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Outcry as YouTube star Logan Paul posts video of dead body in Japan

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I don't want to open the link but I presume he went to the forests around Mt Fuji (since sibling poster writes that he went to a forest).

That place is very famous as a suicide spot and it appears in many works of fiction in this context. The other famous spot is Tojimbo, a seaside cliff which also appears in many movies / TV shows.

You are correct: the article states that the forest is Aokigahara forest.

The body was found in the Aokigahara Forest near Mt Fuji.

A respectful and well-made documentary on the forest was produced by Vice a number of years ago. You can watch it here:

https://vimeo.com/16532592

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jmgagk/aokigahara-suicide...

Youtube seems more and more to be turning into a kind of wasteland of unmoderated, self-published content. Apparently, and sadly, that's where the money is.

Every time an event such as the above occurs, I'm reminded of the following excerpt from a Jerry Seinfeld interview

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“The less the better,” Seinfeld said in reference to user-generated content. “I don’t want to see this crap. We have a giant garbage can called YouTube for user-generated content.

http://bgr.com/2015/04/16/jerry-seinfeld-youtube-giant-garba...

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I dunno, I mostly disagreed at first but seeing the front page and constant tweaks, I gotta wonder if it's worth it. We can easily do better than YouTube but it caters to the lowest common denominator so of course it'll be the most popular :/

> Youtube seems more and more to be turning into a kind of wasteland of unmoderated, self-published content.

YouTube has always been a mix of that and piracy, though if anything, professionally-produced, non-pirated content has been increasing over the years.

> Youtube seems more and more to be turning into a kind of wasteland of unmoderated, self-published content. Apparently, and sadly, that's where the money is.

We must be living in different universes. In my universe, Youtube has spent the last year or so purging content that isn't advertiser friendly and auto-moderating even family-friendly and innoffensive channels into oblivion. They let a lot slip by them due to their size and dint of their AI being stupid to the point of possible malice, but I'd rather have a wasteland of free expression than a well-manicured garden of corporate and MCN-driven garbage.

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