Who is IShowspeed? Why is Ishowspeed famous? How much is Ishowspeed worth? Biography facts about Darren Watkins.
Darren Watkins Jr., better known online as IShowSpeed (or simply Speed or Speedy), is an American YouTuber from Cincinnati, Ohio.
He’s known for his gaming & entertainment live streams and for gaining over 1 million subscribers in a matter of days in 2021. He started to gain fame when his fanbase started publishing memes about him on TikTok.
During Adin Ross’ recent E-Date show on Twitch, YouTube content creator IShowSpeed gets banned for making sexist comments to model Ash Kash. Twitch handed down a permanent ban to IShowSpeed for “sexual coercion or intimidation”. The suspension will only be lifted after a successful appeal. The VOD of the show has also been deleted from Adin Ross‘ channel. Twitch’s community guidelines prohibit “sexual assault…or content that encourages or promotes it”.
He has a younger sister who sometimes enters his room during his livestreams to tell him goodnight or to interact with him. He also has a younger brother. He’s currently attending high school, though he clearly shows his hatred for it.
Though mostly not confirmed, he formerly dated Ermony Renee, also known as Dream though there is a bit of a rivalry between them. It is unknown if they’re still dating. It’s also possible that he had a relationship with TikTok star and singer Ava Barbie, who is transgender.
Is IShowSpeed a dad? What happened to IShowSpeed on Twitch? Is IShowSpeed mentally ill? What is speed’s real name YouTube? What is IShowSpeed height? Is IShowSpeed in a relationship? Is Ishowspeed’s girlfriend a boy? How many subscribers does IShowSpeed have? How did IShowSpeed get so popular? Read till the end of this article for answers to these and more search queries.
Profile Summary
| Celebrated Name: | IShowSpeed |
| Net Worth: | $10 Million – $12 Million |
| Salary: | $146.2K – $2.3M from YouTube ads per Social Blade |
| Full Real Name: | Darren Watkins Jr. |
| Date of Birth/Birthday: | January 21, 2005 |
| Age: | 18 years old |
| Birthplace/Place of birth: | Ohio, United States |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession | YouTuber, Entertainer, Rapper, and Internet Personality |
| Style: | Gaming & Entertainment |
| Date Joined: | March 21, 2016 |
| Residence: | Cincinnati |
| Height: | 6’5 feet tall |
| Zodiac Sign: | Aquarius |
| Religion: | Christianity |
| Diseases: | Coronary Heart Issues; Autism |
| Parents: | Not Known |
| Siblings: | Younger sister and brother |
| Girlfriend: | Ermony Renee, also known as Dream; TikTok star and singer Ava Barbie |
| Children: | Daughter (rumored) |
| Education: | Local High School, Ohio |
| YouTube Profile: | IShowSpeed with 6.34 Million Channel Subscriber |
| First Video: | (2K18) (First Video) with 1 million views uploaded in 2018 |
| Most Popular Video: | IShowSpeed – Shake (Offical Music Video) with 169 Million views |
| Total Views: | 1,244,214,481 views |
| Twitter: | @IShowSpeed |
| Instagram: | @ishowspeed with 8.1 Million Followers |
| Twitch: | @ishowspeed (Banned) |
| Snapchat: | @darrenwatikins1 |
| TikTok: | @ishowspeed |
| Merchandise: | @ishow-speed.myshopify |
| Discord Server: | @ishowspeed |
Who is IShowSpeed and why is he famous? (About)
#1. IShowSpeed is an American YouTuber, influencer, rapper, and online content creator from Cincinnati, Ohio.
#2. He’s known for his gaming & entertainment live streams and for gaining over 1 million subscribers in a matter of days in 2021.
#3. He plays games like Fortnite, Five Nights at Freddy’s 4 while, and NBA 2k21.
#4. He is known for his unusual personality as he barks or shouts for no reason sometimes.
#5. He started to gain fame when his fanbase started publishing memes about him on TikTok.
Biography Facts (Real Name, Age, Date of Birth, Birthday, Height, Ziduac Sign, Early Life, Personal life, Girlfriend, Daughter, School, Etc)
#6. His real name is Darren Watkins Jr. better known online as IShowSpeed (or simply Speed or Speedy).
#7. Speed is 18 years old and was born on January 21, 2005.
#8. He is of American nationality and was born in Ohio, United States.
#9. He is a Christian and has Aquarius as his zodiac sign.
#10. Darren is 6’5 feet tall.
#11. He has a younger sister who sometimes enters his room during his live streams to tell him goodnight or to interact with him.
#12. He also has a younger brother.
#13. He’s currently attending high school in his locality in Ohio, though he clearly shows his hatred for it.
#14. There’s an argument among his fanbase about whether Darren is 18 (born in 2005) or 19 (born in 2003), partially due to the jokes he made regarding minors.
#15. Darren once said he is 19 most likely so he could get a better chance at Discord E-dating competitions, but besides that, he wouldn’t say his actual age at all.
#16. However, in a video he made on December 22, 2020, doing a Q&A, he said (at the time) he was 15, turning 16 “in a minute”, thus making this argument technically useless.
#17. Though mostly not confirmed, he formerly dated Ermony Renee, also known as Dream (not to be confused with the YouTuber), though there is a bit of a rivalry between them. It is unknown if they’re still dating.
#18. It’s also possible that he had a relationship with TikTok star and singer Ava Barbie, who is transgender.
IShowSpeed YouTube Career
#19. He first created his account on March 21, 2016, and published his first video on it on December 21, 2017.
#20. He did his first live stream, about Fortnite, on December 28, 2018, but barely averaged 2 viewers.
#21. Since the beginning of 2020, he started uploading and doing live streams about the video games NBA 2K and Fortnite Battle Royale.
#22. He was slowly growing daily and reaching a point wherein June 2020 when he averaged around 10 viewers in his live streams and 150 new subscribers weekly.
#23. At the beginning of 2021 he started to gain around 1k subscribers weekly and 350 viewers in his live streams, growing consistently until reaching 100k subscribers in April 2021.
#24. Between May and June of the same year, his fanbase started uploading clips from his live streams and memes about him on TikTok, which helped him gain 100k new subscribers weekly and reached 1.1 million subscribers just in the month of June 2021.
Style of Content
#25. His content is mostly based on his past live stream recordings, and the very few actual videos he makes are just really short clips of him doing announcements to his subscribers.
#26. In his live streams, he mostly plays PS4 videogames such as Fortnite, NBA 2K21, and Five Nights at Freddy’s 4 while, of course, speaking and interacting with his viewers.
#27. Since early February 2022, he’s known to play a bunch of Outfit7’s games (particularly the ones associated with the company’s Talking Tom & Friends franchise) on BlueStacks.
#28. His “way to do things” is very unusual, considering the sometimes barks, roars, or shouts at the webcam for no reason at all.
#29. Since his “peak of glory” started his live streams consist of him reacting to the subscriber counter reaching certain numbers, such as 800k, 900k, 1M, 1.5M, etc.
#30. He also does music, doing fast-paced rap songs. His most popular song is Shake, released on November 2021 and has gained 52 million views in months.
Controversy
Rape Joke
#31. On December 13, 2021, Darren was on a live dating show on Adin Live‘s Twitch channel. On the show, there were several women and men who were asked several questions relating to dating.
#32. Darren asked a woman named Ash.Kaash “Say if we’re the last two people on Earth, and had to reproduce to make world continue”.
#33. Ash said no, stating that their kids would have to perform incest in order for them to continue afterward.
#34. Darren then said “Who gon’ stop me?”, and started repeating the phrase in a more aggressive tone after Ash said that she would.
Sexist Rant
#35. Darren temporarily left the stream afterward after Adin told him to calm down, however not long later he was able to re-enter the live stream and went on a rant, calling Ash a “bitch” and an “ugly fucking cunt”.
#36. Darren then yelled that he masturbates to her “every single day”, before continuing to berate her, saying that nobody wants her.
#37. Adin forcibly removed Darren after the call afterward, although Ash did not seem that phased by this and was even smiling.
#38. Not only did this take place in front of over 100 thousand live viewers on Twitch, but also immediately went viral on Twitter and YouTube too.
#39. This caused Darren to receive major amounts of backlash, with many accusing him of being creepy and sexist.
#40. Many fans of Darren defended him, stating that he’s only 16 and he jokes like this often (some people like Tipster have actually questioned why Darren was on an E-dating show at 16, to begin with, however, nobody has responded to these questions), however, they too also said that he took this too far.
Twitch Ban
#41. The day after on the 14th, Twitch permanently banned Darren’s account because of this outburst, with him tweeting out an image of the ban message he got from Twitch, with his caption just saying “Bye”.
#42. Despite the backlash that he received, Darren’s channel growth and popularity were not hindered by this, and he has been streaming on YouTube to large fanfare ever since his Twitch ban.
Trivia
#43. He’s particularly known for his overwhelming rivalry with Talking Ben from Outfit7‘s Talking Tom & Friends franchise, mostly arguing through the Telephone feature from the latter’s app. His rivalry has since become a famous meme on the internet.
#44. On every Livestream where Speed anticipates hitting a subscriber milestone, his fanbase collectively unsubscribes at the point where he’s gonna hit it to annoy him and cause some reactions.
IShowSpeed YouTube Channel Information
#45. Speed created his YouTube channel on March 21st, 2016.
#46. He has amassed over 15.8 million subscribers as of 2023 with his 1 million subs milestone happening in 2021.
#47. With 1,242 uploaded videos, Speed has accumulated over 1.2 billion views in total with his Games type of YouTube channel.
#48. His channel is ranked 43rd best game channel, 136th most subscribed channel in the United States, and the 242nd most subscribed channel on the YouTube community.
#49. His first ever uploaded video on his channel is titled “2k18 – First Video” which was uploaded in 2018 and has 1 million views.
#50. His top three most popular videos on his channel are “IShowSpeed – Shake Offical Music Video“, “IShowSpeed – World Cup (Offical Music Video)”, and “IShowSpeed – Ronaldo Sewey” with 169 million views, 82 million views, and 29 million views respectively.
#51. He has other two channels: Speedy Boykins with 1.15 million subs and Live Speedy with 4.5 million subs.
How much money does IShowSpeed make on YouTube?
#52. Speed makes an estimated revenue of $406 – $6.5K in a day on YouTube according to Social Blade.
#53. Speedy makes estimated earnings of $2.8K – $45.5K in a week on YouTube.
#54. Darren makes an estimated income of $12.2K – $194.9K in a month from YouTube ads.
#55. In a year, IShowSpeed makes an estimated salary of $146.2K – $2.3M from displayed ads on his YouTube videos.
What is IShowSpeed’s Net Worth?
#56. IShowSpeed’s net worth is estimated at $10 to $12 million as of 2023.
#57. His sources of income are from YouTube ads, sponsorships, partnerships with brand deals, donations, and the selling of merchandise.
IShowSpeed Social Media Accounts
#58. YouTube Channel: @IShowSpeed with 15.8 Million Subscribers
#59. Twitter: @IShowSpeed
#60. Instagram: @ishowspeed; @lshowspeeedy
#61. TikTok
#62. Snapchat
#63. Merchandise
#64. Twitch (Banned)
#65. Discord Server
Quotes
- “ROAR, NEXT LEVEL, I’M A LION NOW, LET’S FUCKING GO!” (Speed about to hit 1M subs)
- “My name is IShowSpeed and I made history, they call me Speed for a reason, bro.” (Speed moments after hitting 1M subs)
- “? GOD IS GOOD, GOD IS GREAT, GOD IS GOOOO, OOOOO- ? OUUUUURAUUUUUUUGH”
- “DO YOU LOVE GOD?”
- “Did you just hang up the phone on me?”
- “WHO GONNA STOP ME?” (Speed to Ask.Kaash)
- “Johnny ate a booger!, It taste like Sugar.“
- “ARF ARF ARF!” (When Speed gets jumpscared or meets someone he doesn’t like on Omegle)
- “Am I gay, man… AM I?!”
- “Yo what the fuck?”
- “Deadass bro?”
- “HOUAGH! AAHHhgagagagagagaa!”[2]
- “LET’S GOO! I’VE BEEN WAITING TO KILL A BLACK GUY!” (While playing Super Smash Bros)[3]
- “LICK DAT CLIT!!”
- “SPEED GANG!”
- “DUBS IN THE CHAT!”
- “NOTI GANG!”
- “I JUST want to be friends, That’s all I wanna be! I wanna be friends.”
- “OK, We friends now?”
- “NOW YOUR GOING TO COPY ME?!?!?!?”
- “…And you wondering why I’m gay.”
- “Ben. Yes. No. Hohoho.” (Speed impersonating Talking Ben after he loses at Five Nights at Freddy’s 4)[4]
