Logan Paul sued by astronaut for \u201cdeceptive\u201d Flat Earth mockumentary Logan Paul, Stellar Pictures Productions – YouTubeControversial YouTuber Logan Paul duped the internet after releasing his Flat Earth mockumentary in late March \u2013 but some viewers weren\u2019t happy about being tricked. Noted Flat Earther, daredevil, and self-taught \u201castronaut\u201d Mike \u2018Mad Mike\u2019 Hughes is taking legal action against Paul due to the documentary, after appearing in the film for an interview. \u201c\u2026He used my image and I never signed a release,\u201d Hughes said of the film. \u201cI was never told what this thing was for. In fact, when he interviewed me, I didn\u2019t know who the guy was. \u2026After this movie comes out, you find out he staged half of it.\u201d https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation-now\/2017\/11\/25\/mad-mike-hughes-cancels-rocket-launch-prove-earth-flat\/894762001\/Hughes is suing both Paul and his buddy, Mike \u2018Hey Big Mike\u2019 Majlak, for half a million dollars, claiming that their mockumentary was \u201cfraudulent\u201d and \u201cdeceptive.\u201d Provoking the Flat Earthers\u2019 fury Hughes isn\u2019t the only Flat Earther upset with Paul\u2019s stunt, either; Flat Earth International Conference organizer Robbie Davidson likewise spoke out against the YouTuber on ABC\u2019s Nightline, claiming that he had been \u201cpunked\u201d into letting Paul film the event for his project. the flat earthers have spoken :gasp: we\u2019re gonna do a \u201ctell all\u201d video soon. y\u2019all got any questions about the documentary you want answered? pic.twitter.com\/r77B6AnNtg\u2014 Logan Paul (@LoganPaul) March 23, 2019 \u201cAnother thing that he outright lied about was the fact that he was going to be doing a documentary,\u201d Davidson said of the film. \u201c\u2026quite honestly, I was punked. I was duped.\u201d That\u2019s not all; Davidson likewise accused Paul of breaking the law, after featuring a 14-year-old girl in the video without her parents\u2019 consent. Looks like @LoganPaul is surprised! Why? He put a 14 year old girl in his movie without her parents consent. Oooops. Parents lawsuits aren\u2019t pretty! https:\/\/t.co\/4Nqg0nWTaV \u2014 Robbie Davidson (@MrRobbieD) March 26, 2019 Despite this claim, many critics noted that Colorado (the state in which the Conference took place) is a single-party consent state in terms of filming and phone calls, rendering Davidson\u2019s allegations null. The truth behind Logan Paul\u2019s \u2018documentary\u2019 The true nature Paul\u2019s documentary came as a surprise, after the YouTuber appeared to tease that it would be a legitimate look into the Flat Earth community \u2013 and even hinted that he might have been a Flat Earther, himself. Paul even claimed that the mockumentary was made as a \u201cfuck you\u201d to his haters, following his multiple controversies after filming the body of a suicide victim in Japan\u2019s Aokigahara \u2018Suicide Forest\u2019 in early 2018. Now, the YouTuber is being met with a $500,000 lawsuit, which he has yet to address in a public statement via his social media accounts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Logan Paul sued by astronaut for \u201cdeceptive\u201d Flat Earth mockumentary Logan Paul, Stellar Pictures Productions – YouTubeControversial YouTuber Logan Paul duped the internet after releasing his Flat Earth mockumentary in late March \u2013 but some viewers weren\u2019t happy about being tricked. Noted Flat Earther, daredevil, and self-taught \u201castronaut\u201d Mike \u2018Mad Mike\u2019 Hughes is taking legal […]<\/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-54299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54299","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=54299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}