Current Events > YouTube removes Logan Paul as preferred ad partner, cancels YouTube Red Projects

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https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/10/16876178/youtube-logan-paul-ban-ad-partner-red-monetization-canceled-controversy-google

A day after YouTube said it was looking into further consequences for influencer Logan Paul, Polygon is reporting that the service will be removing him from its Google Preferred ad program and is shelving Pauls upcoming YouTube Red original video projects.

The news comes in the aftermath of the companys promise to look into further consequences for Paul following his filming of a dead body in Japans Aokigahara forest, sparking immense outcry. Although Paul later took down the video and released several apologies for his actions, many felt that YouTubes initial response was insufficient.

The company originally responded with a lukewarm statement about how the company prohibits violent or gory content, that didnt directly address the issue at hand. The company later confirmed that it had issued a strike against Pauls channel, but it still took over a week before yesterdays open letter from YouTube finally acknowledged the problematic video head on.

According to Polygon, a YouTube representative has confirmed that in light of recent events, Pauls channels will be removed from the top-tier Google Preferred ad program, he will no longer appear in season four of the YouTube series Foursome, and and his upcoming YouTube Red movie The Thinning: New World Order is now on hold.

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Shmashed posted...

/poast

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Took them long enough.

Guess they realised they had to do what they did with pewdiepie at least.
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This is a little excessive tbh. He's an idiot but I don't think his career needs to be ruined for filming and joking about a corpse.
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Took them long enough. Guess they realised that ignoring their biggest Youtube star's budding controversy, then pretending they did something about it in the first place annoyed too many people to let it stand. Quit giving preferential treatment to your biggest celebrities, YouTube.
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I hope MatPat does something stupid next.
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Good, I mean if Pewds got so fucked of his little mistakes then Logan should get even more fucked
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He will still make ungodly bank. Which nobody can do anything about because most of his fans dont care.
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lol
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masticatingman posted...

He will still make ungodly bank. Which nobody can do anything about because most of his fans dont care.

True. Most are dumb or just too young to understand what he did.
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MC_BatCommander posted...

This is a little excessive tbh. He's an idiot but I don't think his career needs to be ruined for filming and joking about a corpse.

It's what they did with Pewdiepie. They set themselves up to needing to hold him to same standards.
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D-Lo_BrownTown posted...

I hope MatPat does something stupid next.

As much as I hate his stolen content I dont think hes a bad dude

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They needed to do something after all the bad shit they've let kinda just happen for the last year.
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MC_BatCommander posted...

This is a little excessive tbh. He's an idiot but I don't think his career needs to be ruined for filming and joking about a corpse.

Not at all. Pewds got the banhammer for saying the n word. Something that was offensive to all races was done on Logan's channel
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FF_Redux posted...

I mean if Pewds got so fucked of his little mistakes

"little mistakes"
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Funkydog posted...

MC_BatCommander posted...

This is a little excessive tbh. He's an idiot but I don't think his career needs to be ruined for filming and joking about a corpse.

It's what they did with Pewdiepie. They set themselves up to needing to hold him to same standards.

He also did more than film a dead body. He harrassed people in Japan, did a bunch of culturally offensive things in public, and really trashed the western world's image (not like he was the first, though).
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BLAKUboy posted...

FF_Redux posted...

I mean if Pewds got so fucked of his little mistakes

"little mistakes"

Yeah a dumb joke where he paid guys who tbh should've know wtf they were doing to write a bad anitsemtic thing is little considering wtf Logan Paul is doing.
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soulunison2 posted...

As much as I hate his stolen content I dont think hes a bad dude

Yeah, I doubt he'll do anything

I just find him super annoying
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It irks me that people like Logan get tons of money for barely doing any work at all.
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consequences will never be the same!

but seriously I still have no idea who the hell this guy even is. And I forgot Youtube Red was even a thing.
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LightningAce11 posted...

It irks me that people like Logan get tons of money for barely doing any work at all.

Blame little kids.
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MC_BatCommander posted...

This is a little excessive tbh. He's an idiot but I don't think his career needs to be ruined for filming and joking about a corpse.

The dude is like the epitome of online "cancer" <_<

It'd be one thing if he had a mostly older teen/adult audience but he's basically indoctrinated kids into bullshit merch culture. Dude can get fucked 10 ways at once and I wouldn't have any pity.

I don't remember if it was him or his brother but one of them literally said they go and cry on their bed if they only make $60,000 in a day.
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_____Cait posted...

Funkydog posted...

MC_BatCommander posted...

This is a little excessive tbh. He's an idiot but I don't think his career needs to be ruined for filming and joking about a corpse.

It's what they did with Pewdiepie. They set themselves up to needing to hold him to same standards.

He also did more than film a dead body. He harrassed people in Japan, did a bunch of culturally offensive things in public, and really trashed the western world's image (not like he was the first, though).

Oh really? Didn't know that. That is pretty awful tbh.
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The asshole deserves it, being so disrespectful in that country, what he did in suicide forest, how he literally harassed the people, threw fish on their cars, broke a gameboy on purpose and then tried to return it speaking ignorant fake spanish to the guy he bought it from.

Fuck that guy, Japan was 100% correct to ban him from their country with how he acted and all the shit he pulled.

He deserves a serious ass beating.
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pwnd
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MC_BatCommander posted...

_____Cait posted...

Funkydog posted...

MC_BatCommander posted...

This is a little excessive tbh. He's an idiot but I don't think his career needs to be ruined for filming and joking about a corpse.

It's what they did with Pewdiepie. They set themselves up to needing to hold him to same standards.

He also did more than film a dead body. He harrassed people in Japan, did a bunch of culturally offensive things in public, and really trashed the western world's image (not like he was the first, though).

Oh really? Didn't know that. That is pretty awful tbh.

Basically every video he's ever done is him harassing people, being offensive or just generally being an awful person.

But his viewers are teeenagers or younger, who idolise him and his "savage" behaviour.
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MC_BatCommander posted...

This is a little excessive tbh. He's an idiot but I don't think his career needs to be ruined for filming and joking about a corpse.

After that, he proceeded to be an overbearing dumb shit across Japan. Fair; next.
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If I ever met Logan Paul in real life I would punch him in his stupid face and then stomp em in the nutz.
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Fair, next. If Pewds got his show canceled, so should Logan
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Kitt posted...

MC_BatCommander posted...

This is a little excessive tbh. He's an idiot but I don't think his career needs to be ruined for filming and joking about a corpse.

After that, he proceeded to be an overbearing dumb shit across Japan. Fair; next.

Nah he did all that before that vidoe
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D-Lo_BrownTown posted...

I hope MatPat does something stupid next.

You may find him annoying or whatever, but MatPat has literally harmed no one.

Hahahaha, get fucked Logan.
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FF_Redux posted...

Kitt posted...

MC_BatCommander posted...

This is a little excessive tbh. He's an idiot but I don't think his career needs to be ruined for filming and joking about a corpse.

After that, he proceeded to be an overbearing dumb shit across Japan. Fair; next.

Nah he did all that before that vidoe

This. People just didn't care about the annoying crap he did in Japan until he uploaded the corpse video.

As for the news. Good imo, he has proven himself to be a jerk and a /really/ bad role model for his target demographic (kids.)
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Yomi posted...

This. People just didn't care about the annoying crap he did in Japan

because it's what he does.

Not saying that makes it right or truly excusable but it at least demonstrates why people didn't really say anything
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The best part is someone in here calling what he does a "career".

Sada_Pop posted...

masticatingman posted...

He will still make ungodly bank. Which nobody can do anything about because most of his fans dont care.

True. Most are dumb or just too young to understand what he did.

They're too young to understand.

His target audience is literally children.

Lots of Maverick merch doesn't even come in adult sizes

Great. I thought they weren't going to do anything.
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MC_BatCommander posted...

This is a little excessive tbh. He's an idiot but I don't think his career needs to be ruined for filming and joking about a corpse.

YouTube has so much money involved that they arent going to fall on the sword for a single kid, even if the outcry was stupid and self-righteous
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Should be banned tbh.
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EnragedSlith posted...

MC_BatCommander posted...

This is a little excessive tbh. He's an idiot but I don't think his career needs to be ruined for filming and joking about a corpse.

YouTube has so much money involved that they arent going to fall on the sword for a single kid, even if the outcry was stupid and self-righteous

what makes you think the outcry was "stupid"

Pepelepew or whatever did far worse
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Logan Paul went so overboard they had to do something.

He wished for "hella bitches" at a religious temple, stripped to his underwear in public, and was throwing Pokeball toys at people saying "gotta catch 'em all". It's literally three/four videos of him just being a ridiculous jackass.
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Sada_Pop posted...

masticatingman posted...

He will still make ungodly bank. Which nobody can do anything about because most of his fans dont care.

True. Most are dumb or just too young to understand what he did.

No they do understand what he did, they just blindly forgive him because he apologized.
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To be fair, none of this bullshit would have happened if Youtube didn't turn to complete garbage when they introduced the ability to monetize videos. Since then they went down the drain.
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Nazanir posted...

To be fair, none of this bulls*** would have happened if Youtube didn't turn to complete garbage when they introduced the ability to monetize videos. Since then they went down the drain.

That's a very narrow point of view. There are a lot of great youtubers out there who made their careers from youtube. It's not inherently a bad thing. Just some bad people, same as everything else in the world.

There are some shit channels, but don't generalize the whole because of those channels.
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Lmao
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Finally that piece of garbage is getting some punishment for the shit he does.
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Fact: He's now being talked about more than ever before since the controversy
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