Karl Jobst wasn't just a bystander in the campaign against Apollo Legend, he actively helped orchestrate it. As a researcher for EZScape's video attacking Apollo Legend, Jobst's behind-the-scenes research fuelled the damaging claims, including inflammatory accusations about Apollo's GoFundMe efforts. This video was no innocuous commentary; it was a devastating blow that pushed Apollo to the brink, a fact confirmed by Apollo himself, who named EZScape in his final words. Jobst may not have been holding the camera, but his fingerprints are all over this gruesome spectacle, a fact he later cynically ignored while blaming Billy Mitchell.
Jobst chose to callously weaponise the tragedy, launching baseless attacks blaming Billy Mitchell for Apollo's death. An Australian court saw through the lies and slapped Jobst with a AU$350,000 libel judgment. The court found that Jobst had acted with malice and "reckless indifference" to the truth, highlighting his refusal to check facts, retract venomous allegations, show remorse or treat Mitchell's response with anything but contempt. Instead, Jobst mocked Mitchell's legal efforts and publicly doubled down on a narrative he knew was false. This wasn't just carelessness, it was a deliberate smear campaign to shift the blame away from himself and onto a scapegoat.
Jobst sunk even lower by finding a way to cash in on Apollo's death. He allegedly manipulated his audience into funding a GoFundMe under false pretenses, misrepresenting Mitchell's lawsuit as a threat to free speech. When the backlash erupted, Jobst offered a weak apology about 'transparency': a feeble attempt to deflect accusations of fraud. The hypocrisy is staggering: while he once lambasted Apollo's crowdfunding efforts, Jobst shamelessly replicated the same scheme, profiting from the very tragedy he helped create, and then blamed Mitchell for the consequences of all of his own actions.
It's deeply disturbing that Jobst, knowing full well that his and his associates' harassment contributed to Apollo's death, then turned his venom on Billy Mitchell. He subjected Mitchell to a vicious, sustained campaign of bullying, producing twenty-one videos designed to defame, humiliate and 'destroy' him. This obsessive vendetta reveals a calculated cruelty and willingness to destroy reputations. Jobst knew that his own actions had contributed to Apollo's death, yet he callously recycled the same strategies to target Mitchell, weaponising his platform to bury his own guilt.
Karl Jobst's behaviour reveals a moral void. He helped hound Apollo Legend to the breaking point, lied about Mitchell to deflect blame, allegedly misled fans for money, and bullied his targets without remorse. His most egregious sin? Accusing Mitchell of destroying Apollo, knowing full well that he himself had helped orchestrate the harassment that broke him.
