During his return to streaming today, Guy “Dr Disrespect” Beahm alluded that Twitch found reasons to ban him in 2020 to afford “two preferable, profitable, and expensive streamers” after Mixer’s closure.
Appearing to angrily and passionately read from a prepared statement in front of nearly 250,000 live viewers, Beahm blamed former Twitch employee Cody Conners and his original Twitter/X post from June 21 this year for drudging up a legal situation that was settled years ago. But he also made claims that there was more to Twitch’s decision-making to ban him than what has been said in the past.
“The Doc’s termination lines up with two preferable, profitable, and expensive streamers leaving Mixer,” he said. “As soon as Twitch knew that Mixer had failed, go look at the timing, these other expensive streamers needed a new streaming platform, so Twitch rushed through its decision to terminate ‘The Two-Time.’ You see, I shouldn’t even be banned from Twitch.”
Without naming any names, the most logical streamers he could be alluding to are Ninja and Shroud, two of Mixer’s biggest signings that re-signed with Twitch not long after the site went under. For reference, Beahm was banned on Twitch in June 2020. Mixer shut down not long after in July 2020, followed by Shroud returning to Twitch in August 2020, and Ninja in September 2020.
During the rest of his statement on the matter of this summer’s revelations, when he was banned for inappropriate messages with a minor while streaming on Twitch, the streamer placed other facets of the blame on an ex-partner manager of his who said had a vendetta against him.
The streamer described the messages that lead to his ban as “mutual bantering with inappropriate jokes taken out of context,” and not “sexting,” to which be said that he knew the “legal definition of.”
The VOD of today’s stream can be found on YouTube here, and Beahm’s addressing of the situation beings about 21 minutes into the video.
