• vxx@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

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

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    23 hours ago

    He has a wife, kids and a house, now he’s going to have to pay $600k and his wife will probably leave him along with the kids because he wouldn’t shut up about a Donkey Kong court case.

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    2 days 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.

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    2 days ago

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

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      2 days ago

      As soon as I heard that line in the video, I thought to myself, “oh no Karl, that might have been a bridge too far.”

      It’s unfortunate but Karl really thought to himself, “I’m going to say the most inflammatory shit about the most litigious person on the internet, and because Billy is such a huge loser I can’t fail!”

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      2 days 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.

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    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.

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      2 days 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.

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        Similar experience for me. I was interested in the case at first cause I was hoping Billy Mitchell might face some consequences for his vexatious approach to litigation. Using threats of lawsuits to silence critics etc. But soon in it became clear to me that Jobst was using any excuse to make content, then padding out those videos with ads and petty attacks/lame jokes, all the while asking for more donations. I stopped watching early on.

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    Does anyone have the video where Jobst makes the claim that Mitchel drove Smith to suicide?

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      2 days ago

      implied that Mitchell’s settlement with Smith involved the latter paying him a large sum of money, ultimately leading to his suicide in 2020. Jobst also claimed in the video that Mitchell had “expressed joy at the thought” of Smith’s death. It was this—and not any claim about the legitimacy of Mitchell’s Donkey Kong scores—that prompted Mitchell to sue Jobst.

      • inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        Yeeeah… I’m coming in to this situation cold, aside from seeing King of Kong years ago. Billy is without question an asshole, but saying he was happy about a suicide AND that the suicide was linked to his lawsuit, are both pretty clear cut examples of defamation.

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    1 day ago

    I’ve never liked Jobst. His “Hello you absolute legends” opener always rubbed me up the wrong way.

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      I have nothing personal against him, but I can’t watch his videos because the way he speaks is too distracting.

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      22 hours ago

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