A year after his “suicide forest” controversy, Logan Paul was in hot water again for insensitive remarks he made on his “Impaulsive” podcast. While going vegan in January 2019 for a month, Paul and his co-host Mike Majlak joked they were “going gay” for the month of March. The off-color remarks were noticed by GLAAD who tweeted at the YouTuber. “That’s not how it works,” the organization wrote. Paul was quick to both apologize and leverage the situation. “[V]ery poor choice of words … my fault. let’s get together and talk about it on my podcast next week?” he tweeted in response to GLAAD.
Later that year Paul made headlines, but this time, it wasn’t for any controversial behavior. In 2018, the YouTuber had pivoted to a career in boxing, and by 2019, Paul spoke about how the change did wonders for himself both professionally and personally. “Just like everyone in life, people make mistakes, mine happened to be in public and in front of the whole world,” he told the BBC in October 2019. “Boxing is by far one of the best things to happen to my life.”
Paul was unafraid of losing in the ring and he believed surviving professional embarrassment, on multiple occasions, was proof of his staying power. “[I]f my career was going to end, it would have ended already,” he told Entertainment Tonight in November 2019. Even though his career thrived, Paul still experienced fallout from the Japan controversy.
