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[–] Laurentide@pawb.social 70 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Why am I not surprised that a guy who had a full crying meltdown over the existence of pronouns would turn out to be a pedo?

[–] Habahnow@sh.itjust.works 37 points 5 months ago (1 children)

NVM found it. Damn doc is getting lamer the more you learn about him. https://www.ggrecon.com/articles/dr-disrespect-calls-out-bethesda-over-starfield-pronouns/ Basically, Starfield mentions your pronoun after character creation and mentions that you can change your pronoun if you like. Doc then looks up someone from Starfield or something looking for their pronouns in the company website. He then says "Its all starting to make sense" in such a way that shows his disapproval of that option being in the game.

Its not some crazy event, but it just adds another thing to a pile of things that show he's kind of a crappy person. Starfield had mentioned they didn't want to partner with him due to the previous twitch controversy, I feel his continued actions (getting pissy over this option, that he could completely ignore) really proves Starfield's decision was a good one.

[–] Laurentide@pawb.social 16 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Oh, sorry, I had the wrong guy. I was thinking of Dan Vasc, whose red-faced screaming meltdown is embedded in the article you linked. Must have gotten the names mixed up.

Let me try this again.

Why am I not surprised that the guy who turned out to be a pedo also gets upset about other people having pronouns?

[–] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 months ago

I forgot about this but as soon as you said red-faced it came back to me. This “adult” became a tomato because he could choose to be referred to as he/him in a video game. I only ever saw toddlers and small children scream the way he did. So pathetic!

[–] Habahnow@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago

Lol I looked that one up. That was most definitely a meltdown as well LOL.

[–] Habahnow@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Lol what are you talking about? any links or ways to find this?

EDIT: found it: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/12339443

[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 50 points 5 months ago (1 children)

These shock jock types always seem to nuke themselves in the end. That guy looks like the weekly bad guy on a episode of Starsky and Hutch from the 70's

[–] moody@lemmings.world 21 points 5 months ago (3 children)

That guy looks like the weekly bad guy on a episode of Starsky and Hutch from the 70’s

You're not wrong, but that's also just a persona he plays, the hair and mustache are both fake. I don't know how close the persona is to the real person, but I'm sure he's hamming it up to some extent, just not enough to be a good person pretending.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 11 points 5 months ago

The persona is the real person. When he take out the hair, the mask is put on.

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

The persona is barely fake, which is why he always rubbed me the wrong way. Like yeah a hyper macho gamer can be a funny ironic persona, but when you're legitimately Gamer Raging TM on stream, you're just doing the thing. Not surprised he turned out to be a piece of shit a while ago. Mildly surprised he was a pedo, though I didn't notice his right-wing tendencies so that's on me.

[–] wildcardology@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

I'm pretty sure the stash is real though.

[–] wildcardology@lemmy.world 42 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I love how nickmercs defends him by saying that there's no evidence but keeps accusing the LGBTQ of pedophilia without evidence.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 29 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Nickmercs has always been a piece of shit. I feel like he's only ever stepped up to bat for his friends when they've actually done some heinous shit, so seeing his defense of Doc only further confirms my belief that he did it.

Nickmercs' support is an unexpected canary in this coal mine.

[–] uhN0id@programming.dev 6 points 5 months ago

It's like when people that cheat on others in their relationships start accusing their partners of cheating or have major trust issues because of their guilt (or whatever it is). And by that same logic I conclude that Nickmercs is a pedo (if he can do it with the LGBTQ community without evidence then he wouldn't mind me making similarly wild claims about him, right?).

[–] rustyfish@lemmy.world 25 points 5 months ago

It’s always the same with these kind of streamers. They either become decent people eventually or become pedos. There is no in between.

[–] ThePantser@lemmy.world 22 points 5 months ago

Idk who this Magnum PI wannabe is and at this point I don't give a shit.

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 21 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Boy there's a strong correlation between being a streamer/YouTuber/online video creator and being a sex pest.

[–] Laurentide@pawb.social 39 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't think streamers and video creators are more likely to be sex pests. You're just more likely to hear about a sex pest if their career involves trying to be seen by as many people as possible.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

IDK, it could be like with priests, where the job attracts a certain type because of the perks...

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

There is also the fact that a lot of streamers start young, with no guidance or mental development so they act on their worse impulses

[–] AsherahTheEnd@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

Actually I just think there are far more sex pests than you would hope, and they are literally everywhere. It's very alarming.

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 19 points 5 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

He also is "stepping away" for a while which I guess is code for "CAA can't save me" so I guess in six months we get another conservative podcaster on X, and a new KiwiFarms thread for Hershel "Dr Disrespect" Beahm.

I have a pillow sack full of nickels at this point, which leads me to think we have a serious problem with streaming/youtubing as a career.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

when is kick signing him?

[–] TheDarksteel94@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 months ago

Eric? Isn't his first name Guy?

[–] MikeOToxin@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Pillow sack full of nickels for smackin' paedos, I hope.

[–] AsherahTheEnd@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Literally all he had to do was NOT inappropriately message a minor. And what did he do?

God I love it when rich and famous people get what they fucking deserve for the shit they do.

[–] Psyhackological@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

When you call yourself Dr Direspect only stupid wouldn't believe that in some time it becomes your reality. It was unavoidable.

[–] sunzu@kbin.run 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

At least he got a YouTube career to fall back on.

[–] wildcardology@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

That's the only thing he has left, and he most likely quit it too.