Darren Jason Watkins Jr., known online as IShowSpeed, has officially wrapped up his European streaming tour. During his time abroad, he garnered over 2.5 billion views across TikTok, Instagram, X and YouTube.
The YouTuber has had great success with his tour, visiting different countries and stadiums to watch matches of the 2024 UEFA European Championship.
His football-themed journey has had many ups and downs, from Speed meeting the Albanian prime minister to being surrounded by crowds in Norway and vowing to never return.
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Now that he’s back home, staggering numbers from Speedo’s tour have revealed that he has garnered over 2.5 billion cumulative views across various platforms.
After officially finishing his legendary European streaming tour, Speed has garnered over 2.5 billion views across TikTok, Instagram, X and YouTube 🔥 pic.twitter.com/PuXra7bURL
— Speedy Updates (@SpeedUpdates1) July 22, 2024
“SpeedUpdates1,” an X (formerly Twitter) account dedicated to providing the latest updates on YouTubers, revealed that the total views of the “legendary” tour were calculated from TikTok, Instagram, X and YouTube.
Speed, which landed in Europe on June 16th in Germany, has produced some of the most popular content of the year, judged by the Streams Chart to have garnered more than 664,500 hours of views on YouTube alone.
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Countries visited during the tour included Germany, Albania, Italy, Holland, Belgium, Poland, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Czech Republic, Austria, Hungary, Denmark and Ireland.
During his time in Europe, Speed averaged between 50,000 and 80,000 concurrent viewers, with seven-figure peaks. Speed also revealed he had to pay a staggering amount in damages after fans jumped into rented vehicles and surrounded the YouTuber.
Other notable moments during the tour included wrestling with “Crowley”, the green wizard known for his speed, getting into a street fight with a fan in Greece, being kissed on the lips by a Bulgarian fan and racing against Norway’s fastest footballer.
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Since returning to the U.S., Speed has continued to create new content and strive to create memorable streams for his fans. On July 21, he teamed up with Twitch “champion” Kai Senat to play the platform game “Chained Together” while literally chained together.
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Streaming their attempts to conquer the game, the pair were ultimately victorious within 12 hours.