User blog:UnderAPineapple/Announcement (Somebody Must Be Fired)

As you can see based on the title, I am pissed, I am angry, I am furious, and I want somebody fired from their job. I don't know if many of you have checked the news lately, but if you didn't, I'm going to provide you with something that makes me eager to take action.

Two days ago, an online personality by the name of Logan Paul released a video in which he and a couple friends where they walked into an area of Japan called the "Suicide Forest", and he showed his entire audience (the majority of which are children) the hanging body of somebody who had committed suicide. Whilst he did blur the face of the victim out, he and his friends began laughing when looking at the corpse, and stated, "this was supposed to be a fun vlog", and filmed closer to the body. I will address that he did say for those contemplating suicide to seek help, but the damage is already done. Immediately after uploading the video, he received both backlash from many people who felt offended and repulsed by Logan and his buddies laughing while recording the dead body on his phone, or video camera, or whatever the fuck, and then there were people (metaphorically blind children), who says, "Oh! I still support Logan, no matter what. ​Logang4Life​".

First of all, as someone who has attempted suicide, I was obviously angered by the video, and it infuriated me to see him using the excuse of "I was trying to spread awareness for suicide prevention". I don't believe he went to Aiokigahara to help raise awareness, that is complete bullshit. Anyone with common sense wouldn't make a video in order to help people with suicidal thoughts, and show them the bodies of suicide victims. Let's say that I'm the father of a child and that child is suicidal. Do you think I'm going to take my child to a forest (or anywhere for that matter) and show them the bodies of people who have shot themselves, intentionally overdosed, or jumped off of buildings? Fuck no, and any parent who does, is a fucking moron. So, I know Logan isn't reading this shit, but to anyone who supports Logan, quit using the excuse of "he was helping those contemplating suicide", because we both know that is a horse shit excuse.

Next, I would like to address his shitty apology he posted on Twitter around 19 hours ago. Here are some tidbits of what he posted,

"I didn't do this for views, I get views"

This is a lie. You receive views when you upload controversial content like a hanging person in a forest. You receive views when your audience is a bunch of children, and they know you from your shitty-ass Vine account. When you have a large following after so many years, it's only obvious your following videos and other content will be attracting a large following too. You don't see a video by a popular YouTuber released July 1 that has 4,000,000 views, and then have a video released on July 3 by the same YouTuber that only has 2 views.

You receive views when the CEO of fucking YouTube (who I will be referencing later), has supported your shit content (and many other shit content creators). You are viewed as an entertainer, and a children's entertainer at that. If you have an audience DIRECTED towards children, you have an obligation, both professionally and morally to entertain them and not send them down the wrong path. I can understand that people can't control who watches their content, but I see it as, if channels like Logan Paul's channel continues to get monetized, then it's obviously family friendly. You wouldn't pay people on a self-described "family friendly" site such as YouTube who create content that doesn't fit moral ethics, right?

"I do this shit everyday. I've made a 15 minute TV show every single day for the past 460+ days. One may understand that it's easy to get caught up in the moment without fully weighing the possible ramifications."

Look at you using all them fancy words. Just because you post "vlogs" and upload content for children does not mean that you get a pass for something that I would consider to be appalling. There are plenty more content creators on multiple social media platforms who put a hell of a lot more effort in their work than your god awful videos. You don't get a freebie after taping yourself laughing with your friends near a dead body, just because you feel like you have an obligation to post videos everyday.

And the worst part of this ridiculous apology is that he put at the end "Logang4Life"... Why?! It's bad enough you put a bunch of shit excuses in your post, but you have to milk your merchandise and whoever gives you money. Quit being a dick for just 15 seconds, and have some compassion over people who are legitimately upset at you, you unoriginal fuck.

Lastly, I want to talk about who I believe is at the most fault for this (and surprisingly it isn't Logan). The person I believe should be removed from her position, is Susan Wojcicki. She has a job, and that is to be the head of one of the fastest growing social media platforms (if not, THE fastest growing) in the world, and she has an obligation to show that she cares about the well-being of her content creators, and the well-being of the men, women, and especially children watching. It's bad enough that YouTube makes money off of terrible content creators who use suicide as a way to get views, and parents who expose their children on camera for the whole world to see, but they are demonetizing certain videos that don't fit their personal opinions. Videos such as "#MoreThanARefugee" are being endorsed by Susan Wojcicki, which actually, is fine by me (considering everyone is entitled to their opinion), but it becomes irritating when videos that perhaps have a more conservative view of the world, or channels such as Hunter Avallone or The Amazing Atheist, get videos taken off of their channel even though they are expressing what they want to say. It becomes increasingly obvious that YouTube has more of a left-leaning view of what should be on the Internet, such as promoting progressive causes and demonetizing right-wing videos or right-wing channels.

Not only is Susan guilty of promoting political causes in what is supposed to be a fair website, but she is also guilty of not following her own policies. The YouTube guidelines prohibit violence, gore, or videos that contain pornographic content, but it has become very easy to upload all kinds of repulsing content to YouTube without anyone doing anything about it. There are videos out there that show CHILDREN being abused, and sick people are watching and giving money to see more. Why are these scumbags receiving money off of inflicting child abuse? So Susan and the rest of the YouTube staff are guilty of ignoring this scandal, and possibly endorsing it. I received this news only yesterday, and it caused me to have a panic attack last night. It makes my stomach turn that a website that is designed to help men, women, and children, can even possibly have criminal content lurking out there. It scares me greatly, and it will probably scar me if this is true.

So I want Susan Wojcicki fired from her position as CEO. At the VERY LEAST, she is guilty of being neglectful of her viewers, and I honestly think she's a criminal who's getting away with disgusting things. Call me a conspiracy theorist if you want, but it makes me sick when videos that are teaching kids about the alphabet (e.g. the videos I'm showing my niece) are being deleted, and videos that show torture, sex, and child abuse are being promoted. I want Susan out of YouTube, and because of the severity of the anger and frustration I have at Susan Wojcicki and the YouTube establishment, I am planning to join the LARGE amount of people (who I am calling the "Silent Majority") who want Susan Wojcicki eliminated from her job. She does not deserve to be running a platform that is supposed to benefit people. She is only hurting people.

~ 2 January 2018