Popular influencer {and professional} wrestler Logan Paul has dropped his menace of a lawsuit of YouTube journalist Coffeezilla after being accused of operating a crypto funding rip-off.
“Hey all, just wanted to update you. I deleted my initial response to Coffee’s series. It was rash and misaligned with the trust issue at hand, so I called him today and apologized,” Paul wrote in a message posted on a Discord server he operates, in line with a screenshot shared on-line by Coffeezilla.
Paul added that he’s “grateful” that the case has been delivered to mild, and mentioned he’ll come ahead with “a plan” within the close to future.
It is unclear what precisely Logan’s plan will entail, and whether or not victims of the alleged rip-off will ever get compensated.
Scamming customers with NFT recreation
The authentic menace of a lawsuit by Paul got here within the kind of a 7-minute video that he recorded in response to a 3-part documentary collection that contained accusations that he was operating a crypto rip-off with CryptoZoo, a recreation the place customers have been speculated to earn NFTs.
The documentary was produced by YouTuber Stephen Findeisen, higher often called Coffeezilla, and the primary episode has now been seen 7.6 million instances.
In a tweet posted final weekend, Coffeezilla additionally confirmed that he had spoken with Paul.
“Logan called me. He said he’s deleting the two responses, and is dropping the lawsuit threats,” Coffeezilla wrote.
He added that he hopes Paul “takes accountability and refunds the victims of CryptoZoo.”
Paul: Coffeezilla “used my name for views and money”
In his authentic response to Coffeezilla’s documentary, Logan Paul made it clear that he was not pleased with it, and that he meant to pursue defamation proceedings.
“Coffeezilla, I watched your three-part series called ‘Investigating Logan Paul’s biggest scam,” Paul mentioned within the video, which was printed on January 3.
“Like many on this platform, you have successfully used my name for views and money. While your work used to be impartial, your addiction to clicks has clouded your judgment and you made very real errors with very real repercussions,” Paul added.
The video has now been deleted from Logan Paul’s YouTube channel.
Logan Paul is a particularly in style YouTuber with greater than 23.6 million subscribers on his YouTube channel. He has prior to now been concerned in a number of crypto tasks, together with a Polaroid images NFT undertaking and the above-mentioned CryptoZoo recreation.
