Billy Mitchell, the Donkey Kong champion had filed a defamation lawsuit against Karl Jobst, the Australian YouTuber. The legal battle began in 2020, and the verdict was delivered on April 1, 2025.

YouTube creator Karl Jobst has been ordered to pay up to AU$390,447 (or roughly $244,858 US dollars) to notable arcade gamer Billy Mitchell, following defamatory comments made against Mitchell in 2021 ...

Jobst said the following in a May 2021 video about Mitchell: He also sued YouTuber Apollo Legend for $1,000,000. I haven’t spoken about this publicly but this lawsuit ultimately ended with ...

“Mr Jobst was reckless in making the allegations, his assertions were based on a fallacy, namely, that Apollo Legend had paid Mr Mitchell a large sum of money. That was simply wrong, and he had ...

Jobst made videos claiming that Mitchell was blackmailing another YouTuber, named Ben Smith/Apollo Legend. Jobst accused Mitchell of forcing Apollo to settle with him, after Apollo made his own ...

However, the central part of Mitchell’s defamation lawsuit targeted Jobst’s allegations that Mitchell’s 2020 lawsuit against Youtuber Benjamin ‘Apollo Legend’ led to his suicide.

Karl’s video indirectly blamed William for the December 2020 suicide of Legend, whose real name was Benjamin Smith. The former claimed Apollo was stressed due to his “settlement” with ...

Via The Guardian, that allegation paled in comparison to Jobst's since-retracted assertion that Mitchell drove another YouTube artist, Apollo Legend, to suicide following his legal settlement with ...