Gaming accessory manufacturer Turtle Beach has ended its partnership with gaming content creator Guy Beahm, also known as ”Dr Disrespect“, following allegations that he was banned from internet streaming platform Twitch after exchanging sexually explicit messages with a minor. The supposed justification for the ban, which took place four years ago for undisclosed reasons, surfaced late last week when former Twitch employee Cody Conners made a to X / Twitter seemingly detailing the matter. “He got banned because [he] got caught sexting a minor in the then existing Twitch whispers product,” the post read.
These allegations were then corroborated in a recent report from , which stated that their sources claimed that Beahm exchanged sexually explicit messages with a minor through Twitch’s direct chat feature. He also reportedly asked about their plans to attend the then upcoming TwitchCon convention. This led to a complaint filed against Beahm through Twitch’s reporting system, resulting in the ban.
Responding to the claims in a posted to X / Twitter, Beahm admitted that there were “messages with an individual minor back in 2017” but denied any wrongdoing and stated that there was no “real intention behind these messages”. Rather, they were “casual, mutual conversations that sometimes leaned too much in the direction of being inappropriate” in which “nothing illegal happened” and “no pictures were shared”. In a very brief statement provided to Tech.