In Another Case Of Streamers Being Some Of The Biggest Celebrities On Earth, IShowSpeed Went To Peru And Had 20,000 People Chasing Him Around And Was Crowned Mayor Of The City
Listen, streaming culture makes no sense to a large percentage of people above the age of 35 who were rolling around with Blackberries and those Motorola flip phones before the age of social media. And to those who do understand it, stuff like what happened to the biggest streamer on the planet yesterday in Peru also doesn't really make much sense. For some context, the biggest streamer on the planet is doing a tour around South America, where he just goes around with 50 bodyguards and gets chased by thousands of people in what can only be described as pure chaos:
So what did the local government of the second biggest city in South America that has a population 3 times the size of NYC do? Made a 20 year old kid the mayor for an hour:
This older fella is looking at Speed wondering how society got to this situation in the first place but seems happy considering the massive press that has covered the story since. It's the best type of marketing for Peru and all it cost them was having a kid who can't even legally drink alcohol stateside sign a piece of paper. He's now been the mayor of two cities in the span of a week, career politicians be damned:
Rolling around with a police brigade of 40 following your every move like you're the President after you got big streaming Fortnite must feel like a complete fever dream. And I'd be remiss to mention that before IShowSpeed, we had Smitty in the reigns:
Imagine the General roaming around South America spreading the good word of Philly sports and Barstool to a bunch of kids who shower him with Ronaldo jerseys and have him try the local food of salchipapas? What a timeline that would have been.
P.S. Somehow no one got hurt in the midst of this chaos but when a big streamer shows up to NYC to give away PlayStation 5's it shuts down the entirety of downtown Manhattan and he gets charged with inciting a riot: