IShowSpeed may not know all the comings and goings in Philly, but Philly — at least young Philadelphians — seems to know his travel schedule very well.

IShowSpeed is the brash online persona of Darren Watkins Jr., a hugely popular 20-year-old American livestreamer and YouTube creator. His largely Gen Alpha audience knows and loves him for his high-energy antics, dramatic IRL (in-real-life) videos and global travels. He has over 43 million subscribers to his YouTube channel and 1.7 million followers on Amazon’s live-streaming service Twitch.

If you were traveling around town Tuesday and saw an unexplained crowd, it might have been Speed checking all the boxes for a Philly visit — trying cheesesteaks , exploring the Italian Market, visiting the Liberty Bell, getting a haircut on the stre

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