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and for you guys filing fraudulent chargebacks on my business instead of throwing a brick through your window it's going to be a frozen beest how how funny of a news headline would that be meat YouTuber throws Frozen beef testicle through customer window oh God help me
Introduces, as a comedic aside, the same "fraudulent chargebacks against my business" grievance that two more serious statements from the same video develop — and that underlies the pleaded Shopify chargeback-conspiracy litigation in C040, C047, C050 and C072. Beest is caption-garbled; almost certainly "beast," but kept as transcribed rather than silently corrected.
most of you saw the Vlog last week where I was kind of calling out the scammers they seem to take it as a little bit of a challenge because I think I got like five new chargebacks just in the past few days on the business but uh thankfully you guys are are supporting us and you know the extra orders are offsetting the chargebacks to some degree
Describes an ongoing, retaliatory-feeling chargeback pattern against his business — the same shape as the theory pleaded in C040, C050 and C072 (as the claims-summary record puts it: “chargebacks... he alleges he received 138 chargebacks over the life of the business... that some of those customers left what he calls slanderous reviews”) — but names no platform, no defendant and no case, and describes others' conduct rather than his own filing. Published 92 days before C040 was filed (2024-05-22).
quality online every single thing we do you know and it's and I'm making it affordable so for me to put that much effort and do everything and then have these people file charge back it's like it's it's just pure scum of the Earth it's it's one thing if I was like like if you're not running a legitimate business or you're selling like Vapes or like cigarettes or something weird yeah okay that's one thing but um it's literally these evil people picking on you know one of the most legitimate and helpful businesses and and what really kills me is I'm not doing this for money you guys know I I gave away you know over $30,000 to Blind and disabled people I'm not the type of person that whatever want to live beyond my means
the fullest development of the chargeback grievance in this video — framing chargeback-filing customers as "evil people" and "pure scum of the Earth" — again describing others' conduct, not his own filing. The "$30,000 to Blind and disabled people" line independently corroborates a promise made in this slice's 6rrpKTerJ_E (published four weeks earlier, 2024-01-23), where he says he pledged to donate "an equivalent amount of money to disabled blind Americans" because an unnamed eye procedure was expensive — see that file's Research Notes for the cross-reference.