# Logan Paul Logan Paul is an American vlogger who built a massive Vine following in 2013 as an Ohio University freshman before jumping to YouTube full time. His December 2017 vlog from Japan's Aokigahara forest, which included footage of a suicide victim, turned his name into internet shorthand for creator overreach and reshaped how YouTube handled star misbehavior. ## Origin Paul launched his Vine feed in 2013 while attending Ohio University as an 18-year-old freshman[1]. On November 13, 2013, he posted a compilation of his best Vines to YouTube, and it cleared 4 million views within his first week on the platform, per NBC's Today[1]. Five days later, on November 18, Today invited him into Studio 1A to take over the show's Vine account for the morning, an early sign that legacy media saw him as the face of the app[1]. That original YouTube compilation is still live on his channel[11]. He kept the pace up through 2014 and 2015. A second compilation dropped on February 18, 2014, and by mid-2015 he had cleared 8.4 million Vine subscribers alongside sizable Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook footprints[3]. The Vine grind also earned him small acting spots, including a guest villain role in the Law & Order: SVU episode 'Intimidation Game,' which aired February 11, 2015 and drew heavy mockery for its treatment of GamerGate[3]. - **Platform:** Vine (viral spread) / YouTube - **Creator:** Logan Paul - **Date:** 2013 ## Overview The Logan Paul name works less as a single meme template and more as a running joke about a specific archetype: the loud, camera-mugging YouTuber whose ambition consistently outruns his judgment[4]. Once the Aokigahara video hit in late 2017, 'pulling a Logan Paul' entered casual internet speech to describe filming something deeply inappropriate for views, a usage still logged on Urban Dictionary as a verb, adjective, and noun[9]. His name is invoked in reaction posts, joke comparisons, and takedown pieces whenever a creator produces something similarly tone deaf. That reputation built on top of years of preexisting jokes about Paul's Vine era, where clips of him street-pranking pedestrians in New York and dodging cars in the widely suspected staged 'Kitty Cat Car Jump' video seeded a broader mockery of his brand of hyperactive stunts[3]. The Aokigahara backlash simply hardened those jokes into a permanent shorthand for the worst instincts of vlog culture[5]. ## How It Spread When Vine wound down, Paul rebuilt on YouTube with a daily vlog and a fan army he called the Logang. The move worked commercially. BuzzFeed News tracked his early jump off Vine and flagged his stated goal of becoming a global entertainer[4]. By late 2017, the daily vlog was pulling in a reported income of more than a million dollars a month from AdSense alone[2]. Everything shifted on December 31, 2017, when Paul uploaded a 15-minute vlog titled 'We found a dead body in the Japanese Suicide Forest…' from a trip to Aokigahara on the slopes of Mount Fuji[5]. The video showed the body of a person who had hanged themselves, with the face blurred. Paul mugged at the camera, cracked jokes on the walk in, and only pivoted to a suicide awareness message after the discovery. Backlash was immediate and international[5]. Paul went dark for three weeks and came back with a suicide prevention short and a pledge to donate a million dollars to the cause[6]. The reprieve did not last. YouTube announced on February 9, 2018 that it was temporarily suspending ads on Paul's channels, citing his 'recent pattern of behavior,' which included pushing fans toward the Tide Pod challenge and tasering a dead rat on camera[2]. The Verge described the move as the harshest penalty YouTube had handed him up to that point[2]. Metro flagged the Tide Pod segment as a fresh escalation of concern from creators and parents[7]. Ads returned about two weeks later on a 90-day probation that kept him off the Trending tab and out of Google Preferred[8]. In October 2018, YouTube reversed course again and let his previously shelved film The Thinning: New World Order launch on YouTube Premium[10]. ## How to Use The Logan Paul comparison typically shows up when someone wants to accuse a creator of chasing views over decency. Common convention is the verb form: 'pulling a Logan Paul' means filming something you shouldn't for content, a usage Urban Dictionary defines as filming yourself laughing at a dead person for views[9]. It often gets used as a straight insult noun as well, and comment sections still deploy it whenever a vlogger crosses a line. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Logan Paul? Logan Paul is an American vlogger who first blew up on Vine in 2013 as an Ohio University freshman and later became one of the most controversial creators on YouTube[1]. ### Where did Logan Paul come from? He started posting six-second clips on Vine in 2013 and broke through with a YouTube compilation that pulled more than 4 million views in its first week[1]. ### What does Logan Paul mean? Online, his name is used as shorthand for creator overreach, with Urban Dictionary listing it as a verb for filming something inappropriate for views[9]. ### How do you use Logan Paul? People say a creator is 'pulling a Logan Paul' when calling out shock-driven content, and use his name as an insult when a vlogger crosses a taste line[9]. ### Is Logan Paul still popular? He still had more than 18 million YouTube subscribers as of late 2018 despite the ad suspension and ongoing controversy[10]. ### What was the Suicide Forest video? A December 31, 2017 vlog from Japan's Aokigahara forest in which Paul filmed a person who had died by suicide, with the face blurred[5]. ### Why did YouTube suspend his ads? YouTube cited a 'recent pattern of behavior' including the Aokigahara vlog, pushing the Tide Pod challenge, and tasering a dead rat[2]. ### What is the Logang? The Logang is Paul's self-named fan community, which he addressed directly in the Aokigahara vlog after realizing what he was filming[5]. ### Did Logan Paul get banned from YouTube? No. YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki said he had not accumulated the three strikes needed for removal, so he stayed on the platform through probation[8]. ### What happened with The Thinning: New World Order? YouTube shelved the film after the Aokigahara controversy in January 2018 but reversed the decision and released it on YouTube Premium in October 2018[10]. ## References 1. [https://www.today.com/popculture/vine-superstar-logan-paul-takes-over-today-account-2D11603772]() 2. [https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/9/16994364/logan-paul-youtube-suspends-advertising]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/people/logan-paul]() 4. [https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/6-seconds-isnt-enough-for-vine-star-logan-paul]() 5. [https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/01/logan-paul-suicide-forest-video-youtube.html]() 6. [https://mashable.com/2018/01/31/logan-paul-cardi-b-instagram-comment-roast/]() 7. [https://metro.co.uk/2018/02/07/logan-paul-encourages-dangerous-tide-pod-challenge-suicide-forest-video-7293053/]() 8. [https://www.polygon.com/2018/2/26/17055276/logan-paul-suspension-trending-ads-youtube]() 9. [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Logan%20Paul]() 10. [https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/17/17988706/logan-paul-movie-youtube-premium-thinning-new-world-order-suicide-forest-controversy]() 11. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8xeFBQ7UyE]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/logan-paul Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library