Logan Paul's suicide forest apology vs the Jimmy Kimmel blackface one - which felt more real?

I've been watching both of these back to back and I'm torn. Logan Paul did his video in like 2018 after the whole Japan thing, sitting in a room with a plain background, no cuts, just staring at the camera for like 4 minutes. He seemed genuinely shaken. But then Jimmy Kimmel's apology from years ago about the blackface sketches was more of a written statement, no video at all, just a tweet basically. I remember thinking Logan was acting but maybe he wasn't. Kimmel's felt more corporate, like his PR team typed it up. Which one do you think was the real deal and which was just damage control? Has anyone else changed their mind after re-watching these old ones?

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baker.christopher10h ago

The Logan Paul one always felt more real to me even though I wanted to hate it. That raw, no cuts, just staring into the lens thing got me because he looked like he hadn't slept and his voice was cracking the whole time. Kimmel's was just a written statement from his people, like a press release you'd see on a soda company's website. I remember watching Logan's video the day it dropped and thinking "this guy is about to throw up" which is hard to fake on camera. The blackface stuff from Kimmel was gross too but he kind of brushed it off with a tweet and went back to his show like nothing happened. That whole "I'm sorry if I offended anyone" tone from Kimmel was such cop out energy compared to Logan sitting there taking the beating on video.

carr.abby30m ago

My buddy Wes was in a group chat back in 2018 where someone leaked Logan's apology before it hit YouTube, and he said the whole chat went dead silent for like 10 minutes after watching it. Nobody was cracking jokes, nobody was roasting him, because it genuinely felt like you were watching someone have a breakdown in real time. Wes told me he showed it to his girlfriend who didn't even know who Logan Paul was, and she asked if the guy was about to go hurt himself after the video stopped. I think that says a lot about how different that apology was compared to the usual corporate damage control we see. Kimmel's apology felt like something you'd read on a bathroom wall at a law firm, not from a human being who actually upset people.

danielm809h ago

and thats the thing that gets me about Logan's apology too. he sat there and let people tear him apart online for months after that video and he didnt try to weasel out of it with excuses. Kimmel just posted some text and went back to laughing with his guests like nothing happened. the raw unedited nature of Logan's apology made it feel like he was actually sitting there processing how bad he messed up instead of just checking a PR box. plus the fact that he didnt even try to explain away the suicide forest stuff, he just owned it fully which you almost never see from influencers these days. Kimmel's whole thing felt like a lawyer wrote it to make the problem go away before the next commercial break.