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The YouTube star Logan Paul has apologised and deleted a video of him and his friends discovering a body in Japan’s so-called suicide forest.

The Aokigahara forest has developed a reputation as a site where many Japanese people have killed themselves.

In the video, released late last month, Paul and his friends were planning to camp in the forest overnight but stumbled upon a corpse hanging from a tree.

Paul blurred the face of the body, but he and his friends stood around the corpse and filmed it before leaving the forest.

 

“I’ve never made a mistake like this before,” Paul said in an apology on Twitter on Monday.

 

And he also published a short apology video on his YouTube channel on Tuesday:

Paul initially found fame through the Twitter-owned video service Vine and has since migrated to posting daily videos on YouTube. His younger brother is Jake Paul, a fellow YouTube star who has been accused of turning his neighborhood into a “war zone” after a series of parties, stunts, and fan attention.

YouTube issued a statement on Tuesday morning in response to the video and the uproar around it.

SOURCE: YouTube star Logan Paul apologised after filming a dead body in Japan’s ‘suicide forest’

 

YOUTUBERS’ REACT

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MY VERDICT

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YOUTUBE IS ONE OF THE KEY FEATURES OF INTERNET NOWADAYS. AND BEHIND THOSE MILLIONS OF VIDEOS AND VIEWS A DAY ARE THE CONTENT CREATORS WHO DEDICATE THEIR LIVES TO MAKE AND UPLOAD VIDEOS ALMOST EVERYDAY.

HOWEVER, BEYOND THOSE GREAT NUMBERS OF VIEWS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS, YOUTUBERS LIKE LOGAN PAUL SHOULD BE RESPONSIBLE IN ALL CONTENT THAT THEY UPLOAD AND PROMOTE HUMAN RIGHTS AND SENSITIVITY.