Update June 25 at 1:57pm CT: Dr Disrespect has confirmed he sent “inappropriate” messages to a minor but maintains there was no legal wrongdoing in a new post to X (formerly Twitter).
Update June 25 at 12:33pm CT: Reports from The Verge and Bloomberg cite multiple sources corroborating allegations that Dr Disrespect sent messages to a minor on Twitch. Bloomberg’s report specifically labels these messages as “sexually explicit.”
Update on June 24 at 4:13pm CT: Later into the day, Midnight Society—the game development studio Dr. Disrespect co-founded—cut ties with the streamer in the wake of allegations made by Conners. Shortly after, Dr. Disrespect announced he would be taking an indefinite break from streaming before ending his broadcast.
The Dr Disrespect Twitch ban saga continued today when the popular streamer went live on YouTube for the first time after allegations surrounding his removal from the platform made waves over the weekend.
The streamer, real name Guy Beahm, was suddenly banned from Twitch in June 2020 with no clear reasons given. It’s been a topic of controversy and discussion ever since, but it’s been dormant for a while before being blown wide open this past Friday.
“He got banned because got caught sexting a minor in the then existing Twitch whispers product,” said former Twitch staff Cody Conners on Twitter/X on June 21, not naming Dr Disrespect specifically. “He was trying to meet up with her at TwitchCon. The powers that be could read in plain text. Case closed, gang. No one made the wrong decision, fuck him and his boys.”
“For those that are looking for me to expand on this weekend, not gonna,” Doc said in a clip from his stream on June 24, the first time he’d been live since the Twitter skirmish. “Already said what I needed to say. I don’t give a fuck about this guy. That’s it. So, I do appreciate the donations, I do appreciate the messages. But I’d like to put it into fifth gear right off the rip, I’d like to get right into it. I think you guys know how I operate.”
Doc originally responded on June 21 by saying that “no wrongdoing was acknowledged and they paid out the whole contract,” acknowledging that his ban is “a hot topic, but this has been settled” in his own post on the same night.
“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,” Doc then said on June 22. “I didn’t do anything wrong, all this has been probed and settled, nothing illegal, no wrongdoing was found, and I was paid.”
Several other reporters and gaming industry members, including another former Twitch staffer, chimed in that they had heard similar. But for now, it appears the truth behind the Doc’s ban may remain behind legal documents and up in the air as a “he said, they said” back-and-forth.
