- Joined
- Jul 8, 2019
Only one person is claiming he was sexting a minor. The other accuser, an anonymous accuser, only mentioned:
1. Messaging a minor
2. Twitch acting after an extended period of time after the messages occurred, with no specific date range provided
Obviously, you don't do this either. Directly messaging your fans about meetups is just an unnecessary activity. Assuming this is the case, it showcases an appearance of impropriety and likely violated some kind of Twitch rules. Worst case scenario being that they did in fact meet up and have sexual contact. Best case being it was something innocuous like "come to the booth at TwitchCon while I'm doing signings!" You also have all the middle-grounds where the conversation started on Twitch, moved off-app from Twitch DMs to something like Discord or Instagram, and from there Twitch bans him but can't actually prove anything happened off-platform.
There's just enough wiggle room that you could either condemn Doc or not, and I wouldn't blame you either way.
But Twitch really comes out of this looking like shit.
That's partially why I think Twitch also went quiet after settling this and likely made sure their employees signed NDAs that prevented them from discussing this openly. This happened on their platform almost right after the guy signed an exclusive contract with Twitch, which likely opened them up to all sorts of legal issues if this ever got out. Even if it was as innocuous as meeting a fan, the optics of "The Face of Twitch" having private messages with a minor just screams PR Apocalypse for Twitch.