High-profile streamer Guy “Dr Disrespect” Beahm has been ousted from Midnight Society, the game development studio he co-founded in 2021, after new allegations relating to his much-publicised Twitch ban surfaced late last week.
Beahm was permanently banned from Twitch in the summer of 2020 – a year into a two-year exclusivity contract with the company – but neither party has ever revealed why. The closest Twitch came to an explanation was a statement shared at the time of the ban, saying it takes “appropriate action when we have evidence that a streamer has acted in violation of our Community Guidelines or Terms of Service… regardless of status or prominence in the community.” In August 2021, Beahm announced he was suing Twitch over the ban – but the legal dispute was later settled, with neither party admitting to any wrongdoing.
And that appeared to be the end of the matter, until last week. On Friday, Twitch’s former account director of strategic partnerships, Cody Conners, made a post on social media alleging an unnamed person “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. The powers that be could read in plain text. Case closed, gang.”
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