The 17-year-old American Darren “IShowSpeed” Watkins is a hot gaming star on YouTube, but he keeps causing scandals. Now, on Saturday, October 22nd, he spoke with famous soccer players during a livestream on YouTube. In the process, he shared the private phone number of Alphonso Davies: The Canadian plays left-back for FC Bayern and has an estimated market value of 70 million euros. Only seconds after the leak, Davies’ phone practically exploded from a barrage of messages and calls, as the 21-year-old Davies recounted on Twitch.
This was IShowSpeed’s plan: In a stream on October 22nd, IShowSpeed apparently intended to call professional soccer players.
He asked professional footballer Jesse Lingard from Nottingham Forest for his phone number via Instagram, which the latter also freely gave. Then, IShowSpeed had a FaceTime conversation with Jesse Lingard. So far, so good.
IShowSpeed wanted to do the same with Alphonso Davies, the star defender of FC Bayern. The 21-year-old Canadian footballer Davies has already played 15 times for Bayern this year. His market value is estimated at 70 million USD (via transfermarkt.de).
The phone number of Davies is immediately visible during the call
This went wrong: In a hurry, IShowSpeed asked for Davies’ private phone number on Instagram and received it:
- IShowSpeed apparently saved Davies’ number with the wrong first name “Anthony”. The plan was that only Davies’ name would be displayed during the call via the stream.
- But already during the call, the plan went wrong and the full number of Alphonso Davies with the German area code was live on YouTube.
- Since the stream was live, the YouTuber could no longer cut or blur it out – the number was now out in the world. At that moment, 92,000 people were watching IShowSpeed.
How did IShowSpeed react? He quickly realized what had happened and eagerly switched away, but the number had already been visible for several seconds.
IShowSpeed apologized to Davies, saying he was sorry. He ran his hands through his hair and said: “God bless America, I’m sorry.”
Davies replied that his phone was glitching and hung up.
IShowSpeed was visibly uncomfortable with the situation. He swore to God, his father, and his life that the phone number was leaked unintentionally. He did not intend to do that at all.
According to IShowSpeed, it was because Alphonso Davies had his camera off, which made the number visible.
How does Davies react? Shortly after, a video of Davies appeared where he says:
Guys, as you know, Speed leaked my phone number. It’s okay, bro. We live and we learn.
Davies then showed that he apparently uses another, new phone.
Davies explains: His phone went completely crazy
This is how Davies viewed the incident in hindsight: Alphonso Davies runs a Twitch channel as “Thatboydavies19” with 345,000 followers – he is not online there very often.
In a Twitch stream on Sunday, Alphonso Davies addressed the incident (via twitch). Davies explained, he didn’t quite understand why Speed calls him “Anthony” Davies, but he can overlook that.
The conversation came about after a brief chat: Speed said he has been watching Davies since he was 9 years old, is a huge fan, and would like to talk to him on FaceTime during the stream.
Davies assured him: “Yeah, I’ll do it – but promise me not to leak my number.” Speed quickly promised him not to reveal the phone number under any circumstances.
Davies had answered IShowSpeed’s phone call in his car, and due to technical difficulties with the connection, FaceTime was not displayed, but the phone number. As IShowSpeed immediately began to apologize, the madness began just seconds later:
He started to apologize: “Bro, I’m sorry” – I asked: “What happened?” – And literally 3 seconds later my phone went nuts: calls, messages, FaceTime, WhatsApp messages, WhatsApp calls, this and that.
Davies says ultimately it was probably the fault of both sides; he should have turned off “Car Play,” but IShowSpeed also promised him he had saved Davies’ number – so it was probably 50/50. Davies sees the blame equally divided between the two.
Alphonso Davies also streams on Twitch, although only rarely. He mostly shows: FIFA
“We both do stupid things all the time”
Now, in any case, the entire world has his number, says Davies. But it’s all okay. He’s not mad at IShowSpeed.
IShowSpeed is young, Davies is still young himself. You learn along the way. Davies saw the clip and IShowSpeed’s eyes when he realized the mistake and apparently sees no ill intent from the young YouTuber.
The footballer says that such mistakes are part of learning: “We both do stupid things all the time.”
He will get a new number, and for him, the matter is resolved.
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