Darren “IShowSpeed” Watkins Jr. is considered to be an extremely popular YouTube live streamer, vlogger, and content creator. Recently, Speed took a girl he met during the Sidemen 20v1 video on a date and decided to buy and wear a fancy outfit that cost more than £9,500/$14,000.
Speed has been creating gaming content from a very young age, and they were exciting enough to attract millions of followers on Twitch. He had to make a jump to YouTube after getting banned from Twitch. Speed squeezed gaming, reaction, and IRL content into his livestreams, and that helped in reach almost 21 million subscribers on YouTube.
IShowSpeed shares a very friendly relationship with the members of the Sidemen Group and especially with KSI. This gave him the opportunity to be a part of the Sidemen 20v1 video. Let’s dive in to know what made Speed buy a £9,500/$14,000 outfit.
IShowSpeed buys a £9,500/$14,000 outfit to wear on his date
IShowSpeed was asked to join the Sidemen Group for one of their video titled 20v1. The video featured him going on a fast-paced date with 20 other women. That was when he got to meet the girl for the first time. Surprisingly, Hh called her up recently and asked if she would be down to go on a date with him to which she was happy to consent.
🚨| NEW: Speed buys a whole new outfit for the Date pic.twitter.com/M6Cy1maUZv
— Speedy HQ (@iShowSpeedHQ) October 18, 2023
Speed is mostly known for his simple dressing style. He mostly puts on a set of pants and T-shirt everywhere he goes. However, he decided to go full out for this date night and bought himself a complete outfit that cost him around £9,500/$14,000. Darren was very happy with his choice of outfit and stated “I look too good chat, I look too good”.
🚨| WATCH: Speed’s card gets DECLINED when he tries to spend over £9,500 on clothes for his date pic.twitter.com/jlfkCPIHIk
— Speedy HQ (@iShowSpeedHQ) October 18, 2023
IShowSpeed picked the girl up soon after and she was instantly impressed by the the way he looked. She stated, “You look nice, Oh my god, I would worn something nicer if I knew you were going to dress like this”. But Speed made sure to make her feel comfortable by saying that she looked impressive.
They had a great date with some fancy dinner and she got to meet and speak with Speed’s father and younger brother over the phone. Darren ended up inviting her to his hotel room to stay the night because there were no trains for her to go home that late at night.
His fans had mixed thoughts about the outfit but made sure to point out that he was spending a lot of money on the outfit. A fan proceeded to call him “IShowBank”. Another person just asked Speed to make sure not to act weird on the date.
ishowbank
— Ayoub rizz🇵🇸 (@BoumdeanJ) October 18, 2023
Tell him not to act weird tonight, that’s all we want.
— Henry Chul (@HenryChul) October 18, 2023
IShowSpeed is in search of a girlfriend
IShowSpeed has been searching for a girlfriend for a very long time. He has been meeting multiple girls everywhere he travels to find a perfect match but he has not been successful yet. Speed got to meet Ishika Bhargava during his tour to India. He instantly was impressed by the Indian content creator and tried to impress her.
🚨| WATCH: Speed tries his Indian Rizz but fail’s 😭 pic.twitter.com/SFpEm50XtS
— Speedy HQ (@iShowSpeedHQ) October 15, 2023
Darren also asked her if he could kiss her but Ishika stated that he needed to get permission from her father to do so. Although Darren did not get to kiss Ishika, he did have a great time learning dance moves from her. Speed got into another controversy with Ishika when he tried to leak her phone number on stream.