The celebrity backlash against Logan Paul has begun … with “Breaking Bad” star Aaron Paul unloading on the YouTuber as “pure trash” over his dead body video. FYI, Aaron is not related to Logan — but if they were, you can bet he would…
Tuesday, January 2, 2018
Logan Paul Apologizes After Mocking Suicide Victim, Posting Video With Dead Body
Logan Paul is the YouTube “celebrity” whom you recently became aware of when your most obnoxious nephew told you about him over the holidays.
He unequivocally sucks, but he has a massive following.
And he’s probably not going anywhere, despite having recently crossed the line between “terrible” and “ghoulish,” because 2018 is sure to be another diaper incinerator of a year.
Paul is a 22-year-old professional prankster who lives his life to amass views, but found himself smack-dab in the center of a particularly lazy episode of Black Mirror yesterday, when he became a top trending topic on Twitter … for all the wrong reasons!
For reasons that remain clear only in his brain–which has likely been severely damaged by years of violent “dabbing”–Paul and some of his friends traveled to Japan’s infamous “suicide forest” near the base of Mt. Fuji.
Here, they quite predictably encountered a dead body hanging from a tree.
Rather than respectfully mourning the loss of a human life and quietly alerting the authorities, Paul and company attempted to turn the whole thing into a comedy bit, with a video entitled–sigh–“We found a dead boy in the Japanese Suicide Forest…”
In the since-deleted clip, Paul and his friends laughed, spoke in “funny” voices, and repeatedly zoomed in on the corpse.
Needless to say, the reaction from Paul’s 3.9 million subscribers was one of near-universal disgust.
And the situation wasn’t helped much by the 22-year-old’s apology, which quickly deteriorated into a remarkably douchey humble-brag session.
“This is a first for me. I’ve never faced criticism like this before, because I’ve never made a mistake like this before. I’m surrounded by good people and believe I make good decisions, but I’m still a human being. I can be wrong,” Paul wrote on Twitter.
“I didn’t do it for views. I get views. I did it because I thought I could make a positive ripple on the Internet, not cause a monsoon of negativity. That’s never the intention.”
He concluded:
“I was misguided by shock and awe, as portrayed in the video. I still am.”
Yes, it was apparently shock and awe that led Paul to introduce his video by saying, “Buckle the f–k up, because you’re never gonna see a video like this again!”
Needless to say, Paul’s “apology” didn’t win him many converts … by which we mean he’s being savaely roasted by the entirety of the internet:
“How dare you! You disgust me,” tweeted Breaking Bad star Aaron Paul (no relation).
“I can’t believe that so many young people look up to you. So sad. Hopefully this latest video woke them up. You are pure trash. Plain and simple. Suicide is not a joke. Go rot in hell.”
“You’re an idiot. You’re not raising awareness. You’re mocking,” remarked Game of Thrones star Sophie Turner.
“I can’t believe how self-praising your ‘apology’ is. You don’t deserve the success (views) you have. I pray to God you never have to experience anything like that man did.”
“The amount of personal + social unawareness Logan Paul has displayed in THAT video is mind blowing to me. How could one w such power and influence have the audacity to put something so thoughtless online?” asked singer Rebecca Black.
“You have potentially intensified an entire family’s grief beyond measure.”
And as usual, Twitter person Pixelated Boat said what we were all thinking, tweeting:
“Logan Paul is clearly a psychopath, but so is everyone else who recreationally watches YouTube videos.”
Folks, let’s make 2018 the year we stop watching terrible people ruin lives for recreation.
We kid. It’s important to watch the evening news sometimes.
Teen Mom OG Recap: The Crazy Life of Amber Portwood
Amber’s plan to oust Matt from her life came to a head on Teen Mom OG Season 5 Episode 6, thanks in large part due to a new man.
That’s right, Andrew Glennon made his first appearance.
Meanwhile, Farrah returned home to Omaha and Taylor gave Maci a huge surprise … but where either of those developments positive?
If you watch Teen Mom OG online, you know that Amber is often all over the place, and Season 5 Episode 6 was certainly true to form.
A few weeks ago, she lamented the idea of life without Matt Baier. This week, she was singing a different tune, ditching him for good.
Helping her get over Matt? Andrew Glennon, an exciting new love interest whom she met while filming Marriage Boot Camp … with Matt.
In real time, of course, Amber and Andrew are expecting their first child together, so clearly things escalated quickly between the pair.
On yesterday evening’s show, she held back on introducing Andrew to her daughter Leah until they were more established as a couple.
We’re guessing that didn’t take long, either.
She wasn’t just keeping Leah distant from Andrew, though; Gary Shirley, Leah’s dad, wasn’t too happy about Amber going MIAin general.
While she was hanging around with her new boyfriend, she left her daughter with Gary, who was none too pleased about her priorities.
He let her hear about it, while she responded by telling Gary and his wife Kristina Anderson just how bizarre her situation with Matt was.
Texting, calling and begging her to take him back, Matt even sent her a photo 20 pills, saying he was going to kill himself if she didn’t reply.
Wow. That’s lower than low.
This really makes you question his mental state, and even more incredibly, Matt Baier married Jennifer Conlon just a few months later.
While this was going on, Catelynn and Tyler reunited at last with their birth daughter, Carly, after having been apart for nearly two years.
Joyful as this was, it was bittersweet at the same time, as it left Catelynn feeling depressed once she had to say goodbye to her first-born.
Tyler, on the other hand?
He was feeling the urge to have more kids, even asking Cate if they can start “popping out more,” preferably sooner rather than later.
She laughed, though clearly there were signs of her depression and anxiety evident here, and we all know what happened soon after.
Catelynn checked into rehab after experiencing suicidal thoughts, and while she’s reportedly at home now, she’s not out of the woods.
Maci Bookout went skydiving for her birthday, while her ex, Ryan Edwards, and his wife, Mackenzie Standifer, posed for some photos.
To celebrate their engagement, that is.
Edwards seemed a little bit off, to put it mildly, fueling concerns from those worried about the troubled star’s ongoing battles with addiction.
It’s a scary situation. Maci making Ryan take drug tests before seeing Bentley may not be the worst idea, much as we hate to say it.
Finally, Farrah Abraham and Sophia attended her grandmother’s birthday party before going out for dinner with Farrah’s mother Debra.
There, Sophia said that she never wants to see Debra again if she ends up marrying her then-fiance David. Yes, Sophia told her this.
Farrah may want to think twice about unloading her feelings on Sophia … just an idea. The little girl even said at a different point:
“I hope David isn’t at the party.”
Whatever issues Abraham has with her mom, and however she chooses to handle those, she should at least try to shield Soph.
You know, just a little bit.
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