Dr Disrespect Knowingly Sent Explicit Messages to a Minor, Former Twitch Employee Says
Dr Disrespect Knowingly Sent Explicit Messages to a Minor, Former Twitch Employee Says
Streamer Dr Disrespect was banned from Twitch in 2020 over inappropriate texts he sent to a girl even after learning she was underage
“I recall that Dr Disrespect was made aware by the individual that they were underage during the conversation, after which he indicated that this was no problem and continued on,” the former employee says. “There was no confusion. Messages sent after this was acknowledged were no less graphic and in sexually explicit nature than before, and I think more than the categorization of ‘leaning too much in the direction of being inappropriate’ might indicate.”
Dude has it all and threw it away for a chance of sex with a minor
They not like us
Dr kid inspect
I didn't have any respect for him before, and now I guess I have disrespect.
It's what the doctor ordered.
I am willing to believe the accusations, but I won't take the word of people who tried to weasel out of his contract termination fees.
If they had evidence of sexting in 2017 then why didn't they report it to the police? Why quietly ban him in 2020?
Seems to me like they had monetary incentive to remove the Doc.
Because what he did wasn't illegal. It was just wrong. They didn't want anything to do with him any more, but he didn't break the law and so they couldn't use that part of the contract to terminate it.
They felt it was so wrong that they paid him $20mil to break that contract. They absolutely would have taken another option if it was viable.
There is a sizeable gap between "beyond a reasonable doubt" in terms of a very specific law, and things that are gross/immoral.
People keep questioning the timeline as a defense... They might not have known until 2020. It's normally against internal company policies to just look through people's DMs. It's not like someone's job is to rifle through them. They probably were made aware of it, and then took action.
That's speculation on my part, but if Twitch sat on it for 3 years, shame on them too, but that doesn't so shit for this guy. It was still not ok.
The monetary incentive was to pay out his contract so they didn't have a VERY public story about a VERY high profile streamer inappropriately messaging a minor with their service. That could be super damaging for Twitch. So they likely paid it out to try and bury the story.
DrNotLikeUs
Maybe Doctor Dre needs some talk some sense into him.
Guess his name fit him well
How's the doc gonna get out of this one?
dunno much about this streamer except that he's possibly the worst dressed person I've ever seen on stream. the mustache i could forgive, but then you've got the indoor 'gamer' glasses, the awful hairdo that resembles a dead animal, & the stupid overalls or whatever's going on with the rest of the outfit. I'm not one to judge books by their covers, but holy hell it's like this guy was trying to hide from the cops with a disguise from the dollar store
I think that's kinda the point
Someone correct me if I'm wrong but I thought that whole look is his "disguise" only for when he's operating as the persona Dr. Disrespect.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Four years after gamer celebrity and streaming star Dr Disrespect, 42, was banned from Twitch for undisclosed reasons, reports emerged this week that he had allegedly used the Amazon-owned platform’s direct messaging feature to send sexually explicit texts to a minor.
Renowned for playing battle royale shoot-em-up games in character as a kind of alpha jock sporting a thick mustache and mullet wig, he had signed a major multiyear deal with the company that March.
(Full disclosure: the primary author of this article, Rod Breslau, first learned the reason for Beahm’s ban from credible sources in June 2020, but chose not to report on it then due to the extreme sensitivity of the topic.)
“I went through a lengthy arbitration regarding a civil dispute with Twitch and that case was resolved by a settlement…But trust me when I say this…to all my haters that live and breath [sic] social media with zero real life experience, I don’t give a fuck about you.
As some of its streamers faced a flood of sexual misconduct allegations in June 2020, Twitch created an incident response team codenamed “Gold Sparrow” to develop a process to investigate and take action on the reports as one unit, the former employee says.
YouTube’s former global head of gaming partnerships at Google, Ryan Wyatt, confirmed to Rolling Stone that Beahm was not offered a contract due to chatter about the circumstances of his Twitch ban.
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