Dr. Disrespect is the screen name for a video game streamer named Guy Beahm. He got big on Twitch and YouTube for his comedic antics and innovative use of CGI and screen transitions during his streams. His streamers were very entertaining and, raised the bar for what was possible as a solo streamer, and won multiple "Streamer of the Year" awards. He recently admitted to engaging in inappropriate conversations via messages with a minor on Twitch.
No one knows. During a private investigation before being terminated from the Twitch platform in 2020 it was determined that he hadn't done anything illegal, hadn't exchanged any photos, hadn't committed a crime, or even met the individual. The case was settled and he was paid the remainder of his contract with Twitch. It's sorta odd, but also he admits to doing something.
The gaming company that he co-founded (and whose success largely relies on the advertising that Dr. Disrespect would have provided them) also severed ties with him. In their statement, they said they initially believed his innocence but after their own investigation, they chose to sever ties with him. That's pretty damning.
The CEO of said company also tweeted something along the lines of, "It does not matter the extent of the inappropriateness. I cannot work with someone who has engaged in anything inappropriate with a minor."
People keep getting caught in the "nuance" of this situation, but there really shouldn't be any. No adult should be engaged in any inappropriateness with a minor under any circumstances. Pretty fucking simple.
Exactly. People are trying to defend their favorite streamer, and it's just creepy AF. Maybe he can't be criminally prosecuted, but so many things fall outside the law's jurisdiction. Don't be inappropriate in any way with minors. It's not fucking hard.
More and more information keeps coming out and now Im genuinely curious to see his exact messages. What type of inappropriateness are we talking about? Both sides have been so incredibly vague its odd
Bad enough that twitch fired one of their highest revenue generators on their site, which is insanely rare seemingly for top streamers to ever face actual punishment. That's pretty damning, though it's far from evidence.
Why isn’t that a serious question? You don’t think there’s a difference between chatting online with an underage person or sending a dickpic to them? Meeting up with one? I’m not saying either is acceptable. I’m just asking what the guy did.
How am I supposed to know what happened unless I ask? I had no idea if he was talking or sending pics or what? Questions are important. I swear mouth breathers are the worst. Looking and labeling and have no idea wtf is actually happening.
I swear idiot pedos are the worst. "inappropriate talk with a minor" WTF do you really need to know more about? The word extent shouldn't even be thought about. Unless you're a pedo. There are no details needed.
A former employee claims he sexted a teenage girl, and that was the reason for the Twitch ban. Given that Twitch settled a lawsuit with him, that doesn't seem too likely.
The 49ers pretty much blasted him all over their socials a couple years ago. He even announced a draft pick. This is the only reason I know who he is and Twitter is now calling his shit out
Twitch/youtube game streamer that has an alias dr.disrespect and basically plays a character while playing games. Also releases music.
He was pretty huge for a number of years. But in 2020 I think twitch permanently banned him and neither he nor twitch ever disclosed the reason. After that he kept streaming on YouTube and everyone kind of let go that the ban was never discussed.
Just recently it was leaked that he was messaging a minor back in like 2017 or something and from the sounds of it was flirting and trying to set up a meeting with the minor.
He’s a streamer named Dr Disrespect, it just came out that he was fired from Twitch for sending DMs to an underage girl, he admitted to it yesterday on his Twitter account.
After doing some reading in the comments, I definitely agree all future ties should be cut with them.
I do think trying to go back and scrub the past is dumb. Like WWE with Chris Benoit... he was a major part of the company for a period of time. Blurring him out of old footage accomplishes nothing.
Just like deleting old tweets mentioning this guy would be pointless.
Count me as one of them. Had to scroll through the comments to find out who he is or what he’s accused of. That said, yeah F this guy, cancel him, whatever. But also, who tf pulls up two year old tweets to pretend to be offended by?
OP has some crazy hate boner for this guy that nobody even really cares about here. Posting here like we're the ones who are going to cut all ties lmao. The org is already on it they don't check this subreddit.
For real lmao. People act like everyone just has that pedophile stink on them or something. Bro was at the top of the game a few years ago after YouTube took him. Of course the 9ers media gonna take advantage, especially when they saw the hype timthetatman bought for the cowboys.
He lost multiple partnerships in 2020 and no one at the 49ers asked "Hey, we noticed some red flags here, whats up with those?" and instead were like "Hey, those red flags really match our color scheme, welcome aboard."
Who is "we"? You posting here has literally zero bearing on what the actual team does and it looks like they're already on it. Exactly zero of us here have any power in this.
the man was a walking red flag for years and had already had like 2 other scandals when they first partnered with him. complete own goal for whoever is charge of social media stuff for the team. Was pretty annoyed when he first started showing up I hope whoever thought of this on the team’s side takes their lumps and learns from this (or isn’t in charge of future decisions like this.)
He always bugged the shit out of me. I hated his "persona" and when he cheated on his wife and did this ridiculous sobbing apology to his fans... I never liked him being associated with the 49ers (but I've been downvoted to hell on this sub for saying so.)
Never understood why the team associated with this guy. He was cringe in all the official videos. And did we really need to attract the "gamer Livestream watching" demographic?
Kids. I’m apparently old and don’t know anything about streamers, but the NFL has been making a concerted effort to court younger viewers. I imagine they’re worried about shortening attention spans and whether a whole generation of iPad Kids will watch a whole 3-4 hour football game.
He was banned by Twitch for his text exchange with a minor. I don't know much about Twitch but if you're getting banned from a streaming platform and you're a pretty big pull for them, that's a really bad thing you did.
Personally, I don't want the 49ers to associate with him.
I was a fan of Dr. Disrespect, but I unsubscribed upon learning of this.
He had a non romantic relationship with a 16 year old over text when he was 35.
All we know is they never met, never sent pics, and that sometimes the conversations leaned towards inappropriate according to the streamer. We also know nothing illegal was done.
I'm sure the details are behind NDAs and sealed and it will be impossible to know how bad the content was. Not a pedo but definitely a creep.
Why do people try to sugar coat what he did? He was trying to fuck a kid. There's no leaned towards inappropriate when it comes to minors it was just gross predatory behavior. Definitely a pedo creep no buts about it
Two-Time is a reference to his supposed 1993 and 1994 Blockbuster Video Games Championship wins at age 11 & 12. It can’t be proven and means nothing, it’s just part of the brash Dr Disrespect persona.
And yes, cheating on his wife at an invitational event in Europe in 2017 started the downward spiral to being kicked from Twitch in 2020.
The reason for the ban was recently revealed to be sending inappropriate messages to a minor on Twitch and trying to hook up with them at a Twitch convention in 2017.
That went public a few days ago, so if the Niners only just cut ties, this is why. It also cost him deals with Nike, Oakley and Turtle Beach. More sponsors are likely to dump him and he’s gone offline as of two days ago.
I'm pretty sure the San Francisco 49ers, a company worth $6 billion equipped with a whole social media and PR team, didn't need anybody to come on here and say anything for them to do what they had already done before you did so, but go off.
Wow… didn’t have that one on the 2024 bingo card. Was there more to the story or just that he admitted to having an inappropriate conversation with a minor? Nasty work
Huh, I don’t get the need for grown ass adults to mess with minors? Much less if you’re a content creator that should know all the pitfalls of the internet and anything you write, post is permanently recorded for all times.
he didn't do anything democrats are just making up stuff to destroy his name. Dr disrespect refused to sell his soul and now they are attacking him on social media. reddit is also fake website, they are using this site to destroy his name just like on Google and the news. coward democrats.
Depends on what you look for, Andy Lee probably had better distance, but Mitch has the most balls not caught clean. So turnovers definitely to Mitch but Andy Lee was probably a better traditional punter in his prime
The team already cut this with this streamer: https://www.dexerto.com/twitch/san-francisco-49ers-will-no-longer-work-with-dr-disrespect-after-twitch-ban-reason-reveal-2797658/