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3:24-cv-01114 · U.S. District Court, Middle District of Pennsylvania
Evidentiary treatment: This summarizes the plaintiff's own allegations as stated in the complaint or docket record cited below. It reflects what was filed, not a court finding, and is not a determination that the allegations are true.
Plaintiff alleges he was permanently banned from Reddit approximately five years before filing (around 2019), shortly after posting YouTube videos accusing other content creators of copying and plagiarizing his work, and that Reddit maintained the ban to shield corporate-sponsored “fake” content creators from competition while permitting slanderous posts about him to remain online.
The complaint pleads Sherman Antitrust Act, “refusal to deal,” “monopoly power,” and FTC Act claims, plus criminal conspiracy under 18 Pa. C.S. § 903 and a request for pre-complaint discovery.
He seeks judgment on each claim and compensatory damages of no less than $1,325,000, his estimated lost business revenue from being unable to use the platform over five years.
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Outcome reason: Claims were dismissed as time-barred; the adopted screening analysis also found multiple claims failed to state a claim. No further leave to amend was allowed because amendment would be futile.
Research status: Source-backed
Research notes: Final order expressly deemed any appeal frivolous and not taken in good faith. Third Circuit appeal 25-1014 was dismissed Mar. 21, 2025.
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Final order dismissed the action and expressly deemed any appeal frivolous and not taken in good faith; no further leave to amend was granted because amendment would be futile.
December 11, 2024 ruling source — casemine.com ↗Appeals taken from this docket record, with what the research does and does not establish about each.
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Recorded in the case record as dismissed 2025-03-21, the same day the two companion appeals from the July 2024 filings (Nos. 25-1015 and 25-1016) were resolved. The district court's final order had expressly deemed any appeal frivolous and not taken in good faith -- a district-court certification, not a disposition by this court, which recorded no reason.
Record source — courtlistener.com ↗Strength labels are research classifications, not judicial declarations that the litigant is vexatious.
Court dismissed the case, denied further amendment as futile, and expressly deemed any appeal frivolous and not taken in good faith; the Third Circuit appeal was later dismissed.
Source — casemine.com ↗Sequence does not by itself prove motive or causation.
Tufano filed federal complaint C044 against Reddit, Inc.
Source — courtlistener.com ↗Claims were dismissed as time-barred and for failure to state a claim, with no further leave to amend; the order expressly deemed any appeal frivolous and not taken in good faith. The Third Circuit appeal (25-1014) was later dismissed Mar. 21, 2025.
Source — casemine.com ↗Tufano filed a second, original federal complaint against Reddit, Inc. (C056; not a removal), about 8 months after C044 was dismissed with an appeal-frivolous finding.
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And I've submitted uh forms to Reddit to get this taken down. But hey, this is uh I guess another excuse for me to file a lawsuit, right? I did file a federal lawsuit against Reddit once. Uh the corrupt federal judge just dismissed it. So I guess we'll have to file some fresh paperwork to the state court. And uh this whole subreddit definitely gave me some ammunition to do [that].
This is the most on-point statement for the site's subject matter located anywhere in this research. In one breath he (a) characterizes the grievance as "another excuse for me to file a lawsuit," (b) states that a federal suit against the same defendant was dismissed, and (c) announces he will therefore "file some fresh paperwork to the state court" — a refiling in a different forum after an adverse federal disposition, announced in advance and on camera. The docket matches it step for step This is a public statement, and this project's evidence-layer separation is doing real work
Why this classification: Recounts that his federal suit against Reddit was dismissed, attributes the dismissal to a 'corrupt federal judge,' and says he will therefore 'file some fresh paperwork to the state court' on the same grievance.
Watch at 00:49 — youtube.com ↗Yeah, I think that's everything — I mentioned a few times, like, I wanted to launch this special product in the summer, but I spoke to a patent lawyer and there's basically nothing preventing these corporate suckers from just copying my idea and shadow banning me and censoring me and making millions and millions of dollars — well, tens, hundreds of millions of dollars off of my ideas, like they have in the past — it's happened in the past several times with the animal-based influencers, and people like Liver King — they've made tens, if not hundreds of millions of dollars off of my ideas and marketing and creativity, and without even mentioning my name.
The strongest pre-filing lead found in this round of research. Published 2024-02-05 — 154 days before C044 (Tufano v. Reddit, Inc., M.D. Pa. 3:24-cv-01114, filed 2024-07-08). C044's recorded claims summary alleges "Reddit maintained the ban to shield corporate-sponsored 'fake' content creators from competition while permitting slanderous posts about him to remain online." This clip's own theory — that "corporate suckers" copy his ideas and shadow-ban and censor him, and that rival influencers profit "without even mentioning [his] name" — is a strikingly close pre-articulation of C044's core grievance theory (illegitimate competitors shielded from competition at his expense), even though the clip never names Reddit or any specific platform. He explicitly frames this as a consultation with a lawyer that concluded there was no available legal remedy ("basically nothing preventing" the conduct) at the time of this vlog, which reads as the opposite of a threatened filing.
Why this classification: Articulates the "corporate suckers copy my ideas and shadow-ban me" grievance theory that C044's Reddit complaint later pleads, 154 days before it was filed, while expressly reporting that a patent lawyer told him nothing prevented the conduct — the opposite of a threatened filing.
Watch at 18:28 — youtube.com ↗this is really the equivalent of just having like a protein smoothie or a protein shape this is a pretty good example of people selling snake oil and why everyone is so unhealthy CU this poor girl thinks this crap is healthy when it's actually the opposite literally the opposite you know the these shills are selling lowquality conventional crap synthetic vitamins chemicals artificial flavors and people think it's a health food
The word "shills" is C040's own keyword, transcribed correctly here. Earlier research on this channel found the captions routinely render it as "corporate shells" or "corporate chills," which hides C040's central vocabulary from any caption search; this video spells it right, twice. The substance matters more than the word. C044 (Tufano v. Reddit, Inc., M.D. Pa. 3:24-cv-01114, filed 2024-07-08, 113 days after this video) pleads that Reddit maintained his ban "to shield corporate-sponsored 'fake' content creators from competition," and C040 (filed 2024-05-22, 66 days after) pleads a conspiracy by named content creators to interfere with his business. This quote states the underlying belief — that a competing creator is a paid front for a low-quality corporate product, and that this is why the public is misled — before either complaint was filed, applied to a specific creator named by handle and a specific, named brand. It is a belief statement, not filing conduct: no filing, threatened filing, prior action, court, lawyer or case is mentioned anywhere in this video, which is why no filing-conduct factor applies and the tier is capped at Moderate.
Watch at 15:27 — youtube.com ↗I filed about 10 lawsuits in the past two weeks I I I mean I won't get too much into that one was you know Reddit permanently banned me I can't advertise on Reddit so I'm suing them Tik Tok Banned Me from advertising I'm suing Tik Tok
This is the one checkable count in the video and it does not check out. The case tracker records exactly one action filed in the fourteen days before publication — C045, 2024-07-26 — and five in the preceding twenty-two days (C041, C042, C043, C044 all 2024-07-08, plus C045). "About 10 lawsuits in the past two weeks" is therefore unsupported by the tracked docket by roughly an order of magnitude. Three readings are possible and none is adopted here: (a) filings in courts the tracker does not cover (state small-claims, county civil) that were never captured; (b) "filed" used loosely for lawsuits written rather than docketed, which his own phrasing earlier in the video ("writing up lawsuits") supports; (c) plain overstatement. The settling check would be a docket sweep of Lackawanna County and any small-claims/magisterial court for 2024-07-16 → 2024-07-30. Recorded because earlier research on this channel found a different self-reported count ("at least 10 active legal cases") that was accurate to within one — so the pattern is not "he always inflates," and the divergence between the two counts is itself the finding.
Watch at 06:21 — youtube.com ↗lately over the past few weeks on Reddit people have become aware of how horrifically he botched me and it was really deterring people from cons ING with him so they decided to get this guy who had surgery with him do a bunch of fake up votes on it which you know he has okay results and then they put a bunch of like really positive fake comments at the top of the post
The load-bearing quote of the video. It names Reddit — Reddit, Inc. is a tracked defendant and the subject of its own dispute group, the Reddit litigation — and alleges vote and comment manipulation on a Reddit post about him, orchestrated by "they." This is the platform-manipulation theory stated on a dated record seven months before the 2025 Reddit filings, and it connects the Reddit litigation and the Taban eye-surgery dispute in a single sentence. The antecedent of "they" is never stated — it is not said to be Taban, his staff, his counsel or Reddit itself, and it must not be resolved by assumption. No filing conduct is described.
Watch at 00:21 — youtube.com ↗What a surprise. The anonymous gangstalking Redditors are trying to get me deplatformed again, telling you to report my posts after this forwarding company let $20,000 of my Wagu beef rot in the shipping container. These people are defending the shipping company.
A single sentence that sits across two tracked disputes — the Reddit litigation and the All-Ways wagyu-shipment dispute — and states the causal link he draws between them: that the platform reporting is a response to his complaints about the forwarder. Reddit, Inc. is a tracked defendant. The word "again" is doing real work: C044 (Tufano v. Reddit, Inc., M.D. Pa. 3:24-cv-01114) had been dismissed 2024-12-11, with the final order expressly deeming any appeal frivolous and not taken in good faith, and the Third Circuit appeal (25-1014) was dismissed 2025-03-21 — so at this date the Reddit grievance was already once-litigated and lost. C020 and C056 were then both filed on 2025-08-13, 24 days after this video.
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Frank Tufano Litigation Research. "Tufano v. Reddit, Inc. (3:24-cv-01114)". Research last verified August 8, 2026. https://suedbyfranktufano.com/cases/3-24-cv-01114-tufano-v-reddit-inc/