Yes, unfortunately, there are loads of people who look to someone like Logan Paul as someone to emulate and attempt to film their own wacky antics for online popularity contests, at the expense of ordinary folk.
It’s more than that. People think there is a financial payoff if they win the influencer game.
And when they do make income, their taxable income is likely not going to these countries which they are profiting off of. I guess it’s a sort of negative externality.
I generally agree with the comment upthread that it's as much about accessibility as the influencer angle. Although I might not get the best rate (and it is around the holidays) I could basically book a week in Tokyo without any assistance a few days from now if I wanted to.
That said, there is an influencer angle and probably some reasonable number of younger people who see a few people becoming YouTube or TikTok stars and thinking there's a chance they could become one of them.
As in YouTuber Logan Paul making a video of Aokigahara "suicide forest", among various other shenanigans in Japan for views?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan_Paul#2017%E2%80%932018:_...