The Most Controversial Stars On YouTube

After making the jump to YouTube, former Vine star Logan Paul managed to hit 10 million subscribers in record time, reaching the impressive milestone in just 333 days (via TubeFilter). The Ohio-born vlogger was scoring high profile collabs with the likes of Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart and appeared to be on the verge of a Hollywood breakthrough, but one decision ruined everything he'd built in an instant.

In December 2017, Paul traveled to Japan, where he harassed locals and disrespected the culture during a series of childish vlogs, though one, in particular, caused absolute outrage. The YouTuber visited Aokigahara — a place commonly referred to as the "suicide forest" — where he came across the body of a recently deceased man. Despite being told to "turn off the cameras" by one of his cronies, Paul chose to keep rolling and even used a barely-blurred image of the dead man in the thumbnail when he published the now-infamous video.

"I'm like, wow, I really f***ed up, to a degree that this may be the only thing people remember me by," Paul admitted to The Hollywood Reporter. He claimed to be a changed man during his candid THR interview/plea for forgiveness, but he has struggled keep his nose clean. The YouTuber came under fire for tasering dead animals in 2018, and he caused controversy again in 2019, when he joked that he was going to "go gay" for a month.

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