Dr. Disrespect has once again caused a stir by changing his Twitter header image following his recent fall from grace. The new header appears to reference his now infamous tweet clarifying the circumstances of his Twitch ban in 2020.

The said message was originally posted on June 25, shortly after former Twitch employee Cody Conners accused Dr Disrespect, whose real name is Herschel Beahm IV, of engaging in “sexting with a minor” using the platform’s now-defunct Twitch Whispers feature. In the 648-word statement, Dr Disrespect admitted to exchanging “inappropriate” messages with a minor, but also insisted that the situation had not progressed. “Nothing illegal happened,” the content creator wrote, while also condemning the accusations of him being a “predator” that some social media users hurled at him at the time.

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Exactly one month later, Dr Disrespect changed his Twitter header image to a rendering of a swimmer with his logo, leading some of his social media followers to speculate that he had used the controversy as some sort of bait. The YouTube star has now updated again his Twitter header image from August 8, this time showing a larger shot of the same scene. Below the water’s surface in the new header is a torn printout of Dr Disrespect’s Twitter statement from June 25. The move is therefore an even stronger indication that the content creator is interpreting his admission of sharing inappropriate messages with a minor as some sort of bait.

This connection has not gone unnoticed by Dr Disrespect’s fans, many of whom took to social media in the days that followed to discuss the caption change. While many of them agree that the image links the June 25 statement to a decoy, there is no consensus in the community on who exactly is being baited here. Some of Dr Disrespect’s fans even went so far as to speculate that the image was meant to suggest he was duped via Twitch Whispers. Although this was a fairly popular conspiracy theory in the days following his admission of sharing inappropriate messages with a minor, no evidence of this has surfaced to date.

In between these two cryptic Twitter caption changes, on July 31, Dr Disrespect posted a picture of himself playing chess while his opponent played checkers. This was widely interpreted as another apparent attempt to suggest that there was more to the controversy than he initially admitted.

It is currently unclear what could be stopping the content creator from telling his full side of the story if there is indeed more to it. His admission of sharing inappropriate Twitch Whispers messages with a minor has already proven to be a major blow to his career and caused many sponsors to cut ties with Dr Disrespect.

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