It seems that a bumblebee, followed by millions of subscribers on YouTube, was shocked by what happened to him in a stadium in Algeria. His name is IShowSpeed, an American on tour with an always-on camera and an ego worn like a cape. And he probably thought that an Algerian stadium would work like a streaming set: controlled noise, a docile audience, and carefully calibrated emotions.

It was a mistake.

Let’s make this clear once and for all: in Algeria, the stadium recognizes no authority. Not millions of subscribers, not global fame, not the YouTube algorithm, nor NATO, for that matter. Whether your name is IShowSpeed or some other oddity, you enter a popular arena with one obligation only: respect local codes.

Algerian football is not a streaming backdrop, let alone an emotion zoo designed to generate buzz. Here, the stands have their own language, their own mood, their sometimes brutal irony. They applaud, they whistle, they test. They do not explain. They do not apologize.

Showing up wearing the national team’s jersey gives you no special privileges. Being “well received during the day” guarantees nothing once the projectors are on. In an Algerian stadium, the crowd is sovereign, unpredictable, untamable. It obeys neither cameras nor influencers.

This may be shocking from the outside, but that’s how it is. Here, football is not consumed; it is lived. Intensely. Sometimes excessively. And certainly not according to Internet standards.

The stadium is a territory, with its own unspoken rules, and those who ignore them often learn at their own expense.

But this misunderstanding doesn’t concern the streamer alone. The platform organizing this tour, Expedia, and its local partners also need to understand this: this concept does not work everywhere. You don’t transplant a globalized entertainment format into an Algerian stadium the way you book a hotel or a flight. Here, the crowd is not a marketing backdrop.

So yes, thanks to the fans of USM Algiers and MC Algiers for reminding him of that, in their own way: unfiltered and without subtitles.

This is neither hatred nor a scandal. It’s a reminder.

It’s not personal. It’s cultural. And if these rules don’t suit him, or those who think they can do the same, there are always air-conditioned studios and controlled sets.

The Algerian stadium, for its part, does not negotiate. It never has. And it will not start for a stream, even one followed by a billion subscribers.

That will teach IShowSpeed to respect the codes of the stadium in Algeria, and his followers to do the same.