Logan Paul

“Although you didn’t verify any backgrounds, substantiate any evidence, took multiple criminals’ words as truth, and broke laws, you still published the defamation,” Paul says before asserting that multiple “bad actors” have been removed from the project, and that he and his manager Jeff “made no money and will never make any money on CryptoZoo. In fact, we only lost money trying to pick up the pieces.”

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Logan Paul ends his video by assuring viewers that CryptoZoo is still coming, in defiance of Coffeezilla’s claims that it’s not actually being made. He also threatens Coffeezilla with legal action for the “defamation,” saying he will need a good lawyer. However, Paul’s still open to having Coffeezilla appear on his podcast, Impaulsive.

Kotaku reached out to Paul for comment.

In a brief email exchange with Kotaku, Coffeezilla reiterated what he said on Twitter about Paul’s response. He said a full reply is coming “when I organize my thoughts” while trading blows with Paul online over the minutiae of the year-long investigation.

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“The fact Logan is suing me instead of the criminals and con men he hired says it all,” Coffeezilla said. “He took zero accountability. Zero apologies. He just wants to save his own reputation.”

As for Zach Kelling, Coffeezilla said he just learned of Kelling’s supposed past legal battles.

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“Those ‘legal battles’ were from the early 2000's (2001 I think?),” he said. “If Logan’s standard of character is to dig back years to judge people by their lowest moment, I don’t think that’s a battle he’ll win. Regardless, I have no stake in whether Zach Kelling is good or bad. I didn’t hire him. My job as a journalist is to reach out to all parties. Logan had accused Zach of stealing his code. I reached out to Zach and got his story and then reached back out to Logan and his manager in response. Logan and his manager chose to not comment and then get upset when I quote the guy they hired.”

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As for how Paul’s response is being received, some online are mocking his tactic of pointing out that, whether intentionally or not, he hired fraudsters and scammers to work on CryptoZoo. In a reaction video, Twitch streamer Hasan Piker pauses amidst Paul’s claims to say, “Not a single person thinks that any of the people involved in this situation are good people. You hired ‘em, ya fuckin’ idiot!” Piker goes on to call Paul’s claims in the video “compounding the Ls.” Yeah, that’s definitely one way to look at it.