William James Mitchell vs. Twin Galaxies LLC, Jeff Harrist & Jeremy Young & donkeykongforum.com, Benjamin Q Smith

[August Levasseur]

I remember Rekieta talking about how, in many cases, when a YouTuber or other internet personality gets sued they will often lose more money by not making videos about their case than they would lose in court by talking about their case. Now, he was talking about Alex Jones, and his advice wouldn't've worked for Jones because he was being sued for more money than currently exists on Earth, however in Jobst's case Rekieta's advice probably works out.

By my count, in the past 2 years or so Jobst has made 16 videos about Billy Mitchell. Most of them got over 1 million views, and the ones that didn't got at least 600k. Personally, I think most attempts to scry into what YouTubers make from their videos is often fruitless and vain speculation, but ~16 million views over the course of two years has got to be worth something in ad revenue. Add in sponsorships and whatever other sources of revenue he was able to rally over that time period and you've probably got quite a nice chunk of change.

Now, he's probably not happy at being made to pay almost a quarter million USD, but he probably saw this as a possibility and prepared accordingly. I think he talked in one of his videos about hardening his finances so that even if he was completely ruined by the lawsuit, his family would be able to get by more or less unscathed. He'll probably get by without much issue, and he may have even broken even thanks to his videos on the case.

 

[Private Tag Reporter]

I don't like to see Billy win, but I do like to see Karl lose. The smarmy cunt had it coming and it was obvious from miles away that Karl's position and immediate doubling down was completely indefensible. He should have stuck with exposing provable cheaters instead of latching on to Mitchell like a leech.

 

[King Bradley]

I hope Karl is prepared to file for bankruptcy to cheat Billy out of the judgement.

Bankruptcy won't magically make the judgement disappeared. All it would do is that each one of his youtube checks will be slashed to pay off any debts.

 

[IsaacShraeder]

Swing at the King (of Kong), you better not miss

 

[umseriously]

All this over a fucking donkey Kong game, one that was never good in the first place.

I hope everyone involved in the story makes a massive spectacle of themselves for my own amusement.

 

[Sweeter and Savoury]

If you live in Australia you're a stupid fag begging to be raped.

This

WTF else was Karl expecting from a Aussie court? Their rules around defamation are insanely retarded and they automatically make the loser pay costs so yah...good luck Karl Billy is gonna want that pound of flesh pretty fast.

It's so fucking sad how the court systems works pretty much everywhere.

 

[frari]

If you live in Australia you're a stupid fag begging to be raped.

one would have expected a more nuanced take, being involved in so many lawsuits themselves.

 

[Ygolonac]

I would not be surprised if billy offers a discount if he removes all of the videos he has made on him. I have them all archived ready to post if that happens

Billy is already wealthy and has an ego. I can see him wanting to be magnanimous here.
I will never doubt Billy again if all he wants is for his enemies to bend the knee and kiss the ring. The absurdity of it would be a gold mine. I want every jobst video for the rest of time to start with 10 minutes of Billy worship and advertising Billys new convention or some shit.

If he goes that far he deserves to be the king of kong tbh. The king can cheat all he wants.

 

[waffle]

Can you not be libel-proof in Australia or did he just do a bad job of making the defense? You'd think if anyone had no reputation left to harm it'd be Billy

 

[FamicomGorby]

one would have expected a more nuanced take, being involved in so many lawsuits themselves.

Why wouldn't that be his take? If Liz Fong Jones had tried to do what he did in America it would have gone absolutely nowhere. They did it specifically in Australia because their civil laws are completely fucked in favor of the plaintiff.

 

[ForgedBlades]

Jobst has enough braindead simps that most of that amount will be made up through viewer donations.

 

[Calandrino]

All this over a fucking donkey Kong game, one that was never good in the first place.

It's fucking Donkey Kong. It's not that fucking important.

Now I'm even more angry!

I care more about the validity of Donkey Kong high scores than whether or not Ukraine continues to exist, tbh.

 

[Friedchickenfan]

Don’t let a retarded faggot draw you down to his level, he will beat you with experience AND you will get AIDS.

 

[Dude Snakes]

you know what, as one of the biggest anti billy crusaders, I must admit that I was retarded for supporting a non american.
fuck all other countries, and the people within them. I'm thinkin karl deserves this.

No he doesn't keep being a bastard and cheering on bullshit get bent!

 

[DHugo]

I can hear it from the distance



WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAA BUDDDDDDDDDDYYYYYYYYYYY

 

[LadiosSopp]

Shut up and lawyer up. Karl failed to do this in spectacular fashion. I genuinely side with the court. The litigation wasnt about cheating. It was about Karl insinuating Apollo ACK'ing was due to Billy, and refusing to apologize for it.

Karl reaped what he sowed unfortunately, and he will be a laughing stock forever because he couldn't relent on something.

Just like I was uncomfortable with Nick and Ty gloating about Monica/Ron and LeMoine in the Vic case, I was uncomfortable with Karl trash talking Billy and making stupid WWE edits of the two wrestling in his videos. It was a bad look all around, and in retrospect, he really should have just shut the fuck up and bolstered a more solid defense. I completely forgot about the Apollo Legend issue since this took so long, but yea - defiantly reposting the original video with the incorrect statements was a seriously dumb as fuck move that made things super easy for Billy to prove defamation effectively.

 

[N Space]

'They hated jesus because he told them the truth'

 

[Blitzsneed]

I can see him wanting to be magnanimous here.

I'd definitely be. More than a quarter million in damages is way more than enough money to ruin a life. I'd be more worried of a retard trying to a Goldeneye speedrun my death.
I'd just tell him "I'll make you pay nothing this time. But don't do this shit again or I'm going to fucking rape you."

 

[Schizneed]

LMFAO time to pay up you absolute legend

 

[Lukie]

Billy winning once again!

Next up The Completionist will get his pound of flesh from Karl's libellous claims about the charity work he was doing.


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