Darren Watkins is a Youtube celebrity who plays games on his Youtube channel “IShowSpeed” and documents his personal life. His gaming and entertainment channel has amassed around 3.31 million subscribers. His live streams are particularly popular among his fans and have been known to increase his followers by 1 million overnight.
As of 2024, IShowSpeed's net worth is estimated to be $400,000.
Net Worth | $400,000 |
Given Name | Darren Watkins |
Famous Name | IShowSpeed |
Source(s) of Fame | Youtube |
Age | 19 |
Date of Birth | January 21, 2005 |
Place of Birth | Ohio, US |
Height | 5'10" |
Relationships | Single, , |
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Darren Watkins is a 16-year-old teenage boy born on January 21, 2005, in Ohio, USA. His parents are not very supportive of his passion for Youtube but his younger brother and sister frequently make an appearance in his live streams.
He is studying in his sophomore year of high school and has considered going to trade school or playing more sports. Ever since his Youtube channel took off, he has given up on his plan to pursue further studies and decided to focus on Youtube. He is even thinking of dropping out of school to advance his Youtube.
He has worked at a nursing home, delivering food to the elderly before working full time on his Youtube channel. Watkins was inspired to make a Youtube channel and to record videos by his friends. He uploaded his first video on December 21, 2017, and his first live stream on December 28, 2018.
His channel did not gain much popularity until 2020 when he found all this free time during the pandemic which prompted him to focus his energy on making videos. He has made some amazing streams regarding NBA 2K games and Fortnite which really put him on top of other Youtube creators.
He finally hit the 1 million subscribers milestone after his fans shared clips from his live streams on TikTok.
Like other grownups, Darren Watkins’s parents have a hard time trying to understand what he does and are not very supportive of him. He even made a video where he told his mother that he has reached 100k subscribers on YouTube but her reaction wasn’t anything special. This made Watkins very upset.
Watkins used to be in a relationship with a girl in Ohio who subsequently cheated on him. As always, he recorded a video sharing this information with his fans. He explained that he was particularly hurt because he had been nothing but supportive of his girlfriend.
He recently attracted much public backlash after passing sexist comments and making rape jokes on an E-dating Livestream that led him to be banned on Twitch.
Darren Watkins has a popular Youtube channel with 3.39 million subscribers. His Twitter account has 177.6k followers and his Instagram account has 1 million followers.
Darren Watkins aka IShowSpeed is an American teenager who got his popularity by making videos over Youtube. He is one of the few content creators who got 1 million followers in the shortest possible time thanks to his hilarious lifestreams. His net worth is estimated to be around $400k.
IShowSpeed has sometimes been associated with other Personalities such as Juana Ahumada, FunnyMike, Kendra Karter, Laura Beverlin, Mallory Gulley, Amouranth, Carli Bybel, Pierson Wodzynski, and Island Boys.