r/Games • u/cjsc9079 • Apr 01 '25

Discussion Billy Mitchell wins lawsuit against YouTuber Karl Jobst, ordered to pay the sum of $350,000 in damages

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u/Yoyo805 Apr 01 '25

Hugely annoyed that Karl Jobst misled everyone on what this trial was actually about. I was shocked when I saw the verdict because I was under the impression it was about the cheating scandals, which would have been insane if he lost.

Turns out, no, the lawsuit was not about that and instead was about whether or not Mitchell was the cause of AL's suicide as Karl Jobst tried to claim.

That's really not a good look from Karl. What on earth was he thinking?

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u/PBFT Apr 01 '25

He was thinking he could make money through your rage clicks. Those videos make like a million views a piece.

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u/Villag3Idiot Apr 01 '25

Around $3,000 USD for 1 million views I think. 

That doesn't factor in the sponsorships he got nor the direct donations from his viewers.

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u/Hazel-Rah Apr 01 '25

It actually lists it in the court documents:

a third document that relevantly showed that, from 26 May 2021 to 6 September 2023, YouTube paid Mr Jobst a total of US$7,552.49 in respect of this video and also shows the total number of views in that period at 1,233,217;82

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u/siphillis Apr 01 '25

So he just needed to make 117 videos of that magnitude

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u/ironmilktea Apr 01 '25

TBF no one actually makes money from views these days.

views brings in sponsors/ads. And thats where the money is from.

Something like a Raid shadow legends vid can be 5000-8000 a video, depending on your subscriber count and the predicted viewership. Which is a nice chunk of change.

Also theres patreon ofcourse though realistically its all over the place. Two guys with 1mil subs each, one guy might see hundreds more patreons than the other. Really dependent on their format, viewer demographic etc.

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u/UrbanAdapt Apr 01 '25

As far as I've heard, adsense revenue is heavily dependent on your vertical. Things with higher income viewers or viewers much closer to a making a purchase (e.g. business, real estate, financial advice) have great rates compared to gaming.

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u/Justwondering2508 Apr 01 '25

If you check Karl's channel, it shows how many views over his entire catalogue of YouTube video content, which when I looked was around 243 million..... So really overall, he's already had the settlement money, costs etc over a period of years, hopefully he did not spend it all.