About

Serial Killer IShowSpeed is an analog horror TikTok trend where people combine black and white clips of Twitch streamer IShowSpeed tweaking or crashing out while playing video games with text that alludes to him or the meme creator being a serial killer. The videos typically contain captions about the poster's various victims coming back to haunt them, often alluding to crimes like "skinned" people and "buried bodies." The meme is similar to other analog horror trends that grew viral in 2025, like the Mustard meme inspired by the Kendrick Lamar song Not Like Us.

Origin

On July 20th, 2025, TikToker^[1] @gblack132 posted a video featuring a black and white clip of Twitch streamer iShowSpeed taking off his headphones and laughing maniacally alongside a caption that read, "When you're up at 4 am and you start seeing shit that isn't even there so you just start tweakin." The post gathered over 1 million plays and 250,000 likes in ten days.

Spread

The trend began to gain traction in subsequent days, as seen in a July 21st, 2025, TikTok^[2] by @ybgshafian that read, "When I haven't slept for 7 days and it starts kicking in and im hallucinating about the 43 people that I skinned just standing there, staring at me so I lowkey start tweaking." The post gathered over 3 million plays and 600,000 likes in ten days.

On July 22nd, TikToker^[3] @.imgoinginsane67 posted a black and white IShowSpeed video with the caption,"When u haven't slept for 8 days, and u start seeing 5 skinned people that u killed 4 years ago in your room. but there's nol there so u genuinely start tweaking." The post gathered over 400,000 plays and 60,000 likes in a week.

On July 26th, TikToker^[4] @maelsteve posted an IShowSpeed video with the caption, "POV: You start getting flashbacks of all the innocent souls you inhumanly killed and lowkey regret it." The post gathered over 1 million views and 180,000 likes in five days.

On July 28th, TikToker^[5] @beamerlover04 posted a video of IShowSpeed hugging Kai Cenat and saying "Why would you do that," alongside a caption that read, "When your hb opened the closet you told him not to open and he finds the 3 bodies that you have been hiding and now you have to make it four but you lowk have a hard time letting bim go because he's your favorite bro so you genuinely start tweaking (the guilt will haunt me every might)." The post gathered over 2 million plays and 400,000 likes in two days.

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