The Twitch streamer Guy “Dr Disrespect” Beahm has written in the title of his stream that there would be Twitch Drops for Valorant and thus beta access, so to speak, beta keys. But he had none. When he got caught, he took the matter very offensively. He called the one who exposed him a snitch.
Update (04/15/2020): Meanwhile, the Doc has published a statement regarding his actions with the Twitch Drops.
This is what Dr Disrespect did this time: The known streamer advertised that there would be “Twitch Drops” on his channel while playing Valorant:
- On April 7, he tweeted: The arena is open – Valorant w/ Drops Maximized yaya – that was also the title of his Twitch stream for the day
- On April 8, his Twitch stream was titled “Drops all day”
Both are clear statements: Watch my channel, you can win the beta access to Valorant if you stick around.
These were the consequences: Dr Disrespect played Valorant on April 7 and 8. Last Friday he had announced that he could have played the presentation match Twitch Rivals, but didn’t want to “sell his soul”:
- His viewer numbers for Valorant were mostly about as high as when he streams Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. These average between 25,000 to 37,000.
- However, there were a few hours where there was a spike in Valorant, during which he reached over 50,000 Twitch viewers.
It’s quite possible that some tuned in to get the coveted beta access.
“Pretty deceitful”
This is the problem: Dr Disrespect does not have any Twitch Drops active at all. Because only streamers selected by Riot Games have those.
On Reddit for Valorant, notable threads were created on April 7 and 8 warning clearly: “Don’t waste your time with his stream if you want Twitch Drops.”
The LoL interviewer, Travis Gafford, tweeted on April 8: Dr Disrespect’s stream is not activated for Twitch Drops.
Dr Disrespect reportedly bans others from his Twitch chat who point this out. According to Travis, this is “pretty deceitful.”
Little snitch
This is how the Doctor reacts: He retweeted the statement of the LoL interviewer and called him a “fragile, concerned little snitch.” Then he took the announcement that there would be Drops from the Twitch title.
Why are Twitch Drops so coveted? At the moment, Twitch Drops are the only way to get beta access (practically a beta key) for Valorant, the new tactical shooter from Riot Games.
Therefore, the incentive is high to watch a streamer who distributes these Drops. This has led to a rush on Twitch and to the streamers who have these Drops active and advertise that they have them.
This is what the channel of summit1g is currently called:
- DROPS ON. ROCKETS ARE FOR TURDS (a reference to his rejection of the Valorant heroine Raze)
A large LoL streamer on Twitch, IWillDominate, said: This “I have Drops” has become a meme. It is almost as if only 10% of the streamers who have Drops in the title are actually qualified for the Twitch Drops for Valorant, the rest are cheating.
This is how you can see if a channel REALLY has Twitch Drops active
How can you ensure that a channel has Twitch Drops active? If you have become skeptical due to the Doctor’s actions about whether a stream really offers Twitch Drops:
- What is in the title of the stream is totally irrelevant
- what matters is that a tag under the title says “Drops enabled”, as reported by the dailyesports.gg site
Who benefits from Valorant on Twitch?
This is what it’s all about: Streamers with active Twitch Drops massively benefit from the hype around Valorant and have a huge advantage over others.
Valorant has especially provided summit1g and TimTheTatman with record numbers.
This is the evolution in the average viewer numbers over the last 7 days (via sullygnome):
| Twitch streamer | Viewer number development |
|---|---|
| summit1g | +429.4% |
| TimTheTatman | +184.1% |
| DrDisrespect | -12.5% |
Apparently, Dr Disrespect decided that he finds it unfair to be disadvantaged here and simply wrote “Drops” in the title. Maybe he also found it funny.
He may rely on the fact that his fans will consider it “typical Doc” and brush it off – after all, Dr Disrespect is a persona to whom such deeds can easily be attributed.
Also, the remark about Travis Gafford being a “concerned snitch,” a kind of spoiler, seems typical of Doc.
In the end, only people who are not very familiar with Twitch, practically “Twitch noobs,” fall for this.
Dr Disrespect: A mix of film villain and obsessed gamer
Who is Dr Disrespect actually portraying? Dr Disrespect is a persona with a specific look (sunglasses, wig, powerful mustache) and an inflated ego:
- The character, according to his own statements, was based on a movie villain, on Fender Tremolo from the “Jean Claude van Damme” movie Cyborg (1989).
- Furthermore, some statements of the character remind of Billy Mitchell, an arcade gamer obsessed with the high score in Donkey Kong, who became known through the documentary “The King of Kong”.
Why Dr Disrespect started on Twitch and how dark his perspective was before his career, he explained in a stream.
