The Twitch and YouTube streamer Darren “IShowSpeed” Watkins Jr. was long considered a streamer with a high escalation risk. Dangerous things repeatedly happened in his streams, and he had a controversial reputation for a long time. Now he addressed a few instructive words to a very young viewer.
What does IShowSpeed say to the little viewer? On Valentine’s Day, IShowSpeed hosted an IRL stream where he was out and about in the city with one of his friends. During the stream, he was dressed as an older man. Viewers approached him repeatedly during the stream to take pictures with him.
So did a little girl, who handed him her phone. Presumably for a photo, but it didn’t get that far because IShowSpeed addressed a few words to the young viewer:
Come only into my stream when I’m playing video games, okay? And always ask your mother: ‘Can I watch Speed’s stream?’. Because I’m not just for kids.
– IShowSpeed on YouTube from 1:25:44
IShowSpeed further explains that it comes down to what he does in his stream to decide whether the girl should watch. After all, you never know what would happen in his stream, whether he would “do a backflip off a building”.
The streamer concluded: “And if I do something good, when I play Roblox or Steal a Brainrot […] then you can watch my stream.”
IShowSpeed has a controversial past
What was IShowSpeed like before? This positive and mature interaction with a young viewer is still something new for IShowSpeed. The streamer has been through several controversial situations:
- Twitch permanently banned IShowSpeed in 2021 after he threatened a woman with violence. His ban led to him becoming a major YouTube streamer.
- In 2022, IShowSpeed barked at a boy in Fortnite when he couldn’t pay him 100 dollars over a bet.
- Also in 2022, he was banned in Valorant, because he sexistly insulted a woman.
Meanwhile, IShowSpeed is no longer banned on Twitch and streams simultaneously on YouTube and Twitch. Since his unban on Twitch he has already reached a milestone and has changed his content and behavior for the better.
Although IShowSpeed himself no longer does any particularly bad things in his streams, the same cannot be said about his viewers. After all, the streamer still attracts large crowds of viewers. One viewer, for example, committed a crime on camera or the masses of viewers caused a bridge to collapse.
Despite the dangerous crowds that IShowSpeed attracts, his positive development is certainly worth noting. You can read a compact summary of IShowSpeed’s career here on MeinMMO: He barked at children and insulted women, thanks to 1.60 euros he is now the biggest gaming streamer on YouTube
