Logan Alexander Paul is an American YouTuber, actor, and social media personality.
Paul gained a following in 2013, posting sketches on the video-sharing application Vine. He registered his YouTube channel, TheOfficialLoganPaul, on October 18, 2013, where he started posting regularly following the closure of the Vine app.
Paul grew up in Ohio with his younger brother Jake, who is also a YouTuber and internet personality.
Paul began creating internet videos for a YouTube channel called Zoosh when he was 10 years old.
He attended Westlake High School, achieving the ranks of The Plain Dealer’s All-Star linebacker on the football team in 2012, and qualifying for the state-level Ohio High School Athletic Association 2013 Division I Wrestling Individual Championships.
He later created the Logan Paul Vlogs channel on August 29, 2015, which has since become his most-subscribed YouTube channel. As of January 2022, the channel has received 23.2 million subscribers and over 5.8 billion views, ranking as the 74th most-subscribed channel in the United States, and placing him among the most-subscribed channels on the platform.
As an actor, Paul’s television and film work include guest appearances on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Bizaardvark, and roles in films The Thinning (2016) and The Thinning: New World Order (2018).
Full Name: Logan Alexander Paul
Date of Birth: April 1, 1995 (age 27)
Place of Birth: Westlake, Ohio, U.S.
Occupation: YouTuber, social media influencer, podcast host
Education: Westlake High School
Nationality: American
Religion Christian
Weight; 90kg
Height; 1.88m
Net-worth:
By the time Paul attended college, his YouTube channel had attained a modest following via the platform Vine.
He majored in Industrial Engineering at Ohio University before dropping out in 2014 to pursue a career as a full-time social media entertainer in Los Angeles, moving into an apartment complex in Los Angeles with other Vine stars.
Paul rose to fame as a member of the Internet video sharing service Vine. In February 2014, he had over 3.1 million followers on various social media platforms.
By April 2014 he had attained 105,000 Twitter followers, 361,000 Instagram followers, 31,000 likes on his Facebook page and about 150,000 subscribers to his YouTube channel.
A YouTube compilation video of his Vine work garnered more than four million views the first week it was posted. In 2015 he was ranked as the 10th most influential figure on Vine, with his six-second videos earning him hundreds of thousands of dollars in advertising revenue.
By that October, his Facebook videos alone had more than 300 million views. Logan refers to his following as “Logang”, which is a portmanteau between his first name and “gang”.
In early 2015, Paul appeared on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. He also appeared on the Fox TV series Weird Loners, where he appeared in the role of the Paul Twins.
He starred in two episodes of the Freeform series Stitchers. In 2016, he starred in the YouTube Red movie The Thinning opposite Peyton List. In early 2016, Paul trained with drama coaches and the comedy troupes The Groundlings and Upright Citizens Brigade.
Paul wrote the screenplay for an adult comedy, Airplane Mode, which has been described as “American Pie for Gen Z”, and by Paul himself as “Expendables with Internet stars”.
The film was originally planned to be released in 2017, but was eventually released on August 2, 2019 after being delayed. He was also involved in a number of advertising campaigns, including for Hanes, PepsiCo, and HBO.
In 2016, Comcast purchased a short form digital TV series from Paul called Logan Paul VS.
In February 2017, Dwayne Johnson released on his own YouTube channel, “Logan Paul has been cut from, like, all of The Rock’s movies”, a video starring himself and Paul, in which Johnson informs Paul that he has been cut from all of Johnson’s films, and consoles Paul by making him the “ambassador” to his upcoming Baywatch feature film.
WWE Career
On April 2, 2021, episode of WWE SmackDown, Paul made his WWE debut, as a guest of Sami Zayn for the red carpet premiere of his documentary, with Zayn later inviting Paul to be at ringside for his match at WrestleMania 37 against Kevin Owens. At the event, after Owens defeated Zayn, Paul celebrated with Owens, before being hit with the Stunner by Owens.
Film;
The Thinning
Can’t Take It Back
Where’s the Money
The Thinning: New World Order
Airplane Mode
Valley Girl
Singles;
“Help Me Help You”
“Outta My Hair”
“No Handlebars”
“Santa Diss Track”
“The Number Song”
“Going Broke”
Awards;
Short Form Comedy
Best Podcast “Impaulsive”
Male Web Star