Twitch abruptly banned one of its biggest stars — Herschel “Guy” Beahm, better known by his persona Dr Disrespect — in 2020 . Now, four years after Beahm’s permanent ban, two former Twitch employees have come forward to describe events they say contributed to his removal from the platform. One former Twitch employee, who asked to remain anonymous citing the potential risk to their career, told that Beahm had used Whispers, Twitch’s now-defunct messaging system, to exchange messages with a minor and initiate a conversation about meeting up at TwitchCon.
The employee worked on Twitch’s trust and safety team at the time of the ban in 2020. Their comments corroborate a post from Cody Conners, a former Twitch employee who worked on the company’s strategic partnerships team. Late Friday, Conners , “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.” Though Conners did not explicitly name Beahm, it was understood the streamer was the subject of the post.
Beahm’s ban came shortly after Twitch updated its sexual harassment policy . Beahm denied Connors’ allegations. “This has been settled, no wrongdoing was acknowledged, and they paid out the whole contract,” .
Beahm reiterating that no wrongdoing was found. “I didn’t do anything wrong, all this has been probed and settled, nothing illegal, no wrongdoing was found, and.
