YouTube finally hands down punishment to creator for posting dead body video

YouTube finally hands down punishment to creator for posting dead body video

6 years ago
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https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/01/youtube-waits-a-little-too-long-to-punish-logan-paul-for-dead-body-video/

About one year after the YouTube ad-pocalypse shook up the online video website, the company is handing down a punishment to another YouTube star for posting an obscene video. Logan Paul, a YouTube creator with 15 million subscribers, has been removed from Google's Preferred ad platform. YouTube also won't feature Paul in the fourth season of Foursome, a YouTube Red show, and Paul's other Originals projects have been put on hold. This comes nearly two weeks after Paul posted a video of him visiting Aokigahara in Japan, also known as the "suicide forest," and prominently featuring a dead human body in the video and in the video's thumbnail.

YouTube's punishment comes after the company made this original statement about this incident: