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\nFollowing a series of allegations from former Twitch employees last week, high-profile streamer Guy “Dr Disrespect” Beahm has admitted he was permanently banned from Twitch in 2020 after exchanging “messages with an individual minor back in 2017” that “leaned too much in the direction of being inappropriate”.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe allegations first surfaced last Friday, when Twitch’s former account director of strategic partnerships, Cody Conners, claimed<\/a> an unnamed person had been banned from the streaming platform “because [he] got caught sexting a minor in the then existing Twitch Whispers product [and] was trying to meet up with her at TwitchCon.” A subsequent report by The Verge<\/a> explicitly linked the allegations to Beahm after speaking with two former Twitch employees.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe reason for Beahm’s permanent Twitch ban<\/a> – which occurred roughly halfway through his two-year exclusivity contract with the company in 2020 – has long remained a mystery. And even after last week’s allegations surfaced, Beahm avoided addressing them explicitly, insisting he bound by was “legal obligations” relating to his August 2021 settlement with Twitch<\/a>. “I didn’t do anything wrong,” he added, “all this has been probed and settled, nothing illegal, no wrongdoing was found, and I was paid.”\n<\/p>\n

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Following a series of allegations from former Twitch employees last week, high-profile streamer Guy “Dr Disrespect” Beahm has admitted he was permanently banned from Twitch in 2020 after exchanging “messages with an individual minor back in 2017” that “leaned too much in the direction of being inappropriate”. The allegations first surfaced last Friday, when Twitch’s former account director of strategic partnerships, Cody Conners, claimed an unnamed person had been banned from the streaming platform “because [he] got caught sexting a minor in the then existing Twitch Whispers product [and] was trying to meet up with her at TwitchCon.” A subsequent report by The Verge explicitly linked the allegations to Beahm after speaking with two former Twitch employees. The reason for Beahm’s permanent Twitch ban –…<\/p>\n

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