Waching daily Jan 9 2018

People make mistakes.

Of course they do.

Some mistakes are big with cataclysmic, irreversible results and some are small and are salvageable.

It goes without saying that we will all make mistakes in our lifetime, but it is the reason

behind the error and how we react which will define how we are treated in the aftermath.

Logan Paul recently made a mistake, but is it one he can come back from?

Hello and welcome back to Life's Biggest Questions, I am Rebecca Felgate and today

I am asking Should We Forgive Logan Paul.

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at the end to continue the debate.

So before we decide if Logan Paul should be forgiven, I think it is important to understand

what exactly it is he did wrong and how he responded.

Logan Paul has been making videos on Youtube for little over a year, having already garnered

a following on Vine and in his Disney Channel show.

Logan's content has always been built on drama and shock content, which is something

Youtube has been regularly promoting on their trending page and something which his fans,

the notorious Logang, have enjoyed…but recently he took it too far in a vlog titled We found

a dead body in the Japanese Suicide Forest.

As we know by now, Logan Paul isn't the first Youtuber to have visited the forest,

or the first youtube video to show dead people in it…however it was the way in which he

handled combining those two things where he went wrong.

So, what was wrong with the trip if other people have gone; Logan wore what a lot of

people consider to be disrespectful clothing – so, a bright green alien hat.

When entering a known suicide spot, a lot of people found this distasteful.

They also found his handling of the topic distasteful and the jovial banter between

he and his friends as they entered the forest before they stumbled across the body.

You wouldn't walk around a veteran war memorial or holocaust museum with a smile on your face,

so why would entering a known suicide spot be any different?

Then, the biggest mistake of all, was showing the dead body on camera, sometimes with a

blur, but sometimes, at a distance, without enough blur.

He made it clear that the victim was real, and there was a lot of air time given to the

corpse.

After showing the corpse, he continued to joke, now of course this could be gallows

syndrome; sometimes people laugh in horrible situations as a strange psychological side

effect.

However, instead of omitting this from his video, he still posted the whole thing – footage

of corpse and all – to his youtube channel.

Big mistake.

He made the situation even worse for himself in his first apology on youtube by offering

up an excuse for his actions, then post-facing his apology with hashtag Logang for life,

Before we get into the matter of forgiveness, lets be fair to Logan and see what he did

right.

So, he did include a warning at the beginning of his video, he did include a anti suicide

hotline number and an anti suicide message, even if it was delivered with a lack of sincerity.

He did also issue two apology's…yes, the first was a little tarnished, but the second

did seem slightly more genuine, and he hasn't posted a video since, saying he is taking

time out to think.

It seems like he is genuinely sorry, …whether or not because that is because of the backlash,

or because he realises the error in his actions is a totally different question.

So…what exactly is Logan guilty of here: I guess the answer is just being extremely

distasteful, disrespectful and a bit of an idiot.

He didn't do anything illegal, he wasn't spouting any kind of hate speech against minorities…he

just showed himself to be a culturally insensitive idiot.

Compared the liked of Harvey Weinstein who's career in film is over, Logan is incomparable.

Weinstein is a sexual predator and shouldn't be forgiven…Logan Paul is just a bit of

an idiot.

The matter of whether or not he can be forgiven kind of lies in whether or not he can learn

from this mistake and become a more responsible content creator.

Instead of entirely pointing the finger at Logan….we should maybe look at our own viewing

habbits and the platform that allowed him his success, youtube.

Maybe we should be asking if we should forgive youtube, or if we should we forgive ourselves

for feeding his fame?

Before Logan deleted his video, it was on the Youtube TopTrending page and had had 6

million views.

The platform has always promoted Logan's work, no matter how poor taste it has been

in the last.

Also, the platform failed to condemn him properly in their statement following the incident.

But is youtube just responding by pushing the content they know viewers like to watch,

or have they chosen Logan Paul to be their star themselves?

If so…should the platform do better to advise him on what exactly is appropriate and what

isn't?

Again…are we, the viewers to blame here?

Logan Paul's video was a culmination of the growing and hugely popular shock culture

on Youtube.

Like Philip Defranco points out in his excellent video on the topic – we need to talk about

the Logan Paul problem – everything has become content.

Through over dramatization and clickbait, people have become so desensitized to shock

content they forget this is real.

Logan, like the rest of us, lost touch with reality.

Logan clearly is not the most intelligent guy and is known for his clownlike over the

top behaviour.

Give someone like that a huge amount of praise and success for those attributes - without

the right team behind him of course this was going to happen….he made a stupid mistake,

but really, we the viewers are to blame for feeding his ego and stupidity, Youtube is

to blame for promoting it and therefore condoning it, and those who support Logan professional

are at blame for feeding his God Complex and not managing him better.

This is why you cannot surround yourself with Yes men, and this is why supporting someone

blindly without ever questioning their actions is VERY dangerous.

The Logang should be holding Logan Paul accountable for his content, praising him when he gets

it right and questioning when he gets it wrong.

So…there is my answer for you.

I hope we all realise that the problem is much deeper than Logan Paul.

Logan himself may deserve a second chance, but if people keep making reckless content,

and Youtube keeps promoting it and viewers keep watching it, we're headed down a dangerous

path/ What do you guys think?

Let me know in the comments section below.

Also do leave a thumbs up and share this video with a friend.

I am Rebecca Felgate..that is all I have for now…

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