YouTuber IShowSpeed does not shy away from controversy and has gone viral a second time this year. In the clip from a month ago, the streamer raged at a player in his team for "talking to him," and after a female member of the team spoke up, he raged at her, hurling sexist remarks.
It has since caught fire on social media, leading to IShowSpeed getting banned in Valorant for his actions.
The clip in question was called “Speed gets pressed by a Valorant E-girl” on his “Daily Dose of Speed” channel a month ago. In the clip, the YouTuber gets taken down after rounding a corner and starts to rage at the game.
When another teammate confronted him about landing his shots, the streamer began to rage, swear and yell at the other male player, saying he’s not a noob and knows how to play the game. Things took a decided turn for the worse when a female player on the team spoke up, saying it was clear he didn’t know how to play.
The clip has since gone viral, and according to Sara Dadafshar, Valorant producer, IShowSpeed has already been banned from Valorant and all other Riot Games as a result of his actions.
Social media has been abuzz talking about this particular clip, ranging from people saying IShowSpeed was just trash-talking, and others condemning his actions. In particular, xQc responded to Keemstar’s tweet about it.
Keemstar talked about another content creator trying to expose IShowSpeed for “trash talk” and then highlighted some of their previous tweets that encouraged trash talk. xQc shot back, saying that this sort of clip from the YouTuber is not “trash talk” at all.
Adin Ross watched the clip recently as well, and at first didn’t see what the big deal was until he started hearing the YouTuber rage at another player and then
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