Of all the live-streamers who have risen to the forefront of popularity, none come quite as close as having as eventful a career as Dr Disrespect. The strong personality of Dr Disrespect has seen him rise to the top of multiple platforms, despite varying controversies and setbacks.
One of the most high-profile instances of drama that Dr Disrespect found himself embroiled with came in June 2020 when Twitch, the site where Dr Disrespect developed a lucrative platform, permanently banned the streamer with little-to-no warning or explanation. This led to a litany of fan-theories and rumors, with Dr Disrespect being as vocal as he legally could against the ban, which he saw as illegitimate and damaging.
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Dr Disrespect is the online persona of Herschel «Guy» Beahm IV, a former level designer for Sledgehammer who worked on many of the maps featured in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. Beahm is a veteran of the streaming and video game space, first donning the persona of Dr Disrespect in 2010 with videos that saw his character quickly become popular on the once-popular YouTube channel Machinima.
This initial burst of internet popularity was short-lived however, with a five-year lull in producing content during the aforementioned period when he worked for Sledgehammer Games. This intimate interaction with Call of Duty may have reinvigorated Beahm's desire to bring back Dr Disrespect, a character defined by the competitive and disrespectful nature that multiplayer Call of Duty has become synonymous with.
Beahm left Sledgehammer in 2015 to pursue a full-time career on Twitch, where he gained popularity playing battle royale games such as PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. People lauded Dr Disrespect for
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