UN Logan Paul returns to YouTube, pledges $1 million to suicide prevention

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/logan-pau...-suicide-201203899--abc-news-celebrities.html

This video comes on the heels of a vlog he uploaded Dec. 31, which appeared to show a lifeless, hanging body in Japan's so-called suicide forest. In the clip, which received an onslaught of online criticism, the audience appears to see the body of an apparent suicide victim hanging from a tree.

"The voice in my head said, 'Jump now,' and I did," he says in the clip. But Hines continues by saying the second he jumped off the bridge, he had "instant regret."

"Al I wanted to do was live," he pleads.

"I know I've made mistakes, I know I've let people down," Paul says. "But what happens when you're given an opportunity to help make a difference in the world."

As clips covering the backlash Paul received from his last video before Wednesday's new clip, he says that he's "trying to grow as a human being" and later reveals he's pledged $1 million in efforts to help various suicide prevention organizations.

Others who appear in the new video include musician and drug recovery advocate, Bob Forrest, and John Draper, director for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, who received the first $250,000 in donations from Paul.

"Help people understand that the first thing they need to do is reach out and talk to somebody," he tells Paul.

Over the course of his internal and external exploration in 2018 thus far, Paul says he believes people, including himself, need to be more compassionate.

"It's something I'm learning along this journey," he admits. He also shares five steps that people can take to prevent suicide, whether for themselves or others.

Since last year's video that received public damnation, Paul had taken a leave of absence from social media and YouTube removed him from Google Preferred, a premier ad service that offers brand advertisers access to top channel producers.

YouTube also said Paul would not be featured on Season 4 of the original YouTube series "Foursome" and added that "his new Originals are on hold."

This new video comes after numerous apologies from Paul, which included a Jan. 1 letter to fans, saying his intentions in posting the video were to raise awareness of suicide prevention and not to anger anyone. Paul posted a warning at the start of the video advising viewers who are considering suicide to seek help.

"Where do I begin," he wrote. "Let's start with this -- I'm sorry."

Paul added then that he's never "made a mistake like this before."

On Jan. 3, he tweeted, "Taking time to reflect. No vlog for now. See you soon."

 

[RadicalCentrist]

He is only donating in order to make profitable videos again, so really this is a business investment, not a charitable donation.

 

[Mulberry Tree]

This is in the same vein as those countless "social experiment" videos where they give a large sum of money/food to a homeless person. Like sure they're doing a good deed and all but if you're recording and uploading the video you just expect asspats

 

[Bagronkleton]

This is him in ultimate damage-control mode trying to salvage his base.

However, I feel it is a sincere gesture

Publicity damage control doesn't lend itself well to sincerity.

This is the ultimate I'm sorry I got in trouble, not sorry I did it stunt. It looks bad for his detractors to shit on him for donating and encouraging donations to suicide prevention and it looks good for his handlers that he's doing it.

He just craves attention and this is the easy low effort high yield route.

Fuck him.

 

[Robotron]

If he didn't make a shitton of money, youtube would have banned him to hell and back by now.

 

[TowinKarz]

Publicity damage control doesn't lend itself well to sincerity.

This is the ultimate I'm sorry I got in trouble, not sorry I did it stunt. It looks bad for his detractors to shit on him for donating and encouraging donations to suicide prevention and it looks good for his handlers that he's doing it.

He just craves attention and this is the easy low effort high yield route.

Fuck him.

True, all true, but at the end of the day.... Insincere money spends just as well as sincere money.... so what if he's only doing it to get back in the clubhouse? It's kinda like a short jail sentence, did he learn? Did he not learn? Will he do it again? Irrelevant, he did his time, society's need to make a point has been satiated, there's no need in really dragging it out beyond that.

Concession is the name of the game, not purity of motive, that's SJW territory, and thier obsession with life-long bans and deplatforming if you get out of line just ONCE proves why it's a self-defeating strategy to make people stop being dicks and support your causes.

 

[Sam Sung]

Meanwhile, Logan Paul has earned over a million subscribers since the suicide video.

Even if he's getting all the heat for his shitty video (which includes losing Google AdSense), he is still making money through ads on other videos and of course merch. I think the controversy made him even more popular than before.

 

[Bagronkleton]

It's kinda like a short jail sentence, did he learn?

It's Logan Paul. The question answers itself.