"That's it." Dr. DisRespect has spent a lot of his time, as Twitch's darling. but even at the height of his success he’s been the target of heavy scrutiny.
In the same way that he acts as a mirror image of the archetypical gamer, he’s also a symbol of some of gaming’s most criticized characteristics. His on-stream personality is hyper-masculine in nature, he’s been criticized for being racially insensitive on multiple occasions and called offensive on countless others. It’s often hard to get a read on The Doc, but despite his persona’s brash nature, he’s not devoid of flashes of empathy, kindness and the familial community-building we see from many top streamers. "I've realized that I've provided an outlet for a lot of people that are dealing with a lot of hardships. And, it makes me proud." As 2018 began, more than a month had passed since the Doctor's last stream and the Twitch’s hero was nowhere to be found http://butteryspreads.org/state-of-ios-gaming-in-2019/. Late January brought signs of Doc’s return and rumblings around social media and small YouTube teaser marked his return for early February. "Ladies and gentlemen, the Doc is coming back." And then on Feb. 5, 2018 — DrDisrespect returned. "I haven't played in a long time, I literally just woke up out of the water bed. press the start streaming button, and here we are." And he broke Twitch right in half, setting a new mark for concurrent viewership on an individual’s Twitch channel at 388,000 viewers. "You're looking at the Face of Twitch. And ladies and gentlemen the arena is wide open!" (Stream) During that hallowed February, the Doc was at full capacity, Guy Beahm was a thing of the past. He had gimmicks, he had flash and it was all on level 100. He averaged a career high of more than 50,000 viewers at a time. Since then he’s stayed steady around 20-25k. DrDisrespect has become an integral part of the modern day Twitch ecosystem. He’s joined the likes of Shroud and Chad who’ve stayed loyal to PUBG while the mainstream has shifted gears to Fortnite. "I don't necessarily play it all the time I just haven't gotten into it enough yet but, "I'd hate to play a guy who's as good as me, or as equal as me. And he has the same weapon as me but guess what he has the gold weapon." He’s a moniker for the old-guard of the video game world, and his loyalty and consistency has produced a massive following. "You know I get excited when the Doc looks like he's ready to actually murder somebody." (Stream) His fame, impressive aim, ups and downs aside. One thing that’s under-appreciated about DrDisrespect is his ability to juggle two personalities day in and day out. To his own admission, Guy Beahm and Dr Disrespect don’t share many personality traits. Guy is very literally morphing into the doctor when he goes live on Twitch every day. "Do you have a difficulty transitioning between yourself and the Doc. Cause you're in character for so long." "And for so intense amount of time." "Do you have trouble being like, okay now I'm just a guy, literally Guy" "No, no we shut it down, we approach it as a business." When we tune into his stream every day, we are witnessing an impressively long piece of performance art. That webcam flicks on, and it’s you and the screen and you better be entertaining, (Stream) good at your game of choice (Stream) and handle it all with calm and collected. (Stream) At first glance DrDisrespect looks wild — just an aberration within the normal tame world of Twitch. "Ladies and gentlemen trickle in." (Stream) Thanks for watching. If you want more great content just like this, be sure to hit the subscribe button.
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