Streaming star IShowSpeed was left baffled after a YouTube stream was deleted for violating the site’s “firearms policy.”
IShowSpeedhas quickly become one of the world’s most popular creators and is notoriously known for his wild antics on stream.
Fromsetting off fireworks in his homeon numerous occasions totrolling some of football’s biggest starssuch as Luis Suarez, Sergio Busquets, and Jordi Alba, there’s no telling what you may find tuning into his streams.
However, the 19-year-old’s actions have landed him in a bit of trouble with YouTube, with his recent live stream being deleted for violating the site’s firearms policy.
IShowSpeed violates YouTube’s firearms policy
On February 11, Speed shared on his alt Twitter/X account that he’d received an email from YouTube, notifying him that he broke the platform’s firearms policy in a recent live stream — during which he went to a shooting range.
“Hi IShowSpeed, we wanted to let you know our team reviewed your content, and we think it violates our firearms policy,” the email read. “We know you may not have realized this was a violation of our policies, so we’re not applying a strike to your channel.”
However, Speed was still unimpressed, and a bit baffled as to how he broke the policy, making note of the numerous firearms videos across the site. “There’s literally videos of people shooting on YouTube,” he said. “Contacting my rep real quick.”
there’s litterly vidões of people shooting on youtube contacting my rep real quickpic.twitter.com/uYmeLM8yKg
While Speed was fortunate enough not to receive a strike for the incident, with YouTube acknowledging that he may not have realized he violated their guidelines, the stream was still deleted nevertheless.
But, despite being in hot water with the platform for the situation, Speed has uploadeda full videoof him in the firing range to his YouTube channel.
Shay Robson was a Staff Writer on Dexerto’s UK team, specializing in shooter games like Valorant and Call of Duty, as well as sports games like EA SPORTS FC. He also covered Twitch and YouTube content. He also has bylines at Gamezo.
