"Backflips are way easier in space": Fans react hilariously to IShowSpeed desiring to team with Elon Musk to go to space

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Popular streamer IShowSpeed is known for his crazy energy and unpredictable ideas, but his latest dream with Elon Musk has fans in splits. He recently said that he wants to team up with Elon Musk and become the first streamer to broadcast live from space. Yes, you read that right—streaming from space!

He shared his dream in an interview with Jon Youshaei on December 13, 2024.

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Elon Musk: The Key to Space Streaming?

Fans reacted hilariously and took to social media platforms, sharing jokes about him doing zero-gravity backflips to memes about him screaming at a floating Wi-Fi router; the internet found comedy gold in that nutty concept.

As soon as IShowSpeed mentioned his space-streaming ambitions, fans jumped in with jokes. One comment summed up the excitement perfectly:

“Backflips are way easier in space!”

If you’ve ever watched Speed’s streams, you know how much he loves doing wild stunts. The thought of him flipping around weightlessly, yelling at the top of his lungs, had fans imagining the chaos.

Others joked about what could go wrong.

“Imagine Speed trying to rage at a satellite because his stream is buffering,” one fan tweeted.
Another said, "What if Speed's rocket runs out of fuel mid-stream? He'd definitely try to fix it himself."

The absurd scenarios made everyone laugh, and many pointed out how entertaining it would be to see Speed bringing his high-energy style to a space capsule.

IShowSpeed didn’t stop at dreaming; he mentioned teaming up with Elon Musk to make it happen. Fans, of course, ran with the idea. Many joked about how Musk, known for making the impossible seem possible, might go along with this.

“Elon building a rocket just for Speed? Sounds about right,” one tweet read.

Others speculated about what the collaboration might look like.

“Speed trying to livestream during a SpaceX launch is exactly the kind of chaos we need,” a fan joked.

From Musk trying to explain rocket science to Speed screaming about getting Wi-Fi on the moon, the possibilities seemed endless.

The idea of Speed streaming from space didn’t just make people laugh—it also got them talking about how cool it would actually be. Some fans opined that this was a moment in history for content creation.

"If Speed becomes the first person to livestream from space, he will go down in history," one of the comments went.

Mostly, however, fans were playful, creating memes and fictional scenarios. One popular meme showed Speed floating in a spacesuit with the caption: “When you forget you’re live and the spaceship starts spinning.”

IShowSpeed wanting to stream from space is the kind of over-the-top idea that only he could come up with. While it sounds ridiculous, it’s also why so many people love him—he’s always thinking big and doing the unexpected.

Whether Elon Musk ever agrees to this or not, the idea has already brought plenty of laughs. Fans may not see Speed streaming from orbit anytime soon, but imagining it has been just as fun. Who knows? Maybe one day we’ll actually hear him shout, “We live, baby!” from the edge of space. Until then, we’ll keep laughing at the memes.

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Edited by Sarah Nazamuddin Harniswala