Tufano v. TikTok et al

I was BANNED ON TIKTOK too! · December 29, 2023

and it's not just YouTube I being shadowbanned silenced and censored on every social media here's my suspension on Tik Tok I was so shadowbanned I had to start paying to promote my content to get any views whatsoever and they ban me from using the promote tool the only thing I did was promote my products maybe I called a few people out that were copying my products and ideas but

This is, almost clause for clause, the theory later pleaded in C043 (Tufano v. TikTok Inc., M.D. Pa. 3:24-cv-01116), whose claims summary records that "Plaintiff, who operates online retail stores, alleges TikTok barred him from using its 'promote' feature to advertise his businesses." The same promote-feature bar is pleaded again in C014/C053. Spoken 192 days before C043 was filed (2023-12-29 → 2024-07-08, computed as a plain date difference). It describes a platform grievance, not any filing conduct of his own. (Tier: Moderate — No filing-conduct factor)

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I was BANNED ON TIKTOK too! · December 29, 2023

this is completely crazy I am banned until August 11th of 2033 10year ban basically permanent suspension

Dates the suspension. A ten-year ban expiring August 11, 2033 implies it was imposed on or about August 11, 2023 — and C014/C053's claims summary pleads that "TikTok barred him from its 'promote' feature in August 2023." The video therefore carries a contemporaneous date for a fact the complaints assert eighteen months later. Numbers spoken on camera are the least reliable content this archive carries (§6: digit doubling, figures split across cues). Here 2033 and 10year are internally consistent and sit in adjacent cues, but the figure must not be promoted without a docket check. (Tier: Moderate — No filing-conduct factor)

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Self Proclaimed Fat Girl follows STANDARD AMERICAN DIET!? What a surprise!!! · December 31, 2023

yeah I had like a really old phone for a while and then I got a newer iPhone because it was important for my business to like film the Tik toks and shorts and stuff only for me to get banned on Tik Tok so go figure

A contemporaneous, first-person statement of the TikTok account-ban grievance that a whole cluster of tracked actions later pleads — C043 (Tufano v. TikTok Inc., M.D. Pa. 3:24-cv-01116, filed 2024-07-08), C014/C053 (Tufano v. TikTok), and, as a joined allegation, C027, C028, C029, C034/C065, C036/C068 and C084. He states the ban as a fact already accomplished and ties it directly to business harm ("it was important for my business"), which is the damages theory those complaints run on. Published 190 days before C043 was filed (2023-12-31 → 2024-07-08, computed as a plain date difference). No case, court, docket or filing is named, and no filing conduct is described. (Tier: Moderate — No filing-conduct factor)

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Muscle Mommy's Cells are 50% Feedlot Dairy · March 31, 2024

I got taken off of Tik Tock for putting onions in my underwear as a joke I don't know if you guys remember that that was like my first YouTube short ever actually and these girls post stuff like these girls these girls can be basically naked doing whatever they want but the second I make a joke not even

A datable, first-person account of a TikTok content removal and of what he considers its double standard, spoken 99 days before C043 (Tufano v. TikTok Inc., M.D. Pa. 3:24-cv-01116, filed 2024-07-08, part of the TikTok / ByteDance litigation). But it is not the grievance C043 pleads, and the difference matters. C043's recorded claims summary says he "alleges TikTok barred him from using its 'promote' feature to advertise his businesses" and pleads Sherman Act and FTC Act theories about algorithmic favouritism toward large accounts — an advertising-access claim, not a content-removal claim. Nor is it the later theory: C014/C053 (2025) concern a takedown he attributes to a law firm acting for the Taban defendants (Lavely & Singer PC), which this research records him describing as "the lawyer that got my Tik Tok taken down". So this video documents a third, earlier TikTok grievance that no tracked complaint pleads — recorded so the three TikTok grievances are not fused into one.

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LA Restaurant Vlog #2 - Avra Beverly Hills · May 12, 2024

when like I don't really like for me $200 bro like I lose so much money on my business doesn't make any sense like how can you lose so much money on your business every week from people just filing chargebacks that you could eat a restaurants a few nights a week and not [ __ ] worry about it cuz like oh what's another $500 I lose

The Shopify-dispute chargeback grievance stated in his own words before the action that pleads it existed. C040 (Tufano v. Frankies Free Range Meat Conspirators, M.D. Pa. 3:24-cv-00846) was filed 2024-05-22 — 10 days after this video published and, given the documented lag between this video's recording and its publication, at least 27 days after it was recorded. C040's recorded claims summary alleges that ~130 named individuals, "apparently Shopify merchants, employees, or customers," are liable to him for $1,000,000 "based on chargebacks connected to his 'Frankie's Free Range Meats' online meat-delivery business." The quote supplies the grievance, the mechanism and a running dollar figure, with no case, court, filing or lawyer mentioned anywhere in 48 minutes. Because the word "filing" appears in the quote, the classification needs saying plainly: the filing described is customers filing chargebacks with their banks, not anyone filing a lawsuit — he describes no filing of his own, no threatened filing and no prior action, so treating this as a filing announcement would be a straightforward misreading. "What's another $500 I lose" is also a fifth irreconcilable chargeback figure, joining the four already on record across three other videos ($650 / $700 / $2,000 / "3 or $4,000"); it is recorded alongside them and reconciled with none of them. Note also that the loss period here is "every week," which not every one of those four attaches to.

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TikTok SHUTS DOWN REAL SMALL BUSINESS · May 16, 2025

So, I made this new business account on Tik Tok to try to push sales and promote my business so that I can afford to pay for these eye surgeries. And right after the first promotion, Tik Tok permanently banned me until May of 2035.

This is the grievance that C014 (Lackawanna 2025-04277, Tufano v. TikTok, filed 2025-06-06) pleads, stated 21 days before that case was filed. The dataset codes C014 as a refiling of C043 (M.D. Pa. 3:24-cv-01116, filed 2024-07-08, dismissed with prejudice 2024-12-30) with the recorded basis: "Re-pleads C043's TikTok theory verbatim in substance — the August-2023 'promote'-feature bar and TikTok's alleged favouring of large businesses." Both halves of that theory are here: a promote-feature bar, and (in the following minute) the allegation that TikTok only elevates fake small businesses. It also ties the two disputes together financially — the stated purpose of the account is "so that I can afford to pay for these eye surgeries," which is the eye-surgery medical dispute funding the TikTok platform dispute. But the recital conflicts with the pleaded one: this describes a new account banned right after its first promotion, with a ban expiring May 2035, which reads as a 2025 ban event, not the August-2023 bar the refiling basis names. The conflict is recorded, not resolved. Party statement, no source offered.

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TikTok SHUTS DOWN REAL SMALL BUSINESS · May 16, 2025

And when people like myself actually try to do this, they just get shut down. And what happens if you actually try to do something? What happens if you try to sue Tik Tok in the court system for this unfair behavior? The judge dismisses the case. The judge will not let the case go through because the court system is owned by these same people and they never lose.

He describes suing TikTok and losing, in the present-general tense, at a point in the chronology where the dataset records exactly one such outcome: C043, dismissed with prejudice on 2024-12-30 after the court adopted an R&R finding the Sherman Act allegations fell far short of alleging the required agreement and that the FTCA provides no private right of action. He then files C014 against TikTok again 21 days after this video. So the statement sits precisely between an adverse decision and a repeat filing on the same dispute — but the words themselves announce no filing, which is why the tier is Moderate rather than Strong. What the quote supplies is the stated reason the refiling is not futile in his view: not that the ruling was wrong on the law, but that the forum is owned by the opponent. Party statement, no source offered.

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🐸 ORBITAL RECONSTRUCTION ONE WEEK UPDATE - Medial Orbital Decompression Reversal · May 17, 2025

I was working really hard on on the social media pages. I made like I made like all new I made like a new Tik Tok page just for the business. I I took out a small loan to try to promote it to push some sales and they just banned me and censored me.

A dated statement of the TikTok grievance — a business account banned after he borrowed money to use the paid-promotion feature — with no filing announced. This is the §W2.2 shape: grievance on camera, silence about litigation, case follows.

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Taban Bots ATTACK! · June 3, 2025

Dr. Tiban's bots have attempted to take over the comment section of my cease and desist video. Ironically, where the lawyer claims specifically many times that they do not hire bots.

The one substantive quote in this video that is unambiguously his own speech — it sits entirely before the read-aloud block begins. Three research-relevant facts in twelve seconds: (1) he received a cease-and-desist in the Taban matter and made a video about it, which places a pre-litigation demand letter in the chronology; (2) the letter specifically and repeatedly denies hiring bots, which is an unusual thing for a demand letter to address and implies the allegation predates the letter; (3) he attributes the comment campaign to the doctor. The cease-and-desist letter itself is not in the dataset — see ## Research Notes. No filing conduct is described: a cease-and-desist is a demand letter, not a filing, and he announces none here.

Why this classification: He confirms in his own words that he received a cease-and-desist letter in the Taban matter and that it denies hiring bots, placing a pre-litigation demand ahead of C014/C053 — a demand letter, not a filing, and he announces none.

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Taban gets my TikTok taken down AFTER BOTCHING MY FACE · June 5, 2025

So, this famous celebrity eye doctor disfigured my face and left me halfb blind. And I've been exposing him on social media to try to get some sort of reimbursement.

He states the purpose of the exposure campaign in his own words: it is run "to try to get some sort of reimbursement" — i.e. non-litigation public pressure applied with the object of extracting a payment. That is the shape the addendum's leafleting rule addresses, so Cost imposition as stated motive is recorded and the tier is held at Moderate: the factor fits because a financial object is the stated motive, but the Strong rubric requires filing conduct and the mechanism here is a social-media campaign, not a filing. The call is arguable and is flagged as such — a narrower reading is that the motive stated is obtaining money for himself rather than imposing cost on the opponent, which would make it No filing-conduct factor. The mechanism is written out so a promotion pass can re-decide with the reasoning visible.

Why this classification: He gives the purpose of his social-media campaign against the surgeon as obtaining reimbursement, describing a publicity mechanism rather than any filing.

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Did Dr. Taban GET ME BANNED ON TIKTOK!? · June 5, 2025

What I'm upset about is they've removed millions and millions of my views. All of my health and nutrition videos I had on Tik Tok, the documenting of my botched eye surgery, it's all gone. It's wiped off Tik Tok.

The claims-summary record for C014/C053 states only that TikTok "permanently banned his account in June 2025" — a whole-month precision. This video, published 2025-06-05, is the tightest public dating of that event located in this research, and it puts the ban before 2025-06-05 rather than merely somewhere in June. It also states the claimed loss (years of content, "millions and millions" of views) and — notably — that the removed material included "the documenting of my botched eye surgery," which is the join between the platform grievance and the medical one. Tier: Moderate (No filing-conduct factor).

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DEPLATFORMED OFF TIKTOK!!! · June 5, 2025

So, I woke up this morning to being deplatformed and banned on my main Tik Tok account that had 20,000 followers

This is the triggering event for the whole TikTok strand of the litigation, dated by an internal marker rather than by inference. "I woke up this morning" — combined with a publish time of 05:01 local and the later "I didn't post yesterday" — fixes the upload lag at zero and puts the ban on the morning of 2025-06-05. The statement record already carries the same follower count from the next day's video (published 2025-06-06: "My original Tik Tok account, Frank Tfano, was permanently banned… uh 20,000 followers"), but nothing else in the dataset dates the ban itself. C014 (Tufano v. TikTok, Lackawanna 2025-04277, naming TikTok, TikTok Inc and Lavely & Singer PC) was filed 2025-06-06 — the following day.

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Taban gets my TikTok taken down AFTER BOTCHING MY FACE · June 5, 2025

At this point in time, he's hired this celebrity lawyer and spent a lot of money. And that lawyer contacted Tik Tok and they took my original account down.

The grievance that becomes a cause of action the very next day. He describes a specific, datable act: opposing counsel contacting TikTok, which then removed his account. The next day, 2025-06-06, he filed C014 (Lackawanna 2025-04277, Tufano v. TikTok), whose defendants are TikTok; TikTok Inc; Lively & Singer PC — the platform and the law firm together. Three weeks later he filed C053 (M.D. Pa. 3:25-cv-01175) naming Lavely & Singer PC, Mehryar Taban MD Inc, Mehryar Ray Taban MD and TikTok. The lawyer is not named on camera — only "this celebrity lawyer" — so the identification runs through the docket, not the transcript. No filing conduct is described in this passage; the filing follows it.

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Need Help to HAND OUT FLYERS!!! · June 5, 2025

In New York City, we'll probably hand out flyers for the business. And then in Los Angeles, we have different flyers for Dr. Tobon as well as uh flyers for the Hollywood attorney that is doing tordous interference and messing with my life and my business because of what this doctor did to me.

Three things land in one sentence, all dated 2025-06-05. First, the campaign is split by city and by target: commercial flyers in New York for his own business, and in Los Angeles two separate sets — one for the doctor, one for an attorney. Second, "Dr. Tobon" is an auto-caption rendering of Taban — Dr. Mehryar Ray Taban and his practice entities, tracked defendants in C046, C053, C063, C066, C071, C101 and C102. Third, "tordous interference" is tortious interference — the exact cause of action the tracker records for C014/C053. The recorded litigation timeline shows that C014 (Tufano v. TikTok, Lackawanna 2025-04277) was filed 2025-06-06, naming TikTok, TikTok Inc and Lavely & Singer PC — the next day. Announcing a leafleting campaign against a doctor and his lawyer, on a tortious-interference theory, the day before suing that doctor's lawyer on that theory, is a chronology fact worth recording precisely.

Why this classification: Names the two Los Angeles leafleting targets and attaches a tortious-interference theory to them one day before C014 was filed against that doctor's law firm; the conduct he describes is a flyer campaign, so it carries no filing-conduct factor.

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DEPLATFORMED OFF TIKTOK!!! · June 5, 2025

So I guess uh this is just cherry on top of the Sunday because Tik Tok did ban me from advertising before. But I guess now I have another thing to add to my lawsuit.

Two distinct things in one sentence. First, he identifies a prior TikTok grievance of the same kind — "Tik Tok did ban me from advertising before" — which is the subject of C043 (Tufano v. TikTok Inc., M.D. Pa. 3:24-cv-01116, filed 2024-07-08, dismissed 2024-12-30, Third Circuit appeal 25-1015 terminated 2025-03-21). Second, he says the new ban gives him "another thing to add to my lawsuit." The recorded litigation timeline notes C014 as filed 2025-06-06, "about 5 months after C043 was dismissed with prejudice." Why this is Moderate and not Strong, written out so the call is auditable: the quote does identify a tracked dispute and does describe filing conduct of a repeat kind, but what it literally announces is an addition to an unspecified existing lawsuit, not a new complaint — and it names no case, court or docket number. Strong requires both halves cleanly; this has one clean half and one that has to be read through the docket. A reading that takes "my lawsuit" to be C014, filed the next day, could reasonably support a higher tier; the Moderate classification rests on the quote itself naming no case.

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Taban RUINS MY LIFE then tries to WIPE ME OFF SOCIAL MEDIA · June 6, 2025

My original Tik Tok account, Frank Tfano, was permanently banned. Well, I appealed it, but we're assuming it's permanently banned. They wiped all of my videos of several years off of Tik Tok. All the health and nutrition stuff. millions and millions of views, dozens of millions of views, uh 20,000 followers

Establishes the triggering event for C014/C053 and its claimed magnitude (several years of content, ~20,000 followers). Also confirms an appeal was lodged with the platform.

Why this classification: Background on the permanent TikTok ban, the appeal, and the removal of his back catalogue and following.

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Taban RUINS MY LIFE then tries to WIPE ME OFF SOCIAL MEDIA · June 6, 2025

And I don't know what happened behind the scenes. Obviously, like Tabon and Lavian Singer had something to do with it. Whether he just paid a lump sum of money and had me wiped off Tik Tok, that could have happened. Uh Lavian Singer could have lied and filed some BS at Tik Tok.

The causal allegation underlying the tortious-interference theory, stated with its own explicit epistemic hedge — "I don't know what happened behind the scenes" followed by "could have happened" / "could have lied." The speculative framing is part of the quote and should be preserved if this is ever promoted. "Lavian Singer" is the auto-caption's rendering of Lavely & Singer PC — confirmed by this dataset,.

Why this classification: Speculates about who prompted the platform ban; expressly framed as not knowing what happened.

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Dr. Taban is THE BEST EYE DOCTOR!!! · June 7, 2025

I am so happy after having eye surgery with Dr. Tabon. Dr. Taban is the best doctor. He is the best eye surgeon in the whole wide world. It has only taken me a year and a half after the procedure to realize his full skill and expertise in my new and amazing appearance.

Sarcastic — every clause inverts. The research value is the buried factual marker: "a year and a half after the procedure", said on a video published 2025-06-07, places the surgery around late 2023 / early 2024. That is the first event in the eye-surgery dispute's chronology and it is not recorded anywhere in the dataset with a date. The earliest tracked filings in that dispute are C046 (M.D. Pa. 3:25-cv-00011, 2025-01-02) and C101 (LA Superior 25SMCV00041, 2025-01-06), both roughly a year after the implied procedure date. No filing conduct is described.

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Dr. Taban is THE BEST EYE DOCTOR!!! · June 7, 2025

And I would love to start this new Tik Tok account to share my amazing results and get Dr. Tobant the loyal customers that he deserves as I am now finally able to live out my dream as a pirate. And on the plus side, I no longer have to worry about my appearance. Thanks, Dr. Tibbon.

Sarcastic, but it carries a real fact: he says he is starting a new TikTok account. Two days earlier, in Wx3C1z0zOk8 (published 2025-06-05, in this slice), he says the doctor's lawyer "contacted Tik Tok and they took my original account down." Read together, the pair documents a takedown followed immediately by a replacement account — and this video, delivered as fake praise, is plainly built to survive the moderation that removed the original. That sequence is the factual core of the tracked TikTok line: C014 (Lackawanna 2025-04277, Tufano v. TikTok, filed 2025-06-06 — the day before this video) and C053 (M.D. Pa. 3:25-cv-01175, filed 2025-06-27). The "pirate" and "appearance" clauses are the sarcasm tells. No filing conduct is described.

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Tufano v. TikTok 24CV4277 · June 7, 2025

And the first claim for relief, I actually made a mistake. I was so tired. Um I I copied a part from another lawsuit instead. Uh so it's supposed to be Civil Rights Act of 1964. I'm I'm being discriminated against as a small business owner, but I accidentally left uh there's a part in here that was actually another online platform. That's a mistake. So I got to remove that. Amend that.

He states on camera that he drafts complaints by copying text from his other complaints, and that a filed pleading still contains a different platform's name he forgot to change. This bears directly on the research question the dataset exists to document — why claim sets across his actions come out substantially identical — because it supplies a stated drafting mechanism rather than an inference from similarity. It is his account of his own practice, not a judicial finding, and the specific defect he describes has not been verified against C014's filed complaint. The tier is Moderate, not Strong: describing a drafting error inside one filing is not itself one of the three core factors, even though it is the single most consequential thing said in the video.

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Corporate Shill PLAYS THE VICTIM · June 8, 2025

I'll show you what shutting down looks like. I just got deplatformed and permanently banned on Tik Tok.

Read in context this is the sting of the mockery flagged above — the previous sentence is him imitating the other creator, and this is his retort. The research value is the corroboration: the ban is independently dated by 6FAPVbpdtC4 (this slice, 2025-06-05 05:01 local, "I woke up this morning to being deplatformed"), and C014 (Tufano v. TikTok, Lackawanna 2025-04277, naming TikTok, TikTok Inc and Lavely & Singer PC) was filed 2025-06-06. This clip, published 2025-06-08, is the first restatement of the ban after the complaint was filed.

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“Forget about the Doctor and focus on your Business” · June 12, 2025

And the irony in these people suggesting I focus on my business when one of the most important platforms, my Tik Tok that I built over years and years spending tens of thousands of dollars for my business was taken down because this doctor who you're telling me to ignore hired a lawyer to get me wiped off Tik Tok, permanently deplatformed.

The clearest single-sentence statement, among the statements researched from this period, of the theory behind C014 (Tufano v. TikTok, Lackawanna 2025-04277, filed 2025-06-06, naming TikTok, TikTok Inc and Lavely & Singer PC) and its federal continuation C053: that the doctor hired a lawyer to procure the platform ban. An earlier researched statement, from a video published 2025-06-06, records the filing side of the same theory — "I'm filing… against the law firm, Tabon, and Tik Tok… Tortious interference" — and this clip restates the underlying allegation six days later, plus a quantified investment figure ("tens of thousands of dollars") that the earlier statement does not carry. Neither the doctor nor the firm is named. Tier: Moderate (No filing-conduct factor)

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Time to GIVE UP ON THE COURT SYSTEM? Please help hand out Flyers! · June 12, 2025

And then we had to file uh some stuff against the current Tibon lawsuits. And there was also uh two new lawsuits. We had to file a third party complaint against the lawyer that got my Tik Tok taken down. And then we had to file a uh a new lawsuit against the bond for the torchious interference in getting my uh Tik Tok taken down. So, there were two lawsuits related to the Tik Tok getting taken down.

TikTok here is the tracked dispute, not the everyday noun — he is describing litigation over the platform takedown, not casual platform use. "The lawyer that got my Tik Tok taken down" corresponds to Lavely & Singer PC (also rendered "Lively & Singer" in captions elsewhere), a named defendant in C014 (Lackawanna 2025-04277, filed 2025-06-06, six days before publication). "The bond" is a caption mangling of Taban, who appears in the defendant roster of C053, the federal continuation of C014. Moderate, not Strong: Filing announced or confirmed is not a core factor.

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Banned on TikTok for talking about Dr. Taban · July 4, 2025

Yeah. So, if you call a doctor a liar after they butcher your face and make you half blind, that's actually against Tik Tok guidelines. So, Dr. Toban is definitely not a liar.

The opening sentence is not sarcastic and is the video's actual claim: that TikTok enforced its guidelines against him for calling a doctor a liar. That is the same platform-moderation grievance underlying the tracked TikTok line — C014 (Lackawanna 2025-04277, Tufano v. TikTok, filed 2025-06-06) and C053 (M.D. Pa. 3:25-cv-01175, Tufano v. TikTok et al, filed 2025-06-27, naming Lavely & Singer PC, Mehryar Taban MD Inc and Mehryar Ray Taban MD). The second sentence is sarcastic and is included only because the sarcastic block begins mid-quote; read flat it says the opposite. No filing conduct is described.

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Dr. Taban PAID TIKTOK TO BAN ME!? · July 4, 2025

Yeah, I'm pretty sure I'm being deplatformed off Tik Tok because I just made this new account and they already gave me two strikes.

A fact the dataset does not currently hold anywhere: that after the 2025-06-05 permanent ban he opened a new TikTok account, and that it accrued two strikes within roughly four weeks. The dataset's account-ban material (a researched statement from a video published 2025-06-06) stops at the original account. This matters for the TikTok/ByteDance chronology because C014 was filed 2025-06-06 and removed to federal court as C053 on 2025-06-27 — one week before this video — so the conduct described here is post-filing and post-removal. Tier: Moderate (No filing-conduct factor)

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Dr. Taban is a LIAR that will SAY OR DO ANYTHING · July 4, 2025

You know, he hired a whole law firm to get my original Tik Tok account taken down. that I was using to promote my health and nutrition business that I actually spent all my money on on these corrective surgeries.

The account-removal grievance stated three days before another researched video (2025-07-07) says the second account went too, and one month after C014 (Tufano v. TikTok, Lackawanna 2025-04277, filed 2025-06-06) put the grievance on a docket. The firm is not named aloud in this video; research on another video independently identifies it as Lavely & Singer PC, a defendant in C014, C053, C029 and C102. That identification is inference from the research archive and the dataset, not from this transcript.

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BANNED AGAIN on TikTok!? · July 7, 2025

So, my second account was banned on Tik Tok. I'm assuming because I continued to post about Dr. Tobon who disfigured my face and left me half blind in a surgical procedure. And I'm guessing he's paying Tik Tok to have my videos taken down

Joins the two dispute groups in one sentence — the surgery grievance against Taban and the account-removal grievance against TikTok/ByteDance — which is exactly the joinder that C053 (Tufano v. TikTok et al) makes on the docket: its defendant list is Lavely & Singer PC; Mehryar Taban MD Inc; Mehryar Ray Taban MD; TikTok. Note the epistemic hedges are his own — “I'm assuming”, “I'm guessing”.

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BANNED AGAIN on TikTok!? · July 7, 2025

My first account, which I built up for years and spent thousands and thousands of dollars to promote my health and nutrition business, was the first account that was banned about one month ago. Because of this, I did file a lawsuit against Tik Tok, but who knows what the corrupt judges are going to do.

A filing confirmed in the past tense, plus an internal date marker that independently corroborates it. "banned about one month ago" from a 2025-07-07 upload puts the first ban in early June 2025 — and C014 (Tufano v. TikTok, Lackawanna 2025-04277) was filed 2025-06-06, then removed and continued federally as C053 (M.D. Pa. 3:25-cv-01175) on 2025-06-27, ten days before this video. So "I did file a lawsuit against TikTok" is docket-confirmed in both forums, and the marker fixes the cause he gives for it. The second half — "who knows what the corrupt judges are going to do" — is a general allegation about the judiciary, not about any identified judge; it is his characterisation and no court finding is implied. Held at Moderate: neither factor is core.

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TABANNED FROM TIKTOK! Bank Robbery!? New Gas Meter! New Refrigeration! · July 10, 2025

if you guys are in New York and Los Angeles and need a job, um I am looking for people to hand out flyers because I think this doctor got me permanently deplatformed on Tik Tok and Tik Tok was a big contributor to my overall sales. So, in order to make up for the sales and try to try to get some help, I I think we need to hand out flyers and do some direct marketing. So, I'm looking to hire a few people in New York and uh and Los Angeles to help me hand out flyers.

Recorded under the batch-32 contract's settled leafleting call (factor fixed, tier capped at Moderate because the cost mechanism is the leafleting, not any filing). The mechanism, written in: paid leafleting in New York and Los Angeles, explicitly framed here as direct marketing to replace sales lost when TikTok deplatformed him. Separately, the sentence states the causal theory that C014/C053 pleads — that the surgeon caused the TikTok takedown — as a matter of business harm rather than as a legal claim.

Why this classification: States in ordinary language the causal theory pleaded in C014/C053 — that the surgeon caused his permanent TikTok deplatforming — while framing the flyer campaign as marketing to replace the lost sales.

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TABANNED FROM TIKTOK! Bank Robbery!? New Gas Meter! New Refrigeration! · July 10, 2025

and and now that you know for this doctor to to do this to my face and then try to damage my business that I work so hard for more than anyone else with all these people trying to steal money from me, the chargebacks every week, the gangstalking, the censorship, the shadow banning for these doctors to do this to me and to try to harm my business for me trying to get compensated for medical malpractice that I should rightfully be compensated for. I have no problem hiring people to hand out flyers of my face in front of every cosmetic surgeon's office for the rest of my life. That's no [ __ ] problem.

States the tortious-interference theory of C014/C053 in ordinary language — that the surgeon damaged his business in retaliation for his attempt to be compensated for malpractice — and then declares the leafleting an indefinite commitment.

Why this classification: States in ordinary language the tortious-interference theory the tracker records for C014/C053 — that the surgeon damaged his business in retaliation for his attempt to be compensated for alleged malpractice — and commits to an indefinite leafleting campaign, which is out-of-court publicity rather than filing conduct.

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Dr. Taban gets me BANNED ON TIKTOK for showing my BOTCHED FACE · July 11, 2025

I wasn't sure at first, but Dr. Tabon has gotten me permanently banned and deplatformed off Tik Tok. I made several new accounts and they were all uh permanently banned.

Both parties named here are tracked. The tracked party-name record resolves the caption to Dr. Mehryar Ray Taban and his practice entity, and to TikTok. The pair are co-defendants in C053 (M.D. Pa. 3:25-cv-01175 — Lavely & Singer PC; Mehryar Taban MD Inc; Mehryar Ray Taban MD; TikTok), the federal removal of C014 (Lackawanna 2025-04277, filed 2025-06-06). This publishes 35 days after that filing, and adds a fact the pleadings predate: that the ban survived "several new accounts." The ban is described; no filing is.

Why this classification: Published 35 days after C014 was filed, it describes the deplatforming grievance underlying that action — including that the ban survived several new accounts — while announcing, threatening or describing no filing.

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Dr. Taban gets me BANNED ON TIKTOK for showing my BOTCHED FACE · July 11, 2025

half ago. And in order to preserve his social media reputation and prevent people from finding out about me, my story, and what he did to my face, he paid a lawyer to get me banned off social media.

This is the causal allegation C014/C053 plead. The claims-summary record for C014 states: "As to Dr. Taban, Tufano alleges civil conspiracy and tortious interference, claiming that — dissatisfied with cosmetic surgery Dr. Taban performed on him — Dr. Taban retained Lavely & Singer to get his TikTok account banned so he could no longer discuss the surgery with followers." The video states exactly that, with a stated motive (reputation preservation) that the pleading summary does not carry. The lawyer is not named on camera — he says only "a lawyer" — and this research's identification of the firm must not be read into the quote itself. Tier: Moderate (No filing-conduct factor).

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How did he BOTCH ME SO BAD!? Was it on purpose? · August 17, 2025

Part of the reason Dr. Toban [Taban] wanted my TikTok taken down was because it documented how horrific my eyes looked immediately after the surgery.

This is the speaker's own plain-language statement of the causal theory behind C053 — that the surgeon procured the removal of his TikTok account to suppress post-operative evidence. The case tracker records C053 (Tufano v. TikTok et al, M.D. Pa., filed 2025-06-27) with defendants Lavely & Singer PC; Mehryar Taban MD Inc; Mehryar Ray Taban MD; TikTok — the surgeon and the platform on one caption, which is exactly the pairing asserted here. It names a tracked party but describes no filing conduct, so it cannot reach Strong.

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Taban T-Shirts are HERE!!! · August 22, 2025

Perfect timing. After getting banned again, unlike our fourth Tik Tok account, my t-shirts have arrived in the mail.

TikTok is a tracked defendant — the named party in C014 (filed 2025-06-06), C043 (filed 2024-07-08, dismissed 2024-12-30) and C053 (filed 2025-06-27 in the eye-surgery dispute group, alongside the Taban entities and Lavely & Singer PC), and a co-defendant in six further actions. This is a dated, first-person count of platform bans — a fourth account — made 57 days after C053 and 77 days after C014 were filed, i.e. while two TikTok actions were live. He describes no filing conduct and names no case, court or docket. The tier is Moderate, with no filing-conduct factor.

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Taban has PAID EVERYONE OFF · August 24, 2025

Guys, the t-shirts are not for sale despite the army of Tibon [Taban] bots being awfully worried about it. They're just for the people to wear as they're handing out flyers and brochures

Establishes the mechanics of the street campaign — branded t-shirts worn by people distributing flyers and brochures — and names the surgeon in the same breath, so the campaign's target is not in doubt. Taken alone this sentence states no motive and no filing, so no cost or filing factor fires on it; the motive arrives at [0:42] and is quoted separately below. Tier: Moderate (No filing-conduct factor)

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Taban has PAID EVERYONE OFF · August 24, 2025

trying to expose this doctor for what he did to my face as he doesn't plan on compensating me and neither does the court system. He has paid off pretty much every online platform to scrub anything negative that has ever been said about him.

Two things at once. First, "neither does the court system" is an allegation that the forum will not deliver a remedy — general, naming no judge, ruling or docket, hence the judicial/forum-bias factor at Context-adjacent generality. Second, the platform-payoff allegation is about a tracked party, which is why it is transcribed rather than withheld. The tier lands at Moderate rather than Context because the sentence is tied to a specific, identified defendant rather than being free-floating commentary on courts. Tier: Moderate (Judicial or forum bias alleged)

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American Plastic Surgery is an EVIL SYSTEM · September 7, 2025

How insane is it that I have to print out t-shirts and hire employees to hand out flyers in New York and Los Angeles to be compensated for what was done to my face. This doctor literally paid off Tik Tok to have me permanently banned,

The speaker states, as a completed and ongoing operation, that he has printed t-shirts and hired employees to distribute flyers in two named cities, and he states the purpose plainly — "to be compensated for what was done to my face." That is a non-litigation pressure campaign with compensation as the stated object, run in parallel with (and, on his framing, because of) the court process. Per the batch rubric, leafleting-style pressure takes the cost-imposition factor but cannot reach Strong, because the Strong rubric requires filing conduct and the mechanism described here is street distribution, not a filing. The second sentence is an allegation that the surgeon paid a platform to deplatform him; the surgeon is a tracked party, so it is transcribed rather than withheld. Tier: Moderate (Cost imposition as stated motive)

Why this classification: A t-shirt and street-leafleting campaign in two named cities is given as the means of being compensated, alongside an allegation that the surgeon paid a platform to ban him — neither describes a filing.

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This Doctor is a Manipulative PSYCHOPATH · October 30, 2025

It taking the offense of hiring multiple law firms. Just crazy crazy crazy stuff. Got he I'm on like my 10th Tik Tok account now. He paid some law firm probably. Who knows how much money. Maybe not even that much, but could be up to a few hundred,000 to get me permanently deplatformed off Tik Tok. So Tik Tok took a fat check just to to ban me to preserve his reputation from exposing the truth.

Alleges that the surgeon hired multiple law firms and paid to have him permanently removed from TikTok, and reports that he is on roughly his tenth account. He expressly hedges the payment claim and no payment, firm or amount is documented.

Why this classification: States, in his own words, the account-ban theory the tracked platform actions plead, but it describes others' conduct rather than any filing of his own and names no case, firm or amount.

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“Burger and Fries” Healthy Dinner · November 20, 2025

I keep getting banned by Dr. Tobond's reputation management team. So, we have been able to post these meals.

A present-tense allegation that a surgeon's reputation-management team keeps getting his accounts banned, which is the platform-suppression theory pleaded in a tracked action naming that surgeon, his practice, TikTok and his counsel. The surname reaches the transcript only as an auto-caption garble corrected to Taban, so the identification is a supported reading rather than a certainty, and the allegation is unadjudicated.

Why this classification: It describes ongoing conduct by a tracked defendant that matches a pleaded claim, which puts it above general commentary, but the conduct described is the platform's and the defendant's rather than his own filing behaviour, so it stays at Moderate.

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Is your Doctors Reputation LEGIT!? · November 22, 2025

And when I look at, you know, Dr. Toban's practice versus Dr. Douglas's practice versus this Japan doctor's practice, those that me explaining the difference between their staff, their employees, their building, how they operate and run things is enough for me is enough for me to understand why this Japan doctor was able to actually fix my eyes.

Names the surgeon at the centre of the tracked medical litigation in a comparison of surgical practices; the captions spell the surname differently and it resolves only on correction. The comparison is adverse by implication, but he alleges no specific wrongdoing here and describes no filing.

Why this classification: A tracked party is named on the transcript rather than only in the title, but the statement is a comparison of practices, identifies none of the three actions he is party to, and describes no filing.

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Corrupt Court System is a PATHETIC JOKE · December 21, 2025

And I've I've done YouTube videos uh that weren't deleted because my previous TikTok account was taken down.

A passing corroboration that his TikTok account was removed — the subject of C014/C053 (Tufano v. TikTok, Lackawanna 2025-04277), which the video “Taban RUINS MY LIFE then tries to WIPE ME OFF SOCIAL MEDIA” records as announced on its exact filing date with a tortious-interference theory. Here it is stated as settled background six months later.

Why this classification: Notes his YouTube videos survived while the TikTok account was removed; platform background.

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TABANNED again!!! · January 13, 2026

I already have active lawsuits against Tik Tok. Obviously, the courts don't care. They're going to protect these large platforms and I'm never going to get any justice. And then I just get censored and deplatformed.

He confirms on camera that he already has active lawsuits against TikTok, a tracked defendant, and in the same breath says the courts will protect large platforms and that he will never get justice. The tracker corroborates that an action against TikTok was pending on the publication date, though he names no docket, court or case.

Why this classification: Reports filings he has made against a named tracked defendant and alleges the forum is aligned against him in those live cases, but lawsuits is plural and unquantified, no repeat filing is described, and neither factor here is a core one.

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