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Thai Restaurant Was Only Open for 6 Months Before Rumors Shut It Down

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0:11 since a lot of us have experience opening a business we know how easily businesses can be ruined by bad rumors yeah right there's a restaurant Fresno called Tasty Thai it's it's a you know family-owned Thai restaurant it's been open uh six months suddenly the dudes looking on his Yelp and he's getting all these reviews like of people just insulting and berating them and he's like where is this all coming from turns out that some lady some random lady recorded a video of a dog tied up to like a post on a neighboring house to the restaurant and created some speculation that that restaurant because it's an Asian restaurant is cooking dog oh my God nice oh because of this did it

1:02 taste doggy was a little doggy it's a doggy dog world because of this Tasty Thai after six months is forced to close no what what because people stopped going and the rumors are true did the community hate them and yeah because the damage is is already done like the reputation in it bro what the ████ isn't that a defamation it is it is clear but then if you're doing a defamation case right on a poor person how like exactly it's like yeah yeah you pay you paid like 100 G's for nothing to happen pretty much yeah because they're not going to be able to pay it's not like defamation from a rivaling business it's just a random regular person that was recording and was like oh look at this like poor dog that's being abused so they actually ended up looking into that dog and the dog turns out was not abused at all was fine was just owned by a family in that house it had nothing to do with the restaurant whatsoever how sad man but

1:53 it's too late I mean that must be a small community if she knew where the restaurant owner lived she doesn't know his restaurant it was right next to the house next to the restaurant oh it's a house they're not even Associated that's how like stupid it is it's like was she ████ dude yep that's why perception is everything dude it is the way that people feel about something is more important than what is yeah but that just means there's a whole bunch of ████ town idiots that took what she said believed it without question no proof sounds like America yeah it's like literally everybody in the world actually that bad though you're not in the world it's even worse because because she's posting it online most of the people that are leaving reviews aren't even local to the rest oh my just people online so they just believe exactly oh I don't like that that's probably true they are probably I

2:43 think and then of course Yelp dude it's so hard to contact those ████ and to get them like the whole review system on Yelp right it either works really great or it's the worst ████ thing ever yeah it's known to be a it's known to be like uh you have to yeah you have to pay to remove it they're called the yup Mafia yeah it's going to be like a mob basically but it's also intimidating too because I was trying to leave a bad review on this place called Lionheart jitsu and then they were telling me that I can't leave it because they can't confirm that I was a customer there but I'm like I I shouldn't have to prove that well the reason why is because we paid extra to remove that oh okay that's interesting for protection you pay the protection fee man somebody complained that the Lobster at jumbi was horrible and the skewers were meh and it took me ████ forever to get that taken yeah I was like we don't even serve ████ Lobster lobsters but Joe I'm watching

3:34 boba shop all publicity is good the skewers were met is hilarious as they go up to the jumbee they're like yeah we'll take three skewers two lobster rolls please I don't mind that they're horrible I just want to try them yeah yeah yeah yeah I gotta believe it for myself like you can get because of like this like whole system you can get Negative momentum rolling in a certain way where your actual objective trajectory is ruined yeah before they go oh we'll remove that comment but it's like bro my restaurant's gone now it's already done so that's it ████ happened yeah it'll affect the rating right so some people don't even get as far as looking at the comments no they just look at uh one star why yeah and they just don't go there right the idea of a jumbee employee taking a lobster out of a fish tank you want this one

4:25 is so good would you like this with aloe jelly or Boba and it's still being horrible that's great and you know what's crazy I don't need market price I don't think you can even deny being on Yelp yeah let's say I'm going like oh there's a mom-and-pop donut shop I want to rate it you someone the consumer could put them on Yelp oh right and then the the mom and pop donut shop I don't think they have the right to blow you know I don't want to participate in this game and then remove myself if someone puts you on you're on now yeah and then so now you got to play Yelp Mafia how about the right to face your accuser too like in a cage I wouldn't want to murder this lady if I was the owner of Thai um what's the place called Tasty Thai is there any response from the person who created us ████ so initially when the reporter confronted that woman who

5:15 did that um what's her name Garcia something Garcia yeah she she denied making those statements but it's in the video but then later it was admitted that she did indeed insinuated that they were selling dog meat I want to see her video really bad the the internet is really Savage look at that logo somebody could have easily changed Lao for dog oh that's the news coverage about it yeah that's so ████ up so uh but the owner said he is gonna fight to restore the rep and like reopen and you know I suppose there's no gun GoFundMe or something like that I think there is I think there might be so if there is that's fine support it this is one of those things that I hate my lizard brain for because like I hear that right and I go I support that owner yay but then the

6:05 idea of me ordering from that place I'm like I don't know maybe we'll just try another place yeah yeah I'll do the veggies only because it's already been associated with dog yeah and it's like but my lizard brain's associated with two things and so I'm like can I just get like because once you say it it's in the it's on the Forefront of your brain yep the other day I saw um this this person recording in the back of a restaurant this guy pulls up out of a back of a truck right there's a box pulls up like what looks like a greyhound there's no head it's like a um basically just skinned yeah Greyhound looking thing right and then they bring it in and I was like it can't be what I think it is so I read in the comments they're like oh that's just lamb that's just lamb that's just you know Costco yeah but a lot of people were like

6:55 immediately thinking like that's a great like a ████ Greyhound that's a great dane especially if you're not a butcher it's hard to tell but also like would it be more cost effective to serve dog no that's the dumbest thing about it like in the states it wouldn't be dogs like 800 bro like yeah especially eating a freaking like Frenchy's Great Dane bro they're expensive kidding me yeah three grand yeah dude that's the whole thing about that's a Prime Cut Meat yeah the negative stereotype of eating dog is like that all of it's stupid and it's very like region specific clearly if someone's doing that they're you know it's a choice they're making they don't have cats not because it's cheaper dude I got a buddy I got a buddy who started I've actually eaten dog have you but it was a choice but you didn't do it because it was cheaper than a burger hey you weren't in Fresno okay more exactly it was a delicacy yeah that's why but a lot of these places they think like they're

7:47 just catching dogs yeah on the street because it's free right and then killing those and then serving it at the restaurant yeah this is where that whole like racism thing happens right because then they go oh I'm going to that ████ Asian restaurant because instead of feeding you cow they're actually feeding you dog yeah that sucks that's just a scam yeah but like I gotta but the Asians are like why would we ever give you the more expensive ████ yeah yeah we we will eat that yeah yeah no no no the dogs for us hey what was dog like it wasn't good it was like a super dry pork oh it was dry really right yeah all the weird stuff is like really gamey and dry you got a souvenir I mean some weird stuff in Vietnam is it breed specific for like which which dog to eat or no it's like General Dog yeah yeah whatever dog yeah this is dog there's no menu like chow

8:37 chow Great Dane oh yeah it's just dog but um agricultural dog or something huh just like a farm animal dog it sucks because once they're all killed in hairless they all kind of look the same whether no matter what kind of dog kind of like a human right yeah I mean not that I've seen one but I assume if you burn a human they all kind of look the same except for this guys I really love the fact that like the owner of this restaurant was watching this video and initially was like oh thanks guys now he's like no stop what happened not in that way Association yeah it's like whenever you uh you get accused of great right but then you're Innocent but everybody still thinks you're great yeah that's why smear campaigns work yeah their first impression is so strong but in politics it said they say that it doesn't matter if it's a lie it's like who says it

9:27 first that becomes truth in the minds of people yeah again because I'm an eternal optimist I'm like well now kinky ████ ████ love me here's the original like that's her and that's her like text that she had written for her post it says she looks very very careful yes they have different dogs every week and then they disappear sadly Fresno PD nor Humane what a crazy about saving this poor dog there's also a market attached to this house maybe selling the meat to disturbing but hopefully with this we are saving a lot more babies please share share share bro what is she talk racist ████ what if there's a history like sauce or something yeah what kind of meds is she I've been there she has since apologized and is like urging people to stop like too late exactly

10:17 yeah exactly you need to go work there for free for like three years yeah but that kind of does you got a bus tables does tell you a lot about the climate of people in general that they're willing to buy into something this stupid people just think a gif with text on it is like some official information yeah I saw some ████ that's so true about how JFK Junior's still alive and I'm like what the ████ are people talking about like a guy from he's like at a campaign rally right and like he's like God he looks kind of like JFK Jr like maybe but JFK Jr when he died he's like 38 or some ████ so like this guy's like I don't know in his 50s he's just like a handsome older dude but then what they do is they take a picture of JFK Jr and they take this guy he's like zoomed in picture and they put them together it looks like they're all symmetrical because they lined it all up together yeah and people actually fall off that they go that's JFK Jr is still alive he's part of a political movement that's going to change America low-key that

11:07 would have got me that's like those photos where they see like a 1920s picture of a crowd and one guy is going like this with something like this is the phone time traveler how is he using his phone is that an iPhone who is he calling it's got three lenses who else has a phone back then there's no satellites bro yeah it's not one right foreign

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