U.S. livestreamer Darren “IShowSpeed” Watkins kicked off his second European tour on 7 July in Croatia, drawing large outdoor crowds within minutes of going live. Footage from the event shows fans clustering around the 19-year-old, who at one point donned medieval-style armour while walking through the streets. The launch was marred by reports that some spectators directed a racial slur at Watkins and handed him a pair of socks depicting a monkey, prompting an angry on-stream response. The incident quickly circulated on social media, underscoring the persistent risk of harassment faced by high-profile online personalities when broadcasting in public. The Croatia stream also marked Watkins’s first appearance on Twitch in roughly three years. While simultaneously broadcasting on YouTube, he averaged more than 11,000 viewers on the Amazon-owned platform, testing its recently eased multi-streaming rules. Watkins plans further stops across Europe in the coming weeks, continuing a tour format that last summer attracted hundreds of thousands of concurrent viewers online.
IShowSpeed went live on Twitch for the first time in 3 years & averaged 11k+ viewers while multi-streaming on YouTube 👀https://t.co/EwiQCE99Om
IShowSpeed reveals how he views his YouTube and Twitch chat using a dual-screen phone 🔥 https://t.co/MKqAxK2t5e
IShowSpeed shows how he sees Twitch and YouTube chat at the same time https://t.co/mgvcPaiifv