Developer Midnight Society has formally cut ties with co-founder Guy "Dr Disrespect" Beahm after allegations surfaced that the popular streamer's split from Twitch in 2020 involved "sexting a minor". As news of this broke, Beahm ended his livestream early by talking about wanting to "move away from the limelight" and potentially take an extended vacation.
As chronicled by IGN, things began to move quickly on Friday when former Twitch employees caused a stir on Twitter by alleging (without naming Beahm directly) that: "He got banned because [he] got caught sexting a minor in the then-existing Twitch whispers product." Journalists, industry insiders, and gadflies quickly put two and two together, although it's important to note that we still don't know the full details.
Midnight Society then announced the news on Twitter Monday, noting that it had "assumed [Beahm's] innocence and began speaking with parties involved". Abruptly, the post goes on to explain that: "In order to maintain our principles and standards as a studio and individuals, we needed to act. For this reason, we are terminating our relationship with Guy Beahm immediately."
Beahm himself responded to the allegations, claiming to be tied to legal obligations following his settlement with Twitch, writing: "Listen, I’m obviously tied to legal obligations from the settlement with Twitch, but I just need to say what I can say since this is the f*cking Internet. I didn’t do anything wrong. All this has been probed and settled. Nothing illegal was found, no wrongdoing was found, and I was paid."
Midnight Society was working on a shooter in collaboration with Beahm called DEADROP, which has been promised for PS5. The free-to-play vertical extraction shooter could come to Early Access on PC as soon as this year.
What do you make of this entire situation and the alleged allegations? What do you think of the timing of Dr Disrespect's holiday from streaming? Let us know in the comments section below.
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Good riddance to bad garbage.
IGN and The Verge. Well, I don't know of two more reputable sources in the biz. (Meaning I know a lot more than two.)
Yeah no skin in this one. If he did that, good riddance.
@tselliot they tracked some tweets and came to an obvious conclusion. I can't do IGN either, but it's not like they went undercover here.
Finally, some good news. I'll refrain from saying what I really think about the guy since I don't wanna break the site rules (lol) but I'll just say that he deserves much worse than this.
What is it with Twitch and child predators? Good riddance is all i say.
@PSNChaoz
Only in the eyes of the law. If you go to work and call your boss a ***** then you will get fired on the spot. You didn’t commit a criminal offence, you didn’t go to court, you are “innocent” in the eyes of the law in regards to criminality. You’re still an idiot who deserved to get fired though.
The bar for getting fired and facing the consequences of your actions is a lot lower than a criminal conviction. This guy is very likely a major scumbag, regardless of any criminality committed. The “innocent until proven guilty” crowd want to rewrite the rules of our society to that anything people do is fine unless you get criminally convicted. Thats clearly nonsense.
"I'm getting the word ... nonce."
The fact this bozo is an actual nonce, while defending other streamers painting all LGBTQ+ people as groomers, isn’t even surprising at this point. Rage streamers in general are another breed but to be trying to meet up with minors at TwitchCon without being instantly blacklisted just shows that there are core failings in terms of vetting, this guy showed up in several games after these events.
@ChrisDeku But we are not talking here about shouting at the boss. We are talking about severe accusations that he is claiming he was absolved from. And neither you nor I know the truth of the matter - thus, innocent until proven guilty.
What are these "random Twitter employees" doing chatting about it in public 4 years later anyway? There is a lawsuit case here if you ask me.
“Protect the Kids” ages worse by the day.
@LifeGirl he said he done nothing illegal, he didn’t deny grooming an underage girl to meet at twitchcon which is almost certainly true. When did not meeting the threshold for criminality become the defining line for us as a society? Everyone in the world is free to judge him based on the publicly available information. His “innocence” only extends to not being a convicted criminal and not being treated like a criminal by the state. It doesn’t extend to him not being treated like an utter scumbag.
The top comment on his tweet says it all.
"crazy how s**t used to be innocent till proven guilty but now it’s guilty till proven innocent"
Dr Disrespect, Welcome to Gen Z.
If his own company decided to actually investigate what happened and ended up booting him from the company there is more information out there than we the general public know of cuz guys remember it's his company it's not an easy thing to do to get kicked out
Twitch aren't allowed to kick someone out if they don't have something on them. But it's probably not full law breaking otherwise they'd have escalated it to the police.
Removed - unconstructive
@ChrisDeku I don't care about whoever this guy is, but that's a terrible analogy because if you call your boss something to his face then he has proof you did it since he saw it. It would be like killing someone in front of the police. No need for an investigation then.
However, If I went to your boss and told him you insulted him behind his back, then he would presumably want proof - and presumably you'd be annoyed if you were fired when I had no proof.
@DonJorginho I hope this was in every age. Kids are something that need to be protected. If he did do something they need to dropkick from the company ASAP as a adult just stay away from minors. But i have no idea if he did anything so we will find out eventually.
@Matroska
Do you mean like when women get sexually abused right to their face and their perpetrators are considered innocent until proven guilty? When you witness something happen it doesn’t magically become proven, under the legal definition(as abuse protectors like to use) it’s innocent until proven guilty. So the abuser is innocent until charged and prosecuted by the state.
The person who swore at his boss is also “innocent” as per these rules.
I genuinely hate this “cancel this guy/gal because of what someone said without proof” crap
@PSNChaoz Not in the court of public opinion.
Seeing multiple people in here defending being a nonce, gotta love the internet!
@tselliot You don't feel you can rely on them to [checks notes] relay factual information?
Yeesh. Wtf did the internet become that everyone holds a grudge against every source and then just decides to not believe facts. Smh
@Toot1st
https://x.com/cecianasta/status/1805648131754746329?s=46
@DonJorginho still allegedly. Only the court will determine this he said/she said situation.
Also, it’s ironic that you have such a paragon of morality as your profile pic…..
@Savage_Joe
1) all the sponsors are running scared after doing internal investigations and are coming to the same conclusion, if that’s not a sign I don’t know what is
2) innocent till proven guilty has been warped into something that is weaponised by the far right to defend their heroes like Trump, going off your logic OJ never did anything wrong because he was found innocent in the court of law!
3) it’s a meme, it ain’t that deep, Kanye is an awful person too, this is you doing a “you criticise society yet are part of society” thinking you delivered a zinger
@DonJorginho
1. James Gunn had to face that same outcome by the movie industry over a decade old tweet, only to turn tail and hire him back. If by “internal investigation”, you mean using the same rumor source, that’s not a really good investigation.
2. “ innocent till proven guilty has been warped into something that is weaponised by the far right to defend their heroes like Trump”. Innocent until proven guilty is a constitutional right, it’s YOU who are making it abut Trump or other ideological crap. You are using that argument in vain.
3. where I live, we have a saying that reads “don’t preach morals in underwear”. you want to preach good, then be and show good. your pfp is not helping on that front.
@Savage_Joe
1. James Gunn posted very weird jokes but that’s all they were, jokes, and that was always known, Doc is actually being accused of sexually explicit messages with minors which is completely different and you know it.
2. Of course it’s a constitutional right and I haven’t once said anything along the lines of “lock him up” or anything like that because of that very concept, my point was that people are bending themselves into all kinds of shapes trying to defend him for no reason, he’s innocent till proven guilty but also we have to acknowledge and respect the accuser and what they’ve levelled at him. And also we all know courts can be corrupt, many people sentenced either way have been overturned in years prior due to said corruption so we can’t use it as a blanket rule.
3. I’m not trying to preach anything my friend, just giving my side of an opinion surrounding this very current topic, I don’t speak for anyone and am no political activist, it’s an internet forum and discussion is key. And again it’s a silly meme it’s not a serious thing, if I changed my profile picture to someone else it wouldn’t automatically change my points to being valid now would it?
“Were there Twitch whisper messages with an individual minor back in 2017? The answer is yes”
Dr Disrespect confirmed he sent messages to a minor on Twitch which allegedly led to his ban
https://x.com/dexerto/status/1805664611498148074?s=46
@DonJorginho can’t you make more concise arguments? that was an epic tldr 😂
@Savage_Joe we both did the same thing man lmao, i type fast and ramble I can’t help it 😂
Whoever is on his legal team needs to do a better job counselling him because how do you step onto this rake so early on.
https://x.com/paultassi/status/1805666176699449502?s=46
Welp. That doesn’t look good.
Hahaha people here defending his innocence and he just goes and admits to it on Twitter. Also interesting he used the Chris Hansen defence - I didn’t intend to do anything. Classic.
Seems like internet noise without details or context, rumours and Chinese whispers. Yawn. Probably did nothing or would otherwise have been to criminal court.
@UltimateOtaku91 wait they convicted him without a trial and he is in jail now?
@Victor_Meldrew he admitted to it before your comment
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