Before 2017 came to an end, many people were tweeting about people and trends that they wanted to leave in 2017 and Jake Paul was a reoccurring subject in many of those tweets BUT many people did not expect his less famous brother, Logan Paul, to make one of the first big mistakes of 2018.
On the first day of 2018, news broke of a video Logan Paul posted on his vlog channel which has 15 million subscribers (many which are impressionable children). This vlog specifically was of him exploring Aokigahara, a forest in Japan known as that "suicide forest". The problem was not that Logan was exploring and vlogging his expedition but what happened at the very beginning of the video.
Logan Paul and his friends enter the forest and begin chatting as Logan lays his eyes on an object in the near distance that is hanging from the tree and he (understandably) begins to freak out BUT what happens in the next part of the video is not understandable. Once Logan and his friends identify the object as a man who has taken his life in the forest the continue to videotape. Logan Paul does not go get help (even though he states that they are super close to the parking lot), turn off the camera, or decide to vlog somewhere else. He instead, gets closer to the man and continues to vlog.
There were MANY things wrong with this video and my problems with it were not only the obvious ones (vlogging beside a dead man). First of all, yes he his vlog turned out to be all about finding a dead body but not once did he consider that this man has people that love him and they could watch this video and be forced to view their loved one.
Secondly, he does state that he is not monetizing this video but that means absolutely nothing. Even though he is not making ad revenue from that video, it is still popular which means that he is gaining subscribers and has people watching more of his monetized videos. Logan Paul gained around 3 million subscribers because this video blew up so he is potentially earning more money than if he monetized the video.
Now, this is not Logan Paul's first offense. When I first heard news of this story I wasn't as angry because I assumed that maybe he did just make a mistake (this was before I discovered everything I wrote in the article above) but I continued to research and I stumbled onto a music video by him titled "No Handlebars" not only was this music video terrible, but it sounded awfully like a song I knew titled "Handlebars" by the Flobots.
Not only was it similar, but it was an almost exact replica. But Logan Paul did not just rip off someone's song, he also decided to portray women as objects in his music video. Literally. In the music video, he is shown riding a bike made out of women... This is what made me want to write this article.
Logan Paul did not just make a mistake because mistakes are forgivable. Logan had to spend hours editing and re-editing that video and nowhere in those many hours did he think that maybe this video was a bad idea or that maybe it would offend this man's family. Even though that now Logan Paul is showing "remorse" for his mistake, I believe that he is only doing it to save his career (which is now unsavable).