YouTuber displays body of dead man and causes revolt

Logan Paul, one of the youtubers best known in the United States, is receiving deserved criticism after showing the body of a dead man, apparently by suicide, in his latest video.

The original idea of ​​the video that aired on Sunday (31) was to show a forest in japan Aokigahara🇧🇷 known to be a place people go to commit suicide. For this reason, there are several stories saying that there is a curse on the forest, or that it is full of spirits trapped in it, and the place is famous for being haunted.

Logan and his friends would spend the night inside the forest to see what would happen, if they would have supernatural experiences, or just scare each other. Reality changed as soon as they entered the Aokigahara, and after walking just a few meters, they find the body of an unidentified man hanged next to a tree.

To be sure of what they were seeing, everyone approached the body and – filming the whole situation and the man’s body – began to comment on what just happened.

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From that moment on, friends, and the youtuber himself, start making jokes about the situation. At one point, one of the friends comments that he is “uncomfortable” with everything that is happening, to which Logan jokes: “What? Have you never seen a dead person before?”

The video did not get positive reactions and because they saw the content as offensive and incorrect, many people asked him to remove the video and his YouTube account to be removed. Award-winning actor Aaron Paul, from the series “Breaking Bad”, was one of the people to speak out.

https://twitter.com/aaronpaul_8/status/948032944408444928

“Dear Logan Paul, how dare you! You disgust me. I can’t believe so many young people are based on you. Very sad. I hope this last video wakes you up. You are trash. That simple. Suicide is no joke. Rot in hell.”

“Retweet this for Youtube to change. Youtube CANNOT allow disgusting and horrible content like what Logan Paul did. Not only did he use a dead body of a suicide victim in his title, he zoomed in on the victim’s hands, pockets and made heartless jokes! This is unacceptable!”

After the backlash, Logan pulled the video — which was titled “We Found A Body In The Japanese Suicide Forest” with the featured image being a photo of him with the man behind — from YouTube and apologized to everyone for his Twitter account. .

“Dear internet,

How do I start?
Let’s start like this –
I’m sorry.
This is a first for me. I’ve never had this much criticism before, I’ve never made a mistake like this before. I’m around good people and I believe I make good decisions, yet I’m a human being. I could be wrong.
I didn’t do it for the views. I have views. I did it because I thought I could make a wave of positivity not negativity. This is never the intention. I had the intention to increase suicide prevention and thought ‘if this video saves just ONE life, that’s enough’. I was fooled by the shock and awe I showed in the video. I’m still like this.
I do this shit every day. I’ve done a 15 minute TV show EVERY DAY for the past 460+ days. It’s possible that they understand that it’s easy to get lost in an instant and not weigh your attitudes.
I’m always remembered for the size of my reach (the videos) that I have, and with great power comes great responsibility.es… for the first time in my life I regret having used this power in the wrong way. It won’t happen again.
I love everybody. I believe in people. I’m out of here. Peace. #Logang4Life”.