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Public statement source · YT461
Need Help to HAND OUT FLYERS!!!
The trigger: a platform ban reverses a stated decision not to leaflet. Recruitment terms: viewers in New York City and Los Angeles, paid, hourly or in 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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because of how kind of a person I am. I still wasn't going to hand out flyers despite what this guy did to me. But now that my original Tik Tok account has been banned, it's over.
This is the causal hinge of the whole leafleting campaign, stated in one sentence and dated to the day. He says he had decided against handing out flyers, and that the TikTok ban reversed that decision. The ban is independently dated by his own companion Short published the same morning (6FAPVbpdtC4, 2025-06-05 05:01:29 -07:00, "I woke up this morning to being deplatformed and banned"), six hours before this one. The archive's existing flyer material starts 49 days later — see Research Notes. No court, case, docket or filing is named anywhere in this clip. Tier: Moderate (No filing-conduct factor)
I need as much support as possible. I need as much help as possible because now I'm losing revenue from my businesses. So, if you guys are in New York City or Los Angeles, if you're a customer of mine, maybe you need some extra hours or hey, maybe even I can send you uh me [caption elision — almost certainly "meat"] for compensation instead of paying you hourly. Please let me know.
The expenditure side of the pressure campaign, stated as an open recruitment call with its terms attached — two named cities, an existing-customer audience, hourly pay, and payment in product as an alternative. This research already records him spending on this in later statements (2026-04-16: "I hired someone with the little money I have to hand out flyers outside his office"; 2025-09-17: "I have spent all of my savings hiring people to hand out flyers"; 2026-04-09: "I actually do have a paid employee out there doing this right now"). This clip is where the hiring is solicited, and it is earlier than all three. Under the rule this research applies to leafleting and other non-litigation pressure, Cost imposition as stated motive applies but Strong is unreachable: the Strong tier requires filing conduct, and the cost mechanism here is leafleting, not a filing. The mechanism, written out: he pays people (in cash or in meat) to distribute flyers outside a doctor's and a law firm's places of business, with the aim stated early in the video that "the doctor's losing a lot of business."
Why this classification: The speaker solicits viewers in two named cities to be paid hourly or in product to hand out flyers, describing the funding of a publicity campaign rather than any court filing.
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.
They don't want to know that he botched me. The doctor's losing a lot of business. So, he's doing whatever he can to harm me and get me off social media. So guys, please send me an email if you're able to help
The purpose of the leafleting is stated as an accomplished commercial effect — "the doctor's losing a lot of business" — which is what makes Cost imposition as stated motive the right factor and not merely a publicity motive. The clip closes on an open call for viewers to email him to join the campaign. No email address is spoken or spelled out anywhere in the caption track, so §5 required no redaction here; the fact of the solicitation is kept in full. Tier: Moderate (Cost imposition as stated motive)
Why this classification: He states that the surgeon is losing business and solicits viewers by email to join the flyer campaign, so the instrument described is publicity rather than litigation and no filing conduct is named.
A case link records a researched connection between the video and a docket record. It is not a finding that the video caused, or was caused by, any filing.
2025-04277 — Tufano v. TikTokTranscript reference · Medium · Timestamped statement at 00:28 researched as bearing on this case: The two flyer targets named, with the legal theory attached, one day before C014 was filed.
3:25-cv-01175 — Tufano v. TikTok et alTranscript reference · Medium · Timestamped statement at 00:28 researched as bearing on this case: The two flyer targets named, with the legal theory attached, one day before C014 was filed.
3:26-cv-00447 — Tufano v. The State of California et alTranscript reference · Medium · Timestamped statement at 00:28 researched as bearing on this case: The two flyer targets named, with the legal theory attached, one day before C014 was filed.
3:26-cv-00840 — Tufano v. The State of California et alTranscript reference · Medium · Timestamped statement at 00:28 researched as bearing on this case: The two flyer targets named, with the legal theory attached, one day before C014 was filed.
25SMCV05503 — Frank Tufano v. Mehryar Ray Taban, MD et al.Transcript reference · Medium · Timestamped statement at 00:28 researched as bearing on this case: The two flyer targets named, with the legal theory attached, one day before C014 was filed.