Hey Parents, happy for you to do a recipe search on google, but we also offer dead body footage over on YouTube if you're interested. Logan Paul...you are a moron!

So, in case you haven’t read or seen the news, the you tube prankster Logan Paul shot a video in a forest in Japan that is a frequent site for suicides. The group, while filming discovered a dead body hanging from a tree and the group continue to film whilst Logan Paul sniggers and comments ‘what’s wrong with you, have you not stood next to a dead body before’

If you haven’t had a good enough reason to really dislike and object to Logan Paul before parents…you certainly have one now.

The video remained on his YouTube channel for a day and was viewed more than 6.3 million times before being removed by YouTube, why? because increasingly online platforms are chasing engagement above quality of content and our children are the victims of this digital age ethos.

Logan Paul is a 22-year-old YouTube moron…err sorry star who has over 15 million followers, most of them teenagers and pre-teens. His popularity has mushroomed over the last 18 months, he has tv experience and became so popular for his videos on Vine that he worked out he could drop out of Ohio university in 2014 and pursue a career in Los Angeles. Known for his boyish outlandish pranks it wasn’t long before his neighbourhood in LA became a collective and threatened to sue him if his antics continued. The antics have continued.

Imagine a person is so desperate and distressed with the conviction that nothing about his life can change or get better, and so he comes to the point where he ties a rope round a tree and hangs himself; and Logan Paul sees fit to be videoed sniggering next to his lifeless body. I’m sorry, but is this what we’ve come to, is this now entertainment?

Logan Paul has said he didn’t do it for ‘likes’ he did it to raise awareness and yet earlier this year he told a popular American news outlet that he was going to be the biggest entertainment star on YouTube. Well there are more than 15 million people in the world, so I think he did it for likes. Seems YouTube are happy to give him a helping hand as the video was available to view for around 20 hours until it started to get complaints and then they must have decided the revenue wasn’t worth it.

Yes, YouTube is brilliant for a ‘how to video’ or Minecraft posts. YouTube is brilliant for the content it was created and intended for, not for this appalling freak show.

YOU TUBE IS NOT AN ONLINE VERSION OF TV, some of it, is a catalogue of the very worst and risky behaviour you would not want your child to watch and digest. It exposes children and young people to behaviour they wouldn’t have otherwise encountered.

Presenter Ed Petrie writes: “Having spent 12 years working in kids’ TV (first Nickelodeon and then CBBC) and seeing the thought and care that goes into providing content for young people, there needs to be some serious questions asked about how YouTube functions… Can you imagine the outcry if CBBC gave presenters a platform to show kids footage of suicide victims? Why are they not subject to the same rules as the rest of us?”

YouTube have stated that some of the inappropriate uploads are difficult to catch before they trend and grow, well I have an idea, why don’t you give some of those university Tech graduates who are working in Costa the job of sifting the content, because your way isn’t working YouTube.

Chrissy Teigen – American model (never heard of her) says that Logan should not be vilified for an ethical mistake. No, but we can hope that the people our children look up to have human decency, compassion and model empathy. Let’s not just blame Logan Paul entirely, this appalling incident brings into question his moral compass yes, but also that of his ‘team’. Did no one at any point between filming, editing and posting, voice the opinion that it just wasn’t ok on any level.

If these people don’t know what is right and wrong, then I as a parent have to be a game changer in promoting human decency. If I say its ok to watch I am saying you can cross boundaries not just in terms of practical intrusion, but we let our children off the hook with empathy and compassion to others as well.

Until YouTube take their responsibilities seriously can we ask Donald Trump to build a wall between Logan Paul and his electronic devices because this is the response Logan Paul gave in the face of criticism.

“With great power comes great responsibility, for the first time in my life I’m regretful to say I handled that power incorrectly and it won’t happen again”

Yes folks he was being serious !!!!!