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01-02-2018, 07:51 PM
YouTube star Logan Paul apologises for video showing an apparent victim of suicide
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YouTube star Logan Paul has issued an apology for posting a video containing footage of an apparent victim of suicide, but it might not be enough for some.
In the now-removed video, the 22-year-old vlogger visited Japan's Aokigahara forest on the northwestern flank of Mount Fuji. The forest's name translates to the "Sea of Trees" but is known internationally as the "Suicide Forest," the site of hundreds of suicides every year.
SEE ALSO: How your brain responds to certain words might predict your suicide risk (http://mashable.com/2017/10/31/suicide-risk-words-neuroscience/)
According to New York Magazine (http://www.eonline.com/au/news/903046/youtube-star-logan-paul-apologizes-after-posting-video-filmed-in-japanese-suicide-forest), Paul posted a video to his 15 million YouTube subscribers with the title "We found a dead body in the Japanese Suicide Forest…" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn6zsxSWyaI) that was meant to be the third part of his “Tokyo Adventures,” series. The publisher reports that the video contained footage of a person who had apparently died by suicide, with their face blurred. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2018/01/02/logan-paul-video-apology/)
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YouTube star Logan Paul has issued an apology for posting a video containing footage of an apparent victim of suicide, but it might not be enough for some.
In the now-removed video, the 22-year-old vlogger visited Japan's Aokigahara forest on the northwestern flank of Mount Fuji. The forest's name translates to the "Sea of Trees" but is known internationally as the "Suicide Forest," the site of hundreds of suicides every year.
SEE ALSO: How your brain responds to certain words might predict your suicide risk (http://mashable.com/2017/10/31/suicide-risk-words-neuroscience/)
According to New York Magazine (http://www.eonline.com/au/news/903046/youtube-star-logan-paul-apologizes-after-posting-video-filmed-in-japanese-suicide-forest), Paul posted a video to his 15 million YouTube subscribers with the title "We found a dead body in the Japanese Suicide Forest…" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn6zsxSWyaI) that was meant to be the third part of his “Tokyo Adventures,” series. The publisher reports that the video contained footage of a person who had apparently died by suicide, with their face blurred. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2018/01/02/logan-paul-video-apology/)
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