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Dr Disrespect – he’s not smiling now (YouTube)

It’s now claimed that Dr Disrespect knew he was talking to an underage fan when he sent ‘sexually graphic messages’ and told them it was ‘no problem’.

The streaming career of Herschel ‘Guy’ Beahm, better known to the world as Dr Disrespect, lies in tatters, following his own admission that he communicated with an underage fan and that that was the reason he was banned from Twitch in 2020.

Following these revelations, Beahm has seen sponsors abandon him by the drove, as his marketing deal with the NFL is cancelled and his character removed from games including NBA 2K4. He’s been thrown out of the development studio he helped found and he’s lost over 40,000 subscribers on YouTube and Twitter.

Beahm is currently on holiday with his family but in his absence YouTube has demonetised his YouTube channel, which means that despite having 4.67 million subscribers he will now not be able to make any money from the content there, from either adverts or paid subscriptions.

‘Our Creator Responsibility Guidelines are clear that if a creator’s off-platform behaviour harms our users, employees, or ecosystem, we may take action to protect our community, including by suspending monetisation,’ said YouTube owner Google in a statement to Kotaku.

YouTubers generally make most of their money from sponsorship and merchandise sales but either way, Beahm now has no obvious way to make money from streaming, especially not on YouTube.

The news comes as a Rolling Stone report suggests that Beahm was well aware that the person he was talking to was a minor and yet continued to send them ‘sexually graphic messages.’

Beahm apparently advised them that it was ‘no problem’ and according to Rolling Stone’s anonymous source at Twitter, ‘messages sent after this was acknowledged were no less graphic and in sexually explicit nature than before [sic].’

The identity of the person in question is purposefully being kept secret and with both Beahm and Twitch refusing to discuss the issue publicly it seems that the messages are never likely to be released, unless leaked by an ex-employee.

The same article suggests that the reason Beahm wasn’t offered an exclusive partnership on YouTube is that rumours of why he had been banned from Twitch were already circulating in the industry by August 2020, although at the time they were not made public.

Beahm has also been dropped by his talent agency, so while he has vowed to return to streaming, after returning from his holiday, it’s unclear whether that will be a viable option for him.

Dr Disrespect is no longer in NBA 2K24 (2K)

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