YouTube is stopping Dr. Disrespect’s channel from making money

Dr Disrespect’s YouTube channel has been demonetized. In a statement to On the edge, YouTube spokesperson Nicole Bell wrote, “We have suspended monetization on DrDisrespect’s channel for violating our creator responsibility policy.” Bell also wrote that Dr Disrespect was suspended from YouTube Partner Program “following serious allegations against the creator.”

The allegations relate to multiple reports that the streamer, whose real name is Guy Beahm, was banned from Twitch in 2020 due to inappropriate messages sent to a minor via Whispers, a Twitch communications app. When Beahm was banned, neither he nor Twitch explained why, leaving the mystery for four years. Late last week, however, Cody Conners, a former Twitch employee, posted on X the supposed reason for Beahm’s ban. “He was banned because he was caught having sex with a minor on the then-existing Twitch Whispers product,” Conners wrote. “He was trying to meet her at TwitchCon.”

Following Conners’ tweet, Beahm denied the accusationsposting on Sea turtle and Midnight Society – a game studio co-founded by Beahm – began to distance themselves from their creator, Beahm again turned to social media to defend himself.

“Were there whispered Twitch messages with a minor in 2017? The answer is yes,” Beahm wrote on Xsaying that these messages “sometimes tended too much to be inappropriate.”

Beahm ended the statement by saying he planned to take an extended vacation but would eventually return to streaming. After being banned from Twitch, Beahm started a YouTube channel in August 2020 that currently has over 4 million subscribers. In a report for Rolling Stone, Ryan Wyatt, YouTube’s former head of gaming partnerships, said YouTube refused to give Beahm a partnership deal when he joined the platform because of the rumors surrounding his departure from Twitch. Partnership agreements, like those with other YouTube creators such as Valkyrae and DrLupo, would have granted Beahm access to special YouTube features and monetization capabilities, as well as ad revenue sharing.

“Because of these rumors, there was no reason to think about making any deal with [Beahm],” Wyatt told Rolling Stone.