Youtube Cutting Some Business Ties From Logan Paul, in Wake of Controversial Video

Actor Logan Paul attends "The Thinning" meet and greet during the 2016 New York Comic Con–Day 3 on Oct. 8, 2016, in New York City. Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images

YouTube is taking action and cutting some business ties after popular YouTuber Logan Paul, posted a video showing what appeared to be a suicide victim in Japan.

Paul was widely criticized after he posted a video showing him and his friends at the Aokigahara forest at the base of Mount Fuji, a common site for suicides. He can be seen making jokes in the video before it was taken down and according to the BBC it was both “disrespectful” and “disgusting.”