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Jake Paul Looting

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Overview

Jake Paul Looting refers to a viral video of YouTuber Jake Paul in a Scottsdale, Arizona mall during the late May 2020 protests against police brutality due to the death of George Floyd. The videos, first published to Instagram show Paul taking a bottle of Vodka from a looter outside a P.F. Chang's and inside a mall trespassing while others break into individual businesses. The video led to outrage against Paul on Twitter and Reddit causing him to release the statement denying being apart of any looting or illegal activity.

Background

On May 31st, 2020, photographer/videographer for Jake Paul, Andrew Blue uploaded videos of Jake Paul to Instagram stories[7] in Arizona documenting, observing and commenting on the protests and looting at a mall. That same day, Twitter user @mogramick[8] uploaded the videos from Instagram and posted them to Twitter gained over 14,7 million views in a day. Twitter user @SUGARClNEMA retweeted the video saying, "i repeat FUCK JAKE PAUL he’s a millionaire looting while people are outside protesting, getting shot with rubber bullets, teargas, beat by cops etc." (shown below). The tweet garnered over 185,200 likes and 60,900 retweets in a day.



Developments

On May 31st, 2020, reporter and Twitter user @TaylorLorenz[1] retweeted the video saying, "YouTube star Jake Paul and his friends were caught “looting” and trashing property in a Scottsdale mall last night amid protests." The tweet received over 25,700 likes and 14,500 retweets in a day. That day, Twitter user @JoshPescatore uploaded a video editing both Jake Paul's Instagram stories and Andrew Blue's to get a better view of "someone breaking into the @PFChangs, stealing a bottle of Vodka, and handing it off to @jakepaul" (shown below). The video accumulated over 90,400 views, 800 likes and 320 retweets in a day.



That day, many Twitter users and fellow YouTubers spoke out against Paul's actions. YouTuber and Twitter user @tyleroakley[2] tweeted, "fuck you @jakepaul" which received over 119,900 likes and 17,100 retweets in a day (shown below). Redditor JoblessHoaf posted to r/KSI[6] saying, "Jake Paul decided to loot a mall for fashion items like the scumbag he is even when he has MILLIONS in his bank. He is using this movement as a way for him to benefit only himself. Please, everyone on this Reddit repost and bring light to this so he doesn’t get away with this" which accumulated over 5,100 points (98% upvoted) in a day.


tyler oakley @tyleroakley · May 31 f--- you  @jakepaul . Quote Tweet  Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz  · May 31 YouTube star Jake Paul and his friends were caught “looting” and trashing property in a Scottsdale mall last night amid protests Show this thread

Keemstar also commented on the video by reposting Jake Paul's father's video speaking out against vandalism and looting captioned, "Maybe Greg Paul should talk to his son Jake Paul who went out looting last night! Unreal!" (shown below). The tweet garnered over 5,700 likes and 440 retweets in a day. BBC[5] and Deadline[4] published articles covering the controversial videos.



Jake Paul's Statement

On May 31st, 2020, Jake Paul[3] responded in a tweet denying that he was apart of any looting or vandalism (shown below). The tweet garnered over 18,300 likes and 9,500 retweets in a day.


TO be absolutely clear, neither I nor anyone in our group was engaged in any looting Or vandalism. For context, we spent the day doing our part to peacefully protest one of the most horrific injustices our country has ever seen, which led to us being tear

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NERD CITY enerdcity As much as everyone wants to trash Jake Paul specifically for joining the riots, he's acting like a lot of folks. Thrilled by the spectacle, recording incriminating videos, lying about his intentions for being there, and blowing off steam about the pandemic and the lockdown. jaknpau 7:05 PM - May 31, 2020 - Twitter for iPhone SomeOrdinaryGamers @OrdinaryGamers Jake Paul might be a problematic s-------- but so are the people laughing at this and running around looting. Blowing s--- up and stealing has nothing to do with reforming a system and fighting for the justice of someone who lost his life in the worst way. 8:05 PM - May 31, 2020 · Twitter for Android spread memes not germs @MemesCentral jake paul was trash enough Jake Paul in the Middle of Looting at Arizona Mall tmz.com Our expectations for ter you were low but HOLY F--- 10:17 PM - May 31, 2020 - Samsung Smart Fridge M840 Meghan McCarthy O @MeghanWMcCarthy Btw, people like jake paul are the reason I stopped YouTube. When people like that are the ones that succeed on there, the ones that people want to watch, I have no desire to a part of that. I will never be like him & if that's what it takes to get views then I'm out. 12:33 PM - May 31, 2020 - Twitter for iPhone Jenny Nicholson O @JennyENicholson Before you assume the worst about Jake Paul mining the protests for vlog content please remember that an undercover psychiatrist hung out with him for a weekend and didn't get a gross feeling from him so he is not a sociopath 6:59 PM - May 31, 2020 - Twitter for Android ikarli @vneusfly Woke up to see Jake Paul looting, anonymous exposing Donald Trump for the r----- p-------- he is and being tied to the Epstein murder, anonymous taking down the minneapolis police department site and anonymous hacking the Chicago PD radio to play F--- The Police. Arrest Jake Paul 7:47 AM May 31, 2020 · Twitter for iPhone

Search Interest

External References

[1] Twitter – TaylorLorenz

[2] Twitter – tylerOakley

[3] Twitter – JakePaul

[4] Deadline – YouTube Jake Paul Looting Vandalism Footage

[5] BBC – Jake Paul Denies Looting

[6] Reddit – r/ksi

[7] Instagram – Andrew Blue

[8] Twitter – Mograsmick

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JustAGuy100
JustAGuy100

Jake and Logan are apparently extremely competitive with each other. They were like that ever since they were kids.

I guess they're also racing to see who can be a bigger piece of human shit. Took Jake a while to get near Logan's suicide forest incident, but I think we're getting there!

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Batman's Left Nostril
Batman's Left Nostril

in reply to JustAGuy100

The Paul brothers are exactly the kind of insufferable twats who would mercilessly tease introverted geeks like myself back in high school. My one major consolation at the time was that those assholes would not amount to anything and likely self-destruct in their adult years.

If early 2000's me had known that these parasites would become wealthy online superstars who are apparently above the law I probably would have fallen into a deep, dark depression.

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