Logan Paul defends viral Game Boy project amid \u201cridiculous\u201d backlash Unsplash: Alan Rodriguez \/ YouTube: Logan PaulLogan Paul has defended his $1000 Game Boy Color project, where the YouTube star turned boxer transformed 15 of them into an epoxy tabletop, after he was slammed on social media for \u2018ruining\u2019 the iconic handheld console. Logan Paul spent three months and $1000 on a Game Boy Color project to commemorate his youth and love for Pokemon. Instead of his work receiving love from fans though, he was met with backlash on social media for \u2018ruining\u2019 copies of the iconic handheld console. However, the older Paul brother hasn\u2019t taken the controversy lying down. He addressed the \u201cridiculous\u201d backlash on his January 5 Impaulsive podcast, saying there was no malicious reason in doing the project like some speculated \u2014 he just loves Pokemon. first epoxy resin project\u2026 GameBoy Colors & a metal Pok\u00e9mon frame made for a nice little tabletop \ud83d\ude2e pic.twitter.com\/oEtsxJcwyx \u2014 Logan Paul (@LoganPaul) December 26, 2021 \u201cThroughout quarantine and training for Mayweather I had some free time and I wanted to do something relaxing. I took up art resin, epoxy,\u201d he explained. \u201cI got into it, took on a couple of little projects, got better and better, and I decided to undergo a Gameboy project where I took Gameboy Colors \u2014 which I love, I\u2019ve been addicted to them my whole life \u2014 so I thought it\u2019d be cool to make a table with some of my favorite things I have. \u201cA lot of people liked it on Twitter, and they were like \u2018Logan Paul f**king blows but this is cool\u2019, but then I started trending. You don\u2019t trend for good sh*t, you trend for bad sh*t. \u201cThere was a sub-set of retro gamers who were extremely unhappy that I caked 15 Gameboys that cost me about $1000 in resin because they felt like I was wasting the Gameboys and disrespecting the nostalgia.\u201d Paul explained he loves his own Game Boy Color, booting it up every so often to play one of the original Pokemon games to relive his childhood. Memorializing it in that way felt natural to the YouTube star \u2014 and while there was resounding backlash, there were equal amounts of praise for the project. The related segment begins at 1:06:56. He also downplayed the scarcity of the consoles, which some enthusiasts were touting given its 1998 release. \u201cGo on eBay right now. They\u2019re $60. 90 million plus of them were made, they\u2019re not in short supply, and I love them. These mean something to me. \u201cI made something I thought was f**king cool, yet how can I still be making mistakes? This is a simulation for sure, because this is the most ridiculous backlash we\u2019ve seen in our lives.\u201d He reached out to one critic on Twitter following the furor, and claimed he was trying to \u201ckill them with kindness\u201d. It\u2019s part of Logan\u2019s new mantra for 2022 \u2014 he\u2019s trying to be more empathetic to his haters and their reasons for criticism. \u201cOne thing I outlined as something I\u2019m going to try and exercise in 2022 is kindness. \u201cYou see someone spend so much time on a project, and yet you feel the need to invalidate it because some weird niche beliefs you have, not knowing any of my intentions when I\u2019m making this? You think I stuck them in there so I could be like \u2018yeah I own those 15 Gameboys, this cost $1000?\u2019\u201d Regardless of what happens online, Logan\u2019s epoxy Game Boy Color tabletop now sits proudly in his house, and the star is going to keep it that way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Logan Paul defends viral Game Boy project amid \u201cridiculous\u201d backlash Unsplash: Alan Rodriguez \/ YouTube: Logan PaulLogan Paul has defended his $1000 Game Boy Color project, where the YouTube star turned boxer transformed 15 of them into an epoxy tabletop, after he was slammed on social media for \u2018ruining\u2019 the iconic handheld console. Logan Paul […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}