Internet-celebrity Logan Paul drew widespread condemnation from the Internet Monday night after the popular YouTube star posted a video showing an apparent suicide victim in Japan’s “suicide forest.”
The video, which has since been pulled from Paul’s official YouTube channel though has been re-uploaded by other users on the service, featured Paul and several friends “vlogging” a recent trip to Japan.
In an intro to the video — titled “We saw a dead body in the Japanese Suicide Forest” — Paul says: “this is not clickbait. This is the most real vlog I have ever posted on this channel.”He then warns viewers that the video is graphic and remarks that he thinks it is “a moment in YouTube history because I’m pretty sure this has never hopefully happened to anyone on YouTube ever.”
The video continues with Paul and his crew arriving to go camping at the forest, officially known as Aokigahara.
After the group enters the forest and ventures off the trail they happen upon an apparent suicide victim hanging from a tree. Paul and company then decide to venture closer to the body, filming their reactions along the way. The video shows several close-ups of the victim’s body, though the victim’s face is blurred.
YouTube-parent Google did not immediately respond to a request Monday night for comment on the video or if Paul was in violation of the site’s terms of service.
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