Why did Midnight Society cut ties with Dr Disrespect?

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The recent drama surrounding popular streamer Dr Disrespect may well be a permanent stain on his reputation and whether he’ll actually return after his hiatus remains to be seen.

One of the biggest blows to Dr Disrespectm, real name Herschel “Guy” Beahm, came on Monday June 24 when the game studio, Midnight Society, which he co-founded, announced it would be parting ways with the streamer in light of new information coming to light about his sudden departure from Twitch in 2020.

While the statement claims that his innocence was presumed at first, after speaking with the parties involved the decision was made to cut all ties to “maintain our principles and standards.”

On Friday evening we became aware of an allegation against one of our co-founder’s 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.…

What is Midnight Society?

The game studio was founded in 2021 by Beahm, Robert Bowling, Quinn DelHoyo, and Sumit Gupta. Before setting up the studio, Bowling worked at Infinity Ward whereas DelHoyo previously worked at 343 on the Halo series. Checking out the studio’s website it’s clear the devs have big plans with its first major title, Deadrop, currently in pre-alpha.

Being a majorly recognizable streamer with a following of around 4 million, Dr Disrespect’s involvement brought a lot of attention to the project and he pretty much became the face of the company due to his prominence. Despite this, Beahm rarely spoke about Deadrop or the studio in general on his streams.

Midnight Society and Dr. Disrespect part ways

Recent allegations made by two former Twitch employees have thrown a wrench in the works. Beahm was accused of sexting a minor in 2020 using Twitch Whispers and arranging to meet in person with them at TwitchCon, which was supposedly the reason for his