“Tokyo is a real life cartoon!” Paul exclaims into his vlogging camera, sporting a rice paddy hat and a blue silk kimono over a hooded sweatshirt. This quote, nestled between over 30 minutes of footage divided into three separate vlogs chronicling his travels in Japan, is a clear display of how Paul sees Japanese culture--and how it led him to make the worst decision of his career.
In case you haven’t checked your Twitter account for the past three days, or you’ve been avoiding the new wave of YouTube “prank” culture (lovingly and very falsely dubbed “social experiments” by their creators) and the popular vloggers that compile the collective known as Team 10, internet celebrity Logan Paul is in hot water. On January 1st, 2018, the former Vine star and current YouTube sensation uploaded a video to his vlogging channel titled “We Found a Dead Body in the Japanese Suicide Forest…” (it’s worth noting that he had edited the title from its original upload in all caps and bookended with three exclamation points) in which Paul and his entourage discover and proceed to film a man who had recently hung himself in the famous Aokigahara forest at the base of Mt. Fuji, Japan.
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Even those outside of the YouTube community have gotten involved, bursting the oftentimes impenetrable bubble of internet celebrity. Breaking Bad and Bojack Horseman star Aaron Paul tweeted