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YouTube said on Wednesday it is removing popular American vlogger Logan Paul from its Google Preferred platform and putting future projects with him on hold, after Paul posted a video on the platform of a suicide victim in Japan.
โIn light of recent events, we have decided to remove Logan Paulโs channels from Google Preferred. Additionally, we will not feature Logan in season 4 of โFoursomeโ and his new Originals are on hold,โ Alphabet Incโs YouTube, said in a statement.
Google Preferred features YouTubeโs most popular content in packages for sale to advertisers. Paul, 22, is one of YouTubeโs top content creators, regularly drawing millions of views from his mainly youth-orientated audience.
Paul also had projects in the works with YouTubeโs premium subscription service, YouTube Red, and appeared on the platformโs web series โFoursome.โ
Representatives for Paul did not immediately return requests from Reuters for comment.
Paul apologised in a YouTube video titled โSo Sorryโ last week for posting the video that showed him and his friends laughing about the body they filmed hanging on a tree in Japanโs โsuicide forest.โ
Paul said he had made a โhuge mistakeโ and was ashamed of himself, and he deleted the video after it caused a social media backlash.
YouTube in an open letter on Tuesday said it was โupset by the video that was shared last week,โ saying that โsuicide is not a joke, nor should it ever be a driving force for views.โ
The company said Paulโs video violated its guidelines and it was โlooking at further consequences.โ
Paul has not posted any videos in the past week, saying he was โtaking time to reflect.โ
Paulโs channel, Logan Paul Vlogs, which has more than 15 million subscribers, is still active onYouTube and advertisers can still choose to advertise on his videos, or they can opt out.
