IShowSpeed Backflipped Over a Messi Miss. Then Messi Broke the World Cup Record.

The internet’s most loyal Cristiano Ronaldo stan walked into Dallas Stadium on Monday night ready to troll. He left looking like someone had just run over his dog.

IShowSpeed, the 21-year-old streamer who has built a whole online persona around being CR7’s biggest hype man, showed up for Argentina’s Group J match against Austria fully prepared to celebrate anything that went wrong for Lionel Messi. And for a little while, it worked.

Messi missed a penalty early in the game. Speed saw his opening. He hit a backflip right there in the stands, live on stream, soaking in the moment. His chat went crazy. It was the kind of content his audience lives for.

The 38th minute changed everything

Messi buried his shot in the 38th minute. That goal was his 17th in World Cup competition, pushing him past Miroslav Klose for the all-time record. The stadium erupted. Argentina’s bench lost it. And Speed’s face went through about four stages of grief in real time.

Footage from the stream shows him sitting there, arms crossed, looking genuinely devastated while everyone around him celebrates. The clip spread fast. By the time the final whistle blew, the internet had already turned his misery into a meme. Speed’s own fan accounts posted it. That’s how you know it’s over.

Messi is 38 now. He’s been playing at a level that doesn’t make sense for someone his age, and this tournament has been one long reminder that he’s still the main character when he wants to be. Argentina came into this game with momentum from back-to-back wins, and Messi’s record-breaking night only added to the story.

Ronaldo’s tournament is going differently

Meanwhile, Portugal settled for a draw against DR Congo in their opener. They play Uzbekistan next. Speed’s guy hasn’t had the same kind of start, and watching your idol’s biggest rival rewrite the record books while your own team struggles has to sting a little extra.

Speed has never hidden where his loyalties sit. He’s been Team Ronaldo since day one, back when that was the popular take. But watching him sit in silence while Messi’s name gets chanted by 60,000 people is the kind of content you can’t script. Karma might not be real. But if it was, it would probably look a lot like a backflip followed by a history book moment.