The Controversial Rise of iShowSpeed

i show speed could be the fastest growing youtube streamer in history he is now sitting at over 4 million subscribers and just one year ago he had 10 000. the 17 year old cincinnati ohio native has dominated the platform even at one point gaining 1 million subscribers in about 6 days he has built some sort of a toxic and high stress community that at times can push him to his limits but this may not be all his fault i mean after all live streaming in general can attract some of the worst viewers pushing streamers to lash out and react in ways that don't represent them very well when it comes to speed the line between what's real and what isn't is so paper-thin that sometimes it feels like you're not even watching a real person but rather someone playing a character speed started his youtube channel in late 2017 uploading nba 2k and fortnite highlights one year later he began live streaming himself playing fortnite but didn't really stay too consistent with it it wasn't until april of 2020 when he got fully committed to live streaming with a facecam and interacting with about five viewers his game of choice nba2k20 i started the video by saying speed is 17 years old but his age has been a bit of a mystery for some time when he first started streaming a person asked him in his chat what his age was [Music] damn number 16 bro he was reluctant to give him a straight answer it's fairly common for people on the internet to not want to give their age it's also common for young kids to tell people that they are older than they really are i know when i was 13 on call of duty modern warfare i would brag about being 15 thinking that that was so cool the only reason why this matters is because very often in 2021 speed did e-dates with aiden ross and various influencers where he tells girls that he is 19 so he will have a better chance at scoring a date with them obviously misleading them because at the time he was actually 16. on the other hand some people see this as harmless it's more so just for entertainment and nobody is taking it that seriously like when girls are about the age it's just like yeah oh my gosh she lied about her age bro all right let me get off this app bro but in spring of 2020 15 year old isho speed was laying down the groundwork for his streaming career double check and make sure you're subscribed why not hit the like button for me and make sure you're drinking water he stayed very consistent on nba 2k20 he streamed every day and tried to get tapped into the community he was lighthearted funny and happy if he took an l he would get a little stressed maybe have a little freak out but nothing more than a typical gamer he was able to play with a bigger streamer and he played really well got the shout out from him for my son i showed speed the first tenant i had played with and shot nothing but this got him a couple more viewers maybe around 10 or so on average unfortunately nba 2k kind of breeds toxicity kind of like call of duty modern warfare lobbies you can walk around a public gym and challenge random people to pick up games usually the loser will just end up screaming into the mic all kinds of heinous things that are totally unnecessary i mean games are competitive and trash talk is inevitable but this game for some reason brings out the worst in people even in the early days we can see it getting the best of speed one y'all go on this stream right now say tj use he spent the summer of 2020 grinding the game and trying to build up his viewership he was averaging around 20 viewers and would eventually amass 1 000 subscribers still keeping that positive energy interacting with his chat and getting to know them he would only get toxic when other people from the community would come into his stream and try to mess with him they would call him names and challenge him to games that he didn't want to play around this time he came up with a winning strategy for growth on youtube he would do a two-hour live stream then post a six to ten minute clip of the stream as a youtube video with a better title only posting the ones labeled funny reaction because those got the best views they were basically just the build up of him freaking out and what caused the freak out this was a great growth strategy for him and he stayed consistent with this throughout summer of 2020. the rage highlight videos were becoming a staple part of his brand and was slowly becoming the thing that people wanted to see the most from him he streamed and uploaded every single day for months without fail in october 2020 he got banned from streaming because youtube thought he was 12. and you need to be 13 to stream so basically i can't stream no more y'all for a little minute y'all because of that last live stream now so i would not be streaming no more this would be the first of many many videos where he tells his chat that he can't stream anymore the band would only last one day and he would be back the next day because youtube was obviously in the wrong nba 2k 21 came out and the community hated it aiden ross was a big part of the game's top players leaving and moving on to different things there was still a demand out there for 2k 21 content plus speed would play as a unique position a post score most content creators didn't play as this position he figured out a way to be different and that's what got him attention at the turn of the year things started to change a little bit he was still a bright positive happy-go-lucky guy but his rage moments were getting more and more apparent now he even had a person consistently commenting on his videos time stamping when he would have a freak out which was making the audience just skip to those moments instead of watching him play normally another ban it's a warning so basically i don't know if i'm gonna do omegle no more this video got him the most views that he ever got thus far and again he was back the next day you'll notice this become a trend for the first half of 2021 speed just kept on being consistent with streaming he experimented with horror games and fortnite but 2k was still his go-to one thing that started happening that still does to this day is speed being a victim of ddos attacks basically hackers who get his ip address either by knowing where he lives in real life or maybe he somehow leaked that information they have the ability to overload his internet so his stream lags super hard making him unable to stream every single time this would happen speed would run to make his broken heart videos of him very upset how do i take my ip i cannot stream whoever is booting me please stop hit me up on twitter id we can figure something if it isn't obvious why i call them broken heart videos because he puts a little emoji in there every time he would beg these people to stop it seems like at this time he couldn't really handle the trolling rushing to post these broken heart videos are obviously going to fuel even more attacks and makes him feel like they won or his responses were for comedic purposes and he knows he's going to get attention growing his fan base and following but the broken heart videos aren't just to address hackers he would also address his trolls for example he posted a video proving to his chat that he takes showers hours as i can see right here i'm showing i'll prove right now i don't i don't want to hear no more hate comments about me taking a shower no more and this other one where he says his real name is my name my real name is juwan it's not frank y'all know what's my name which i don't think is his real name this video has 5 million views and all the comments are about his fan base being toxic and that he deserves better but some people just feel very confused by this live streaming can get out of hand with trolls but if someone gets pushed to crying just for people wanting to know their real name or they feel the need to prove that they actually take showers leads some people to believe that you may not be fit for this career or again speed is trolling everyone back but he gets sympathy from his chat because he's very good at making this seem real the video blows up and gets likes views and subs then he goes back to streaming the next day with tons of new viewership never addresses the situation that happened the day before and then the cycle repeats again a couple weeks later it's a very strange middle ground where people can't tell if he's actually upset by these things or if he's on some 600 iq marketing strategy so now let me ask you what you think look how mad he gets at this comment you probably think that salad dressing is spicy bro what are you talking about bro like what are you talking about solid dressing what are you talking about obviously this is a harmless troll comment but do you think he's genuinely mad about this or do you think he just uses it as an excuse to rage and freak out because it hypes up the chat and might be a viral clip later on chances are you think it's fake as well but sometimes these things were going too far like the jacket video my cousin gave me this jacket y'all swear to god now i just broke this [ __ ] bro so what caused this was him losing the game crying physically harming himself then ripping his jacket and basically for this entire game and really this whole stream his chat was saying rude things to him so losing the game was actually just the final straw but this reaction to me doesn't look very fake now it's not like speed is 100 innocent and his chat attacks him for no reason i made basically a whole video about this but real quick let me just say that oftentimes the chat copies the behavior of the streamer you attract the type of people that you act like so judging off his omegle streams alone thank you thank you hey if you grab me one through ten well dreamy be completely honest that's seven point five really after i called you kill this i lied i ain't no shut the [ __ ] up i lied to you when you gonna give me a 7.5 there are specific people that want to watch this content generally toxic people even if he's joking and he's just playing around or whatever he's got a little edgy sense of humor that's fine but you're still gonna attract people who just genuinely want to see you bully people and be toxic all the time so if you just want to have a normal stream but the chat wants you to be toxic they are going to take it out on you basically his live streams from here on out would be him playing a game chat torments him and says a bunch of annoying stuff and then he handles it well but about 20 minutes in he'll have a rage moment then slowly rage more and more until he loses a game and ends the stream some days he handles the chat better than others but every stream is filled with people trying to get him to freak out i haven't really talked that much about his chat but as it multiplied by the thousands it got super toxic like the things they would say to him whether it was just in the chat or through donations is bad terrible so bad i don't even feel comfortable putting clips of them in this video and obviously he can't control what they say people will figure out a way to say terrible things no matter what so leaning into the freakouts and rage moments became a double-edged sword for him because they were genuinely pissing him off some days and other days he is just trolling them back either way it's a high stress situation blood pressure goes up heart rate goes up it's not a good long term strategy but speed is not even close to the first person to use freakouts as a way to grow freakouts and rage moments have been a huge part of live streaming forever since video games are so damn frustrating flight reacts pugatti and even aiden ross mastered the art of the freak out as a growth strategy anyways for spring of 2021 he kept that same cycle of consistent streaming rage moments and broken heart videos he had around 50 000 subscribers and was averaging more than a thousand or so people in his chat his viewers started clipping his freakouts and funny moments and posting them on tiktok it got to the point where multiple pages have built big followings just by posting his freakouts and the amount of views they were getting are just staggering i think it also helped that aiden ross was peaking at this time he created an audience of people who like edgy humor and live streaming in general was peaking at this time so speed provided something that was similar but in his own unique way in fact he actually started a new trope that people really liked barking yes speed started barking when he got angry [Music] which were some of the most popular clips that went viral on tick-tock the tik-tok clips got a ton of new people interested in him it made him grow faster than ever in march april and may he jumped from around 50 000 subscribers to 300 000 subscribers but it was in june where it all culminated into something huge he started putting his subscriber count on the screen and basing his stream around how fast he was growing because he was gaining subscribers really quickly on june 22nd he did his 400k stream where he just kind of passed time waiting for him to hit the new milestone when he was about to hit it a ton of people watching started unsubscribing hoping for a freakout in which he did a little bit then two days later he was about to hit 500 000 subs same thing happened he got close they would unsub he freaks out and everyone loves it it became this little game watching his sub count go up and up three days later 600k stream then the next day 700k he went to bed and woke up on june 29th to find out that he was about to hit 800 000 overnight so he went live that morning then later on in that same day maybe 12 hours later he was about to hit 1 million subscribers in 24 hours he gained 300 000 subscribers and if you thought that was crazy the very next day june 30th he hit 1.5 million subscribers obviously speed put in a ton of work until this point but he also got a little lucky that thousands of hundreds of thousands of people were eager to see his reactions as his sub count went up it became sort of a game for people it slowed down a little bit at the 1.5 million mark but by the middle of july he hit two million subscribers meaning that in about three weeks he went from 300k to 2 million call it luck call it a meme call it whatever you want but at this point he's still growing like crazy and entertaining the millions of people that subscribed to him so clearly he took advantage of the situation and maintained their interest after this speed was done with nba 2k he outgrew the game so fast he knew that these people wanted him to be as crazy as possible all the time so that's what he gave them he also took a trip to la to link up with aiden ross and many other streamers for some reason watching that in-person connection just changes the viewer's perspective it's almost like the viewer is part of the friend group plus he seemed to be a lot happier he wasn't giving in to the trolls and he wasn't getting ddos attacks kicking him offline when he went back home to ohio it was almost exclusively trolling people on omegle more getting kicked offline and more broken heart videos but something else huge happened speed's unforeseen music career began in august of 2021 he had a new hit single called duty booty with a high quality music video in which he was wearing his favorite shirt barking and twerking with his boys the song was actually very well received which made him want to do even more music he would start uploading a song every month and sometimes twice per month now with over 1 million monthly listeners on spotify tens of millions of views on youtube clearly his fans are loving his music and truthfully it's not that bad he has a lot of potential definitely a lot of questionable lyrics i don't know if he wants to do this seriously or if he wants to do it as a meme i mean that seems to be his whole career at this point for all of fall 2021 he just kept doing what he normally does streaming omegle scary games some fortnite freaking out dropping music which is song shay getting over 20 million views on youtube barking chat saying the most terrible things to him but the e dates and irl dating became something that his chat demanded watching speed interact with girls was their new favorite thing probably because once the girl said something that he didn't like or they weren't into him he would just bark scream or insult them which is funny because literally nobody would react like that but one day aiden ross invited him to do an e-date with ash cash and a ton of other big streamers and speed took it too far see if we're the last two people on earth and we had to reproduce to make the world continue reproducing no because that means our kids will have to intertwine and then their kids no who's gonna stop me i will if we're the last two people on earth who gonna stop me gee you're not stopping me if we're the last two people on earth who gonna stop yeah come on hold up hold up chill out chill out just all right you're gonna fall now this question that he asked her is a running joke that speed does on omegle it's a joke that works in his community and for his chat and his fans but as you can imagine a lot of women don't find this joke very funny nor do a lot of other people's fans who don't know speed now he got eliminated from this e date obviously and he didn't like that man bro god [ __ ] them [ __ ] bro that [ __ ] yes he date bro he started to blame ashkash and aiden and this is where i started to question a lot of those edates do streamers actually take them seriously i thought they were just for entertainment like they weren't actually gonna get dates with any of these people is speed's reaction fake this is where speed towing the line of what's real and what isn't becomes a little tricky for him he took the joke too far plain and simple but now saying aiden and ashcash for kicking you out and that they're wrong for that this turned into a little beef between aiden's speed which again i don't know if it's real or not speed's joke went viral on various social medias and had a lot of people angry ash cash had a lot of words to say about it on twitter rightfully so but aiden didn't stand up for speed because he knew he was wrong and speed never really addressed it again today i think they're all good and speed hasn't really done an e-date since then which is also probably a good thing i think a little clarity between what is a character and what is real life would help speed out a lot he's going to continue to get himself in sticky situations if he keeps being edgy like he is but i also understand that the lore of not knowing what's real and what isn't is exactly what makes him so interesting but sometimes you can get lost in the character you play it so much that you even forget who you really are i mean the more crazy he acts and the more his views go up and his chat rewards him the formula is difficult to maintain because the chat doesn't really care about your well-being they want to see you push the limits because they don't have to suffer the consequences if you go too far i understand he's young it's normal to make mistakes i bet he'll look back on some clips in a few years and cringe himself that's totally normal but when you're making tons of money off the same exact thing that is causing the controversy it's hard to make a defense he seems like a really good kid obviously very entertaining and not bad music either i would hate to see him get lost in this character that he built but i wish the best for him and i most definitely can't knock the hustle because 4 million subs in one year is insane but maintaining that high stress chaotic and angry character just doesn't really seem like it can last that long i mean look at roy purdy who built a brand of being positive happy-go-lucky dancing smiling wearing bright colors millions of people around the world loving him for his positive energy and even he had a tough time maintaining that but if you want to hear more about that story check out his video right here drink water subscribe and i'll see you soon

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Length: 18min 10sec (1090 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 14 2022