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.

 

[DKB]

Edit: Oh, this is a mess.

 

[LexDG]

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.

 

[ShadowOne333]

King of Con still remains on top

 

[Joe88]

sadly not an april fools joke

 

[Ericzander]

Hi all, Mr. Attorney Man here. Just coming in to say that I, too, was bamboozled by Jobst here. While I never dug into the ACTUAL lawsuit I assumed, as Jobst led us to believe, that this case was primarily about Mitchell suing Jobst because he was upset that Jobst said that he was a fraud.

I think what this goes to show is that we're all susceptible to bias and we want to believe what we want to believe. I think Billy Mitchell is a cheater and a loser, while Karl Jobst always makes very entertaining videos going after people like Billy. So, naturally, I'm all team Jobst and had no reason to think this would go any direction other than Billy losing and getting smacked with Jobst's attorney's fees.

My eyes and bias shielded me from the fact that this suit was entirely about Jobst recklessly tying Mitchell to Apollo Legend's death while wrongly saying that Apollo owed Mitchell a large sum of money.

Whether Mitchell cheated in his world records or not (he did) was all but irrelevant and the judge didn't even need to make a finding on it.

What a rollercoaster. Oh well, I'll wait for Jobst's video on this to tell me how I should really feel. I mean...

 

[codezer0]

What judge would willingly let Billy win anything? Just... Ew. How do they sleep at night?

 

[supershadow64ds]

He cant keep getting away with this!!

Honestly tho, Karl fumbled this hard. Especially since he wouldnt shut his mouth during the case.

 

[x65943]

Further proof there is no justice in this world

 

[4d1xlaan]

Further proof there is no justice in this world

this wouldnt have happened if apollo justice was karl's attorney

 

[ChibiMofo]

I truly feel sorry for anyone so detached from reality that they actually know who these people are and what they look, sound like.

 

[smf]

This wouldn't have happened if Jobst had kept to the facts.

 

[x65943]

I truly feel sorry for anyone so detached from reality that they actually know who these people are and what they look, sound like.

My man Billy Mitchell is a very well known person

I would wager just about everyone who plays video games from time to time, watches YouTube from time to time and uses this website knows who he is

 

[orangy57]

Crazy that Karl Jobst made literally DOZENS of videos about Billy Mitchell and didn't mention this in any of them.

By the end it really felt like jobst was absolutely dragging the situation on and on and on. Doesn't help his case that he made all these inflammatory videos during an active lawsuit too.

This isn't to say that Billy Mitchell is a good guy or that he isn't a cheater but this changed my perspective honestly

 

[eyeliner]

This wouldn't have happened if Jobst had kept to the facts.

No, chief, facts don't sell.

 

[liquidgykill]

Billy may be an asshole and a conman but Karl didn't make it easier with his comments.
I think we gonna see a new more cautious Karl using lawyer aproved scripts from now on.
That snake billy will use this lawsuit win on his favor so Karl inadvertently helped him.
This is a mess, but the law is the law.

 

[BlusterBong]

oh wow the guy that people treated like a parriah for "speaking the truth" and supported because they were against a "bad guy" turned out to be a liar as well because nobody has ever seen this happen ever.


the fact he had been milking Billy Mitchel the whole way through should have been a red flag for why he's actually fought the lawsuit, thinking that Billy would be an easy victory dispite the fact that those who did win against Billy won because they kept thier mouth shut and kept everything under wraps.

 

[LoggerMan]

The YouTuber couldn't prove that what he said was substantially true?

 

[CMDreamer]

Too much drama.

 

[BlusterBong]

The YouTuber couldn't prove that what he said was substantially true?

It's so much worse because apparently Karl got definitive proof that Billy wasn't responsible for Apollo Legend's sudoku but kept fucking going anyways



This was posted under the section of the legal papers "Reckless Indifference to the facts" by the way.