Logan Paul

Logan Alexander Paul (born April 1, 1995) is an American social media influencer, professional wrestler, YouTuber, entrepreneur, and actor.

He is currently signed to WWE, where he is competing on the SmackDown brand, and where he is the reigning WWE United States Champion.

Logan Alexander Paul was born in Westlake, Ohio, on April 1, 1995, to Pamela Stepnick and Gregory Paul.

He claims Irish, Welsh, Jewish, French and German ancestry.

He was raised in Westlake with his younger brother Jake (born 1997), who is also a media personality.

Paul began creating videos for a YouTube channel called Zoosh when he was 10 years old.

He attended Westlake High School, being named The Plain Dealer's All-Star football linebacker in 2012, and qualifying for the state-level Ohio High School Athletic Association 2013 Division I Wrestling Individual Championships.

By the time Paul began attending college, his YouTube channel had attained a modest following via the platform Vine.

Paul gained a following in 2013, posting sketches on the now-defunct video-sharing application Vine.

He registered his first YouTube channel, TheOfficialLoganPaul, on October 18, 2013, where he started posting regularly following the closure of the Vine app.

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 the city with other Vine stars.

Paul Rose to fame as a member on 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.

He later created the Logan Paul Vlogs channel on August 29, 2015, which has since become his most-subscribed YouTube channel.

As of August 2023, the channel has received 23.6 million subscribers and almost 6 billion views.

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 the "Logang", a portmanteau of "Logan" 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.

As an actor, Paul's television and film work includes guest appearances on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Bizaardvark, and roles in films The Thinning (2016) and The Thinning: New World Order (2018).

He has also explored other avenues; he released his debut single "2016" in 2016, and fought English media personality KSI in an amateur white-collar boxing match in 2018.

The fight ended in a majority draw.

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".

He has over 23 million subscribers on his YouTube channel, and has ranked on the Forbes list for the highest paid YouTube creators in 2017, 2018, and 2021.

He is the co-founder of Prime beverages.

Paul has been involved in several controversies, most notably in relation to a trip to Japan in December 2017, during which he visited the Aokigahara forest (a notorious suicide site), filmed himself finding the corpse of a suicide victim, and uploaded the footage to his YouTube channel.

His promotion of scams and failed ventures, including CryptoZoo—in which he failed to compensate more than $1.5 million to investors despite promising to do so—has drawn the ire of many.

Paul has also run the Impaulsive podcast since November 2018, which has over 4 million YouTube subscribers.

In the 2019 rematch, which was a professional bout, KSI won by split decision.

After a couple of brief appearances in WWE in 2021, he made his professional wrestling debut as The Miz's tag team partner in a tag team match at WrestleMania 38 in April 2022, which they won and Paul received praise for his performance.

He then signed a multi-event contract with WWE in June that year and has since performed at events such as SummerSlam in July 2022, in which he defeated The Miz in his debut singles match, and Crown Jewel in November 2022, in which he lost to Undisputed WWE Universal Champion Roman Reigns in the main event.

After signing another multi-year contract in 2023, he won the WWE United States Championship later that year.

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.