The reason behind his ban has been a mystery.

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:

    • candyman337@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      262·
      6 months ago

      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

    • essteeyou@lemmy.worldEnglish
      628·
      6 months ago

      Allegedly.

      Edit 1: Downvotes for not jumping to a conclusion with no actual proof. Okey dokey.

      Edit 2: I hadn’t seen his post on Twitter that was made around the same time as my comment.

        • essteeyou@lemmy.worldEnglish
          62·
          6 months ago

          I hadn’t seen the post on Twitter, I don’t use Twitter. Looks like he posted that about an hour before I commented, so it’s not like you’d expect everyone in the world to have seen it.

          Having read it I’ve obviously got new information and can update my opinion accordingly.

          To be clear, though, he hadn’t made this statement until today, and so everyone until now was acting based on hearsay, not proof.

          Were there twitch whisper messages with an individual minor back in 2017? The answer is yes. 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.

          Disgusting.