Logan Paul

Logan Paul 'Logan Alexander Paul (born: April 1, 1995 [age 25]) is an American YouTuber, musician, actor, director, and professional boxer. Logan started his career as a Vine creator and began creating YouTube videos following Vine’s closing. His channel was the fifth fastest-growing channel on YouTube in 2017 and due to this, entered the top 50 most subscribed late that year, making him the youngest person on that list. As of February 2020, his channel is the 130th most subscribed channel in the world, and he is one of the most successful YouTubers of all time. Logan Paul started having an association with KSI and Deji in 2018 because of the boxing match.

Association
Logan was born on "April Fools Day" - a good metaphor for his existence.

Past
Before the boxing drama even existed, Logan Paul was in good relations with KSI, Calfreezy and RiceGum. The four met up in real life and went to the Super Bowl together in 2017.

Boxing At the end of the KSI V Joe Weller boxing match, KSI called out Logan and Jake following his victory against Joe. After this, DramaAlert instantly took it to Twitter.

He posted a tweet to see how many people want to see a boxing match of KSI and Deji versus the Paul brothers. Deji then gets himself into the drama, specifically calling out Jake Paul. Logan and Jake made a lot of cringe-inducing videos about the situation, claiming they were trying to get over it, not wanting any beef.

Jake naturally got a lot of hate for it. Eventually KSI goes out to ask them to leave his brother alone, and that he will fight both of them if he has to. After a while, KSI made a poll asking his fans to vote for whom they want to see him fight next. At this point in time, JJ thought it was incredibly unlikely that the fight would actually happen.

However, Logan accepted KSI's invitation and, following some clashes between the two stars’ management teams, a fight was confirmed for August 2018, with Deji and Jake being the undercard.

2019 Boxing Rematch
On November 9, 2019, Logan and JJ fought in a rematch to the first fight they had. The fight lasted six rounds, with Logan losing to KSI from a split decision after two points were subtracted from Logan due to illegal punches.

Early life
Logan Paul was born on April 1st, 1995 in Westlake, Ohio. He was the first son of realtor Greg Paul and Pamela Paul (now Stepnick due to remarriage). He is of English, German, Irish, Scottish and Welsh descent. He is also of 1/16 Ashkenazi Jewish descent, as he descends from Isidore Buxbaum, the son of a Jewish couple from Germany and Hungary.

On January 1997, his younger brother Jake was born in Cleveland, Ohio. When he was 10 years old, Logan started to create his own content for a YouTube channel called Zoosh. And later on named Ldogandjslice.

About
Before starting his primary vlogging channel, Logan had previously created a channel in 2013 known as The Official Logan Paul but stopped uploading on the channel in 2017. Logan’s most popular video ever is currently FULL SONG: The Fall Of Jake Paul (Official Video) FEAT. Why Don’t We. Logan Paul first hit fame on the platform Vine starting from 2013, where he would upload random skits whilst attending high school and later college (in which he dropped out of). However, he was only reasonable well known popular and was known very little outside of Vine.

Once Vine shut down, in 2016 Logan started pursuing an acting career and was in the film Baywatch, in which he was only included in a deleted scene. He also has done a collaboration with the Rock the same year in a video, however, besides the acting industry, he still wasn't well known at the time. Logan finally hit YouTube main stream fame when he uploaded the song titled Help Me Help You on May 18th, 2017 on The Official Logan Paul channel which is currently his last upload on that channel, in which the music video hit #1 on trending (before Jake hit YouTube main stream fame two weeks later). Weeks later Logan uploaded the song mentioned below which caused him more mainstream fame on YouTube, and later with the January 2018 controversy, he has gained almost all mainstream attention.

Ancestry and Family
Logan's maternal grandfather was Willbur R. "Spike" Meredith III (1936-2010), who was the son of Professor Willbur R. "Rob" Meredith II (1908-1984) and Lilian Buxbaum (1909-1984). Rob, Logan's maternal great-grandfather, was the son of Wilbur Robert Meredith (1871-1929) and Mary Davies.

Lillian, Logan's great-grandmother was the daughter of Isidore Harry Buxbaum. Harry's parents were both Jews; his father was from Germany and his mother was Hungarian. Harry was also the husband of Lillian McLean, who was of German descent on her mother's side and English descent on her father's side.

Jake Paul Drama
On May 30th, 2017, Logan's younger brother Jake uploaded his own song named It's Everyday Bro. In the song, Jake roasted his ex-girlfriend Alissa, as well as calling out a lot of different YouTubers (like PewDiePie). As a result, many YouTubers responded to Jake's song with criticism, Logan responded and dissed the song.

Jake Responds
On June 1st 2017, Jake released his song titled Logang Sucks (DISS TRACK) Official Music Video. In the video Jake basically roasted Logan & his fan base.

Logan's Song
After a while, Logan uploaded the half version of his song against his own brother named The Fall Of Jake Paul Feat. Why Don’t We. As expected, Logan roasted his brother on multiple things in the video.

Logan actually decided first not to upload the full version until Jake went too far, making Logan eventually release the full song. In the full clip Jake's ex-girlfriend Alissa is seen with Logan in the background. At the end of the video, Logan and Alissa actually kissed or it appeared they were going to. Eventually, Alissa got into a relationship with another American YouTuber known today as FaZe Banks. Unfortunately, Banks and Alissa broke up in the summer of 2019 after alleged cheating scandals. They ended up getting back together a few months later.

End Of The Drama
At the end of the whole drama, Jake and Logan actually made up, with the song that got posted on Jake's YouTube channel: I Love You Bro. Many think the brothers did it all as a publicity stunt, and there was never in fact any "beef" to begin with.

Suicide Forest
Although Logan was subjected to many cases of unpleasant controversy, the most infamous one was when Logan went to the Aokigahara Forest, also known as Suicide Forest, with his friends. This incident profoundly tarnished his reputation for most of 2018.

On December 31, 2017, Logan Paul uploaded a video to his channel that shows him going into the 'Suicide Forest' in Japan. Throughout his vlog and even in his thumbnail, the suicide victim hanging on a tree is visible (the dead person's face was blurred). In the beginning of the video, there were an advice for suicidal victims as well as suicide hotline number. However, as they explored the forest, they discover a man hanging on a tree. Once he saw the corpse, he repeatedly zoomed in on it and made remarks, jokes and body language. Whether if Logan deliberately made jokes or did it as a coping mechanism still remains debated. Although most of his fans didn't care much about his video at all, a swarm of renowned YouTubers and celebrities, multiple online articles, television, radio news, talk show sources, and even his personal friends reprimanded or mocked him for showing the graphic material to his young audiences. The most subscribed YouTuber at the time, PewDiePie, even went as far as to say that Logan is a "sociopath", a term that will later become a meme due to Shane's documentary about Logan's brother, Jake. Before Logan deleted the video, it had accumulated over 6.5 million views, over 600,000 likes and was #6 on trending, all in the span of one day. Logan indeed apologized twice on Twitter and YouTube, but that only fueled the backlash more. After, the video was archived and reuploaded, thousands of times throughout the internet. This controversy is being said to be "the end of Logan's career" by many in and out of the YouTube community due to the backlash.

Consequently, Logan was pulled from nearly all his sponsors such as Pepsi, seen a dramatic decline in his merch sales, pulled from Google Preferred, banned from Vine 2 (sequel Vine app) etc. On January 24, 2018, Logan Paul returned to YouTube after many reports saying he would return on that day, presenting documentation of him interviewing suicide victims and activists resulting in him learning more on the subject of suicide as an effort to show the mainstream media and public that he is "learning and growing as a human being". In the video, he mentioned he was donating $1,000,000 to suicide prevention organizations, will educate others on the topic of suicide and be an advocate for suicide prevention. The video received mixed reception with some people debating that he only did it to gain back the respect of his followers.