When we last saw Paul on YouTube, he had taken his act on the road to Japan, where he was seen being a public menace and yelling at complete strangers. One such video, which he filmed in Aokigahara—the “suicide forest” near Mount Fuji—featured the dead body of a man who appeared to have hung himself, and which Paul and his friends made light of during the vlog. Given Paul’s audience of 16 million subscribers, it quickly set off a firestorm of controversy.

Paul deleted the video shortly after it was uploaded and took a month-long hiatus. YouTube later took credit.

Besides Paul’s propensity for dickhead antics, the erroneous notification is all the stranger because YouTube’s notification system is known for being barely functional. Various minor controversies have stemmed from creators allegedly not having their uploads appear in subscribers’ feeds, leading to videos begging viewers to “bell” them (i.e. turn on channel-specific alerts). That issue appears to be ongoing, but in the meantime, here’s some Logan Paul!

But let’s hear him out. Maybe this new vlog is important enough to convert us, the Logang haters, to realize Paul has turned over a new leaf.

Nope. It’s a Castaway-inspired trailer for the return of Logan Paul (which you’re already watching) and then nine minutes of vlogging in the usual style: quieter rambling parts interspersed with louder, yelling parts—like a Pixies song, but if the Pixies exclusively sang about how great they were as a band. “We got 2.1 million likes on my last Instagram photo,” Paul brags at one point, “Almost a million comments. I will say half of them are telling me to go get run over by a car—but that’s engagement bro, I’ll take it.”

YouTube’s comment on the matter: “Our bad.”

[Telegraph]