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Deadrop developer Midnight Society cuts ties with Dr Disrespect following new Twitch ban allegations (www.rockpapershotgun.com)

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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."

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[-] Jackthelad@lemmy.world 94 points 4 months ago

[-] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 32 points 4 months ago

Batboy flipping grunts in my community? Say it aint so!

[-] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 6 points 4 months ago

I always knew he was a gambling addict.

[-] 8000gnat@reddthat.com 5 points 4 months ago

It's more likely than you think

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago

[-] Phegan@lemmy.world 64 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] kogasa@programming.dev 17 points 4 months ago

Well, we knew he was a shitbag beforehand, so that's not really what's in question

[-] BleakBluets@lemmy.world 48 points 4 months ago

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)

[-] very_well_lost@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago

And also, I mean, like... you guys have all seen the moustache, right?

[-] maxenmajs@lemmy.world 29 points 4 months ago

Damn, not even NFT bros want to hang out with an alleged predator.

[-] micka190@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

Hear me out: What if they took the DMs and made NFTs out of them?

[-] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 13 points 4 months ago

NFT = Non-Fuckable Teenagers?

[-] Goronmon@lemmy.world 25 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 31 points 4 months ago

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.

😑

[-] 474D@lemmy.world 29 points 4 months ago

This is literally "I was inappropriately talking to a minor, nothing more" like wtf lol

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 27 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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

[-] micka190@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago

I can finally share my side of the story now that Twitch employees have come forward. You see, all I did was indulge in a little bit of grooming. One might even say it was a minor case of grooming.

Anyways, I'm not a pedo.

Doc out!

[-] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

This might be worse than when that woman ukeleled her sexual predator apology.

[-] kandoh@reddthat.com 15 points 4 months ago

That's what they always used to say to Chris Hansen when he'd confront them about the texts

[-] 4am@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

Someone already got Chris Hansen to do a Cameo for Doc 😂👌

[-] pushECX@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

LOL do you have a link for it?

[-] 4am@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

https://youtu.be/bFc-tlXT56I?si=xjOb6xqKxmWJG8Uw

Most of the ones I can find are react content re-uploads. This one has corny captions on it but at least it’s the raw video.

[-] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago

Usually what the predator pedophile says.

[-] Speculater@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

"I did it! But she was 17! Get over it people. Gosh darn it."

Who the fuck finds his streams entertaining.

[-] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today -1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 months ago

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?

[-] pipe01@programming.dev 6 points 4 months ago

Used to be the biggest streamer on twitch before he got banned

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago

Welp, I'm not on twitch but if I ever heard his name before it never registered. Who's the biggest now? Or just make someone up I'll never know.

[-] Chickenslippers@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Probably the biggest streamer right now is a rainbow six siege streamer named jynxi who averages near 100k viewers

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

Is this real? Or are you just tricking me by using an older game I'd know?

Who can tell

[-] Chickenslippers@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

No tricks here my friend. I don't know how a console playing siege person could become that big but he did it

[+] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today -12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

casual, mutual conversations that sometimes leaned too much in the direction of being inappropriate,

This is what he's willing to admit. I wonder what constitutes "inappropriate".

[-] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Twitch turbo ejected the largest streamer on its platform days after the messages were sent, so... likely pretty fucking inappropriate.

These were DMs, so never public, but the "tried to meetup at twitchcon" makes it seem like he was explicitly trying to rape a kid and thats where twitch, who could have just said nothing, hit the "fuck no" button.

Fuck this guy and good on them. Amazon still has some decent people, or at least did.

[-] 4am@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago

The messages were sent in 2017. They weren’t reported to Twitch until 2020, at which point they reviewed and took action - that was the whole “Doc got banned and we don’t know why” saga.

Now we know.

[-] Crikeste@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

Defending a pedophile isn’t a good look, Guy.

[-] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today -3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I haven't defended him, I've consistently said he might have committed a crime, though that would be unlikely given it was 7 years ago.
Labeling everyone you don't like as a pedophile isn't a good look.

[-] Crikeste@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

Nah, sexually texting a minor isn’t a two sided thing. There is no justification for it. There is no ‘I’m not a pedophile’ about sexually texting a minor. The sexual texting a minor is the intent to do more. You don’t simply ‘play around’ sexually texting a minor.

[-] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 0 points 4 months ago

Then don't sexually text any minors. Very simple. Now that I've helped you sort out your odd unrelated moral dilema, do you have anything to say about the Doc?