In the Age of Public Shaming, It's Time to Rethink Our Relationship with Shame
This year was barely a day old when a shameless act from the tail end of the previous one was met with a now-familiar response: public shaming. On December 31, the popular vlogger Logan Paul posted a video on his YouTube channel showing the body of a man who had hanged himself near Mount Fuji in Japan, in an area known as Suicide Forest. The video, which has since been pulled from YouTube, features Paul’s reactions to the body, which ranged from surprised to entertained. Celebrities and