Dr Disrespect Let Go From His Game Studio Following Twitch Ban Report

Update: Following the recent allegations regarding the reason for Dr Disrespect’s ban from Twitch in 2020 (detailed below), game studio Midnight Society has severed ties with him. “On Friday evening we became aware of an allegation against one of our co-founder’s Guy Beahm aka Dr Disrespect,” the company wrote on X (formerly Twitter) Come from Sports betting site VPbet . “We assumed his innocence and began speaking with parties involved. And in order to maintain our principles and standards as a studio and individuals, we needed to act.

“For this reason, we are terminating our relationship with Guy Beahm immediately. While these facts are difficult to hear and even more difficult to accept, it is our duty to act with dignity on behalf of all individuals involved, especially the fifty-five developers and families we have employed along with our community of players.”

Midnight Society was co-founded in 2021, in part by Beahm.

Beahm himself has also responded to the allegations, admitting that Twitch Whisper messages “with an individual minor back in 2017” did occur, but denying anything illegal had happened. He also said he plans to return after “an extended vacation.”

Original story: Four years ago, Twitch banned popular streamer Dr Disrespect AKA Herschel “Guy” Beahm from its platform for unknown reasons. According to a new report, Beahm’s ban was allegedly the result of him texting a minor through Twitch’s now-defunct Whispers messaging system and offering to meet up with them at Twitchcon.

A former Twitch employee who asked to remain anonymous when they spoke to The Verge explained that a “significant” amount of time had passed from when Beahm had allegedly sent the messages between himself and the minor, and when the moderation report about the messages was filed.

Possibly linked to the claims are new comments from Cody Conners, another former Twitch employee, who worked in the company’s strategic partnerships team. While Beahm isn’t named in the X/Twitter posts, Conners did write last week “He 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.”