YouTube can't handle it: Forest corpse video keeps spreading

The scandal caused by the US youtuber video Logan Paul allegedly showing a corpse in Japan's “Suicide Forest” still seems far from over. After the clip was deleted from Paul's channel, hundreds of copies of the material were resubmitted to the platform and published in full or in part.

The new clips even made it to the US YouTube Most Viewed list, leaving the whole situation out of control. YouTube, in turn, has been excluding republished videos because the material is considered too heavy and against the rules of the platform.

However, many channels - which know how to circumvent the YouTube algorithm - still manage to show Paul's video with little censorship about the corpse or even showing the body entirely. To avoid having videos deleted, these channels have placed different audios or segments of other clips intermittently with the original youtuber video.

A quick search for “logan paul dead body” brings dozens of republished videos mixed with comments from other creators and various criticisms of the 22-year-old's stance. After the controversy, he apologized for Twitter.

The Logan Paul re-uploads are now # 2 and # 20 on trending .... what ... pic.twitter.com/zKgYNlAY8W

- Pia Muehlenbeck (@piamuehlenbeck) January 3, 2018

Something similar happened with the racist PewDiePie video, which paid people to hold signs with the inscriptions "death to the Jews." The republications simply blurred the word "Jews, " and YouTube could do nothing to eliminate content from the platform.

YouTube can't handle it: Forest corpse video keeps spreading via TecMundo