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Unfortunately it is not an April Fool's joke, but it should be. > Donkey Kong champion wins defamation case against Australian YouTuber Karl Jobst The title s
by bArray 2y ago
Unfortunately it is not an April Fool's joke, but it should be.
> Donkey Kong champion wins defamation case against Australian YouTuber Karl Jobst
The title sounds as if he is still recognised as a Donkey Kong Champion, where clearly in the first sentence:
> A professional YouTuber in Queensland has been ordered to pay $350,000 plus interest and costs to the former world record score holder for Donkey Kong, after the Brisbane district court found the YouTuber had defamed him “recklessly” with false claims of a link between a lawsuit and another YouTuber’s suicide.
They describe him as a former world record score holder, but don't go as far as to state that it was revoked based on allegations of him cheating.
I don't think that Karl did $350k+ worth of damages to Billy, to be honest I wasn't really aware of the suicide allegation anyway.
- alt227 2y ago> it was revoked based on allegations of him cheating Twin galaxies settled out of courst and reinstated his scores, albeit on a newly created 'legacy record database' instead of the actual leaderboards. So officially he was a world record holder at some time in the past, although everybody and their dog knows he cheated.