YouTube has come up with a solution for American vlogger Logan Paul's stunt in Japan by taking down his channel from the streaming site's premium advertisement lineup. The news was recently confirmed by a representative of YouTube, who also apologized for the delay in taking action against the disrespectful video that generated so much anger and controversy in the vast world of the internet.
Paul's YouTube channel has a substantial number of subscribers, upward of 15.6 million, to be more specific. It is widely known that Paul makes a lot of his income through his streaming channel, and without advertisement premiums, his income will decrease substantially. However, as it turns out, Paul will still be able to make money off of his videos through the general monetization program, according to one of the representatives from Google.
Before Paul released a video featuring a dead body in Japan's "suicide forest," Aokigahara, Paul was one of the vlog streamers who generated the most income with his channel being certified as Google Preferred -- which is only granted to the top five percent of the content creators in the streaming platform. In addition to that, YouTube has also decided to take Paul out of the fourth season of the YouTubeRed Show and halt his other projects.
This allowed him to be granted with top-of-the-line advertisements, hence allowing him to generate as much cash as possible. However, given YouTube's announcement, this is not the case anymore. At this point, Paul's upcoming projects are put on hold indefinitely. Despite his initial attempts of posting apologies on social media, and a vlog apology after, people have still been furious with the 22-year-old vlogger.
On New Year's eve, Paul posted a video of his travels to Aokigahara, wherein he stumbled upon a dead body. The video then shows the actual corpse, and even zooms in some of the body parts -- which is considered by many as distasteful and disrespectful.
