Internet personality and livestreamer iShowSpeed visited Portland Wednesday and drew thousands of onlookers as part of a cross-country tour that saw him jet skiing on the Willamette River and chatting it up with the Trail Blazers’ most in-demand player .

Speed, whose name is Darren Watkins Jr., is a popular livestreamer known for IRL (in real life) content in which he is very energetic and at times dramatic. The 20-year-old has around 44 million subscribers on YouTube, 41 million followers on Instagram and 2.3 million followers on the livestreaming platform Twitch.

Watkins has been livestreaming 24/7 around the United States since late August as part of a tour dubbed “Speed Does America.” Earlier this year, he completed world tours in China, Europe and South America.

His visit in

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