Logan Paul Apologizes After Video Caused Commotion Online

The famous YouTuber Logan Paul caused controversy after uploading a video on his channel. It was recorded in the forest of suicides located in Japan. The video showed a young man who had just taken his own life. YouTube has made a statement apologizing for the fact. But they should start taking action.

The reach of a platform like YouTube is impressive. Each day adds hundreds of hours of content to the site. Videos that are seen by millions of people. The YouTubers and personalities of this platform have an endless list of followers. They defend them under any circumstance, admire them. Even imitate them in unusual cases to try to be like them.

This can be categorized as the problem that an Internet star, such as Logan Paul. Having more than 15 million YouTube subscribers and about 4 million followers on Twitter. Logan posts a video that shows a person who just committed suicide and laughs at the fact with his friends. The problem is that he says this to his followers, who are made up of minors.

The apologies

The “apologies” of the YouTuber Logan Paul, on the other hand, also leave much to be desired.

In the statement posted on Twitter after having to remove the video for all the criticism it received. Between phrases like I’m sorry. This the first time I faced this type of criticism because it is the first time I make a mistake this. I didn’t do it for the visits. Culminating with one of the stellar phrases “I only did it to create awareness about suicide and its prevention.”

The video wasn’t monetized. This means that Paul didn’t make money with it. That does not mean that YouTube should not take action on the matter. The company is extremely severe and effective in cases of videos that violate the copyright of any other company. Withdrawing the monetization of the video immediately. But in the case of YouTube stars reward and care for the amount of traffic on their channels.

The favorite of the platform?

YouTube has only published a statement apologizing for what happened. They didn’t promise to do anything about it.

“Our condolences to the family of the person that appears in the video. YouTube prohibits violent or explicit content when it is published in a sensational or disrespectful manner. If a video is explicit and presents graphic content, it can only remain on the platform if it has educational or documentary information. Even then in some cases, its reproduction will be limited to adults. We work together with security organizations such as the Suicide Prevention Line to publish the educational material found in the YouTube Security Center: “

It was not even YouTube who deleted the video. It was Logan Paul who did it of their own volition. As confirmed by the image that shows the video link.
Before Logan Paul will remove the video, he already had more than 600,000 positive votes from his audience. Who, as previously mentioned, are mostly underage. Many of his followers do not care that a corpse was seen in the video. Also, believe his words that everything was to raise awareness. Was that true or just a reason for excuse ???

Comments like “trash”, “disgusting”, and “disrespectful” flooded the networks after the video. Certainly, not all defended the video of Paul, and rightly so.

Youtube’s favorite star

YouTube’s job is supposed to punish people who do not respect copyrights like Logan Paul did. The platform should penalize it as it did in the case of many other channels and users with less audience. Perhaps they will omit this big step with the YouTube star? Apparently, they just missed this event, a favorite in this network.

YouTube alleges that it has thousands of moderators attentive to this kind of content to find and remove this it. But this may not apply to everyone. In an ideal internet world, this error that is so big for Paul would bring real consequences. Although any mistake can be made by anyone, we must take into account the sensitivity of people and analyze twice this type of content with a subject as delicate as suicide.