Follow the footsteps of iShowSpeed's China Tour

Starting from March 2025, the top American influencer IshowSpeed, who has 37 million followers, embarked on a China tour. Through several weeks of live streaming, he presented a real China where technology and culture interweave and tradition and modernity coexist to global audiences. This journey across more than ten cities not only set a record of nearly ten million views in a single day but also became a milestone event in the cultural exchange between the Chinese and Western people, being hailed by a Foreign Ministry spokesperson as "cutting the sword of prejudice".

iSpeedShow is renowned for its live-streaming style of "no script and one continuous shot". During his China trip, he roamed through the neon-lit night scenes of Shanghai's Bund, the red walls and yellow tiles of the Forbidden City in Beijing, the 8D magical traffic of Chongqing's mountain city, and the kung fu experience at the Shaolin Temple in Henan. He captured details with his camera: drone food delivery, seamless internet in the subway, acupuncture and massage, and other scenes that amazed overseas netizens, saying that "cyberpunk-like technology and the warmth of life coexist". Especially when he learned kung fu at the Shaolin Temple, he was hit by his master with a stick and wore a "mask of pain", but he persisted in completing the training. The video has been viewed over 1 billion times.

Unlike the stereotypical coverage of China by Western media, the live broadcast of iSpeedShow presents the truth in a "zero-filter" manner: Chengdu hot pot is so spicy that it makes people shed tears but still exclaiming great enjoyment; encountering a citizen resembling Cristiano Ronaldo on the streets of Xi'an has sparked widespread internet memes; the drone light show in Shenzhen was praised as "not inferior to Tokyo or New York". The overseas comment section has changed its previous doubts and has seen the emergence of voices such as "renewing our understanding of China" and "wanting to come and see for ourselves".

Compared with the experiences of iSpeedShow in other countries, the trip to China was particularly special. In Norway, he was forced to interrupt his live broadcast because fans pulled his hair; in Bolivia, he was robbed; in Vietnam, he was cheated by vendors. However, the enthusiasm and orderliness of Chinese fans made him feel "completely safe": The bodyguards were fully prepared on the first day, but relaxed to the point of taking selfies at scenic spots and posting them on Weibo the next day; netizens in Shenzhen called out from afar, "Come and experience the high-speed rail", and the people of Chongqing voluntarily planned a tour route for him. This "enthusiastic yet well-controlled" interaction became the highlight in the reports by worldwide media.

iSpeedShow choked up in his farewell video and said, "China has changed my life plan." Meanwhile, his global fans are now experiencing a new round of search frenzy using the keyword "China travel guide / China tour guide service".