YOUTUBE HAS PUNISHED one of its stars, Logan Paul, over a video that showed a suicide victim in a forest near Mount Fuji — by scrapping two projects and lowering his advertising profile.
The video shows the 22-year-old American discovering a body in Aokigahara, a dense woodland at the foot of the mountain known as ‘the Japanese Suicide Forest’, in a country that has long struggled with some of the highest suicide rates in the developed world.
Japanese social media erupted with indignation over the film, which showed a man who had hanged himself.
Outtakes showing Paul laughing and joking about the incident also stirred anger and Logan was forced into an apology.
Paul has a massive teenage and preteen fan base.
The video sharing site decided to drop Paul from projects on its Youtube Red subscription platform for original content, a spokesman said yesterday.
They include a sequel to his film The Thinning and a leading role in the fourth season of Foursome.
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