Until a few days ago, I had never heard of Logan Paul. I wish things had remained that way.

For anyone who’s missed the furore, you might want to skip this thread and save yourself having the knowledge of another complete and utter irredeemable cunt.

Fair warning: The catalyst for this thread is Logan Paul’s despicable attitude towards suicide, and using a real man’s suicide for self-promotion.

Logan Paul is a YouTuber. I understand he is/was an actor. By the look of his CV and his vlogs, not a good one who should ever have gotten work. I understand he has a brother, Jake Paul, who is pretty similar in terms of output and likability.

Logan has recently been in Japan. On Hogmanay, he posted a vlog that he and his chums had made in Aokigahara, the forest at the base of Mt. Fuji, where many people go to commit suicide. It’s an immense, thick forest, where it’s easy to get lost, and many bodies go undiscovered for years.

Logan and his friends unfortunately found the body of a man who had hanged himself. They then see fit to act like clowns around the remains, film it, and post it, blurring only the face.

Now, I’ve been around enough dead bodies to know that it’s human nature to make a few jokes. It’s understandable, it’s a coping mechanism. What you don’t do, though, what is absolutely not understandable, what is not human nature, is to film yourself gurning and prancing around like a possessed imp, trying to make it entertaining.

The vlog has since been taken down, although you can see most of it in this reaction video.



Logan has since posted an insincere apology video:



He claims that what they saw was ’unplanned’. The circumstances, and many of the things they say in the video, suggest they got exactly what they’d hoped for. He also claims that the reactions were ‘raw’. I defy anyone to watch his face during that video and tell me that he’s not playing for laughs.

I was already really angry about this. Then, tonight, I saw this video on twitter, containing some of his ‘hilarious’ antics in Japan.



I just... I dunno. I’m lost for words, really. He’s got a massive audience (15m subscribers) and it’s still growing. I find it desperately sad that there are kids watching this toxic individual and learning from him.

Am I being too sensitive? Am I out of touch? Is all of this funny? If the answer is yes, I have even less hope for our species, if that’s even possible.