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Public statement source · YT584
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"that's when I start filing lawsuits is … when people start copying those ideas", tied to the Best Bar. the earliest leafleting mention located in this archive, and it is the MARKETING kind.
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How a tier is assigned.Strong — the statement names a tracked case or dispute and describes filing conduct of the kind the indicators document: repeat filing on the same dispute, filing after an adverse decision, or filing framed as imposing cost on the opponent. Moderate — it bears on litigation conduct or chronology in a tracked dispute, but the case link is tentative or the statement describes something other than the speaker’s own filing behaviour. Context — general commentary with no specific tracked case identified.
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Moderate pattern relevanceFiling announced or confirmed16:11
like it's it's a little uh it's a little discouraging but what what's really discouraging and that's when I that's when I start filing lawsuits is uh is when people start copying those ideas that I like cuz cuz and I don't really want to get too much into this but especially with the best bar that kid that copied it like he copied the exact idea exact flavors and was selling the bar for double the price that I was
The speaker states his own filing trigger in the general case — "that's when I start filing lawsuits is … when people start copying those ideas" — and then immediately grounds it in a specific grievance: "especially with the best bar that kid that copied it … he copied the exact idea exact flavors and was selling the bar for double the price that I was." That is, sentence for sentence, the grievance C039 pleads. This is the clearest statement in this slice of a stated causal rule for filing, made by the filer, in his own words, four weeks after filing exactly such an action. Note "the best bar" is spelled correctly by the captions here — the archive documents this same phrase being mangled elsewhere as Jacob Bar (from "the best bar idea") and best for idea, so this file is a clean rendering of a term that usually is not. (Tier: Moderate — Filing announced or confirmed)
whatever what you know what can I do I mean I'm eventually I'm going to be a lunatic I'm going be literally running out running around New York City hand handing out flyers myself
Read the stated motive before filing this alongside the other leafleting material. The skill records kbVrx17dWq8 (2024-09-14) as the origin of the flyer campaign and ties that campaign to Cost imposition as stated motive (tiered Moderate). This video is 243 days earlier — computed in code — but it is not that campaign. The motive stated here is being "censored and Shadow band [= shadowbanned]" and unable to reach customers while better-connected sellers move product; the flyers are for his own businesses, handed out by himself, in despair at his own distribution. That is the ordinary advertising branch the skill explicitly separates out (m94_OB2tvZQ's paid business-marketing flyers), not the surgeon's-office "my face" campaign. So: No filing-conduct factor, and the origin date of the cost-imposition campaign is NOT moved by this file. What it does establish is that self-leafleting as a response to being shut out was already in his vocabulary in January 2024. (Tier: Context — No filing-conduct factor)
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3:23-cv-02106 — Tufano v. Levy et alTranscript reference · Medium · Timestamped statement at 16:11 researched as bearing on this case: "that's when I start filing lawsuits is … when people start copying those ideas", tied to the Best Bar.