The YouTuber-turned-pro-boxer Logan Paul recently revealed the reason he parted ways with YouTube his exhibition fight with Floyd Mayweather. He claimed that excessive punishments from YouTube caused him to quit the platform. He took on boxing legend Mayweather at the Hard Rock Stadium in Florida this June, and after a couple of promotional videos to plug the fight, he has completely given up on uploading videos. He has managed to stay in the news through his podcast Impaulsive, a series of headline-grabbing stunts and his brother’s successful boxing career, but has left his 23.2million subscribers behind since the bout. Logan Paul recently looked bloated in a picture.
Logan Paul opens up on leaving YouTube
In a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times, Paul said that YouTube’s ever-changing policies killed his interest in creating videos.
“Demonetization, being blacklisted, being shadow-banned, it’s really demotivating,” Paul explained. When you are yourself, the platform that you’re on, because of the advertisers, because of public sentiment, whatever it is, no longer wants to support you.”
Paul went the eight-round distance with Mayweather, and in the process of training for the monumental pay-per-view event had all but given up on uploading content altogether. He still posts videos and updates to his followers on Instagram, TikTok and Twitter, as well as a paid subscription service called the ‘Maverick Club’ which is run by Subify. Both Logan and his younger brother Jake have taken a massive step back from their respective social media careers since turning professional as boxers.
Logan has fought twice, a 2019 bout with KSI which he lost by split decision and the Mayweather exhibition which had no winner declared. Meanwhile, his brother Jake has amassed an impressive 5-0 record with four finishes, including the recent brutal stoppage of Tyron Woodley in a rematch earlier this month. But they started out as YouTubers, and both garnered tens of millions of followers in their heydays from 2016-2018, before gradually taking steps away to focus on fighting.
