Unfortunate. It still doesn’t change the fact that Billy Mitchell is a huge loser.
Silly Bitchell
Mitchell sucks, but falsely claiming that he drove a person to suicide is a dick move to say the least.
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”
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.
Billy Mitchell can sue people all the live long day and win or lose it doesn’t make him less of a clown.
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.
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
Edit - You were right, he said he had some financial hardships and health issues. Billy ultimately got no money from him, but I don’t think it’s a far leap to suggest lawyers fees may have been part of that hardship
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I see
Wow, but I thought Billy Mitchell was that cheaty guy
The King of Kong is a great documentary I encourage everyone to watch. Whole thing is on YT and other sites
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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…
WTF
Deffo cases are truth defense here in Australia FYI for added context.
Hello you absolute legends!!! Happen to have an extra $230,000 you want to send me? Until next time you absolute legends!!!
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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.
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Yeah but that’s not the issue apparently.
Everyone assumed Jobst was being sued for claiming Mitchell was a cheater. Turns out it was because he claimed Mitchell had driven another YouTube to suicide.
We’ve been taken for a ride and Jobst had been purposely avoiding taking about what the lawsuit was actually about.
