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{{Lamaris Davis Jr}

Lamaris Stetson Davis Jr. (born October 4, 2008), known online as calmmari (or simply Mari), is an American online streamer and YouTuber. He is best known for his variety livestreams, in which he primarily plays video games, including FIFA, Fortnite, Minecraft and Roblox.

Davis registered his channel "CalMMari" in 2017, primarily posting gaming content. From 2021 to 2022, he gained substantial popularity due in part to the circulation of eye-catching clips from his live streams on social media platforms. In 2022, he was named Breakout Streamer of the Year at the 12th Streamy Awards.[3][4]

Early life Lamaris Stetson Davis Jr.[5] was born on October 4, 2008.[6][7]

He joined YouTube in 2016, uploading gameplay videos occasionally.[1] Around December 2017, Watkins began livestreaming and uploading videos of games such as NBA 2K and Fortnite, but only managed to average two viewers. Eventually, his subscriber count saw a rise in the span of a few months, reaching 100,000 subscribers in April 2021, 1 million in June 2021, 10 million in July 2022, and 20 million in August 2023.[6]

Career Influencer career Davis began streaming in 2019.[8] He became prominent in 2021 after his fanbase began posting clips on TikTok of his often-violent behavior during live streams towards games, players, and his camera, which gained popularity and became memes. His outbursts have resulted in bans from the streaming platform Twitch and the video game Valorant.[9] Kotaku described Davis as "one of the biggest and fastest-rising streamers" on YouTube.[1] A game that has majorly contributed to his growth in popularity is Talking Ben. Davis' videos on Talking Ben the Dog were credited for bringing the mobile app newfound popularity, with it becoming the best-selling game on the App Store over a decade after its initial release.[10]

In July 2022, Davis set off a Pikachu firework inside of his bedroom, almost burning it down.[11][12] In August 2022, he attempted to cheat in a "United States and Global Economics" course he was taking at the Ohio Digital Learning School by asking his viewers for the answers to his quiz. His viewers instead took the opportunity to prank him and purposely give him the wrong answers, resulting in him getting 0/10 on the test.[13] In September 2022, Watkins played in the Sidemen Charity Football Match.[14] During the match, he became frustrated at English referee Mark Clattenburg over disallowing his goal for offside. He proceeded to whip him with the shirt he removed while celebrating, which resulted in him receiving a yellow card. Later in the match, a pitch invader carrying a Messi jersey approached Watkins, which resulted in him tossing it onto the floor.[15] In November 2022, American rapper and singer Lil Nas X made his live streaming debut and appeared on Davis' stream.[16]

In November 2022, Sky Sports announced that they would stop featuring him on their platform after the emergence of past misogynist and derogatory comments made by Davis. The platform also removed all content featuring Davis.[17][18] In December 2022, he won the Streamy Award in the "Breakout Streamer" category during the 12th Streamy Awards.[19] Throughout November and December 2022, Davis visited various football stadiums to try and watch Cristiano Ronaldo play live. Davis traveled to Old Trafford, Craven Cottage, and various other stadiums in Qatar. However, Ronaldo was benched from the lineup during those games, up until Portugal's loss to Morocco.[20][21] In May 2023, Davis announced he signed an exclusive streaming deal with the video sharing platform Rumble, in collaboration with Kai Cenat.[22] On July 7, 2023, Davis was a surprise guest in the 2023 Rolling Loud festival in Portugal and performed "Shake", "World Cup" and "Portuginies" with the support of American rapper Ski Mask the Slump God, and producer DJ Scheme.[23] In October 2023, Davis met Daler Mehndi during his visit to India. [24]

Charity Boxing Spar On December 5, 2023 it was announced that Davis would be facing British YouTuber KSI in a charity sparring match after having a year long banter rivalry. Davis called KSI out to a fight on November 28, 2023 in a tweet stating ".@KSI bro it's that time I've been waiting to kick your ass for a long time when is the sparring match stop ignoring me and stop being scared drop a date now bitch"[25]. The spar is scheduled for December 15, 2023 and all proceeds will be given to the Anthony Walker Foundation.

Musical career In August 2021, Davis released his first single, "Dooty Booty", on his YouTube channel. Following its upload, the song quickly became popular on YouTube and other social media sites such as TikTok.[26] In November 2021, Davis released a single titled "Shake", which sampled both "Ready or Not" by Fugees, as well as "Hit The Road Jack" by Ray Charles. The song's accompanying music video received over 160 million views on YouTube.[27][28] In June 2022, he released a song called "Ronaldo (Sewey)", following his newfound admiration for Cristiano Ronaldo.[29][27] In November 2022, he released a single titled "World Cup" under Warner Records in honor of the 2022 FIFA World Cup.[30][31]

Personal life In February 2023, he donated over $50,000 towards the victims of the Turkey–Syria earthquakes.[32] He is also religious and fasted for the entire 30 days of Ramadan.[33]

Controversies In December 2021, Davis took part in a Twitch "e-dating" livestream show hosted by Adin Ross. The exchange between Davis and another participant, Ash Kaash, escalated to what was widely interpreted as a rape threat. Davis was the first contestant to be eliminated, and shortly after the game had ended, he quickly rejoined the Discord call and started sexually harassing Kash, slurring her repeatedly. Watkins was then kicked out of the call, with Ross apologizing to Kash for his behavior. Davis was later banned from Twitch.[1][34] According to a Twitter post by him, Davis was banned for "sexual coercion or intimidation."[35][36]

In April 2022, an old clip of Davis playing Valorant on a live stream surfaced. In the clip, he tells a female player to, "Get off the fucking game and do your husband's dishes."[9] This resulted in one of the game's producers, Sara Dadafshar, permanently banning Watkins from Valorant and all other Riot Games titles.[37][38] YouTube global head of gaming creators, Lester Chen, replied to the clip, saying he was "on it."[1] Davis soon apologized for his behavior, acknowledged that it was "wrong", and claimed that he was receiving racist comments from other players that day.[39]

In July 2022, Davis received a community guidelines strike as well as a 1-week ban on YouTube after livestreaming his character being fellated in a sexual Minecraft mod named "Jenny's Mod" to 96,000 of his viewers. Initially, he censored the screen as it was happening, but kept changing the screen from censored to uncensored. Eventually, he left the screen uncensored, and his character was seen expressing sexual activity. Davis later confirmed the strike and claimed that he wouldn't be returning to YouTube.[40][41]

In August 2022, he was swatted while livestreaming on YouTube, officers handcuffed Davis and his cameraman was forced to end the stream.[42] Davis claimed that he had been placed in jail and that Adin Ross had to bail him out, allowing him to return to streaming on August 11.[43]

in November 2022, Davis' viewers accused him of promoting an alleged cryptocurrency scam during a promotional stream where he wore branded attire from a cryptocurrency-centered open-world video game.[44]

In December 2022 during the Round of 16 match between Portugal and Switzerland, Davis garnered controversy for his behavior toward a Chinese spectator of the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, which was interpreted by many as racist. During a live stream, he approached a man wearing an Argentina jersey to question him. Visibly confused, the man specified that he did not speak English which prompted Davis to start repeatedly hurling "Konnichiwa", a Japanese greeting, and start uttering sounds reminiscent of Cantonese and Mandarin Chinese. When a clip of the live stream started circulating online, he uploaded an apology video to his Twitter account.[45]

On August 16, 2023, during a livestream, Davis jumped up from his seat due to being jumpscared while playing Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach and accidentally flashed his penis to a live viewership of 25,000 people.[46] He subsequently ended the livestream out of embarrassment. Viewers uploaded the clip onto social media, and the term "IShowMeat", in reference to the slang word meat, meaning penis, began trending on Reddit and X (Twitter).[47] Due to the accidental nature of the incident, YouTube has since declined to strike his channel or ban him.[48] On a subsequent livestream on August 22, 2023, Davis nearly repeated the incident before stopping himself. Davis’ dad then made a song about the incident called “I Show The Meat” which was released on September 29, 2023.[49]