Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, volume 453 Proceedings of the International University Symposium on Humanities and Arts (INUSHARTS 2019) A Discourse Analysis on Logan Paul’s Apologies: Are They Apologetic Enough? 1st Poppy Amalia Binraya 2nd Yasmine Anabel Panjaitan* English Studies Program, Faculty of Linguistics Department, Faculty of Humanities Humanities Universitas Indonesia Universitas Indonesia Depok, Indonesia Depok, Indonesia
[email protected] [email protected] Abstract—In a world full of Internet sensations and through his Twitter account. However, people were not Internet scandals, a famous YouTuber named Logan Paul willing to forgive him just yet because of what he said in his raised to fame by bringing one of the biggest Internet apology. A lot of people indicated that Paul seemed to be controversies in the beginning of 2018, which was the filming of very insensitive regarding the situation and that his apology a dead body in the Japanese Suicide Forest. Although he later was terrible and self-centered. Many people on Paul’s apologized for his mistakes, the audience was not just YouTube comment section seemed to think that he only convinced by his words. In response to the criticism, he made made the apology because he got called out for his ignorant another apology. This study seeks to answer the questions: behavior and did not seem to regret it at all. On the same day “Were his attempts apologetic enough?” and “What made when he posted his first apology, another attempt of apology them apologetic or not apologetic?” Several analyses have was made in a nearly two-minute video.