IShowSpeed’s younger half-brother says he’s taking a break from streaming.
In a clip from a recent stream making the rounds on social media, the YouTube star and Sneaker Shopping alum’s sibling, alternately referred to as Dian and Jamal, is seen discussing his plan to take some time away from his brother’s streaming spotlight.
“Let’s say, I wanna be like regular kids,” he said in the clip, as seen below. “I wanna be a regular kid. I wanna do stuff without a famous brother. Let’s say that. I wanna do my own stuff. I don’t wanna have my brother be the main center of attention. Like every time I go to school, they bring up Speed, you know, yada yada yada. It ticks me off.”
From there, he reiterated that he wants to be “a regular kid without a famous brother,” adding that he may take as much as three years off from appearing in his brother’s streams. The focus instead, he said, will be to “just be myself.”
Speed, alongside fellow streaming star Kai Cenat, is currently fresh off being made the subject of some decidedly complimentary remarks from filmmaker Harmony Korine. As the Gummo and Spring Breakers director said at a Venice press conference, per IndieWire, the film industry has failed to realize that “IShowSpeed is the new Tarkovsky.”