IShowSpeed on the Brink: Threatens YouTube Exit After Double Swatting Incidents in One Week
3 min readIShowSpeed seems to be frustrated with the repeated swatting incidents during his live streams by his viewers, even threatening to quit YouTube. Content creators facing troubling situations like swatting happens often despite efforts to avoid it. The most recent incident took place with IShowSpeed too.
Read ahead to know more about IShowSpeed threatening to quit YouTube after facing swatting repeatedly.
IShowSpeed faces swatting during live stream
YouTuber IShowSpeed has been one of the popular content creators on the internet, with millions of followers across various social media platforms. His live streams are one of the ways his fans interact with him. However, recently, Speed had live streams that seemed to have annoyed him.
IShowSpeed SWATTED live on STREAM! 😮‼️ pic.twitter.com/fppcUdkkBD
— DramaAlert (@DramaAlert) November 21, 2023
IShowSpeed became a victim of swatting recently, and that too repeatedly in a row. For those who don’t know what swatting means, it is a situation created when someone online calls the police, falsely informing them of a troubled situation happening in a house. This type of situation has been occurring with content creators often.
YouTuber IShowSpeed threatens to leave YouTube
On November 16th this year, YouTuber IShowSpeed showed his fans his new mansion worth $10,000k. However, a few days later, he faced a swatting situation. On November 22nd, while Speed was interacting with users on Ome.tv, a website similar to Omegle.
Here is speed getting swatted for the second time in two days‼️‼️
Are people getting weird these days?#ishowspeed#Speed #swat pic.twitter.com/Vc5EPDcw6D— Daily Loud 2 (@Daily_Loud_) November 23, 2023Advertisement
The YouTuber took off his earphones upon hearing noise outside. He then asked his assistant about what the noise was. During that time, his assistant, Slipz, was having a conversation with the police.
Meanwhile, Speed got irritated and said to his assistant “Yo what the f*** is happening bro?”. He added, “There’s no way. I’m about to quit YouTube bruh, I can’t do this anymore”.
Fans react to swatting of IShowSpeed during live stream
While Slipz was having a conversation with the police during Speed’s livestream, the YouTuber let his viewers listen to the conversation. Whether or not Speed will indeed quit YouTube isn’t known yet, despite expressing frustration. However, we have definitely seen his fans react to the recent swatting incident.
One of his fans said, “This is not funny at all…”. While another one said, “It’s not even funny anymore”. A user even said, “People are lame asf man, nothing better to do. Hopefully y’all get this situated”. Not to be missed, Slipz also reacted with emojis, expressing a facepalm and a middle finger over the recent situation.
Speed after getting swatted the 50th time pic.twitter.com/QsyecFUFOd
— ViolentFights (@ViolentFight) November 21, 2023
swat need to check if they streamers or not first fr 😭
— pdawg 𖤐 (@707Pdawg) November 21, 2023
People who Swat streamers should rot in prison for life. They're literally attempting murder.
— L A G (@Damnlag) November 21, 2023
I don't care who the steamer is, don't care how annoying the streamer is. You don't swat people. End of story
— Randum Random (@101Rand0m) November 21, 2023
Why ain’t he on a whitelist by now?? The swat rlly gotta check if they streamers or not 🤦🏽♂️
— pdawg 𖤐 (@707Pdawg) November 22, 2023