More information has been reported about the 2020 Twitch ban of Guy Beahm, also known as the popular streamer Dr Disrespect, with a Thursday report from Rolling Stone including new details from a former Twitch employee. As Beahm said in his lengthy statement earlier this week , he exchanged messages in 2017 with a minor via Twitch's now-defunct Whispers feature that "sometimes leaned too much in the direction of being inappropriate." Now, the former Twitch employee says that the minor had informed Beahm that they were underage, and Beahm continued to send "sexually graphic" messages to them regardless, per Rolling Stone.
“There was no confusion," the former Twitch employee said. "Messages sent after this was acknowledged were no less graphic and in sexually explicit nature than before, and I think more than the categorization of ‘leaning too much in the direction of being inappropriate’ might indicate.” The former employee also detailed Twitch's internal response to the Whispers messages once the initial report about them was filed in 2020.
They said the decision to permanently ban Beahm from the platform was made "relatively quick, due to the severity of the behavior.” Additionally, the employee revealed that Twitch created an incident response team codenamed "Gold Sparrow" to take action on streamer sexual misconduct allegations after a number of them came up in June 2020. Twitch and Beahm did not respond to IGN's request for comment on the Rolling Stone report.
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