IShowSpeed

According to TechieGamers' TechieGamers, Speed decided to try YouTube again following the pandemic. With nothing to do and lots of time, he was left with nothing except to make YouTube more enjoyable. Speed decided to begin with NBA content and this time quickly started gaining attention being one of the handful of streamers making quality NBA 2k20 and 2k21 videos. Speed gained more than 150 subscribers every week, and that number was later increased to 1000 subscribers according to multiple sources.Soon, Speed started diversifying his content and played Fortnite and Five Night at Freddy's, which made his content live stream-oriented. In less than a year, Speed managed to amass more than 1 million subscribers by June 2021, making him one of the fastest-growing YouTubers in the world. Speed's popularity increased due to his virality via social media apps such as TikTok which is where his followers uploaded short clips of his live streams that became viral.