Logan Paul

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Logan Paul
Paul at New York Comic Con
Paul at New York Comic Con
YouTube channel ( vlog , comedy )
language English
founding October 18, 2013
August 25, 2015
channels Main channel
Vlog channel
Subscribers over 5 million (TheOfficialLoganPaul)
over 21 million (Logan Paul Vlogs)
Calls over 530 million (TheOfficialLoganPaul)
over 4 billion (Logan Paul Vlogs)

Logan Alexander Paul (born April 1, 1995 in Westlake , Ohio ) is an American social media star, entertainer , actor and influencer . He first attracted attention through videos that he shared on the now inactive Internet video platform Vine . In his 6-second videos, he often entertained his fans with slapstick and surprising splits in public.

Logan Paul later began acting in television films. He had guest appearances in series such as Law & Order: Special Victims Unit or Weird Loners . He played leading roles, for example, in the YouTube Red series Foursome, the YouTube Red film The Thinning , which appeared in 2016, and Airplane Mode, which will be released in 2019 and whose script was written by a friend.

Life

Logan Paul grew up with his now separated parents and brother Jake Paul in the US state of Ohio , where he attended Westlake High School. During his school days he played American football . In 2013 he won fifth place in the OHSAA State Championships, the wrestling competition for secondary schools in the state of Ohio.

By the time Logan Paul went to college, he'd already had a modest number of subscribers on his YouTube channel. He graduated from Ohio University before dropping out in 2014 to pursue a career as a full-time social media entertainer. Paul moved to an apartment complex in Los Angeles with a few other Vine and social media stars .

Career

Social media videos

Paul's career began in March 2013 on the Internet platform Vine . In February 2014, he had over 3.1 million followers on various social media platforms. In August 2017 he had 2.4 million Twitter followers, 16 million on Instagram , 15.7 million likes on his Facebook page and around 15 million subscribers on YouTube . A compilation of his vines that he uploaded to YouTube received over 4 million views in just one week. In 2015, he was named 10th Most Influential Viner, while his 6-second videos grossed him hundreds of thousands of dollars through advertising. In October of that year, his videos on Facebook alone had over 300 million views.

On September 12, 2016, he posted his first vlog on his vlog channel "Logan Paul Vlogs", on which he publishes a vlog every day. He posts short films on his main channel TheOfficialLoganPaul .

At the beginning of 2016 he was on the cover of the American advertising magazine ADWEEK . He also took part in advertising campaigns for Hanes , Pepsi and HBO .

Also in 2016, the US cable operator bought Comcast Pauls short form TV series Logan Paul Vs . The first season has already been published on Comcast's video platform Watchable .

In February 2017, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson posted on his own YouTube channel "Logan Paul has been cut from, like, all The Rock's movies", a video with him and Logan Paul, in which he tells Logan Paul that his scenes are has been cut from all of Johnson's films and, to cheer him up, makes Baywatch the "ambassador" for the new film . In April, he returned with Paul together for "Logan Paul is, like, totally terrible at falling in love with Alexandra Daddario," the first part of a video sketches in which Paul tried to impress Johnson to play a role in Baywatch to get and falls in love with actress Alexandra Daddario . In the same month the third part of the summer saga , Logan Paul, like, finally gets a call from Alexandra Daddario , was released, in which Paul finally receives a long-awaited call from Daddario, who then only asks for the designer’s phone number. Also for Summer Saga heard The Rock and Logan Paul's "The Song Of The Summer" ft. Desiigner . The vocals were provided by Logan Paul, Desiigner, David Hasselhoff and Adeline Mocke, which however does not appear in the credits .

Fashion

Since 2017 Logan Paul has been selling his own fashion collections under the name "Maverick by Logan Paul".

Movie and TV

Paul discussing The Thinning at New York Comic Con with (left to right) co-star Peyton List , writer / director Michael J. Gallagher and presenter Andy Signore .

Early in 2015, Paul had a role on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit . He played the Paul twins in the Fox television series Weird Loners . He also appeared in the ABC family series Stitchers . In 2016 he played Blake in The Thinning on YouTube Red alongside Peyton List .

Paul wrote the script for the comedy Airplane Mode , which is considered an " American Pie for Generation Z ", and which Paul himself describes as " Expandables with Internet Stars ".

criticism

Due to his controversial behavior in dealing with certain topics and his role in relation to his main young demographics, Paul is under regular criticism.

On December 31, 2017, Logan Paul published a video on his YouTube channel in which he and other YouTubers visit the Aokigahara , a forest known as the "suicide forest". He wanted to spend 24 hours there with his friends as part of an “overnight challenge”. They discovered a corpse, let the cameras run and showed pictures of the defaced person. The video reached over 6 million views on YouTube until Logan Paul personally deleted it after heavy criticism, although the platform operators themselves removed the video after a short time on YouTube. On Twitter, the YouTuber apologized to his fans and the relatives of the victim in a video message. The action sparked a debate about moderation on social networks, and he himself took a short break.

In February 2018, Logan Paul came under fire after he took a carp out of the water in a video and imitated a chest compressions on it until it suffocated. He also shot a dead rat several times with a stun gun, whereupon the animal welfare organization PETA accused him of cruelty to animals.

In January 2019, Logan Paul announced that he wanted to "be gay for a month", which led to violent reactions in the LGBT * community. The reason for this is his portrayal that homosexuality is a choice - a prejudice that gays around the world struggle with. Such an action, so many LGBT * s, endanger the acceptance that has been built up over many years.

Filmography

Movie

  • 2014: Rainbow Man (short film)
  • 2016: Chainsaw (short film)
  • 2016: The Thinning
  • 2017: The Space Between Us
  • 2017: Where's the Money
  • 2017: So Close to the Stars (The Space Between Us)
  • 2018: The Thinning 2: New World Order

TV Shows

  • 2015: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (Episode: "Intimidation Game")
  • 2015: Weird Loners (episode: "Weird Pilot")
  • 2016: Stitchers (episodes: "The Two Deaths of Jamie B." and "The One That Got Away")
  • 2016: Walk the Prank (Episode: "So You Think You Can Middle School Dance")
  • 2016: Bizaardvark (Episode: "The First Law of Dirk")

Web

  • 2014: Bad Weather Films (Episode: "Rainbow Man")
  • since 2015: Logan Paul
  • 2016: Logan Paul Vs.
  • since 2016: Foursome

Discography

Singles

As the main artist

title year Chart placements
US boy. AU
Help Me Help You (feat.Why Don't We) 2017 5 platinumplatinum 90

As a secondary artist

title year
The Song Of The Summer (Seven Bucks feat. Logan Paul and Desiigner ) 2017

Promo singles

title year
2016 2016
The Fall of Jake Paul (feat.Why Don't We) 2017
I Love You Bro (with Jake Paul)
The Rise of the Paul (feat.Jake Paul)
Hero (feat.Zircon)
Outta my hair
No handlebars
SANTA disstrack
THE NUMBER SONG 2018

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Birth Record of Logan Alexander Paul.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: MooseRoots . Retrieved May 20, 2017@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / birth-records.mooseroots.com  
  2. ↑ a b c d How Vine's Hunky Goofball Logan Paul Plans to Become a Mainstream Superstar. Retrieved July 20, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b c Logan Paul has conquered the internet, but he can't figure out how to conquer the world. In: Business Insider. Retrieved July 20, 2017 .
  4. ↑ https://patch.com/ohio/westlake/logan-paul-takes-5th-in-states
  5. ↑ How national Vine video star Logan Paul went from Westlake standout athlete to master of 6-second comedy (videos). In: cleveland.com. Retrieved July 20, 2017 .
  6. ^ Social media influencers turn followers into dollars. Retrieved July 21, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Jakob Schiller: How a College Kid Mastered Viral Comedy, 6 Seconds at a Time. In: wired.com. Retrieved July 21, 2017 .
  8. ↑ How national Vine video star Logan Paul went from Westlake standout athlete to master of 6-second comedy (videos). In: cleveland.com. Retrieved July 20, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Logan Paul Vlogs: MY FIRST VLOG - THE ROAD TO BURNING MAN! September 12, 2016. Retrieved July 21, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Watchable | Web's Best Shows and Networks - Curated Daily. Retrieved July 21, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Why You Shouldn't Punch The Rock. In: Muscle & ÐFitness. Retrieved July 21, 2017 .
  12. ↑ The Rock: Logan Paul is, like, totally terrible at falling in love with Alexandra Daddario. April 21, 2017. Retrieved July 21, 2017 .
  13. ↑ The Rock: The Rock and Logan Paul's “THE SONG OF THE SUMMER” ft. Desiigner (Official Music Video). May 16, 2017. Retrieved July 21, 2017 .
  14. ↑ David Hasselhoff: David Hasselhoff, The Rock, and Logan Paul's “SONG OF THE SUMMER” Music Video - Behind the Scenes. May 16, 2017. Retrieved July 21, 2017 .
  15. ↑ Logan Paul dishes about his awkward celebrity encounter on set of "Law and Order". In: AOL.com. Retrieved July 21, 2017 .
  16. ↑ Logan Paul Plan's "An Expendables With Internet Stars" Called 'Airplane Mode'. In: Tube filter. January 25, 2016. Retrieved July 21, 2017 .
  17. ↑ YouTube pause after outcry. In: Gala.de. January 4, 2018, accessed January 4, 2018 .
  18. ↑ Youtube star laughed at suicide victims: Is social media broken? In: The Standard. January 5, 2018, accessed January 5, 2018 .
  19. ↑ Eike Kühl: Fun until someone dies. In: time. January 3, 2018, accessed January 4, 2018 .
  20. ↑ Logan Paul: So sorry. In: Twitter. January 2, 2018, accessed January 4, 2018 .
  21. ↑ In the new video he tortures animals. In: BILD. February 13, 2018, accessed September 4, 2019 .
  22. ↑ Yahoo: Logan Paul under fire for saying he'll 'go gay' for a month. In: Yahoo on Twitter. January 3, 2018, accessed January 12, 2019 .
  23. ↑ Todd Spangler: YouTube Red Picks Up 'The Thinning' Thriller Starring Logan Paul, Peyton List. In: Variety. August 5, 2016. Retrieved July 23, 2017 .
  24. ↑ Todd Spangler: Comcast's Watchable Unveils First Original Series, Including Show With Vine Star Logan Paul. In: Variety. August 23, 2016. Retrieved July 23, 2017 .
  25. ↑ Music Sales Awards: US
  26. ↑ a b Chart Search | Billboard. Retrieved July 23, 2017 .

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personal data
SURNAME Paul, Logan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Paul, Logan Alexander (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American entertainer, youtuber and actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1995
PLACE OF BIRTH Westlake , Ohio, United States