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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 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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 months 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 2 points 3 months ago

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

[–] vxx@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Billy Mitchell isnt the record holder. Twin Galaxy removed his records from the leaderboard and put it in an archive.

[–] Swarfega@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months 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 months ago

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

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

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 1 points 3 months ago

The annoying thing is that Mitchell is going to use this to falsely claim he has been cleared of cheating allegations. Dude is an insufferable cunt.

[–] voytrekk@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 months ago

Unfortunate. It still doesn't change the fact that Billy Mitchell is a huge loser.

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

Wait, he lost? How

[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 2 points 3 months ago

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.

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

Wow, but I thought Billy Mitchell was that cheaty guy

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months 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.

[–] Junkernaught@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 3 months ago

The King of Kong is a great documentary I encourage everyone to watch. Whole thing is on YT and other sites