Targeting the tone of popular Youtuber Logan Paul's fairly recent apology message, fake news site "Clickhole" created an article to poke fun at the insincerity and ridiculousness of the vlogger's actions. In the article, Clickhole created the idea that during the school walkout event regarding gun reform, Logan Paul was in the midst of releasing an inappropriate prank. The idea that Logan Paul pushing the upload date back 48 hours "in support if the national school walkout against gun violence" (Clickhole, 2018) is placed to emphasize his past with empathy and ill-advised ideas. In the fake quote by Logan Paul, "I'm wise enough to know that there's a time and a place for posting monetized footage of students cowering under their desks while I parade through their classrooms firing blank rounds out of an AR-15..." (Clickhole, 2018), the article follows up with the author's response "It's clear that Logan Paul has turned over a new leaf." (Clickhole, 2018), clearly using sarcasm to further push the point that such an idea would be ridiculous, yet believable enough to be effective as a clickbait article.
Clickhole (source)
http://www.clickhole.com/article/doing-his-part-support-high-school-students-walkin-7570?utm_content=Main&utm_campaign=SF&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=SocialMarketing
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