IShowSpeed Net Worth 2025: Income, Real Name, Age, Height. Controversy, Endorsement

Real Name	Darren Jason Watkins Jr.
Nick Name	IShowSpeed, Speed
Birth Date	21st January, 2005
Birth Place	Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Profession	Online Streamer, YouTuber, Internet Celebrity, Rapper
Nationality	American
Net Worth	$10 million

Who is IShowSpeed?

Darren Jason Watkins Jr., popularly known as IShowSpeed, is an American YouTuber and rapper. He is mainly known for his popular live streams; he plays multiple video games on that platform. He gained popularity in 2021 – 2022 when clips from his streams were circulating on social media platforms, which later turned into viral meme templates. He won Breakout Streamer of the Year at the 12th Streamy Awards 2022. 

Speed became famous as a gaming YouTuber and was immediately noticed for his live streams. Although Speed became popular after the pandemic, he created his YouTube channel in 2016, and it was not active for two years until Speed uploaded his first video, an NBA 2k18 shoot-around clip. The same year, because of the popularity of Fortnite, Speed tried his hand at the game and attempted to do a live stream, which didn’t get a lot of success. Dejected by this slow start, Speed put his YouTube career on hold and focused on school and playing football for the next couple of years.

Speed, soon diversifies his content with Fortnite and Five Nights at Freddy’s, that pushed his content in a live stream-centric style. In under one year, he was able to gain more than 1 million subscribers as of June 2021, thus setting him on pace to become among the world’s fastest-growing YouTubers. He became even more popular following his virality on social media apps like TikTok, where his fan base started uploading snippets of his live streams, which became viral in their own right.

After his success, Speed then followed Adin Ross, a very popular Twitch streamer, to Los Angeles and appeared in some of his streams, thus bringing him even more subscribers. As of now, it appears that Speed is taking more interest in his music career since he has just published his first album, What Else IShowSpeed, with the majority of them being the videos of his songs which have all seen over 10 million views.

Personal Information about IShowSpeed

Age	20 years
Height	1.75m
Father	Darren Jason Watkins Sr.
Mother	Tiffany E. Graves
Siblings	Dian
Education	Ohio Digital Learning School
Address/Residence	Los Angeles, California
Idol	Cristiano Ronaldo

Net Worth of IShowSpeed

According to reports, IShowSpeed’s net worth is $10 million. His fundamental source of income is live streaming, YouTube, brand collaborations, social media, which include TikTok and Instagram. 

IShowSpeed Source of Income

YouTube

Speed generates most of his valuation of $10 million-$12 million from the YouTube channels he owns and any revenue they have generated since from AdSense. In addition, Speed generates a pretty good amount through sponsorships, as well as tips and donations that may occur during his live streams.

Speed has said, depending on how long his streams are, he can make anywhere from $75-$200 per upload. According to Social Blade, IShowSpeed earns an estimated $16,000 per month on average through revenue via AdSense.

IShowSpeed earns an estimate amount of $1.11 million per year from his channel’s Adsense factoring that the average views are about 8.43 million every month. Taking into account the average of $3-$7 that is charged per thousand views, the IShowSpeed YouTube channel can be generating an estimate of $73,000 thousand a month and over $1-3 million a year through ad revenue. Other sources state that Speed earns a yearly average of somewhere near $2-4 million through YouTube alone.

TikTok

On TikTok, Speed can make more than $15k from a single post. Unlike YouTube, which lets you sell the ad space on your videos and the page of your channel for ads set by Google, TikTok still does not compensate its users in running ads from their posted photos. For them to get that, the influencer and brand do not have an intermediary nor any set rates if they opt to work together. The deals are made by brands with influencers based on circumstances, and prices can vary widely, but this estimated earning per post is nearly accurate.

Brand Collaboration

With the fantastic following that speed has garnered through the years, brands could be approached to endorse his products. Speed has partnered himself with many top internet brands. While we do not know how much he could make for promotional content, it’s a hefty amount.

IShowSpeed Social Media Profiles

Social Media Platform	Followers/Subscribers
YouTube	35.1M
TikTok	38.1M
Instagram	28.4M
Twitter	3.3M

IShowSpeed Controversy

• Misogynistic Remarks on Live Stream: In December 2021, during a live stream on Adin Ross’s channel, Watkins made some derogatory remarks toward a female participant. The latter had them banned from Twitch for life.
  
• Racist Behaviour at the 2022 FIFA World Cup: December 2022. During a World Cup match in Qatar, Watkins turned to a Chinese spectator and continued repeating “konnichiwa” – the Japanese greeting, which was used despite the person clarifying he was not Japanese. The actions were condemned widely as racist.
  
• Cryptocurrency Scam Allegations: In November 2022, after promoting The Paradox Metaverse, a venture accused of the ‘pump and dump’ cryptocurrency scam, Watkins was reprimanded but later apologized. He claimed ignorance of the ‘questionable” nature of that project.
  
• Accidental Exposure during Live Stream: As he streamed a horror game in August 2024, Watkins incorrectly exposed himself to 25,000 active watchers. The entire situation stirred online debate, but YouTube did not take any action against the channel, considering the act an accident.
  
• Assault Allegations in Denmark: In the summer of 2024, while visiting Denmark, Watkins was again found in another controversy after a video surfaced showing him slapping a man who did nothing to provoke his attack.

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