First of all, if you don't care about Logan Paul or the situation, then stop reading this right now. Don't tell me that this whole thing is stupid. You can move on with your life, and not take time to read articles and watch videos about it. To some people, this is a big deal, and they want to discuss it.
Dear Logan Paul,
After writing my last open letter to you, it has come to my attention that other YouTubers explored suicide forest, and posted their journeys, showing the victims' bodies they discovered. I never thought to educate myself more about the issue. I jumped on the bandwagon of immediately blaming you.
I looked more into it by typing in 'suicide forest' on YouTube. Besides the videos/reactions to your video, I found so many different YouTubers going into the suicide forest. After watching two of these videos, I quickly realized that they all showed the victims' bodies. They blurred out the face just like you did, but they all showed the corpses.
So what makes the Logan Paul video so controversial and such a big deal? These other YouTubers didn't take down their videos, they didn't have this huge buzz around it. The difference is that you laughed about it.
You joked about something that's going to eventually happen to everyone.
Death is inevitable.
But you laughed at someone who decided to take matters into their own hands.
All because you wanted to make a video and get more views. You put the dead body in the thumbnail. For what? Oh yeah, views.
Every video and article I've watched and read were about how you shouldn't have shown the body because that was somebody's brother, son, friend, all of that, and it was disrespectful.
Even I thought that until it came to my attention that a lot of other people have done the same thing. You were trying to do a video about a haunted forest that so many people are curious about.
Some people find you entertaining and some find you just straight up obnoxious. You do have young viewers, and you make such a big impression on them. Just be more cautious about what you post because seeing you laugh about something like this will make younger viewers think that it is acceptable to laugh about suicide.
You are also under fire about your other Japan adventures. People say you disrespected Japan and their culture as a whole. Like I have said before, just be more mindful of what you are posting.
To anyone that still blames him for this video, go watch any other video because they did the exact same thing. They just aren't as famous, so it wasn't a big deal that they made those videos too. So, from the bottom of my heart, Logan Paul, I apologize for immediately judging you about something I didn't look much into.