He's not the only one to receive this privilege, either: In 2014, YouTuber Sam Pepper was accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women. He categorically denied the allegations, but today, Pepper is still a popular YouTuber. And in February of last year, Felix Kjellberg, known on YouTube as PewDiePie, came under fire for posting several videos with anti-Semitic imagery, which led the Disney-owned Maker Studios to drop the superstar vlogger. YouTube cancelled the release of an upcoming original series with the creator and did drop him from a premier advertising program, however, his channel — and thus, his platform — were left untouched. Just like Logan, it was reportedly PewDiePie who removed the videos in question — three of which had accumulated over 23 million views — not YouTube. In September, he reportedly used the n-word in a live stream, seeming to show not only that his apologies were insincere, but also, his lack of actual, tangible punishment in the form of channel deletion allowed for him to maintain his fan-base.

Similarly, Anthony Fantano, a YouTuber known popularly as The Needle Drop, had an incident after an October 2017 Fader report that the music critic simultaneously ran a channel that catered to alt-right memes, anti-LGBTQ content, and racist imagery. As with Logan and PewDiePie, Anthony only removed the videos after being called out. But he wasn’t apologetic: on Twitter, he explained that he deleted the side channel because YouTube was demonetizing his videos. (The rules behind YouTube’s monetization program that feel confusing and nebulous, and many prominent creators have called them out as such.)

However, the issue hasn't just been isolated to YouTube, either: Viner Nash Grier came under fire in 2014 after using homophobic slurs in a video and saying HIV is “a gay thing," and today, he has a burgeoning acting career. In 2014, another popular Viner Curtis Lepore was charged with raping his ex-girlfriend. (The rape charges were eventually dropped, and he pleaded guilty to felony assault.) Despite the controversy, Curtis’s YouTube channel today has almost 800,000 subscribers.

“More marginalized creators, like women, people of color, LGBTQ people, disabled people, or people who are all four, have to make apology videos for the smallest infractions because their fans expect more from them,” Gaby Dunn, a bisexual author and YouTuber told Teen Vogue. She pointed out a gender-based double standard in between her audience and Logan's, noting, “I've seen women apologize for promoting a beauty product that doesn't work EXACTLY as they described, even if the difference is minuscule.” Gaby fears that fans will be quick to write off women, LGBTQ or people of color as problematic, but not white men. “I think many of us are more fearful of losing our audiences than cis straight while male creators because our audiences are so niche to begin with.” But it seems that Logan would never be held to that standard because people expect him to act outrageously to begin with. Gaby's audience likely holds her to a higher standard. Meanwhile creators like Logan and his brother Jake Paul tend to actively courtthe sort of controversies that would resonate with young men growing up in a society mired in toxic masculinity.

YouTube is an open forum — anyone can make an account, upload videos, and acquire a following. But because it’s so accessible it may sometimes allow for dangerous, violent, hateful people to slip through the cracks, the dangers of allowing massive audiences to access triggering, disturbing, or hateful content with the click of a button are real. It’s high time YouTube revisit its support of popular creators who get views, clicks, comments, and likes. And while people obviously have a right to express themselves, all creators with international superstardom, just from a moral standpoint, should consider who exactly is watching their content and what sort of impact it could have on them.