The difference a day makes, I swear this drama has escalated quick in TWO days, he's put out a full tweet of it, I don't have X so someone else link it as I ain't making an account to that hellscape for this.
TLDR, he DID talk to a minor (hard on what age as that could be a 15 year old in the states but they live in France) back in 2017 but NO pictures were sent, NEVER met and it says it sometimes was inappropriate talk but that could've been the average gamer talk. Now he was banned in 2020 so they sat on this for 3 YEARS but Twitch settled a lawsuit he had with them and there was NO criminal charges at all for him.
So after the studio he founded kicked him out and a sponsor dropped him, other than be an idiot talking to a minor this is a nothing burger. It speaks WORSE on Twitch that they couldn't vet their internal messager given that Disrespect doesn't state if he KNEW at the time they were a minor and dropped talking to them when they found out.
And also speaks ill on all those saying "We knew about this for years" what that he was a fucking idiot for a basic mistake (why I mute everyone unless they're friends) or dod you think he was a pedo but sat on this waiting for blood in the water as that's even more disgusting.
Holy shit fucking thank you. People on this board tend to go hard on the virtue signaling for this issue. Doesnt help that we had many bouts of troll posts promoting actual pedophilia recently. But it's very refreshing to see actual eloquent pushback against modernist bullshit. Saving that comment for reference later.
Absolutely follow the law. That's the smart thing to do. But when we're talking about perception, emotions, how we see people, etc, it's just not that cut and dry. You're on the beach and you see a 5'7", 125lb girl with C cups and a tiny bikini walk by. You're a healthy adult male so you watch her ass as she walks away. Are you you some degenerate weirdo creep just for that? Fuck no and we all know it. Your friend walks up and tells you that's his high school junior sister Tiffany. Did you suddenly retroactively turn into a weirdo degenerate creep because you stared at her ass? No, and I'm not going to pretend otherwise.
If she's 6 or 7, by all means, the slow march up the gallows. But if she's 16 or 17, you laugh it off and say "hey man, maybe in a year or two" and move on. That'd the sensible, sane, rational response.