Darren Watkins Jr, known online as IShowSpeed, is a famous internet personality and YouTube livestreamer. He is also a meme on the SiIvaGunner channel.
Background[]
IShowSpeed first created his YouTube channel on March 21, 2016, uploading his first video on the channel "{2k18} {First Video}" on December 20, 2017. He first began gaining popularity online in the first half of 2021, going from 100,000 subcribers to 1 million in only 2 months. He became famous for his Twitch livestreams, he commonly gave over-the-top reactions while gaming. In December 2021, IShowSpeed was banned from Twitch for sexual harassment, and moved to streaming on YouTube. IShowSpeed's achieved a further explosion of popularity in 2022, due in part to making several news stories, achieving 10 million subscribers in July 2022.
As IShowSpeed gained notoriety, he began branching out to other forms of content besides gaming, such as music (mostly rap) and real life content. On August 6, 2021, he released the music video for his first single "Lying" with Jay Cinco. He would go on to release many other music videos, such as "Shake" (November 23, 2021) and "World Cup" (November 4, 2022). These became the most popular videos on IShowSpeed's YouTube channel, with 226 million views and 175 million views, respectively, as of April 2025.
Rips[]
IShowSpeed and his content has been used in a variety of ways on SiIvaGunner. Some of the most common ways he has been referenced are using his music, clips of him singing "God Is Good, God is Great" (usually from a stream of him speaking to Ben the Dog), and using "I Show The Meat" by DaddySpeed. IShowSpeed has been featured visually in several rips, and different sources are commonly used alongside each other.
The first usage of IShowSpeed is "Bramble Blast", which incorporated the lyrics from "Shake". Afterwards, various rips proceeded to use him throughout 2022, 2023, and 2024. A notable uptick of usage occured after IShowSpeed's infamous incident of accidentally flashing his genitals during a livestream of Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach, which also led to the creation of "I Show The Meat", and its usage on SiIvaGunner.
External links[]
- IShowSpeed on Wikipedia
- IShowSpeed on YouTube
- Rips featuring IShowSpeed by User:Eden342.
