IShowSpeed 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 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.
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
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.