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YouTuber Karl Jobst to pay more than $230,000 to Donkey Kong record holder Billy Mitchell in defamation ruling (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] johncandy1812@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Jobst was pleading for donations to help fight the lawsuit for a long time. Constantly making videos about it to get more viewers, sympathy and money. All to then run his mouth costing him the case.

Edit: Turns out Jobst was running his mouth the whole time. With so much donated money on the line, it was important to communicate the details of the case accurately but Jobst failed to do so. He made a lot content about it (monetized and sponsored) but was too arrogant about his chances of winning. IMO not as serious, careful or tactful as he should have been throughout.

Edit x2: Monday-morning lawyering from me but I stopped watching Jobst a long time ago because I just wasn't on board.

[–] MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

I stopped watching the day i looked in the description for more info on the topic, and it was only for sponsor-of-the-month. Felt like the prioroty was sponsor, while the gameplay/story is in the back seat.

[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

Mitchell sucks, but falsely claiming that he drove a person to suicide is a dick move to say the least.

[–] villainy@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Billy Mitchell is an asshole and Karl Jobst is yet another YouTube outrage peddler, just video game flavored this time. I have a hard time mustering sympathy for either of them.

[–] Swarfega@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I've never liked Jobst. His "Hello you absolute legends" opener always rubbed me up the wrong way.

[–] gurnu@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Same here, in addition to him pushing drama I couldn't care less about and padding out his videos

[–] Dequei@sopuli.xyz 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Wait, he lost? How

[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The article makes it pretty clear. Jobst always implied the lawsuit was over the cheating allegations, which wasn't the case. He claimed in one of his videos that Mitchell drove another Youtuber to suicide by suing him and forcing him to pay a large sum of money. As it turns out, that Youtuber didn't have to pay anything at all. The settlement was just to take his existing videos down and not make any further videos about Mitchell. Honestly seems justified to me and not a good look for Jobst.

[–] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

So did they not commit suicide, or was Jobst just wrong about the exact circumstances leading up to it?

[–] Dotcom@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

No the dude did, and basically said in his final video that it was because of the lawsuits

[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I don't think that is true. In his final video (Source, trigger warning of course) he mentioned his failing health, chronic pain and a perceived betrayal by the speedrunning community. Not a word about the lawsuits in there.

[–] Dotcom@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I could be misremembering as I haven’t watched anything about it in a long while, maybe it was in a post? He kind of alluded to recent things caused financial hardships and with his health issues he couldn’t continue? I’ll have to watch the video again

Edit - You were right, he said he had some financial hardships and health issues. Billy ultimately got no money from him, but I don’t think it’s a far leap to suggest lawyers fees may have been part of that hardship

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Wow, but I thought Billy Mitchell was that cheaty guy

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

He still is a cheater.

The lawsuit wasn't about him cheating (he was). It was about a claim that he drove someone to suicide (he didn't).

The award is based on the suicide claim and not the cheating claim.