On Doctors and Disrespect…
Well… that was an interesting Friday evening, wasn’t it?
A former Twitch employee seemingly fresh of a lapsed NDA, Cody Conners, decided to drop this little tactical nuke into the middle of social media as the weekend began:
Now, I’m not going to do a terribly deep dive into the fallout, mostly because I couldn’t give one tenth of one shit about the court of public opinion or the number of keyboard warriors who don’t understand the context of “innocent until proven guilty” (here’s a primer, the general public is under no obligations that a criminal court is, even if the general public should pump the breaks more often when it comes to source-less allegations and accusations).
I’m also generally not one who likes to speculate on things with incomplete evidence, but in the case of a general five-tool asshole like Dr. Disrespect… why not? Especially since there’s a lot that really doesn’t seem to add up and piecing together how it could have went down is a relatively amusing thought exercise. For example… why didn’t Twitch do anything other than ban him? Shouldn’t the police have gotten involved? Etc…
So here’s my shot at it.
My guess is that Dr. Disrespect was absolutely sliding into the DMs of a girl under 18 and getting freaky. However, that isn’t necessarily a crime. Depending on the state, the age of consent is actually 16. Some other countries are even lower. Right there, you have a fairly simple explanation why you weren’t seeing any arrests.
With that said, even if what he did wasn’t a crime, Twitch wouldn’t have liked the idea of a thirty-something high profile streamer (that they had just paid a lot of money to) having text sex with someone under the national voting age on their platform. A platform that Twitch’s parent company, really wanted to market as a non-controversial place for people of all ages.
Twitch then paid a lot more money for him to go away, and Dr. Disrespect got really really quiet about the… well… disrespect. At least, until a former employee decided to throw red meat into the barracuda filled waters known as Twitter.
(Yes, I refuse to call it X. Eat my ass, Elon.)
But at the end of the day, regardless of whether my speculation is correct or not, my thoughts on this doctorate of clownery are the same today as they were four years ago. We’re talking about a company who didn’t even cut bait with this man when he led a camera crew into a public bathroom with children in it that did get a prosecutor asking questions. So, whatever it was that the sick doctor did, it probably wasn’t good, and he probably doesn’t deserve terribly much respect.
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