Guy Beahm, better known as Dr Disrespect, returned to YouTube to angrily deny allegations that he sent explicit messages or images to minors. In a lengthy statement, he said he “shouldn’t even be banned from Twitch.”

Beahm reacted visibly upset to allegations that he sent inappropriate messages through the platform’s Whispers feature. He took aim at the media outlets that reported on the allegations, arguing that he was treated unfairly compared to other streamers. He also claimed that Cody Conners, the former Twitch employee who originally revealed the reasons for Beahm’s ban on Twitch, was “not even involved in the process” in a rant in which he claimed the case was “professionally handled.” (Disclosure: Conners briefly worked at IGN in 2011)

“You know, you don’t know shit and that was clear from your tweet,” Beahm claimed. “You had no idea about my dispute with Twitch. You said I was banned from Twitch for sexting minors via Whispers messages? Do you even know what the legal definition of sexting is? I do. And yes, I used Twitch’s Whispers, but I didn’t sext anyone.”

He continued to deny that he met the person he messaged at TwitchCon. “To be clear, I never intended to ever meet this user. We never planned to meet at TwitchCon or anywhere else, and in fact, we never met in person.”

Beahm’s message came during his first stream since June, which took place on YouTube and was titled “The Truth,” in response to claims that he was banned from Twitch for sending explicit messages to minors via Whispers in 2020. A former Twitch employee told Rolling Stone in June, “There was no confusion. Messages sent after this was confirmed were no less graphic and sexually explicit in nature than before, and I think more so than the categorization ‘leaning too far toward inappropriate’ suggests.”

In a statement posted on X/Twitter after the initial allegations, Beahm acknowledged that the messages had appeared but said, “I’m not perfect, but I’m not a sex offender” and that “nothing illegal happened.” This followed his firing from Midnight Society, the studio he co-founded, which came shortly after Conners went public on X/Twitter. The statement was subsequently deleted.

Apparently in response to the Rolling Stone article, Beahm said, “They reported all of this based on leaks from two former Twitch employees, one of whom was allegedly on the Trust and Safety team. If these anonymous sources worked on the Trust and Safety team at the time of my Twitch ban in 2020, then you would hope they were telling the truth, but apparently that’s just too much to ask. If these former Trust and Safety team members — and I know exactly who they are, by the way — actually had firsthand knowledge, then they conveniently left out the following: First, Twitch’s Trust and Safety team, the same employees who decided to ban me, admitted internally that the Whispers were not sexting. And second, Twitch’s Trust and Safety team, the same employees who decided to ban me, admitted internally that the Whispers did not constitute child sexual abuse material.”

He continued, “I’ll say it again: Neither I nor the Twitch user exchanged sexually explicit messages or images. Cody Conners and these other anonymous sources are trying to make it seem like I exchanged sexually explicit messages with this Twitch user. That never happened. I even intentionally used the word ‘inappropriate’, and look at how it’s been defined by everyone, champs, right? Including these defamatory articles… We’re talking about allegations Twitch made against me as a half-hearted justification for their actions to suspend and shut down my channel. Allegations Twitch made without even doing any legal analysis of whether the whisper messages were illegal.”

During the stream, Beahm mocked the suggestion to release the messages he sent to the public, saying, “Are we in second grade?”

IGN has reached out to Twitch for comment. Beahm’s YouTube channel remains monetized, but he says he plans to reapply on September 25.

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Kat Bailey is IGN’s Director of News and co-host of Nintendo Voice Chat. Have a tip? DM her at @the_katbot.