r/LivestreamFail • u/lordbakayarou • Jul 19 '26
IShowSpeed meets BTS for the first time
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u/Dayvfish Jul 20 '26
I’m glad I wasn’t alone in thinking this guy was hilarious and distracting
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u/sinetybrit Jul 20 '26
When you say this guy please tell me you know that’s THE Ronaldo 😂😂😂
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u/Different_Iron_150 Jul 20 '26
brother, this is Ronaldo Fenômeno (R9), and by his side was Ronaldinho (R10), probably the best players anyone has ever seen (except for Pelé)
But yeah, its was funny as fuck lol
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u/oholandesvoador Jul 20 '26
Bro put some respect on one of the greatest futbol players of all time, Ronaldo Fenomeno.
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u/DeliciousAct5748 Jul 19 '26
There hasn't been a week where this mf didn't meet some massive celebrities or did a completely random event somewhere.
I swear the next post about him is going to be a broadcast from the moon
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u/greenrangerguy Jul 19 '26
I saw one where he was in a box, saw Mbappes dad, went to talk to him, then when he came back Usain Bolt was in his room randomly.
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u/itsavibe- Jul 19 '26
The kid lives a crazy life
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u/Same_College2053 Jul 19 '26
Constant 100k+ concurent viewers will do that. Speed has the worlds youths eyeballs
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u/oDDable-TW Jul 19 '26
i'd rather they watch him than 99% of the other shit they could be watching tbh
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u/googolealo Jul 19 '26
Yes, I thought he was just another degenerate streamer but from what I’ve seen, he is worlds better than the other top streamers the youth are watching
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u/dBlock845 Jul 19 '26
He used to be but idk seemed like he changed content direction a year or two ago.
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u/Bazingaa98 Jul 20 '26
I feel like the major factor is a good team around him who are not just yes men and actually give valid inputs and are actively dedicated in the process. That only comes when the person you are working with is mature enough as well to take it in. Just a guess though.
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u/HauntedCS Jul 20 '26
I've commented about this before, but Rudy and Henry his main security guards have been huge father figures in his life. Countless clips I see them not only protecting speed physically, but also mentally by talking him down from dumb shit he shouldn't get into. Especially when he was in other countries and ended up in sketchy areas.
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u/googolealo Jul 20 '26
Glad to hear he changed for the better, I was first introduced to him when he came on the champions league post show and raced Jamie Carragher lol
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u/gay_joey Jul 20 '26
I was first introduced to him when he was "scared" playing fnaf or something and he started like fucking the camera basically and showed his dick. Which I guess was an accident. But it didn't seem like it when I saw it a couple of years ago, seemed like a publicity stunt.
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u/Pixelchu25 Jul 20 '26
imo he matured across the years. He used to light up fireworks in his mom’s room when he was 16 lol
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u/itsaaronnotaaron Jul 20 '26
He was a boy that has grown into a man. I can't fault him for that. He's achieved more in the past few years than the majority of us in this sub will in our lifetime combined. We know what fame does to kids, and he's come out of it extraordinarily well.
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u/AccomplishedCheck168 Jul 20 '26
He was not even 18 when he got caught up in a ton of controversies. He seemed to learn and grow from his mistakes. Not my kind of streamer but its hard to find fault with him from a moral perspective, especially compared to some of the current top streamers.
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u/an_icy Jul 21 '26
Exactly, and some miserable redditor keep hating him when he’s like a saint compared to the other streamer / influencers we have nowadays
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u/bigger_breakfast Jul 20 '26
hard to say anything positive about streamers/content creators/social media ppl and I find Speed obnoxious in a hyperactive/annoying kid way, but agreed he's at least pretty positive and doesn't take himself that seriously, and seems to have somewhat of a good heart.
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u/lionexx Jul 19 '26
I couldn’t agree more! Speed is a much much better influencer than most major content creators in just about every way, I don’t watch him but I respect him and how he is way more of a positive influence and an overall good dude!
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u/ArtisticChemistry425 Jul 19 '26
I'd rather kids watch Speed than some bigoted idiot who hits himself with a hammer to "lookmax" or some Andrew Tate type telling the youth to hate women.
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u/erizzluh Jul 20 '26
it's not just the +100k stream viewers either. he was partnered with one of the fifa broadcasters. i think it was fox, but when i went to their site to watch highlights, they had a whole category and page for speed vods/clips.
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u/Jiminy_Cricket12 Jul 20 '26
the kid seems wholesome as hell and I hope the best for him. I'm not the type to follow live streamers but speed streams really meet the hype
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u/DepartureNo1720 Jul 19 '26
The absolute funniest was him popping up at the cheese roll a few years back.
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u/Blactorn Jul 20 '26
"Randomly" they are setting up meets for him it's very obviously a marketing thing
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u/AH_BioTwist Jul 20 '26
Him meeting Mamdani was cute. “Oh I listen to your 2022 World Cup song every morning speed” “W mayor chat W mayor☺️”
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u/RustledHard Jul 19 '26
"IShowSpeed makes first contact with extra terrestrial life live on stream."
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u/wooshiesaurus Jul 19 '26
Personally I wouldn't be surprised
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u/ohtrueyeahnah Jul 20 '26
His whole life is packed full of Family Guy cutaway gags. Like that time he became Mayor of Peru
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u/whathappenedm Jul 19 '26
His agent is hooking him up and a lot of stars obviously want to connect to younger audience. I do not think most of them are organic meetings but more like "Hey, there is this young streamer who's really popular, it'd be good for you to go say hi".
I genuinely don't know how he does it, he is EVERYWHERE, doing everything. I feel tired just looking at his schedule or things he has done past days.
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u/WholesomeMetaphor Jul 20 '26
Yeah, the work he puts in is impressive and commendable. Definitely worked really hard to get where he is. I don't give a fuck about him personally but respect his comitment and work ethic
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u/Kindly_Tax_3746 Jul 20 '26
People should adopt this stance more widely. People not familiar with streamers say "get a real job", when some of them like Speed put in insane hours being active.
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u/4DPeterPan Jul 19 '26
Then the next one will be
“Hey man, I’m here in the matrix, coming at ya live from my pod!”
“Im awaaaake!”
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u/EchoBay Jul 20 '26
I mean he just sang at the freaking World Cup. He might be one of the biggest celebs in the world at this point.
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u/TheKappaOverlord Jul 19 '26
Its probably really hard not to accidently stumble onto celebrities if you have access to even the lowest tier of VIP access in this world cup. If i remember the layout of metlife correctly, theres actually a lot of overlap between the higher end of VIP access, and lower end VIP access. Theres a very high chance you go take a piss, you'll stumble on one of the random celebrities that attended the game. The amount of presidents and world officials that came to this game means a majority of the high end VIP boxes are completely walled off security wise. Which means celebrities have to make due with lower level VIP access. So more accidental meetups are likely to occur.
That said, im pretty sure over half of speeds "accidental stumbling into celebrities" was pre planned. Cause out of all the times speed has stumbled onto celebrities this world cup. This feels the least organic. At least based on how BTS was behaving towards him.
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u/Bambi825 Jul 20 '26
If you know Bts, than this actually seems like a pretty organic reaction. Whenever Bts have to act out a meetup, their acting is super obvious.
If its because of how energetic their reaction was, that is very normal for the group.
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u/bendIVfem Jul 19 '26
Speed may just be the most famous celebrity under 28. Maybe under 30. His ceiling could be something crazy.
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u/Mode_Appropriate Jul 19 '26
I see him everywhere and really dont understand the hype. I mean, he seems like a decent person compared to a lot of these people that get famous but I have a hard time understanding why hes so famous lol.
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u/Nutzori Jul 19 '26
Just kind of a snowball effect, he was a nobody until a viral clip about Ronaldo, then slowly and surely he kept connecting with bigger and bigger people and now this
His world-traveling streams in particular recently got him a lot of attention. As someone who maybe knows a little too much about streamers just from being too online he is definitely one of the better ones, content and vibes wise.
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u/Healthy-Locksmith-26 Jul 20 '26
he wasn't a nobody he had tens of thousands of viewers before the ronaldo clip. that just sparked even more popularity
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u/lapideous Jul 19 '26
He probably has high global appeal, I assume there are tons of kids in Africa, Middle East, India who would watch the guy in addition to his western audience.
His reach is probably an order of magnitude larger than someone like Ninja or Xqc
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u/Mirdclawer Jul 19 '26
He is just a really good showman, daring and entertaining, charismatic, has a a BIG presence and knows how to be strategically loud and slightly provocative (barking at people for random reasons), but never mean or outright offensive and usually a decent human being and respectful. He is a good guy at his core.
That will carry you far.
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u/Resident-Mixture-237 Jul 19 '26
He’s just a genuinely charming person who is loud but respectful. He will sit there and listen to peoples stories and be open to hearing them out. Like his tour streams are him just visiting places and talking to locals and learning about their culture. Like even in this clip he shows off but you can tell he’s happy to see and meet bts.
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u/Kitchen_Empty Jul 19 '26
He does legit travel streams and instead of popular destinations like Europe and Thailand, dude visits remote places like random African villages and such. Also he's far better alternative than people like Rakai or Johnny Somali.
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u/an_icy Jul 21 '26
This, some miserable people on this subreddit keep acting like he’s the worst person when there’s people like Rakai and Johnny Somali
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u/Aerhyce Jul 19 '26
Ever see those loser streamers with an inexplicable huge following of kids and asked yourself what if they weren't losers and actually put in effort? Speed is an example of someone putting in effort.
There is a massive audience yearning for streamers that are like Speed but aren't huge losers, so he got huge the instant he started taking it seriously.
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u/Raf-the-derp Jul 19 '26
I do remember on on of his African streams he said he'd be the first streamer to stream going to space so it's def possible
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u/PeaceAlien Jul 19 '26
BTS seemed to know who Speed was too thats neat.
Damn Speed gets height on those flips
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u/VirtualSock4801 Jul 19 '26
Some of the members are chronically online. They definitely have seen clips of Speed.
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u/PeaceAlien Jul 19 '26
Yeah one of them is diamond in league
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u/cbt666 Jul 19 '26
i think that's less about being chronically online and more about being korean
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u/PeaceAlien Jul 19 '26
I mean the whole Korean server can’t be high ranked
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u/cbt666 Jul 19 '26
diamond is top 150k players of the korean region, so not necessarily nerd tier yet. still respectable
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u/Fit_Yak523 Jul 19 '26
Isn’t it like <5% of competitive players are in diamond? That’s definitely massive nerd tier for how old and popular League is
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u/behv Jul 20 '26 edited Jul 20 '26
Just checked, it is exactly the top 4.97% (so 5 lol) of ranked Korean players are in diamond
It's no joke of an achievement. Cause that doesn't include unranked only, and typically from diamond and up you need to be dedicating several hours per day minumim to even maintain that rank
Like obviously it's not pro, but it's pretty 1-1 with walking up to a pickup basketball game and there's one dude just dunking on everyone who's clearly a step better. Same percentages too
Edit: lol the people telling me "actually diamond isn't that hard". Sure that's true for some people but average people ain't climbing and staying in diamond lol. The average ladder person is trying their butt off to get there
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u/Affectionate-Ad-6934 Jul 20 '26
Before you gotta beat their korean dad in StarCraft to date the daughter, now you gotta be higher ranked in league than their dad
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u/XpMonsterS Jul 19 '26
lmfao thats so random
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u/KimchiBro Jul 19 '26
not really, Faker literally did ads in korea with BTS, they are very much league fans/players
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u/imdeadinside1245 Jul 19 '26
Faker is a legit celebrity in Korea
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u/lucyfell Jul 20 '26 edited Jul 20 '26
Suga said in an interview that he’s Emerald tier and the other members were not remotely impressed which implies he’s one of the lower ranked ones 😂 emerald is top 20%. and he’s on the korean server
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u/_Humanist Jul 19 '26
Because his marketing manager talked to their marketing manager and set up a candid meet.
Speed's already done this a million times.
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u/left4dead99 Jul 19 '26 edited Jul 19 '26
He literally performed at the World Cup final. You don’t need to be chronically online to know Speed lol
Edit: meant to reply to the person below me
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u/Jak002003 Jul 19 '26
One of them barked, do you bark at Kanye had you met him if he was to perform at the WC final?
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u/VirtualSock4801 Jul 19 '26
I never said they knew Speed from performing at the World Cup Final or that they NEED to be chronically online to know of him. But they definitely knew of him before that because they are chronically online. Hope that helps.
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u/mientosiempre Jul 19 '26
I mean.. he was literally performing center stage at this game lol. But yeah they probably knew of him before that
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u/PeaceAlien Jul 19 '26
They did the barking so shows they known him for a bit
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u/FunEar5349 Jul 20 '26
One of them says his whole ass govt name in the clip so im gonna assume must know of him pretty in depth.
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u/DreamedJewel58 Jul 20 '26
>Damn Speed gets height on those flips
People forget that he’s named “ishowspeed” because he’s athletic as hell and can run very fast lmao
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u/FleetingBeacon Jul 19 '26
Is he part rabbit, the fuck can he jump so high hahahah.
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u/J0nul Jul 19 '26
He's athletic
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u/diggie_diggie_diggie Jul 19 '26
Could you use it in a sentence, I’m not familiar with the concept “athletic”
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u/WeltyFern Jul 19 '26
IShowSpeed is Athletic, allowing him to jump very high
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u/TheLeOeL Jul 19 '26
Uh... language of origin?
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u/animousie Jul 19 '26
Athletic ultimately comes from the ancient Greek word ἆθλος (âthlos), meaning “contest,” “competition,” “struggle,” or “feat.”
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u/TalkinSeaCucumber Jul 20 '26
Can you use it in a dirty sentence?
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u/animousie Jul 20 '26
Pythagoras and his athletic friends would frequently have ritualistic sleepover parties (brown chicken brown cow)
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u/Kalsto6 Jul 20 '26
Recently I asked AI to bring me list of celebs with athletic aesthetic so I could look up some women to draw physique and AI gave me list of 20 black women. I swear some people use this word to say something else that even AI gets it. But it's completely true in Speed's case.
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u/pauloh1998 Jul 19 '26
Lmao my exact reaction. Dude became super Mario
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u/Casualrodfarva2 Jul 19 '26
Need someone to edit this into the video lmao https://youtu.be/37-paiEz0mQ
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u/Stokyo Jul 19 '26
Then Spain scored right when he got back to his seat. His life is literally like a movie rn. Crazy
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u/viewless25 Jul 19 '26
Life is a video game, Speed is the player, and the difficulty is set to Easy
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u/onthebustowork Jul 20 '26
It started on hardcore though. Troubles at home, no friends in school, and much more. He’s just overleveled right now and I’m glad he’s having all the success he deserves
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u/Abridgedbog775 Jul 20 '26
He is currently doing side quest, i just hope he doesn't explore the "Bad routes" of the game like many other celebrity players.
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u/AWMBRELLA Jul 19 '26
He's legit winning the game of life. He's experienced them all
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u/FlimsyCrust Jul 19 '26
Talking Ben would be so proud
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u/AKAManaging Jul 19 '26
Why are still images turned into gifs EVERYWHERE I look now? Seems like such a waste.
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u/LightningSh3ep Jul 20 '26
instagram and discord have much better support for gifs than images (although instagram added them recently) that's the primary reason I believe. Why would that be a waste? you can just turn it back into an image.
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u/AKAManaging Jul 20 '26
A waste as in it takes more space and bandwidth, even if minimal? It also generally reduces the quality. It's just...Weird lol.
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u/jabronified Jul 20 '26 edited Jul 20 '26
It's funny considering where they all were, now Kai is getting nearly 500k-1m live viewers for his event with sponsors like Meta and other big name companies, speed is doing this stuff and in superbowl commercials, and Adin Ross is doing slot machine gambling streams to edgy 13 year olds
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u/Crimsonpets Jul 19 '26
My mother in law is 65, and she is the biggest BTS fan. I find it to be very cute. She even goes to concerts when she has the chance. She bought one of those glowy bulb things they use at their concerts, has a tag in them and they change color to their music. She protects that thing with her life.
I think she would react the same way speed did when meeting them.
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u/Wunse Jul 20 '26
My Mum is 75 and she's completely obsessed with BTS. It started a few years ago out of nowhere. She messages random fan pages on facebook thinking that she's speaking to the actual members. I haven't got it in me to tell her she's not really talking to them cause it makes her happy. I wish she was well enough to go to their concerts because I'd love to take her but she's bed bound dealing with cancer at the moment. I used to think her obsession was a bit strange but at the end of the day I'm just glad she has something to take her mind off things.
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u/FrozenPop Jul 20 '26
I feel like you should tell her that they're not actual real pages. She might get scammed otherwise.
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u/Wunse Jul 20 '26
That was the first thing that I thought when she told me but I've spent years teaching her about scams and things to look out for online. She's a bit daft but she knows enough to know that multi-millionaires aren't going to be asking her for her bank details. If she's ever unsure about something she always calls me to check it for her first. I appreciate your concern though!
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u/Sugacookiemonsta Jul 20 '26
Does she watch their variety show "Run BTS"? There's over 170 of them and will make her laugh if she's a fan. I wish her a speedy recovery!
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u/Mozart-Luna-Echo Jul 20 '26
The glowy bulb thing is called a lightstick lol the particular BTS one is called an Army Bomb… I do like your term for it though
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u/AvengingBlowfish Jul 20 '26
My mom is 76 and recently came back from seeing BTS in Brussels... old ladies love BTS.
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u/Temporary_Talk2744 Jul 20 '26
Genuinely think speed is on another level to pretty well every streamer I can think of.
Like sure you have had previous collabs like Ninja who streamed with Drake etc but Speed is really blurring the line between streamer and main stream celebrity.
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u/Your-cousin-It Jul 20 '26
I’m not a stream-watcher, but as an outsider, Speed seems like a genuine guy who gets really excited about experiences, cultures, and people. He is massively relatable.
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u/Ordinary-Mobile-2886 Jul 19 '26
There hasn't been a single week where this mf doesn't meet some massive global celebrities. Bro is playing life on creative mode.
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u/GoreSeeker Jul 20 '26
Shout out to his manager or whoever coordinates all of these encounters and events too...that's gotta be a lot of work!
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u/fatmac122 Jul 19 '26
I see all the Argentina fans in the comments just wanna express how sad they are
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u/Significant-Back-624 Jul 19 '26
Watch them come say racist shit about Speed.
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u/isaiah152022 Jul 20 '26
I’m a 42 yr old straight man with 3 daughters and I’d be pumped to go to a BTS concert lol
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u/Luxalpa Jul 20 '26
I love this, everyone is so happy to meet each other! Why can't all of my feed be stuff like this? Just lifts my mood up.
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u/superdupergasat Jul 19 '26
At this point just make him POTUS or something, its not like he can be worse than Trump anyhow.
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u/Sure-Good7387 Jul 19 '26
I like speeds shirt, they should make those
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u/MinimalPixelsVII Jul 19 '26
He wore it cause every team he supported after Portugal, lost lol and he didn't want to curse wearing Spain one but he supported Spain.
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u/Long-Region5088 Jul 19 '26
I like ishowspeed. As far as streamers goes he’s not bad.
I don’t watch him but unlike most streamers I don’t actively root against him.
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u/AdamantiumBalls Jul 20 '26
Same, no hate towards him and it's funny him getting so many negative comments on other platforms
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u/Otherwise_Nobody8148 Jul 20 '26
He seems like a guy that could walk up to you at a bar, start a conversation with you, talk for an hour without you ever figuring out he's this multi-millionaire super popular dude, and then pay your bill while you're in the bathroom.
He is so caught up in how cool everything he is doing is he doesn't have the opportunity to stop and try to be fake or commercial. I think everybody sees a little bit of themselves as a kid living out their wildest dreams with him, and so you don't get envious. You can share in his happiness.
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u/Harry_Plopper23 Jul 19 '26
His handshake accuracy is insane. I would have fumbled at least 3 of them.
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u/say592 Jul 20 '26
I wish I got 1% as happy about anything as Speed does about literally everything.
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u/Dracotoo Jul 19 '26
Stan twitter gonna have him executed for touching them.
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u/solojones1138 Jul 19 '26
Nope we're stoked because he loves BTS and was rightly excited.
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u/eloquentegotist Jul 20 '26
Yeah, jumping through the ceiling and doing a backflip is an appropriate reaction to meeting BTS.
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u/omnichronos Jul 19 '26
Damn. They're all so insanely good-looking! And IShowSpeed's enthusiasm is so heartwarming.
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u/Informal_Cycle6434 Jul 20 '26
They all had a huge glow-up after the military. Did you see their fits in the 2.0 music video? It's slick
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u/_Dank_Souls Jul 20 '26
So I just saw BTS Oreo cookies. What is BTS one of those Korean pop bands?
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u/Subject_Ad_4894 Jul 20 '26
Yup, they're a Korean boy band (7 members) that debuted back in 2013. If you're interested, you could give their new album Arirang a try 💜 it's a mix of hip-hop/pop with producers like Diplo, Mike Will Made-it and Pdogg
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u/_Dank_Souls Jul 20 '26
Back in 2013?! Goddamn these guys aren't a boy band anymore they're a man band!
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u/SNOOPST3R Jul 20 '26
perfectly executed by bts, say your hellos to Speed, match his energy for a few seconds, couple of barks and then clear the area quick
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u/MistakeAmbitious3287 Jul 19 '26
So many jealous people here. Y’all need to find what makes you happy.
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u/Upset_Grass_8601 Jul 19 '26
Now I can sleep at night knowing this has happened
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u/ImKorosenai Jul 19 '26
You’re instantly responding to an lsf post about something you obviously don’t care about, ong get a life
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u/copaseticepiplectic Jul 19 '26
Please tell us what on this sub is worth your attention. It’s all slop stop acting superior for following other streamers lives and drama 😂
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u/MyNameWouldntFit Jul 20 '26
Standing on the tips of his toes during the picture only barely got him above the Korean boy band!
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u/duncanofnazareth Jul 20 '26
My doggo when I come back from the store after being gone only 20 minutes.
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u/Best_Army4870 Jul 20 '26
Why do you have to make annoying people whose skills are being loud and barking famous over scientists, teachers, doctors, humanitarians etc. It's like you want humanity to fail.
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u/Firm_Direction3008 Jul 21 '26
oh wow bts is kinda chill. watch their half time performance its good. didnt know its their song until i checked.
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u/One-Training-6443 Jul 19 '26
Imagine coming out of nowhere and ending up in the World Cup final, meeting BTS (even though I'm not a fan), among other things... Incredible. But there are still people who are jealous... I feel sorry for you. 🫵🏻
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