Midnight Society says Dr Disrespect left game studio to \u201cdo what he needs to do\u201d Dr Disrespect\/Midnight SocietyDisgraced streamer Dr Disrespect agreed to leave his game studio, Midnight Society, in order to \u201cdo what he needs to do\u201d according to Deadrop\u2019s co-creator Quinn DelHoyo. In June 2024, it was revealed that Dr Disrespect, real name Guy Beahm, had been permanently banned on Twitch for sending inappropriate messages to an underage user. After former Twitch employees came forward and numerous companies who had been working with Doc began to distance themselves from him, the streamer confessed to the allegations. One of the first companies to end their relationship with Beahm was the game studio he helped co-found, Midnight Society, after the streamer admitted to the allegations in a call. As it turns out, Dr Disrespect\u2019s decision to leave the company was something he agreed was the right thing to do. Speaking with Decrypt, creative director Quinn DelHoyo explained that Doc\u2019s admission \u201cdidn\u2019t align with the principles\u201d of Midnight Society and it was a \u201ctough\u201d but \u201cright\u201d decision to terminate the streamer. (segment begins at 1:00) \u201cAll four of us, we amicably decided, \u2018hey you know what is best for Midnight Society\u2019. That way we can go after our vertical extraction shooter in Deadrop and things that we\u2019re trying to set out to do and he can do the things that he needs to do to take care of himself and all that,\u201d he said. DelHoyo noted the call was mutual with all parties agreeing this was the right action. This was alluded to by Dr Disrespect in his long tweet where he said, \u201cwe made the painful decision collectively, to have me step down.\u201d As for the \u201cthings that he needs to do,\u201d the streamer has been hinting at a return to streaming with a series of cryptic tweets and changes to his header images on social media. Dr Disrespect promised to return after taking an \u201cextended vacation\u201d with his family, but it\u2019s unclear when that will be or if he will return to YouTube after being demonetized on the platform. In the past month, the streamer has been bleeding followers on YouTube, losing nearly 20,000 subscribers in 30 days. If he does come back, one platform he might stream on could be Kick. Back when the allegations came to light and Doc confessed, the site\u2019s staff confirmed they had no plans to preemptively ban Dr Disrespect, claiming it was still \u201ctoo soon.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Midnight Society says Dr Disrespect left game studio to \u201cdo what he needs to do\u201d Dr Disrespect\/Midnight SocietyDisgraced streamer Dr Disrespect agreed to leave his game studio, Midnight Society, in order to \u201cdo what he needs to do\u201d according to Deadrop\u2019s co-creator Quinn DelHoyo. In June 2024, it was revealed that Dr Disrespect, real name […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}