Social media influencer arrested, accused of refusing to pay for almost $400 of food at restaurant

“Social media influencer.” He’s a racist who goes around videoing himself calling people slurs and trying to provoke them to violence. He has been kicked off of multiple platforms and barred from multiple places across the city. F*** this guy.

Calling these people "influencers" gives them entitlement that they don't deserve.

Influencers are essentially good for nothing. Nothing positive contributed to society at all.

The dude’s ENTIRE shtick is just going around calling black people the N-word. What is he influencing?

So, finish an expensive meal while engaging in behavior that may very well get you evicted from the restaurant … and then refuse to pay. Nice dodge. Glad it didn’t work.

I miss the days when we didn’t have 1 billion influencers.

The only bright side of this story is that his family cut ties with him.

> Dalton Eatherly, also known as “Chud the Builder,” was arrested on May 9. According to an arrest affidavit, Eatherly, who films content, including racially charged content on Broadway, was asked by the restaurant not to livestream or be disruptive for dining service. > After ordering two full entrees, drinks and appetizers, totaling $371.55, the restaurant realized he had been livestreaming and asked him to stop. > Allegedly, he became disruptive, made racial statements, and began to yell and cause a scene, according to the affidavit.  Who? Sounds like a peach.

This dude has a hella racist givesendgo that has raised $50k++ > Help the Chud and his family Dear friends, supporters, and champions of free speech, > My name is Dalton Eatherly, and I’m reaching out with a heavy heart, fighting to protect my family and my business. Just over one year ago, I started DLE Contracting in Clarksville, TN out of sheer necessity. I was fired from my previous contracting job after BLM activists targeted me over words I shared online—jokes and opinions they twisted to end my career. With no other way to support my family and my precious 2-year-old son, I poured everything into this small business working tirelessly to provide for my family and build a future. > But now, that dream is under attack. Not for the quality of my work, but for what I say online. I’ve shared mild jokes, unfiltered thoughts, and yes, sometimes I’ve used the N-word in what I thought was edgy, harmless humor. I know it’s controversial, but it’s my right to speak freely. For that, hundreds of people in my city are slandering my business, spreading lies to tear down everything I’ve worked for. The hate has escalated to a horrifying level: I’ve received death threats so vile they shake me to my core. People threatening to r*** and murder me, and even targeting my innocent 2-year-old son with unspeakable cruelty. As a father, hearing these threats against my little boy breaks my heart and keeps me up at night. > In the midst of this nightmare, a spark of hope emerged: I went viral on Instagram, gaining over 23,000 followers who connect with my story, my resilience, and my refusal to be silenced. People are beginning to stand up for American ideals and values. This platform is a chance to turn things around, but right now, I’m broke. The slander has crushed my business’s income, and I’m struggling to keep food on the table, pay our bills, and protect my family from this onslaught. I need your help to bridge this gap and rebuild. > Your donation will go toward: • Covering basic living expenses to keep my family secure. • Exploring legal options to fight the slander and protect my family from these vicious threats. •Find new ways to create a sustainable income for me and my family. This isn’t just about money—it’s about standing up to a mob trying to destroy not just my family’s future over words, but our rights to free speech as a whole. If you’ve ever felt silenced, attacked, or punished for your beliefs, you know this fight. My business, only a year old, was born from necessity after I was canceled once before, and now I’m facing it again. With your support, I can rise above this hate, provide for my family, and prove that cancel culture won’t break us. Every dollar, every share, every prayer means the world to us. Thank you for standing with my family in this battle for freedom and survival. With gratitude, Dalton Eatherly > Aka: ChudTheBuilder This dude is the f****** worst. Dude has raised $50k+ the last few mints and is now getting more donations since this hit the news. Goddamn it pays to be a racist a******. That’s crazy.

Isn’t he also a white supremacist? That’s what I got from a quick google search. He likes to use the n word.

Social media influencer? He’s just a degenerate Nazi sack of shit. Quit the bullshit.

Don't make this guy famous

Is that the new name for leeches now?

Good. FAFO them all the way offline.

Good. entitled twits. 'social media influencer' should NOT be a thing

IMO, influencers are self-elevated, often entitled, people who believe their opinions are more valuable than others. It's similar to someone asking you what is your favorite color and then telling you you're wrong if it is not the same as their's.

Oh, the guys that was going around calling Black people the N word. Welp...

These mfs have a convicted felon in office. Of course they think that they can do whatever they want.

One time a bartender accused me of having a pitcher of Pacifico that I didn't order. He said I had ordered it with the bartender who left. I told him he was wrong and the pitcher was there when I sat down. He doubled down and I said I'm not paying for something I didn't order or drink. Plus the fact there was a policy that needed two IDs to order anything over a pint. He tried to charge my card, but I saw that happening so I turned it off for purchases on my phone and it wouldn't go through, so he called the police. I waited outside for them and explained the situation to which they asked to see the camera footage but he said only the owner has access to it. They got my info and told me I could leave and they'd be in contact. Well sure as shit, the owner pulled the footage for them and showed me never ordering a pitcher of anything. They called me and told me I was correct but the owner still decided to trespass me from the bar because, "I made the bartender feel uncomfortable."

Whenever an influencer or person acts like an a******, or has views that are abhorrent to me- I don’t go and engage with their content, or argue with them, or call them out on their behaviour. I just go and block them. I block so they get zero money from me. Every interaction, good or bad, increases their profits, their views and their spread. Block influencers. Take away their numbers, their engagements, their rage baiting for clicks.

Delusional, unemployed loser finds out the hard way that no one gives a sweet f*** who he thinks he is.

could we all decide to call influencers something more appropriate, like, i don’t know, douchebag? 

Friends with Gavin McInnes. Don’t even need to know anymore about this piece of shit waste of oxygen.

“Eatherly was charged with disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and theft of services. He was placed under a $5,000 bond.” Good.

The f****** bill is not what needs to he hilighted in this story. This guy is a racist dangerous trouble maker and someone is going to get seriously hurt or worse if he is allowed to continue with his terrorism.

Good. Would’ve been better to stick him in the dish pit for 12 hours. Or however long it took to pay for his meal.

Anybody down to help write a bill to double the fine or double penalty for people that commit crimes while trying to monetise it for internet clout/ influencer type content? Let’s Go!!!!!!!!!!!

Back in the day when Macy Gray had some hits she showed up to my restaurant, with like 15 other people, did it up, and expected her tab to be comped. It was not.

One day I’ll get my shit together and get that bar I’ve always wanted.  The first sign going up on the door after the OPEN sign, is a sign saying “Influencers pay double.” If you even hint at how many followers you have or what perceived gift you should be given, you’re out. Don’t care. Nooooooo. Don’t care what this could do for my business.  You and your “followers” can drink somewhere else.  

Twenty years in the industry, I’ve never been convinced that having a free social media account entitles you to free food

Hope that racist shithead makes "friends" with some fellow inmates.

Arrested over $400. Well done.

Let him enjoy jail food

Welp, looked him up. Sounds like a piece of shit. No loss.

Influencers are a pox on society.

They only influence bad taste.

This guy is a f****** prick

This guy f****** sucks and our world would be a better place if people like him were gone

I have a client who’s 15 year old daughter is an influencer with 2mil plus followers and she recently got paid $35k for talking about a product on her stream for a a couple minutes. You can imagine what kind of person she’s growing up to be. 

Guy is an ultimate loser. Anyone actually watching his content is not ready to fit in with society.

Sometimes I wish I could travel into the past and stop Al Gore from inventing the internet

Isn’t this the same garbage inbred POS that goes around calling people the N-word while streaming live?

influencers should get 5x normal sentencing since they influence people with their behavior

Can we please have a course or certificate requirement for people to be influencers and social media stars? This is ridiculous

That’s not an influencer, that’s a scam artist

gentlemen, this is democracy manifest

It looks like hes raising money on a platform because he lost his job because of his choice of words and is the "victim".

Pretty Rick and Morty labeled “Influencers” as Unproductives when it came to a societal structure.

I wanna be an endless commercial when I grow up. That is the essence of what an influencer is.

Oh Jesus, this guy is a streamer who purposefully seeks out black people to follow around, and shout slurs at because he wants to goad them into attacking him to justify his racism, but also so that he has a reason to 'defend' himself from 'violent' black people. And like.....okay, even if you took away all the racism, the white supremacist theory about black people being irrational, quick to anger, and violent falls completely flat here. Live streaming yourself as you follow random people around insulting them, and trying to bait them into getting angry and trying to fight you is almost always going to seriously piss someone off, regardless of their race.

Hope 'sponsors' and people and companies being extorted by these so called 'influencers' hear this loud and clear:   The *only* influence the 'influencers' have on me is to avoid and ignore everything they 'recommend.'   What a bunch of entitled unearned privilege uninformed uneducated brats!  Why would I ever listen to them?!  Teaching my kids the same as we teach them to think critically and deconstruct messaging and media and evaluate meaning and motivation.  We're surely not the consumption market the marketing driven social media world and the politics of polarity and division and manufactured scarcity and desire wants.

this is the guy whose video was going around the other day—one where a black woman who he'd apparently known before his influencer schtick and said that she'd host him over for dinner approached him during filming, and he said the n-word to her face. Karma is sweet, isn't it 😂😂😂

Is this in Nashville?? Us locals have been laughing and waiting for his arrest for like two weeks.

Good. Throw the book at him. He sounds like he thinks he’s entitled to do what he wants, wherever he wants to do it. Uh uh. I am not a big fan of influencers in general. I’d never watch this guy anyway.

Society is so fucked nowadays. Bring back more shaming.

How the f*** is this news.

Two entrees and appetizers and drinks cost nearly $400 WTF

here we go again “im a celebrity, this should be for free”

"It's just a prank, bro."

I guarantee that (for the staff) his arrest was more delicious than anything he could have ordered.

No doubt that influencer was expecting free food

Dalton is a f****** D***!

Influencer culture has largely become about seeking attention and portraying oneself as important. Incidents like this only strengthen the perception that fame gained without responsibility is a problem for society, rather than a positive contribution.

“Chud the Builder.” Seriously?

What is an influencer exactly? Can anyone just call themselves one?

Give him what he wants - a maximum jail sentence on all charges. He will get free food for a while longer.

Why is this POS famous?

Never was lucky enough to witness it myself but when I worked in a hotel we would sometimes get scumbags claiming to be influencers and they wanted free rooms and shit and in exchange would give us exposure. They were all kindly told to pay up or f*** off. There might've been a few weirdos making angry phone calls but nothing out of the ordinary, really.

What kinda bum can't pay for one average meal out with no drink?

I f****** despise how reality drama slop, my most hated tv show genre, has infected almost every part of the internet.

Influencers have become a pain in the ass for a lot of businesses and people. They're becoming arrogant entitled dipshits who think everyone has to know them.