All researched public statements, by video

hey, look at how Frank looks after he got botched and had eight recovery surgeries, but look at what these two clowns did.

A quantified, self-reported figure for the corrective surgeries he says followed a botched procedure: eight. He refers to himself in the third person while voicing how he imagines others see him, so the words are his own despite naming Frank. No surgeon, procedure, case or court is named.

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The insurance company denied the claim from back in February. I'm sure some of you guys remember that. We were talking about the freezer failing a few months ago. They denied that claim. They didn't pay the money. So, I haven't been able…

Dates the triggering claim denial to February 2026 and states the loss he says followed from it, that he could not afford to repair the freezer. It is the factual predicate for the filing announced later in the same video.

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So, unfortunately, uh the insurance company denied the claim. That's our what our 45th lawsuit we have to file now against the insurance company. And they denied all my claims last year. I had refrigeration failure in the summer last year.…

Does two things at once: gives his own count of his litigation volume, calling this his 45th lawsuit, and announces a filing not yet made against the insurance company, two days before a federal action of that description was filed. The number is a self-report spoken in passing, does not match the tracker's own count, and sits in a caption disfluency, so it should not be treated as a count of anything.

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Their advertised payment processor fee of 2.6% 2.3% depending on your plan is not as advertised. … When you plug in your payouts to an Excel sheet, it will show substantially higher 3.5% 4%.

A fourth rendering of the central figure — now "3.5% 4%", which is lower than “Shopify is EVIL and “Owns” your Store!!!”'s "closer to 5%" two days earlier and lower than “Shopify THIEVES”'s 4.1–4.2%. He also reframes the harm as "one or two% on every order" here, against "several hundred thousand" on 06-08.

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It's not like WordPress or when you design your own website where you own the website. When you use Shopify, they own the platform. … you are using their platform and they own your website

The clearest articulation of the platform-control theory, and the organising idea of the video's title. It is what ties the fee claim, the product takedowns and the subpoena compliance into one argument.

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They will shut down your payments if you're selling a product they don't want you to sell. Absurd. you know, I was I was selling the hydroxy metitrogene on my supplement website and they just straight shut down Shopify payments and I was…

The most concrete, checkable incident in the entire Shopify cluster — a payment-processing shutdown, self-attributed to a specific product he was selling. The auto-captioned "hydroxy metitrogene" is 7-hydroxymitragynine (a kratom alkaloid); a commenter independently identifies it as "7-OH" and notes it is restricted. This materially changes how the grievance reads: by his own account the shutdown followed his listing a controlled/restricted substance, which is a compliance explanation rather than arbitrary platform conduct. He does not engage with that reading. Recorded neutrally — the fact of the shutdown, the product, and the absence of any regulatory discussion on his part.

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And that applies to legal stuff, too. If there's a court issue and they subpoena Shopify, it's not like you owning the website where you can choose not to provide the documents. Shopify will generally comply with the court order and hand…

The fullest statement of the records-disclosure theory that “Shopify is EVIL and “Owns” your Store!!!” states in one broken sentence two days earlier, and the strongest support for linking that theory to C095 (Frank Tufano v. Shopify Inc. et al, NY Supreme 651064/2025), whose recorded disposition is that a motion to stay unrelated proceedings and quash subpoenas was denied in its entirety (2026-02-24). He describes exactly that posture — a subpoena to Shopify for financial and banking records, with the merchant unable to prevent compliance. Still inferential: he names no case, court, or subpoena, and speaks generically about "a business owner." Recorded as a strong topical match, not a confirmed link.

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You know, I really do like the saying honor among thieves when referring to these gangstalkers, these members of the elite that steal my ideas and then support each other.

States the idea-theft grievance and the conspiracy framing in one sentence and ties them together, describing the alleged thieves as organised and mutually supporting. The usage here is sincere and first-person, unlike the sarcastic use of the same word flagged elsewhere in the archive.

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Don't you find it odd that this guy with almost 1 million followers is I mean he's obviously some shill supporting Santa Cruz's bar, but don't you find it weird that these people are so comfortable with supporting a stolen product of…

The passage that anchors the video to the tracker: the Santa Cruz name resolves to two canonical defendants named in both the state action and its federal counterpart, and the allegation that the product is stolen is the dispute's core theory stated in his own words while both dockets were pending. The unnamed person described only by follower count is deliberately not identified.

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I saw Santa Cruz comment on another one of these promotional posts like, "Oh, this is definitely the best thing I've ever created.

The words inside the quotation marks are recited, not his own: he is reading aloud a comment he says the defendant posted on a promotional post, claiming authorship of the product he alleges was copied from him. Only the framing sentence is his own speech.

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Well, I changed my profile photo and I'm guessing these people that don't want me on here spam report my account to flag the system. I'm exposing Dr. Tabon. I'm exposing these gangstalkers and these people report my account every single…

Attributes daily false reports against his social-media account to people opposing his publicising of the eye-surgery dispute. The surgeon's name is spoken as an auto-caption garble, Dr. Tabon, and the speaker expressly hedges the claim as guesswork.

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Their 2.6% transaction fee is actually closer to 5%. And that's tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars out of your pocket every single year depending on your business revenue.

Over 24 hours the alleged true rate moves ~4.1% → 4.2% → "closer to 5%", against the same stated 2.6% baseline. Recorded as a fact about how the claim is being stated publicly, not as a contradiction — none of the three is presented as a correction of the others.

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you don't have control over your own website. Shopify has gotten insane with tax regulations and looking at your products. … You don't own your website. You don't. That's the worst part about Shopify.

The title's actual thesis, and a third distinct Shopify grievance alongside the misclick and the fees — platform control over the merchant's store, product listings and tax handling. Note "looking at your products" implies content review; no example is given.

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If there's any legal issues or or someone gets involved, they will hand over all your records and all your banks is horrendous.

The only litigation-adjacent grievance in the Shopify cluster that is not about fees or the misclick — that the platform surrenders a merchant's records and banking information when legal process arrives. That maps directly onto C095 (Frank Tufano v. Shopify Inc. et al, NY Supreme 651064/2025), whose recorded disposition is that a motion seeking to stay unrelated proceedings and quash subpoenas was denied in its entirety (2026-02-24), the court finding no cognizable basis for the relief. The connection is inferential — he names no case, court or subpoena here — but the subject matter is an unusually close match, and it is the only place in this research where the records-disclosure theory appears.

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If you're using Shopify as a small business, please immediately check your payouts and make sure they are not scamming you on their transaction fee percentage.

The 2026-06-08 videos are not about the 06-07 misclick at all — this is a distinct allegation that Shopify charges more than its advertised transaction-fee rate. Unlike the four 06-07 videos (an operational mishap he attributes to his own click), this is a claim against the company's conduct, of the kind that could underpin a contract or consumer claim. It is also the only claim in the burst stated with a method of proof (see next quote).

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it takes less than five minutes to export your payments in Excel and do an auto sum at the bottom of the transaction fee percentage. and you will find it is much higher than the advertised rate. …regardless of what rate they are telling me…

The most falsifiable claim anywhere in this research's Shopify material — it names the data source (payout export), the method (sum the fee column), the comparison (advertised rate), and the magnitude (0.5–1% higher on every transaction). Whether or not it is correct, it is the sort of claim a research-case-claims pass could actually evaluate, and it is the only quantified Shopify allegation located in this effort.

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They've changed the wording on their transaction fees. I can't even find that wording anywhere on the website anymore.

A distinct, checkable assertion about the counterparty's published terms changing. Relevant to a misrepresentation framing, and independently verifiable against archived versions of Shopify's public pricing pages. Recorded, not verified — that check is outside this skill.

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It took me less than five minutes on Excel to prove that Shopify has stolen at least several hundred,000 from me. But they're so wealthy and powerful, the police aren't going to help me. The courts just throw out my case. And they do this…

States the claim, the amount ("at least several hundred thousand" — the caption's "several hundred,000" is a rendering artifact), and his own legal characterisation ("payment processor fraud… some type of bank fraud"). Note the hedge "some type of" — he does not identify a statute. Relevant that C054's recorded disposition rejected an attempt to use 18 U.S.C. §241 on the ground that it creates no civil cause of action; this is a different criminal-law framing of the same instinct.

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This average of almost 4.1% is the true rate they've been charging me over the seven years I've been running my business. …the one I'm paying for, which is the highest level one, is $2,000 a month. And the way they got me and convinced me…

The only fully quantified allegation in this research's Shopify material — advertised 2.5–2.6% (2.3% promised on the top tier), actual ~4.1% average over seven years and 4.2% in the upgraded year, on a $2,000/month plan. The internal logic is checkable on its own

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And ever since I emailed them, they actually changed the wording on this. So, was I like the first guy to call them out on it? It went from saying, you know, 2.6% transaction fee to from 2.6%. So they worded it differently to just include…

A specific and independently verifiable claim: that the published fee language changed from a flat "2.6% transaction fee" to "from 2.6%", and that it changed after his complaint. Verifiable against archived captures of Shopify's public pricing pages. Sharpens “Shopify is SCAMMING!”'s vaguer version of the same claim ("I can't even find that wording anywhere"). Recorded, not verified.

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And when I filed the lawsuit in the court, the judges threw it out. They don't care. When I had the local police department and sent them documents, they didn't care. You know, no one's going to prosecute Shopify.

The most consequential Shopify statement located in this effort. On 2026-06-08 he states two grievances in one breath: the courts dismissed his Shopify case, and the local police department would not act on documents he submitted about Shopify. On 2026-07-29 — 51 days later — C083 (Tufano v. Carbondale Police Department et al, M.D. Pa.

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Yeah, I've been so upset and stressed from this Shopify thing. I didn't eat it all yesterday. I woke up like I was in a coma.

A first-person account of the personal effect of a platform incident involving Shopify, which is the subject of the tracked business-platform dispute group. It also carries an internal recording-date marker, a reference to the previous day, which places both the recording and the incident in the first week of June 2026.

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and this is what Shopify suggested, you know, send out emails to the customers with the order to replace the order. And as good as that sounds, it does not work in practice. And only like 10 to 20% of people actually place the order again.

Two unusual things in one passage: a direct account of what he says the platform advised him to do after the incident, and a quantified loss figure, putting customer re-order rates at ten to twenty per cent. Damages quantification stated on camera is scarce in this archive. The figure is his conversational estimate with no methodology or source given, and is recorded as a statement he made rather than as a measured figure.

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that's why I was so upset when all those orders got cancelled and Shopify was not able to reinstate them because despite me spending, you know, 5 hours on my computer rebuilding all the invoices, I here's like 15 in a row that were sent…

The most concrete damages description in the video: the mechanism, orders cancelled and not reinstatable, his mitigation effort of five hours rebuilding invoices, and an observed sample of about fifteen re-sent invoices none of which was paid. Note that the quoted words begin near the end of the cue, so a clip started at the deep link will include several seconds of preceding material.

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Yeah, I might have just put myself out of business. I thought it wasn't that bad. I thought it was only 40 orders, but somehow all 300 orders for this week got cancelled. Like, I don't know how that happened. It didn't ask me to cancel…

This is the operational event that the 2026-06-07 → 06-11 Shopify burst is about, and nothing in this research material previously described it. Two features matter for

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So, Shopify has a completely ridiculous interface. And when I contacted support, they said they couldn't reinstate the orders.

States the grievance in its narrowest, most checkable form — a user-interface design complaint (bulk cancel without per-order confirmation) plus a refusal by support to reinstate. Relevant because the tracked Shopify litigation is pleaded on very different theories (per C054's disposition: 18 U.S.C. §241 and contract claims). This grievance is operational, not the conspiracy theory that gives the Shopify / business-platform conspiracy dispute group its name.

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And when I had this happen before, only like 20% of people place the order.

"When I had this happen before" — this is a recurrence, not a one-off, which is worth recording because it means an earlier instance exists somewhere before 2026-06-07 and may connect to one of the earlier Shopify filings. He gives a ~20% re-order recovery rate from that prior episode. No date is given for it.

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Guys, I accidentally just canceled and refunded like 50 orders.

This is the first account of the incident, at 11:08 PT, and puts the number at ~50. Thirty-eight minutes later “I think Shopify JUST ENDED MY BUSINESS” puts it at 300. Any damages figure drawn from this burst has to reckon with which of the two it is taking.

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I've actually done this before and it's really really in it's insane.

Independently matches “I think Shopify JUST ENDED MY BUSINESS”'s "when I had this happen before" — two statements the same day that this is a repeat incident. Notably, here the prior occurrence is phrased as something he did ("I've actually done this"), where “I think Shopify JUST ENDED MY BUSINESS” phrases it passively ("when I had this happen"). Still undated and unlocated.

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I was going to just fulfill the orders and I clicked the button next to it and they all got cancelled and refunded. I don't know if they do it on purpose or what

He describes the mechanism plainly — he intended to fulfil and clicked the adjacent button. The grievance against the platform is therefore about button placement and the absence of an undo/confirmation, not about the platform cancelling anything on its own. The trailing "I don't know if they do it on purpose or what" is the only hint of the conspiracy framing the Shopify / business-platform dispute group is named for, and it is explicitly floated as something he does not know. Both halves matter: the admission and the hedged suspicion are one sentence apart.

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I might have just put myself out of business because when I went to fulfill the orders this week, I accidentally clicked cancel.

The causal chain is stated without hedging — he clicked cancel, and the consequence is self-inflicted ("put myself out of business"). Across all three videos posted that day the attribution is consistent on this point, which matters because the related dispute group is the one this research tracks as the Shopify / business-platform conspiracy litigation. A viewer noticed the same thing.

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Shopify couldn't help me. It's absolutely absurd. Right next to cancel orders, archive orders. And if you click cancel, there's no warning. There's no double check. It just instantly cancels all the orders.

The most specific version of the grievance in the whole burst, and the only one that names the two adjacent controls — cancel orders and archive orders. “Accidentally Canceled Orders - SHOPIFY SUCKS” said only that he "clicked the button next to it"; this identifies which button. Reduces the

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when you go to duplicate the order and try to resend it to the customer as a draft so they can pay again, it doesn't even work. It's like the the unit items are incorrect. There's no discount applied.

A new grievance not present in the two earlier videos — that the workaround (duplicating orders as draft invoices) mis-renders line items and drops discounts. Worth recording separately because it is the only forward-looking operational claim in the burst and would be independently checkable.

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I got to get off Shopify before I lose it.

The only statement of intent in the burst so far, and it is commercial, not legal — leaving the platform. Notable against this research's now well-documented pattern of pre-filing announcements (batches 10–15), where grievances are routinely accompanied by an express intent to sue. No such statement appears anywhere in the 2026-06-07 videos.

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All because of Shopify, who I've had problems with forever with chargebacks and stealing money from me.

The first and only point in the 2026-06-07 burst that connects the operational incident to the longstanding dispute. The other three videos of the day describe the misclick in isolation; this one frames it as the latest instalment of a history of "chargebacks and stealing money from me" — which is the subject matter the tracked Shopify litigation actually concerns. It is a one-clause aside, not the video's argument, and it supplies no dates, amounts, or case references. But it is the bridge that the earlier three videos lack, and it partly rehabilitates this dataset's "underlying business-platform dispute" framing at the dispute level (while leaving the chronological problem intact — the misclick still post-dates every tracked filing).

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the sheer incompetence of their web developers putting the archive button next to the cancel order button is insane. Because after you print the shipping label, in order for the orders to even go away, you have to click archive. Now,…

The most complete account of the incident across all four videos — it explains not just that the buttons are adjacent (which “One Click on Shopify will END YOUR BUSINESS” established) but why he had to use that part of the interface at all (archiving is required after printing shipping labels), and that he had been consciously avoiding the control out of fear of this exact mistake. The

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Today, I was like, I really want to see how many new orders there are. So, I went to do it and I accidentally clicked cancel and with the click of a button, all my store revenue for this week is gone. And and we're really going paycheck to…

Fourth consecutive self-attribution of the click in a single day. Also states the loss as "all my store revenue for this week" — a fourth way of expressing the figure across the four videos (50 orders → 300 orders → "hundreds" → a week's revenue), none of them a dollar amount.

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Uh the main issue and the main thing I need help with this week is like like the chargebacks are horrendous. You know, it kind they kind of backed off for a few months and they got so bad on the foods website on the Frankie Strange Foods…

The most specific account in the archive of the platform grievance underlying the Shopify dispute: payment processing withdrawn, 10 percent of revenue held back as collateral, chargeback volume given as the cause, and that volume attributed to coordinated actors.

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Insurance company never paid me for the broken forklift. Insurance company also never paid me for our broken freezer issue from last month. So, um, we dropped them. We got a new insurance company. I'm going to file a lawsuit against them,…

An explicit announcement of an intended filing against an insurer, with the itemised grievance behind it, an unpaid forklift claim and an unpaid freezer claim, and a stated premium of five grand a month. It was published ten days before the tracked insurance action was filed, and the word too places the intended suit alongside others.

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my prices are so low. It's, you know, part of the reason that, you know, I'm having these financial issues. But the same thing could be said about the all these people stealing money from me and taking advantage of me. Like if none of that…

The most explicit causation statement about the eye-surgery dispute in the archive: he names the surgeon, whose surname the captions garble, and asserts that but for the surgery he would be in a sound financial position, tying that grievance directly to the state of his business.

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think those douches at Always Forwarding [inaudible/unclear: "All-Ways Forwarding"?] cared that I had $30,000 of the finest Wagu beef in the world rot in a container. No, they don't care. Always Forwarding, which is the company that messed…

Names the forwarding company at the centre of the wagyu dispute and puts a figure of 30,000 dollars on the spoiled shipment. It also asserts that the company was previously sued over employee pay, a claim about a third-party action that is not in the tracker and could not be located.

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No, because Real Self is still doing the same stuff that these other review platforms are. They are taking bribes from doctors and removing negative reviews.

States outside any pleading the substance of the wrong he attributes to the review platforms, removal of negative reviews in exchange for payment, which is the subject matter the dataset records for the Google and RealSelf action.

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And I have multiple lawsuits against these people. Uh the main lawsuit is against Google, Real Self, Yelp, all these review platforms.

A self-report of filing volume, multiple lawsuits, plus confirmation that a suit is on foot against a named set of platforms. Two of the three named targets are tracked defendants; the third, Yelp, does not appear anywhere in the dataset.

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Most of you guys know that things really haven't been going so well, but we did get in our shipment of cleaning products that I ordered like a year and a half ago now. So, basically, right before I started having financial issues, I paid…

A dated first-person account of the business's financial position with an explicit causal claim, that a supplier delay of about eighteen months contributed to the difficulty. It dates the onset of the financial trouble to shortly after the order was placed, which is a useful anchor for damages chronology. Because this is a livestream, the publication instant and the speaking instant coincide, so the usual upload-lag caveat does not apply here.

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In my last business vlog, we posted the names and addresses of all of these people who filed a chargeback against my business and stole product. They ordered from me. They received the product. They filed a charge back without contacting…

The speaker describes customers filing chargebacks against his business and states that he responded by publishing their names and addresses in an earlier video. The chargebacks-as-conspiracy theory is the core factual theory of the tracked business-platform group; no name or address is spoken in this video.

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There are very few good doctors and if you're not very wealthy and willing to go completely out of your comfort zone, you should never get surgery because I consulted every single top eye doctor in the United States. And it wasn't until I…

A first-person account of consulting eye surgeons across the United States and eventually finding a surgeon abroad he says was able to fix the problem. It is treatment-history background for the eye-surgery dispute; the video names no doctor, case, court or filing, so the connection rests on subject matter alone.

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And as I just stated, I am guessing he does this with most of his patients. He sucks them in, gets them to think about a few procedures, and the day before the surgery, he thinks, "Oh, how can I make more money off this patient?" And…

The speaker's own account of the alleged injury in the eye-surgery dispute, including a specific allegation that a two-stage decompression was substituted the day before surgery and a further charge of $9,000.

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They are evil, cunning, and manipulative. And they have all the tricks in the book from fake reviews to removing all negative feedback. Ultimate psychological masters in false promises and stealing your

States the review-suppression theory, that fake reviews are placed and negative feedback removed, which is the substantive core of the tracked Google and RealSelf strand. No case, court or platform is named.

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The majority of the negative reviews about Dr. Tibon on Google, Real Self, and Yelp have been completely wiped clean and removed. Whether this is Dr. Tibon or a private party or just the review sites taking them down on their own, I cannot…

The subject and the platforms named are all tracked entities, and the statement describes the factual grievance underlying the two review-platform actions. Its second sentence is an express refusal to attribute the removals to anyone, and the two sentences must be kept together.

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And when I tried to put my review on Real Self, showing receipts from the doctor's office, the photos, it was never even posted in the first place. And you cannot have a more legitimate review than that. So, these platforms are really…

A statement of the theory of liability against the review platforms, that they are as responsible as the surgeon or more so, which is the theory the two tracked platform actions pursue. He marks it as a position he has stated many times.

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And these chargebacks are an organized gangstalking attack by the elite. All of these in the last month, literally one chargeback a day, which is completely insane.

A contemporaneous statement of the coordinated-campaign theory that underlies the Shopify dispute grouping, and a self-reported rate of about one chargeback a day in the preceding month. It names no individual and no proceeding.

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And that's just on the meat website. on the foods website. The chargebacks were so bad they shut down my Shopify payments. I can only accept payments through PayPal. And 10% of payouts are being held in reserve through a high number of…

A specific account of the payment-processing harm at the centre of the tracked Shopify litigation: termination of Shopify Payments, a forced fallback to PayPal, and a ten per cent payout reserve. The entity he describes is carried in the alias table as a tracked defendant.

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And all these people that charge back receive their product in good condition. It's just straight theft and harassment. And Shopify was okay for a bit, but then they started siding with the customers again. … we have to get the foods…

States that the platform resolved chargeback disputes against him and that he is moving a second storefront off it, a concrete business consequence bearing on the damages side of the Shopify dispute. Note that a sales solicitation between the two halves of the passage has been elided, so a clip played from the deep link will contain that material.

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So, most of you guys know my house was basically made unlivable from the water damage due to a roofing company screwing me over and insurance denied the claim. I have no faith in the court system, but I'm so upset with the living situation.

States the underlying grievance behind the tracked insurance strand in one sentence, water damage, a roofing contractor and a denied insurance claim, and follows it immediately with a statement of distrust in the courts.

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And on top of that water damage, the previous contractor did such a horrendous job, you know, something that should take 2 or 3 days max to redo this sun room, reframe it, fix the windows, and all that stuff. It's going to take us two…

A first-person damages account of the remediation work, the labour cost multiplier and the risk of running out of money, for the same property loss. The video uses two different descriptions of the contractor without saying whether they are the same firm.

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"All these people scamming me, all the lawsuits going on. It's beyond ridiculous."

General commentary tying financial stress (chargebacks, unpaid insurance claims) to "all the lawsuits going on" — relevant background for litigation-motive research, though not tied to a specific case.

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"And before you say that this is doxing or whatever, this is part of a public criminal investigation. And these people and these values are also named in a public lawsuit. Frank Tufano versus Shopify. So before you say this is doxing,…

Tufano explicitly names "Frank Tufano versus Shopify" as the public lawsuit he says justifies publishing the redacted list, and pre-empts the doxxing characterization directly. Multiple tracked Shopify-related cases exist (C013, C047, C050, C054, C072, C095, all part of the Shopify / business-platform litigation) — this quote doesn't identify which one, so the link is dispute-group-level only.

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And when I was in that group briefly I was like are any of you guys want to see these doctors? What are you guys doing here? I I quickly found out that the group was a controlled gaslighting scheme to manipulate these patients into not…

A rare first-person, self-experienced sourcing claim rather than an inference — he says he joined the private group himself. Also states the alleged purpose in litigation

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I've spoken about many times that these online review platforms, Google especially, Yelp, Real Self, are just as accountable for botching patients as these doctors are.

The liability theory behind the review-platform strand stated plainly in his own words, that the platforms bear the same responsibility as the surgeon. It names three platforms, two of which resolve to tracked entities; the third has no entry anywhere in the dataset, which the archive records as an unresolved coverage question rather than a finding. The passage sits after the read-aloud section of the video ends.

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it's every single one of them. the doctors, the doctor's assistants, the lawyers, the judges, every single person, the people that work at Yelp, the people that work at Google, the people that work at all these online social media…

Sweeps lawyers and judges into a single allegation of collective bad faith alongside the review platforms, and states the review-removal claim that underpins the platform dispute. It is a research classification of what the speaker said and never a finding about any court, lawyer or company.

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