Celebrity streamer insists that “I didn’t do anything wrong”
Deadrop developers Midnight Society have “terminated” their relationship with studio co-founder and celebrity streamer Herschel “Guy” Beahm, aka “Dr Disrespect”, over fresh allegations about the reasons for his infamous Twitch ban in 2020.
At the time of the ban, which came just a few months after Beahm and Twitch announced a two-year exclusivity contract, Twitch commented only that Beahm had been jettisoned for acting “in violation of our Community Guidelines”. Beahm himself described the move as “a total shock” in a later conversation with the Washington Post. In August 2021, he took Twitch to court over the ban, but the dispute was eventually settled with neither party admitting any wrongdoing.
Last week, however, former Twitch strategic partnerships account director Cody Conners alleged in a Xitter post that an unnamed person “got banned because [he] got caught sexting a minor in the then existing Twitch Whispers product. He was trying to meet up with her at TwitchCon. The powers that be could read in plain text. Case closed, gang.” (Twitch Whispers is a now-retired private 1-to-1 messaging service.) According to two anonymous former Twitch employees cited by the Verge in a subsequent investigation - one of whom worked on Twitch’s trust and safety team at the time of the ban - the unnamed person in question was Beahm.
Beahm hasn’t yet addressed these latest claims about his behaviour, beyond tweeting last week that “Listen, I’m obviously tied to legal obligations from the settlement with Twitch but I just need to say what I can say since this is the fucking internet. I didn’t do anything wrong, all this has been probed and settled, nothing illegal, no wrongdoing was found, and I was paid.”
The defense is: if he did anything wrong he would be in jail.
My brother in Christ, you don’t need to do something illegal to be a shitbag.
Such unexpected behavior from a person who was unfaithful to their spouse and who brought a cameraperson into a public bathroom. I’m shocked (/s)
Damn, not even NFT bros want to hang out with an alleged predator.
He actually responded to this on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/DrDisrespect/status/1805662419261460986
Two clear quotes from the tweet.
Were there twitch whisper messages with an individual minor back in 2017? The answer is yes.
and also
I’m no fucking predator or pedophile.
Were there real intentions behind these messages, the answer is absolutely not. These were casual, mutual conversations that sometimes leaned too much in the direction of being inappropriate, but nothing more.
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This is literally “I was inappropriately talking to a minor, nothing more” like wtf lol
This man felt he finally had the opportunity to share his side of the story and decided to lead with that.
Edit: Now in skit form
That’s what they always used to say to Chris Hansen when he’d confront them about the texts
Part of me wants to give some benefit of the doubt but it’s really difficult. Maybe he was trying to meet up at the nintendo panel for upcoming Super Smash Bros Ultimate and the Twitch admins read “I can’t wait to smash with you.”
If DrDisrespect has actually been wronged then we will find out eventually after a defamation suit, part of the reason they settled it last time might be because the mere allegations being released to the public could be harmful but that cat is out of the bag.
Part of me wants to give some benefit of the doubt
Why? Hasn’t his official statement said enough? I have no idea who this guy is. Is he that big?
Because I think mob justice is criminal. If Dr Disrespect did wrong then he did wrong, but we don’t know anything other than the fact that he has in fact spoken to a person who was under 18, which in itself is not a crime.
Twitch banned him 3 years after the supposed contact between the two, and attempted to go without paying out his contract termination until he started a lawsuit and Twitch settled it.
