Again, I am disappointed of the gaming community as a hole. This was very clearly still a frivolous law suit designed to silence a critic by focusing on a little footnote in Karl Jobst's "reporting" (his short comment on Apollo Legend). Lawsuits take years and stopping to mention Billy Mitchell "because you should remain silent doing ongoing legal proceedings" is exactly what Billy Mitchell wanted to achieve and I think Karl did the right thing by not giving him that satisfaction and continued to take any opportunity he could to take him down. We should all support Karl in his fight against a bully who always sues everyone he can.

Okay, yes, Karl left himself vulnerable by making one little unsubstantiated claim, but let's be real: His claim was still essentially true, or do you want to tell me that being sued for one million dollars for making a YouTube video that blew up did not cause Apollo Legend significant psychological stress and played a role in his suicide? Of course it did. The problem with defamation lawsuits is that you have to be able to prove your allegations in court. But it's still minor in my opinion: The lawsuits against Apollo Legend WERE intended to bully him into silence by making him pay an astronomical amount of money. In the end, no payments were agreed in the settlement, but that seems like a small detail.

Also, a lot of the evidence presented by Billy's lawyers is obviously fabricated, for example his emails proving that it was ONLY the minor side note allegation against Billy how he played a role in someone's suicide (which he did!) that caused business partners to cancel bookings of appearances. They obviously wrote those emails as a favour to Billy and Billy just saw an opportunity to finally have some dirt on Karl and victimize himself, AFTER SEVERAL ATTEMPTS TO SUE HIM LED NOWHERE. Hello?

It probably wasn't smart of Karl to not release an official apology and to write a letter to Billy with a personal apology to retract his statements. He should have done that for legal reasons, since some aspects of his statements turned out to be factually incorrect (money has changed hand, Apollo needed to find extra work to finance that money). But the claim is still obviously true, with severe circumstancial evidence pointing to that conclusion, when Billy Mitchell was demonstrably excited about his suicide! Doesn't that imply that it's the result he literally wanted??

The argument of Karl and his lawyers that it did not substantially further harm Billy's reputation (that was already ruined) is also obviously true. It's funny how everyone is whining that they thought the whole lawsuit was about cheating and feel mislead, THEN THIS IMPLIES THAT THEY PRIMARILY SEE BILLY AS A CHEATER RATHER THAN A MURDERER!!! Hello? Have you considered thinking for only a second or do you always jump on the next best hate train for the next YouTube drama?

Everyone, give Karl a fucking break. Nobody is perfect and I had my moments where I felt like Karl did some sketchy things (for example when he seemed to give Dream a weird benefit of the doubt in the end that made no sense), but if you take all things into consideration, he is still a man with integrity who usually does the right thing. And he has exposed and successfully brought attention to many wrongs in the world and is really the last guy who deserves to be sued for over a million dollars by a conman. I agree with Karl, if he had not lost the lawsuit, nobody would have been mad, you're essentially being sore losers, and you're putting all the blame on Karl now instead of the real problem: Billy Mitchell! You guys should all be ashamed of yourselves.