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| Tyler Oliveira (VIN) |
Rabbi Yair Hoffman does a wonderful job describing this
fellow’s modus operandi in his VIN piece:
He built his YouTube channel on a simple formula: find a community that looks different, show up with a camera, and let the algorithm do the rest. He filmed addicts overdosing in Vancouver without consent. He amplified the debunked pet-eating hoax about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, splicing in unrelated arrest footage to manufacture fear. The subjects change. The method never does.
Then Tyler came for the Jews.
In January 2026, he drove to Kiryas Joel, a Satmar Hasidic village of 44,000 in Orange County, and produced a forty-minute video titled “Inside the New York Town Invaded by Welfare-Addicted Jews.”
(Oliveira also did a hit piece on Lakewood which deserves
its own commentary but is beyond the scope of this post.)
I think the title speaks for itself. Based on the massive
media coverage given to the Hasidic community—much of it negative—Oliveira
appears to have come to his conclusions about that community first and then
went about filming and editing to fit that predetermined narrative.
Rabbi Hoffman rightly exposes this fellow for the
publicity-seeking charlatan that he really is—a fellow who cares little about
the truth and purposely avoids or edits out anything that would contradict his
preconceived conclusions. To call him a lowlife would almost be a compliment
compared to how disgustingly amoral he is—especially when he tries to come off
as someone exposing wrongdoing for the betterment of society.
Truly disgusting.
That being said, I happened to see some of that footage a
while back. In particular, I recall one young Hasidic fellow from Kiryas Joel
being interviewed who could not have been more embarrassing to the Jewish
community. Every negative stereotype one has ever imagined about that community
seemed embodied in this one individual. He could barely speak English, and his
responses played right into the narrative Oliveira suggested in the title of
his video.
Now, I’m sure not every Hasid in that village is as
illiterate or relies on the welfare system to help support his family. I’m
equally sure that if Oliveira did find a Hasid who was articulate, he may well
have edited him out of the video.
But I have to ask...
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