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Logan Paul

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Not to be confused with Paul Logan.
Logan Paul
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Paul in October 2016
Born Logan Alexander Paul
(1995-04-01) April 1, 1995 (age 22)
Westlake, Ohio, U.S.
Residence Hollywood, California, U.S.
Occupation Vlogger, actor
Relatives Jake Paul (brother)
Website Official website
YouTube information
Years active 2013–2018
Genre
Subscribers 15 million (Logan Paul Vlogs), 4.24 million (TheOfficialLoganPaul), 19.24 million (total)
(December 28, 2017)
Total views 2.88 billion (Logan Paul Vlogs), 349 million (TheOfficialLoganPaul), 3.229 billion (total)
(December 28, 2017)
Subscriber and view counts updated as of December 28, 2017.

Logan Alexander Paul[1] (born April 1, 1995) is an American vlogger and actor. He first gained fame through videos shared on the internet video service Vine.[2] Paul later branched out into acting in television and films. His television work includes a guest appearance on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and a role in the comedy series Weird Loners. His film work includes the dystopian science fiction YouTube Red film The Thinning and the adult comedy Airplane Mode. He has also started his own brand called Maverick, named after his parrot.

Early life

Paul was born on April 1, 1995, in Westlake, Ohio, the son of Pamela Ann Stepnick (née Meredith) and realtor Gregory Allan Paul.[1] He has claimed to possess English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Jewish ancestry.[3] Growing up in Ohio with younger brother Jake[2], Paul began creating internet videos for a YouTube channel called Zoosh when he was 10 years old.[4]

Paul attended Westlake High School. By the time he was ready to attend college, his YouTube channel had attained a modest following.[5] He attended Ohio University before dropping out in 2014 to pursue a career as a social media entertainer full-time in Los Angeles,[4] moving into an apartment complex in LA with other Vine stars.[2][4]

Career

Social media videos

Paul rose to fame as a member on the Internet video sharing service Vine.[6] In February 2014, he had over 3.1 million followers on various social media platforms.[7] By April 2014 he had attained 105,000 Twitter followers, 361,000 Instagram followers, 31,000 likes on his Facebook page and about 150,000 subscribers to his YouTube channel. A YouTube compilation video of his Vine work garnered more than four million views the first week it was posted.[5] In 2015 he was ranked as the 10th most influential figure on Vine, with his six-second videos earning him hundreds of thousands of dollars USD in advertising revenue.[4] By that October, his Facebook videos alone had more than 300 million views.[2]

Paul posts a daily vlog on YouTube which includes him performing challenges, while his other YouTube channel, TheOfficialLoganPaul, is where he posts short films.[citation needed]

Paul was also involved in a number of advertising campaigns, including for Hanes, PepsiCo and HBO.[2] In 2016, Comcast purchased a short form digital TV series from Paul called Logan Paul Vs.[8] Paul is vlogging daily on his YouTube channel Logan Paul Vlogs.[9]

In February 2017, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson released on his own YouTube channel "Logan Paul has been cut from, like, all of The Rock's movies", a video starring himself and Paul, in which Johnson informs Paul that he has been cut from all of Johnson's films, and consoles Paul by making him the "ambassador" to his upcoming Baywatch feature film.[10] That April, Johnson and Paul reunited for "Logan Paul is, like, totally terrible at falling in love with Alexandra Daddario", the first part of a video sketch in which Paul tries to impress Johnson in order to win a part in the film, and falls in love with actress Alexandra Daddario in the process.[11]

Suicide video controversy

Main article: Logan Paul suicide video controversy

On December 31, 2017, Paul uploaded a vlog to his YouTube channel depicting the recently-deceased corpse of a man who had committed suicide by hanging in Aokigahara at the base of Mount Fuji in Japan, known as the "suicide forest" due to its high popularity as a suicide site. Initially intended to be part three of his "Toyko Adventures", the group had planned to camp in the woods, but in response to the corpse decided to notify the authorities and cancel. The video gained 6.3 million views within 24 hours of being uploaded[12] and reached Number 10 on YouTube's trending list,[13] with "a seemingly uncontested 550-600,000 likes on it" prior to "all the extended community outrage", according to Philip DeFranco.[14]

The video was criticized by many online, including celebrities[14] politicians,[15] and other members of the YouTube community of being tone-deaf to suicide victims.[16] In turn, Paul removed the video from his YouTube channel, following up with a written apology on Twitter on January 1, 2018. On January 2, 2018, a subsequent video apology was released to YouTube in which Paul describes his behavior as a "coping mechanism," asking his fans to stop defending his actions in the process.[17][18][19] While acknowledging his actions as irresponsible, he denied any accusations of mocking the victim. The video has garnered over 30 million views as of January 5, 2018, with slightly more dislikes than likes.[20]

YouTube retrospectively issued a statement claiming that the video violated their policies and guidelines.[15] While the original video has been removed from Paul's channel on YouTube, re-uploads on YouTube remain[21], making appearances on other websites as well.

Film and television

Paul on a panel discussing The Thinning at the New York Comic Con with (left to right) co-star Peyton List, writer/director Michael Gallagher and moderator Andy Signore

In early 2015, Paul appeared on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.[22] He also appeared on the Fox TV series Weird Loners, where he appeared in the role of the Paul Twins. He starred in two episodes of the Freeform series Stitchers. In 2016, Paul starred in the YouTube Red movie The Thinning opposite Peyton List.

As of January 2016, Paul was training with drama coaches and the comedy troupes The Groundlings and Upright Citizens Brigade.[2]

Paul wrote the screenplay for an adult comedy, Airplane Mode, which has been described as "American Pie for Gen Z", and by Paul himself as "Expendables with Internet stars."[2][23]

Personal life

In October 2015, Paul lived in the same apartment complex on Hollywood and Vine in Hollywood, California as other fellow social media celebrities, like Amanda Cerny, Juanpa Zurita, and Andrew Bachelor. It was this that allowed various collaborations with one another on their videos.[6]

Health

In October 2017, Paul revealed on Jimmy Kimmel Live! that he was missing 15% of his right testicle from the result of a stunt. For one of his Vine videos, Paul was at a shopping mall and during the stunt had landed onto a chair with his right testicle afflicted. Three days after the stunt, Paul decided to go to a hospital where he was told the right testicle had been damaged.[24]

Filmography

Film
Year Film Role Notes
2014 Rainbow Man Thomas Trainor/Rainbow Man Short film
2015 Lyin' Ryan Ryan Short film
2015 Close Before Midnight Miles Short film
2016 Chainsaw Craig Short film
2016 The Thinning Blake Redding Web
2017 The Space Between Us Roger Film
2017 Superstition: The Rule of 3's Preston Post-production
2017 Where's the Money Eddie Post-production
2017 Linked Logan Post-production
2017 Airplane Mode N/A Post-production
2017 Can't Take It Back Clint Plotkin Post-production
2017 Superstition: The Rule of 3's Presotn Post-production
2018 Undying N/A Post-production
2018 Valley Girl Mickey Post-production
2018 The Thinning 2 Blake Redding Web
Television
Year Show Role Notes
2015 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Ryan Episode: "Intimidation Game"
2015 Weird Loners Logan Twins Episode: "Weird Pilot"
2016 Stitchers Theo Engelsen Episodes: "The Two Deaths of Jamie B." and "The One That Got Away"
2016 Walk the Prank Himself Episode: "So You Think You Can Middle School Dance"
2016 Bizaardvark Kirk Episode: "The First Law of Dirk"
Web
Year Title Role Notes
2014 Bad Weather Films Thomas Trainor/Rainbow Man Episode: "Rainbow Man"
2015–present Logan Paul[25] Himself
2016 Logan Paul Vs.[26] Himself
2016–present Foursome Alec Fixler Main role

Discography

Singles

As a lead artist

Title Year Peak chart positions Album
US
Bub.
[27]		 AUS
[28]		 NZ
Heat.
[29]
"Help Me Help You"
(featuring Why Don't We)		 2017 5 90 — Non-album singles
"Outta My Hair" — — —
"No Handlebars" — — 6

As a featured artist

Title Year Album
"The Song of the Summer"
(Seven Bucks featuring Logan Paul and Desiigner)		 2017 Non-album single

Promotional singles

List of promotional singles, with selected chart positions, showing year released and album name
Title Year Album
"2016" 2016 Non-album single
"The Fall of Jake Paul"
(featuring Why Don't We)		 2017
"I Love You Bro"
(with Jake Paul)
"The Rise of the Pauls"
(featuring Jake Paul)
"Hero"
(featuring Zircon)

References

  1. ^ a b "Birth Record of Logan Alexander Paul". MooseRoots. Retrieved May 2, 2017. 
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Stanley, T.L. (October 27, 2016). "How Vine's Hunky Goofball Logan Paul Plans to Become a Mainstream Superstar". AdWeek. 
  3. ^ "A death in the family.." YouTube (Logan Paul Vlogs). 
  4. ^ a b c d Moss, Caroline (July 29, 2015). "Logan Paul has conquered the internet, but he can't figure out how to conquer the world". Business Insider. 
  5. ^ a b Patsko, Scott (April 22, 2014). "How national Vine video star Logan Paul went from Westlake standout athlete to master of 6-second comedy". Plain-Dealer.
  6. ^ a b Whitaker, Bill; McCandless, Brit (October 23, 2016). "Social media influencers turn followers into dollars". 60 Minutes. CBS News. Retrieved October 27, 2016. 
  7. ^ Schiller, Jakob (February 28, 2014). "How a College Kid Mastered Viral Comedy, 6 Seconds at a Time". Wired. 
  8. ^ Spangler, Todd (August 23, 2016). "Comcast's Watchable Unveils First Original Series, Including Show With Vine Star Logan Paul". Variety. Retrieved October 27, 2016. 
  9. ^ "Logan Paul Vlogs". YouTube. Retrieved May 2, 2017.
  10. ^ Cohen, Ian (February 2017). "Why You Shouldn't Punch The Rock". Muscle & Fitness.
  11. ^ Brown, Scott (April 21, 2017). "Logan Paul is, like, totally terrible at falling in love with Alexandra Daddario". The Rock/YouTube. Retrieved May 2, 2017.
  12. ^ Swearingen, Jake. "Logan Paul Posts Footage of Apparent Suicide Victim on YouTube". New York Magazine. 
  13. ^ "Logan Paul, and the toxic YouTube prank culture that created him, explained". Vox. Retrieved 4 January 2018. 
  14. ^ a b Connellan, Shannon. "YouTube star Logan Paul apologises for video showing an apparent victim of suicide". Mashable. 
  15. ^ a b McCurry, Justin (2 January 2018). "YouTube star Logan Paul apologises for film of man's body in Japan". The Guardian. British Labour MP Melanie Onn, who had tweeted that she bought a Logan Paul hoodie as a Christmas present for her 10-year-old son, said the video was 'dreadful'... 
  16. ^ Park, Madison; Smith, Emily; Sanchez, Ray. "YouTube star Logan Paul posts new apology for showing video of body". CNN. 
  17. ^ "Logan Paul speaks out after uploading 'suicide' video of body hanging in forest". Metro. 2018-01-02. Retrieved 2018-01-02. 
  18. ^ "Logan Paul: Outrage over YouTuber's dead body video". BBC News. 2017-01-01. Retrieved 2017-01-01. 
  19. ^ Bromwich, Jonah Engel (2 January 2018). "YouTube Star Logan Paul Apologizes for Video Showing Dead Body". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 January 2018. 
  20. ^ "So Sorry". YouTube/com. Retrieved January 5, 2018. 
  21. ^ "YouTube can't contain Logan Paul's video because YouTubers know the rules". The Verge. Retrieved 4 January 2018. 
  22. ^ Ibrahim, Banu (July 27, 2016). "Logan Paul dishes about his awkward celebrity encounter on set of 'Law and Order'". AOL.
  23. ^ Gutelle, Sam (January 25, 2016). "Logan Paul Plans 'An Expendables With Internet Stars' Called 'Airplane Mode'". Tubefilter.
  24. ^ Hathaway, Jay (2017-10-06). "Logan Paul once lost a chunk of testicle in a stunt gone wrong". The Daily Dot. Retrieved 2017-10-06. 
  25. ^ Spangler, Todd (August 5, 2016). "YouTube Red Picks Up 'The Thinning' Thriller Starring Logan Paul, Peyton List". Variety. 
  26. ^ Spangler, Todd (August 22, 2016). "Comcast's Watchable Unveils First Original Series, Including Show With Vine Star Logan Paul". Variety. 
  27. ^ "Logan Paul – Chart search on Billboard.biz". Billboard. May 27, 2017. Retrieved June 13, 2017. 
  28. ^ "ARIA Chart Watch #424". auspOp. June 10, 2017. Retrieved June 10, 2017. 
  29. ^ "NZ Heatseeker Singles Chart". Recorded Music NZ. December 4, 2017. Retrieved December 1, 2017. 

External links

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