an apology he'd written on his phone. For example, Twitter user tweeted that Paul's actions after discovering the body did not excuse his talks about depression being a serious issue in the video (shown below, left). Criticism on Twitter focused on the presentation of the suicide. The video immediately created a wave of controversy as people saw the video as Paul trivializing suicide for the success of his YouTube channel. Paul went on to say in the video that suicide and depression are serious issues (screenshot shown below). The video has since been deleted, but received over at least 6.2 million views before then.
Fuji in Japan colloquially known as the "Suicide Forest" for the unusually high number of suicides that take place there. On December 31st, 2017, Paul uploaded a video to YouTube in which he visited Aokigahara, a forest on Mt.
On August 12th, BuzzFeed published a listicle containing factoids about Paul, noting he had a substantial following of teenage girls.
On July 29th, 2015, Tech Insider published an article titled "Logan Paul has conquered the Internet, but he can't figure out how to conquer the world," which depicted Paul as a naive aspiring actor with questionable talent. Prior and after the airing of the episode, Paul uploaded a Vine related to the episode, which managed to gather respectively over 495,000 and 396,000 likes in the following 7 months. The episode, which became infamous for its oversimplification of the events surrounding the Quinnspiracy and GamerGate, features Logan Paul in the guest cast for the role of one of the villains.
On February 11th, 2015, an episode of the American TV police drama Law and Order: Special Victims Unit aired titled "Intimidation Game". As of September 2015, Paul has over 8.4 million Vine subscribers, 2.2 million Facebook likes, 1.6 million Instagram followers, 563,000 Twitter followers and 364,000 YouTube subscribers. Paul has gained a substantial online following since joining Vine in 2013. On August 29th, the Try not to laugh YouTube channel uploaded a montage of the clips, gathering more than one million views and 280 comments in the first 48 hours. In September, Paul began posting Vines of himself pranking pedestrians in New York City but spontaneous performing split poses.