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The Black Khan (IShowSpeed), also known as The Black Khan of Mongolia, refers to a series of edits showing streamer IShowSpeed (Speed) as the "Black Khan," a race-swapped version of Genghis Khan linked to historical fiction. The edits used grainy, black-and-white clips from IShowSpeed's Mongolia stream in April 2025. The Black Khan IShowSpeed memes were common on TikTok. Editors sometimes linked the Black Khan story to Yakub, Agartha and Hyperborea.

Origin

On April 11th, 2025, IShowSpeed livestreamed in Mongolia, following his trip to China, and uploaded an edited version of the stream to YouTube,^[1] gaining over 1.8 million views in 12 days. Throughout the stream, Speed was dressed in traditional Mongolian garb. At multiple moments, Speed humorously referred to himself as "Speed Khan," in reference to Genghis Khan (example shown below).

On April 11th, TikToker^[2] @kickclipper_ posted a black-and-white clip from Speed's Mongolia stream, captioning it, "Rare footage of the Black Khan of Mongolia visiting the Ming Dynasty for the first time in year 1430," gaining over 263,200 likes in 12 days (shown below).

Spread

In the following days, more people created IShowSpeed Black Khan edits. For instance, on April 12th, 2025, TikToker^[3] @ridzverse posted a video with AI art and an AI voiceover, gaining over 50,200 likes in 11 days (shown below).

On April 12th, Instagram^[6] user @legendaryreel_pull reposted the original meme, gaining over 1,800 likes in 11 days. Similar reposts occurred on Instagram^[7] in the following days.

On April 16th, 2025, TikToker^[5] @grvchus posted a video that linked the Black Khan to Yakub and Hyperboreans through a family tree diagram. Over one week, the video received roughly 112,400 likes (shown below).

On April 18th, TikToker^[4] @omarxmarmoush posted a Black Khan edit, showing IShowSpeed in grainy, black-and-white footage. Over five days, the video received roughly 194,100 likes (shown below).

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