Good morning. Popular streamer IShowSpeed has been traveling across Europe and streaming his adventures over the last several weeks to coincide with the Euro 2024 soccer tournament. In case you’re wondering how it’s going, Speed has rolled down Cooper's Hill in England for the annual cheese-rolling race and spent today sword fighting a viking in Norway.

— Hannah Doyle & Nate Graber-Lipperman

Spanish Streamer Ibai Breaks His Own Twitch Record

Spanish streamer Ibai Llanos Garatea (“Ibai” to fans) hosted his fourth annual La Velada del Año creator boxing event in-person and live on his Twitch channel over the weekend—and it broke the Twitch concurrent and peak viewership records Ibai himself set during the same event last year.

By the numbers, according to analytics database Streams Charts →

• 3.85 million concurrent viewers on Ibai’s Twitch channel during the event

• 4.34 million peak viewers

• 6.74 million concurrent Twitch viewers across the platform during La Velada del Año

FYI: For comparison, Kai Cenat’s livestream with MrBeast last week peaked at 457,000 concurrent viewers.

So who is Ibai? The 29-year-old got his start in esports as a League of Legends commentator in 2014.

By 2020, he started creating gaming and soccer content on his own Twitch and YouTube channels, which now count 29 million combined followers.

Enter: La Velada del Año. The first event (held in 2021) featured three creator boxing matches as well as musical performances from three artists, all live streamed on Ibai’s Twitch channel.

• This year, Ibai featured six matches and eight artists, including a performance from Will Smith.

• The event sold out Madrid’s Santiago Bernabéu Stadium (the home of Spanish football club Real Madrid), which has a capacity of 80,000.

Zoom out: Ibai has demonstrated his ability to draw crowds both online and IRL in other ventures as well. The streamer was one of the original partner creators in the Kings League, an international soccer tournament that landed a $65 million investment in May.

Tech Companies Trained AI Models on Videos from MrBeast, MKBHD

Videos from MrBeast, Marques Brownlee, and 48,000 other YouTube channels are part of a dataset that several large tech companies (including Apple and Nvidia) used to train their artificial intelligence models—without the original creators’ permission, nonprofit news studio Proof News reported yesterday.

The dataset, which does not include images or audio, is a collection of subtitles and transcripts from over 173,000 YouTube videos. It was created by a “non-profit AI research lab” called EleutherAI.

Between the lines: “Apple technically avoids ‘fault’ here because they’re not the ones scraping…but this is going to be an evolving problem for a long time,” Brownlee tweeted.

Go deeper: Proof News further explained their findings on their YouTube channel, and they created a tool to let creators search the dataset to see if their content was used.

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Firearms Creator Responds to Trump Shooting

Matt Carriker, the creator behind firearm-centered YouTube channel Demolition Ranch, said he was “shocked and confused” to see that the 20-year-old who opened fire at a rally for former President Donald Trump last weekend was pictured wearing his merch.

“No matter what side you’re on politically, none of us want violence. This channel was never meant to incite violence or hate,” Carriker said in a video uploaded Monday.

FYI: Carriker started Demolition Ranch in 2011 and regularly features firearms challenges and commentary. The channel has grown to 11.7 million subscribers.

🔥Press Worthy

• The New York Times explores how golf creators like Good Good are bringing more fans into the sport.

• VidCon cancels its 2024 Baltimore event.

• Pro biker and creator Nigel Sylvester brings out crowds of bikers for his annual GO Ride.

• The Roommates Show podcast is hosting a live episode in Central Park with Jon Stewart and other special guests.

• Jarvis Johnson calls on Cody Ko to respond to Tana Mongeau’s allegations against him.

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