Guy “Dr Disrespect” Beahm promotes his apparent return months after going offline to a “sexting” controversy around his original 2020 Twitch ban. He even tried to pre-empt the pedophile jokes that now regularly flood the mentions under his social media posts. “Where is he from, Epstein Island?” the disgraced streamer tweeted on Thursday.
Beahm announced his return, which he had hinted at with cryptic messages for some time with a short video that hinted at some sort of event on September 6. When the streamer goes live on YouTube or another video streaming platform tomorrow, it will be the first time he has addressed his audience live since admitting to the allegations against him that came to light in June.
He earned millions of followers playing PUBG And War zone in the role of an anti-hero from an 80s action film, which earned him the award for Trending Gamer of the Year at the 2017 Game Awards. Despite numerous controversies and a then-mysterious ban from Twitch, Beahm’s popularity on YouTube remained.
However, earlier this summer, a former Twitch employee publicly accused the streamer of being banned for sending inappropriate messages to minors on the platform. The claim was confirmed by subsequent reports from The edge, BloombergAnd Rolling Stonewhich eventually led to Beahm dropping the allegations in a long instruction In it, he admitted to having conversations with an underage user that seemed “inappropriate,” but claimed nothing illegal had happened.
Beahm has since this statement deleted as his apparent return to streaming draws ever closer, he largely dismissed ongoing criticism of his past behavior, as he did today when he tried to get ahead of people who were denigrating him. “Where is he from, Epstein Island?” he wrote. “It’s a PDF not a document, he blocked me, let me take a screenshot and post it.”
While some of Dr. Disrespect’s fans continue to defend him, his corporate partners have all severed ties, including sponsorships for PC gaming headsets and the video game studio he apparently co-founded, which recently attempted to distance itself from his involvement. And while YouTube hasn’t banned his channel, it has demonetized it, making it impossible for Beahm to continue generating revenue from his massive fanbase on the Google-owned platform.
If Beahm returns to streaming in some form, it wouldn’t be the first time he’s attempted a comeback despite controversial events. After admitting to cheating on his wife in 2017, over 300,000 simultaneous viewers.
