Sorry to anyone I didn't get in the pic, there were just so many of us! If you missed out this year make sure to come to next years!

No backstory.

Cat visits Iman leading Prayer in Mosque in Algeria. (one Marcy's distant cousins??) His reaction was priceless.

Who is Logan Paul?

Logan Alexander Paul is a famed social media influencer/YouTuber, professional wrestler, actor, an entrepreneur, and a professional dumbass. Logan was born on August 1st, 1995 to Gregory Allan Paul and Pam Stepnick and has a brother 2 years younger than him, Jake Paul, who is also a social media influencer/YouTuber and an actor.

Family Photos

Gregory, Logan, and Pam

Jake, Pam, and Logan

Jake + Logan (old + current photos)

Logan's fame started on the platform known as 'Vine'. When Vine shut down, Logan made a YouTube channel called TheOfficialLoganPaul, on October 18, 2013, where he would continue to post regularly. On August 29, 2015, he created the Logan Paul Vlogs channel, which is now his most-subscribed to YouTube channel. It was also said he "was ranked on the Forbes list for the highest paid YouTube creators in 2017, 2018, and 2021." [3]

Vine Logo

Logan's YouTube Channels

About the Video

Encounter Clip

In a video posted in 2017, Logan Paul, a YouTuber, filmed a man hanging in the infamous 'Suicide Forest' also know as Aokigahara Forest in Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi, Japan..He fucked up and here's what happened.

The initial purpose of the video was to focus on the haunted aspects of the forest and to camp there throughout the night when they unexpectedly stumbled across a man hanging from a tree and were met with a shocking site...When they got to the forest, they were cracking jokes and making light of the situation but stressing that it is suicide forest. At 5:47, They discovered the body, Logan said, "Im not even kidding, this isn't a fucking joke guys, that's a fucking person." After repeated denial they got closer to the body. In shock, Logan asked "Did we just find a dead person in the suicide forest, hanging?" And after being asked if they think it's real, one of his friends mentioned they know the possibility of it being a real person based on a previous suicide from a classmate from the junior highschool he went to, (I am unsure if he was referring to this possibly being the man hanging in the video) this prompted the man to take action and called the police.

When they got closer to the body, they tried checking for signs of life by exclaiming things like "Hey/Hello" "You okay?" "Yo are you alive, are you fucking with us?" They show his hands and they're purple, indicating that this was a recent suicide and is infact dead

Photos of the Hanging Man

Thankfully, he did censor his face with the intent of protecting him, his privacy, and his family. This being said, there is not a known/public uncensored video, so please don't ask me for it.

Throughout the video they expressed their denial and how this has never happened to them before. Logan apologized for the grim video, saying how "Suicide is not a joke" and "Depression and mental illnesses is not a joke, we came here with the intent to focus on the haunted aspect of the forest. This just became very real." When they were met with the reality they came to realize it was "real" and "way too scarily real" and that it was "the most real vlog I've ever made"..they start making jokes of the situation by sarcastically asking "you ever stand next to a dead guy before?" to which they start laughing at and follow up with their own jokes and went on about how the whole video was supposed to be a joke but asked "why did it become so real?" He says his laughing and jokes are not a portrayal of how they actually feel about the situation however they were still met with a lot of backlash to which he has since responded to in a 1:44 minute video and a public Twitter/X post.

I do not know what was going through his head when he was editing and thinking this would be suitable for the platform or his audience. He was disrespectful and exploited the situation and excuses his actions as a "coping mechanism".

Why Was it a Problem?

Consider his target audience, it is primarily children and teens. Displaying a real depiction of a dead person on your public channel is very disturbing and distasteful and the way he was exploiting the situation/the hanging man is deplorable. He didn't take the situation seriously and covered it as a coping mechanism, regardless of how he processes this stuff, he still has a young and impressionable audience who shouldn't be exposed to content like this and the way he was light-hearted about it all took away from the seriousness of the situation and what happened with the man. He blatantly exploited him for what he thought was spreading awareness for suicide.

His Apology

Public Apology on Twitter/X

You can review the response this post got here:

https://twitter.com/LoganPaul/status/948026294066864128

Video Apology

Logan made this apology with no intentions of being forgiven but to apologize. He ensures the initial video was raw, unfiltered, and unscripted and how they were unsure of how to think or act given the circumstances. In his apology to the victim/his family and to the Internet, he asks that those who are defending his actions to stop because those actions don't deserve to be defended. He said, "I should have never posted the video. I should have put the cameras down" and claims didn't post the video with ill or malicious intent.

Backlash

Understandably, people were angry with the video he put out. Carelessly filming a hanging man and joking around and sharing it to his YouTube where his primary audience is children and teens. He didn't take the situation seriously and

Tweets Responding on the Situation

Again, more responses can be found here: https://twitter.com/LoganPaul/status/948026294066864128

PewDiePie (Felix) himself called him out on a now deleted tweet saying:

Felix wrote: "Logan Paul goes to 'suicide forest': WoAH wE f0UNd ded GuY here!!!!! s0 cRaZy! lEMme jUsT zOom in oN tHis F0r tHe Vl0g. OK guYs seRiousLy, lEAve a like if yur sad to0." [4]

In response to everything, Logan donated $1 million to suicide prevention agencies

The Lawsuit

While Logan wasn't removed from the platform, he was sued for this incident, rightfully so. On February 12th, CEO Susan Wojcicki said that "Paul did not violate YouTube's three-strike policy and did not meet the criteria for being banned from the platform." [3] Logan was sued by a production agency called Planeless Pictures for

The lawsuit claims:

Paul “knew that the broadcast of the suicide would have a substantial impact on his followers and would also have a serious adverse impact on Planeless.” [6]

The YouTuber “intended to take advantage of the substantial anticipated exposure that the broadcast of the suicide would generate and thus enhance Paul's celebrity and acted in reckless disregard for the adverse consequences that he knew would result to Planeless" [6]

On or about January 22nd, 2018, Google terminated its partnership with Planeless and declined to distribute their movie, "Airplane Mode," which Logan starded in, citing the suicide broadcast as a noncurable event as per their agreement. "As a result, Planeless never received the compensation that Google was contractually obligated to pay to it — $3,500,000," the documents allege. [6] The company is now pursuing Logan to reimburse this sum along with other general and consequential damages, as well as attorney's fees and legal expenses.

Aftermath

After the video was released, he was cut from the Google Performed program which allows advertisers to pay to place their ads on high-performing videos on its site and in an interview he mentioned he lost $5 million from it. He also lost sponsorship/brand deals, his YouTube Red series "Foursome", and more. In 2018, according to Social Blade, he lost 6k+ subscribers since the incident and at that time he was at 15.2 million subscribers.

But despite the backlash from the incident, he continued to gain over 300,000 (2018) and has continued to rebuild himself and grow from the situation. Logan Paul continued vlogging on February 4th, after a 3 week long break, and has remained successful at 23.5 million subscribers and is at 6 billion views receiving an average of 5+ million views per videos (2024). He is still successful and will likely remain successful if he continues to move on the right track. He is the co-founder of 'Prime' beverages. And starting in 2018 he has run the 'Impaulsive' podcast which has over 4 million YouTube subscribers and is overall a successful podcast. "As a wrestler, he has been signed to WWE since June 2022, where he performs on the SmackDown brand and is the current WWE United States Champion in his first reign." [3]

Prime Drinks

Logan Wins First WWE Championship

I believe he has since grown and learn from this particular situation and understands the severity of his mistakes, he unfortunately had to learn the hard way. It is clear he has a past and continual history of fuck-ups and dumbassery.

More information on his history can be found here:

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/logan-paul-controversies-timeline-1234785537/

Sources

[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2018/01/02/health/logan-paul-video

[2] https://twitter.com/LoganPaul/status/948026294066864128

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan_Paul

[4] https://www.ladbible.com/news/technology-news-pewdiepie-calls-out-youtuber-logan-paul-over-suicide-forest-video-20180102

[5] https://www.businessinsider.com/logan-paul-gained-subscribers-after-japan-video-2018-1

[6] https://people.com/tv/youtuber-logan-paul-facing-lawsuit-over-controversial-suicide-forest-video/

[7] https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/logan-paul-controversies-timeline-1234785537/

https://watchpeopledie.tv/h/shooting/post/162729/christchurch-shooting-cctv-arrest-rare-images

I spend far too much time finding uncensored versions of screenshots. I might as well publish this post.

Thanks to @Peconi for compiling all these images in the linked post. I did not find all the 4chan screenshots because that would take way too much time, and you can just search for the posts on archive.4plebs.org (inb4 deleted).

I was not the one who originally found any of these pages. I don't know who did.

Aussie Stock Forums

ferretbiter

Source: https://archive.is/https://www.aussiestockforums.com/search/244787/*

Looks like someone else also archives search pages. The forum doesn't allow logged out users to search anymore, so this was helpful.

Steam

ferretlicker / Commander Rockwell

Sources:

• https://web.archive.org/web/20111218165449/http://steamcommunity.com:80/profiles/76561197971153089

• https://archive.is/Bp6Wt (Original link)

• /v/ Group comments page 184 (Cannot archive)

  • It showed that he was in this group on his profile

  • He made the same comment in a group called "Cool Cats of Facepunch Gift Giving Group" (CCOFGGT)

Steam Gifts

ferretlicker

I didn't know which site this was, but searching for "giveaways entered" and "gifts won" told me it was SteamGifts.com.

https://archive.is/offset=80/https://www.steamgifts.com/* (change the offset if you're viewing from the future), which was helpful because Google wasn't returning some of the pages.

I'm pretty sure this is the guy who posted the screenshots. uncanealguinzaglio, or formerly Frettchenhaus, TALIONACEUS, and probably at least 8 other accounts I don't know the names of. If you are reading this, don't censor my username or posts.

Sources:

• https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/FNHF4/my-b-day-gifts-for-all-the-good-little-boys-and-girls (Archive)

Other archived links that mention him

• https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/Ji2kh/alpha-protocol (Archive) Comment

• https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/uZujc/alpha-protocol (Archive) Same comment as above

• https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/BKuT1/alpha-protocol (Archive) Comment

• https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/RupJA/frozenbyte-collection (Archive) Comment

• https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/lwXHe/oddworld-abes-exoddus (Archive) Comment

• https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/mEo9G/the-elder-scrolls-iii-morrowind-game-of-the-year-edition/entries (Archive) Giveaway entry

• https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/JVHTX/serious-sam-hd-double-pack/entries/search?page=2 (Archive) Giveaway entry

• https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/fd5La/left-4-dead/entries (Archive) Giveaway entry

4chan friend

Higher quality versions of low-quality screenshots

Sources:

• https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/226001692/

• https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/225975392/

KiwiFarms

Source: https://kiwifarms.net/threads/2019-03-17-new-zealand-police-we-would-like-to-preserve-any-posts-and-technical-data-including-ip-addresses-email-addresses-etc.54376/ (Archive)

Misc links

• crazyarab's Steam (crazyarab was Atta Elayyan, one of the victims of the Christchurch shooting)

• Brenton Tarrant's Trade Me profile (Alternate link)

  • One of the listings (Archive)

  • I didn't know how to get the photos to work, and I didn't know where to find the other one

• Redditor DrDaniels found that Brenton Tarrant had an account on nzhuntingandshooting.co.nz with the username "Mannerheim". This was later reported by The Conversation.

  • See his posts here (Alternate link)

Sheila Bamboo: Nairobi Businesswoman Found Killed in Cold Blood Inside Her Bedroom

Sheila Bamboo allegedly met her tragic end at the hands of her husband Jack Bamboo; the couple often displayed their affection publicly. The deceased woman, and her husband, are renowned personalities in the Luo entertainment scenes Graphic shots shared on the internet showed her body lying in bedding soaked with blood, with deep cuts visible on her neck

Nairobi: Police in the city are probing the tragic death of a businesswoman found dead in bed on Thursday, May 9

Sheila Bamboo's body was found sprawled on the bedding soaked in blood. How Sheila Bamboo met tragic death Though unconfirmed, sources indicated the deceased was killed in a love-gone-sour plot supposedly perpetrated by her husband.

"She was married to Jack Bamboo, the director of Light Uriri Academy in Migori. There's speculation that the incident might have been caused by infidelity and a toxic marriage," a source said. The circumstances of the woman's death came as a great shock to those who knew her and her husband, given that they constantly and publicly displayed their affection courting admiration from their audiences. Graphic shots shared online showed deep cuts on her neck, suggesting she was attacked by a sharp object. Until her tragic death, Sheila was a renowned figure among the Ohangla genre circles and the proprietor of JB Lounge, an entertainment joint in Nairobi's Umoja area.

https://www.tuko.co.ke/kenya/counties/547776-sheila-bamboo-nairobi-businesswoman-killed-cold-blood-bedroom/