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| ==Summary== | | ==Summary== |
| On his third birthday, [[Arthur Read|Arthur]]'s favorite present was [[Stanley (stuffed animal)|Stanley]], his teddy bear. Stanley protected Arthur when he was afraid of the dark...and even when his new baby sister, [[D.W. Read|D.W.]] arrived. What will he do if he sells him out of peer pressure? | | On his third birthday, Arthur's favorite present was , his teddy bear. Stanley protected Arthur when he was afraid of the dark...and even when his new baby sister, [[D.W. Read|D.W.]] arrived. What will he do if he sells him out of peer pressure? |
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| ==Plot== | | ==Plot== |
| The story starts off with [[Stanley]] and a [[Woogle]] on the second shelf. Stanley looks old and worn and needs to be sewn. [[Jane Read|Arthur's mother]] sews him and then the Reads have a garage sale. D.W. thinks a penny is good enough. Arthur disagrees. She tries to sell her singing fish, [[Thelma]], to [[Vicita Molina]], but [[Ramón Molina|Ramon]] says it's too expensive (which was 1,000 dollars.) Soon, she hears from D.W. about Stanley and gets even more excited than she did with Thelma.
| | Arthur’s [[Woogle]] (from “Arthur Rides the Bandwagon”) tells [[Stanley (stuffed animal)|Stanley]] the teddy bear that he’s falling apart and both will be thrown away soon. Pal and Kate cheer Stanley up. |
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| | '''Desperately Seeking Stanley''' |
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| | Arthur and Brain build a diorama for school. Brain wants to use cotton, that fell out of Stanley, to make clouds. He notices that Arthur is still attached to his teddy. |
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| | [[Jane Read|Arthur's mother]] threatens that, if she has to sew him one more time, he will become Pal's new chewtoy. Stanley. D.W. wants to sells her singing fish [[Thelma]] and some other toys at the family’s garage sale. She teases Arthur for wanting to keep Stanley. Arthur offers Stanley for the sale. |
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| | [[Vicita Molina]] wants to buy the singing fish, but D.W. has priced it at $1,000. D.W. suggests buying Stanley instead, and Arthur sells him for five dollars. Vicita renames the teddy “Chico”. Arthur has flashbacks of getting Stanley for his third birthday, introducing him to baby D.W., and being less afraid of the dark thanks to Stanley. He tells himself that Stanley will be better of with a little kid. |
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| | Later he sees that Vicita, being only three, is not taking good care of Stanley. |
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| | When Brain brings the finished diorama, they talk about giving away toys. Brain mentions giving away a stuffed pig named Plato (possibly to Mrs. Tibble, see trivia section). |
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| | Arthur offers Vicita seven dollars to get Stanley back, but she traded him to Timmy Tibble for a sticker. Arthur has a fantasy of the Tibbles removing Stanley’s stuffing. Horrified, he runs to the Tibble’s house. |
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| | When Arthur tells Mrs. Tibble about Stanley, she shows him a room full of old stuffed toys. She has repaired Stanley (far better than Mrs. Read did) and made a raincoat for him. She offers Arthur to visit Stanley whenever he likes. Stanley says: “Goodbye, Arthur”, as the screen goes black… |
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| | …and opens again to show Arthur taking Stanley home “for the weekend”, finishing the episode. |
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| ==Characters== | | ==Characters== |
| ===Major===
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| *[[Arthur Read]] | | *[[Arthur Read]] |
| *[[D.W. Read]] | | *[[D.W. Read]] |
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| *[[Woogle]] | | *[[Woogle]] |
| *[[Alan Powers|The Brain]] | | *[[Alan Powers|The Brain]] |
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| ===Minor===
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| *[[Pal]] | | *[[Pal]] |
| *[[Kate Read]] | | *[[Kate Read]] |
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| *[[Vicita Molina]] | | *[[Vicita Molina]] |
| *[[Ramón Molina]] | | *[[Ramón Molina]] |
| | | *[[Jane Read]] (intro only) |
| ===Cameo===
| | *[[Sue Ellen Armstrong]] (cameo) |
| *[[Sue Ellen Armstrong]] | | *[[Alex]] (cameo) |
| *[[Alex]] | |
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| ==Trivia== | | ==Trivia== |
| *In Arthur's third birthday party flashback, [[Francine Frensky|Francine]] was seen there, but they didn't know each other until in the preschool flashback in the earlier episode "[[Locked in the Library!]]." | | *In Arthur's third birthday party flashback, [[Francine Frensky|Francine]] was seen there, but they didn't know each other until in the preschool flashback in the earlier episode "[[Locked in the Library!]]." |
| | *One image is in wide-screen this is rare for season 1-15 to have that. |
| *At the end of the episode, when Arthur is in the attic at the [[Tibbles' House|Tibble house]], a pig wearing something similar to a toga can be seen. This is probably [[Alan Powers|the Brain]]'s old stuffed animal, [[Plato]], meaning that who he gave it to was [[Mrs. Tibble]]. | | *At the end of the episode, when Arthur is in the attic at the [[Tibbles' House|Tibble house]], a pig wearing something similar to a toga can be seen. This is probably [[Alan Powers|the Brain]]'s old stuffed animal, [[Plato]], meaning that who he gave it to was [[Mrs. Tibble]]. |
| *This episode is probably named after the popular 80's movie "Desperately Seeking Susan" featuring Madonna. | | *This is a rare episode where babies, pets and toys can talk (even outside the introduction), but are not the main characters. |
| | | *'''Character ages from “Arthur’s Third Birthday Flashback”:''' |
| == reer ==
| | ** [[Arthur Read]] (3 to 6) |
| | | ** [[D.W. Read]] (6 months old / 1) |
| === 2013–2015: Vine and YouTube beginnings ===
| | ** [[Buster Baxter]] (3) |
| Paul rose to fame as a member on the Internet video sharing service Vine.<sup>[11]</sup> In February 2014, he had over 3.1 million followers on various social media platforms.<sup>[12]</sup>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.<sup>[9]</sup> 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.<sup>[5]</sup> By that October, his Facebook videos alone had more than 300 million views.<sup>[2]</sup>
| | ** [[Francine Frensky]] (4) |
| | | *'''Timeline:''' Arthur's Woogle from “[[Arthur Rides the Bandwagon]]” makes another appearance. |
| 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
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| TheOfficialLoganPaul is the YouTube account used by Paul to upload short films and comedy sketches. Paul also posts a daily vlog to "Logan Paul Vlogs", uploading every day without fail from September 12, 2016 to January 1, 2018. While his first channel has a following of 4.36 million<sup>[13]</sup>, his vlog channel surpassed it with a following of 15.7 million as of January 10, 2018.<sup>[14]</sup>
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| === 2015–2016: television roles, YouTube Red series, ''Airplane Mode'', and commercial roles ===
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| In early 2015, Paul appeared on ''Law & Order: Special Victims Unit''.<sup>[15]</sup> He also appeared on the Fox TV series ''Weird Loners'', where he appeared
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| == reer ==
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| === 2013–2015: Vine and YouTube beginnings ===
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| Paul rose to fame as a member on the Internet video
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| == reer ==
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| === 2013–2015: Vine and YouTube beginnings ===
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| Paul rose to fame as a member on the Internet video sharing service Vine.<sup>[11]</sup> In February 2014, he had over 3.1 million followers on various social media platforms.<sup>[12]</sup>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.<sup>[9]</sup> 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.<sup>[5]</sup> By that October, his Facebook videos alone had more than 300 million views.<sup>[2]</sup>
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| 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
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| TheOfficialLoganPaul is the YouTube account used by Paul to upload short films and comedy sketches. Paul also posts a daily vlog to "Logan Paul Vlogs", uploading every day without fail from September 12, 2016 to January 1, 2018. While his first channel has a following of 4.36 million<sup>[13]</sup>, his vlog channel surpassed it with a following of 15.7 million as of January 10, 2018.<sup>[14]</sup>
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| === 2015–2016: television roles, YouTube Red series, ''Airplane Mode'', and commercial roles ===
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| In early 2015, Paul appeared on ''Law & Order: Special Victims Unit''.<sup>[15]</sup> 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.
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| As of January 2016, Paul was training with drama coaches and the comedy troupes The Groundlings and Upright Citizens Brigade.<sup>[2]</sup>
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| 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."<sup>[2][16]</sup>
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| Paul was also involved in a number of advertising campaigns, including for Hanes, PepsiCo and HBO.<sup>[2]</sup> In 2016, Comcast purchased a short form digital TV series from Paul called ''Logan Paul Vs''.<sup>[17]</sup>
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| === 2017–present: ''Baywatch'' ===
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| 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.<sup>[18]</sup> 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.<sup>[19]</sup> It was later revealed in a deleted scene that Paul really ''was'' cut from the 2017 film ''Baywatch''. He would have cameoed as Zane, who bullies Ronnie for taking his shirt off.<sup>[20]</sup>
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| == Legal issues, controversies, and YouTube suspensions ==
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| === "No Handlebars" controversy ===
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| On November 23, 2017, Paul released his new single, "No Handlebars", a track based heavily around an interpolated sample of the song "Handlebars" by the American alternative hip hop group Flobots. The song was heavily criticized for its perceived sexual objectification of women, including a scene in its music video where Paul literally rides several women like a bicycle. Flobots frontman Jamie Laurie lambasted Paul for both the "sexist" lyrical content of the song and for unauthorized use of the sample, calling him the face of "douchebag entitlement". Laurie would later go on to release a diss track towards Paul, titled "Handle Your Bars". Paul did not respond to Laurie's comments nor the backlash towards "No Handlebars".<sup>[21]</sup>
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| === Suicide video controversy ===
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| 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 occurrence as a suicide site. Initially intended to be part three of his "Tokyo Adventures" series, Paul and his group had planned to camp in the woods, but in response to finding the corpse, decided to notify the authorities and cancel their plans. The video gained 6.3 million views within 24 hours of being uploaded.<sup>[22]</sup>
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| Paul was criticized for posting the video by celebrities,<sup>[23]</sup> politicians,<sup>[24]</sup> and was accused by other members of the YouTube community of being insensitive to suicide victims.<sup>[25]</sup> Several petitions were made to Change.org urging YouTube to delete Paul's channel, the largest of which received more than 500,000 signatures as of January 12, 2018.<sup>[26]</sup>
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| As a result of the backlash, 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.<sup>[27][28][29]</sup> While acknowledging his actions as irresponsible, he denied that his intention was to mock the victim. The video has garnered over 47.5 million views as of January 20, 2018.<sup>[30]</sup>
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| On January 9, YouTube issued a statement via their Twitter account condemning Paul's video. In the series of tweets they said "It's taken us a long time to respond, but we've been listening to everything you've been saying. We know that the actions of one creator can affect the entire community, so we'll have more to share soon on steps we're taking to ensure a video like this is never circulated again."<sup>[31]</sup> On January 10, YouTube announced it was removing Paul's channels from Google Preferred, its preferred ad program, and the sequel to his YouTube film ''The Thinning'' was placed on hold,<sup>[32][33]</sup> with the airing of ''Logan Paul Vs.'' being halted as well. Paul was also cut from season 4 of the YouTube Red series ''Foursome'' and the role of Alec Fixler was terminated.<sup>[34]</sup> On January 15, Paul was seen at LAX by reporters from TMZ. Paul said that he has learned a lot from his mistakes and believes he has been treated "fairly." When asked whether or not he deserves a second chance, Paul replied, "Everyone deserves second chances, bro."<sup>[35]</sup> On January 24, Paul uploaded his first video to the "Logan Paul Vlogs" channel since the apology video uploaded three weeks prior. In this video, Paul takes an in depth look at suicide prevention, interviewing Golden Gate Bridge jumper Kevin Hines, musical activist Bob Forrest, and National Suicide Prevention Lifeline director Dr. John Draper.<sup>[36]</sup> The video was met with mostly positive feedback and has a total of 22 million views as of January 28, 2018.<sup>[37]</sup> In addition, Paul has donated one million dollars to suicide prevention agencies, with a quarter of the proceeds going to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.<sup>[38]</sup>
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| On February 4, Logan Paul officially returned to his daily vlogs on YouTube after taking a month long hiatus.
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| === Maverick Apparel Lawsuit ===
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| In wake of the controversy regarding the suicide video, Maverick Apparel, a brand for juniors and children, threatened Paul with legal action for giving his clothing line a similar name ("Maverick by Logan Paul"), believing shoppers are confusing their line with Paul's, resulting in a deep decline in sales.<sup>[39][40]</sup>
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| == Personal life ==
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| 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, with his roommates Mark Dohner and Evan "Dwarf Mamba" Eckenrode. It was this that allowed various collaborations with one another on their videos.<sup>[11]</sup>
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| In October 2017, Paul and Eckenrode relocated to an estate in Rancho Mirage, California,<sup>[41][42]</sup> having been evicted from their previous residence.<sup>[43]</sup>
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| Paul has a Sun Conure<sup>[44]</sup> named Maverick, who ended up inspiring the name of his clothing brand and fanbase. Paul also has a Pomeranian dog named "Kong Da Savage".<sup>[45]</sup>
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| === Health ===
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| 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.<sup>[46]</sup>
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| Paul claims to be red-green colorblind. However, he has been parodied and criticized by YouTube personalities such as h3h3Productions and iDubbbz for faking his reactions in a video, in which he used color-corrective glasses for the first time. Paul himself admits that he "embellished" and "exaggerated [his] reactions" to the glasses, while adding that he "did not lie" about his impairment.<sup>[47]</sup>
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| == Filmography ==
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| === Film ===
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| sharing service Vine.<sup>[11]</sup> In February 2014, he had over 3.1 million followers on various social m
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| == reer ==
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| reer
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| === 2013–2015: Vine and YouTube beginnings ===
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| Paul rose to fame as a member on the Internet video sharing service Vine.<sup>[11]</sup> In February 2014, he had over 3.1 million followers on various social media platforms.<sup>[12]</sup>
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| == reer ==
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| === 2013–2015: Vine and YouTube beginnings ===
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| Paul rose to fame as a member on the Internet video sharing service Vine.<sup>[11]</sup> In February 2014, he had over 3.1 million followers on various social media platforms.<sup>[12]</sup>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.<sup>[9]</sup> 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.<sup>[5]</sup> By that October, his Facebook videos alone had more than 300 million views.<sup>[2]</sup>
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| 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
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| TheOfficialLoganPaul is the YouTube account used by Paul to upload short films and comedy sketches. Paul also posts a daily vlog to "Logan Paul Vlogs", uploading every day without fail from September 12, 2016 to January 1, 2018. While his first channel has a following of 4.36 million<sup>[13]</sup>, his vlog channel surpassed it with a following of 15.7 million as of January 10, 2018.<sup>[14]</sup>
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| === 2015–2016: television roles, YouTube Red series, ''Airplane Mode'', and commercial roles ===
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| In early 2015, Paul appeared on ''Law & Order: Special Victims Unit''.<sup>[15]</sup> 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.
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| As of January 2016, Paul was training with drama coaches and the comedy troupes The Groundlings and Upright Citizens Brigade.<sup>[2]</sup>
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| 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."<sup>[2][16]</sup>
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| Paul was also involved in a number of advertising campaigns, including for Hanes, PepsiCo and HBO.<sup>[2]</sup> In 2016, Comcast purchased a short form digital TV series from Paul called ''Logan Paul Vs''.<sup>[17]</sup>
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| === 2017–present: ''Baywatch'' ===
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| 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.<sup>[18]</sup> 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.<sup>[19]</sup> It was later revealed in a deleted scene that Paul really ''was'' cut from the 2017 film ''Baywatch''. He would have cameoed as Zane, who bullies Ronnie for taking his shirt off.<sup>[20]</sup>
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| == Legal issues, controversies, and YouTube suspensions ==
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| === "No Handlebars" controversy ===
| |
| On November 23, 2017, Paul released his new single, "No Handlebars", a track based heavily around an interpolated sample of the song "Handlebars" by the American alternative hip hop group Flobots. The song was heavily criticized for its perceived sexual objectification of women, including a scene in its music video where Paul literally rides several women like a bicycle. Flobots frontman Jamie Laurie lambasted Paul for both the "sexist" lyrical content of the song and for unauthorized use of the sample, calling him the face of "douchebag entitlement". Laurie would later go on to release a diss track towards Paul, titled "Handle Your Bars". Paul did not respond to Laurie's comments nor the backlash towards "No Handlebars".<sup>[21]</sup>
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| === Suicide video controversy ===
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| 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 occurrence as a suicide site. Initially intended to be part three of his "Tokyo Adventures" series, Paul and his group had planned to camp in the woods, but in response to finding the corpse, decided to notify the authorities and cancel their plans. The video gained 6.3 million views within 24 hours of being uploaded.<sup>[22]</sup>
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| Paul was criticized for posting the video by celebrities,<sup>[23]</sup> politicians,<sup>[24]</sup> and was accused by other members of the YouTube community of being insensitive to suicide victims.<sup>[25]</sup> Several petitions were made to Change.org urging YouTube to delete Paul's channel, the largest of which received more than 500,000 signatures as of January 12, 2018.<sup>[26]</sup>
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| As a result of the backlash, 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.<sup>[27][28][29]</sup> While acknowledging his actions as irresponsible, he denied that his intention was to mock the victim. The video has garnered over 47.5 million views as of January 20, 2018.<sup>[30]</sup>
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| On January 9, YouTube issued a statement via their Twitter account condemning Paul's video. In the series of tweets they said "It's taken us a long time to respond, but we've been listening to everything you've been saying. We know that the actions of one creator can affect the entire community, so we'll have more to share soon on steps we're taking to ensure a video like this is never circulated again."<sup>[31]</sup> On January 10, YouTube announced it was removing Paul's channels from Google Preferred, its preferred ad program, and the sequel to his YouTube film ''The Thinning'' was placed on hold,<sup>[32][33]</sup> with the airing of ''Logan Paul Vs.'' being halted as well. Paul was also cut from season 4 of the YouTube Red series ''Foursome'' and the role of Alec Fixler was terminated.<sup>[34]</sup> On January 15, Paul was seen at LAX by reporters from TMZ. Paul said that he has learned a lot from his mistakes and believes he has been treated "fairly." When asked whether or not he deserves a second chance, Paul replied, "Everyone deserves second chances, bro."<sup>[35]</sup> On January 24, Paul uploaded his first video to the "Logan Paul Vlogs" channel since the apology video uploaded three weeks prior. In this video, Paul takes an in depth look at suicide prevention, interviewing Golden Gate Bridge jumper Kevin Hines, musical activist Bob Forrest, and National Suicide Prevention Lifeline director Dr. John Draper.<sup>[36]</sup> The video was met with mostly positive feedback and has a total of 22 million views as of January 28, 2018.<sup>[37]</sup> In addition, Paul has donated one million dollars to suicide prevention agencies, with a quarter of the proceeds going to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.<sup>[38]</sup>
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| On February 4, Logan Paul officially returned to his daily vlogs on YouTube after taking a month long hiatus.
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| === Maverick Apparel Lawsuit ===
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| In wake of the controversy regarding the suicide video, Maverick Apparel, a brand for juniors and children, threatened Paul with legal action for giving his clothing line a similar name ("Maverick by Logan Paul"), believing shoppers are confusing their line with Paul's, resulting in a deep decline in sales.<sup>[39][40]</sup>
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| == Personal life ==
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| 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, with his roommates Mark Dohner and Evan "Dwarf Mamba" Eckenrode. It was this that allowed various collaborations with one another on their videos.<sup>[11]</sup>
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| In October 2017, Paul and Eckenrode relocated to an estate in Rancho Mirage, California,<sup>[41][42]</sup> having been evicted from their previous residence.<sup>[43]</sup>
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| Paul has a Sun Conure<sup>[44]</sup> named Maverick, who ended up inspiring the name of his clothing brand and fanbase. Paul also has a Pomeranian dog named "Kong Da Savage".<sup>[45]</sup>
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| === Health ===
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| 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.<sup>[46]</sup>
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| Paul claims to be red-green colorblind. However, he has been parodied and criticized by YouTube personalities such as h3h3Productions and iDubbbz for faking his reactions in a video, in which he used color-corrective glasses for the first time. Paul himself admits that he "embellished" and "exaggerated [his] reactions" to the glasses, while adding that he "did not lie" about his impairment.<sup>[47]</sup>
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| == Filmography ==
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| === Film ===
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| By April 2014 he had attained 105,000 Twitter followers, 361,000 Instagram followers, 31,000 likes
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| == reer ==
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| === 2013–2015: Vine and YouTube beginnings ===
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| Paul rose to fame as a member on the Internet video sharing service Vine.<sup>[11]</sup> In February 2014, he had over 3.1 million followers on various social media platforms.<sup>[12]</sup>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.<sup>[9]</sup> 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.<sup>[5]</sup> By that October, his Facebook videos alone had more than 300 million views.<sup>[2]</sup>
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| 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
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| TheOfficialLoganPaul is the YouTube account used by Paul to upload short films and comedy sketches. Paul also posts a daily vlog to "Logan Paul Vlogs", uploading every day without fail from September 12, 2016 to January 1, 2018. While his first channel has a following of 4.36 million<sup>[13]</sup>, his vlog channel surpassed it with a following of 15.7 million as of January 10, 2018.<sup>[14]</sup>
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| === 2015–2016: television roles, YouTube Red series, ''Airplane Mode'', and commercial roles ===
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| In early 2015, Paul appeared on ''Law & Order: Special Victims Unit''.<sup>[15]</sup> 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.
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| As of January 2016, Paul was training with drama coaches and the comedy troupes The Groundlings and Upright Citizens Brigade.<sup>[2]</sup>
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| 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."<sup>[2][16]</sup>
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| Paul was also involved in a number of advertising campaigns, including for Hanes, PepsiCo and HBO.<sup>[2]</sup> In 2016, Comcast purchased a short form digital TV series from Paul called ''Logan Paul Vs''.<sup>[17]</sup>
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| === 2017–present: ''Baywatch'' ===
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| 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.<sup>[18]</sup> 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.<sup>[19]</sup> It was later revealed in a deleted scene that Paul really ''was'' cut from the 2017 film ''Baywatch''. He would have cameoed as Zane, who bullies Ronnie for taking his shirt off.<sup>[20]</sup>
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| == Legal issues, controversies, and YouTube suspensions ==
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| === "No Handlebars" controversy ===
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| On November 23, 2017, Paul released his new single, "No Handlebars", a track based heavily around an interpolated sample of the song "Handlebars" by the American alternative hip hop group Flobots. The song was heavily criticized for its perceived sexual objectification of women, including a scene in its music video where Paul literally rides several women like a bicycle. Flobots frontman Jamie Laurie lambasted Paul for both the "sexist" lyrical content of the song and for unauthorized use of the sample, calling him the face of "douchebag entitlement". Laurie would later go on to release a diss track towards Paul, titled "Handle Your Bars". Paul did not respond to Laurie's comments nor the backlash towards "No Handlebars".<sup>[21]</sup>
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| === Suicide video controversy ===
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| 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 occurrence as a suicide site. Initially intended to be part three of his "Tokyo Adventures" series, Paul and his group had planned to camp in the woods, but in response to finding the corpse, decided to notify the authorities and cancel their plans. The video gained 6.3 million views within 24 hours of being uploaded.<sup>[22]</sup>
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| Paul was criticized for posting the video by celebrities,<sup>[23]</sup> politicians,<sup>[24]</sup> and was accused by other members of the YouTube community of being insensitive to suicide victims.<sup>[25]</sup> Several petitions were made to Change.org urging YouTube to delete Paul's channel, the largest of which received more than 500,000 signatures as of January 12, 2018.<sup>[26]</sup>
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| As a result of the backlash, 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.<sup>[27][28][29]</sup> While acknowledging his actions as irresponsible, he denied that his intention was to mock the victim. The video has garnered over 47.5 million views as of January 20, 2018.<sup>[30]</sup>
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| On January 9, YouTube issued a statement via their Twitter account condemning Paul's video. In the series of tweets they said "It's taken us a long time to respond, but we've been listening to everything you've been saying. We know that the actions of one creator can affect the entire community, so we'll have more to share soon on steps we're taking to ensure a video like this is never circulated again."<sup>[31]</sup> On January 10, YouTube announced it was removing Paul's channels from Google Preferred, its preferred ad program, and the sequel to his YouTube film ''The Thinning'' was placed on hold,<sup>[32][33]</sup> with the airing of ''Logan Paul Vs.'' being halted as well. Paul was also cut from season 4 of the YouTube Red series ''Foursome'' and the role of Alec Fixler was terminated.<sup>[34]</sup> On January 15, Paul was seen at LAX by reporters from TMZ. Paul said that he has learned a lot from his mistakes and believes he has been treated "fairly." When asked whether or not he deserves a second chance, Paul replied, "Everyone deserves second chances, bro."<sup>[35]</sup> On January 24, Paul uploaded his first video to the "Logan Paul Vlogs" channel since the apology video uploaded three weeks prior. In this video, Paul takes an in depth look at suicide prevention, interviewing Golden Gate Bridge jumper Kevin Hines, musical activist Bob Forrest, and National Suicide Prevention Lifeline director Dr. John Draper.<sup>[36]</sup> The video was met with mostly positive feedback and has a total of 22 million views as of January 28, 2018.<sup>[37]</sup> In addition, Paul has donated one million dollars to suicide prevention agencies, with a quarter of the proceeds going to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.<sup>[38]</sup>
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| On February 4, Logan Paul officially returned to his daily vlogs on YouTube after taking a month long hiatus.
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| === Maverick Apparel Lawsuit ===
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| In wake of the controversy regarding the suicide video, Maverick Apparel, a brand for juniors and children, threatened Paul with legal action for giving his clothing line a similar name ("Maverick by Logan Paul"), believing shoppers are confusing their line with Paul's, resulting in a deep decline in sales.<sup>[39][40]</sup>
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| == Personal life ==
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| 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, with his roommates Mark Dohner and Evan "Dwarf Mamba" Eckenrode. It was this that allowed various collaborations with one another on their videos.<sup>[11]</sup>
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| In October 2017, Paul and Eckenrode relocated to an estate in Rancho Mirage, California,<sup>[41][42]</sup> having been evicted from their previous residence.<sup>[43]</sup>
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| Paul has a Sun Conure<sup>[44]</sup> named Maverick, who ended up inspiring the name of his clothing brand and fanbase. Paul also has a Pomeranian dog named "Kong Da Savage".<sup>[45]</sup>
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| === Health ===
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| 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.<sup>[46]</sup>
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| Paul claims to be red-green colorblind. However, he has been parodied and criticized by YouTube personalities such as h3h3Productions and iDubbbz for faking his reactions in a video, in which he used color-corrective glasses for the first time. Paul himself admits that he "embellished" and "exaggerated [his] reactions" to the glasses, while adding that he "did not lie" about his impairment.<sup>[47]</sup>
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| == Filmography ==
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| === Film ===
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| 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.<sup>[9]</sup> 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.<sup>[5]</sup> By that October, his Facebook videos alone had more than 300 million views.<sup>[2]</sup>
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| 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
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| TheOfficialLoganPaul is the YouTube account used by Paul to upload short films and comedy sketches. Paul also posts a daily vlog to "Logan Paul Vlogs", uploading every day without fail from September 12, 2016 to January 1, 2018. While his first channel has a following of 4.36 million<sup>[13]</sup>, his vlog channel surpassed it with a following of 15.7 million as of January 10, 2018.<sup>[14]</sup>
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| === 2015–2016: television roles, YouTube Red series, ''Airplane Mode'', and commercial roles ===
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| In early 2015, Paul appeared on ''Law & Order: Special Victims Unit''.<sup>[15]</sup> 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.
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| As of January 2016, Paul was training with drama coaches and the comedy troupes The Groundlings and Upright Citizens Brigade.<sup>[2]</sup>
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| 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."<sup>[2][16]</sup>
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| Paul was also involved in a number of advertising campaigns, including for Hanes, PepsiCo and HBO.<sup>[2]</sup> In 2016, Comcast purchased a short form digital TV series from Paul called ''Logan Paul Vs''.<sup>[17]</sup>
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| === 2017–present: ''Baywatch'' ===
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| 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.<sup>[18]</sup> 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.<sup>[19]</sup> It was later revealed in a deleted scene that Paul really ''was'' cut from the 2017 film ''Baywatch''. He would have cameoed as Zane, who bullies Ronnie for taking his shirt off.<sup>[20]</sup>
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| == Legal issues, controversies, and YouTube suspensions ==
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| === "No Handlebars" controversy ===
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| On November 23, 2017, Paul released his new single, "No Handlebars", a track based heavily around an interpolated sample of the song "Handlebars" by the American alternative hip hop group Flobots. The song was heavily criticized for its perceived sexual objectification of women, including a scene in its music video where Paul literally rides several women like a bicycle. Flobots frontman Jamie Laurie lambasted Paul for both the "sexist" lyrical content of the song and for unauthorized use of the sample, calling him the face of "douchebag entitlement". Laurie would later go on to release a diss track towards Paul, titled "Handle Your Bars". Paul did not respond to Laurie's comments nor the backlash towards "No Handlebars".<sup>[21]</sup>
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| === Suicide video controversy ===
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| 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 occurrence as a suicide site. Initially intended to be part three of his "Tokyo Adventures" series, Paul and his group had planned to camp in the woods, but in response to finding the corpse, decided to notify the authorities and cancel their plans. The video gained 6.3 million views within 24 hours of being uploaded.<sup>[22]</sup>
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| Paul was criticized for posting the video by celebrities,<sup>[23]</sup> politicians,<sup>[24]</sup> and was accused by other members of the YouTube community of being insensitive to suicide victims.<sup>[25]</sup> Several petitions were made to Change.org urging YouTube to delete Paul's channel, the largest of which received more than 500,000 signatures as of January 12, 2018.<sup>[26]</sup>
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| As a result of the backlash, 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.<sup>[27][28][29]</sup> While acknowledging his actions as irresponsible, he denied that his intention was to mock the victim. The video has garnered over 47.5 million views as of January 20, 2018.<sup>[30]</sup>
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| On January 9, YouTube issued a statement via their Twitter account condemning Paul's video. In the series of tweets they said "It's taken us a long time to respond, but we've been listening to everything you've been saying. We know that the actions of one creator can affect the entire community, so we'll have more to share soon on steps we're taking to ensure a video like this is never circulated again."<sup>[31]</sup> On January 10, YouTube announced it was removing Paul's channels from Google Preferred, its preferred ad program, and the sequel to his YouTube film ''The Thinning'' was placed on hold,<sup>[32][33]</sup> with the airing of ''Logan Paul Vs.'' being halted as well. Paul was also cut from season 4 of the YouTube Red series ''Foursome'' and the role of Alec Fixler was terminated.<sup>[34]</sup> On January 15, Paul was seen at LAX by reporters from TMZ. Paul said that he has learned a lot from his mistakes and believes he has been treated "fairly." When asked whether or not he deserves a second chance, Paul replied, "Everyone deserves second chances, bro."<sup>[35]</sup> On January 24, Paul uploaded his first video to the "Logan Paul Vlogs" channel since the apology video uploaded three weeks prior. In this video, Paul takes an in depth look at suicide prevention, interviewing Golden Gate Bridge jumper Kevin Hines, musical activist Bob Forrest, and National Suicide Prevention Lifeline director Dr. John Draper.<sup>[36]</sup> The video was met with mostly positive feedback and has a total of 22 million views as of January 28, 2018.<sup>[37]</sup> In addition, Paul has donated one million dollars to suicide prevention agencies, with a quarter of the proceeds going to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.<sup>[38]</sup>
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| On February 4, Logan Paul officially returned to his daily vlogs on YouTube after taking a month long hiatus.
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| === Maverick Apparel Lawsuit ===
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| In wake of the controversy regarding the suicide video, Maverick Apparel, a brand for juniors and children, threatened Paul with legal action for giving his clothing line a similar name ("Maverick by Logan Paul"), believing shoppers are confusing their line with Paul's, resulting in a deep decline in sales.<sup>[39][40]</sup>
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| == Personal life ==
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| 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, with his roommates Mark Dohner and Evan "Dwarf Mamba" Eckenrode. It was this that allowed various collaborations with one another on their videos.<sup>[11]</sup>
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| In October 2017, Paul and Eckenrode relocated to an estate in Rancho Mirage, California,<sup>[41][42]</sup> having been evicted from their previous residence.<sup>[43]</sup>
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| Paul has a Sun Conure<sup>[44]</sup> named Maverick, who ended up inspiring the name of his clothing brand and fanbase. Paul also has a Pomeranian dog named "Kong Da Savage".<sup>[45]</sup>
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| === Health ===
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| 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.<sup>[46]</sup>
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| Paul claims to be red-green colorblind. However, he has been parodied and criticized by YouTube personalities such as h3h3Productions and iDubbbz for faking his reactions in a video, in which he used color-corrective glasses for the first time. Paul himself admits that he "embellished" and "exaggerated [his] reactions" to the glasses, while adding that he "did not lie" about his impairment.<sup>[47]</sup>
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| == Filmography ==
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| === Film ===
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| === 2013–2015: Vine and YouTube beginnings ===
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| Paul rose to fame as a member on the Internet video sharing service Vine.<sup>[11]</sup> In February 2014, he had over 3.1 million followers on various social media platforms.<sup>[12]</sup>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.<sup>[9]</sup> 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.<sup>[5]</sup> By that October, his Facebook videos alone had more than 300 million views.<sup>[2]</sup>
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| 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
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| TheOfficialLoganPaul is the YouTube account used by Paul to upload short films and comedy sketches. Paul also posts a daily vlog to "Logan Paul Vlogs", uploading every day without fail from September 12, 2016 to January 1, 2018. While his first channel has a following of 4.36 million<sup>[13]</sup>, his vlog channel surpassed it with a following of 15.7 million as of January 10, 2018.<sup>[14]</sup>
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| === 2015–2016: television roles, YouTube Red series, ''Airplane Mode'', and commercial roles ===
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| In early 2015, Paul appeared on ''Law & Order: Special Victims Unit''.<sup>[15]</sup> 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.
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| As of January 2016, Paul was training with drama coaches and the comedy troupes The Groundlings and Upright Citizens Brigade.<sup>[2]</sup>
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| 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."<sup>[2][16]</sup>
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| Paul was also involved in a number of advertising campaigns, including for Hanes, PepsiCo and HBO.<sup>[2]</sup> In 2016, Comcast purchased a short form digital TV series from Paul called ''Logan Paul Vs''.<sup>[17]</sup>
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| === 2017–present: ''Baywatch'' ===
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| 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.<sup>[18]</sup> 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.<sup>[19]</sup> It was later revealed in a deleted scene that Paul really ''was'' cut from the 2017 film ''Baywatch''. He would have cameoed as Zane, who bullies Ronnie for taking his shirt off.<sup>[20]</sup>
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| == Legal issues, controversies, and YouTube suspensions ==
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| === "No Handlebars" controversy ===
| |
| On November 23, 2017, Paul released his new single, "No Handlebars", a track based heavily around an interpolated sample of the song "Handlebars" by the American alternative hip hop group Flobots. The song was heavily criticized for its perceived sexual objectification of women, including a scene in its music video where Paul literally rides several women like a bicycle. Flobots frontman Jamie Laurie lambasted Paul for both the "sexist" lyrical content of the song and for unauthorized use of the sample, calling him the face of "douchebag entitlement". Laurie would later go on to release a diss track towards Paul, titled "Handle Your Bars". Paul did not respond to Laurie's comments nor the backlash towards "No Handlebars".<sup>[21]</sup>
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| === Suicide video controversy ===
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| 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 occurrence as a suicide site. Initially intended to be part three of his "Tokyo Adventures" series, Paul and his group had planned to camp in the woods, but in response to finding the corpse, decided to notify the authorities and cancel their plans. The video gained 6.3 million views within 24 hours of being uploaded.<sup>[22]</sup>
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| Paul was criticized for posting the video by celebrities,<sup>[23]</sup> politicians,<sup>[24]</sup> and was accused by other members of the YouTube community of being insensitive to suicide victims.<sup>[25]</sup> Several petitions were made to Change.org urging YouTube to delete Paul's channel, the largest of which received more than 500,000 signatures as of January 12, 2018.<sup>[26]</sup>
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| As a result of the backlash, 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.<sup>[27][28][29]</sup> While acknowledging his actions as irresponsible, he denied that his intention was to mock the victim. The video has garnered over 47.5 million views as of January 20, 2018.<sup>[30]</sup>
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| On January 9, YouTube issued a statement via their Twitter account condemning Paul's video. In the series of tweets they said "It's taken us a long time to respond, but we've been listening to everything you've been saying. We know that the actions of one creator can affect the entire community, so we'll have more to share soon on steps we're taking to ensure a video like this is never circulated again."<sup>[31]</sup> On January 10, YouTube announced it was removing Paul's channels from Google Preferred, its preferred ad program, and the sequel to his YouTube film ''The Thinning'' was placed on hold,<sup>[32][33]</sup> with the airing of ''Logan Paul Vs.'' being halted as well. Paul was also cut from season 4 of the YouTube Red series ''Foursome'' and the role of Alec Fixler was terminated.<sup>[34]</sup> On January 15, Paul was seen at LAX by reporters from TMZ. Paul said that he has learned a lot from his mistakes and believes he has been treated "fairly." When asked whether or not he deserves a second chance, Paul replied, "Everyone deserves second chances, bro."<sup>[35]</sup> On January 24, Paul uploaded his first video to the "Logan Paul Vlogs" channel since the apology video uploaded three weeks prior. In this video, Paul takes an in depth look at suicide prevention, interviewing Golden Gate Bridge jumper Kevin Hines, musical activist Bob Forrest, and National Suicide Prevention Lifeline director Dr. John Draper.<sup>[36]</sup> The video was met with mostly positive feedback and has a total of 22 million views as of January 28, 2018.<sup>[37]</sup> In addition, Paul has donated one million dollars to suicide prevention agencies, with a quarter of the proceeds going to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.<sup>[38]</sup>
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| On February 4, Logan Paul officially returned to his daily vlogs on YouTube after taking a month long hiatus.
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| === Maverick Apparel Lawsuit ===
| |
| In wake of the controversy regarding the suicide video, Maverick Apparel, a brand for juniors and children, threatened Paul with legal action for giving his clothing line a similar name ("Maverick by Logan Paul"), believing shoppers are confusing their line with Paul's, resulting in a deep decline in sales.<sup>[39][40]</sup>
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| == Personal life ==
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| 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, with his roommates Mark Dohner and Evan "Dwarf Mamba" Eckenrode. It was this that allowed various collaborations with one another on their videos.<sup>[11]</sup>
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| In October 2017, Paul and Eckenrode relocated to an estate in Rancho Mirage, California,<sup>[41][42]</sup> having been evicted from their previous residence.<sup>[43]</sup>
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| Paul has a Sun Conure<sup>[44]</sup> named Maverick, who ended up inspiring the name of his clothing brand and fanbase. Paul also has a Pomeranian dog named "Kong Da Savage".<sup>[45]</sup>
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| === 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.<sup>[46]</sup>
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| Paul claims to be red-green colorblind. However, he has been parodied and criticized by YouTube personalities such as h3h3Productions and iDubbbz for faking his reactions in a video, in which he used color-corrective glasses for the first time. Paul himself admits that he "embellished" and "exaggerated [his] reactions" to the glasses, while adding that he "did not lie" about his impairment.<sup>[47]</sup>
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| == Filmography ==
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| === Film ===
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| platforms.<sup>[12]</sup>By April 2014 he had attained 105,000 Twitter followers, 361,000 Instag
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| == reer ==
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| === 2013–2015: Vine and YouTube beginnings ===
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| Paul rose to fame as a member on the Internet video sharing service Vine.<sup>[11]</sup> In February 2014, he had over 3.1 million followers on various social media platforms.<sup>[12]</sup>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.<sup>[9]</sup> 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.<sup>[5]</sup> By that October, his Facebook videos alone had more than 300 million views.<sup>[2]</sup>
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| 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
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| TheOfficialLoganPaul is the YouTube account used by Paul to upload short films and comedy sketches. Paul also posts a daily vlog to "Logan Paul Vlogs", uploading every day without fail from September 12, 2016 to January 1, 2018. While his first channel has a following of 4.36 million<sup>[13]</sup>, his vlog channel surpassed it with a following of 15.7 million as of January 10, 2018.<sup>[14]</sup>
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| === 2015–2016: television roles, YouTube Red series, ''Airplane Mode'', and commercial roles ===
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| In early 2015, Paul appeared on ''Law & Order: Special Victims Unit''.<sup>[15]</sup> 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.
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| As of January 2016, Paul was training with drama coaches and the comedy troupes The Groundlings and Upright Citizens Brigade.<sup>[2]</sup>
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| 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."<sup>[2][16]</sup>
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| Paul was also involved in a number of advertising campaigns, including for Hanes, PepsiCo and HBO.<sup>[2]</sup> In 2016, Comcast purchased a short form digital TV series from Paul called ''Logan Paul Vs''.<sup>[17]</sup>
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| === 2017–present: ''Baywatch'' ===
| |
| 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.<sup>[18]</sup> 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.<sup>[19]</sup> It was later revealed in a deleted scene that Paul really ''was'' cut from the 2017 film ''Baywatch''. He would have cameoed as Zane, who bullies Ronnie for taking his shirt off.<sup>[20]</sup>
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| == Legal issues, controversies, and YouTube suspensions ==
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| === "No Handlebars" controversy ===
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| On November 23, 2017, Paul released his new single, "No Handlebars", a track based heavily around an interpolated sample of the song "Handlebars" by the American alternative hip hop group Flobots. The song was heavily criticized for its perceived sexual objectification of women, including a scene in its music video where Paul literally rides several women like a bicycle. Flobots frontman Jamie Laurie lambasted Paul for both the "sexist" lyrical content of the song and for unauthorized use of the sample, calling him the face of "douchebag entitlement". Laurie would later go on to release a diss track towards Paul, titled "Handle Your Bars". Paul did not respond to Laurie's comments nor the backlash towards "No Handlebars".<sup>[21]</sup>
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| === Suicide video controversy ===
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| 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 occurrence as a suicide site. Initially intended to be part three of his "Tokyo Adventures" series, Paul and his group had planned to camp in the woods, but in response to finding the corpse, decided to notify the authorities and cancel their plans. The video gained 6.3 million views within 24 hours of being uploaded.<sup>[22]</sup>
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| Paul was criticized for posting the video by celebrities,<sup>[23]</sup> politicians,<sup>[24]</sup> and was accused by other members of the YouTube community of being insensitive to suicide victims.<sup>[25]</sup> Several petitions were made to Change.org urging YouTube to delete Paul's channel, the largest of which received more than 500,000 signatures as of January 12, 2018.<sup>[26]</sup>
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| As a result of the backlash, 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.<sup>[27][28][29]</sup> While acknowledging his actions as irresponsible, he denied that his intention was to mock the victim. The video has garnered over 47.5 million views as of January 20, 2018.<sup>[30]</sup>
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| On January 9, YouTube issued a statement via their Twitter account condemning Paul's video. In the series of tweets they said "It's taken us a long time to respond, but we've been listening to everything you've been saying. We know that the actions of one creator can affect the entire community, so we'll have more to share soon on steps we're taking to ensure a video like this is never circulated again."<sup>[31]</sup> On January 10, YouTube announced it was removing Paul's channels from Google Preferred, its preferred ad program, and the sequel to his YouTube film ''The Thinning'' was placed on hold,<sup>[32][33]</sup> with the airing of ''Logan Paul Vs.'' being halted as well. Paul was also cut from season 4 of the YouTube Red series ''Foursome'' and the role of Alec Fixler was terminated.<sup>[34]</sup> On January 15, Paul was seen at LAX by reporters from TMZ. Paul said that he has learned a lot from his mistakes and believes he has been treated "fairly." When asked whether or not he deserves a second chance, Paul replied, "Everyone deserves second chances, bro."<sup>[35]</sup> On January 24, Paul uploaded his first video to the "Logan Paul Vlogs" channel since the apology video uploaded three weeks prior. In this video, Paul takes an in depth look at suicide prevention, interviewing Golden Gate Bridge jumper Kevin Hines, musical activist Bob Forrest, and National Suicide Prevention Lifeline director Dr. John Draper.<sup>[36]</sup> The video was met with mostly positive feedback and has a total of 22 million views as of January 28, 2018.<sup>[37]</sup> In addition, Paul has donated one million dollars to suicide prevention agencies, with a quarter of the proceeds going to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.<sup>[38]</sup>
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| On February 4, Logan Paul officially returned to his daily vlogs on YouTube after taking a month long hiatus.
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| === Maverick Apparel Lawsuit ===
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| In wake of the controversy regarding the suicide video, Maverick Apparel, a brand for juniors and children, threatened Paul with legal action for giving his clothing line a similar name ("Maverick by Logan Paul"), believing shoppers are confusing their line with Paul's, resulting in a deep decline in sales.<sup>[39][40]</sup>
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| == Personal life ==
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| 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, with his roommates Mark Dohner and Evan "Dwarf Mamba" Eckenrode. It was this that allowed various collaborations with one another on their videos.<sup>[11]</sup>
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| In October 2017, Paul and Eckenrode relocated to an estate in Rancho Mirage, California,<sup>[41][42]</sup> having been evicted from their previous residence.<sup>[43]</sup>
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| Paul has a Sun Conure<sup>[44]</sup> named Maverick, who ended up inspiring the name of his clothing brand and fanbase. Paul also has a Pomeranian dog named "Kong Da Savage".<sup>[45]</sup>
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| === Health ===
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| 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.<sup>[46]</sup>
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| Paul claims to be red-green colorblind. However, he has been parodied and criticized by YouTube personalities such as h3h3Productions and iDubbbz for faking his reactions in a video, in which he used color-corrective glasses for the first time. Paul himself admits that he "embellished" and "exaggerated [his] reactions" to the glasses, while adding that he "did not lie" about his impairment.<sup>[47]</sup>
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| == Filmography ==
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| === Film ===
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| == reer ==
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| === 2013–2015: Vine and YouTube beginnings ===
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| Paul rose to fame as a member on the Internet video sharing service Vine.<sup>[11]</sup> In February 2014, he had over 3.1 million followers on various social media platforms.<sup>[12]</sup>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.<sup>[9]</sup> 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.<sup>[5]</sup> By that October, his Facebook videos alone had more than 300 million views.<sup>[2]</sup>
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| 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
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| TheOfficialLoganPaul is the YouTube account used by Paul to upload short films and comedy sketches. Paul also posts a daily vlog to "Logan Paul Vlogs", uploading every day without fail from September 12, 2016 to January 1, 2018. While his first channel has a following of 4.36 million<sup>[13]</sup>, his vlog channel surpassed it with a following of 15.7 million as of January 10, 2018.<sup>[14]</sup>
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| === 2015–2016: television roles, YouTube Red series, ''Airplane Mode'', and commercial roles ===
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| In early 2015, Paul appeared on ''Law & Order: Special Victims Unit''.<sup>[15]</sup> 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.
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| As of January 2016, Paul was training with drama coaches and the comedy troupes The Groundlings and Upright Citizens Brigade.<sup>[2]</sup>
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| 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."<sup>[2][16]</sup>
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| Paul was also involved in a number of advertising campaigns, including for Hanes, PepsiCo and HBO.<sup>[2]</sup> In 2016, Comcast purchased a short form digital TV series from Paul called ''Logan Paul Vs''.<sup>[17]</sup>
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| === 2017–present: ''Baywatch'' ===
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| 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.<sup>[18]</sup> 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.<sup>[19]</sup> It was later revealed in a deleted scene that Paul really ''was'' cut from the 2017 film ''Baywatch''. He would have cameoed as Zane, who bullies Ronnie for taking his shirt off.<sup>[20]</sup>
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| == Legal issues, controversies, and YouTube suspensions ==
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| === "No Handlebars" controversy ===
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| On November 23, 2017, Paul released his new single, "No Handlebars", a track based heavily around an interpolated sample of the song "Handlebars" by the American alternative hip hop group Flobots. The song was heavily criticized for its perceived sexual objectification of women, including a scene in its music video where Paul literally rides several women like a bicycle. Flobots frontman Jamie Laurie lambasted Paul for both the "sexist" lyrical content of the song and for unauthorized use of the sample, calling him the face of "douchebag entitlement". Laurie would later go on to release a diss track towards Paul, titled "Handle Your Bars". Paul did not respond to Laurie's comments nor the backlash towards "No Handlebars".<sup>[21]</sup>
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| === Suicide video controversy ===
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| 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 occurrence as a suicide site. Initially intended to be part three of his "Tokyo Adventures" series, Paul and his group had planned to camp in the woods, but in response to finding the corpse, decided to notify the authorities and cancel their plans. The video gained 6.3 million views within 24 hours of being uploaded.<sup>[22]</sup>
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| Paul was criticized for posting the video by celebrities,<sup>[23]</sup> politicians,<sup>[24]</sup> and was accused by other members of the YouTube community of being insensitive to suicide victims.<sup>[25]</sup> Several petitions were made to Change.org urging YouTube to delete Paul's channel, the largest of which received more than 500,000 signatures as of January 12, 2018.<sup>[26]</sup>
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| As a result of the backlash, 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.<sup>[27][28][29]</sup> While acknowledging his actions as irresponsible, he denied that his intention was to mock the victim. The video has garnered over 47.5 million views as of January 20, 2018.<sup>[30]</sup>
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| On January 9, YouTube issued a statement via their Twitter account condemning Paul's video. In the series of tweets they said "It's taken us a long time to respond, but we've been listening to everything you've been saying. We know that the actions of one creator can affect the entire community, so we'll have more to share soon on steps we're taking to ensure a video like this is never circulated again."<sup>[31]</sup> On January 10, YouTube announced it was removing Paul's channels from Google Preferred, its preferred ad program, and the sequel to his YouTube film ''The Thinning'' was placed on hold,<sup>[32][33]</sup> with the airing of ''Logan Paul Vs.'' being halted as well. Paul was also cut from season 4 of the YouTube Red series ''Foursome'' and the role of Alec Fixler was terminated.<sup>[34]</sup> On January 15, Paul was seen at LAX by reporters from TMZ. Paul said that he has learned a lot from his mistakes and believes he has been treated "fairly." When asked whether or not he deserves a second chance, Paul replied, "Everyone deserves second chances, bro."<sup>[35]</sup> On January 24, Paul uploaded his first video to the "Logan Paul Vlogs" channel since the apology video uploaded three weeks prior. In this video, Paul takes an in depth look at suicide prevention, interviewing Golden Gate Bridge jumper Kevin Hines, musical activist Bob Forrest, and National Suicide Prevention Lifeline director Dr. John Draper.<sup>[36]</sup> The video was met with mostly positive feedback and has a total of 22 million views as of January 28, 2018.<sup>[37]</sup> In addition, Paul has donated one million dollars to suicide prevention agencies, with a quarter of the proceeds going to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.<sup>[38]</sup>
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| On February 4, Logan Paul officially returned to his daily vlogs on YouTube after taking a month long hiatus.
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| === Maverick Apparel Lawsuit ===
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| In wake of the controversy regarding the suicide video, Maverick Apparel, a brand for juniors and children, threatened Paul with legal action for giving his clothing line a similar name ("Maverick by Logan Paul"), believing shoppers are confusing their line with Paul's, resulting in a deep decline in sales.<sup>[39][40]</sup>
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| == Personal life ==
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| 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, with his roommates Mark Dohner and Evan "Dwarf Mamba" Eckenrode. It was this that allowed various collaborations with one another on their videos.<sup>[11]</sup>
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| In October 2017, Paul and Eckenrode relocated to an estate in Rancho Mirage, California,<sup>[41][42]</sup> having been evicted from their previous residence.<sup>[43]</sup>
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| Paul has a Sun Conure<sup>[44]</sup> named Maverick, who ended up inspiring the name of his clothing brand and fanbase. Paul also has a Pomeranian dog named "Kong Da Savage".<sup>[45]</sup>
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| === Health ===
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| 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.<sup>[46]</sup>
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| Paul claims to be red-green colorblind. However, he has been parodied and criticized by YouTube personalities such as h3h3Productions and iDubbbz for faking his reactions in a video, in which he used color-corrective glasses for the first time. Paul himself admits that he "embellished" and "exaggerated [his] reactions" to the glasses, while adding that he "did not lie" about his impairment.<sup>[47]</sup>
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| == Filmography ==
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| === Film ===
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| ram 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.<sup>[9]</sup> 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.<sup>[5]</sup> By that October, his Facebook videos alone had more than 300 million views.<sup>[2]</sup>
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| 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
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| TheOfficialLoganPaul is the YouTube account used by Paul to upload short films and comedy sketches. Paul also posts a daily vlog to "Logan Paul Vlogs", uploading every day without fail from September 12, 2016 to January 1, 2018. While his first channel has a following of 4.36 million<sup>[13]</sup>, his vlog channel surpassed it with a following of 15.7 million as of January 10, 2018.<sup>[14]</sup>
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| === 2015–2016: television roles, YouTube Red series, ''Airplane Mode'', and commercial roles ===
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| In early 2015, Paul appeared on ''Law & Order: Special Victims Unit''.<sup>[15]</sup> 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.
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| As of January 2016, Paul was training with drama coaches and the comedy troupes The Groundlings and Upright Citizens Brigade.<sup>[2]</sup>
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| 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."<sup>[2][16]</sup>
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| Paul was also involved in a number of advertising campaigns, including for Hanes, PepsiCo and HBO.<sup>[2]</sup> In 2016, Comcast purchased a short form digital TV series from Paul called ''Logan Paul Vs''.<sup>[17]</sup>
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| === 2017–present: ''Baywatch'' ===
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| 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.<sup>[18]</sup> 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.<sup>[19]</sup> It was later revealed in a deleted scene that Paul really ''was'' cut from the 2017 film ''Baywatch''. He would have cameoed as Zane, who bullies Ronnie for taking his shirt off.<sup>[20]</sup>
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| == Legal issues, controversies, and YouTube suspensions ==
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| === "No Handlebars" controversy ===
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| On November 23, 2017, Paul released his new single, "No Handlebars", a track based heavily around an interpolated sample of the song "Handlebars" by the American alternative hip hop group Flobots. The song was heavily criticized for its perceived sexual objectification of women, including a scene in its music video where Paul literally rides several women like a bicycle. Flobots frontman Jamie Laurie lambasted Paul for both the "sexist" lyrical content of the song and for unauthorized use of the sample, calling him the face of "douchebag entitlement". Laurie would later go on to release a diss track towards Paul, titled "Handle Your Bars". Paul did not respond to Laurie's comments nor the backlash towards "No Handlebars".<sup>[21]</sup>
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| === Suicide video controversy ===
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| 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 occurrence as a suicide site. Initially intended to be part three of his "Tokyo Adventures" series, Paul and his group had planned to camp in the woods, but in response to finding the corpse, decided to notify the authorities and cancel their plans. The video gained 6.3 million views within 24 hours of being uploaded.<sup>[22]</sup>
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| Paul was criticized for posting the video by celebrities,<sup>[23]</sup> politicians,<sup>[24]</sup> and was accused by other members of the YouTube community of being insensitive to suicide victims.<sup>[25]</sup> Several petitions were made to Change.org urging YouTube to delete Paul's channel, the largest of which received more than 500,000 signatures as of January 12, 2018.<sup>[26]</sup>
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| As a result of the backlash, 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.<sup>[27][28][29]</sup> While acknowledging his actions as irresponsible, he denied that his intention was to mock the victim. The video has garnered over 47.5 million views as of January 20, 2018.<sup>[30]</sup>
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| On January 9, YouTube issued a statement via their Twitter account condemning Paul's video. In the series of tweets they said "It's taken us a long time to respond, but we've been listening to everything you've been saying. We know that the actions of one creator can affect the entire community, so we'll have more to share soon on steps we're taking to ensure a video like this is never circulated again."<sup>[31]</sup> On January 10, YouTube announced it was removing Paul's channels from Google Preferred, its preferred ad program, and the sequel to his YouTube film ''The Thinning'' was placed on hold,<sup>[32][33]</sup> with the airing of ''Logan Paul Vs.'' being halted as well. Paul was also cut from season 4 of the YouTube Red series ''Foursome'' and the role of Alec Fixler was terminated.<sup>[34]</sup> On January 15, Paul was seen at LAX by reporters from TMZ. Paul said that he has learned a lot from his mistakes and believes he has been treated "fairly." When asked whether or not he deserves a second chance, Paul replied, "Everyone deserves second chances, bro."<sup>[35]</sup> On January 24, Paul uploaded his first video to the "Logan Paul Vlogs" channel since the apology video uploaded three weeks prior. In this video, Paul takes an in depth look at suicide prevention, interviewing Golden Gate Bridge jumper Kevin Hines, musical activist Bob Forrest, and National Suicide Prevention Lifeline director Dr. John Draper.<sup>[36]</sup> The video was met with mostly positive feedback and has a total of 22 million views as of January 28, 2018.<sup>[37]</sup> In addition, Paul has donated one million dollars to suicide prevention agencies, with a quarter of the proceeds going to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.<sup>[38]</sup>
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| On February 4, Logan Paul officially returned to his daily vlogs on YouTube after taking a month long hiatus.
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| === Maverick Apparel Lawsuit ===
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| In wake of the controversy regarding the suicide video, Maverick Apparel, a brand for juniors and children, threatened Paul with legal action for giving his clothing line a similar name ("Maverick by Logan Paul"), believing shoppers are confusing their line with Paul's, resulting in a deep decline in sales.<sup>[39][40]</sup>
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| == Personal life ==
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| 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, with his roommates Mark Dohner and Evan "Dwarf Mamba" Eckenrode. It was this that allowed various collaborations with one another on their videos.<sup>[11]</sup>
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| In October 2017, Paul and Eckenrode relocated to an estate in Rancho Mirage, California,<sup>[41][42]</sup> having been evicted from their previous residence.<sup>[43]</sup>
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| Paul has a Sun Conure<sup>[44]</sup> named Maverick, who ended up inspiring the name of his clothing brand and fanbase. Paul also has a Pomeranian dog named "Kong Da Savage".<sup>[45]</sup>
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| === 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.<sup>[46]</sup>
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| Paul claims to be red-green colorblind. However, he has been parodied and criticized by YouTube personalities such as h3h3Productions and iDubbbz for faking his reactions in a video, in which he used color-corrective glasses for the first time. Paul himself admits that he "embellished" and "exaggerated [his] reactions" to the glasses, while adding that he "did not lie" about his impairment.<sup>[47]</sup>
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| == Filmography ==
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| === Film ===
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| == reer ==
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| === 2013–2015: Vine and YouTube beginnings ===
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| Paul rose to fame as a member on the Internet video sharing service Vine.<sup>[11]</sup> In February 2014, he had over 3.1 million followers on various social media platforms.<sup>[12]</sup>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.<sup>[9]</sup> 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.<sup>[5]</sup> By that October, his Facebook videos alone had more than 300 million views.<sup>[2]</sup>
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| 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
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| TheOfficialLoganPaul is the YouTube account used by Paul to upload short films and comedy sketches. Paul also posts a daily vlog to "Logan Paul Vlogs", uploading every day without fail from September 12, 2016 to January 1, 2018. While his first channel has a following of 4.36 million<sup>[13]</sup>, his vlog channel surpassed it with a following of 15.7 million as of January 10, 2018.<sup>[14]</sup>
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| === 2015–2016: television roles, YouTube Red series, ''Airplane Mode'', and commercial roles ===
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| In early 2015, Paul appeared on ''Law & Order: Special Victims Unit''.<sup>[15]</sup> 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.
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| As of January 2016, Paul was training with drama coaches and the comedy troupes The Groundlings and Upright Citizens Brigade.<sup>[2]</sup>
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| 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."<sup>[2][16]</sup>
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| Paul was also involved in a number of advertising campaigns, including for Hanes, PepsiCo and HBO.<sup>[2]</sup> In 2016, Comcast purchased a short form digital TV series from Paul called ''Logan Paul Vs''.<sup>[17]</sup>
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| === 2017–present: ''Baywatch'' ===
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| 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.<sup>[18]</sup> 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.<sup>[19]</sup> It was later revealed in a deleted scene that Paul really ''was'' cut from the 2017 film ''Baywatch''. He would have cameoed as Zane, who bullies Ronnie for taking his shirt off.<sup>[20]</sup>
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| == Legal issues, controversies, and YouTube suspensions ==
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| === "No Handlebars" controversy ===
| |
| On November 23, 2017, Paul released his new single, "No Handlebars", a track based heavily around an interpolated sample of the song "Handlebars" by the American alternative hip hop group Flobots. The song was heavily criticized for its perceived sexual objectification of women, including a scene in its music video where Paul literally rides several women like a bicycle. Flobots frontman Jamie Laurie lambasted Paul for both the "sexist" lyrical content of the song and for unauthorized use of the sample, calling him the face of "douchebag entitlement". Laurie would later go on to release a diss track towards Paul, titled "Handle Your Bars". Paul did not respond to Laurie's comments nor the backlash towards "No Handlebars".<sup>[21]</sup>
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| === Suicide video controversy ===
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| 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 occurrence as a suicide site. Initially intended to be part three of his "Tokyo Adventures" series, Paul and his group had planned to camp in the woods, but in response to finding the corpse, decided to notify the authorities and cancel their plans. The video gained 6.3 million views within 24 hours of being uploaded.<sup>[22]</sup>
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| Paul was criticized for posting the video by celebrities,<sup>[23]</sup> politicians,<sup>[24]</sup> and was accused by other members of the YouTube community of being insensitive to suicide victims.<sup>[25]</sup> Several petitions were made to Change.org urging YouTube to delete Paul's channel, the largest of which received more than 500,000 signatures as of January 12, 2018.<sup>[26]</sup>
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| As a result of the backlash, 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.<sup>[27][28][29]</sup> While acknowledging his actions as irresponsible, he denied that his intention was to mock the victim. The video has garnered over 47.5 million views as of January 20, 2018.<sup>[30]</sup>
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| On January 9, YouTube issued a statement via their Twitter account condemning Paul's video. In the series of tweets they said "It's taken us a long time to respond, but we've been listening to everything you've been saying. We know that the actions of one creator can affect the entire community, so we'll have more to share soon on steps we're taking to ensure a video like this is never circulated again."<sup>[31]</sup> On January 10, YouTube announced it was removing Paul's channels from Google Preferred, its preferred ad program, and the sequel to his YouTube film ''The Thinning'' was placed on hold,<sup>[32][33]</sup> with the airing of ''Logan Paul Vs.'' being halted as well. Paul was also cut from season 4 of the YouTube Red series ''Foursome'' and the role of Alec Fixler was terminated.<sup>[34]</sup> On January 15, Paul was seen at LAX by reporters from TMZ. Paul said that he has learned a lot from his mistakes and believes he has been treated "fairly." When asked whether or not he deserves a second chance, Paul replied, "Everyone deserves second chances, bro."<sup>[35]</sup> On January 24, Paul uploaded his first video to the "Logan Paul Vlogs" channel since the apology video uploaded three weeks prior. In this video, Paul takes an in depth look at suicide prevention, interviewing Golden Gate Bridge jumper Kevin Hines, musical activist Bob Forrest, and National Suicide Prevention Lifeline director Dr. John Draper.<sup>[36]</sup> The video was met with mostly positive feedback and has a total of 22 million views as of January 28, 2018.<sup>[37]</sup> In addition, Paul has donated one million dollars to suicide prevention agencies, with a quarter of the proceeds going to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.<sup>[38]</sup>
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| On February 4, Logan Paul officially returned to his daily vlogs on YouTube after taking a month long hiatus.
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| === Maverick Apparel Lawsuit ===
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| In wake of the controversy regarding the suicide video, Maverick Apparel, a brand for juniors and children, threatened Paul with legal action for giving his clothing line a similar name ("Maverick by Logan Paul"), believing shoppers are confusing their line with Paul's, resulting in a deep decline in sales.<sup>[39][40]</sup>
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| == Personal life ==
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| 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, with his roommates Mark Dohner and Evan "Dwarf Mamba" Eckenrode. It was this that allowed various collaborations with one another on their videos.<sup>[11]</sup>
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| In October 2017, Paul and Eckenrode relocated to an estate in Rancho Mirage, California,<sup>[41][42]</sup> having been evicted from their previous residence.<sup>[43]</sup>
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| Paul has a Sun Conure<sup>[44]</sup> named Maverick, who ended up inspiring the name of his clothing brand and fanbase. Paul also has a Pomeranian dog named "Kong Da Savage".<sup>[45]</sup>
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| === Health ===
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| 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.<sup>[46]</sup>
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| Paul claims to be red-green colorblind. However, he has been parodied and criticized by YouTube personalities such as h3h3Productions and iDubbbz for faking his reactions in a video, in which he used color-corrective glasses for the first time. Paul himself admits that he "embellished" and "exaggerated [his] reactions" to the glasses, while adding that he "did not lie" about his impairment.<sup>[47]</sup>
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| == Filmography ==
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| === Film ===
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| 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.
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| As of January 2016, Paul was training with drama coaches and the comedy troupes The Groundlings and Upright Citizens Brigade.<sup>[2]</sup>
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| 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."<sup>[2][16]</sup>
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| Paul was also involved in a number of advertising campaigns, including for Hanes, PepsiCo and HBO.<sup>[2]</sup> In 2016, Comcast purchased a short form digital TV series from Paul called ''Logan Paul Vs''.<sup>[17]</sup>
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| === 2017–present: ''Baywatch'' ===
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| 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.<sup>[18]</sup> 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.<sup>[19]</sup> It was later revealed in a deleted scene that Paul really ''was'' cut from the 2017 film ''Baywatch''. He would have cameoed as Zane, who bullies Ronnie for taking his shirt off.<sup>[20]</sup>
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| == Legal issues, controversies, and YouTube suspensions ==
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| === "No Handlebars" controversy ===
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| On November 23, 2017, Paul released his new single, "No Handlebars", a track based heavily around an interpolated sample of the song "Handlebars" by the American alternative hip hop group Flobots. The song was heavily criticized for its perceived sexual objectification of women, including a scene in its music video where Paul literally rides several women like a bicycle. Flobots frontman Jamie Laurie lambasted Paul for both the "sexist" lyrical content of the song and for unauthorized use of the sample, calling him the face of "douchebag entitlement". Laurie would later go on to release a diss track towards Paul, titled "Handle Your Bars". Paul did not respond to Laurie's comments nor the backlash towards "No Handlebars".<sup>[21]</sup>
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| === Suicide video controversy ===
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| 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 occurrence as a suicide site. Initially intended to be part three of his "Tokyo Adventures" series, Paul and his group had planned to camp in the woods, but in response to finding the corpse, decided to notify the authorities and cancel their plans. The video gained 6.3 million views within 24 hours of being uploaded.<sup>[22]</sup>
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| Paul was criticized for posting the video by celebrities,<sup>[23]</sup> politicians,<sup>[24]</sup> and was accused by other members of the YouTube community of being insensitive to suicide victims.<sup>[25]</sup> Several petitions were made to Change.org urging YouTube to delete Paul's channel, the largest of which received more than 500,000 signatures as of January 12, 2018.<sup>[26]</sup>
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| As a result of the backlash, 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.<sup>[27][28][29]</sup> While acknowledging his actions as irresponsible, he denied that his intention was to mock the victim. The video has garnered over 47.5 million views as of January 20, 2018.<sup>[30]</sup>
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| On January 9, YouTube issued a statement via their Twitter account condemning Paul's video. In the series of tweets they said "It's taken us a long time to respond, but we've been listening to everything you've been saying. We know that the actions of one creator can affect the entire community, so we'll have more to share soon on steps we're taking to ensure a video like this is never circulated again."<sup>[31]</sup> On January 10, YouTube announced it was removing Paul's channels from Google Preferred, its preferred ad program, and the sequel to his YouTube film ''The Thinning'' was placed on hold,<sup>[32][33]</sup> with the airing of ''Logan Paul Vs.'' being halted as well. Paul was also cut from season 4 of the YouTube Red series ''Foursome'' and the role of Alec Fixler was terminated.<sup>[34]</sup> On January 15, Paul was seen at LAX by reporters from TMZ. Paul said that he has learned a lot from his mistakes and believes he has been treated "fairly." When asked whether or not he deserves a second chance, Paul replied, "Everyone deserves second chances, bro."<sup>[35]</sup> On January 24, Paul uploaded his first video to the "Logan Paul Vlogs" channel since the apology video uploaded three weeks prior. In this video, Paul takes an in depth look at suicide prevention, interviewing Golden Gate Bridge jumper Kevin Hines, musical activist Bob Forrest, and National Suicide Prevention Lifeline director Dr. John Draper.<sup>[36]</sup> The video was met with mostly positive feedback and has a total of 22 million views as of January 28, 2018.<sup>[37]</sup> In addition, Paul has donated one million dollars to suicide prevention agencies, with a quarter of the proceeds going to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.<sup>[38]</sup>
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| On February 4, Logan Paul officially returned to his daily vlogs on YouTube after taking a month long hiatus.
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| === Maverick Apparel Lawsuit ===
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| In wake of the controversy regarding the suicide video, Maverick Apparel, a brand for juniors and children, threatened Paul with legal action for giving his clothing line a similar name ("Maverick by Logan Paul"), believing shoppers are confusing their line with Paul's, resulting in a deep decline in sales.<sup>[39][40]</sup>
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| == Personal life ==
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| 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, with his roommates Mark Dohner and Evan "Dwarf Mamba" Eckenrode. It was this that allowed various collaborations with one another on their videos.<sup>[11]</sup>
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| In October 2017, Paul and Eckenrode relocated to an estate in Rancho Mirage, California,<sup>[41][42]</sup> having been evicted from their previous residence.<sup>[43]</sup>
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| Paul has a Sun Conure<sup>[44]</sup> named Maverick, who ended up inspiring the name of his clothing brand and fanbase. Paul also has a Pomeranian dog named "Kong Da Savage".<sup>[45]</sup>
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| === Health ===
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| 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.<sup>[46]</sup>
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| Paul claims to be red-green colorblind. However, he has been parodied and criticized by YouTube personalities such as h3h3Productions and iDubbbz for faking his reactions in a video, in which he used color-corrective glasses for the first time. Paul himself admits that he "embellished" and "exaggerated [his] reactions" to the glasses, while adding that he "did not lie" about his impairment.<sup>[47]</sup>
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| == Filmography ==
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| ===Cultural references=== | | ===Cultural references=== |
| *The episode name is a reference to the 1985 film ''[[Wikipedia:Desperately Seeking Susan|Desperately Seeking Susan]]''. | | *The episode name is a reference to the 1985 film ''Desperately Seeking Susan''. |
| *Stanley and the Woogle coming to life when Arthur's not around is a reference to ''Toy Story ''where the toys come to life when Andy's not around. | | *Stanley and the Woogle coming to life when Arthur's not around is a reference to ''Toy Story'' where the toys come to life when Andy's not around. |
| | | *D.W.’s “Larry the Lemon” doll looks a lot like {{w|Bananas in Pyjamas}} except the stripes on the pajamas are red instead of blue. |
| | *Stanley’s blue raincoat is a reference to {{W|Paddington Bear}}. |
| | *Arthur having Stanley as his bed friend is similar to Lincoln's Bed Friend being [https://theloudhouse.fandom.com/wiki/Bun-Bun Bun Bun] |
| ===Episode connections=== | | ===Episode connections=== |
| *[[Nigel Ratburn|Mr. Ratburn]]'s class had previously studied clouds in "[[Arthur's Substitute Teacher Trouble]]". | | *[[Nigel Ratburn|Mr. Ratburn]]'s class had previously studied clouds in "[[Arthur's Substitute Teacher Trouble]]". |
| *Arthur's Woogle from "[[Arthur Rides the Bandwagon]]'' makes another appearance.
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| | De stuffed teddy bear .jpg|Stanley imagined to have all his stuffing removed by the Tibbles |
| | Stanley about to become the next chewtoy .jpg|Jane is tired of sewing the worn bear |
| | Screen_Shot_2016-07-02_at_11.32.08_PM.png|Fluffy Stanley |
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| | D.W and Stanley .jpg|D.W. destroys Stanley |
| | D.w. and Stanley .jpg|D.W. takes Stanley |
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