Popular video blogger and man-who-mocks-suicide-victims Logan Paul made his long-awaited return to YouTube today. He decided to take some "time to reflect" after uploading a video that caused a huge backlash. You know, the one where he went to Japan's infamous "suicide forest," and exploited the corpse of a man who hanged himself for ad revenue? That one. Turns out people didn't think that was super cool. After receiving harsh criticism from journalists, celebrities, decent human beings - basically everyone except for his obnoxious edgelord adolescent fans - Logan deleted the video and released an apology. However, this apology was extremely defensive and narcissistic. He bragged about often he vlogs, said "I" and "me" in almost every sentence, and ended it all with the cringeworthy hashtag "#Logang4life." (Ugh.) To his credit, Logan followed this up with a second apology, which was more appropriate, and seemed genuinely sincere and regretful. [[youtubewidget||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwZT7T-TXT0]] After weeks of frustrating radio silence, YouTube finally spoke out on the matter, admitting their negligence in leaving his controversial "dead body" video online for a full day, trending in the number one spot, as if it were totally appropriate content for children of all ages. Then they doled out some belated punishment, removing Logan's channel from their preferred ad program (causing a significant dent in his revenue) as well as cancelling his upcoming projects on YouTube Red. [[youtubewidget||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWjxSkJpxFU]] Today Logan returned to YouTube, after a three-week break, publishing a video about suicide awareness. The seven-minute video, entitled "Suicide: Be Here Tomorrow," aims to educate viewers about how to prevent suicide, and repair the damage caused his previous tasteless video. Over mournful piano music, Logan says, "I know I’ve made mistakes, I know I’ve let people down. But what happens when you’re given an opportunity to help make a difference in the world? It’s time to learn from the past as I get better and grow as a human being. I’m here to have a hard conversation so that others can have easier ones." In the video, the 22-year-old vlogger conducts an emotional interview with Kevin Hines, a man who attempted to kill himself in the year 2000 by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge, and survived. He also interviews Dr. John Draper, director of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. After admitting his ignorance on the subject of suicide, Logan learns the five steps people can take to help prevent taking their own life. And finally, the video concludes with him pledging to make a generous donation of one million dollars to various suicide prevention organizations. [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/CaseyNeistat/status/956249070053535745]] [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/8ben_/status/956245716095127558]] Many people praised Logan for his efforts to educate his viewers (and himself) about a very serious issue. They also said that maybe the pitchfork-carrying mob should move on. Yes, Logan did something bad, but he apologized, he was reprimanded and now he's trying to make amends. It might be time to forgive (if not forget). "I am actually sooo proud of Logan for coming back so strong trying to learn from his mistakes," commented one fan. "I was very disappointed in him when the scandal happened but now the loganster in me is soo happy." Another "Loganster" wrote, "[People] like to watch your vlogs coz it’s you in your vlogs who gives them happiness but some people forget that sometimes a person who gives them happiness is also a human and because he is a human he can make some mistakes." [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/oursgray/status/956249250983227392]] [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/jfwong/status/956249695847727104]] Of course, not all of the commentary was positive. To more cynical and skeptical viewers, Logan's new video feels like a ploy to exploit suicide awareness in a manner not so different from how he attempted to exploit a suicide victim. As fellow YouTuber Jimmy Wong wrote on Twitter, Logan has a history of continuously using people "as props and accessories." For example, in his other vlogs from Japan he harasses Japanese people on the the street, by chucking Pokeballs at them and dangling squid tentacles in their faces. (And they're still online.) [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/jfwong/status/956250067307921413]] "We are grateful you used your platform to teach your audience about an important issue," writes Jimmy. "But let's take a step back...we get treated to a precisely formed and deliberately manipulative piece of content from your PR machine to show us you care....You're just covering your ass." Well, whether you love Logan Paul or hate him, he isn't going anywhere anytime soon. That was a nice three weeks, though, wasn't it?

By now, you've probably heard of Logan Paul, the obnoxious YouTube star who mocked a man that killed himself in Japan's infamous "suicide forest." That controversial video got over six million views in a day, sparking an enormous backlash. In America, we're bitterly divided on politics, sports and new Eminem songs, but there is one thing we can all agree on: Logan Paul is a bit of a douche. Logan deleted the video, apologized twice, and said he is taking some time off to bathe in his money - I mean, "reflect." But the outrage shows no sign of relenting. The Japanese police said they would like to speak with him. More controversial clips from his trip to Japan emerged, in which he harasses people on the street with squid tentacles and Pokeballs. Yesterday YouTube finally responded,tweeting an open letter in which they accepted some accountability for their role in this mess. (Logan, not YouTube, removed the much-maligned video, and it was "trending" all day long.) [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/YouTube/status/950847377816113153]] Today YouTube announced they're taking even stronger action, and are cutting business ties with Logan Paul. If you're here for schadenfreude, don't get too excited. They're not deleting his YouTube channel. But they are hitting the popular vlogger where it hurts - financially. They're removing his channel from Google's special preferred ad program, which means he'll be earning less revenue from his 15 million subscribers. In addition, they're canning his YouTube Red movie The Thinning: New World Order and will not feature him in the upcoming season of the Web series Foursome. "In light of recent events, we have decided to remove Logan Paul’s channels from Google Preferred," said a YouTube spokesperson in a statement. "Additionally, we will not feature Logan in season 4 of ‘Foursome’ and his new Originals are on hold." Whoa! Bummer, bro! Last year YouTube took similar action with PewDiePie, aka Felix Kjellberg, a Swedish vlogger with over 60 million subscribers, and a very annoying way of saying his name (Peeeewwww-dee-pahhh!). After making some videos that featured racist comments and anti-Semitic imagery, YouTube cancelled season 2 of his YouTube Red series, Scare PewDiePie. And he's still not happy about it. In a new video called "Everybody Needs A Hero," PewDiePie roasts Logan Paul, pointing out that his channel has plenty of offensive content beyond the "dead body" video. "It seemed like I got in a lot more shit for a lot less," said PewDiePie. "If nothing else, bring back Scare PewDiePie Season 2. We shot the whole thing." [[youtubewidget||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2oA0HZS1BI]] It's great that YouTube is dishing out some punishment to Logan Paul. However, he's probably going to be just fine. I mean, he lives in a $6.55 million mansion, and is reportedly worth 14 million. His YouTube channel still has 15 million subscribers, many of them devoted, die-hard fans who defended his indefensible video until he explicitly told them to stop. His apology video got 38 million views in a week, and since this controversy, he's actually gained 400,000 subscribers. He's still got the money and the fame, although I'm sure he never wanted to be famous for mocking a suicide victim.

Just when you thought that Logan Paul may have turned a corner, he goes and does something unbelievably stupid. The YouTuber, who rightly received an immense amount of scorn online after he uploaded a footage of a dead body in Japan's Suicide Forest, has now been filmed tasering two dead rats in a recent video uploaded online. [[instagramwidget||https://www.instagram.com/p/BaZqCv-BioS/?hl=en&taken-by=loganpaul]] In the latest video that has been uploaded onto his YouTube channel, Paul can be seen firing the taser at the dead rats after they had been left on the balcony of his mansion in Los Angeles, California. Twitter user Elliott Hackney uploaded the clip onto the social media platform, captioning it: "I'd love to say Logan Paul has changed and learnt to respect dead things since coming back on YouTube. But now he's just tasering them instead." [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/ElliotHackney/status/961006611153203208]] In the full video, Paul can be seen lifting the corpses using the conductive wire of the taser, before placing them inside of a cardboard box. "No rat comes into my house without getting tased!" the vlogger gleefully exclaims. Aside from the rats, the latest vlog also shows Logan's dad Greg saying that his son is "totally on board" for fighting fellow YouTuber KSI in an MMA fight. KSI had called out the Paul family after winning a boxing match against vlogger Joe Weller in London last week, saying that he would be happy to fight either one of the brothers. [[instagramwidget||https://www.instagram.com/p/Bes75NuBxbG/?hl=en&taken-by=ksi]] Unsurprisingly, Paul's latest video did not go down well with some people, with plenty of commenters criticising the 22-year-old for his behaviour as well as calling for KSI to make the fight happen and knock Paul out. [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/charli3woodward/status/961008885762023425]] [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/YoutubeContent1/status/960925146734321664]] [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/bubbIxs/status/960905869897715712]] [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/ShelbyMcLovin/status/960737713262682113]] [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/JayD2713/status/961011647245635585]] [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/artharlimQB/status/961240098762207234]] Alongside KSI, another YouTuber has also ripped into Paul for his behaviour since he landed himself in hot water with the public. Fellow vlogger PewDiePie, who has also landed himself in a fair amount of trouble throughout his career, tore into Paul for his public appearances in the wake of the suicide video, calling him dishonest. PewDiePie, whose real name is Felix Kjellberg, accused Paul of trying to appear on a "divine path to redemption" and called him out for using the scandal in order to turn it into personal gain. [[youtubewidget||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzshoDMBkqE]] "Seeing all this track record of dishonesty and doing literally anything to redeem your brand, I'm going to call that out. It seems just too perfect for me," Kjellberg said. "Logan Paul should just keep making videos and be honest. That would be my advice, and as long as he's not I'm going to call him out on it." But despite the majority of people being sick of Paul and his antics, his fans continue to defend the star, saying that they do not understand why everyone hates him so much. [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/MavericksUnite/status/961010319865692160]] [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/11Ashcroft/status/961267219639558144]] [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/R0YALMAST/status/961276954833022977]] Paul certainly seems to know exactly how to get his name out there and as the saying goes, 'all publicity is good publicity.' Given the amount of attention his vlogs are now getting, don't be surprised to see Logan Paul continue to do stupid things in order to keep people talking about him.

All those people doing the "Snorting Condom Challenge" and "The Tide Pod Challenge" are pretty stupid, but at least they're not exploiting a dead body for views. We all remember Logan Paul, the video blogger who went to Japan's infamous Aokigahara Forest and mocked a suicide victim they found hanging from a tree. The video sparked a huge backlash, for obvious reasons. YouTube eventually punished Logan by removing him from their preferred ad program, and cancelling his upcoming projects with YouTube Red.

Shaken by the scandal, Logan apologized, and said he was taking time off to reflect. A few weeks later, he returned to YouTube with a video about suicide awareness. On social media, some people commended Logan for treating the subject seriously. Others criticized him for making a manipulative, narcissistic PR piece to rehabilitate his image. But "The New Logan Paul" didn't last long. In his very next video, he was back to his obnoxious antics, tasering dead rats. Why was he tasering dead rats? Because he says hates rats. The vlogger received another round of online scorn, and YouTube doled out an even harsher punishment, temporarily removing advertising on all of his videos.

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Last week Logan Paul celebrated his birthday. Despite acting like he is three, he is actually 23 years old. To celebrate this milestone, he went on a camping trip in Yosemite National Park. Since all the camping sites were booked, he and his friends pitched tents on top of his bus. It sounds like a fun idea, but they remained in the tents while the vehicle was moving, which broke the rules. Park rangers gave him citations for unsafe operation of a motor vehicle and improper food storage.

When fans of the YouTube star - called "The Logang" - saw he was at the park, they invited him to stay at their campsites. Of course, everyone in "The Logang" is very young, and very loud. After receiving noise complaints from several campers, the rangers asked Logan and his posse to leave the park. After just a couple days, Logan Paul is more hated in Yosemite National Park then Yogi Bear.

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In one of his videos about the trip - entitled "OUR LAST DAY IN YOSEMITE WAS A DISASTER" -  Logan exploited a car accident. At around the seven minute mark, he falls out of a kayak, wanders out of a river and hears a crash. He races to the scene, and sees two cars with damage. It appears that a pickup truck t-boned a cargo van. Logan asks the shocked families if they are okay, and they confirm no one is seriously injured. At one moment, a kid in the background can be heard saying "ow," but it's not clear if that's related to the accident.

Yeah, the video sounds worse than it is. Nobody was hurt in the wreck, and Logan didn't do anything too obnoxious. But people have argued that this clip proves he hasn't learned anything. After all, he's ambushing people who got in an accident and exploiting their misfortune for views on a YouTube channel with 21 million subscribers. Their faces aren't even blurred. Just because you can film something doesn't mean you should.

At the beginning of January this year, Logan Paul went viral for all the wrong reasons after posting a video about the Aokigahara Forest in Japan. In the vlog, which was titled "We found a dead body in the Japanese Suicide Forest...", the 23-year-old recorded himself openly mocking a suicide victim, sparking massive backlash from both fans and critics.

At one point in the clip, which Paul later took down, the YouTuber could be heard yelling: "Yo, are you alive? Are you f**king with us?", which many people - understandably - considered to be highly insensitive and offensive.

After issuing a half-hearted "apology" (in which he claimed that he was merely trying to create a "positive ripple on the internet") and going on to create a suicide awareness video, Paul acted as if he had been absolved of his horrendous behaviour. However, given that he then went on to post more offensive content, a lot of people did not consider his remorse to be all that genuine.

And now, in a new interview with YouTuber Casey Neistat, Paul is back to shed a little more light on what went down six months ago, and also how he's planning to create a documentary about the whole incident.

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Right from the offset, Paul appears to be talking about himself as a victim. He says that his documentary is questioning whether he can "recover" from what happened back in January. "Is it possible for Logan Paul to make a comeback?" he asks himself.

Neistat picks up on this, and asks Paul whether the documentary is simply an excuse for him to garner some sympathy from his audience.

"No, not at all," Paul says. "I don't think people should, can, or will sympathise with me. What I did - there's no distracting people [from that]. It's an unbiased, objective story that captures how something like that can happen, and what went wrong in my life that I thought that was a good idea."

He then went on to insist that "I am not the victim here. What I did was disgusting. It was wrong. It was an extreme lapse of judgement," but admitted that his document was an attempt at a "redemption story".

Neistat then pointed out that, for there to be a redemption story, Paul needs to do something to actually earn that redemption. "There hasn't been much that has demonstrated that you're a different person," Neistat said.

Throughout the interview, Paul still appears to be defending his actions, and says that everything he does is part of his "brand" - and viewers picked up on this.

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What's more, he seems sorry about the way he is perceived, rather than what he actually did.

"The worst part about all of this is [me] being seen as culturally insensitive," he says at one point.

Aside from the fact that he still hasn't claimed full accountability for his actions, some people on Twitter were not particularly happy that Paul is still being given airtime.

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Yet again, then, Paul has managed to offend people by turning an apology into another opportunity for self-promotion.

It's not as if he's beyond redemption, either. All he would have to do to earn forgiveness is to prove that he is a different person now, that he's changed for the better. But he can't. Everything he says just seems to be an excuse for his awful behaviour - which, by the way, he still profits from.

Maybe his upcoming documentary will prove that he is genuinely remorseful. Maybe it won't. Either way, there are enough people out there who support Paul enough to let him get away with being the way he is, and so it doesn't look like he'll be going anywhere anytime soon.