Billy Mitchell is no newcomer to lawsuits, having already been to court regarding the legitimacy of his Donkey Kong world records. That lawsuit took place over the course of around five years, with the matter settled privately, and Mitchell's high scores being reinstated. Now, a second legal matter has concluded, once more in Mitchell's favor.

YouTube content creator Karl Jobst has called out Mitchell on a handful of occasions, claiming that the latter's records were cheated and illegitimate. Jobst also made a YouTube video that claimed following yet another Mitchell-related lawsuit against content creator Apollo Legend, Legend took his own life as a direct result of owing too much in debt to Mitchell.

Jobst: He also sued YouTuber Apollo Legend for $1,000,000. I haven’t spoken about this publicly but this lawsuit ultimately ended with Apollo giving in and settling with Mitchell. He was forced to remove all his videos about Mitchell’s cheating and paid him a large sum of money. This left him deeply in debt, which required him to find extra work, but with his ongoing health issues this was all too much of a burden and he ultimately took his own life. Not that Billy Mitchell would ever care, though. In fact, when Billy Mitchell thought Apollo died earlier he expressed joy at the thought. The lawsuit against Apollo was just as frivolous as the rest and Apollo definitely would have won in court, but again he was extremely ill and couldn’t handle the ongoing stress.

Mitchell filed a defamation case against Jobst, with his lawyers claiming Jobst's statements to be harmful to his reputation. KC Barlow, a Queensland, Australia judge proceeding over the case, found that while Mitchell has a negative reputation amongst the community as both a cheater and to frequently engage in suing parties for defamation, Jobst's videos on Mitchell were untrue. The defense team for Mitchell provided evidence that Apollo Legend never had to pay Mitchell any amount of money after the lawsuit--only if he made further content about Mitchell, which he never did--so Jobst's statements were incorrect and damaging to Mitchell.

Barlow: For the reasons below, I have made the following findings a) Mr Jobst defamed Mr Mitchell by making all the imputations that Mr Mitchell alleged;(b) Mr Mitchell has suffered significant personal and reputational harm as a consequence;(c) although he had the previous reputations alleged by Mr Jobst, and the defamatory video raised other substantially true contextual imputations about him, Mr Mitchell suffered substantially more personal and reputational harm as a consequence of Mr Jobst’s imputations about which Mr Mitchell complains;(d) Mr Jobst’s conduct since the first publication of the video, including during this proceeding, has been aggravating and has caused additional personal hurt and reputational damage to Mr Mitchell.[20] I therefore award Mr Mitchell $300,000 in general damages for non-economic loss and $50,000 in aggravated damages, plus interest on those sums at 3% per annum since the first publication on 21 May 2021. Subject to any submissions to the contrary, Mr Jobst should pay Mr Mitchell’s costs of this proceeding.

The judge ruled in favor of Mitchell, stating that Jobst now owes the former around AU$384,000 ($241,000) in damages, legal fees, and interest. Jobst had previously started a GoFundMe account to help pay for the legal case, with some of his backers reportedly claiming that Jobst misled his fans. A subset of his community say that Jobst asked for money, claiming that the lawsuit was due to Mitchell suing Jobst over cheating claims.

Jobst took to X to defend himself, after the ruling. Here, Jobst claims that he never misled his audience, though he could have been more transparent regarding the matter. He also states that his comments on Apollo Legend were a result of "relying on incorrect information from multiple sources." According to Jobst, he owes "well over 600k" in legal fees.

 

[SuffahBish]

Jobst is spinning right now. Lost a lot of trust for not being explicitly clear about why he was sued. A lot of people( including me) who watched ALL his videos are JUST now finding out it wasn’t about the cheating accusations at ALL.

I STILL like Karl and STILL think Billy is a terrible but this is bad. The only good thing here is that Jirard Khalil is SURE to sue now and HE will ABSOLUTELY lose.

But Karl needs to build back trust fast and releasing a sponsored video on the topic today was NOT the way to do it.

Yeah, he definitely did not mention the lawsuit was about the Apollo Legend claims. He made it seem like Billy was suing him over the cheating stuff which would have been an open and shut case.

 

[xtrem3x]

I don't know, or care, who any of these people are. But you can't just go spouting potentially damaging nonsense about people nowadays without the risk of taking a giant L. It seems this rule has been proven yet again

 

[AndorfRequissa]

all i know is that u gotta be a complete loser tool to sue someone over defamation about video game claims. honestly anyone who would do this should be tortured and killed.

Billy Mitchell is a complete loser even if he has some money.

 

[nmagod]

I'm just waiting for Billy to spin this win as "hey look, I'm not a cheater, a judge said so"

 

[SecureBoot]

all i know is that u gotta be a complete loser tool to sue someone over defamation about video game claims. honestly anyone who would do this should be tortured and killed.

Billy Mitchell is a complete loser even if he has some money.

That wasn't what the suit was about though...

 

[Coolsonickirby]

Two wrongs don't make a right. It doesn't matter if Jobst was outright lying; a lawsuit was not needed. Both men were wrong to do what they did.

I'll be quite real with you: If someone uploaded a video and claimed I pushed someone to death even though I had nothing to do with it, and that video got over 2 million+ views, filing a defamation lawsuit against them would be the nicest possible thing to do.

Even if I don't like Billy personally, Karl lost the moment he slinged a (very serious) false allegation against him.

 

[Adran_Marit]

I'm just waiting for Billy to spin this win as "hey look, I'm not a cheater, a judge said so"

Actually the judge did say he was a cheater XD

 

[Jayro]

He drove a guy to suicide...? What a shitbag.

I hope Billy gets buried alive under a pile of full wine barrels. The irony would be glorious.

 

[jurai]

He drove a guy to suicide...? What a shitbag.

I hope Billy gets buried alive under a pile of full wine barrels. The irony would be glorious.

The judge ruled that Billy didn't do that though. Karl claimed that Apollo killed himself over giving Billy all this money but it turned out Apollo never actually ended up giving Billy anything as confirmed by Apollos brother. Karl had already made the claims and kept modifying his video. Billy definitely cheated but the case isn't about that, Karl was the bad guy here

 

[gnmmarechal]

This is a mess, what a read

 

[The Real Jdbye]

The judge ruled that Billy didn't do that though. Karl claimed that Apollo killed himself over giving Billy all this money but it turned out Apollo never actually ended up giving Billy anything as confirmed by Apollos brother. Karl had already made the claims and kept modifying his video. Billy definitely cheated but the case isn't about that, Karl was the bad guy here

Then they're both bad guys.
Billy Mitchell does nothing but lie. Can't believe he actually won.

 

[Coolsonickirby]

He drove a guy to suicide...? What a shitbag.

did... did you just ignore everything???????

 

[Jayro]

did... did you just ignore everything???????

I admit, I don't follow Billy's cases.

 

[Bladexdsl]

they are both shitbags nuff said

 

[Coolsonickirby]

I admit, I don't follow Billy's cases.

Jobst publicly claimed that Billy was the one responsible for pushing Apollo Legend to commit suicide, even though (legally and publicly as far as we all know) he had nothing to do with it. That's the entire reason why Billy was able to win this lawsuit, because it was a defamation lawsuit against Karl for claiming Billy was the one who pushed Apollo Legend to commit suicide and NOT a defamation lawsuit because of his cheated scores (which is what most of the people believed the lawsuit was for.)

 

[The Catboy]

View attachment 495347 the right man won.

Do you just enjoy being a contrarian?

 

[Purple_Shyguy]

Do you just enjoy being a contrarian?

Do you enjoy being wrong? Do you backing the guy framing someone and wrongfully blaming them for someone's suicide?

 

[Coolsonickirby]

Do you enjoy being wrong? Do you backing the guy framing someone and wrongfully blaming them for someone's suicide?

Crazy because Billy still isn't a good guy lol.

 

[The Catboy]

Do you enjoy being wrong? Do you backing the guy framing someone and wrongfully blaming them for someone's suicide?

Billy is still a cheater but I do not enjoy being misled, which does make this case rather disappointing.
That said if this case's details were actually about him being a cheater. Billy would still be a cheater. Which is why I am not sure why anyone in their right mind would support him. Billy isn't the "right guy," he's a narcissistic liar and con artist. This case's results do not change anything about Billy's shitty history and actions.

a defamation lawsuit because of his cheated scores (which is what most of the people believed the lawsuit was for.)

This is what Jobst was pushing, which is why I am disappointed in the fact that the people were misled. Jobst has lost my support, dude proved himself to be a shitty person.

 

[ViDeOmAnCiNi]

GBF (Garrett Bobby Ferguson, Sr., def not BM)