Dr. Disrespect returns to YouTube streaming with new explanation for his ban

As rumored for weeks, Dr. Disrespect, who admitted to inappropriately contacting a minor, is back on YouTube. With a lot of caveats.

Dr. Disrespect’s channel was demonetized by YouTube when all this happened, and he says he wants to stay on YouTube, rather than move somewhere else. There were theories that he might find a home at Kick or Rumble, places that attract… controversial streamers, but that doesn’t seem to have happened. He says he’ll reapply for monetization at the end of the month, but he can take donations and… people donate.

This first return stream was watched by 230,000 people when it first started. About 30 minutes later that was down to 160,000, and it continues to drop. Although that is still a huge number. He has limited the chat to subscribers who have been subscribed for 13 weeks, an incredibly long time and no doubt to keep in check those who try to discuss the allegations and his confession in the chat.

He did indeed briefly touch on the topic, his stream is called “The Truth” and he previously deleted his lengthy confession posts acknowledging that he was banned from Twitch for inappropriate Twitch Whisper messages he sent to a minor.

His new “explanation” this time is that he had a Twitch partner manager with a “grudge” who scraped those Twitch messages and sent them to Twitch Trust and Safety, Twitch Legal, and others within the company with “out-of-context screenshots,” which ultimately led to his ban. He says Twitch Trust and Safety originally concluded that the messages were not sexting or in violation of federal child exploitation laws, and he says he did not exchange any explicit sexual messages or images with the minor, though Trust and Safety ultimately banned him anyway.

He says the minor didn’t want to escalate matters to Twitch. Law enforcement determined “he had done nothing wrong” and he won his case on the matter with Twitch. He says it was “just chitchat” after he had previously said in the deleted post that there were conversations with the minor that “leaned too much on the edge of being inappropriate.” He claims Twitch didn’t look at the age of consent where the messages were received, if that gives you any idea of ​​the kind of technicalities he’s concerned with. He joked about people asking him to release the messages when they weren’t in fact inappropriate, something he ridiculed, saying “what are we in second grade for?”

There were no excuses. He is completely in character as Doc. He started with a game of Wordle and is now trying to get into the Black Ops 6 beta as I write this.

These current ratings are inflated, as many people undoubtedly just wanted to see what he would say and what this first stream back would be like. But it’s clear he’ll have a loyal core of players, which is of course troubling considering these aren’t just allegations, he admitted to inappropriately contacting a minor and this new explanation of “someone had a grudge and the age of consent at which the messages were received is okay” doesn’t really change anything. But a large portion of his audience is back to “firm handshakes” and heaping praise and adoration on “the Two-Time.”

There’s nothing stopping Doc from streaming, unless he’s banned from YouTube outright, which could still happen. But monetization is another open question, since nothing has changed since he was demonetized. He can get these donations, but sponsorship deals are undoubtedly all gone for the foreseeable future. He was also kicked out of his own game development company.

His entire stream now consists of him reading donations and flattering messages from his viewers. I do not recommend watching.

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