"One may understand that it's easy to get caught up in the moment without fully weighing the possible ramifications."
From the Logan Paul apology, quoted in "YouTube star Logan Paul apologizes after being slammed for posting sick video of a man who had hanged himself in Japan's 'suicide forest' and joking about it on film with his friends" (The Daily Mail).
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Clearly none of these people have been to an Irish wake.
Interesting. He makes up craziness in a crazy world view for crazy aficionados...but now they turn on him. Boundaries are where you find them.
Several people took to Twitter to criticize Logan for the shocking video
That is international news, ferssure, especially since it's several people rather than just one.
The guy looks like my Lpog's 50-something going on 18 son, dude!
How many times has he made >1 video on a day so he can take a day off, I wonder.
He has a long way to go to match Althouse's stretch.
From the Logan Paul apology...
That does not sound like an apology.
Is this the psychopath thread?
It's the outrage interest group.
BFD, Ann Althouse has written a 15 minute, at least, blogpost every single day for a lot longer.
You spend your life convincing yourself that the perverse is hip and edgy and speaking truth to power and all that good shit and then suddenly the very people you were pandering to think you’re a sorry human being?
Go figure.
Richard Epstein and John Yoo are clueless about Trump
https://ricochet.com/series/law-talk/
They'd be part of the outrage and apology swamp.
"MadisonMan said...
He has a long way to go to match Althouse's stretch."
I'm sure he is quite content:
"Logan, who is worth $14m and recently bought a $6.6m Calabasas mansion, has 15 million YouTube subscribers and tens of millions of followers on social media
"'He has a long way to go to match Althouse's stretch.'/"I'm sure he is quite content..."
They're not giving prizes for setting records. Monetization is a specific trick, so look at what he did to get money. Then ask what it would take to keep doing that, regularly, over a long stretch of time. What I do is maximized for longterm continuity. That has to do with my psychological wellbeing and my energy and focus. If I prioritized making money, everything would be different.
But if you like what exists here, I do encourage you to use the Amazon portal and to make PayPal contributions. That's the monetization, but it doesn't affect what I write (other than the occasional reminders like that).
By the way, I don't think what he did was so bad. The person who killed himself set things up where his body would be randomly discovered by some strangers, shocking and traumatizing them. We should be respectful toward dead bodies, but I'm also critical of people who deliberately place what is about to be their corpse where it will hurt people.
This is a young guy who reacted spontaneously, including some nervous laughing. And he chose to put the video up, with the body showing (not the face). That's edgy, but in my view, it is a lot more hostile and ugly to hang your body to death in a forest and leave it for anyone to discover.
Coincidentally, my daughter talked with me about this last night. I read the Daily Fail article, which omits a couple things:
1. The majority of Logan Paul's audience is 12 to 16 year olds. His content is geared toward them (my daughter says). He's heavily into Pokemon and playing games. This sudden turn into showing a dead body is deeply weird.
2. Logan's in his mid-20s. He is a product of the society he was raised in. This is an edited video, so there was time for someone--perhaps an adult?--to ask "should we do this?" He didn't, and he's paying the price.
3. The apology was a real apology. He added a veneer about raising the issue of suicide, but the impetus was really about filming his life and sometimes reality intrudes.
4. Here's the odd thing. Again, according to my daughter, he's being hit online for monetizing this guy's suicide (my response is that reporters, documentarians and anyone else who reports on gruesome things do that, too). But Logan Paul specificially turned off the monetization option for this show. YouTube turned it on (or, at least their algorithms did).
Althouse: How can you say his actions were "spontaneous" if he took the time to cover up the face? Spontaneous would be just slapping the whole thing up online as is. People who commit suicide are mentally ill, and have a disease. This other guy who exploited the whole thing---took time to do editing is the one who's calculating and conniving.
"youtube star"
meh...
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