YouTuber Logan Paul posted a disturbing video online, showing the body of an apparent victim of suicide. The vlogger, who posts daily vlogs to his 15 million subscribers, was on holiday to Japan when he decided to go to Japan?s Aokigahara forest.
The forest, at the base of Mt. Fuji, is commonly known as the ?suicide forest? due to the amount of people who go to take their own lives. While the official numbers are no longer publicised in an effort to decrease suicides in the forest, in 2003, 105 people reportedly died by suicide there.
The video, entitled ?We found a dead body in the Japanese Suicide Forest??, was deleted less than a day after it was posted. Paul intended to show himself and his entourage camping in the ?haunted? forest. They took camping gear, ?binoculars to see the ghosts? and ?a football so we can have fun?, all of which would still have been insensitive and inappropriate in itself at a site renowned for being the place desperate people go to spend the last moments of their lives. Not content with that level of disrespect, when Paul and his crew stumble upon a man hanging from a tree, and continued filming.
The group get closer and closer to the body, only blurring out the face and talking about his ?purple hands?. Paul asks ?bro, did we just find a dead person in the suicide forest?? and acts very shocked and upset for a little while before saying ?I?m so sorry about this Logang, this was supposed to be a fun vlog? and ?what, you never stand next to a dead guy?? and laughing. He says ?this was all going to be a joke, why did it become so real?? and continuing to laugh and pull faces while they all cry ?it doesn?t make sense bro!? and ?yo, this is crazy!?. Over dramatic music, he cries ?there?s no going back! I?ve seen things I can?t unsee!? and laughs hysterically when a member of his crew says ?we found a dead body?, continuing to make a massive joke out of something very, very serious and dark.
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