VIDEO : YouTube Cuts Ties With Logan Paul After His 'Suicide Forest' Video

Richard Shotwell / AP Logan Paul arrives at Jingle Ball on Dec. YouTube has cut business ties with Logan Paul amid unrelenting backlash over his recent video showing the hanging body of a dead man in what's known as "suicide forest" in Japan over the holidays. Google-owned YouTube on Wednesday said in a statement, first reported by the Hollywood Reporter, that "we have decided to remove Logan Paul?s channels from Google Preferred," referring to a program that allows companies to sell ads on the top 5% of platform's content creators. The video, titled "We Found A Dead Body in the Japanese Suicide Forest," was posted on Dec. 31 and showed a man's body hanging from a tree.