Trashfire Apollo Legend suicide -

[Wheezy Asthmatic]

Some streamer or whatever named Apollo Legend may or may not have decided to commit not alive. Tweet below was deleted while archiving. Other archives will be added shortly


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Mediafire attachment is a 7 min video in WMV format. Basically a " Yeah I'm killing myself " video.
Cites deteriorating physical condition (as well as mental) for the reason. Apparently his health is getting so bad that he was going to be hospitalized soon. I don't really know anything about Apollo so I have no idea what his medical history is.
Converting to mp4 shortly in order to upload thank you, @Activelo

Tweet from Keem

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Apparently this is the guy who lost a lawsuit to Billy Mitchel, the guy who cheated his Donkey Kong speedruns.

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[Activelo]

Mediafire attachment is a 7 min video in WMV format. Basically a " Yeah I'm killing myself " video

Got the video. Had to downgrade it to 480p to upload it here.

More tweets from Keem. Archives will be up shortly.

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This one was deleted just when the archive finished.

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He's really pissed at Tipster.


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For context, Apollo Legend is a speedrunner who was criticized for his behavior in the community, including speaking out against Awesome Games Done Quick rather aggressively. When he exposed Billy Mitchel's world record as fake and Billy tried to sue him, Apollo attempted a counter-claim which he started a GoFundMe for before settling out of court, although he apparently refunded donators afterwards. He was ostracized not too long ago for his behavior worsening, and I see he hasn't taken it very well. These videos work well as a quick crash course on him and why he was particularly disliked.

I archived these videos as I foresee them being taken down in response to his supposed passing. I don't enjoy seeing anyone lose their life to suicide, but there's value in understanding what led an individual down that path.

 

[Ponchik]

billy mitchell establishing his dominance for the final time...

 

[TheMonkeyMan]

Billy Mitchell sued him and as part of the settlement, Apollo had to sign over the rights to his videos about Mitchell so neither he nor anyone else could host them.

 

[Wheezy Asthmatic]

For context, Apollo Legend is a speedrunner who was criticized for his behavior in the community, including speaking out against Awesome Games Done Quick rather aggressively and a needlessly antagonizing attempt to sue Billy Mitchel and his company for faking world records related to Donkey Kong. He was ostracized not too long ago, and I see he hasn't taken it very well.

I thought Billy sued him?

 

[Big Bad Wart]

This is the guy that was involved in that whole drama about the old speedrun by that weird guy billy Mitchel
Re upload of his billy video

His youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/ApolloLegend/featured

I thought Billy sued him?

Billy sued him and they ended up settling.

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For context Apollo said he wouldn't delete the video. Billy is also suing Karl Jobs

full text

Today, I made the decision to remove many videos from my YouTube channel. I did this to fulfill an agreement I have reached with Billy Mitchell but also because I thought it was the right thing to do. I have also taken this opportunity to remove a few additional videos that have nothing to do with Billy Mitchell. This has nothing to do with our agreement, I deleted them due to the rapidly changing nature of YouTube. For your own protection, I ask that you not republish any of the videos I produced about Billy. As part of our agreement, I have given Billy ownership of these videos. This means he has the ability to remove these videos if they are republished to YouTube or any other public space. Billy and I agree it is in our best interest to make a deal and move on so that's what we are doing. I will no longer discuss this topic either publicly or privately. If you ask, I will just send you this post. I'm sure many of you will be disappointed with this decision but I believe as the months pass you will understand why I did this.

https://archive.md/ETYRS

His twitter | ARCHIVE

 

[BubbleButt]

For context, Apollo Legend is a speedrunner who was criticized for his behavior in the community, including speaking out against Awesome Games Done Quick rather aggressively and a needlessly antagonizing attempt to sue Billy Mitchel and his company for faking world records related to Donkey Kong. He was ostracized not too long ago, and I see he hasn't taken it very well.

Huh, so that's who this was. I thought the name seemed familiar.

 

[The Last Stand]

Got the video. Had to downgrade it to 480p to upload it here.
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Somebody plans to kill themselves, you BETTER call Keemstar before you do!

That's very Keemstar. God damn.

 

[Fully Eshay Skits Bruh v2]

Just saw this, was going to make an thread myself but noticed you've done it already. Apollo should have never bet against big dawg Billy, correct me if i'm wrong but wasn't part of the hate mob who jumped on goose who made jokes about the long nose tribe on his private discord?

 

[You Just Ever Yandere]

For context, Apollo Legend is a speedrunner who was criticized for his behavior in the community, including speaking out against Awesome Games Done Quick rather aggressively and a needlessly antagonizing attempt to sue Billy Mitchel and his company for faking world records related to Donkey Kong (a case he attempted to start a crowdfund for and never followed through, which he apparently refunded for everyone). He was ostracized not too long ago, and I see he hasn't taken it very well. These videos work well as a quick crash course on him and why he was particularly disliked.

I'll be archiving these videos are I foresee them being taken down in response to his supposed passing.

Talk about an L

I guess being in all that drama didn't help his mental health at all

 

[Wheezy Asthmatic]

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[Arm Pit Cream]

The GoFundMe with this pic is fucking killing me

https://www.gofundme.com/f/dtn28e-please-help-my-family-in-their-time-of-need (https://archive.md/Om9cO)

 

[Dark Edea]

Fingers crossed!!

 

[RoboticRichardSimmons]

Speed running arcade games has a dark side I see.

 

[Ishmael]

Background

All videos below have already been archived.

DarkViperAU, one of the people mentioned in Apollo's suicide note as "being a push", is a self-described "Australian guy doing Grand Theft Auto 5 Speedruns and Challenges - from ‘Pacifist Runs’ to ‘One Hit KO’. Stream may also contain editing and general discussions about everything from politics to philosophy (usually in some form of rant)."

He has an entire playlist dedicated to his drama with Apollo: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAnJ4ZuTYaeHQz20-Sb5EjiO9yxuWxVeR (https://archive.md/FFA6I)

DarkViper tweeting that Apollo harasses people:

• https://twitter.com/DarkViperAU/status/1279114780809195525?s=20 (https://archive.md/O0Puf)
• https://twitter.com/DarkViperAU/status/1279095371474452481 (https://archive.md/gmSmA)
• https://twitter.com/search?q=apollo (from:darkviperau)&src=typed_query (https://archive.md/VqeBE)

DarkViper's Screenshots from Twitter


Some more context their feud and Apollo leaving YouTube: https://www.reddit.com/r/speedrun/comments/hkrivq/apollo_legend_quits_youtube/ (https://archive.md/qfr9e)

Spoiler: Reddit summary of drama

Apollo first posted the video you see reuploaded here on twitter.
This conversation ensues.
Apollo then deletes the video above.
DarkViper uploads this video to explain his side of the story.
Apollo replies with this video.
DarkViper calls him out for cutting his explanation in this video.

TLDW
Apollo publicly shames DarkViper on Twitter for not paying an editor.
DarkViper explains in a video his difficulties with the editor, how he didn't complete his contract since he did his work in a very shoddy manner and calling Apollo out for not asking his side of the story before publishing the video.
Apollo then posts a video where he selectively chose content from DarkViper's video in order to put shade on him, DOXXing the editor at the same time.
DarkViper calls him out for cutting his clips and not being honest in the video.

EDIT
Making it clear that DarkViper clearly said in one of the videos above how he pays on a "by-contract" nature.
You don't complete a "contract", you don't get paid for it.
EDIT 2
You may want to read EZScape's tweet as well.
Many other figures known in speedrunning like Kosmicd, GFC, KZFrew, Joshimuz, Xem, Jrose11 and Nathaniel Brandy replied to this tweet about the Apollo situation.

Apollo Leaving YT


Apollo being sued by Billy Mitchell: https://www.reddit.com/r/speedrun/comments/gd8cxz/update_apollo_legend_is_now_officially_being_sued/ (https://archive.md/K2NS3)

Spoiler: Lawsuit Text

Posted by u/ersatz_cats 8 months ago

Update: Apollo Legend is now officially being sued by Billy Mitchell​

I know many people here are still rightly upset with Apollo Legend over this incident from late 2018, but I felt this deserved an update.

Video Game Cheater of the Century, Billy Mitchell, has officially filed three lawsuits, against Twin Galaxies LLC, Donkey Kong Forum and two of its moderators, and against the speedrunner and YouTuber Apollo Legend individually.

I would link to them, or be more specific about where to find them, but they contain personal information which I don't want to be responsible for amplifying.
These three lawsuits were filed earlier this year, and were filed pro se (meaning, by Billy himself, without the representation of a lawyer). These are defamation suits, focusing on statements made in adjudicating and/or covering Billy's MAME cheating scandal, which became news in early 2018.

This defamation suit is not directly related to the February 2018 incident when Apollo traveled to Florida to film at a "Retro Arcade Night" where Billy was in attendance. That event did result in rumors that Apollo faced legal action over the nature of his recording, but that lawsuit never materialized. The new filing does make mention of that incident, but the focus is on statements made by Apollo in various videos.

It should be noted that you can sue anyone for anything, provided that you don't run afoul of anti-SLAPP laws (which may very well happen here, as the contested statements were completely justified). Billy similarly filed a pro se lawsuit against Cartoon Network over a 2011 episode of Regular Show, which parodied Billy with a giant floating head named Garrett Bobby Ferguson. That suit got hilariously tossed out of court.

Of course, this is not all fun and games. Billy's lawsuit against Apollo Legend requests damages of $1,000,000 - Yes, one million dollars. (The suit against DKF specifies $2mil, and the one against TG specifies $10mil, for a total of $13mil between the three filings.)

Apollo has been staying out of the public eye for several months. For my part, I recently spoke to a mutual friend, who after some effort was able to get in touch with Apollo. He's alive, and doing fine. Todd Rogers' tarantulas haven't found him yet.

If you'd like to read up on the Billy Mitchell cheating story, I recently posted an updated compilation of the evidence against him, including material from his September 2019 legal threat against Twin Galaxies and Guinness World Records (who seem to have been spared this recent round of lawsuits).

EDIT - It has been pointed out that Billy has actually filed a fourth lawsuit: A second defamation lawsuit against Twin Galaxies, filed by actual lawyers, in Twin Galaxies' home jurisdiction in California (which is where such a defamation case should be filed). TG has filed responses related to this California suit. The other three pro se efforts are in a different jurisdiction.

Spoiler: Apollo comments on removing vids from his channel

ARCHIVED: https://www.youtube.com/post/UgytIJZJO5mDz_6ZhEp4AaABCQ
Today, I made the decision to remove many videos from my YouTube channel. I did this to fulfill an agreement I have reached with Billy Mitchell but also because I thought it was the right thing to do. I have also taken this opportunity to remove a few additional videos that have nothing to do with Billy Mitchell. This has nothing to do with our agreement, I deleted them due to the rapidly changing nature of YouTube. For your own protection, I ask that you not republish any of the videos I produced about Billy. As part of our agreement, I have given Billy ownership of these videos. This means he has the ability to remove these videos if they are republished to YouTube or any other public space. Billy and I agree it is in our best interest to make a deal and move on so that's what we are doing. I will no longer discuss this topic either publicly or privately. If you ask, I will just send you this post. I'm sure many of you will be disappointed with this decision but I believe as the months pass you will understand why I did this. (https://www.youtube.com/post/UgytIJZJO5mDz_6ZhEp4AaABCQ)

Spoiler: More information on Apollo's friend, RWhiteGoose

Rwhitegoose is a youtuber who got caught saying all kinds of horrible nazi shit in private.

Apollo Legend, who is friends with him, made a video where he presented only the most mild screenshots from the many, many examples of horrible nazi shit, and pretended that was all there was. He tried to discredit the accusation by personally attacking the person who brought it all to light. And then he rambled about other stuff.

He's also got a personal bias against GDQ, partially because he wants to (and has tried to) compete with them using his own trainwreck of a speedrunning event, Oceanside. He seems to have more personal issues with GDQ as well, but the monetary competition is the most obvious one to point out.

So if we combine the two things, we see that

1. Apollo Legend is willing to lie in his videos in order to push an agenda
2. Apollo Legend wishes for GDQ to fail.

Which, obviously, makes him an unreliable source on things relating to GDQ. Which is what this most recent drama is about.

Edit: Finally found the screenshots. They've been taken down from a lot of places, so it's kind of hard to find them now.

And I can't actually link Apollo Legend's video where he defended rwhitegoose, because he seems to have deleted it.

Spoiler: EZScape Twitlonger regarding Apollo

ARCHIVED: https://archive.md/11aHt

Regarding Apollo Legend:

I first found out about Apollo Legend through my YouTube recommended. This was during a period where I quit playing Runescape and creating YouTube videos for my mental health. Apollo's highlights of the speedrunning scene were my favorite content to watch, very similar to GRSmash.

One day Apollo posted a video "Speedrunning Needs Content Creators" and that video is what would eventually inspire me to create speedrunning videos myself. I took a slightly different approach to Apollo where his videos were about speedrunners reactions to things (fails, salt, pop offs, etc) and mine were about the speedruns themselves (skips, glitches, strats). I always admired and looked up to Apollo though, because in my mind he's the reason I've gotten this far in the first place.

But Apollo's content took a weird turn. He noticed that salty speedrun moments did exceptionally well compared to the other content he was creating. If I had to guess nearly 50% of the videos on his channel were salty speedrun moments (there had to have been 10-20 videos in the series). Now I don't think there's a problem with those types of videos existing, everyone enjoys a little bit of salt and if the people featured in the clips are fine with the clips being shared then there are really no issues. The problem is a lot of the people featured in these videos did NOT want their clips to be shared. These were people in their most vulnerable state, who probably have other things going on in life and may be acting out because they feel like they're in a safe environment or that nobody is watching anyways. The speedrun community also didn't like that people were starting to associate speedrunners with salt/rage. Eventually they struck back and started copyright striking his videos. I'm not sure if it was the strikes or just that Apollo had a change of perspective, but he eventually removed all of those videos (based on my conversations with him I believe it's the latter).

Another thing I didn't like about Apollo were his videos targeting Games Done Quick. These videos contained lies about the organization, the charities involved, and the organizers themselves. I could go deeper into explaining why, but CoolMatty (GDQ event organizer) 3 years ago explained all of this perfectly on Reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/speedrun/c...edrun_ever_a_minidoc_about/dhjkr43/?context=3

When Apollo researches videos he only looks at evidence that suits his narrative and avoids all data or perspectives that would prove him otherwise. He has too much bias. I've spoken out about this before in this video made by Glink. Please watch from the timestamp 13:08 to 14:16 to hear more about how he's lied about the event's finances. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5TGFEoidEM&feature=youtu.be&t=788

Apollo if you're reading this please delete these videos. I think it's fine to criticize GDQ as they play an important role in our community, and it's fair to be protective of that, but these videos are propaganda and you know it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bG6hPJpxzm4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlLvq_v38G4

While we are on the topic of Games Done Quick, it's time to talk about the RWhiteGoose video... yeah you know the one. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, please watch DarkViperAU's videos criticizing Apollo about said video(s) as Apollo has deleted the video from his channel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmcQEjoG0d0&list=PLAnJ4ZuTYaeHQz20-Sb5EjiO9yxuWxVeR

I was so happy that DarkViper made these videos calling Apollo out, although I feel like I should have been the one to do so, but there's no way I could have done it as eloquently as DarkViper did. I'm glad we have people in the community like him and I highly respect him for it. Although people probably noticed that I was surprisingly quiet during the time that the Goose ban and Apollo video came out, and I'd like to explain more to why that was.

When Goose was banned, I was pretty vacant and busy with other things while it was going on, and truthfully at the time I didn't fully understand what he was banned for. I read through some of the imgur album (I have ADHD so it's difficult for me to read a large doc like that with nazi language and dogwhistling I didn't really understand) and it was obviously things I didn't agree with, but it wasn't until Darkviper's video and me giving an honest FULL read through that I comprehended what was really being said. As someone who holds a lot of influence in the community, I should have made myself more aware of what was going on at the time instead of putting my hands over my ears and saying "wahh I just wanna play video games fast guys, cmon." It was childish and in the future, I will hold myself more accountable on making sure I speak out about these kinds of things. I want speedrunning to remain an open space that anyone can participate in no matter who they are.

Now I was planning on tweeting out after I had my full opinions on Apollo's video, but I held back. The reason was because in a private discord server Apollo posted the video unlisted for a few of us to look over before making it live. He posted this video at 5 AM and I was so tired I didn't even watch it past the 2 minute mark. That was when I should have spoken up and stopped him from posting the video, and since then I've felt partially responsible for its existence. I felt like a hypocrite if I tweeted out about his video in hindsight when I should have expressed my opinions to him directly right there and then.

As time went on other people started posting videos lying about GDQ and I wanted to make a video debunking the claims and explaining why I support the organization. A lot of people don't know this, but I actually volunteer for GDQ creating all of the custom thumbnails you see on the YouTube VODs and I create the official highlights posted each year. So, I contacted Matty before working on a video like this to see if that was alright since I was affiliated with the org and didn't want to step on any toes. Matty was actually all for me making the video (he hates Apollo) but PR turned me down and said not to give it any attention, so I didn't. Honestly, they were probably right to turn me down, but I did try even though a lot people assumed I just didn't care.

I legitimately don't understand why Apollo made this video. He describes a hate mob that is targeting speedrunners which may or may not exist, with absolutely no evidence other than wq rambling. Furthermore, he blindly defends Goose which gives off the impression that everything that he said was okay, which it was NOT. Like how are you going to defend Goose when he's openly apologizing for what he said and accepts the ban. You really can't, but Apollo does it anyways and signals everyone to go subscribe to Goose... for what reason? Again, Apollo's bias is present in any video he gives his opinion in, to the point he defends white nationalism. Him and Goose were good friends (Apollo has an entire video dedicated to Goose and they worked closely together on Oceanside). Now I do not think that Apollo is personally bigoted because I actually have had conversations with him about this kind of stuff before, way before any of this stuff happened. But just because you're not a racist, you still defended one which isn't much better. Goose also didn't like that Apollo made the video either, I don't think he wanted defended.

In these regards I honestly hold Goose to a higher esteem than Apollo, because at least he apologized for what he did, and is taking steps to become a better person. That's literally all I can ask from someone, and I know that isn't enough for a lot of people and doesn't excuse what he said, but I'm not a hateful person. I don't want to continually shit on him and give him no reason to get better, but I'm also not going to endorse him either. Regardless of all of this Apollo has never apologized for shit, and I don't know why. You're allowed to be wrong, you're allowed to make mistakes, but you just delete your mistakes and never atone. I need some shred of remorse from you.

I feel so conflicted about my feelings on Apollo. He's always been so nice towards me and I've looked up to him as a content creator for so long. He's the reason I have everything I have today. For that reason, I let far too many things slide that I shouldn't have. I also felt like Apollo had some personal issues which were why he would disappear for periods and why even I couldn't get a hold of him for months. I worried about him, and I could never find an appropriate time to approach him where it wouldn't just make him feel worse. And I didn't want to lose a friend. I don't know if Apollo thought of me that way, but I wanted to be friends with him, I want to be friends with everybody. But I didn't reach out to him, I never did enough to make sure he was alright, I never expressed enough to him that I didn't agree with what he was doing, I'm a bad friend. Friends don't do all of that and then make a twitlonger when it's most convenient, but here I am, tired of being silent.

For a long time I thought a speedrun drama channel was necessary, so I always appreciated Apollo being there to cover stuff going on in our community, but I was so wrong. We don't need a fucking Keemstar. Bringing our community drama to a large audience has only fueled hate towards people that have only made the heinous act of cheating in a video game. We should be more responsible with who we expose and make sure it's only people that deserve it, not to farm YouTube views, as tempting as it may be. I started getting less of the opinion that Apollo was out for justice rather than views when he started uploading videos during the Caveira ordeal. During this time he uploaded 3 videos about Caveira in order to help defend me, which was a nice gesture, but he NEVER TOLD ME HE WAS MAKING EVEN A SINGLE ONE OF THOSE VIDEOS. I felt really weird about this because I felt like he was just posting the videos for views rather than trying to help me. His videos had misinformation in them and didn't include relevant information all because of his lack of communication.

That's all I want to say. Ben I appreciated you for a long time as a friend and as a content creator, and I wish you the best, but please stay out of the drama sphere. You're not responsible enough to handle it with care, and frankly our community doesn't need it. I wish you luck with the Billy Mitchell case because despite how I feel about you I still want that fucker to go down. Please do not go down a path of harming yourself, I do not want that at all, I just want you to be better because I know you're more than capable of it. Suicide is a trigger for me, a lot of people know this, and I sympathize with anyone going through those thoughts.

This is why I always end my videos with my silly saying, because no matter what life is worth living. And no matter who you are, or what you're going through right now, I hope you all have a beautiful life.

- Collin (https://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1sra9rd)

Other Notable Vids:

Clip of EZScape, the other youtuber that he blamed in his suicide note

[/SPOILER]

Apollo Legend DROPS Billy Mitchell Lawsuit. (The Whole Story) by SFTP News

Apollo Legend Reaches Settlement in Lawsuit with Billy Mitchell by Tipster

What Happened to Apollo Legend & Oceanside? by RWhiteGoose

 

[Yotsubaaa]

Somebody plans to kill themselves, you BETTER call Keemstar before you do!

That's very Keemstar. God damn.

Right? What the fuck?

"Speedrunner commits suicide; Keemstar most affected"

It's as hilarious as it is gross. Typical gnome.

 

[Broble64]

needlessly antagonizing attempt to sue Billy Mitchel and his company for faking world records related to Donkey Kong

I know that you've already been corrected, but how did you get it this wrong? Maybe you're thinking of Twin Galaxies, who's currently suing Billy (because he broke the part in their contract that says "no cheatin'") but Apollo never sued anyone. He seemed like kind of a dick, but he really didn't do anything terribly offensive.

 

[RoboticRichardSimmons]

Is it just me or does listening to this guy screw up his speech because of the lip ring trigger you too? It's like the lip ring makes him talk like a dick head.

 

[Bookmark Cuck]

DarkViper has an entire playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAnJ4ZuTYaeHQz20-Sb5EjiO9yxuWxVeR I've archived it already.

That DarkViper dude sounds like a fucking faggot.

His manipualtive languge is pretty shitty as well, Apollo was a scumbag but come on dude. No-one looks good here.