So last week, professional douchebag/YouTube star Logan Paul caused a stir when he said he was “going gay” for the month of March as part of a dumb 2019 challenge.
“And then March,” he said on his podcast. “Take a guess. What is it? Male-only March! So it’s male-only March, we’re gonna attempt to go gay for just one month.”
Paul thought the whole idea was hilarious. Unfortunately for him, nobody else seemed to agree. Including Guy Kenworthy.
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Over the weekend, Kenworthy tweeted:
Instead of "going gay for a month" can Logan Paul "go away for forever"?
— Gus Kenworthy (@guskenworthy) January 12, 2019
The tweet has received over 50K likes, nearly 8K retweets, and almost 500 comments.
And Gus isn’t the only person feeling some kinda way about Logan’s homophobic remarks. Here’s what other people on Twitter are saying about the 23-going-on-12-year-old’s antics:
everyone: 2019 is gonna be THE yea-
Logan Paul: Im going gay for a month!!
everyone: pic.twitter.com/Bv1pwm0740
— ?????? (@bratbeaters) January 13, 2019
january 2018:
logan paul filmed a dead body in the japanese suicide forest and laughsjanuary 2019:
logan paul claims he’s being gay for a month and completely invalidates the shit LGBTQIA+ deal withjanuary 2020:
logan paul commits mass murder?find out next year
— ????? (@violetmillsx) January 12, 2019
Cishet whitie: Logan Paul saying he’s going gay for a month isn’t offensive lol
Gays: pic.twitter.com/ZtU3pkmkYj
— Lucan | 5 days left ? (@sakanyee) January 12, 2019
Lgbts Straights
?Not wanting Logan Paul
— Saturn (@kittyfromsaturn) January 13, 2019
logan paul in march pic.twitter.com/73Bxzhz9l3
— reem (@reemxxo) January 13, 2019
Next challenge Logan Paul should do is the don't be a piece of shit challenge
— Ace Holmes (@hellaradkitty) January 14, 2019
On Friday, Paul issued a 19-word tweet acknowledging he used a “poor choice of words” and asking GLAAD if they could “get together and talk about it” on his podcast next week.
very poor choice of words… my fault. let’s get together and talk about it on my podcast next week? https://t.co/Ki8RKgMJOO
— Logan Paul (@LoganPaul) January 12, 2019
Noticeably absent from his statement are the words “I’m sorry.”
Prior to all this, Paul was perhaps best known for sharing a video with his 15 million YouTube subscribers last January of Aokigahara, Japan’s notorious “suicide forest”, where he encountered a hanging corpse, pointed, and laughed.
Related: Everyone’s outraged that vlogger Logan Paul posted the corpse of actual suicide victim to YouTube
iamru2
One dB telling another dB to go away lol
Hdtex
….said the triggered thirsty dB troll
mr guy
When did the perma-butthurt, finger wagging scolds takeover the shop window of gay?
RoughRugger
When folks realized that this kind of bullshit has actual, verifiable, documented negative impact on the LGBT+ community, particularly youth?
Rock-N-RollHS
@RoughRugger. Oh, yeah, I read that Harvard study on Logan Paul’s negative impact on teenage LGBTQIAZIGKDD+++ youths too!
I’m so glad that family and the immediate community are off the hook but semi-sort-of-celebrities are the real cause of gay youths’ pain and suffering! Whew!
GetOffMyInternets
While Logan Paul is an idiot, I don’t find anything in what Gus said as being an “epic clapback” unless your standards have a benchmark of early “Full House” episodes. Not everything Gus does or says is newsworthy…unless you’re Graham Gremore.
Vince
Please. I watched a recent Full House episode and trust me. It makes no difference.
Vince
But what will the 12 yo’s watch?
Donston
I don’t really see how his initial comments were particularly homophobic. It was definitely an ignorant joke that came from the perspective of hetero/hetero-leaning white male “privilege”. However, it did ironically sparked some interesting conversation on identity, identity politics and the spectrum. But of course he had to use the controversy to further plug himself and his projects.
Hdtex
@Donston then you’re a moron.
Geeker
Logan Paul is that kid in school that was popular somehow despite the fact he treated all his friends like shit.
Doug
Logan Paul is that kid in school who’ll do anything to draw attention to himself and everybody got tired of after awhile.
Rock-N-RollHS
Is he going to do a series of gay-4-pay videos during that month? That’s the only “apology” I’ll accept. ;-))
TheMarc
Well played, Logan Paul. He did something for attention, as usual, and got it back in spades and now his apology tour/validation by GLAAD, will get him even more. And Queerty and all of gay media-dom will be right there to report on EVERY.SINGLE.SOLITARY.INSIGNIFICANT.DEVELOPMENT.
Hdtex
And here YOU are commenting. Good job!
TheMarc
@HDTex…yep, so? My comments purpose was to call out the inanity of this story and how it only further served to give this Logan Paul the attention he craves and profits from. And to further direct others attentions to the fact that this is type of journalism is a staple of gay media. Purpose being, though most likely in vain, that gay media would choose to focus on more relevant news.
And so here you are commenting on my comment without providing relevant context in any way for why you would comment on my commenting on this story. Maybe let the “grown folks” talk and sit down somewhere.
nm4047
stop promoting this idiot (not sure which 1 is more of a pain) just ignore and he’ll die off into the back pages of history.
Brian
He’s not going away. He’s a multi-millionaire from the ad revenue of his channel and the brand sponsorships he has been given. He has millions of subscribers. Queerty’s article is a drop in the bucket – not affecting anything meaningfully.
gymmuscleboy
Although not an intellectually intelligent response from Gus, perhaps it was marketing genius instead. I must not be his target audience. Yuck.
Tigertail60
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GayEGO
Although I can see the discrimination in his remarks, they are not as bad as they use to be back in the day!
ShowMeGuy
Paul is just generating content to keep his social media machine chugging along. If the media spotlight fades…..he gets cold.
Morrisson
I knew the Huff Post had a habit of changing the meaning of words to suit their narrative, looks like Queerty has jumped on the bandwagon. Epic? Hardly,
joshohendo
Good lord. Talk about an über overreaction.
I loathe Logan Paul. Pewdiepie normally does a great job in detailing just how much of a moron he is. Entitled, possesses that toxic bro culture like you wouldn’t believe, thinks he’s funny etc etc. *Basically repulsive*.
I wasn’t even offended by his male-only March remark. Are others, possibly? Sure. So, you’re offended, and that’s it. Great. You’re allowed to be. But don’t presume that we all are. I simply found it a case where he was trying to be funny (he failed miserably). Even my younger self (in darker days), would be able to ascertain that he was having some dumb, stupid fun.
As for Gus. Yikes. No, that wasn’t a clap back. Nor was it epic. He can have his thoughts (of course that’s fine), but why are we getting his opinion constantly these days?! It’s utterly perplexing.