Dr Disrespect returns to Twitch with a 20-minute rant, denies any wrongdoing, and claims he is the victim of a conspiracist: 'They just wanted to take down the Doc'

Guy Beahm (better known as Dr. Disrespect) returned to YouTube on 6 September and addressed his lifetime ban by Twitch in front of an audience of over 200,000 viewers. He said he "wasn’t sexting anybody" through Twitch’s Whispers message system, calling the former Twitch employee who leaked these allegations a “fucking rat."

Beahm said that the terms of the settlement he reached with Twitch imposed an order of silence on all parties, which lasted until a "disgruntled" employee leaked allegations regarding the cause of the suspension in early this year. He also addressed YouTube’s decision to demonetize the channel, saying he will have the opportunity to reapply on September 25 and that he intends do so.

He then quickly changed his tack and shifted to an aggressive defense. He criticized the people who leaked the initial reasons for his suspension. Beahm said that "this was settled professionally" and "you, knowing how black-and-white the internet is, decided, you fucking rats, to leak the reported reasons Twitch banned my in 2020."

Beahm asked rhetorically if the person who leaked the information knew the "legal definition" for sexting. This point seems to be at the heart of Beahm’s defense. "I do," Beahm said. "Yeah, I used Twitch’s Whispers. But trust me, it wasn't to sext anyone."

"I engage with my Community." Beahm said, "I engage with other streamers." "Through Twitch Whispers I communicate with Twitch Users. Conversations about gaming, gaming politics, creating content, and other random things. This was my only communication with this Twitch User."

Beahm questioned whether the person with whom he had communicated was a minor or not. "[When] these so-called reporters sent out your tweets, did anyone consider that this Twitch User may have been older than the legal age for consent at the time the messages were sent? "You didn't," said he. "Neither did these journalists and neither did Twitch when the ban was in place."

This argument seems to revolve around the difference between the United States age for majority (the distinction made between a minor or an adult), which in most states is 18 and in select few it's 19 or 21, and the age for consent. Beahm referred to the age of consent in sexual activity as 16 in 34 US States and 17 in six others. "Twitch terminates my contract and bans me, while admitting that they never investigated the legal age of consent for the jurisdiction in which the user's message were sent and received," said Beahm before shouting: "Fucking unbelievable!"

Beahm denied that he had ever intended to meet the user, and said, "I never planned to meet this person at TwitchCon." We never planned to meet at TwitchCon, or anywhere else. In fact, we never met in person.

Beahm said that Twitch had found no legal wrongdoing during the exchange. He has made this claim before, while noting that criminal charges were never brought against him. However, a conspiracy led his former partner manager was responsible for his channel being suspended. Beahm stated that "the reality is, they just wanted to take down the Doc."

Beahm's comments are in stark contrast to a statement he made in June that has since been deleted, in which he admitted exchanging "Twitch Whisper" messages with a minor in 2017, and that these "sometimes lean too much towards being inappropriate." You can debate semantic differences between "inappropriate", "sexting", and "inappropriateness" as you please, but Beahm clearly stated that the other person was a minor. Today he changed his focus to the legal age for consent.

The pre-prepared address came across as unhinged, even for Beahm, but it is also a tactic that's not unfamiliar: Instead of acknowledging or addressing the issue, Beahm pointed fingers everywhere else -- the leakers, the reporters, Twitch -- and leaned heavily on the strict legality, as if the absence criminal charges equated to the absence wrongdoing.

Beahm said that there would be "repercussions" for spreading lies about him, but it doesn't appear that any are on the way. He did not mention any potential legal action against Twitch or the leaker, and implied that the matter was behind him. Beahm said, "I won't say anything more about this." "Unless I feel like it, because I have more that I haven't revealed." He also said that he would not be sharing publicly the messages that led to his suspension.

"Everyone is saying, 'Show me the messages. What is the second grade?

I've contacted Twitch to ask for a comment on Dr Disrespect’s statement. I will update this post if I get a response.