THE ISHOWSPEED CURSE JUST TOOK ENGLAND TOO

The IShowSpeed curse got England.

For a month, the running joke of this World Cup has been simple. Whichever team the streamer decides to back, that team goes home. He cheered for the United States. Gone. Austria, Brazil, Ivory Coast, Cape Verde, Senegal, Portugal, Egypt. All of them, out. Finally Offline already tracked the body count once, and it only got longer.

By the semifinals it was serious enough that other people were begging him to stop. KSI publicly told Speed not to touch England, and content creators drew up strict instructions to keep him out of an England shirt, because at this point the pattern is undefeated.

Speed backed England anyway. He put on the shirt.

England lost. Argentina came from behind to beat them 2-1 tonight, Messi setting up two goals in the final minutes, and a country chasing its first final since 1966 went home instead. Add it to the list.

The Two Teams Left Are the Two He Never Touched

Here is the part that makes the joke almost too clean. The final is Argentina against Spain, and those are two of the only major sides Speed never publicly adopted. Everyone he picked is eliminated. The two he left alone are playing for the trophy.

And he will be there to watch it in person. FIFA confirmed IShowSpeed as one of the performers at the World Cup closing ceremony on Sunday, alongside Tom Cruise and Nicole Scherzinger. So the most cursed fan in football gets a front row seat to the final between the only two teams safe from him, as long as he does not pick a side before kickoff.

The Read

There is no curse. Every team he backed was beatable, the draws broke a certain way, and the internet did the rest, turning coincidence into folklore because that is what the internet does best. But eight teams became nine, and the one he was warned about most is the one that just went out. At some point the funniest explanation starts to feel like the real one.

Speed built a following on being the loudest fan in any room. This World Cup turned that into a liability nobody saw coming. The safest thing left for anyone still in it is simple. Do not let him wear your shirt.