Midnight Society cuts ties with Dr Disrespect after Twitch ban allegations
Midnight Society/GFUELDr Disrespect’s game studio, Midnight Society, has announced that it has terminated its relationship with the internet star following recent allegations surrounding his permanent ban from Twitch.
On June 21, 2024, four years after his mysterious Twitch ban, a former employee of the Amazon-owned platform shared allegations on social media that Doc was banned for “s**ting a minor.”
Dr Disrespect quickly responded, stating that “no wrongdoing” was found and that Twitch had paid out the rest of his contract.
Just three days later, Dr Disrespect’s game studio, Midnight Society, shared that they’ve cut ties with Doc in order to maintain “our principles and standards as a studio and individuals.”
“On Friday evening, we became aware of an allegation against one of our co-founders, Guy Beahm, aka ‘Dr Disrespect.’ We assumed his innocence and began speaking with parties involved. And in order to maintain our principles and standards as a studio and individuals, we needed to act,” they said.
“For this reason, we are terminating our relationship with Guy Beahm immediately.
“While these facts are difficult to hear and even more difficult to accept, it is our duty to act with dignity on behalf of all individuals involved, especially the fifty-five developers and families we have employed along with our community of players.”
Launched back in December 2021, Midnight Society consisted of Guy ‘Dr Disrespect’ Beahm alongside Call of Duty and Halo veterans Robert Bowling and Quinn DelHoyo.
The studio announced its first game, Deadrop, just months later and have been continuously working on it in the two years since.
Studio head Robert ‘Fourzerotwo’ Bowling issued a statement on his own account.
“This is a statement from me personally. It does not reflect any of my companies and has not gone through any legal or PR approvals. If you inappropriately message a minor. I can not work with you,” he said. “Period. I promised to only act on facts, and I did.”
This comes just after Dr Disrespect posted a statement on Twitter admitting that he exchanged messages with a minor in 2017, and that was the cause of his ban in 2020.