Dr. Disrespect calls Twitch 'slithery disgusting purple snakes' but still doesn't explain why he was permanently banned from the platform
Four years ago Twitch permanently banned Dr. Disrespect, who at the time was one of the platform's biggest and most recognisable stars. The Amazon-owned streaming platform has had various fallouts with high-profile users over the years, the difference being that when it comes to someone like xQc we know the reasons behind the split (in that case, lots of gambling). With Dr. Disrespect almost nothing is known about what caused such a breach, and the streamer's subsequent choice to take legal action (settled in 2022) means everyone involved has stayed tight-lipped.
Dr. Disrespect has now spoken about the period of the ban on-stream (the timestamped video is below) and while he steers well clear of filling in any blanks, he makes it abundantly clear there's no love lost between himself and Twitch. In response to a viewer asking about the prospect of any new music from the streamer in future, he answers:
«Like I'll admit when the purple snakes, and I mean slithery disgusting purple snakes, did what they did to the two-time [champion] that was tough,» says Dr. Disrespect, «that was a tough time.»
In case you're not a Dr. Disrespect fan, part of his schtick is claiming to be the «two-time champion» of Blockbuster video games tournaments held in 1993-4. The streamer goes on to reference the period immediately after the ban and the fact that, as he and his team have consistently said, they were given no reason for it by Twitch for around a year.
«Not gonna beat around the bush man that was a tough time,» says Dr. Disrespect. «We didn't know [why], we didn't find out until a year later, [and] during that year, that time, y'know we'd built everything up to that point. We lost out on a lot of big deals, a lot of sponsorships, shit we had Nike, we were talking to Oakley, and that's no joke: I can bring up Oakley prototypes right here.»
Dr. Disrespect does not, in fact, crack out the Oakley prototypes, though I'm sure we can all imagine what they look like. Finally, he returns
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