Jake Paul visited Parkland, Florida to
speak with those affected by the
shooting at Stoneman Douglas high School.
Are we seeing an older, wiser Jake Paul?
Or is this another calculated Paul
Brothers PR move? Welcome back to What's
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every day. Controversial YouTuber Jake
Paul has been accused of everything from
being a bad influence on his young
audience to straight-up bullying, but his
recent video on school shootings may
change public perception. And yes, this is
the same Jake Paul that two weeks ago
was trying to fight another YouTuber in
a public park. We're savages. We handle
things in person. I talked to Deji and
I was like, "Yo. Let's meet up in person
and fight." Per usual, these Internet kids
who tweet, who YouTube, who make videos,
who talk smack online, they don't back it
up ever. Kind of crazy. I'm so f*cking sick. I was puking the other day. Right now I'm in no condition to fight.
In addition to
speaking with students, family members,
and other members of the community, Jake
Paul also conducted a very awkward
interview with Marco Rubio on Skype. You,
of course, may remember Senator Marco
Rubio for being Senator Marco Rubio, and
also from his recent town hall meeting
with several of the students from
Stoneman Douglas High School. Rubio, can
you tell me right now that you will not
accept a single donation from the NRA
the the future? The Florida senator, apparently eager to
redeem himself after his thrashing by
children, sat via Skype for several
uncomfortable minutes while answering
Jake Paul's questions about the lawmaking
process. I think like a lot of people
think passing laws is super easy. Can you explain some of like the struggles around passing laws?
I feel like explaining how a bill
becomes a law used to be a lot simpler.
There it is! Jake continued with
questions for the senator.
Is there anything that people can look forward to? Is there something new that you're working on?
Is there something specific? Yeah...
That sounds like he's asking when his new mixtape
was gonna drop. Yo, yo, yo Marcy Rubs. When are
you droppin' that hot fire? We need it for
the culture. Jake Paul ended the video by
pledging to donate $25,000 to March for our Lives, the event being
organized by the students which takes
place on March 24th. Jake also posted his
quote: "Gun Reform changes we need in my
opinion," unquote on his Twitter. "1. Be at
least 21 to buy a gun. 2. Go through a
six month minimum course (similar to a
driver's license course). 3. Professional Mental Health evaluation.
4. Ban Gun shows now! 5. 30 day
wait period after purchase to receive
firearm." He also stated in his video that
social media companies like Instagram
need to take more responsibility when it
comes to posts involving guns. Of course
many on Twitter were quick to point out
that Jake Paul has posed with guns on his
Instagram and his vlogs several times.
Including writer Taylor Lorenz who said
in a tweet: "By the way reminder that Jake
Paul has featured guns on his vlog and
has an assault rifle tattooed on his
thigh." As to be expected, reactions on
Twitter have been mixed. @jpbrammer
writes: "Marco Rubio teaming up with Jake
Paul because they mutually lack the
self-awareness to know they shouldn't.
Poetic and beautiful." @costellvibez
wrote: "Jake Paul donated 25k to
the students of Parkland.
Took a week off to educate himself on
this topic. Provides a platform for these
students and let their stories be heard.
Most importantly he was there for them.
Before you judge and
bash on him for past mistakes. Try to
understand." @findinggillian said: "I
cannot believe I'm saying this, but
respect to Jake Paul for speaking out.
You don't have to love someone's every
decision to notice when they make the
right one." Now, personally, I do commend
Jake Paul, or really anyone who decides
to use their sizable social media
platform in order to bring awareness
about issues that they care about, but
the Paul brothers have been in damage
control since Logan Hall's trip to Japan
and subsequent dead rat tazing. Jake was
also no stranger to controversy this
year. Given these recent events, it's not
surprising that some folks are cynical.
And I don't know if it's so much of them
going to their PR people or their PR
people going to them and being like hey
here's an opportunity if this is
something that you do care about here's
an opportunity for us to make some
really good headlines and maybe also
help out with this other situation thing. There is absolutely, positively no way
that this is all 100% just like from the
bottom of someone's heart. Things like
you know suicide prevention causes,
things like gun control causes, and
unfortunately school shootings, this is
not the first three months that these,
these have been happening. These have
been happening for years. It does seem
like a strange coincidence that after
all of these things happen with the Paul
brothers and with YouTube and everything,
that now is when they decide that they
want to start getting serious about this,
but maybe they really are growing up and
I should just like have more hope and
faith in people. What do you guys think?
Do you think he's being sincere? Do you
think it's all for PR? Do you think that
having his face in front of a gun
control debate is even a good idea? Let
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