He posted a lengthy statement addressing what happened.

I love when completely innocent people say things like “no wrongdoing was acknowledged" and “no criminal charges have ever been brought against me”. I was suspicious before, but if there were no criminal charges then who cares, right? Right?

  • MasterNerd@lemm.ee
    40·
    3 months ago

    Tbf we don’t know if it was sexting, all we know for sure is that inappropriate messages were sent. Not trying to defend him as his behavior was 100% unacceptable and twitch and Midnight Society were right to drop him, we just don’t know enough to definitively say he was sexting them

    • coyotino [he/him]@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
      44·
      3 months ago

      The accusation from two former Twitch employees, as posted on Twitter, was:

      He got banned because got caught sexting a minor in the then existing Twitch whispers product. He was trying to meet up with her at TwitchCon. The powers that be could read in plain text.

      Beahm’s direct response to that specific allegation is:

      Were there twitch whisper messages with an individual minor back in 2017? The answer is yes. Were there real intentions behind these messages, the answer is absolutely not. These were casual, mutual conversations that sometimes leaned too much in the direction of being inappropriate, but nothing more.

      So the detail of “sexting” is “in dispute” in the sense that the predator denies the allegations, but predators always deny allegations. And the fact that his formal denial still included details like “sometimes leaned too much in the direction of being inappropriate” is really sus.

      So to me, saying “we don’t know if it was sexting, all we know for sure is that inappropriate messages were sent” has the same energy as saying “no criminal charges have ever been brought against me”. We don’t need photo evidence to know he was a creep.

      • jarfil@beehaw.org
        13·
        3 months ago

        As someone who’s never been into sexting… what’s the difference between “leaned too much in the direction of being inappropriate”, and “actual sexting”?

      • Kissaki@beehaw.orgEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        So to me, saying “we don’t know if it was sexting,

        They may have not known the source and tweet wording. I certainly didn’t.

        /edit: I see it’s in the article as well.

      • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
        15·
        3 months ago

        To me, the word sexting implies very explicitly sexual content. If it’s with a minor, far more mild content could still be inappropriate.

      • MasterNerd@lemm.ee
        5·
        3 months ago

        Probably not but I’ve been on the Internet long enough to know not to jump to conclusions without more information

      • lightnsfw@reddthat.com
        2·
        3 months ago

        Personally I don’t think these people should be having private conversations with minors at all. It’s fucking weird and stupid and just leaves them open to this kind of allegations.