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Twitch banned Dr Disrespect after viewing messages sent to a minor, say former employees (www.theverge.com)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Clbull@lemmy.world to c/gaming@lemmy.world

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EDIT: Dr Disrespect has made a full statement regarding the ban.

Twitch abruptly permabanned one of its biggest names (Guy Beahm a.k.a. Dr Disrespect) from their platform back in 2020 without explanation. Four years later, two former Twitch employees have now spoken up, alleging that he was banned for sexting with a minor through the Twitch Whispers app and attempting to meet up with her at TwitchCon.

This came two years after a settled lawsuit between Twitch and Beahm, where neither party admitted to any wrongdoing, and his contract was paid.

Other notes and links:

The Twitter post made by former Twitch employee, Cody Conners (@evoli)
Esports journalist Rod "Slasher" Breslau (@slasher), who previously tweeted that he had been told by 'credible sources' about why Beahm was banned, but couldn't say anything due to the sensitivity of the subject, has also corroborated what Cody Conners confirmed.
The other former Twitch employee who spoke to the Verge asked to remain anonymous.
Response from Dr Disrespect (@DrDisrespect) via Twitter denying any wrongdoing.
Midnight Society (@12am) announcing on Twitter that they have cut all ties with Dr Disrespect following these allegations. This is an indie game studio that the Doc was a co-founder of.
Turtle Beach have seemingly dropped their partnership with Dr Disrespect. All of his branded merch has been removed from their website.

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[–] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 57 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Shocking the guy who was 'playing' a dumass ragelord 'character' turned out to be a POS in real life.

[–] candyman337@sh.itjust.works 25 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's important to be said that you have to be very careful when playing a satire character, because if you're not you will just become the satire character. Larry the Cable Guy is not even from the south. If you're doing something ironically or you like something ironically you have to make sure that it's something that you're okay with doing unironically or that you really take care to separate yourself from that thing in certain ways otherwise you will start to believe, like, and/or do those things unironically

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 35 points 4 months ago (1 children)

As Kurt Vonnegut put it in Mother Night: We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Fake it till you make it.

Or in this case, fake it you'll become it.