Unfortunate. It still doesn’t change the fact that Billy Mitchell is a huge loser.
Silly Bitchell
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.
pcgamer.com with the spineless headline which should have read “Donkey Kong cheater Billy Mitchell”
Mitchell sucks, but falsely claiming that he drove a person to suicide is a dick move to say the least.
Billy Mitchell can sue people all the live long day and win or lose it doesn’t make him less of a clown.
I haven’t watched Jobst’s videos for a while. I was in understanding that the lawsuit was about cheating allegations. At least that’s what Jobst implied. It seems that wasn’t the case after all. It was about (false) claims Jobst made in a video published in 2021.
Overall I think that Jobst went way too far with Billy Mitchell.
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.
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.
Hello you absolute legends!!! Happen to have an extra $230,000 you want to send me? Until next time you absolute legends!!!
Wow, but I thought Billy Mitchell was that cheaty guy
Wait, he lost? How
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.
Ah, so Jobst was just lying to his audience for years about it all. I always thought he seemed kinda sus.
So did they not commit suicide, or was Jobst just wrong about the exact circumstances leading up to it?
No the dude did, and basically said in his final video that it was because of the lawsuits
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.
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
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I see
The King of Kong is a great documentary I encourage everyone to watch. Whole thing is on YT and other sites
As if Mitchell can BE defamed.
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.
This one time he truly was. April Fools came kicking ass this year…
Deffo cases are truth defense here in Australia FYI for added context.
WTF
I’ve never liked Jobst. His “Hello you absolute legends” opener always rubbed me up the wrong way.
“Absolute legend” is is just an Aussie saying. Nothing bad about it. Calling someone a legend is very common in lots of parts of Australia.
I have nothing personal against him, but I can’t watch his videos because the way he speaks is too distracting.
