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Herschel "Guy" Beahm IV, better known by his online alias Dr Disrespect (also stylized as Dr DisRespect), is an American video-game streamer. He had accumulated more than four million followers on Twitch,[2] and is best known for playing battle royale video games, such as H1Z1, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, Black Ops 4: Blackout, Call of Duty: Warzone, Apex Legends, and Fortnite.

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Dr Disrespect
Beahm in Berlin 2018
Born	Herschel Beahm IV (1982-03-10) March 10, 1982 (age 40)
Nationality	American
Other names	Dr DisRespect The Doc The Two-time
Years active	2010–present (YouTube) 2011–2020 (Twitch)
Height	6 ft 8 in (203 cm)
YouTube information
Channel	DrDisRespect
Genre	Gaming comedy
Subscribers	4.08 million[1]
Total views	301.5 million[1]
Creator Awards 100,000 subscribers 2017 1,000,000 subscribers 2019
Last updated: September 10, 2022
Twitch information
Channel	drdisrespect
Genre	Gaming
Website	championsclub.gg

In June 2020, Beahm was banned from Twitch for unexplained reasons and his channel was removed from the site.[3][4][5] Sources have reported that the ban is permanent.[3][6] He returned to streaming in August 2020 on YouTube with a total peak of more than 510,000 concurrent viewers.[7] Beahm's Youtube channel has over four million subscribers to this point.

Career and personal life

Beahm graduated from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona in 2005, where he played NCAA Division II basketball.[8][9]

Beahm's first video was posted on January 11, 2010, showing gameplay of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. He was featured in multiple videos for the gaming channel Machinima, mostly playing Call of Duty. Beahm went inactive from YouTube in late 2011 and did not release any content for nearly five years.

On March 16, 2011, Beahm was appointed as the community manager of Sledgehammer Games.[10] Beahm joined Justin.tv (now Twitch) while he was working at Sledgehammer. He quit Sledgehammer in 2015 to focus on a full-time streaming career.[11]

Beahm gained a following from playing battle royale games, starting with H1Z1 before switching to PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds and then moving on to Call of Duty: Black Ops 4.[12] In December 2017, he took a two-month hiatus from streaming to tend to his relationship with his wife, after having admitted to being unfaithful to her.[13] Beahm and his wife have a daughter.[14] He returned on February 5, 2018, with a total peak of 388,000 concurrent viewers, just shy of beating Tyler1's record of 410,000.[15][16][17][18] His popularity has led to sponsorship deals with Gillette, ASUS, Roccat and Game Fuel.[19]

According to Beahm, on September 11, 2018, an unknown person shot at his house with a BB gun and hit an upstairs window. This was reportedly the second time that someone shot at his house.[20][21]

On January 10, 2019, Creative Artists Agency signed Beahm as a client.[19]

Beahm signed a multi-year deal with Twitch in March 2020.[22]

On August 17, 2020, Beahm announced that he was writing a personal memoir called Violence. Speed. Momentum. This book was released to the public on March 30, 2021.[23]

In October 2020, Beahm worked with Hi-Rez Studios to design a custom map and a Dr Disrespect character skin for Rogue Company.[24]

In December 2021, Dr Disrespect announced the launch of a "AAA" gaming studio named Midnight Society, which will 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.[25] Their currently in-development free-to-play battle royale title, which is codenamed "Project Moon", sparked criticism around the sale of "Founder's Access" NFTs.[26][27]

Streaming persona

Beahm's on-stream persona is usually ruthless, quick-witted, and bombastic.[28] 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".[29]

When playing the Dr Disrespect character, Beahm 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 named "Slick Daddy" aka "The Poisonous Ethiopian Caterpillar".[30]

Disdain for controller "aim assist"

He has repeatedly made known his discontent with "aim assist" mechanics in first-person shooters (a feature intended to make aiming easier) that only apply to players using a controller but are active during cross-play against mouse-and-keyboard players like himself.[31][32][33] He argues that controller-wielding players who enable it have an unfair advantage over mouse-and-keyboard players, making claims that it reduces the skill involved such that it's "so easy you can close your eyes"[34] and even going as far to compare the mechanic to cheating by calling it "like a version of hacks".[35][36] Fellow streamer TimTheTatman has publicly suggested in response "if controller is so broken then play controller" as there is nothing technically "illegal" about the mechanic as it is a developer-implemented feature.[37]

Midnight Society

Midnight Society is an independent video game development studio co-founded on December 15, 2021 by Beahm; along with Call of Duty and Halo veterans Robert Bowling (formerly Community Manager and Creative Strategist for Infinity Ward);[38] Quinn DelHoyo (a developer who've previously worked on franchises including Gears of War and Halo); and Sumit Gupta, acting as CEO. The studio is based out of San Mateo, California. As of July 2022, the company is developing a free-to-play battle royale title that is codenamed "Project Moon."[39][40] Halo Infinite veterans have also joined the project: Darren Bacon, art director; Greg Cox, 3D environment artist; Alex Fennell, Technical Director of Infrastructure; Rodney Gilyard, software engineer; and Howard Coulby, Technical Art Director.[41][42][43]

Filmography

Video games

Year	Title	Voice role	Notes
2020	Rogue Company	Himself
2021	PUBG Mobile	Himself
2022	NBA 2K23	Himself

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Result	Ref.
2017	Esports Industry Awards	Streamer of the Year	Won	[44]
	The Game Awards	Trending Gamer	Won	[45]
2019	Esports Awards	Streamer of the Year	Won	[46]
2021			Nominated

Controversies

E3 bathroom filming incident

On June 11, 2019, Beahm's DrDisrespect Twitch channel was suspended as he was livestreaming while attending the 2019 edition of the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles, California. Beahm and his cameraman went into a public restroom (Beahm re-entered the bathroom on two occasions, with filming still going on) at the venue in violation of Twitch's privacy rules and privacy laws in the California Penal Code.[47][48] In addition, E3 organizer Entertainment Software Association revoked Beahm's E3 pass, banning him from the event.[47][49] Twitch reinstated the DrDisrespect channel on June 25.[50][51]

Racism accusation

Musician Jimmy Wong compiled a series of clips in which Beahm caricatures Chinese accents and language and accused him of racism. In response, Beahm apologized but claimed that some of his very good friends are Asian, would not do anything to mock their culture, and called the criticism "laughable".[52]

Permanent ban from Twitch

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".[53] No specific details have been released. On June 27, Beahm tweeted that he had not yet been informed on the exact reason for the ban.[54] 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 does not know why Twitch banned him from the platform, that his contracts were still in good standing, debunks any "crazy speculation" or theory that developed and is focusing on his upcoming "Doc 3.0" personality.[55][56]

On August 6, after 42 days without streaming, he tweeted a link to his YouTube channel with the caption "Tomorrow, we arrive".[57] 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 on the following day.[58][59] On August 7, DrDisrespect returned to his stream at 1 pm PDT. The reason for his ban has yet to be announced.[60]

On August 23, 2021, DrDisrespect revealed that he has known "for months" the reason for his ban and his intentions to litigate due to suggested major damages.[61]

On March 10, 2022, DrDisrespect and Twitch each announced that they had resolved their legal dispute with neither party admitting to any wrongdoing.[62] In a follow-up tweet, he clarified that he will not be returning to the Twitch platform.[63]

References

External links

• Official website

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