Earlier this week, we told you about popular vlogger Logan Paul, who issued several apologies (of questionable sincerity) after one of his recent videos came under fire for including the corpse of a suicide victim.
Now, satirist Vic Berger has lent his considerable editing chops to a video that perfectly skewers the superficiality of Paul’s apologies (in under two minutes!)
Related: Everyone’s outraged that vlogger Logan Paul posted the corpse of actual suicide victim to YouTube
For those not familiar with the saga, Pall recently shared a video with his 15 million subscribers in which he pays a visit to Aokigahara, Japan’s notorious “suicide forest”.
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“This is the most real vlog I’ve ever posted on this channel,” he says at the beginning of the vid. “I think this definitely marks a moment in YouTube history.”
Then he trains the camera on a corpse and laughs.
“Yo are you alive? Are you fu**king with us?” he asks, getting closer to the body and calling out the corpse’s purple hands.
He’s since deleted the vid and posted several apologies, including this one, which was first published on his YouTube page:
And here’s Berger’s take:
Logan Paul apologizes to the Internet. pic.twitter.com/yTLTABx4yW
— Vic Berger IV (@VicBergerIV) January 2, 2018
tham
He has crazy eyes. In fact, if I didn’t know any better, I’d think he was a Scientologist.
SiamSam
What’s the gay connection? Queerty is truly desperate for clicks.
Knight
Who? I guess the only thing worse than some bottom-feeding internet wannabe, is someone else no one has ever heard about trying to ride his coat-tails.
jkb
As if the first vid wasn’t annoying enough
Juanjo
Yeah, the guy with over 11 million subscribers to his channel is an internet wannabe no one has ever heard of. What does that make you, Mary?
bugg
Nope, Juanjo. That makes him a guy who simply don’t give a sh*t about the pettiness of an internet dumb rich kid.
Knight
Bug – LOL! Thanks bud. You’re too cool.
JKB – agreed!!!
Juanwhore, actually I was referring to the guy who made the come-back/retort video, who I had never heard of…and whom this article is about. Were you dropped on your head as a child or simply born stupid? Sinceramente, eres un Viejo pedante y asqueroso. No traes NADA a ninguna charla. Tu pesonalidad es tan fea como tu cara que se puede usar para asustar los bichos de casa. Mas te vale ir te a tu puta madre que te pario’…que no sirves para nada.
Jezz
Congrats on inexplicably developing a superiority complex based on your ability to dodge pop culture.
DCguy
This guy has over 11 million followers?!
Kangol
Yep. He was even featured on Top Chef as a social media/lifestyle influencer!
DCguy
How hilarious was that?! So just a few days after Top Chef features him, he’s in the news for all the wrong reasons. I bet they wish they could reshoot that episode!
epmcdaniel
While I’ve never heard of him and to be honest I don’t care. I find his behavior/posting disgraceful and disrespectful. Then again we allow people today to push the boundaries and with no accountability. He didn’t think it was wrong at the time to show a person for whatever reason(s) who had committed suicide, and his apology is without any compassion or remorse. In my opinion, it was just a stunt to save his ass and reputation.
Curtispsf
Maybe I’m naive, but I found his apology to be sincere and heartfelt. I believe at the time of the incident, he knew what he was doing. I don’t think he had stopped to think for a minute just exactly what the world’s reaction to his posting would be. He was probably just thinking about “the numbers” and “entertainment”. Well the world called him on this despicable act; he could have chosen to leave the video up, ignore the criticisms and just milk the controversy for all the “hits” he could get. He didn’t. He took the video down and apologized profusely asking those of his followers who “supported” his posting of the video to stop their support. He accepted responsibility and this was a “teachable” moment. I believe his remorse was real and not just calculated to make the bad PR go away. I say cut him some slack, forgive and move on.
Jezz
He monetized the apology video.
ALLENGRUNDEN
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draven
I watched about 3 seconds of that video that’s all I could watch. It made me feel really bad. Wow. I hate the internet for stuff like that. I only seek out happiness. Please follow me.
Rex Huskey
what is the world coming to?
salumbre
To be frank, I just watched the original video, and all I see is a nervous, shaken American kid who wasn’t too bright to begin with, and who cracks a couple of jokes to sort of cope with what he is seeing. Obviously he is a few tomatoes short of a salad, but I just don’t get the big outrage.
I was puzzled for a moment by his supposed popularity, but I guess I understand it now: he is just another stupid American kid who appeals to a million equally stupid American kids.
As for the “going gay” thing, again, he is a young, not too bright American kid who will try anything to keep those clicks coming. And apparently he is succeeding, as I didn’t know him from Adam and all of a sudden he is here. Not that Qwerty standards are particularly high, either. Whatever.