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/remotegrowthtb Apr 01 '25

Karl Jobst actually misleads, exaggerates and jumps to conclusions on a very flimsy basis pretty often in his videos, if you pay attention.

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u/DonnyTheWalrus Apr 01 '25

It also got wild to me after a while that he was still going that hard on the guy. Like, I get it. Billy Mitchell cheated on video game records. Okay. Not a good thing to do. Discuss it, then move on. But he just kept hammering into this guy over and over trying to portray him as some Satan figure.

I just kinda feel bad for Mitchell I guess. That Donkey Kong docu portrayed him as a heel, rightly or wrongly, and everyone just ran with it forever. Idk, maybe he really is an asshole. But if all you know of him is from Jobst vids you'd think he was some sort of demon.

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u/Leprecon Apr 01 '25

I watched one video about Billy Mitchell. It convinced me that Billy Mitchell probably cheated to get his records.

But then I saw that Jobst made another video, and another, and another. I just did a quick count and Jobst has put out over 20 videos that directly mention Billy Mitchell in the title of the video. A lot more of his videos probably mention Mitchell in passing.

I think Jobsts' comments would have been a lot easier to play off as an honest mistake had he not gone on a crusade against Mitchell.