Logan Paul Says Japan Incident Was 'Biggest Blessing' of His Life
On New Year's Eve 2017, Logan Paul published a video on YouTube in which he and his friends filmed their visit to a Japanese forest known as a common location for suicides, during which they filmed a suicide victim's dead body. A massive controversy followed both for Logan Paul and for YouTube, due to the platform's lax response to the sensitive subject. Paul ultimately stepped away from YouTube briefly and apologized multiple times. In a new interview, Paul characterizes the entire event as the «biggest blessing» of his life.
As a guest on the YouTube video podcast MMA Hour, Paul was candid about how the controversy surrounding his video helped him reevaluate his life and become a better person. Paul explains that, looking back on the person that he was «unfortunately becoming» at the time, the Japan video was the «biggest blessing of my life.» He goes on, saying that he needed a reset and for life to check him, which it did.
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Due to the controversy surrounding the YouTube video and the reflection it led in Paul, he says that he's become someone that he «ended up loving» instead of «becoming a jackass.» The video, according to Paul, was made in part because the person he was found validation in «clout, money, fame, wealth» and other superficial things. That approach to life, he now says, «doesn't make a person great.»
Paul says that he's since revisited his values and rediscovered himself. To do that, he says that he's started listening more to the people around him, as well as ensuring that he has the right people in place around him. Logan Paul acknowledges that he's still learning and listening, and that he's endeavoring to continue to do good — notably through getting
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