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One of Twitch’s former biggest streamers has admitted to sending “inappropriate” messages to a minor but says he’s “no f***ing predator or paedophile”.
Dr DisRespect, real name Herschel “Guy” Beahm, had more than four million followers on Twitch before his channel was abruptly removed in 2020.
He was only halfway through a two-year exclusivity deal with the platform.
Now, Beahm, 42, has addressed the ban to his followers on X, saying: “Were there Twitch Whisper messages with an individual minor back in 2017? The answer is yes.”
Twitch Whisper was a messaging functionality on the site.
“Were there real intentions behind these messages, the answer is absolutely not,” Beahm’s statement added.
The explanation comes after a former Twitch employee shared an explosive post on X on Friday that appeared to refer to Beahm, although it did not name him.
Cody Conners, who worked on Twitch’s strategic partnerships team until last year, wrote: “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.”
Shortly after Conners’ post went viral, Beahm appeared to deny the allegations, posting 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.”
In an earlier post, he said Twitch had paid out his whole contract despite the ban.
After the ban he moved to YouTube, where he has more than 4.7 million followers and still streams regularly.
Game studio drops Beahm
Midnight Society, a game studio that was working with Beahm on a new game, has now dropped him.
Robert Bowling, a co-founder of the studio, posted on Tuesday: “If you inappropriately message a minor, I cannot work with you. Period. I promised to only act on facts, and I did.”
On Tuesday, about an hour…
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