About
Logan Paul is an American vlogger and aspiring actor who gained much notoriety
online by releasing short comedy videos on
Vine.
Online History
In 2013, Paul launched a video feed on Vine while attending Ohio University. On November 13th, 2013, Paul posted a compilation of clips from his Vine account on
YouTube,
which gathered upwards of 7.2 million views and 2,500 comments in the
next two years (shown below, left). On November 18th, 2013, Paul was a
guest on the morning talk show
Today, where he discussed his online fame and took over the program’s Vine feed (shown below, right).
Reputation
On July 29th, 2015, Tech Insider
published an article titled “Logan Paul has conquered the Internet, but
he can’t figure out how to conquer the world,” which depicted Paul as a
naive aspiring actor with questionable talent. On August 12th,
BuzzFeed published a
listicle containing factoids about Paul, noting he had a substantial following of teenage girls.
“Suicide Forest” Video Controversy
On December 31st, 2017, Paul uploaded a
video to YouTube in which he visited Aokigahara, a forest on Mt. Fuji in Japan
colloquially known as the “Suicide Forest” for the unusually high
number of suicides that take place there. The video has since been
deleted, but received over at least 6.2 million views before then. In the video, Paul finds a body hanging. Paul went on to say in the video that suicide and depression are serious issues
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