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Public statement source · YT732
Why THEY don't want me here
This is the clearest single statement of the grievance the channel later pleads in court — that rival content creators publish false and derogatory material about him and his food business, and that the platforms permit and amplify it. The same grievance is the pleaded subject matter of C062 (Tufano v. Burgess, defamation/tortious interference against a creator over years of YouTube statements about him and his business) and of part of C044 (Tufano v. Reddit, alleging the platform kept a ban in place while leaving slanderous posts about him up). What makes the quote worth recording is what it does not contain: stated on 2020-10-05, the grievance is complete and specific, and the remedy he reaches for is publicity — asking viewers to keep watching, sharing and buying — with no lawyer, no filing, no threatened filing and no legal remedy of any kind named anywhere in the 14 minutes. Computed in code as plain date differences: 2020-10-05 → C062 filed 2026-02-17 is 1,961 days; 2020-10-05 → C044 filed 2024-07-08 is 1,372 days. Possible case/dispute link: None — and this must not be read as a party link. The transcript names no person, company or platform as an adversary; the only proper nouns spoken are Hollywood, Los Angeles, McDonald's and a deodorant brand, none of which is a tracked party. The relationship to C062/C044 is a grievance-type parallel only, of exactly the kind the contract's trap 5 warns against over-reading. Recorded as an undated-grievance anchor, not as an adjacency to any docket.
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what i hope i never have to say again and what truly disgusts me is how some of these influencers have treated me when i have only tried to do good the attacks on my personal life and my family are truly subhuman acts and the fact that these platforms have allowed even promoted these people to say those things really shows that some evil people are pulling the strings
This is the clearest single statement of the grievance the channel later pleads in court — that rival content creators publish false and derogatory material about him and his food business, and that the platforms permit and amplify it. The same grievance is the pleaded subject matter of C062 (Tufano v. Burgess, defamation/tortious interference against a creator over years of YouTube statements about him and his business) and of part of C044 (Tufano v. Reddit, alleging the platform kept a ban in place while leaving slanderous posts about him up). What makes the quote worth recording is what it does not contain: stated on 2020-10-05, the grievance is complete and specific, and the remedy he reaches for is publicity — asking viewers to keep watching, sharing and buying — with no lawyer, no filing, no threatened filing and no legal remedy of any kind named anywhere in the 14 minutes. Computed in code as plain date differences: 2020-10-05 → C062 filed 2026-02-17 is 1,961 days; 2020-10-05 → C044 filed 2024-07-08 is 1,372 days. Possible case/dispute link: None — and this must not be read as a party link. The transcript names no person, company or platform as an adversary; the only proper nouns spoken are Hollywood, Los Angeles, McDonald's and a deodorant brand, none of which is a tracked party. The relationship to C062/C044 is a grievance-type parallel only, of exactly the kind the contract's trap 5 warns against over-reading. Recorded as an undated-grievance anchor, not as an adjacency to any docket.