Deadrop developers Midnight Society have "terminated" their relationship with studio co-founder and celebrity streamer …

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.”

  • Phegan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    651·
    6 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.

  • BleakBluets@lemmy.worldEnglish
    491·
    6 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)

    • can@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      31·
      6 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.worldEnglish
        29·
        6 months ago

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

          • micka190@lemmy.worldEnglish
            15·
            6 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!

      • kandoh@reddthat.comEnglish
        15·
        6 months ago

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

    • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.todayEnglish
      910·
      6 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.worksEnglish
        71·
        6 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?

        • pipe01English
          71·
          6 months ago

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

          • can@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            3·
            6 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.worldEnglish
              2·
              6 months ago

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

              • can@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                2·
                6 months ago

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

                Who can tell

        • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.todayEnglish
          113·
          6 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.worksEnglish
            13·
            6 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.eeEnglish
              101·
              6 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.eeEnglish
                51·
                6 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.

            • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.todayEnglish
              14·
              6 months ago

              1. 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.

              2. Labeling everyone you don’t like as a pedophile isn’t a good look.

              • Crikeste@lemm.eeEnglish
                21·
                6 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.todayEnglish
                  11·
                  6 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?