YouTube personality Logan Paul apologized for sharing a video during a visit to Japan's "suicide forest" that included footage of what appeared to be a dead body, NPR reported.
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"Where do I begin," Paul wrote on his Twitter page late Monday. "Let's start with this. I'm sorry."
"I didn't do it for views. I get views," tweeted Paul, who has more than 15 million YouTube subscribers. "I did it because I thought I could make a positive ripple on the internet, not cause a monsoon of negativity."
"Yo, are you alive?" he says in the video, Fox News reported.
Paul said in his Twitter post that he originally posted the video to raise awareness for suicide and suicide prevention.
The video was filmed in the Aokigahara forest at the edge of Mount Fuji, an area that has been famous for its popularity among people who want to carry out a suicide, NPR reported. In his video, Paul blurred out the face of the person who had died, but he showed other parts of the body as he and his friends stood near it and talked.
The video was uploaded Sunday and titled "We found a dead body in the Japanese Suicide Forest." According to New York magazine, it garnered more than 6 million views in less than one day before it was removed by Paul.