IShowSpeed

Darren Watkins Jr. (birthday: January 21), better known online as IShowSpeed (or simply Speed or Speedy), is an American YouTuber from Cincinnati, Ohio. He's known for his gaming & entertainment livestreams 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.
He first created his account on March 21, 2016, and published his first video on it on December 21, 2017. He did his first livestream, about Fortnite, on December 28, 2018, but barely averaged with 2 viewers. Since the beginning of 2020 he started uploading and doing livestreams about the video games NBA 2K and Fortnite Battle Royale. He was slowly growing daily, and reaching a point where in June 2020 when he averaged at around 10 viewers in his livestreams and 150 new subscribers weekly. In the beginning of 2021 he started to gain around 1k subscribers weekly and 350 viewers in his livestreams, growing consistently until reaching 100k subscribers in April 2021. Between May and June of the same year his fanbase started uploading clips from his livestreams and memes about him on TikTok, which helped him gain 100k new subscribers weekly and reaching 1.1 million subscribers just in the month of June.
== Content ==
His content is mostly based of his past livestreams recordings, and the very few actual videos he makes are just really short clips of him doing announcements to his subscribers. In his livestreams 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. 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.
His "way to do things" is very unusual, considering he sometimes barks, roars or shouts at the webcam for no reason at all. Since his "peak of glory" started his livestreams consist of him reacting to the subscriber counter reaching certain numbers, such as 800k, 900k, 1M, 1.5M, etc.
He also does music, doing fast-paced rap songs. His most popular song is Shake, released on November 2021 and has gained 40 million views in 3 months.
== Beef With Talking Ben ==
He's particularly known for his intense 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 beca=ome a famous meme on the internet.