An April Fools video from IShowSpeed claiming he's done with YouTube went viral across social media. Speed posted a prank video where he appeared without a shirt on."I got bad news for everybody. I got to quit Youtube, I can't do this anymore," he said."I'm quitting, I'm stopping and guess what April Fool's Green Apples!" Speed continued.“Green apple” is a codeword he uses when he wants to end the stream. Social media accounts started sharing the news that the twenty-one-year-old was quitting. Fans reacted in different ways as some even took him seriously."He's definitely doing content. Nobody in their right senses will quit an $800,000 a month paying job for whatever reason," one user shared.Others saw right through it."Posted at 1AM on April 1st and people are actually believing this 😭 IShowSpeed is not quitting $800K a month. Go to sleep."People even tagged Grok to verify if the announcement was legitimate. Grok confirmed that Speed wasn't actually leaving YouTube.IShowSpeed's nonstop livestream tour drew comparisons to Beatlemania:IShowSpeed at the Fanatics Flag Football Classic - Source: GettyMichael D. Ratner runs OBB Media, the studio that put together Speed's show Speed Goes Pro. He talked about the streamer's impact and made a pretty bold comparison to The Beatles. IShowSpeed has over one hundred fifty million fans who follow everything he does."It's like nothing I've seen. It feels like you're watching one of The Beatles back in the day," Ratner said.As per a report shared by Forbes, the comparison has some weight to it when you dig into the details. The Beatles toured overseas first before they hit the United States, and fans went wild when they showed up. Los Angeles got to see them perform in 1964, right when Beatlemania was everywhere, and people couldn't wait for the next album.Speed, whose real name is Darren Watkins Jr., followed a similar path decades later. He went overseas on tour and drew huge crowds, then came back to the States for a thirty-five-day livestream that ended in Los Angeles. He wasn't launching an album, though. Speed was debuting an entire TV show.The tour took him through twenty-five states in a tour bus he had custom-built for three hundred thousand dollars. He kept the stream going nonstop for all thirty-five days and never logged off. The camera stayed on when he slept. Disneyland made the list of stops, along with YouTube Headquarters and MrBeast's studio."The best part of the tour is meeting the random locals at these cities and states, I learn about the culture, I learn about them…it feels like a whole movie," Speed shared.Speed Goes Pro started as a Dick's Sporting Goods commercial and grew into a full series:IShowSpeed at Monday Night RAW - Source: GettyThe whole show idea kicked off with a Dick's Sporting Goods campaign. The partnership between OBB and Mixed Management blew up into something way bigger pretty fast."We became super obsessed with Speed and just his connection to that community he's built, could we do something more premium that felt a little bit like TV, but for his audience, not take it off platform?" Michael D. Ratner said.Scott Ratner runs OBB as Co-Founder and COO, and he remembers how things started, too."We were kind of admiring what he was doing and what was going on. Then we got to know his manager, Mason Klein, very well and we started working together on the original Dick's commercial campaign. One thing led to another, and it kind of grew into Speed Goes Pro and a bigger relationship," Scott Ratner shared.Dick's Sporting Goods sponsored the show as the lead partner. While Speed's team included Mason Klein, who managed Speed, along with Rico Ripoly, who handled comms and founded The Lemon House. Together, they made a full series designed for YouTube instead of regular broadcast TV.The team didn't try cramming IShowSpeed into a traditional show format. They built everything around the chaos that makes people watch him. Joey Chestnut, the competitive eating legend, shows up in one episode with Speed. Kevin Durant goes against him in another. Tom Brady's episode got labeled as a producer favorite.Randy Orton appears in the wrestling episode and talks about working with IShowSpeed at WrestleMania for the first time."He was wearing a Prime bottle costume, so he was padded, and I kicked the sh*t out of him. Then I gave him an RKO on the announcer's table in front of 70,000 people on live TV. It was amazing," Orton said.Orton also talked about what stands out with IShowSpeed."Speed has got so much charisma and facial expressions — just the energy. People are drawn towards it, and that's why we're here today," he shared.That charisma and unpredictability drove Speed Goes Pro. The show leaned into what makes Speed compelling on stream instead of polishing him for traditional formats. As per the report shared by Forbes, Speed's chapter shows the line between streamer and superstar has basically disappeared.