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Public statement source · YT752
Say NO to SUNSCREEN
The batch-53 addendum names "the idea-theft / plagiarism grievance, stated repeatedly with nobody named" as one of two running threads in this era. This is a clean, dated instance of it, and an unusually concrete one: he stops mid-explanation and declines to publish the detail because of it, so the grievance is visibly shaping what goes on camera. Nobody is named — no person, channel, company, competitor or platform. No demand, no lawyer, no forum, no filing, no threat to file. It is a grievance and a behaviour change, nothing more. ⚠ Pre-injunction conduct. The 2025-01-30 injunction on this class of statement is 1,261 days after this video (2021-08-18 → 2025-01-30, differenced in code), so nothing here is a violation of anything, and a later pass must not read it as one. Possible case/dispute link: none identified. Nobody is named, so there is nothing to match in aliases.csv; searched research_notes.csv (grievance descriptions), lawsuits.csv (case_title and defendants), disputes.csv and litigation_timeline.csv for a plagiarism or idea-theft grievance and found none tied to this period. Unresolved, not untracked.
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but even the general mainstream admitted that some are carcinogenic, and I don't need people plagiarizing more hours of my work.
The batch-53 addendum names "the idea-theft / plagiarism grievance, stated repeatedly with nobody named" as one of two running threads in this era. This is a clean, dated instance of it, and an unusually concrete one: he stops mid-explanation and declines to publish the detail because of it, so the grievance is visibly shaping what goes on camera. Nobody is named — no person, channel, company, competitor or platform. No demand, no lawyer, no forum, no filing, no threat to file. It is a grievance and a behaviour change, nothing more. ⚠ Pre-injunction conduct. The 2025-01-30 injunction on this class of statement is 1,261 days after this video (2021-08-18 → 2025-01-30, differenced in code), so nothing here is a violation of anything, and a later pass must not read it as one. Possible case/dispute link: none identified. Nobody is named, so there is nothing to match in aliases.csv; searched research_notes.csv (grievance descriptions), lawsuits.csv (case_title and defendants), disputes.csv and litigation_timeline.csv for a plagiarism or idea-theft grievance and found none tied to this period. Unresolved, not untracked.
Uh so hopefully this helps some of you guys out. I'm glad I can do some research for every other YouTube channel. Uh so they'll probably be talking about sunscreen this week as well.
The same thread as the quote above, 68 seconds later in the same video, restated sarcastically and generalised — the allegation is now that other channels systematically republish his research within the week. Recorded because the addendum asks for this thread and because the two instances together show it is not a throwaway: he returns to it unprompted in the sign-off of a video that is otherwise entirely about sunscreen chemistry. Again nobody is named, no filing is threatened or made, and no forum is mentioned. ⚠ Same pre-injunction caveat as above. Possible case/dispute link: none identified; same five surfaces searched, same result. Unresolved, not untracked.