Six million people watched the film showing Logan Paul finding an apparent suicide victim in Japan.
An American YouTube star says he does not expect to be forgiven after he posted a video which showed the body of an apparent suicide victim in Japan.
The video showed Logan Paul and friends discovering the body in the Aokigahara forest at the base of Mount Fuji, known to be a frequent site of suicides.
It prompted a barrage of criticism online with some comments calling it „disrespectful“ and „disgusting“.
Logan Paul later apologised and said he was „misguided by shock and awe“.
„I have made a severe and continuous lapse in my judgement, and I don’t expect to be forgiven,“ he said in a video apology posted to Twitter .
„I should have never posted the video. I should have put the cameras down and stopped recording what we were going through. There’s a lot of things I should have done differently, but I didn’t“, he said.
„I’m ashamed of myself,“ he added. „I’m disappointed in myself.“
The video was uploaded on Sunday and had millions of views on YouTube before it was taken down.
Logan Paul, who has more than 15 million subscribers on the website, is visibly shocked by the discovery of the body but also makes jokes.
Japan has one of the highest rates of suicide in the developed world.
Aokigahara has a tragic reputation in Japan and internationally as a destination for people who want to kill themselves.
