The Dumbest Fake Speedrun Ever

[@karljobst]

Badabun's fake speedrun was pretty bad, but this one was a real world record on a real leaderboard which I think makes it funnier. What do you think? Play War Thunder now with my link, and get a massive, free bonus pack including vehicles, boosters and more: playwt.link/karljobst24

[@themissingsamurai]

good luck with the lawsuit... not that you'll need it lol

[@TailsSu]

Hey Karl, hope your doing good man. Remember to take time to focus on yourself and take care of your mental health. You're doing well mate, keep up the good work. Very proud to have an Aussie like you representing the Speedrunning community with news and stories.

[@JimmmyRaynor]

what about Todd todgers? he has the world record for dumbest speed runner

[@witness1013]

@@themissingsamurai oh yes he does

[@lostskull7467]

I always look for an excuse to rewatch your badabum video 🤣 I love it

[@viljamtheninja]

This is fascinating. A fake that manages to be simultaneously really high effort and really low effort.

[@OptimalToast]

Yeah, so much effort, but still so sloppy.

[@SnowmanTF2]

Seems largely to highlight what he knew would be an issue and what he did not. Since with all the effort on things showed, clearly was willing to put work in. Trended toward noticing things could given it away in the moment, verses taking time to review the run as a whole.

[@dragoon0anime]

He should have gone for video editing over speedrunning

[@CuteLittleGoat]

This is what happens when You hiperfocus on some details and miss the bigger picture.

[@EnigmaticLucas]

@@dragoon0animeOr acting

[@cedriclothritz7281]

16:50 hearing "Yes! 354 milliseconds!" after all that moaning would just be comedy gold out of context!

[@wreckronomic6663]

"Yes, yes! I beat it!"

[@gemtree1608]

😅😅😅😅😅​@@wreckronomic6663

[@SabishiiRyuu]

i haven't laughed this hard in a while. that's actually so fucking good out of context.

[@conscience404]

Dude just got his PB, ggs

[@carrastealth]

And then plays Beach Boys.

[@2Siders]

Alternative title: REALLY BAD SPEEDRUNNER TURNS OUT TO BE PRETTY GOOD VIDEO EDITOR

[@P4INKiller]

Your bar seems to be really low for video editing.

[@andy4an]

​yeah, it's not that the editing was technically sophisticated. It's just that he did the legwork and thought of many many tells and addressed them. Maybe "speedrun cheater's attention to detail fooled everyone for 2 years"

[@audiosurfarchive]

He's at least patient and persistent.. not the most technically minded tho from missing all the small fuckups though. Just do legit video editing!

[@jishan6992]

BUT ALSO WITH VERY SHORT OVERSIGHT

[@ZitahGirlGames]

GONE SEXUAL

[@Feizel]

The fact that nobody was even looking for this, just a bored dude writing a python script and seeing something odd is pretty telling about how much more cheating is yet to be uncovered

[@What-Hapen]

It's extraordinary how many of these things are found accidentally. Luck really isn't on the liar's side.

[@wenn678]

Everyone always says "why didn't he eat pizza or drink coke" but nobody questions when badabun doesn't perform a dance number after completing his run.

[@Blsblsblalblsblslsnss]

Ah, yes. A man of culture

[@rogehmarbi]

That dance is something straight out of Dora the Explorer really

[@MrPuckpunk]

fair

[@informitas0117]

The dance made cringe so hard it might have been a world record.

[@Squant]

It's because pizza is objectively awesome and that dance is the lamest thing I've ever seen. Badabun is clearly a man of class.

[@GH3PC]

Have a feeling you’re lying, he doesn’t have pizza or coke next to him.

[@astrayamatu]

and dont forget the heart beat monitor

[@norwegianboyee]

@@astrayamatu And how his heart monitor instantly reaches heart attack speed when he get's the record.

[@LiCuKi]

Which is why you can tell he's not legit.

[@emeraldaly7646]

Just saw the thumbnail. Can't watch right now, will watch later but if it's seriously dumber than that, it must be *something*

[@manishade3393]

The Pizza and Coke joke never gets old haha

[@F41nt13]

* moaning * "Yes, 364 miliseconds" How did he get footage from my bedroom?

[@BoxOfToasters]

He's in your walls

[@ShadowAngle]

lmao, skill issue

[@InVinoVeratas]

So you were exercising in your bedroom, must have been a quick set.

[@Euler271]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@ken.7019]

That's the longest I've ever lasted

[@dukem8774]

This feels like he lost a bet to a friend, and this was the bet. "You're a really good video editor. See how long you can fake being a world record speed runner in Jump King with no gameplay experience. "

[@Noahhbear]

That's what I'm thinking too. The groaning when celebrating and the dance really make me think he's daring people to call him out on his editing skill

[@epicseastar5448]

@@Noahhbear And I sure am enjoying the compliments im getting for it hahaha

[@DoktorSammich]

This is clearly the best fake speedrun ever; my man immortalized himself busting a nut and then dancing to surfin USA of all things. What a total legend.

[@elasmojones]

I think it exploded my brain.

[@SecretTomes]

Haha

[@cagneybillingsley2165]

what's even the point of this? does he get money prizes?

[@aj897]

More like loser.

[@GrimmyQ]

@@cagneybillingsley2165 he gets to say “I’m on the jumpking leaderboard!” to people ig

[@moth.monster]

This is going to change the fake speedrun parody meta forever. The orgasm-dance strat truly revolutionises everything

[@Vanessomatic]

Makes the American Dad speedrun community celebrations seem like child's play. The meta has changed forever.

[@slowboycapital]

dude has billy mitchell phenotype

[@zanderwoods5434]

I just checked some math, the end screen probably wasn't photoshopped that much anyway, considering how 17:35.785 is a multiple of 17ms. He probably just did a normal run, waited at the end until the time was around the time he wanted to get plus 10 minutes, then just edited out the 1 in the 17. That'd also explain why he didn't change the jump amount either, it was already really lazy.

[@KevinKolpack]

My first thought on seeing the end time was that he just erased the leading digit, considering the time isn't perfectly centered with the rest of the text.

[@spelcheak]

@@KevinKolpack thank you, I thought I was going crazy when it wasn’t pointed out

[@lildmckay]

Good catch

[@Yakushii]

Guy forgot to do his modular arithmetic at the end. Rookie mistake, you hate to see it.

[@brightsideofmaths]

@@Yakushii Everyone likes modular arithmetic :)

[@Mister_Doodles]

16:20 “But I must warn you, if you’re in public. Do not play this out loud.” Thanks for the warning man holy cow lol

[@slowboycapital]

dude has billy mitchell phenotype

[@Yes_I_Would_Kent]

At 14:46, the spacebar display didn't show the presses when typing after the record because he popped the spacebar in second gear like Todd Togers.

[@ailurusfulgens1849]

Jokes aside I don't think that's conclusive in any way. He might use his keyboard to type and a different peripheral to play, I do that myself. It says "spacebar" on screen but that might just be the name of the bind in his software, the actual bind might be something else entirely, I can do exactly that with my peripheral's software. Not saying he didn't cheat, I'm saying the keyboard/layout thing doesn't prove/disprove much.

[@Yes_I_Would_Kent]

​@@ailurusfulgens1849 That's a fair comment. On it's own the spacebar evidence is not conclusive that he cheated, with the rest of the evidence it seems pretty clear cut. I don't play this game but when their community concludes it's cheated with the evidence like the timer, number of jumps, end screen, splicing etc it's fair to take their word. Thanks for the nuanced comment, hope others see it & you have a good day!

[@davidlazerz8564]

@@ailurusfulgens1849 Yea, almost always the way cheaters are outed is with a preponderance of the evidence. Any one thing likely has several innocent explanations, but when those things start piling up it paints a pretty clear picture.

[@marcorodriguez8792]

I will forever love second gear 😂

[@demigodstarfluxx]

god i miss togers...todd baby if u reading this,you left the clutch in the second gear

[@Zebresh1]

This is why no one should turn off the beautiful soundtrack created by me in babe of ascension, it helps detect cheaters :)

[@Morgil27]

By you?

[@jraymond1988]

I imagine that music/sound would make it harder to concentrate when doing something input heavy.

[@Zebresh1]

@@Morgil27 yep you can see even in this video my name is in the credits

[@some-replies]

weird flex, but ok

[@IamShanee]

@@some-replies that's not a weird flex

[@calvinnguyen1870]

17:00 like it or not, fake reacting to your own spliced run and then immediately dancing to Surfin’ USA by The Beach Boys is a fucking power move.

[@blucheavy3282]

and then making noises like he was being railed prior to

[@SeppelSquirrel]

Dear white parents: please teach your kids how to dance, it's embarrassing.

[@mikec.8604]

weak move to me lmao xD git gud next time

[@kurks001]

You call it luck, I call it skill.

[@SeppelSquirrel]

Please teach your kids how to dance omg

[@calimantis]

A friend of mine who also watches these kinds of videos pointed something out to me about those fake reactions that I can't help but think about every time I see them now: "It's the kind of reaction someone who's never set and reached a deeply personal or arduous goal would make. They try to act flippant or cool because they don't understand what the gravity and importance of such an achievement actually feels like. That or they're just really cringey bad actors, point stands either way". Watching this kid's reactions definitely reminds me of just that.

[@spongecakes1986]

I'm kinda weary of judging people by reactions or expressions of emotions. As an autistic person who's also dealt with depression for years, I've definitely had people misread my reactions or facial expressions to things. Sometimes I just kinda feel nothing when I should feel something cause of the depression, and sometimes my reactions or facial expressions aren't "correct" because of the autism. That being said, I do totally understand what your friend meant. It's also easy to say in retrospect that they were acting suspicious when you already know they cheated.

[@koolaid33]

The fact he turned it into a musical at the end, like how does someone even come up with that. "I gotta make this fake speedrun seem believable, what can I do to sell it? Hmm... Oh, I know! When I finish the speedrun, I'll open Spotify, put on Beach Boys and start dancing! That'll trick 'em!"

[@kyokyo718]

Maybe this is just me, but I don't think Surfin' USA would be the celebration song of anyone under the age of 40, maybe even 50. The song has persisted into this century, but it has no meme appeal because it is far too genuine for a bunch of post ironic tryhard memers to take the piss on. Maybe this is what will catapult The Beach Boys back into pop culture 61 years after the song's release, but I doubt it. Maybe I shouldn't judge, but that detail alone feels so out of place that I personally can't ignore it.

[@Badministrator]

Jump King Folie à Deux

[@plushdragonteddy]

@@kyokyo718 regarding the meme appeal, i HAVE heard a mashup of a beach boys' song with Apple Bottom Jeans, so there's potential.

[@Wicked_Knight]

Wait, you're telling me you don't pop on Beach Boys Surfin' USA and victory dance after an epic success??

[@Wicked_Knight]

@@kyokyo718 Mate, im in my early-mid 30's and I have to strongly dissagree with you on its lack of meme appeal.

[@clawcakes2]

i'm absolutely obsessed with him doing a dance number like he's on disney channel after getting world record. i think more people should do this.

[@flurmple5587]

It should be a law, if you set a new WR you gotta have a dance number prepped.

[@thebleachbartender1312]

If Dream hit a kirby victory dance when he cheated his speed run, I would've definitely believed him.

[@SCMabridged]

Karl, please promise me that when you beat Billy Mitchell in trial, you'll do the entire EpicSeastar dance in court.

[@Eltron92]

Unfortunately billy won't be there to watch it in person, they're letting him zoom in for the verdict.

[@hnican]

@@Eltron92do you know when the verdict will be in? Been following casually…not really in the loop.

[@collin4555]

@@Eltron92 That seems fair in general, but is very disappointing

[@aidanmagill6769]

Dude, he's gonna lose. Billy's camp have dropped everything but the defamation regarding Apollo. I can't see the Judge finding in favour of Karl over that. They'll probably both have to pay their own costs though, so at least Silly Bitchell will be out of pocket too.

[@KrazzyKlown]

What Karl said regarding Billy and Apollo was not unreasonable. If a person self ends following a perceived loss of a lawsuit, one can figure how that fact may have played in to their final decision. Its no huge leap. Its easy to follow syllogism. Billy is going to lose.

[@RileyLastname]

your "exposing cheaters/liars/fakers" videos are so well done and incredible. I swear, I watch them with my jaw dropped the majority of the time. I'm always baffled at the level of work that some people will go to just to avoid putting in the work. On the absolute other end of the spectrum, you put so much dedicated work, research, and care into these videos and it shows. I find myself watching them over and over again. You should compile all of your "fakers being caught" videos into a dedicated playlist! Maybe (hopefully) seeing how many liars have been called out by you put all in one place will dissuade people from trying to do it in the future.

[@namelessxdread]

The level of work to avoid putting in work 🤔

[@GraySheep1717]

“Call it luck…. I call it skill!” Billy Mitchell after ruining his reputation as much as humanly possible

[@CriticalNobody]

Guy looks like a young Billy Mitchell except he’s a more competent cheater. We might be witnessing the start of a new villain arc

[@rohamcsigusz]

Generational storytelling.

[@Zorothegallade-rpg]

Competent in the sense he came up with a lot of tricks...but he was rather sloppy with most of them

[@lasskinn474]

it's hard to spawn a new milly in the non arcade era. it would need a popular game but one that most other people wouldn't actually be playing a lot(milly had access to play the games he was good at for free, which is what spawned him in the first place)

[@yourbasicninja]

oh thank god, i thought i was the only one who thought this

[@beepster991]

"a young Billy Mitchel" would already be suing everyone questioning his skills and own a wall of fake awards.

[@yaron_izzikf]

16:20, Karl: "But I must warn you - if you're in public, do not play this out loud." 16:28, Anyone's mom: I think I should check up on my son in his room by entering his room without knocking first.

[@kyleguajardo]

Are ya winnin son?

[@nothingtoseehere9648]

The fact he did a little fake dance was just the icing on the cake... I can't imagine doing that when Karl Jobst is gonna find you anyway 😭 dude danced on his own speedrunning grave

[@charyster4500]

He literally just started dancing in happiness. How can that not prove his innocence?

[@JorgeLopez-qj8pu]

Well it wasn't a Fortnite dance sooo vary SUS 😅

[@shizgu1001]

​@@JorgeLopez-qj8pupack it up

[@SerranoSalazar]

@@JorgeLopez-qj8pu Unexpected. Gave me a good laugh. Thank you, sir

[@Vanessomatic]

If the moves are legit, you must acquit

[@blaydes99]

That dancing was hard to watch.

[@Bazil591]

-Comes out of nowhere and starts dominating speedruns -Inconsistent frames -Inconsistent timer -Inconsistent shaking -Inconsistent jump counter -Inconsistent volume -Inconsistent keyboard display -Mouse not even syncing up with gameplay -Tommy Wiseau acting How tf was this dude not caught immediately? lmao.

[@TheImmortalPwnage]

I was thinking the same. If he was already under suspicion, how comes these items wherent already checked? They're clearly known proofs

[@Doomblud]

They wanted to be featured on the karlsjobst channel so they let a terrible cheater go wild for a bit

[@hampa1]

It's probabably two reasons why cheaters aren't caught immediatly. First of all, Jump King is not a game with the most eyeballs on it, much less people who would have the effort to go through runs slowly with analytic eyes to spot this stuff. Second of all, it's work no one is paid to do. Though, the missing zero at the end feels like a gigantic red flag that would have been very easily spotted 😂😂

[@agent7176]

I did not hit her, I did not

[@duane7996]

There isn't a group of people sitting idle to inspect every run submitted for a relatively unpopular game in a relatively small community. Lol

[@emilyofjane]

Me: There’s no way this is gonna beat Badabun EpicSeaStar: [randomly starts dancing to the Beach Boys] Me: [whispers in awe] holy fuck

[@viljamtheninja]

In that moment, a legend was born.

[@Arpadiam]

you capture perfectly in words what everyone here felt when EpicSeaStar started to dance

[@redryan20000]

I rarely burst out with genuine laughter at KZbin videos but this is one of those times.

[@brunop.8745]

Truly the Lisan al-Gaib of speedrun cheating

[@DystopianOverture]

I'm awful at most video games. I have the hand eye coordination of cat on catnip. So speedrunning is something I wouldn't do personally. However I adore watching speedruns, watching channels about it and so on because the keen eye detail and abilities of speedrunners is breathtakingly awesome. Watching how people work out how someone is cheating, the programs created to find it is so cool. It scratches that itch in learning I crave for.

[@castorvolkCH]

I laughed so hard when Karl goes to " this is how pro players play" and it cut to a photo of korone.

[@xavito4337]

I was gonna comment the exact same thing 😂

[@tmob1325]

you got a timestamp?

[@Speederzzz]

7:20 ​@@tmob1325

[@Mutukutumbuku]

@@tmob1325 7:15

[@kohakurensenko790]

@@tmob1325 7:14

[@gameboy3433]

I love the idea the mod had about using the frame data as a script check to see if there were any fails. Saves a lot more effort than you would think.

[@RF-INF]

There wasn't even a need for the script, just look at his eyebrows, he has disney villain eyebrows

[@mavortius8768]

@@RF-INF I've heard enough, throw him in jail

[@notvixios]

"If you're in public don't play this out loud" 😭

[@SnoozyVideoGames]

i was like pfft cant be that bad... oh boy, i felt helps dirty after that xD

[@spongerobert]

💦💦💦💀

[@BeastGamingHD]

the oscar performance is because he spent 30 hours performing save states, redoing every input and jump until he made it and then editing the software and everything else and it finally ended lmao

[@rubymorningstar4835]

@16:40 I swear i had to check my other tabs LMFAO

[@UneditedRequiem]

"Oooh, I'm fuxkkn shaking rn" lol

[@carbonylgroup12888]

Actually sounded like he full on busted like 10 pumps hella gallons

[@GrantyGame]

He looks like a younger version of Billy

[@ZonalJump97]

The lovechild of Billy Mitchell and Leafyishere or Onision

[@fitzgerald93]

Lil Fibber

[@infinidominion]

Willy

[@saibot1246]

A clone ?

[@wheeljack210]

He looks like Kaka, Brazilian football player.

[@Stratocaster42]

With the amount of work he put into faking it, he probably could've been better than he was pretending to be if he just played the game lol. What a dork

[@CNYKnifeNut]

Chandler Halderson Syndrome

[@OrgaNik_Music]

All that work just for some clout in a very niche internet community

[@kamurotetsu4860]

"I was playing 4D chess guys"

[@Humandefect]

Nah its kinda hard to be good at this game let alone speedrun it if you don't have the innate skills to back it up. Also he probably learned editing in school or somewhere to do this so he didn't waste time learning he just wasted time editing which is probably a lot idk but its not enough time to get no. 1 on speedrun leaderboard.

[@inefffable]

​@@Humandefectthis. No way are those basic video editing tricks transferable skills to speedrunning jk.

[@LAFORGUS]

There should be a Hall of Shame for those fake speedruns that takes bigger effort to fake, than to play the game.

[@caret_shell]

Hearing Karl describe how the cheater has to do all the acting when they're playing on camera really brought something home to me: in that moment when the cheater "wins," they have to _pretend_ to feel the incredible feeling of victory and accomplishment that they wish they could really have. They have to act it out for an audience while dying inside, and the only way that they can survive the ordeal is to truly _convince_ the audience that they are happy, in ways that the audience can't even understand. The moment of fake victory is probably the most miserable, stressful moment of a cheater's life, when it's supposed to be the most liberating. What a nightmare.

[@Asupreme]

Dude, I didn't even consider this when watching him fake his reaction. Wow. Yeah, no, he really just set himself up to record the worst thing ever, huh? It must've been painful to try and fake that reaction. And having to sit there, the entire time, watching your speedrun as you fake it... wow. Soul-rending. ... All that time he spent video editing, acting, splicing, recording, playing- the amount of time put together... He could've done a legit run, and had a genuine reaction. Or a really good video editor. Or someone who watches paint dry.

[@D..S..]

People like this probably don't care at all. They like cheating.

[@--Nabe-rius--]

Prior cheater here, yes I would have to fake the feeling of excitement but I wasn’t playing for that feeling so it wasn’t a big deal. I never felt that feeling of being miserable. People don’t always cheat just to be #1, a lot of time it’s because they just want to fit into a community they like but they push their cheating too far.

[@ashkebora7262]

That would be for a normal person. Narcissists tend to think they're just smart for taking an easier route, and for tricking others. Some people would view you buying it as to mean you are gullible. Many people are genuinely terrible, awful people.

[@comfycat9]

Most cheaters cheat at games they think they are good enough to get high scores at anyway.(Ridiculous logic but people are silly.) Most cheaters feel justified in what they do as a result. There’s the infamous speed run done in person by Cody Miller, who had multiple cheated world records at Halo at the time. When he showed up to do it in person, he bombed so bad that they made a new rule at the event he played at that speedruns that are going embarrassingly badly can be canceled by the event staff. It is worth looking up his Halo speedrun to see a cheater be completely publicly exposed in the most embarrassing way possible, lol.

[@megatenshi]

This is the speedrun equivalent of spending more time and energy making a cheat sheet for a test than you would have just actually studying to pass it

[@puffin7285]

Not really. An academic test anyone can pass if they study enough without a cheat sheet, whether that be 1 person or 1000 people. His goal was to be number 1, that requires more than just study. I doubt very highly that with all the practice in the world that he could have achieved number 1 on the leaderboard without the cheater sheet as per your analogy

[@jamesphillips2285]

Actually: writing a cheat sheet is a good way to study. It forces you to review the material and compress it down as much as possible.

[@stovespiegel]

Making a cheat sheet IS studying, brother

[@bluegum6438]

@@jamesphillips2285 Cheat sheet? Nah, summary paper. Always worth writing out even if the exam is closed book, it is probably the most effective way to cram study.

[@jesseM138]

The bizarre thing about all of these fakes is they'll put an insane amount of time effort into faking the run but won't put an once of that into actually learning a run legitimately.

[@sasukefaan]

It’s not even like there’s any financial gain.. and people outside of the community don’t care about the achievement. I will never understand the motivation for thsi

[@viljamtheninja]

Same kid who spends an unreasonable amount of time to come up with brilliant strategies to cheat on a test because they refuse to just put in the work and study. Some people just refuse to do things legit.

[@nulshift]

There have been a small few cases of a good player starting out legit, but end up cheating in the end for various reasons. But yeah, most cases is some "who" coming in out of nowhere and topping the charts.

[@TheSuperappelflap]

If cheaters put all the effort they put into cheating into just getting gud, theyd probably be pretty decent at whatever theyre doing.

[@viljamtheninja]

@1e0isfdkorblpg Lmao, that is actually frighteningly believable.

[@KingSammelot]

Karl roasting his dancing at the end was killing me bro I cant😭

[@jurassicturtle3666]

"If you're in public, do not play this out loud." Karl you're a real G for that warning cus oh my LORD

[@Kosmicd12]

0:16 yooo the screen with my profile pic

[@fabmoneyy]

i was happy when i saw intro added that in

[@benm1414]

Yassssskweeeeen 👑 👐

[@GooeySplat]

friendly reminder that cringemic sponsored betterhelp and didn't take the video down. 😄

[@brandonfakenamejohnston8105]

Lol youre famous

[@Alex_Off-Beat]

Haha I remember that video of you trying to get to it

[@JafethTheXtreme]

One of the things I cant stand are the fake reactions, not because I get mad, its because it is extremely cringe lmaoo

[@BeastGamingHD]

what's crazy about the save state demonstration at 6:28 is that you can tell it was done because of the rain animation in the background changes drastically enough to be noticeable (aka it's not performing the normal continuous rain animation sequence)

[@mariestarlight]

I gotta say this would have been a really good resume for a video editor. The kid has some talent in video editing to do all that work. Especially getting the fonts right for the titles and everything.

[@graydanger]

Misused talents is always sad 😢

[@DemsW]

Since there are custom levels, I think he just made a custom level with that room name in a black level just like the timer.

[@johnnykeys1978]

not really... any idiot could do those things if they tried.

[@okarowarrior]

he probably paid 2 usd to an indian on fiverr to edit them

[@Pmirum]

It's nothing impressive in terms of skill in video editing, but it is impressive of the department of worthless effort.

[@Rifre_]

To be fair, "two of the most popular custom maps" doesn't mean they were actually speedrun by hundreds of players. Custom Maps is a niche category in Jump King. If the run was on the main leaderboard (of which I'm not a moderator) it would have been caught a lot earlier (based on Seastar's messages on the discord server from around that time he cheated the runs, it was his next goal to "get a world record" on one of the vanilla maps, Ghost of the Babe, but he probably realized that it wouldn't work). I was the one who verified the runs in the first place and, since the community and other moderators view the thing that I brought this up to light as "redeeming myself", I'm still a moderator of the custom maps leaderboard (you can say they gave me a second chance). I learned my lesson and I will be much more careful from now on! I recommend you to try Jump King yourself if you haven't yet, it's a great game and the community is very wholesome! EDIT: Thanks for all the kind words (and for the satirical negative comments too)! P.S. thanks for the great, as always, video Karl! ❤

[@Valmerix]

ridiculous that they gave you a second chance after verifying something so obvious, frankly if that were me I'd have banished you from the community itself, gave 100 lashes, and forced you to play babe of bloodmoon until completion

[@Ziev217]

@@Valmerix Well it's a good thing you aren't in charge of that decision then. Mistakes happen.

[@trimpking]

The Jump King Custom Map Moderation Team should be utterly embarrassed to retain your employment. It is absolutely unfathomable how you could make such an incredible mistake. Dare I say it's possible it may have been intentional and there is a deeper conspiracy at hand. Disgraceful.

[@dharusiokay9426]

​@@trimpkingemployment? As in "work for pay"? Where can i sign up?

[@as3609]

@@trimpking I hope this is satire. I really, really hope that, because the other explanation is unfathomably embarrassing for you.

[@ser_702]

He says "I'm f-ing shaking right now" but he is perfectly still...

[@lensy6]

he forgot to edit in the shake

[@kaydog890]

With observational skills like that I'm surprised you didn't catch him, Detective ser_702

[@ser_702]

@@kaydog890 I'm going to need a veteran team of detectives to find out if that's sarcasm

[@Adam_U]

I hope somebody got fired for that blunder

[@Bone237]

He's like those people who type "i'm literally dead lmao💀" when they're completely stonefaced.

[@low-lee]

Every Karl Jobst video: "Hello you absolute legends" Me: "Hi, Karl!"

[@namelessxdread]

Now legends, I have to tell you about this new game Raid: Shadow Legends...

[@krykry606]

That bizarrely high effort photoshop/video edit work cracks me up. It's likely that he found Jump King's font somewhere and recreated the timer/location names with it. It's rare for a small game dev to make his own font when they can easily license something that fits their game

[@ForeverLaxx]

Considering the fade-in/fade-out on the text isn't what it should have been, I'm inclined to believe this is what he did. There's just no way a kid would have gone through the effort of using relatively high effort video editing just to fake speedruns.

[@Ramej]

yeah im thinking the same thing

[@justanotheryoutubechannel]

As someone who has experience with video editing, I would’ve waited until the letters reach full opacity, screenshotted it, cropped it down in paint and made the background black, then chroma keyed the screenshots in and faked the fade in/out in the editor. Once or twice I’ve recreated sequences like that on my KZbin channel to improve the comedic effect.

[@mojojojo9458]

Crazy amount of effort to impress a community of 60 Jump King speedrunners lmao. Jesus.

[@rvreqTheSheepo]

What if he datamined the font file, I did the same for one thumbnail of video

[@OwlettMC]

"If you're in public, don't play this out loud" LMAO

[@moogleboy]

"If you're in public, do not play this out loud." Brother, I played it in private and still cringed so hard, I collapsed into a black hole.

[@PurooRoy]

354 milliseconds!

[@k_a_bizzle]

To expose the cheater, Karl BECAME the cheater. Truly a legend.

[@itchynaiI]

I know three things for certain: 1: Taxes must be paid 2: Everyone will eventually pass away. 3: If you cheat in speedruns Karl and company will catch you.

[@mcz1945]

And the first two are optional

[@skinwalker69420]

Karl wasn't the one that caught him though? He's just a presenter

[@zacharykelly7434]

​@mcz1945 #2 is the the only way to be certain of dodging #1 tbh

[@xVDRx]

#4 one bite, everybody knows the rules

[@olgagaming5544]

More like some very dedicated people who you wouldnt quess existed will catch you

[@theanti-hypemonitor9079]

im so happy that a psychopath like that commits only to faking speed runs lmao

[@auscaliber1]

now that avenue has been shut down, the neighbourhood cats are in trouble

[@everythingmainecooncat4938]

@@auscaliber1 omg 😐

[@keiharris332]

18:31 he must take dance lessons from the great Olympian break dancer raygun

[@jamesvancam]

xD

[@DrAce46]

At least he said the obligatory "let's go" at the end of his run

[@kampzu]

Seeing my map mentioned in a Karl Jobst video in 2024 really jumpscared my weekend. Good video as always!

[@Abyssoft]

Schmooey would be proud

[@RymanSMW]

He's back 💀

[@kartiksaraf4676]

was he the guitar hero cheater? Been so many its hard to keep track of them all

[@silverreaps6803]

@@kartiksaraf4676 ye

[@amindlessbirb]

The fact you still manage to put out vids even with the Billy Mitchell trial going on is impressive. I'm rooting for you, you legend.

[@Eltron92]

Trial is adjourned while the judge decides, not sure if they've done closing arguments but Karl said on Twitter we won't know the outcome for a while. That being said if Karl was feeling worried I think we'd be able to hear it in his voice and he sounds completely unphased.

[@georgewashington2930]

@@Eltron92 Why won’t we know the outcome for a while? Why is he so sure of that? The judge could make a decision tomorrow for all he knows.

[@RaspberryRockOffGridCabin]

It's pretty obvious that he knew he was going to be caught. But he wanted what lots of people in his position want: to take up space in your brain.

[@SethWistful]

Karl Jobst is a cheater. It's very obvious that he splices his KZbin videos together - just look at 4:02. he tries to hide it with a common cheating technique called a "fade" - but I caught it almost immediately. /s

[@k_a_bizzle]

Naw man, he nailed the War Thunder split and got a 1.34 on “Legends”. He’s just that good.

[@TheUnapologeticGeek]

Jobst still dropping videos after court. I'm here for it.

[@snickle1980]

Billy mitchell stole his mclaren. =(

[@bigleeneth]

You don't know how court works do you? 😂 You aren't inside of a court room everyday for months and months. You may be in the courtroom for a total of 5-10 hours in months of litigation in civil cases like this. His lawyer is in the courthouse when there needs to be someone there and most of your time would prolly be in your lawyers office or on phone calls

[@Silverstar114]

"Your honor, can we break for recess? I need to upload a new cheating scandal."

[@MysteriousStranger50]

Got to love when someone so badly wants to be a know it all smartarse they just randomly pop off like this. That guy literally never said Karl was still stuck in court or said he wasn’t able to leave. You just made all that up to pretend to school someone.

[@bobthebuilder3609]

Ok mr redditor u may go outside now​@@bigleeneth

[@Barnesofthenorth]

Lol his reaction to the "WR" is hilarious, the first one is more after you best an annoying boss, the second is after a particularly good session with your partner.

[@jsprunger6246]

When he danced you could see the hesitation in his movements, like some sort of conscious anxiety denial of deserving to celebrate. Congratulations, you have 80s hair

[@B1ink01]

Everybody's gone surfin with this one boys

[@EclipseKirby]

7:16 "When you watch top level players..." And it's Korone "Have Confidence" Inugami

[@stefanox98]

Nah just a speedrunner putting an image of her there. Hanyeah is the name, but for a moment I was fooled too.

[@sachimi_ggz]

No confidence

[@23Scadu]

Jump King in the cheating! WHY?

[@zyro7756]

This is the equivalent of modifying a bought computer to convince your teacher that you built it but forgetting to take off the price label

[@Sam-ql4um]

Why would your teacher care

[@notreallyafamousartist695]

@@Sam-ql4umcomputer engineering professor, final project. Use brain

[@Metaphorically7]

This man meticulously plotted out and executed the most elaborate, convoluted bank heist ever - but forgot to put gas in the get away car.

[@SoulSurfer1600]

Rooting for you, Karl. Can’t wait to hear your breakdown of the trial!

[@Mere_Puffery]

As an Australian Karl will REALLY appreciate that you’re rooting for him.

[@Peannlui]

There's some coverage of it over on Perfect Pacman, each day is a long read, but it's awesome.

[@SoulSurfer1600]

@@Peannlui believe me, I’ve been following up on everything with the trial, I just can’t wait until Karl gets his chance to make a video about it!

[@llewelynshingler2173]

@@Peannlui There is a Text-to-Speech summary, though it amusingly mangled Moist Cr1tkl's name

[@ICountFrom0]

Warthunder: As real as possible Warthunder forums: As many top secret LEAKS as possible.

[@konstantinNeo]

16:03 Call it luck, I call it skill... Love it, the hand instinctively goes to silence the lying mouth.

[@DavidFilskov]

He must've meant his video editing skills :)

[@breaden4381]

Then he says “just kidding” which is actually the truth

[@monabuu]

When you said „Don’t play it out loud”, I didn’t know what to expect but the guy certainly sounds like he’ll be expecting after that

[@Edi_the_Machine]

15:35 bro really stood there looking at his self playing screen and hit them 200 v bucks emotes

[@puyu8621]

probably spliced his dance number from hundreds of different separate moves to create this master piece of expression

[@TheGlenn8]

There's something beautiful about someone pretending to feel what they would have actually felt if they did it legitimately. It's poetic. He robbed himself of experiencing these moment genuinely. Even if he never got caught he would have had to live with the fact that this achievements are fake, and that he never truly got what he wanted. The rush of victory.

[@CardinalDXMP]

A person like that robs themselves of genuine experiences, fully *knows* they're a meaningless void inside, and then, continues to do it. It's wild.

[@VikingTeddy]

Idk, his goal wasn't to enjoy the game. His goal was to pull the wool in front of our eyes, which he succeeded for a while, that probably made him feel like a winner. I also wouldn't call this a dumb cheater, on the contrary, he's pretty skilled, just not as a player. Considering he's just a kid, he did pretty well with his little show.

[@TheGlenn8]

@@VikingTeddy That wasn't my point either. My point was pointing out that he had to fake his achievement in order to pretend to experience what he would have felt if he actually did it legitimately. That's downright poetic. Some Greek tragedy tier shit. You could write a book about someone like that slowly being eaten by the knowledge that his celebrations are fake, and that he's not experiencing any of this genuinely.

[@snuffmeister6720]

the human experience is bittersweet

[@beardymcbeardface69]

People like this just want the adulation, even if not deserved.

[@mianalisis]

1:20 He looks like the best Donkey Kong player ever.

[@Tone2K]

First time I’ve witnessed someone earn an F for effort.

[@furgin5203]

16:43 "If your in public do not play this out loud" lmaoooooo

[@j4w3zth30t4ku]

I feel like his reactions at the end of the fake runs are genuine. You try sitting there stone faced staring at an almost 8-minute video of musicless Jump King footage that you already know how it ends. I bet you'll feel relief once it's over, too.

[@ChillavaKirby]

I mean yeah but we weren’t expect that relief to be an orgasm

[@albertoalmeida3424]

The worst thing about cheating is that, later, if you accomplish anything, people won't believe you. This little dude just burned his career with a "jumping game".

[@theKashConnoisseur]

I can almost guarantee that his career life will see zero impact from his niche platformer game cheating. Employers don't really care what hobbies you spend your free time on.

[@RyanGerhardtYimimoto]

unless that accomplishment is in video editing

[@albertoalmeida3424]

@@RyanGerhardtYimimoto HAHAHA

[@Xahnel]

​@@theKashConnoisseur speedrunning career, numpty.

[@Akai93]

I mean considering how often he had to splice, I don't think he'd have any speedrunning career to begin with, even if he never cheated lol

[@noatiendoboludos]

How unemployed do you have to be to do all this effort to cheat at a speedrun Also how unemployed do you have to be to do all this investigation as a speedrun moderator These videos are so entertaining

[@ryaquaza3offical]

Tfw you fake a speedrun soo hard you bust the fattest of nuts before continuing to emote on the audience This is the best thing since the Ram ranch Celeste run

[@PenguinLord10]

the WHAT celeste run???

[@Aceshot-uu7yx]

​@@PenguinLord10I think the video was deleated and never archived, but it did exist.

[@freedustin]

@@Aceshot-uu7yx this is incredibly disappointing news.

[@Aceshot-uu7yx]

@@freedustin there is a video covering it from 2-3 years ago. Watch that on one device and have ram ranch play on another and see the chaos go.

[@Aceshot-uu7yx]

@freedustin the video covering it is by Mshubi and is titled "the weirdest world record speedrun" or something like that.

[@ATPokemon]

You know... there really should be a job where people submit fake speedruns, tell the moderators that they're fake, and challenge them to find the flaws. Edits (Or submit like 10 speedruns, tell the mods one of them is fake, and challenge them to find the fake one and how it was faked)

[@crushycrawfishy1765]

There really shouldn't. This is a hobby, nobody is getting paid to do the work these people put in. There' already plenty of runs they need to verify an probably are faked. Throwing extra homework to test these people and make them guess isn't going to make the hobby any better.

[@jtubef8620]

Like a secret shopper lmfao that's such a great idea tbh, keep them dirty mods on their toes and up to date.

[@Mmmmilo]

@@crushycrawfishy1765jeez, who peed in your cereal, grumpy?

[@Lost1ntheSauc3]

​@@Mmmmilo nobody, he made a perfectly reasonable, calculated response.

[@bradleyballinger2027]

I have a feeling that if people are willing to join a speed running community to begin with a niche of people in that community would enjoy the cat and mouse game to be honest. ​@@crushycrawfishy1765

[@GrzesXD]

If bad splices take this long to detect, then it`s scary how many really good fakes there are on the leaderboards

[@davidwhidden9337]

It's because people give the benefit of the doubt for too long.

[@gu244]

Its one of those things that should be easily detectible now that it has been caught once.

[@fangzor9851]

Yeah, this has to be embarrassing for the vetting team who approved a WORLD RECORD with so many easily detectable tells...

[@justinmadrid8712]

The good cheaters don’t even use splicing. They just broadcast a TAS run, which won’t have any splices to detect. 😂 People don’t realize how many cheated runs are undetectable. Dare I say almost all the world records are fake.

[@Anyannymouse]

Karl, I just realized I’ve never shown love to this channel even though I’ve watched it so much overtime. I really appreciate the style and explaining in your videos and the depth you go into. Thanks man, stay safe.

[@Vertilgung]

"some call it luck, i call it skill" yeah champion of editing the wrong things

[@snickle1980]

Allow myself to introduce...myself.

[@lehvel.]

amazing video karl, thank you for working with our community again. 10:49 I celebrated when seeing my gameplay haha

[@em_iiy]

Actual level reference, no way! 🤯

[@lonetomfoolery8762]

15:33 why does bro sound like he’s having the biggest piss of his life 💀 EDIT: 16:27 HOLY SHIT IT GETS WORSE LMAO

[@aguilargt]

The most bizarre thing is that he looks exactly like a young Billy Mitchell.

[@deucemcallister13]

7:16 got a Korone sighting in the wild

[@tmtmtlsml]

Because she's the Jump King KING, obviously

[@adeade3978]

Korone but no Calli smh my head

[@rroadagain2810]

The speed he brings up the song for his dance number is world class too. But I guess when it's not luck, but sheer skill, you know to have it ready to go.

[@DDDeadDrought]

Not muting the mouse is actually crazy to miss

[@berry_eft]

I could never bring myself to fake a speedrun for the fear of Karl Jobst making a video about me.

[@issachijode4534]

So I'm driving away from my kids school when his second reaction played full blast on my car stereo. Never have I reacted so fast to turn it down and look around to see if anyone heard it 😂

[@disguisedcat1750]

I was going to judge you and ask how can you watch his videos without looking at the screen, but then I remembered that I sleep to karl’s videos.. so I should stay silent. But that dance was glorious, that kept keeping awake.

[@theKashConnoisseur]

@@disguisedcat1750 When you have kids, you can't really spare the time to watch videos all day. Listening to them is sometimes the b est you can do if you want to stay caught up.

[@disguisedcat1750]

@@theKashConnoisseur I wish you and your kids the best 💚

[@moonfyps9307]

18:20 Pretty good dumb fake speedrun, but Badabun will always be #1, just goated! 😆

[@stny4426]

Badabun the OG of fake speedruns. This will always have a place in my heart 😂

[@puyu8621]

badabun probably just paid someone to do all the editing. This guy put in the effort probably speding days to edit minutes of cringy fake speedrun footage

[@souptaels]

People be so dedicated in making a cheated run feel real while simultaneously not dedicated enough to actually put effort into practicing and playing the game. Make that make sense. And it's weird cause these people clearly have some technical knowledge about the games they play, enough knowledge to get undetected for years, and yet they still choose to fake it anyways.

[@jasminesmallf]

You get infinitely more experience in video editing just by living life and doing school projects than you do practicing a single game and its speedruns. There's a major difference in both time commitment and usefulness in the future, as you will likely have used and/or will use video editing in the past and future as supposed to the usefulness of learning jump king speedruns

[@souptaels]

​@@jasminesmallfwell that's cool and all, but speedrunning is supposed to be a hobby. He could've gotten that video editing experience from somewhere else. Why ruin things for everyone else just for some "experience"? If he didn't feel like committing to the speedrun, then why even submit a time at all?

[@vytah]

Can you put "experience in editing fake speedrun videos" on your resume?

[@kenji444]

​​@@jasminesmallf no shot you are using that as an excuse to cheat. Even then, so what? You'd rather not be trusted by peers because you want to gain experience video editing? Thats retarded

[@joebot86]

Video editing and playing games are also very different types of skill. I can edit a video but would struggle immensely to perform precise actions needed for a game like this.

[@Meow_Tse-Tung]

He doesn't have a future in speed running, but this can go on resume for a high paying editing job.

[@AdLast]

16:28 making Nick Manning proud❤

[@micheljolicoeur6094]

It is clear from the glaring issues with the end screen statistics, the edited timer and zone names, he has no idea how the game even works. Would not be surprised if he has spliced together OTHER player's runs.

[@crazyluigi6664]

17:07 So can we say that any future speedrunner dances are just now going to be them Surfin' U.S.A. going forward? ;)