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"until this doctor writes me a check for $33 million". Business harm attributed to having stopped making videos.
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eating in a while most of you know I don't really want to be in front of the camera anymore since the eye surgery stuff but uh until this doctor writes me a check for $33 million I have too many people that depend on me
A specific dollar figure attached to what he expects from the surgeon in the eye matter, spoken as the reason he keeps making videos at all. No filing, court or proceeding is named.
Watch at 00:04 — youtube.com ↗depend on me and uh like I felt really bad uh the turkey farmer this year since I wasn't doing YouTube and wasn't advertising the Thanksgiving turkeys for sale we sold like 10% of what we were supposed to
A dated, quantified statement of downstream commercial harm ("10% of what we were supposed to") which he attributes to withdrawing from YouTube, which he in turn attributes to the eye surgery. It is the causal chain a damages claim in the eye matter would rest on, stated in a food vlog. The turkey farmer is a supplier, unnamed.
Watch at 00:16 — youtube.com ↗supposed to so um you there's there's a lot of consequences until until I can get compensated for what happened to me I got to kind of uh try my best to uh keep the YouTube and everything going
States plainly, as of 2025-01-24, that he has not been compensated — with the negation carried by "until", intact and unambiguous. This matters because another researched video's captions read "But I have been compensated and it's completely destroyed my life", which only parses with a dropped "not"; earlier research corroborated the corrected reading from two other videos, and this quote is a further independent instance of the same proposition with the negation structurally intact.
Watch at 00:30 — youtube.com ↗The 12 most recently published of 220 other indexed videos grouped under Taban / eye-surgery-related litigation.