W Speed Moments Explained

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The W Speed Moments meme, also known as Speed Respect Moments, began in mid-2025 with edits from YouTuber deagzzzshorts that added dramatic captions like Picks Up Water or Tastes the Food to clips of streamer iShowSpeed. Despite their simplicity, the edits paired with captions like “W Speed” or “Speed Respect” framed his actions as honorable wins. The trend gained traction during Speed’s “Does America” tour in August and September 2025, spreading as reaction images on TikTok, Instagram Reels, and Twitter. Popular examples include Picks Up Water, Takes a Sip, Tastes the Food / Enjoys It, Starts Moving, and Ohio Disabled. The meme’s format echoed the earlier Squid Game Edit Reaction trend, and Yung Kai’s song “Blue” was often used as background audio.  Check out our new MEME STORE: https://thememestore.com/  Subscribe to our channel to learn more about trending memes, hear interviews from meme personalities and more! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbrPqq29C9Q_TQP7OFFRzcw?sub_confirmation=1  #meme #memes #memesvideos

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00:00Are you happy now?

00:03Yes!

00:04Are you happy?

00:05A series of WSpeed moments are popping up online, and most of them are ironic.

00:10It's because of earnest edits that dramatize every move the streamer makes.

00:14Let's explain further.

00:15The trend started when internet users began screenshotting the iShowSpeed edits from one YouTube Shorts creator,

00:19notably after he made an edit in which Speed picks up water.

00:22The screenshot spread as a reaction image soon after, which has led to a slew of WSpeed images online.

00:27But where did the WSpeed meme come from?

00:29There's an editor on YouTube named DeegsShorts, who mostly clips iShowSpeed's streams.

00:34Whoever they are, their edits generally adhere to two modes.

00:36Either they make a based edit of Speed, using funk music and the skull emoji,

00:40showing the streamer breaking social norms like pranking his brother Jamal,

00:43or they go the wholesome route by highlighting moments when Speed shows respect,

00:46like giving a fan a picture or an autograph.

00:48The YouTuber ends many of the wholesome edits with WSpeed written in green text overlay.

00:52For instance, earlier this year, DeegsShorts posted a short about Speed,

00:55promising to take a picture with his Waffle House waiter only if he tastes the food

00:58and enjoys it.

00:59He ends up doing both of those things, as noted by the edit's captions.

01:02A few months later, ex-user at Gucci Thelion posted a screenshot from the edit,

01:05in which Speed tastes the food.

01:07The tweet only received 80 likes, but it's the first instance of a WSpeed meme that we could find.

01:12A few days later, at Ramona Balls shared a screenshot of the picks up water video.

01:15The tweet received a whopping 114,000 likes in a week.

01:19The moment occurred during Speed's currently ongoing America tour,

01:22which is about him traveling to every American state,

01:24similar to his international streams, like when he visited China earlier this year.

01:27The streamer's WSpeed moments are becoming more and more ironic.

01:30Many of the YouTuber's shorts receive multi-million view counts.

01:33The memes making fun of the editor's edits find it funny that each one of Speed's actions is romanticized,

01:37akin to the slang term glazing.

01:39When every little thing can be a WSpeed moment,

01:41the opportunities to subvert and satirize the distinction become endless.

01:44The success of the WSpeed meme can also be attributed to two precursor trends

01:48that have cemented edit screenshots as a new form of reaction images.

01:51There's one song that's being used in most of the ironic WSpeed edits on TikTok,

01:55and it's called Blue by Young Kai.

01:57The soft boy guitar ballad about falling in love and stargazing seems to perfectly capture the fake,

02:01wholesome energy of the WSpeed memes.

02:03On YouTube, the song's music video has over 184 million views.

02:08Young Kai even reacted to all of the memes.

02:10He posted a TikTok of himself lip-dubbing the track with WSpeed written in text overlay this week.

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