I just lost some faith in humanity...

[Ræfóa Aldrnari]

So I just woke up to something horrible today.


For those of you who don't know, Logan Paul has recently been uploading vlogs of him and his friends having a trip to Japan. They've already been acting like tools and breaking a lot of social norms in the country already, but on december 31st, he crossed the line BIG TIME.


For those who don't know, there is a forest in Japan called the suicide forest, where lots of people go in to take their lives. Apparently they decided it would be a fun thing to go in there and explore, and then they found a DEAD BODY. Yeah, a man hanging by a noose. AND THEY FILMED IT! WIth several close-ups.
And not only that, they put it in the freakin' thumbnail, and called the video "We found a dead body in the forest"


Plus, the video had 6.2 million views and WAY too many likes. Not only that, it reached #10 in trending.


It's really not the way I wanted 2018 to start out with, since this is 100% going to be in Japan's news, and it's gonna make it a lot harder for white people to work or even just visit Japan, since they're gonna judge ALL of us because of him. Not to mention, that you just don't put a FREAKING DEAD BODY IN YOUR THUMBNAIL, LET ALONE YOUR VIDEO.


It's just something that I wanted to get off my chest. Thanks for reading.

[lightstone]

wow he has no respect, I dont watch 'popular' or 'trending' videos and this just proofs why

[s0ul_d3ww]

Yeah. I heard about this from boogie2988 this morning. Logan Paul and his brother are like parasites really. They thrive off of attention, both good and bad attention. Chances are they weren't getting enough in their opinion and they decided to do this. This action is not acceptable and I imagine (as boogie2988 said) it might even cause Adpocalapse 3.0.

[SadDubwool]

The good thing is that he just took a huge dent to his career both on and off youtube

[Dazed]

it just gets worse and worse with him, huh?
Blaaa why do people like this exist

[s0ul_d3ww]

it just gets worse and worse with him, huh?
Blaaa why do people like this exist

Money, probably.

[Brisky]

Can't imagine how bad that poor fella that hung himself would feel...

For starters, he decided that he wanted to end his life, and went to this creepy suicide forest, where there's dozens of people who've already killed himself before he was there, and actually hung himself.

And, if that isn't sad enough some [REDACTED] bleachass tourists mongs showed who went ahead and filmed his dead body dangling from a rope while proceeding to squawk about it, like a bunch of complete retards, purely for their own personal gain in some shitty vlog...

"DUUUUURRRRRRRR, DEAD GUY!"

Have some respect and dignity for the dead, ffs...

[Momma Bird]

Though I am in NO WAY SHAPE OR FORM defending the despicable actions taken by him. I feel it also important to understand that he is in a different mindset then presumably everyone on this forum. He is young, rich, and has an overwhelming popularity. This would cause all kinds of stress non of us would be able to relate to. At least he owned up to his error.


Again, I am not defending, I just don't think crucifying him will help. And this is coming from someone who had a lot of suicides in my family and had personally, in the past, struggled with suicidal tendencies; I would be mortified if my dead body, or the dead body of a loved one, was publicly put up on display for all the internet to see. I am also mortified for the family that experienced this.

[anoni]

Well logan's brother Jake was involved in a lot of controversy before for similar (not the same) reasons of tackling sensitive issues, so really at some point he probably should have known what is and isn't acceptable to publish.

[Momma Bird]

@ anoni


Right, well, I think I may have been to quick to post anyway. I know very little about that guy and know nothing about his brother. I actually only heard in passing some of what happened and did not even see the video.


It is well advised to keep quite in matters one knows little about. I should have just remained quiet.

[Alistair]

I've actually seen an update from this and I've seen one article that wants him banned from youtube. And at least one lawsuit.


On the personal side though? I believe he only apologized because of the backlash and he shouldn't have been messing around in a place he shouldn't have been in knowing what kind of forest it was.

[Brisky]

This is classic modern media, though...

A guy makes a video in wich there's a dead guy, and he sorta just laughs at it. And, shure it's wrong, and he shouldn't be doing that. But then he proceedes to be labelled almost as the epicentre of the entire human races moral problems, and gets lawsuits thrown against him, and people rowding to get him kicked off youtube, the entire circus lasting for weeks, if not months...

And, in cases like this, sometimes I think that 'ol Donald may be right...

Are there really not more important things to put in the news?

Spoiler for Hidden:

Yes. There are...

[Brigand]

So basically yet another internet clown did something stupid, pissed off a lot of people and posted some fake ass apology. Then other famous people will make videos about him just so they can stay relevant and get more views. That doesn't surprise me to be honest.

I don't know who Logan Paul is, but yea, judging by what others say he's the type of guy who would film a dead person, be a socially awkward asswipe, and sell his entire family to slavery for 5 bucks and 10 views.

There are way worse people than this little asshole.

[flurry]

I don't think it's going to make it that much harder for white people to live in Japan, although it might affect specific tourist activities and such like the fish market having tighter regulations.
Many Japanese people look up to foreigners even if they treat them slightly differently and I think they recognise that Logan Paul i just a big joke, like other youtubers who take it too far.
Logan Paul is pretty crazy though hopefully his big ego learns from this or not lol, tbh I never knew he existed till this thing happened. I don't get why go Japan when u jus gonna screw everyone over.

[The Past]

My view: Very disrespectful thing to do, to say the least. I haven't seen the full video (nor even heard of this guy before) but saw some clips in a commentary. And if what people say about his past are true, I suppose this isn't totally surprising.
 
The commentator mentioned how he looked so insincere and giggly while talking about the body. Someone in the comments section brought up a fact I knew about before but didn't come to mind at first.

When people are in shock and nervousness, they often act giggly and awkward. It's a natural mechanism to cope with the stress. Like when you're in a lot of pain and start laughing. That may not actually be the case in this specific incident, but I think that's something people should acknowledge in general because I've seen some get upset when they see others with that response. People who are giggling while seeing or experiencing horrific things aren't necessarily giggling at those things.