Dr Disrespect
Herschel "Guy" Beahm IV (born March 10, 1982), better known as Dr Disrespect or The Doc, is an American online streamer who became known for playing battle royale games such as Apex Legends, Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, Call of Duty: Warzone, Fortnite, H1Z1, and PUBG: Battlegrounds.
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| Born | Herschel Beahm IV March 10, 1982 | |||||||||
| Nationality | American | |||||||||
| Education | California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (BS) | |||||||||
| Website | championsclub | |||||||||
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| Years active | 2010–present | |||||||||
| Genre | Gaming | |||||||||
| Subscribers | 4.69 million[1] | |||||||||
| Total views | 739.5 million[1] | |||||||||
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| Years active | 2011–2020 | |||||||||
| Genre | Gaming | |||||||||
Last updated: June 26, 2024 | ||||||||||
In June 2020, Dr Disrespect was permanently banned from Twitch and his channel was removed from the site for then-undisclosed reasons.[2][3][4] He returned to streaming on YouTube a month after his suspension.[5] In June 2024, Dr Disrespect confirmed that the ban was the result of him sending "inappropriate" private messages to a minor using Twitch's Whisper feature in 2017.[6][7][8]
Early life
Herschel Beahm IV was born on March 10, 1982. He graduated in 2005 from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, where he played NCAA Division II basketball.[9][10][11]
Beahm began playing Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo 2 in college and became known in the Halo community while using the gamertag "Diarrhea Panic" for his trash talk via the game's proximity chat.[12]
Career
On January 12, 2010, Beahm published his first YouTube video on the "Dr Disrespect" channel, which was a variation on then-popular Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 commentary videos. It mixed clips of his trash talking over gameplay footage with real-life footage of him in costume as the Dr Disrespect persona. Beahm had purchased the character's signature wig, mustache, and glasses from a costume shop. The video's success would lead to Dr Disrespect becoming a partnered creator with Machinima, Inc., which was then one of the most popular gaming channels on the platform.[12][13]
In February 2011, Beahm announced that he was taking a hiatus because of his upcoming appointment on March 16, 2011 as the community manager of Sledgehammer Games.[12][14] At Sledgehammer, he expanded his role to include level design for the 2014 game Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. He joined Justin.tv (which later became Twitch) while he was working at Sledgehammer, and quit Sledgehammer at the end of 2015 to focus on a full-time streaming career.[12]
Dr Disrespect gained a following for playing battle royale games, starting with H1Z1 before switching to PUBG: Battlegrounds and then moving on to Call of Duty: Black Ops 4.[15] His stream on February 5, 2018, reached a total of 388,000 concurrent viewers, just almost beating Tyler1's record of 410,000.[16][17][18][19] His popularity has led to sponsorship deals with Gillette, ASUS, Roccat, and Game Fuel.[20] On January 10, 2019, Creative Artists Agency signed Beahm as a client.[20] According to a June 2024 Rolling Stone article, Beahm had not been a client for some time.[21]
E3 bathroom filming incident
On June 11, 2019, Dr Disrespect's Twitch channel was suspended as he was livestreaming while attending the 2019 edition of the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles, California. Dr Disrespect and his cameraman went into a public restroom (Dr Disrespect re-entered the bathroom on two occasions, with filming still going on) at the venue in violation of Twitch's privacy rules.[22][23] In addition, E3 organizer Entertainment Software Association revoked Dr Disrespect's E3 pass, banning him from the event.[22][24] Twitch reinstated his channel on June 25.[25][26]
Permanent ban from Twitch and fallout
Dr Disrespect signed a multi-year deal with Twitch in March 2020.[27]
On June 26, 2020, the DrDisRespect Twitch account was banned from Twitch. Twitch's official statement on the ban said, "As is our process, we take appropriate action when we have evidence that a streamer has acted in violation of our Community Guidelines or Terms of Service. These apply to all streamers regardless of status or prominence in the community".[28] On the same day, Discord also removed Dr Disrespect from their partnership program, citing violations of its Code of Conduct.[29] According to a June 25, 2024, report by Bloomberg News, a spokesperson for Discord said that it had taken action after receiving a report from an unidentified "trusted industry peer".[30]
Neither site released specifics for their punishments. On June 27, 2020, Dr Disrespect tweeted that he had not yet been informed of the exact reason for the ban.[31] On July 16, 20 days after he was banned, he broke his silence and was interviewed by PC Gamer and The Washington Post, insisting that he still did not know why Twitch banned him from the platform, that his contracts were still in good standing, debunking any "crazy speculation" or theory that developed, and focusing on his upcoming "Doc 3.0" personality.[29][32]
On August 6, after 42 days without streaming, Dr Disrespect tweeted a link to his YouTube channel with the caption "Tomorrow, we arrive".[33] He went live on YouTube at the same time, but the stream only showed a looping video of a custom Champions Club gas station. He also confirmed that he would show up on stream at noon PDT the following day.[34] In a June 2024 statement to Rolling Stone, Ryan Wyatt, YouTube's former global head of gaming partnerships, said that the platform did not offer a contract because it had become aware that Twitch's decision had been in relation to inappropriate messages to a minor, but did not enough access to evidence that would justify a terms a service violation.[21]
On August 23, 2021, Dr Disrespect stated that he knew the reason for his ban and was suing Twitch.[35] On March 10, 2022, Dr Disrespect and Twitch each announced that they had resolved their legal dispute with neither party admitting to any wrongdoing.[36] In a follow-up tweet, he clarified that he would not be returning to the Twitch platform.[37]
In April 2024, Dr Disrespect revealed that he had lost out on major sponsorships with Nike and Oakley because of the Twitch ban. Dr Disrespect called Twitch "slithery disgusting purple snakes, did what they did to the two-time [champion] that was tough…We didn't know [why], we didn't find out until a year later, [and] during that year, that time, y'know we'd built everything up to that point. We lost out on a lot of big deals, a lot of sponsorships, shit we had Nike, we were talking to Oakley, and that's no joke: I can bring up Oakley prototypes right here."[38]
On June 21, 2024, former Twitch director of strategic partnerships Cody Conners alleged on Twitter that the reason for Dr Disrespect's ban was because he had inappropriately messaged a minor on the platform's Whispers messaging function and attempted to meet the minor at a TwitchCon event. Another former employee corroborated the story to The Verge. Dr Disrespect responded on Twitter by stating that the legal case was settled and "no wrongdoing was acknowledged".[39] On June 24, Dr Disrespect ended his livestream, announcing that he was burnt out and considering leaving his business ventures. Shortly afterwards, Midnight Society, the gaming studio co-founded by Dr Disrespect, released a statement noting that after speaking with parties involved, it would be terminating its relationship with the creator effective immediately.[40][41]
On June 25, Turtle Beach Corporation ended a partnership with the streamer that extended back to 2020 and included Dr Disrespect-themed headsets and a dedicated Dr Disrespect merchandise page on its website.[42] The same day, Bloomberg News corroborated previous reporting with three sources, who said that the messages in question were sexually explicit. According to two of those sources, Dr Disrespect had asked a minor about her plans when attending TwitchCon. The messages were reported through Twitch's own reporting service.[30] Later the same day, Dr Disrespect published a statement on Twitter elaborating on the allegations brought against him. In the statement, he acknowledged that he had sent private messages to a minor using Twitch's Whispers messaging function in 2017 and admitted that these messages "sometimes leaned too much in the direction of being inappropriate".[6] After posting his statement, he made multiple edits to the post, the first of which he had replaced the word "minor" with "individual", then afterwards added the word "minor" back.[43]
On June 27, Rolling Stone published an article in which a former Twitch trust and safety employee with direct knowledge of the matter said that Dr Disrespect had been made aware of the minor's age, indicated that it was not a problem, and continued to send messages with a similar level of explicitness as before.[21]
Video game development and other ventures
On August 17, 2020, Dr Disrespect announced that he was writing a personal memoir called Violence. Speed. Momentum. The book was released on March 30, 2021.[44]
In October 2020, Dr Disrespect worked with Hi-Rez Studios to design a custom map and a Dr Disrespect character skin for the third-person shooter video game Rogue Company.[45]
In May 2021, Dr Disrespect backed Bright Star Studios in a $2 million investment deal for the company's massively multiplayer online sandbox game Ember Sword.[46]
In December 2021, Dr Disrespect announced the launch of a triple A gaming studio named Midnight Society,[47][48][49][50] which would be headed by him along with Call of Duty and Halo veterans Robert Bowling and Quinn DelHoyo, as well as Sumit Gupta acting as CEO. The studio's mission is creating a "day-zero" community experience, where the players will have the power to decide the games' "feature prioritization, pivotal design decisions, and fuel innovation in the shooter genre", and will focus on online player versus player multiplayer games.[51] Their currently in-development free-to-play battle royale title, which is codenamed Dead Drop,[52][53] sparked criticism around the sale of "Founder's Access" NFTs.[54][55]
A longtime fan of the San Francisco 49ers, Dr Disrespect has collaborated with the San Francisco-based NFL team on several occasions. At the 2022 NFL draft, he announced a wild-card game between the 49ers and the Seattle Seahawks for which he sounded the team's ceremonial foghorn on January 14, 2023 at Levi's Stadium.[56] Dr Disrespect featured in multiple of the team's social media posts between 2022 and 2023. However, in June 2024, the team officially cut ties with the streamer.[57]
On June 24, 2024, Dr Disrespect was fired by Midnight Society surrounding his then-alleged sexting of a minor.[58][59]
Streaming persona
Dr Disrespect's on-stream persona is usually bombastic.[29] He is often regarded as an entertainer in the streaming industry, rather than a professional gamer. ESPN describes him as "a WWE character in the competitive gaming world" and he himself has said, "I created a character who plays multiplayer video games, and he's considered the most dominating gaming specimen".[60]
When playing the Dr Disrespect character, he wears a black mullet wig, sunglasses, a red or black long-sleeved athletic shirt, and a red or black tactical vest. He sports a mustache he has nicknamed "Slick Daddy" and "The Poisonous Ethiopian Caterpillar".[61] He's also collaborated with "The Undertaker" for a GFUEL commercial, which appeared as a 'feud' which is still a 'mystery'.[62][63] His family also played into the persona, with his wife using the moniker "Mrs. Assassin" while their child was nicknamed "Baby Assassin".[12]
Discontent with controller aim-assist
In 2021, Dr Disrespect voiced his displeasure with "aim-assist" mechanics in first-person shooters (a type of mechanic that improves accuracy for console controller users) that give an advantage to console players and other controller users on cross-play games against mouse-and-keyboard players like himself.[64][65][66] He argues that aim-assist using controller players have an unfair advantage over mouse-and-keyboard players, claiming that it requires less skills in playing, stating "it's so easy you can close your eyes"[67] and comparing the mechanic to aimbotting by calling it "like a version of hacks".[68][69] Fellow streamer TimTheTatman responded, "if controller is so broken then play controller", pointing out the feature is not "illegal" as it was an intended developer-implemented feature.[70]
Personal life
Beahm is married and has a daughter.[71] In December 2017, Beahm confessed on a livestream to having cheated on his wife. He temporarily left streaming before returning in February 2018.[72][73][74]
Filmography
Video games
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Rogue Company | Voice Actor (Himself) | |
| 2021 | PUBG Mobile | Voice Actor (Himself) | |
| 2022 | NBA 2K23 | Voice Actor (Himself) | Removal confirmed in an upcoming patch[75] |
Awards and nominations
| Year | Award | Category | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Esports Industry Awards | Streamer of the Year | Won | [76] |
| The Game Awards | Trending Gamer | Won | [77] | |
| 2019 | Esports Awards | Streamer of the Year | Won | [78] |
| 2021 | Nominated |
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