In 2021, Karl Jobst was exposed for having ties to Neo-Nazi speedrunner, RWhiteGoose. He not only never apologized for this; he’s still racist/fash in 2025.
Note: I will update this piece if any further information comes to light. I will also provide my own coverage, listing it at the top of the page for any who are curious; i.e., this page is a summary of the findings surrounding Karl’s racism, whereas I’ve written and recorded quite a bit more about Karl’s bigotry—his racism, sexism and cryptofascism—than is being shown here; i.e., this page merely records the base findings, reporting my overall conclusions regarding said findings. Alongside those, here are my extended writings and videos those conclusions are based on:
- Written, book: “Modularity and Class” (August 27th, 2024): The first piece I wrote on Karl, beyond citing his videos in my work; i.e., the one where I first came across the 2021 evidence against him, and wrote about it in regards to my own research (on sexist, racism gamers under neoliberal Capitalism the world over).
- Written, blog: “Those Who Walk Away from Speedrunning: A Trans Woman’s Experiences Researching (and Abuse Suffered from) the Speedrunning Community” (January 13th, 2025): A follow-up to “Modularity and Class,” one where—as part of my 2025 Metroidvania Corpus—I re-examine several bigoted streamers and YouTubers, including Caleb Hart but also Karl Jobst.
- YouTube: “Persephone’s Metroidvania Series #5: Those Who Walk Away from Speedrunning (feat. Karl Jobst)” (Jan 13th, 2025): A companion video to “Those Who Walk Away from Speedrunning” where I read said article out loud, but also discuss the evidence against Karl Jobst; i.e., I watch and criticize his pickup-artist video.
- YouTube: “Bell TOLLS for @karljobst: Redeems Billy Mitchell by Lying about Apollo Legends!” (April 3rd, 2025): I discuss SmashJT‘s coverage of Karl Jobst losing his lawsuit, on April 1st, 2025.
- YouTube: “Responding to [a] Lawyer about Karl Jobst Being A Sore Loser” (April 8th, 2025): I watch LUS discuss Karl Jobst being a self-confessed sore loser (in general but also about the lawsuit).
- YouTube: “On Karl Jobst: My Final Say; or, Full Timeline Breakdown + His Bigoted Past” (April 23rd, 2025): I consider the entire timeline against Karl Jobst, both from my own coverage (outlined above) but also in a video by Arkamatt going over all the evidence against Karl Jobst as of April 19th, 2025 (including any of the times where Karl contradicted himself, which is a lot). I also give shout-outs to, and outline the work of, other YouTubers also covering Karl: Gamer-X, LUS, and SmashJT, among others.
- YouTube: “Karl Jobst Is RACIST in 2025 + Full Evidence!” (April 30th, 2025): Due to other YouTubers discussing Karl’s sexism but not his racism, I compile all the evidence I can find (on short notice) into one video; I also discuss Gamer-X and LUS’s curious reluctance, as racial minorities, to discuss Karl’s racism openly (while still acknowledging that he is racist).
- YouTube: “Token Racist Defends Karl Jobst’s Racism?” (May 2nd, 2025): I respond to Gamer-X calling me out—with Gamer-X essentially being a token racist person who defends Karl Jobst, a proven racist person, as he does so; re: racism is provable, ipso facto (“by virtue of action”).
For anyone saying in 2025 that Karl Jobst isn’t racist, or not wanting to discuss it after his failed lawsuit defense (source: Smash JT’s “Fans Are PISSED At Karl Jobst After TRUTH Comes Out In Billy Mitchell Lawsuit”), this image of Elon Musk doing the Nazi salute (from Trump’s inauguration rally) was on Karl’s Discord not even two weeks ago, 4/22/2025; i.e., after he lost in court (and despite him investigating Musk for cheating):
This is racist, because the Nazi salute is racist, period. Using it makes you racist, ipso facto, but especially in light of past events that involve Karl and various racist people—most notably a Neo-Nazi named RWhiteGoose. To that, there are some additional clues if the above image by itself is not convincing (for ye of good faith):
- One, Karl’s defence fund against the Billy Mitchel lawsuit (which he lied about) was funded by Notch, a billionaire with alt-right views (see tweets, listed on Reddit). Said views align with Elon Musk, also billionaire with alt-right views (and the person in the meme Karl used last month).
- Two, the original leaked messages (CW: racist slurs), which I’ve covered at length in a previous YouTube video, “Karl Jobst Is RACIST in 2025 + Full Evidence!“:
- Three, that said evidence from those messages was confirmed by Karl himself, despite others suggesting otherwise. For example, in my latest video, “Token Racist Defends Karl Jobst’s Racism?” Gen-X Gamer insinuates how the Discord screencaps from back in 2021 were “fake.” He says, “But now you guys want to expose him for things that you claim are on the Internet, that you claim he put up there, and I believe that you believe that” (timestamp: 4:37). The problem with that is, Karl himself already responded to the messages in question, back in 2021; i.e., responding to each of them in turn and verifying they how were, in fact, real (Karl Jobst’s “I’m Being SUED And CANCELLED!”; timestamp: 3:59).
Regarding point three, lets remember a few additional subpoints:
- Karl doesn’t even deny that Goose is a Nazi (nor was Goose quiet about his beliefs); he says that he, Karl, was “being canceled” during guilt by association—in short that Karl’s innocent (according to him), essentially being caught in a server run by an out-and-out Neo-Nazi while having conversations with said Nazi about why it’s ok to say racial slurs (re: the evidence from the screencaps, discussed in “Karl Jobst Is RACIST“); i.e., that it’s “just a coincidence” and that racial slurs, according to Karl, “aren’t used by anyone he knows in Australia” (despite him and Goose having conversations about when and where its ok to use slurs, Karl breaking his own rule). In other words, Karl used his usual “I’m the victim and I’m being canceled by the woke mob” nonsense (standard fash DARVO), along with “it can’t be bigoted because it’s all an inside joke between friends who aren’t racist” because… Karl says they’re not racist. In fash systems of argument, this is called the Force of Will.
- Goose was a bonafide Nazi, and banned for it in December 2018 (source: Dopefishblog’s “Why Banning Nazis is Good, Actually”). Not only that, but Karl knew about his beliefs before the ban, saying as much in the 2021 confession; i.e., saying they were actually planning to do a public apology for Goose (to get ahead of things) before someone blew the whistle, beating them to the punch. Karl had already cleaned up his side of things, but Goose had gotten caught with his pants down. And from there, Karl just denied and downplayed everything in his usual style. But despite his additional explanations back then, he’s still racist and sexist in 2025 much like he was in earlier times—all on top of now also being a proven cheater himself who defrauded his audience and lost in court over false allegations against Billy Mitchell.
- LUS himself, a non-white lawyer, has previously explained how Karl Jobst’s discord is still to this day full of racist material that LUS—if they were in Karl’s shoes—would have deleted by now (LUS’ “Exposing Karl Jobst GoFundMe Scandal 2 Years Ago”; timestamp: 16:03). So, the stuff from 2018 and 2019 that Karl said “wasn’t racist” back in 2021—including about his Chinese wife—LUS, an Asian American, thinks is “disturbing” and “a little racist”; i.e., to the level that it made him vocally feel upset and lose a lot of respect for Karl. Maybe LUS was referring to the “J*P” comment instead of the one about Karl’s wife, or the hip-hop stuff, but it doesn’t really matter. Racism is just as much about how someone’s conduct makes a racial minority feel as it also pertains to the academic side of things (though LUS is a lawyer and weighs in as a lawyer*). And to that, Karl is racist because he made LUS feel discriminated against in 2025 based on older material.
*As a lawyer, LUS does not think highly of Karl (or his friends; e.g., Ersatz, who—say what you will about him from a legal standpoint, including the wisdom of writing a 97-page, 35,000-word article with 568 citations dragging the judge for Karl’s case after Karl lost—at least has the decency to speak out against genocide, above).
Of Karl, LUS says in a recent follow-up video (to summarize): “If Karl doesn’t appeal, he’s done an incredibly, incredibly bad thing to the Australian YouTuber community […] Karl is not a hero; he should never have gone to trial/to verdict and, after he did, he should have settled. It was never to late to settle. This sets a very bad legal precedent for all YouTubers in Australia, and that is Karl’s fault” (LUS’ “Lawyer on How Karl Jobst Losing to Billy Mitchell Will Hurt Youtubers”; timestamp: 17:03).
- But also, on the academic side of things (my domain), dude’s racist as hell, has alt-right ties tied to capital (re: a billionaire paying his legal fees), and not only refused to apologize for his bigoted past, but actually insisted it was a conspiracy against him; i.e., making DARVO and cryptofascist obscurantist arguments against his accusers being “cancel culture.” That’s what a Nazi—specifically a cryptofascist—would do. Furthermore, Karl loved to speak in medieval language, labeling himself a knight and going on spurious crusades in bad-faith while conning people in the process (another Nazi trick); i.e., using various smokescreens and distractions (e.g., investigating Musk in public [Karl Jobst’s “The Elon Musk Cheating Scandal,” 2025] while endorsing him in private) to lie to his viewers’ faces.
(source: Rex Martinitch’s “‘King of Kong’ Reigns Supreme over YouTube Knight,” 2025)
For a man that says he’s “not racist,” Karl Jobst is lying because: one, that’s what cryptofascists do, but also being racist in plain sight despite the lies.
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Persephone van der Waard is the author of the multi-volume, non-profit book series, Sex Positivity—its art director, sole invigilator, illustrator and primary editor (the other co-writer/co-editor being Bay Ryan). Persephone has her independent PhD in Gothic poetics and ludo-Gothic BDSM (focusing on partially on Metroidvania), and is a MtF trans woman, anti-fascist, atheist/Satanist, poly/pan kinkster, erotic artist/pornographer and anarcho-Communist with two partners. Including multiple playmates/friends and collaborators, Persephone and her many muses work/play together on Sex Positivity and on her artwork at large as a sex-positive force. That being said, she still occasionally writes reviews, Gothic analyses, and interviews for fun on her old blog (and makes YouTube videos talking about politics). Any money Persephone earns through commissions or donations goes towards helping sex workers through the Sex Positivity project; i.e., by paying costs and funding shoots, therefore raising awareness. She takes payment on PayPal, Patreon, and CashApp, etc; all links are available on her Linktr.ee. Every bit helps!