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Logan Paul, aspiring comedian, tries to pick a fight with a real comedian

You'd think that it's common sense.

Morgan Sung

on May 1, 2018

Logan Paul, aspiring comedian, tries to pick a fight with a real comedian

Logan Paul says he's learned from his mistakes in a Twitter feud with Chris D'Elia Credit: Getty IMages

Aspiring comedian Logan Paul says he's "learned" and "grown" since he filmed the body of an apparent suicide victim for his vlog. Oh, and he's in a Twitter feud with Chris D'Elia.

Buckle up for this one, folks.

It started on Sunday, when Paul, the king of clickbait, announced that his daily vlogs were ending, emphasis on daily. In the announcement video, he says he wants to get back into comedy, and then spends the rest of the video picking up a $150,000 Mercedes.

"Important that you watch," he tweeted with a sad emoji.

And then comedian Chris D'Elia responded with "No it's not."

Paul, in the most Logan Paul way, replied with a wall of laughing emoji, adding, "im laughing cuz now i know why your comedy career took a dive."

Can we just take a moment to acknowledge @ellen_heiman's burn?

D'Elia replied to Paul's jab with "at least when my career dies you can film it and put it on YouTube."

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Then Paul decided to get serious, because in the past four months he's "grown" and "learned."

"The filming of a suicide victim is both heartless and insensitive," he reflected.

And after stewing for two hours, Paul came up with this very sick burn. D'Elia has been silent, which just makes the double attempt at a diss even better.

UPDATE: May 1, 2018, 12:19 p.m. PDT Then D'Elia hit back with this:

You'd think that not exploiting someone's tragedy for your vlog would be common sense, but for Paul it apparently took months of criticism to get it through his head. @ayanaTdanielle put it best for the 23-year-old YouTuber.

UPDATE: May 1, 2018, 3:53 p.m. PDT Paul doubled down on Tuesday afternoon in an attempt to defend his words and actions regarding the suicide forest video. "I believe I was misled by a culture where suicide is widely ignored yet documented," Paul wrote, in response to people criticizing his tweet where he said he "learned that the filming of a suicide victim is both heartless and insensitive."

Paul then compared the video in which he mocked and joked the body of a man who died by suicide with a Vice documentary on the same forest. Clearly, he still doesn't get it.

Then he took a final jab at D'Elia.

In late December, Paul visited Aokigahara, which is also known as Japan's "suicide forest." His crew came across the body of someone who died by suicide, filmed it while suppressing laughs, and included it in his vlog. In the now-deleted video, Paul says that he wants to use the vlog to raise awareness for suicide prevention.

He still posted the video, though.

After months of backlash, which included a hiatus from vlogging and debuting as Twitch streamer, Paul says he's learned something. Considering his recent vlogs include tasering a dead rat and exploiting a car crash for views, it's debatable.

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