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Dr Disrespect’s Midnight Society studio shuts down before releasing its first game

2025-01-31T08:27:18-05:00

Meanwhile, YouTube is allowing Dr Disrespect to remonetize his account.

Midnight Society, the game studio co-founded by Dr Disrespect (real name Herschel "Guy" Beahm) has shut down, killing the first-person shooter title it was developing. The studio made "significant" layoffs in September after terminating its relationship with the controversial streamer in June due to "inappropriate" messages he exchanged with a minor.

Within hours of the closure, YouTube, which also took action against Beahm in June by demonetizing his account, decided to reinstate the streamer's ability to make money on Google's video platform. The decision was made after "careful review of the channel's recent activity," YouTube spokesper …

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Dr Disrespect veers right into Rumble

2024-11-25T13:32:04-05:00

Rumble, the video streaming platform that's become the home for right-wing personalities like Tucker Carlson, Steve Bannon, and Tim Pool as well as full-throated racists like Nick Fuentes, has a new member joining its ranks: Dr Disrespect. The streamer announced the news via social media and Rumble confirmed it in a press release, stating that the streamer will provide a mix of free and paid content for the platform as well as "acting as an advisor and helping to build the Rumble Gaming community."

The move to Rumble is the latest development in the Dr Disrespect streaming saga that began four years ago. In 2020, Dr Disrespect, whose real n …

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YouTube is stopping Dr Disrespect’s channel from making money

2024-06-28T12:19:57-04:00

Dr Disrespect's YouTube channel has been demonetized. In a statement to The Verge, YouTube spokesperson Nicole Bell wrote, "We have suspended monetization on DrDisrespect's channel for violating our Creator Responsibility policy." Bell also wrote that Dr Disrespect has been suspended from YouTube's partner program "following serious allegations against the creator."

The allegations refer to multiple reports that the streamer, whose real name is Guy Beahm, was banned from Twitch in 2020 due to inappropriate messages sent to a minor through Whispers, a Twitch communication app. When Beahm was banned, neither he nor Twitch explained the reason …

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Dr Disrespect finally shares why he was banned from Twitch

2024-06-25T14:33:11-04:00

Guy Beahm, better known by his streamer persona Dr Disrespect, said he was banned from Twitch four years ago due to private messages he sent to a minor that "sometimes leaned too much in the direction of being inappropriate."

Beahm shared details of the ban in a lengthy post to X, marking the first time he's directly addressed the reason for his removal.

"Everyone has been wanting to know why I was banned from Twitch, but for reasons outside of my control, I was not allowed to say anything for the last several years," Beahm posted on X. "Now that two former twitch employees have publicly disclosed the accusations, I can now tell you my sid …

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Game studio co-founded by Dr Disrespect ‘immediately’ terminating relationship with the streamer

2024-06-24T18:38:43-04:00

Midnight Society, the game studio co-founded by Dr Disrespect, has terminated its relationship with the streamer. In a post on X, the studio wrote, "On Friday evening, we became aware of an allegation against one of our co-founder's Guy Beahm aka Dr Disrespect."

That is the day and time that former Twitch employee Cody Conners posted a tweet about the alleged reason for Beahm's permanent ban, saying it was for "sexting a minor in the then existing Twitch whispers product." Robert Bowling, a former Infinity Ward developer and fellow Midnight Society co-founder, posted shortly after, saying, "I'm now aware and I'm dealing with it… I landed f …

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Twitch banned Dr Disrespect after viewing messages sent to a minor, say former employees

2024-06-23T16:54:06-04:00

Dr Disrespect at a golf tournament in January 2024. | Photo by Orlando Ramirez/Getty Images

Twitch abruptly banned one of its biggest stars - Herschel "Guy" Beahm, better known by his persona Dr Disrespect - in 2020 without a word of explanation. 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 The Verge 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 t …

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Dr Disrespect says his mysterious Twitch ban is causing him anxiety

2020-09-01T13:26:09-04:00

Dr Disrespect says he still doesn't know why he was banned from Twitch, and he warned viewers that the mysterious ban has been causing him anxiety. "My anxiety levels are something that comes in these huge waves," said Dr Disrespect, real name Guy Beahm, on a stream compilation posted to YouTube this afternoon. "And I'm having a hard time dealing with it. I'll be honest."

Twitch signed Beahm to an exclusive contract at the beginning of the year. But in June, his account disappeared from the platform, and Twitch refused to say why or even confirm that he had been banned. It was a big surprise given that Beahm was one of the platform's top st …

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Dr Disrespect officially returns to streaming

2020-08-06T17:57:58-04:00

Guy "Dr Disrespect" Beahm has returned to streaming, this time on YouTube. His first stream goes live tomorrow at 3pm EDT. The controversial streamer was permanently banned from Twitch in late June, for reasons that are still unknown.

Though he'd signed an exclusive deal with Twitch back in March, Beahm does not have a similar arrangement with YouTube. Sources close to Beahm say that he plans to experiment with other platforms like Facebook Gaming and his own personal website, the Champions Club.

DrDisrespect has added a $4.99/Join button to his YouTube channel, went live on Instagram just now, and played a parody news report at the end sa …

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Weeks later, Dr Disrespect still won’t say what happened with Twitch

2020-07-16T10:32:42-04:00

Dr Disrespect has spoken up for the first time in over two weeks in conversations with multiple news outlets, but the streamer declined to comment on why he might have been banned from Twitch and provided only vague details about what might come next.

The streamer, real name Herschel "Guy" Beahm, told The Washington Post that he wasn't interested in "engaging crazy speculation" about the reasons behind his apparent ban. He's "considering" a lawsuit against Twitch, according to PC Gamer, and he's starting to figure out what the Doc's return will look like. He also said he took a short vacation to the beach. "I've been dealing with a lot of s …

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Dr Disrespect breaks silence, but Twitch still refuses to say what’s going on

2020-06-28T00:11:19-04:00

What you've probably heard: three months after he signed an exclusive two-year contract with Twitch for a "life-changing" amount of money, Twitch has nonetheless "permanently banned" Guy Beahm, aka Dr Disrespect, for something he did in violation of the company's rules.

What you might be thinking: it's too much of a coincidence for his channel's abrupt disappearance to happen a single day after Twitch announced it would start permanently banning streamers for sexual harassment and assault.

The truth: we do not currently know whether Twitch has even banned Beahm, much less the facts around why Disrespect disappeared on Friday, because the c …

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