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I love when completely innocent people say things like “no wrongdoing was acknowledged" and "no criminal charges have ever been brought against me". I was suspicious before, but if there were no criminal charges then who cares, right? Right?

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[–] rotkehle@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago
[–] bekopharm@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Say… how far on the dark side of the moon am I living if I never heard about this streamer before? xD

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

Pretty far 😂 I THINK he was almost as big as Ninja at one point. If you don't know who Ninja is, then I think you just gotta tap outta this one. Lol

[–] bekopharm@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago

Heh, probably for the better 🤣

[–] notnotmike@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

Didn't he cheat on his wife and get caught as well?

[–] 0xtero@beehaw.org 1 points 1 week ago

Dr. Disrespect: I'll fucking own this problem!
Also Dr. Disrespect: Owns up to inappropriate message exchange with a minor.

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[–] theangriestbird@beehaw.org 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you're just catching up on this news now: Twitch dropped him because they found Twitch DMs where he was sexting a minor and discussing plans to meet up with said minor at TwitchCon.

[–] MasterNerd@lemm.ee 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Tbf we don't know if it was sexting, all we know for sure is that inappropriate messages were sent. Not trying to defend him as his behavior was 100% unacceptable and twitch and Midnight Society were right to drop him, we just don't know enough to definitively say he was sexting them

[–] theangriestbird@beehaw.org 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The accusation from two former Twitch employees, as posted on Twitter, was:

He got banned because got caught sexting a minor in the then existing Twitch whispers product. He was trying to meet up with her at TwitchCon. The powers that be could read in plain text.

Beahm's direct response to that specific allegation is:

Were there twitch whisper messages with an individual minor back in 2017? The answer is yes. Were there real intentions behind these messages, the answer is absolutely not. These were casual, mutual conversations that sometimes leaned too much in the direction of being inappropriate, but nothing more.

So the detail of "sexting" is "in dispute" in the sense that the predator denies the allegations, but predators always deny allegations. And the fact that his formal denial still included details like "sometimes leaned too much in the direction of being inappropriate" is really sus.

So to me, saying "we don’t know if it was sexting, all we know for sure is that inappropriate messages were sent" has the same energy as saying “no criminal charges have ever been brought against me”. We don't need photo evidence to know he was a creep.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 points 6 days ago

Everyone knows the line for inappropriate behavior is criminal charges being filed.

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

As someone who's never been into sexting... what's the difference between "leaned too much in the direction of being inappropriate", and "actual sexting"?

[–] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There's not one. Sexting is very broad, it does not have to be pictures or direct references to boning. Any sexually-oriented text communication can be considered sexting.

[–] JillyB@beehaw.org 1 points 1 week ago

Has this changed? It used to be that sexting was explicitly just referring to sending nudes and the surrounding horny conversation. If you're right, the definition has broadened to include flirting or locker room humor.

What should really happen is Dr Disrespect should release the DMs (after redacting any details of the minor) so we can stop speculating about how bad this is.

[–] snooggums@midwest.social 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Is anything other than sexting referred to as inappropriate when a minor is involved?

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 points 6 days ago

Personally I don't think these people should be having private conversations with minors at all. It's fucking weird and stupid and just leaves them open to this kind of allegations.