IShowSpeed Wins Streamer of the Year for a Third Straight Time, Delivers His Speech in Indonesian

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A Third Straight Streamer of the Year

The ceremony was Thursday, Nov. 12, in Los Angeles, the sixth edition of the show QTCinderella organizes. Dexerto reported that she co-hosted with Caroline Kwan, with the red carpet at 2:30 p.m. PT and the main show at 5:30 p.m. PT, streamed on her Twitch and YouTube channels. There were 37 voted categories. Public votes counted for 70 percent of the result, and an industry panel made up the other 30 percent, Dexerto and NDTV reported. Fan voting had closed Oct. 31.

In Streamer of the Year, Speed beat Jynxzi, Stable Ronaldo, Joe Bartolozzi and CaseOh. The Economic Times and NDTV both reported that Quackity announced the winner. That makes three straight: he first won at the 2024 show, kept the title in 2025, and now he is the first creator to three-peat the top award, those outlets and the official list agree.

It was a bigger night than the headline trophy. The official winners page also lists him as Best IRL Streamer, and as the winner of Best Streamed Series for World Cup Tour. NDTV’s complete winners report matches that tally. (An earlier NDTV write-up of the Streamer of the Year race mentioned only the first two awards; the official list is the record.)

The Indonesian Speech, Then the Backflip

After Quackity called his name, Speed did not give the usual English awards monologue. NDTV, The Economic Times, Kosmo and Medcom all report that he delivered the Streamer of the Year speech in Indonesian, drawing on the official Streamer Awards broadcast. He opened with “Terima kasih banyak semuanya” — “Thank you so much, everyone.”

Coverage of that broadcast, including Kosmo and Medcom, quotes him going on to say he started from zero, just a kid with a big dream; that the people watching had been with him from the beginning and were not just fans, they were family; and that he would not stop, would keep fighting for them, and loved them all. Then, NDTV reported, he did the backflip that has become a signature and left the stage.

Kosmo noted that a short clip of the speech spread quickly, and that some viewers argued the audio looked like it had been run through AI. The paper said the live recording of the ceremony shows he actually spoke the language, a nod to the Southeast Asian audience that has followed his IRL tours since he went through Jakarta, Bali and Yogyakarta in September 2024.

The IRL Trophy Went to the Crew

Best IRL Streamer was the second individual award of the night, and the speech for that one was in English. NDTV quoted him looking back to the start of those outdoor broadcasts: “Well, thank you all for IRL streamer. It just started with me and Slipz. You know? Just me and the camera.” Slipz is his longtime cameraman.

He then pointed the thanks at the people who now help plan and shoot the trips. “I want to thank my team because these IRL streams would not have happened because of my team. It requires a lot of people,” NDTV quoted him saying. Viewers got a thank-you too for riding along while he travels.

The ‘Three-Peat’ Reel

Early Friday morning, Speed posted the Instagram reel above from his verified @ishowspeed account. Instagram’s page for the post lists the caption as “three-peat 🏆🏆🏆” and a publish time of 3:30 a.m. Eastern on Nov. 13. The comments filled in immediately, a lot of them in Indonesian, which is exactly the audience the speech was aimed at.

This was not a quiet year for him heading into the show. Dexerto noted that he, Jynxzi and Kai Cenat led the nominations with four each, and that Speed was defending the top title. PCP has been following the other side of his year too, including Season 2 of Speed Goes Pro.

PCP Take

A three-peat in this category is a statement about reach. Speed did not win because the awards suddenly discovered IRL streaming; he won because he turned traveling with a camera into a global sport, and the voting (mostly public, remember) followed him there. Giving the big speech in Indonesian is the same move in miniature: he knows where the chat is loudest, and he is not too proud, or too American-awards-show, to speak to that room first.

The AI-skepticism around the clip is its own tell. When a streamer’s voice doing a second language sounds “too smooth” for the internet to trust, we are in a moment where people assume a filter before they assume a compliment. The live show is the receipt. Where do you land? Tell us on our socials, and catch more internet-culture stories on our Internet & Viral Culture page.