Conversely, I'm getting a little tired of Karl Jobst mostly becoming a drama channel against fraudsters like Billy Mitchell or the Open Hand Charity. Those guys do deserve it, but it's sucking oxygen away from Jobst's usual commentary on speed running techniques. He's also working outside his specialty--these are American cases, and he's a lawyer under Australian law--and not all his claims carry weight.

[–] pancakes@sh.itjust.works 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I haven't watched his videos in a while but isn't he being sued by Billy Mitchell? I assumed his videos were more out of spite than actually chasing drama.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 7 points 10 months ago

He was sued by Billy, yes, but the charity case is unrelated.

[–] BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 10 months ago

Yes he is

[–] stufkes@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Thank you so much for this post, I thought I was the only one. The quality of his content has really gone down as a result of him fixating on the drama. I thought his deep dive into rating retro games was good, but he is becoming full of himself. Needs to step back and reevaluate what the channel used to be about. But I'm guessing the drama makes him more money. He wouldn't be the first youtuber to "go bad" because of the algorithm.

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago

YouTube recommended me a Jobst video the other day, and I thought "I've already seen his Billy Mitchell video, haven't I?" And I had. What I hadn't seen were the fifteen other videos he's made about him. As I write this comment, his latest video about Billy Mitchell was uploaded 17 hours ago.

[–] Elderos@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I don't think he's a lawyer.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 4 points 10 months ago

I could have sworn he said he had a legal degree in his home country of Australia, but I can't find any evidence of it now.

[–] BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 10 months ago

No, he’s not

[–] FatTony@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Doesn't help the fact that his (Karl Jobst) latest video is of course AGAIN about Billy Mitchell: "I Just Exposed Billy Mitchell's DUMBEST LIE EVER!" I think I'm starting to see a bit of a patern here...

[–] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 10 months ago

I think people in this section of the comments are a bit unreasonable. Jobst made 2 videos about Open Hands Foundation and the reason to publish the first one doesn't have to be "drama". The second... Maybe... But then again, people like "updates" which is also the reason by billy Mitchell videos are coming and they are updates. In both cases, there is a strong relationship between the core theme video games and the "drama". Open Hands Foundation's event was about showcasing games and Billy is the best video gamer of all time. God bless billy.

So I don't think Jobst videos are so... Offtopic. Especially as he talked about Speedrun drama before.

[–] Sheeple@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I miss when Karl used to be more an investigation and explanation type channel for e-sports