Good news everyone, Logan Paul doesn’t actually think the Earth is flat

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Logan Paul is many things, but thankfully he is not a flat Earther. 

In a 50-minute, 2-second mockumentary that included a torrid affair with a flat Earther, a betrayal from a roommate, and a rap that rhymes “NASA” with “I think I’m gonna passa,” the YouTube star announced that no, he doesn’t actually think the Earth is flat. 

His much-hyped video— which was promoted as a documentary but turned out to be more of a narrative movie — raised concerns that the older Paul brother had fallen for the conspiracy theory and would spread the lies to his young audience, which is comprised of mostly childrenRead more…

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Logan Paul says he’s ‘going gay’ for a month, and it’s not going over well

Oh, look, Logan Paul did something controversial again! This time he claimed he’s “going gay” for a New Year’s resolution. 
A little over a year after he faced backlash for posting a video of a man who died by suicide, Paul is back on his bullsh…

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In a year of crisis points for influencers, YouTube also tried to do some good

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2018 was not what you would call a great year for the world’s largest video platform, nor for some of the influencers who use it to make a living. 

Case in point: the Logan Paul incident. The YouTube star caused widespread anger when he uploaded a video that included footage of a body of person who died of suicide in the Aokigahara forrest in Japan to his – at the time – 15 million subscribers, most of whom are tweens

This incident, which only hurt Paul in the immediate term (he now has over 18 million subscribers) highlighted some fundamental challenges facing YouTube; managing user-generated content on a platform that prides itself as democratic, filtering content to young users and relying too much on their algorithms alone to police, monitor, and push contentRead more…

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The upcoming Jake Paul doc looks like an 8-part, drama-filled horror movie

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Buckle up, everyone. Shane Dawson’s eight-part documentary on Jake Paul drops on Tuesday.

Dawson announced the project last week, and posted an extended trailer on Saturday that gives a deeper look into what the series would cover. 

It’s about as drama-filled as you’d expect from anything related to the Paul brothers. 

“This is making me fucking crazy,” Dawson rants in the trailer. “Jake Paul, and his family, and friends, and everybody around him … I can’t do this anymore.” 

It’s sure to be full of juicy secrets — Dawson even hints at the Paul brothers’ attempts to stop him from revealing information.  Read more…

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Pirated Twitch streams hijack YouTube’s pay-per-view Logan Paul/KSI boxing match

Today, there was a little bit of a skirmish between two professional YouTubers. Our dear old friend Logan Paul and KSI had an actual boxing match at the Manchester Arena where 15,000 tickets were sold (!!!!!!!!) for an event that ultimately ended in a draw and vows for a rematch. The action onstage wasn’t the […]

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Casey Neistat asked Logan Paul tough questions. His answers prove he still doesn’t get it.

It seems Logan Paul still isn’t ready to own up to all of his mistakes.
It’s been about seven months since the YouTuber posted a controversial video containing footage of an apparent victim of suicide found in Japan’s Aokigahara forest, but fellow Yo…

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Casey Neistat now wonders if he made the right decision releasing his Logan Paul interview

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Two of YouTube’s most popular creators sat down for an conversation about one’s fall from grace.

Casey Neistat, who is approaching 10 million subscribers on his YouTube channel, just uploaded a 30-minute video where he talks to controversial YouTube star Logan Paul in an in-depth interview

The topic of the conversation: Logan Paul’s notorious “suicide forest” video, the one that stoked worldwide outrage and caused YouTube to place monetization sanctions on his channel — a channel that currently has nearly 18 million subscribers.

Logan Paul has been on a sort of redemption tour over the past few months. After the suicide forest video was posted and subsequently removed from YouTube in January, Paul apologized for his actions and took a short break. He’s in the midst of filming a documentary about what was going through his mind when filming the controversial video. Read more…

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BBC pulls Logan Paul interview following Twitter backlash

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BBC Radio 1 has made the decision to pull an interview with Logan Paul that was scheduled to air on Thursday night.

They announced the decision on Twitter around the time the interview was due to go out, saying they didn’t feel it was right after listening back to it.

“We understand some of your strong views on Logan — but ultimately if we don’t think the interview is good enough — we don’t air it,” reads the tweet.

We were going to hear from Logan Paul & KSI on their boxing match tonight.

After listening back to the interview we don’t feel it’s right

We understand some of your strong views on Logan – but ultimately if we don’t think the interview is good enough – we don’t air it.

— BBC Radio 1 (@BBCR1) July 26, 2018 Read more…

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Logan Paul ends his daily vlogs, but he’s not going anywhere

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2018 has been an eventful year for Logan Paul, one of YouTube’s most popular personalities.  

In early January, the 22 year old caused a firestorm after he uploaded a video showing the body of a man who died by suicide. The backlash from that incident caused YouTube to temporarily withhold video ad revenue from him, and he subsequently took a break from posting videos. But after his short apology tour, he quickly returned to his roots, using car crashes to get views and getting raunchy on Twitch

And now, in a video uploaded on Sunday, he announced to his 17 million subscribers that he was ending his daily YouTube vlogs. With his typical frenetic energy, intense edits, and lots of yelling, Paul explains that he wanted to get back into comedy — similar to the Vines that launched his career — and wanted to spend more time on other projects.  Read more…

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Honestly, what the heck is happening on YouTube?

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One of the internet’s most famed catchphrases is about porn: that any sort of erotica you could want or imagine, no matter how niche or messed up, exists somewhere online.

That shouldn’t be the case for YouTube — a video community monitored for hate, violence, abuse, obscenity, and more. But with each new discovery of disturbing footage after repulsive video trend, it seems that the populist platform is just as out of control as the internet on which it lives. From child porn to animal abuse, it’s time to ask, Google, what the heck is happening on YouTube?

On Tuesday, BuzzFeed uncovered that images of beastiality are extremely “easy to find” on YouTube. Now, this doesn’t pertain to actual videos of beastiality. Instead, BuzzFeed found that (totally creepy, but not explicitly human-to-animal sexual) videos featuring scantily clad women petting or grooming animals were essentially marketed with explicit beastiality thumbnails. Multiple thumbnails featured women engaging in sexual acts with horses. Read more…

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