# Problem Children *A Biography of Paul Brothers* — Legendary Biographies No. 156 - **Subject:** Logan Alexander Paul and Jake Joseph Paul - **Written by:** Daniel Asher - **Shelf:** Technology & Money / Internet Culture - **Published:** 2026 - **Extent:** 176 pages, 6 × 9 in, 60# uncoated cream, black ink - **EPUB:** $3.99 — EPUB 3 · DRM-free · reads on Kindle, Kobo and Apple Books (ISBN 979-8-90623-508-4) - **Audiobook:** $5.99 — Unabridged · measured from the masters · read by Alasdair Finn (ISBN 979-8-90623-608-1) Buy it, or read the opening free: volumes/156-problem-children.html ## About this book Logan Alexander Paul was born on April 1, 1995. Jake Joseph Paul was born on January 17, 1997. They grew up in Westlake, Ohio, the sons of a real-estate agent and a former model. Logan posted his first Vine video in 2013; Jake followed. By 2017 Logan had 16 million YouTube subscribers and Jake had 11 million. On January 1, 2018, Logan posted a video from Japan's Aokigahara forest that included footage of a recently deceased man. The internet rebellion was immediate. He took a three-week break. Jake meanwhile pivoted in 2020 to professional boxing. He has now fought professionally twelve times — including a November 2024 exhibition against Mike Tyson — and has used the platform to build the streaming-rights company Most Valuable Promotions. Daniel Asher's biography traces the joint arc the brothers' careers have demanded. The book covers the Westlake childhood, the long Vine years of 2013-2016 and the long Disney Bizaardvark co-starring of 2016 that Disney ended after Logan's neighbour complaint, the 2018 Aokigahara incident, the long Logan-and-KSI boxing exchange and the British heavyweight match of August 2018, the Maverick Apparel and Prime Hydration product launches, the Impaulsive podcast, the WWE main-roster signing of 2022, the long Jake-and-MVP-boxing era and the 2024 Tyson exhibition, the 2024 Jutta Leerdam relationship, the 2025 Jake-and-Nina Agdal wedding. What emerges is a portrait of the brother-act whose two-decade Vine-to-YouTube-to-podcast-to-boxing arc has remade what an American creator economy can look like — and of the Ohio childhood that produced them. ## Contents 1. Westlake 2. Vine 3. YouTube 4. Disney Firing 5. Team 10 6. Aokigahara 7. KSI 8. Jake's Boxing 9. Mayweather 10. Prime 11. CryptoZoo 12. Tyson 13. Joshua 14. WWE 15. Jake's Legal Cloud 16. The Marriages 17. Anti Fund and Impaulsive 18. The Problem Children ## Questions **Who is Problem Children about?** Logan Alexander Paul and Jake Joseph Paul. The title never carries the subject's name: it names one concrete thing out of the life — in this case Problem Children — and the name goes on the line underneath. **Is this an authorised biography?** No. No subject, estate, label or foundation had approval over the text, and none paid for a word of it. The cost of that independence is that no new interviews were conducted for the book; it is built from the public record, and it says on the page where a scene is reconstructed rather than documented. **Can I read some of it before buying?** Yes — the whole opening chapter and the writer's foreword, free and in full, with no email address and no account. That is 2,862 words of the book. **How long is it?** About 53,000 words, 18 chapters, 176 pages in the paperback. ## The writer Daniel Asher is a British-American science biographer and former Cambridge computational mathematician who spent fourteen years at the Isaac Newton Institute before turning to long-form non-fiction. His fourteen biographies treat scientific lives as moral documents: most centrally Alan Turing (The Imitation Game) — the inventor of the computer prosecuted by the country he saved — and a continuing run of figures from the cryptographic, nuclear, computational, and biological revolutions of the twentieth century. He writes mathematics into prose without dumbing it down and refuses the genre's tendency to canonise. He lives in Cambridge in a flat overlooking the Cam. Influences: Andrew Hodges, Walter Isaacson, Janet Browne.