YouTuber and former Twitch streamer DrDisrespect says he’s twice offered Bethesda a collaboration on SF RPG Starfield. But they flatly refused. Now it is clear to him why. He apparently classifies Pete Hines, the head of Bethesda, as politically “woke”.
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“Due to previous controversy, there is no way we are collaborating with DrDisrespect”
Here’s what he says about Starfield now: DrDisrespect said in a Sept. 1 stream (via youtube) that he and his team had approached Bethesda twice about working with Starfield:
Both times, the request was denied by Bethesda. He wasn’t even given early access to the game. The response came: “Due to past controversies, there is no way we are working with DrDisrespect.”
But the influencer apparently didn’t understand why the collaboration didn’t materialize.
What was the reason from the point of view of DrDisrespect? DrDisrespect looked at the Twitter profile of the studio’s head, Pete Hines, on the stream and read the pronouns Hines likes to be addressed with: he/him.
It was clear to DrDisrespect why Bethesda didn’t want to work with him:
“He him. Understood. Okay, now everything is starting to make sense. Everything makes sense now. Got it.”
what does he mean with that? DrDisrespect apparently believes whoever posts their pronouns on Twitter belongs to a group of people who value “political correctness.”
DrDisrespect seems to think that to these people who are “politically woke,” he’s a person they don’t want to work with. He seems to position himself politically in a different spectrum.
DrDisrespect attracted attention, especially in his early days, with some parodies and statements that even he now goes too far: Even DrDisrespect is becoming more politically correct on Twitch – no more “Chinese”.