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Twitch banned Dr Disrespect after viewing messages sent to a minor, say former employees (www.theverge.com)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by Clbull to c/gaming

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EDIT: Dr Disrespect has made a full statement regarding the ban.

Twitch abruptly permabanned one of its biggest names (Guy Beahm a.k.a. Dr Disrespect) from their platform back in 2020 without explanation. Four years later, two former Twitch employees have now spoken up, alleging that he was banned for sexting with a minor through the Twitch Whispers app and attempting to meet up with her at TwitchCon.

This came two years after a settled lawsuit between Twitch and Beahm, where neither party admitted to any wrongdoing, and his contract was paid.

Other notes and links:

The Twitter post made by former Twitch employee, Cody Conners (@evoli)
Esports journalist Rod "Slasher" Breslau (@slasher), who previously tweeted that he had been told by 'credible sources' about why Beahm was banned, but couldn't say anything due to the sensitivity of the subject, has also corroborated what Cody Conners confirmed.
The other former Twitch employee who spoke to the Verge asked to remain anonymous.
Response from Dr Disrespect (@DrDisrespect) via Twitter denying any wrongdoing.
Midnight Society (@12am) announcing on Twitter that they have cut all ties with Dr Disrespect following these allegations. This is an indie game studio that the Doc was a co-founder of.
Turtle Beach have seemingly dropped their partnership with Dr Disrespect. All of his branded merch has been removed from their website.

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[–] halcyoncmdr 0 points 5 days ago

Not sure why you seem so personally invested

There's nothing personal, I just expect accusations like this to have real evidence. All the "evidence" we had through Twitter was hearsay, and we've all played telephone before. Hearsay is no different than gossip, and it quite often is incorrect, that's why it's not admissible in court. Sorry for actually wanting proof of egregious claims instead of just trusting a former employee, who already had questionable trustability, and who was using the publicity to promote their own shit. Not exactly a great source of accurate information.

he admitted to it so a lot of this conjecture is moot. There's links to his statement ITT.

My post here was made around the same time his tweet was posted. In fact looking at the times, it was posted here the same minute of his last edit. So, no chance to have even seen reports about that response yet, nonetheless read it.