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.”
He got banned because 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.
— Cody Conners (@evoli) June 22, 2024
In response, Beahm wrote “I get it, this is a hot topic, but this has been settled, no wrongdoing was acknowledged, and they paid out the whole contract,” on X. “I didn’t do anything wrong, all this has been probed and settled, nothing illegal, no wrongdoing was found, and I was paid,” Beahm added in a separate post.
At the time, Beahm was one of Twitch’s biggest stars. He had around 4 million subscribers and had just signed a new two-year exclusivity contract with Twitch. His permanent ban came as a big shock at the time, and Beahm claimed that he had no idea why he had been removed from the platform at the time. Beahm then considered legal action against Twitch–revealing that he then knew why he had been banned–but he did not say anything publicly about the situation. A year later, the dispute had been resolved between both parties.
Since then, Beahm moved to YouTube to resume his streaming career and also started a game development studio called Midnight Society.
