Submitted 4 months ago by theangriestbird@beehaw.org to gaming@beehaw.org
I love when completely innocent people say things like “no wrongdoing was acknowledged" and “no criminal charges have ever been brought against me”. I was suspicious before, but if there were no criminal charges then who cares, right? Right?
Didn’t he cheat on his wife and get caught as well?
Dr. Disrespect: I’ll fucking own this problem!
Also Dr. Disrespect: Owns up to inappropriate message exchange with a minor.
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“Dr. Degenerate” more like
ok groomer
Say… how far on the dark side of the moon am I living if I never heard about this streamer before? xD
Pretty far 😂 I THINK he was almost as big as Ninja at one point. If you don’t know who Ninja is, then I think you just gotta tap outta this one. Lol
Heh, probably for the better 🤣
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Guy Beahm, better known by his streamer persona Dr Disrespect, said he was banned from Twitch four years ago due to private messages he sent to a minor that “sometimes leaned too much in the direction of being inappropriate.” Beahm shared details of the ban in a lengthy post to X, marking the first time he’s directly addressed the reason for his removal. “Everyone has been wanting to know why I was banned from Twitch, but for reasons outside of my control, I was not allowed to say anything for the last several years,” Beahm posted on X. Yesterday, Midnight Society, a video game studio Beahm co-founded in 2021, announced that it ended its relationship with the creator. In a post on X, Robert Bowling, studio head at Midnight Society, wrote, “If you inappropriately message a minor. In a statement to The Verge, Maclean Marshall, Turtle Beach’s senior director of global communications, wrote, “We will not be continuing our partnership with Guy Beahm/DrDisRespect.” — Saved 68% of original text.
theangriestbird@beehaw.org 4 months ago
If you’re just catching up on this news now: Twitch dropped him because they found Twitch DMs where he was sexting a minor and discussing plans to meet up with said minor at TwitchCon.
MasterNerd@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Tbf we don’t know if it was sexting, all we know for sure is that inappropriate messages were sent. Not trying to defend him as his behavior was 100% unacceptable and twitch and Midnight Society were right to drop him, we just don’t know enough to definitively say he was sexting them
theangriestbird@beehaw.org 4 months ago
The accusation from two former Twitch employees, as posted on Twitter, was:
Beahm’s direct response to that specific allegation is:
So the detail of “sexting” is “in dispute” in the sense that the predator denies the allegations, but predators always deny allegations. And the fact that his formal denial still included details like “sometimes leaned too much in the direction of being inappropriate” is really sus.
So to me, saying “we don’t know if it was sexting, all we know for sure is that inappropriate messages were sent” has the same energy as saying “no criminal charges have ever been brought against me”. We don’t need photo evidence to know he was a creep.
Telorand@reddthat.com 4 months ago
Good to have the facts straight. It’s creepy enough on its own without inventing details.
snooggums@midwest.social 4 months ago
Is anything other than sexting referred to as i appropriate when a minor is involved?