"I'm not a scammer": IShowSpeed admits he made a mistake by associating with controversial Crypto project

sportskeeda.com:

In his latest IRL football broadcast, Darren "IShowSpeed" apologized to his audience for promoting a controversial cryptocurrency project on his stream yesterday. With popular YouTubers such as Coffeezilla publicly calling the project a scam, Darren has been criticized by many for associating with what many have described as questionable business tactics.

Darren is currently in England and seems affected by numerous people calling out his sponsors for being "scammers". The streamer was preparing for an IRL footballing stream when he addressed the controversial video from yesterday and claimed to not have any ill intentions regarding his fans:

The 17-year-old streamer from Ohio has been rocking the YouTube game with his consistent streams that attract tens of thousands of watchers. Recently crossing the 13-million subscriber mark on the red platform, Speed has become one of the most-watched streamers across platforms.

He flew into the UK last week to watch his idol Cristiano Ronaldo play but was disappointed when the latter didn't show up for the two matches he attended. Making a few headlines for attending the Manchester United games, IShowSpeed received some backlash for his stream dated November 16 where he was promoting a cryptocurrency project called Paradox Crypto.

Comments against the business started flowing during the stream, and the streamer apparently cut out certain parts of the VOD which allegedly had discussions about the so-called "scam". He also took to Twitter after the backlash and apologized for the same.

While wearing boots for today's IRL football stream, IShowSpeed reiterated his apology to his fans, saying:

Telling his audience that he was not a scammer, he further added that he deeply cared about his