I believe this extremely relevant to future discussions on Karl Jobst's lawsuit against Billy Mitchell, in particular to verify his claims on Billy Mitchell and assess his standing in this entire affair without depending too much on Twitter, YouTube videos or community posts, and leaked Discord messages as sources. Mods can delete this post if it's not fit for this sub anyway since it links to outside of these social media platforms and relates more closely to real-life affairs (the lawsuit) than to YouTube drama (though I feel it intersects both regardless). I also put aside Jobst's past as a pick-up artist, his relation to the far-right and his general demeanor "of the asshole-ish variety", not because they don't matter to discussions concerning him and drama about him (they do), but just to focus here on the latest drama and prepare for future developments.

While perusing that website (iykyk) I came across this blog, perfectpacman.com, written by someone nicknamed "ersatz_cats", who has documented the whole Billy Mitchell cheating situation for many years now. There are many posts also detailing the status of Mitchell's lawsuit against Jobst, from the very beginning ("day 0"), when Apollo Legend passed away. The author clearly has a bias against Mitchell (which is understandable; does anyone here like him? even if most of us probably dislike Karl even more), though it seems to come from years of research and internet investigative journalism (or as close to "journalism" as this whole thing can be), instead of Jobst's obsessive and vindictive attitude against him ("I am the last chance the public has to punish Billy", "if I win, oh boy, I’m not going to be a good winner" etc.).

The last post (as of writing) tries to answer the question "Did Karl Jobst like about the Billy Mitchell lawsuit?" and has tons of clarifying information about muddier aspects of the whole thing. It's no use arguing that Jobst didn't cause any misunderstanding about the reason Mitchell was suing him, even if he had his reasons not to discuss it anymore (making false claims pertaining to the lawsuit in a video and having to remove that section entirely, not being at liberty to talk about the lawsuit's details publicly in the first place etc.). That being said, it seems most (if not all) of the reporting I've seen on this so far (I had a busy week and only got around to it this morning) has come from people woefully ignorant of the history of this feud, which this handy post (and many others) documents extensively; the author even concedes the entire thing has been documented, perhaps, too extensively, not because of any inability to condense the information, neither because all this detail is necessary to discuss the matter at all, but because the author "would prefer to cater toward readers who appreciate that sort of thing".

I don't have as much free time to engage in this type of stuff anymore (thank God) so I couldn't proof-read any posts in this blog (besides the last one linked above) or summarize their most important points here, but I hope someone here can find this useful for when Jobst inevitably, does not admit to and does repent for any substantial mistakes he's done as regards this shitshow.

PS: I chose the flag "Exposé" since it seems the most fitting but otherwise I have no clue what this falls under.

I know she's a smaller channel, but seeing that she's gone on a hiatus just sucked. I'd recently gotten back into watching Dumbsville's videos and his great Metal Gear Solid analyses and it just hit me that I hadn't heard from her even though I was subbed. It really sucks to see that this channel that I kinda watched but was a big part of a channel I actually watched (Dumbsville) just disappear because of her mental health. I remember that she had a patreon to help with getting bottom surgery and I'd love to contribute as it'd be giving back to someone who'd helped make some very fond memories on YouTube.

Okay so there is some background to this story so sit tight. I am going to go over the video as well.

Who is Mr.Happy1227: Michael "Mr. Happy" Poveromo, a very well known streamer in the FFXIV and FFXIV communities. He has been with FFXIV since 1.0 when the game was a disaster. He has built a community over 10+ years on making guides, lore videos, and podcasts with other fellow creators. He has had some controversy in the past(crashing out on stream, feeling entitled to clears on difficult content, and generally producing guides that prioritize a day one clear instead of optimization), but he is generally a good guy. Recently got into shape after he split from his girlfriend.

The mother situation: A few years back Michael's father died. This left his disabled mother alone with a house she couldn't afford. Michael had been doing his best to help with the finances but it simply was too much. He then opened a GoFundMe to fundraise to help her pay the costs of the mortgage. The goal was set at $50,000. They eventually raised over 100k. Michael handed his mother the funds and stopped paying on the mortgage for her. The expectation was that she could handle it herself now.

Current situation: Michael gets a call from family members about his mother being removed from the home. She says that she had been paying on the mortgage every month. However, Michael produces a paper that says she has not paid on the mortgage. Michael admits that he has been in dire financial straits for a few years because of this situation. He doesn't believe he can trust his mother and as such has been in minimal contact with her. He feels like she is lying but at this point he wasn't to be separated from her.

Situation going forward: Michael wants to return the money that was given to her for the GoFundMe as best her can. He doesn't have Access to the GoFundMe account because he passed all of that to his mother and at this point he wants nothing to do with her. He intends on giving away any influencer goodies so that he can try to make things right. He also intends on doing a stream a thon to raise money to pay the people who paid him back. He is very apologetic over the situation and wants to make it right.

Final thoughts: The whole situation is very odd. I don't think he is lying but the mother seems to be up to something. I don't want to speculate beyond that I think she just mishandled the funds and didn't want to say anything to him about it.

Thoughts?