Author: Michael Rothman / Source: ABC News
YouTube has “temporarily suspended ads” on Logan Paul’s channels following what it called a “recent pattern of behavior” that runs contrary to the video platform’s revenue guidelines, a YouTube spokeswoman told ABC News on Friday.
In response to Logan Paul’s recent pattern of behavior, we’ve temporarily suspended ads on his channels.
— YouTube Creators (@YTCreators)
The move comes a little over a month after Paul faced massive online backlash for a video he posted and then took down that appeared to show a lifeless, hanging body in Japan’s so-called suicide forest.
But it is videos that Paul posted in the past week that are the immediate impetus for YouTube’s action.
“We believe he has exhibited a pattern of behavior in his videos that makes his channel not only unsuitable for advertisers but also potentially damaging to the broader creator community,” a YouTube spokeswoman told ABC News.
The spokeswoman cited examples of Paul using a stun gun on a rat in one video and urging his followers to engage in a recent online craze of eating Tide laundry pods.
“Paul tasered a rat in his most recent video and deliberately tried to monetize the video that clearly violated our advertiser-friendly guidelines,” the spokeswoman said….
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