IShowSpeed

Darren Watkins [age 27], better known online as Speed (short for IShowSpeed), is an american Youtuber from Ohio, known for his gaming & entertainment livestreams and for gaining over 1 million subscribers in a matter of days. He's known for his great ability of interaction with his livestream viewers and for his way to entertain them. He started to gain fame when his fanbase started publishing memes about him on TikTok.

History
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 NBA 2K games and Fortnite almost daily growing in this way really slowly, but reaching a point where in June, 2020 he averaged with 10 viewers in his livestreams and 150 new subscribers weekly. At the beginning of 2021 he started to average 1k subscribers weekly and 350 viewers in his livestreams, growing so consistently at a point he reached 100k subscribers in April, 2021. Between May and June his fanbase started uploading clips from his livestreams and memes about him on TikTok, starting to gain in this way 100k new subscribers weekly and 1.1 million subscribers between June and July, making him one of the fastest growing YouTubers in 2021.

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. His "way to do things" is very unusual, considering he sometimes barks, roars or shouts at the webcam for no reason at all, but in his subscribers' opinion that's one of the reasons he's "special". 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.

Personal life
In one of his livestreams he confirmed he's 27 (born in 1993), but we don't actually know his exact birthday date, he has a daughter who sometimes enters his room during his livestreams to tell him goodnight or to interact with him.