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Oh, boy.
Logan.
What are you doing?
I don't understand, what...
What are you doing?
There's a pretty big chance you already know who Logan Paul is.
I talked about Jake Paul a tiny amount, before, in a previous video.
And now we're gonna talk about his older brother, more popular brother.
And let's just talk about being a respectful person,
a respectful YouTuber, really just a respectful person altogether.
So yesterday, or, actually I think it was a few days ago,
Logan posted a video of him in Japan.
Not only was he in Japan, more specifically, he was in,
how do you pronounce this correctly, Aokigahara ?
Deaf accent coming out here, but the Sea of Trees, the Japanese Suicide Forest, he was in that.
And just hearing "Suicide Forest",
you can probably guess what the forest is.
It's a place where people go and they ultimately end their lives there.
Usually by hanging or an overdose.
He went to the Japanese Forest, the Suicide Forest.
Not only did he go there with no permission, by the way,
and anyone who goes there, or goes to Japan, will at least check ahead of time, to -
anyone with any sense would go and check what you should do or not do,
in a culture that is completely different than yours.
He goes into the forest, with cameras, he films, without permission,
this is a place that you're not supposed to film in,
finds a body, that was hanged - my English teacher says "hanged",
everybody else says "hung"- and he films it, he films it,
he laughs about it, and people are saying this is kind of a nervous laughter,
which, okay, I understand having a nervous kind of laughing about it,
out of nervousness, but - just give me a second -
he films that, he films this body and apparently,
he says something about making YouTube history and all this kinds of stuff.
And he uploads the video.
Not only does he upload the video, with the body in the clip
- yes, he blurred out the person's face, but really?
But he makes a thumbnail with the body on it.
A thumbnail is a marketing tool on YouTube, so to do that, I just cannot comprehend.
And then he gets backlash for the thumbnail,
and then he changes the thumbnail to, I think, just himself.
The video was still up there for quite some time, it had millions and millions of views,
and 500-600,000 likes and very few dislikes
compared to that big of a positive number.
And then the internet finds about it, like, the side of the internet
that really wants nothing to do with Logan Paul.
I think it was Hank Green that mentioned it.
And then we're all just, we all just kind of look at it and go,
"What the hell are you doing?".
And like Reina Scully said,
this is happening on a sacred day, this is happening on New Year's Day,
and you're going to this forest without permission - this is -
how rude and disrespectful do you really need to be?
What goes through your mind when you see this?
And you just think "I need to film this and put it on YouTube".
I just, I don't quite understand that.
What made you think that was a good idea to do?
For the most part, he's getting a lot of criticism, a lot of backlash,
for doing this type of thing,
but of course you have the "Logang" or the Mavericks, or whoever the hell.
Saying, "It's a dead body. You see dead bodies. Stop being so sensitive".
Yes, dead bodies are real.
What - Logan, if this was his own sibling, his own family member,
his own friend, would he do the same thing if he randomly came across someone that he knew?
Would he film it and put it up on YouTube?
Your fanbase is so young.
Why would you...
Why would you let your fanbase, your very young fanbase watch something like that?
But also, this particular forest is such a sacred place.
You do not go in there without permission, you certainly do not film anything without permission.
The Anime Man on YouTube has done videos on it,
but he got permission from the Japanese government
and he got permission from his sponsor, because it was a sponsored video,
and he was allowed to film in the forest, however the government makes it
very, very clear that you are not to film actual bodies.
If you come across a body, turn off the cameras, that's it, you can talk about it later.
But don't film this particular moment.
And that is something that if Jake...
Logan.
You can't - I can't even - you mix the two up, you mix the two up.
What would have been the better thing to do, if Logan really needed to talk about this,
then make it a suicide awareness, mental health awareness video.
Turn off the cameras, again, go back to your room,
when you go back to your room, and then talk about it, and then
talk about how suicide is a problem,
how mental health is a big thing and needs to be talked about.
But you just don't do that by showing an actual body.
When you see a body, you go tell the authorities.
You don't film it and put it on YouTube.
And he's making this apology about how it was a human mistake.
You had so many chances, from that time that you saw it
and you filmed it, and you went back, you put it into the computer
and you edited it, you did everything else
and then upload, and make the thumbnail as well -
you had so many chances and you just couldn't think, "Oh, maybe I shouldn't put this up there".
I've been doing this for a long time now and I would never think to go to another country,
treat the country with a bunch of disrespect in the first place, looking at the other vlogs,
but especially, I would not go into this forest at all, first and foremost,
especially without permission, and...
And then you have this other side of people saying, "Stop talking about Logan Paul,
or at least stop mentioning his name, because it all it does is make it rele--make him relevant.
You're making him relevant.
Stop talking about it".
First of all, Logan Paul has already been relevant.
His fanbase makes him relevant, we...
So it doesn't really matter.
The other thing is that this needs to be talked about.
I don't know if you wanna, like, sit in the corner and,
you know, twiddle your thumbs and just sit there and be, like, "Oh, I don't wanna get involved".
Which, if you don't wanna get involved, fine, but you can't ignore the problem.
And yes, mentioning the person is important because this person is the problem.
And this isn't the first time that he's been a problem
- pulling stunts at VidCon that was risk--that risked
the safety of himself, of his fanbase, of the people working at VidCon,
and his apology, and the fact -
the one thing that really rubs me the wrong way about the apology
was that he said "I didn't do this to get views", which, of course you did this to get views.
When we film videos and we put them up, we want them to get views.
That's how this works, OK?
That's just how this works, don't pretend you didn't do it for views.
But then he follows "I did not do it for views" with "I get views."
"I didn't do it for the views, I already get them".
That is just not how you issue an apology.
It's like, "If I really wanted so many views, I don't need you to do it".
I just...
I mean, out of all the things that both Logan and Jake Paul have done, combined,
this really just takes the cake.
It's one thing to be a jerk and it's one thing to be like...
This.
You don't film dead bodies for YouTube, you don't film them for anything.
Leave it alone.
And what really doesn't help is that YouTube let this stay,
and then let it go to Trending - Number 10 on Trending.
And no, YouTube did not take the video down - Logan took the video down himself
after getting backlash,
and then he makes that apology saying, "I've never been criticised like this before".
Yeah, you have, yeah you have.
Maybe not to this extent but you have definitely been criticised over and over and over again,
along with your brother.
You see LGBTQ creators getting flagged, demonetized,
disabled creators getting monetized,
people making mental health videos - flagged, demonetized.
People that are on, like, this side of the YouTube world
who are actually trying to help out the world - getting flagged, demonetized and all of that
but this, this video stays up, goes Trending,
and YouTube has no desire to actually get rid of it, themselves.
YouTube, also, what are you doing?
And yeah, the video may have been taken down, but all it took was one person to download it
and then reupload it onto another channel,
and now it's just going and being reuploaded throughout the internet.
I can only imagine that if that was - that,
if that person there was my family member,
and then I just happened to see the vlog, and oh! There's a person that I know,
yes, the face may be blurred but you could probably tell,
sometimes you can just look at something and tell, look at the clothing and, you know, whatever else.
I just, I don't...
Stay far away from cultures that are not yours,
from places that require respect, lots and lots of respect,
because that's something that you do not have in your brain, in your heart,
anywhere in your body, that's all I have to say, don't...
No one is perfect but just don't, don't do som--don't do something like that,
don't support something like that.
I'll see you later. Bye.