After spending two months away from the limelight, popular streamer Guy “Dr. Disrespect” Beahm has returned to YouTube to over 200,000 people, as he took the time to defend himself after his recent controversy.
In June 2024, the 42-year-old content creator wrote on social media he had been sending messages to a individual minor that “sometimes leaned too much in the direction of being inappropriate” through Twitch’s Whisper chat. It was allegedly the main reason for his ongoing permanent ban from Twitch in 2017, but he was adamant on clearing his name.
During the return stream, the popular streamer addressed Cody Connors, the former employee of Twitch who alleged Beahm was “caught sexting a minor” in Twitch Whispers and even made plans to meet with them at TwitchCon.
Beahm asked Connors for the reason behind the leak, saying the situation was settled professionally, while also accusing him of speaking on a situation that he “didn’t have any first-hand knowledge” about.
“Do you even know what the legal definition of sexting is?” Beahm said. “I do. And yeah, I used Twitch’s Whispers, but trust me, I wasn’t sexting anyone. You also said the word ‘minor,’ and I even made sure that word was emphasized [and] edited in my statement, just to make sure that these so-called ‘journalists’ would pick up on it.”
Beahm also said Connors and other journalists didn’t take into consideration the user being messaged may have been over the legal age of consent at the time of the exchange. He also maintains he never made plans to meet the user at TwitchCon, that he never met them at any point over the last years, and that they never exchanged any sexually explicit messages or images.
Later on, Beahm alleged that Twitch’s Trust and Safety Team admitted the messages between him and the individual were not sexting, and that the team internally acknowledged the messages did not constitute any action due to sexual abuse against a child. Instead, he said the “mutual bantering with inappropriate jokes” was taken out of context, and should have never led to his ban from the platform.
It isn’t known how often Beahm will be streaming, but it looks like he’s ready to keep chugging ahead, even with the controversy still swirling around him.
