YouTuber IShowSpeed ​​reaches nearly 30 million views after 4 days in Southeast Asia

Following the shocking "price gouging" incident in Ho Chi Minh City, the famous American YouTuber continued his journey to Thailand to experience new challenges.

IShowSpeed ​​suffered an elephant crash in Thailand. Photo: BK

In Thailand, IShowSpeed ​​experienced a number of services and created challenges for themselves, including driving a Tuk Tuk (a type of covered three-wheeled vehicle used for tourism ), riding elephants, and watching fire shows.

This streamer even "almost died" while trying to ride an elephant. He apparently visited an elephant training farm. The YouTuber spent a few minutes interacting with the animal before deciding to ride on its back.

But when the elephant raised its two front legs, dragging the ribbon with it, IShowSpeed ​​struggled to maintain his balance and eventually fell. Luckily, the bodyguards quickly rushed out to catch him, preventing a dangerous accident.

While some found the guy's humor and boisterous jokes amusing, others expressed concern. "These jokes aren't worth spreading," "Doesn't this guy fear death?"... were some of the online comments.

Despite audience controversy, IShowSpeed's broadcast in Southeast Asia is proving quite successful. It has gained approximately one million new subscribers, nearly reaching 30 million subscribers on YouTube and setting new records for live viewership.

This streamer is known for his passionate personality and his IRL streams – where he often walks around exploring the cultures of different countries such as India, South Korea, Japan, and Portugal. Recently, IShowSpeed ​​visited Southeast Asia to participate in a series of events related to supercars.

The live streams and clips on his personal channel documenting his travels in Thailand, the Philippines, and Vietnam have all attracted a lot of attention.

Even Speed ​​itself was surprised by the amount of attention its Southeast Asian operations received.

IShowSpeed ​​was surrounded by a crowd upon arriving at Ben Thanh Market. (Image cropped from video)

Earlier, on the evening of September 14th, IShowSpeed, a famous American streamer, visited and explored Ho Chi Minh City and livestreamed his entire three-hour trip on his personal YouTube channel.

Interestingly, an electric scooter rental service on Nguyen Hue Walking Street quoted IShowSpeed ​​a price of 100 USD (approximately 2.5 million VND) for a single ride.

After hearing the price, many of the people present also shouted and protested against the car owner's exorbitant price. IShowSpeed ​​was also somewhat surprised and tried to bargain down to 500,000 VND for the ride, but the owner still charged him 1 million VND.

The American streamer then spent only 5 minutes trying out the experience.

Immediately after the incident went viral, the Ben Nghe Ward Police (District 1, Ho Chi Minh City) intervened and promptly issued administrative penalties to VPQM (23 years old, residing in District 4) - the person who rented out the electric scooter.

M. was fined 10 million VND for illegally using urban roads and sidewalks to operate an electric vehicle rental service and sell goods of unknown origin. Additionally, M.'s electric vehicle and other means of violation were confiscated.

According to the police, the other person appearing in the video is Mr. H. (M.'s friend), who was only acting as an interpreter for M. at the time of the incident and therefore was not prosecuted.

Following the incident, the two men went to the hotel where streamer IShowSpeed ​​was attending an event to apologize, and their apology was accepted by the streamer's representatives.

Source: https://www.congluan.vn/sau-4-ngay-dai-nao-o-dong-nam-a-youtuber-noi-tieng-nguoi-my-dat-gan-30-trieu-nguoi-theo-doi-post312711.html