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did you hear that Dr Disrespect tried to make a comeback the other day with a Deadlock stream? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by theangriestbird@beehaw.org to c/gaming@beehaw.org

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[alt text: several screenshots of posts on twitter. The bottom post is a tweet from @DrDisrespect on twitter, which says, "LIVE in 30 minutes. I just installed Deadlock... what the hell is this game? If it's from Valve, I must know. I must... understand the future of multiplayer gaming." This Dr Disrespect tweet is a screenshot being shared by @IntelDeadlock on twitter. Their post includes text that says, "Dr Disrespect is playing Deadlock today! Please avoid queue if you are a minor". The top post is another, later tweet from @IntelDeadlock on twitter, which says, "His entire team left his very first game". The post includes a screenshot of Dr Disrespect's livestream.]

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[–] GammaGames@beehaw.org 82 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Crazy behavior, the guy could play anonymously but he’s clearly not in it for the fun of the game.

[–] theangriestbird@beehaw.org 85 points 1 year ago (1 children)

course not. he's an idiot that stumbled into a profitable gig, and then he let it slip through his kiddie-diddlin' little fingers.

[+] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

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[–] Coasting0942@reddthat.com 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

2017 twitch had a “whispers” product. Sounds like direct messages twitch.

He was sexting a minor. A twitch employee confirmed he was sexting her even after he learned her age. He tried to setup a meetup at twitchcon.

He might be legally pseudo protected by twitch having minimum age requirements. I’m not a lawyer so I don’t know why the company just banned him instead of referring it to the cops. This all could have been secret if he had just kept his mouth shut and not bad mouthed the company with all the deets.

Source: Wikipedia and a podcast (don’t remember which one)

[+] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] theangriestbird@beehaw.org 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it's rockstar syndrome, same as always. People who become famous for being good at something start to think of themselves as invincible. Combine that with minors specifically treating the rockstar like they are a god that could do no wrong, and any pedophilic tendencies are gonna worm their way out.

With online celebrities specifically, I think the unique circumstance is that people can go from unknown to world-famous in a relatively short span of time, and they haven't learned how to conduct themselves in that context in a way that they might if they achieved that fame more slowly. For a recently famous person like that, direct DM access to fans is a dangerous thing.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 year ago

Look at how they're willing to act in order to attract millions of 12 year old viewers. You can't fake act being that stupid and emotional for that many hours pretty much every day unless you're fucked up in the head.

[–] Vodulas@beehaw.org 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He was DMing a minor on twitch and there were sexual messages involved. From what I understand Twitch's law enforcement consultant did not refer it to law enforcement for unknown reasons and they just banned him instead. Probably just creep behavior and nothing technically illegal. Still fucked up, but nothing that would get him arrested. He did not end up meeting with the victim AFAIK.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"Unknown reasons" you immediately followed on with. It simply wasn't illegal. Most people seem to consider it immoral but the messages have never been released so we don't even know what was said. If not illegal it's probably not horrific.

[–] Vodulas@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Unknown reason that have not been stated. I was 100% speculating, but that does not make it not super gross and creepy.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I prefer to reserve my commentary for when the facts are available. Contextually it's suspicious but ultimately amounts to an unsubstantiated smear campaign until we see the chats or prosecution, of which we have neither.

[–] Vodulas@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We have that he was banned from twitch. When somebody bringing in that much money for Twitch, you know what they did was bad. Keep defending a shitass though. I'm sure that'll go great for you

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Businesses make business decisions, we don't know the true intentions of any given action from the outside.

Amazon isn't the most trustworthy company I can think of

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Corporations hide crimes all the time, even when they are the victims. If the crime will lose them money in any way, either directly or from a reputation hit, it's very likely a company will not report it.

It only because the employees involved had their NDAs expire and confirmed they saw some very fucked up things that we know what he did.

Twitch fired him publicly when he was one of their biggest streamers. It's fully possible the explicitly sexual messages are a crime, but the parties involved, including the minor victim, did not want it reported.

You can argue amazon should have reported it anyway if it rose to that level, but with none of the involved parties forcing the issue, it makes sense from a buisness stance not to.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago

Never did anything illegal

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 1 points 1 year ago

Because what he did was not allegal, just inappropriate.

[–] theangriestbird@beehaw.org 62 points 1 year ago

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 53 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Who?

[–] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 50 points 1 year ago (1 children)

DocToPdf Disrespect was quietly banned from twitch, and then responded to allegations that he was sexting minors with "age of consent varies between states, what I did wasn't even illegal and what even is sexting? This is just haters trying to ruin my day"

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 2 points 1 year ago

Gross.

[–] sverit@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 year ago

Dr Kidinspect

[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Doctor Who.

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 5 points 1 year ago

[theremin intensifies]

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where was he even streaming from? I thought he was banned from Twitch...

[–] Vodulas@beehaw.org 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

He went to either Rumble or Kick. Not sure which, but both are pretty heavy into low moderation.

Edit: Never mind, he is on YouTube but without monetization

[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 17 points 1 year ago

No I didn't, until this post.

[–] stefenauris@pawb.social 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Doctor who?

[–] Mountaineer@aussie.zone 29 points 1 year ago

Nah, that was worth watching.