January 25, 2018By Affinity Magazine Staff
Just hours ago, Logan Paul returned to YouTube by posting a video titled “Suicide: Be Here Tomorrow.” I took the time to watch the video, only so I could write an article about it. Throughout the video, Logan Paul tries to make it seem like a documentary about suicide to provide information on the topic
January 25, 2018By Jamie Turner
Lately there has been a rise in companies being blatantly racist. Have we not noticed this before, or is this just a way to get us to pay attention to the product they’re putting out? We saw with the recent H&M ad where a young black model was wearing a “coolest monkey in the jungle”
January 23, 2018By Madeline Nagler
According to Urban Dictionary, to stan means to embody “all the aspects of what it means to be a huge fanatic of a music artist,” though in recent years that has grown to include television shows, films, books, franchises, you name it. Unlike ever before, fans have had the ability to connect with their favorite
January 18, 2018By Martina Rexrode
Stan Twitter, also known as “fake woke” Twitter, has a way of always knowing which celebrities to call out while holding them accountable for their mistakes. This seemed to be very prevalent during the Golden Globes this past weekend. A user on Twitter started a thread before the actual award show began, which listed celebrities
January 11, 2018By Molly Cuddy
Content warning: this article mentions child pedophilia. Popular YouTuber Shane Dawson was accused of being a pedophile on Twitter after a few videos surfaced showing he had said some pretty problematic things in the past. The tweets shown below quote what he apparently says in the video. https://twitter.com/Drgnkiller/status/951192823818346496 https://twitter.com/Drgnkiller/status/951192825458196482 People began agreeing that they found
January 6, 2018By Molly Cuddy
22-year-old Youtuber Logan Paul has been the topic of conversation ever since he posted a vlog to his channel exploiting a man who had committed suicide. It was bad enough Paul decided to take a trip to a known suicide forest in Japan; he then recorded the man’s dead body, laughed and made jokes about
January 2, 2018By Rute Pereira
TRIGGER WARNING: SUICIDE MENTIONED I assume that by now, we all know that Team 10 was all over the internet this past year with their gigantic house and their drama-full lives. The group came into the spotlight when their first drama emerged after Jake Paul kicked his ex-girlfriend, Alissa Violet, out of the house in
January 2, 2018By Maisy Diaz
Trigger warning: this article mentions death and suicide. On December 31st, Logan Paul uploaded a vlog titled ‘We found a dead body in the Japanese Suicide Forest…” Logan Paul is a YouTuber with over fifteen million subscribers. A number of these subscribers are children as young as eight years old. Aokigahara is a national forest
December 18, 2017By Barbara Uzoigwe
If you don’t know about Nathan Zed by now, it’s about time you got to know. Formerly known as TheThirdPew, Zed began to gain attention in 2015, and he has since been an unstoppable force with his rise to stardom. Not only does he make good quality videos (even though they are posted rarely), they
December 15, 2017By Fatima Fernandez
Breakups. Most of the time, breakups are hard to navigate. Sifting through what can only be described as emotional wreckage and listening to sad songs is just half of the process. Nowadays, getting over a broken heart is much harder than it used to be. Why? Social media. With social media, we get constant updates