It was because he framed the lawsuit leading up to it as if it was over Dumbass’s (I forgot his name) fraudulent records and not over defammatory statements about Dumbass’s response to some other gamer offing themselves or some such similar tangential issue.
I’ve forgotten all the details because I don’t care and I’m also drunk, but hopefully someone can clarify without making shit up. Though the core of it was that he was being sued over far more legitimate grounds than Dumbass’s provably false records. Hence why Karl lost.
I mean I didn’t think it was really legitimate grounds. This is just from memory, but I think the issue was that he called out Billy Mitchell for cheating being the foundation of basically his whole career, and then Billy sued him for some minor tangential bullshit mostly just totally unrelated to that. I think you are correct, Jobst accused Billy of laughing and being cheerful about some other streamer killing himself (which he definitely did) but also made some kind of minor factual error while talking about it, and Billy convinced a judge that that was worth multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of damages. That was my understanding of it.
Edit: Mostly I think it’s weird to include him in this list because even by the most anti-Jobst reading all he did was slander Billy Mitchell. That seems kind of out of place on a list which currently includes people guilty of pedophilia (Miranda), mass plagiarism (Illuminaughti), and some sort of unholy systematic turbo-pedophilia which is hard to even summarize (Onision).
Also, I’m a little disturbed that I know the details of all of this weird pop-culture drama bullshit. Maybe the real streamer slop was inside us all the time.
It was because he framed the lawsuit leading up to it as if it was over Dumbass’s (I forgot his name) fraudulent records and not over defammatory statements about Dumbass’s response to some other gamer offing themselves or some such similar tangential issue.
I’ve forgotten all the details because I don’t care and I’m also drunk, but hopefully someone can clarify without making shit up. Though the core of it was that he was being sued over far more legitimate grounds than Dumbass’s provably false records. Hence why Karl lost.
I mean I didn’t think it was really legitimate grounds. This is just from memory, but I think the issue was that he called out Billy Mitchell for cheating being the foundation of basically his whole career, and then Billy sued him for some minor tangential bullshit mostly just totally unrelated to that. I think you are correct, Jobst accused Billy of laughing and being cheerful about some other streamer killing himself (which he definitely did) but also made some kind of minor factual error while talking about it, and Billy convinced a judge that that was worth multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of damages. That was my understanding of it.
Edit: Mostly I think it’s weird to include him in this list because even by the most anti-Jobst reading all he did was slander Billy Mitchell. That seems kind of out of place on a list which currently includes people guilty of pedophilia (Miranda), mass plagiarism (Illuminaughti), and some sort of unholy systematic turbo-pedophilia which is hard to even summarize (Onision).
Also, I’m a little disturbed that I know the details of all of this weird pop-culture drama bullshit. Maybe the real streamer slop was inside us all the time.
Oh I agree it’s all BS and the literal fraud that is Billy should be in jail over being a LITERAL FRAUD, but such is life.
Yeah. Life is a fuck