American YouTube star Logan Paul on Tuesday apologised for posting a video of a suicide victim in Japan http://www.cheapairmaxplussale.com/ , saying he had made a "huge mistake" and was ashamed of himself.
Paul, 22, whose almost daily video blogs on YouTube have over 15 million followers, apologised for laughing with friends about the body they filmed hanging on a tree in Japan's so-called "suicide forest" and posted to the video-sharing channel.
Logan deleted the video on Monday after it caused a social media backlash.
"I've made a severe and continuous lapse in my judgment and I don't expect to be forgiven. I'm simply here to apologise," Paul said in a YouTube video called "So Sorry".
He said the shots of he and his friends laughing nervously after the discovery of the body were "raw and unfiltered"reactions and that the video should never have been posted or even filmed.
"I've made a huge mistake. I don't expect to be forgiven... I'm ashamed of myself. I am disappointed cheap air max plus kids ," he added.
Logan shot the video on a visit to Japan's Aokigahara forest on the slopes of Mount Fuji, that is known for its high number of suicides. He promoted it on his Twitter account at the weekend as "the craziest and most real video I've ever uploaded." Reaction was swift with critics calling the video disgusting and tasteless.
" Paul believes he's 'making YouTube history' by vlogging the body of a young person who died by suicide... You're not Neil Armstrong bro, it's simply a thing no one else has been tacky enough to do outside rotten. com circa 2000," tweeted Caitlin Doughty, a Los Angeles mortician and author of "From Here to Eternity."
Former "Breaking Bad" star Aaron Paul said suicide was no joke. "You disgust me. I can't believe that so many young people look up to you cheap air max plus mens ," the actor tweeted to Paul, who he is not related to. "Hopefully this latest video woke them up. You are pure trash. Plain and simple. Suicide is not a joke. Go rot in hell."(Agencies)
SHENZHEN, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese charity foundation is to be investigated for its role in a problematic online donation program for poor children.
The Civil Affairs Bureau of Shenzhen City in south China announced Tuesday evening that it would look into the Aiyou Future Foundation, which ran the donation program with a Beijing company from Friday to Sunday.
The program, spread via popular messaging app WeChat cheap air max plus womens , allowed users to donate money to a kid born on the donor's birthday. By clicking on a link and entering his or her date of birth, users were quickly matched with a kid whose photo, name, birthday and location was available.
The program chose 366 children as beneficiaries and donations for each were capped at 1,200 yuan (183 U.S. dollars).
The novel idea attracted instant attention cheap nike air max plus , but it soon found that one child had two different dates of birth with different donors. At least six such cases were uncovered by donors.
The campaign had amassed more than 2.5 million yuan as of Sunday morning, when the organizers announced the end of donations.
Facing mounting doubts, the Beijing company, 0fenbei, said that all the children hail from registered poor families and their information was provided by local officials.
The company said the link cheap air max plus for sale , which was still under trial, was mistakenly posted by its staff and therefore there was erroneous information on the children.
The Aiyou foundation registered the program with the local civil affairs bureau before its launch.
However, the campaign was initiated via the WeChat account of the Beijing company which is ineligible to accept online public donations.
"It appears obviously illegal," said Zheng Ziyin with Lawsons Law Office.
In addition, some questioned the disclosure of the children's information cheap air max plus shoes , even if the organizers said they had obtained written consent from the children's guardians to make the information public.
"Do the kids and their parents really understand what the disclosure means to their