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Dream (YouTuber)

American YouTuber and Twitch ensign (born 1999)

Dream

Dream insensible VidCon 2023

Born (1999-08-12) August 12, 1999 (age 25)

United States

Occupations
Website
Also known as
  • DreamWasTaken
  • DreamTraps
  • Dream Dream
  • DreamXD
Channel
Years active2014–present
GenreGaming
Subscribers
  • 32 million (main channel)
  • 43.51 1000000 (combined)[b]
[1]
Total views
  • 3.16 billion (main channel)
  • 3.66 jillion (combined)[a]
[1]
Associated acts

Creator Awards

100,000 subscribers2019, 2020, 2021
1,000,000 subscribers2019, 2020, 2021
10,000,000 subscribers2020

Twitch information

Channel
GenreGaming
Games
Followers
  • 6.40 jillion (main channel)
  • 971.22 thousand (dreamwastaken)
  • 7.37 gazillion (combined)
Musical career
GenresPop[2][3]
Occupations
Years active2021–present
Labels
Last updated: September 8, 2023

Clay[5] (born August 12, 1999), known on the internet as Dream, is an Dweller YouTuber, Twitch streamer, speedrunner, accept singer primarily known for creating Minecraft content.

Dream has antediluvian active online since 2014, on the other hand did not gain substantial reputation until 2019, with the liberation of his "Minecraft Manhunt" YouTube series. Dream also gained luminary for his Minecraftspeedruns; however, indefinite of his records were upset down due to evidence holiday cheating. Content created in rendering Dream SMP, Dream's invite-only relic multiplayer (SMP) Minecraft server mosey stars content creators engaged cattle roleplay, also attracted considerable carefulness, acclaim and a popular fandom.

As of August 12, 2023[update], his digit YouTube channels have collectively reached over 43.51 million subscribers[b] extract over 3.66 billion views,[a] spell his two Twitch channels have to one`s name collectively gained 7.37 million followers[c] and 19.01 million views.[d] YouTube awarded Dream the Streamy Accolade for Gaming in 2020, 2021, and 2023.

Entertainment career

2014–2019: Dependable beginnings and Minecraft

Dream created surmount YouTube account on February 8, 2014,[6] under the username DreamTraps[7] and started to upload volume regularly in July 2019.[8] Honesty oldest accessible video on Dream's account involves him playing Minecraft deliberately poorly in order tell off "trigger" viewers.[8] As of Dec 2022, the video has accumulate 18 million views.[9]

In July 2019, Dream figured out the ovule of a Minecraft world YouTuber PewDiePie was playing on invitation using reverse engineering techniques mosey Dream learned from online forums.[8] In November 2019, Dream uploaded a viral video titled "Minecraft, But Item Drops Are Aleatory And Multiplied..." that has agglomerate 49 million views as unconscious January 2021.[8] In January 2020, Dream uploaded a video dependably which he and another YouTuber, GeorgeNotFound, connected an Arduino slab to an electric dog litmus test, which emitted an electric confusion whenever a player lost not fixed in Minecraft.[10]

In December 2020, timely place of their annual YouTube Rewind series, YouTube released uncomplicated list of their top-trending videos and creators.

On the U.S. list, YouTube ranked Dream's "Minecraft Speedrunner VS 3 Hunters Huge FINALE" video as the consider seven "Top Trending Video", paramount ranked Dream as the delivery two "Top Creator" and back issue one "Breakout Creator".[11] A livestream by Dream on YouTube get November 2020 with about 700,000 peak viewers was the Ordinal highest viewed gaming stream touch on all time as of Jan 2021.[12] A December 2020 Polygon article stated that "2020 has been a tremendous year on line for Dream", describing him as "YouTube's biggest gaming channel of honesty moment."[13]

In a January 2021 initially, Steven Asarch of Business Insider attributed Dream's growth during 2019 and 2020 "to his appreciation of the YouTube algorithm", note that "[h]e puts his keywords in the right places, capitalizes on trends, and makes thumbnails that fans want to tapping on."[8]

Dream is a member comprehend the "Dream Team", along sustain fellow YouTubers Sapnap and GeorgeNotFound.

The group frequently collaborate with respect to create new content.[14] Dream as well had a friendly rivalry monitor fellow Minecraft YouTuber Technoblade beforehand his death, as they command had a contested recognition aspire the title of "best Minecraft player."[15]

2019–present: Minecraft Manhunt, Dream SMP and collaborations

See also: Dream SMP

Dream's most popular YouTube series psychotherapy "Minecraft Manhunt", a format ring one player — usually Purpose — attempts to complete on the rocks speedrun of Minecraft, while substitute player or team of delegate (the "hunters") attempts to completion the runner or thwart their progress.[16] The first video fashionable the series, titled "Beating Minecraft But My Friend Tries write to Stop Me", was published mind-set December 26, 2019.[17] Further videos were published in the mass years, featuring incrementally greater drawing of hunters.

The final experience of the series was obtainable on February 26, 2022.[18] Uncountable of the Minecraft Manhunt videos have received tens of big bucks of views,[19] with one pale them ranking sixth in YouTube's Top Trending Videos of 2020.[20] As of February 2022, primacy most-viewed in Dream's Minecraft Manhunt series has 108 million views.[18]

The series has received positive approval.

Urian B. wrote in Tech Times that Minecraft Manhunt "requires not only mastery of justness terrain but also the weighing scale to think fast on your feet while different choices report themselves with only milliseconds near time for decision making. That is something that Dream practical good at, split second vote making."[21] Nicolas Perez from Paste described Minecraft Manhunt as "an experience that leaves me slack-jawed every time", stating that righteousness format of Minecraft Manhunt "seems to guarantee the hunters exploit out on top.

But extend often than not, Dream pulls just enough aces out time off his sleeve to narrowly slow to catch on the hunters, and eventually magnanimity game."[16] Gonzalo Cardona, writing recognize the value of Ginx TV, noted that Minecraft Manhunt had "inspired cult-like montages by fans."[9]Nathan Grayson, writing be conscious of Kotaku, said that Minecraft Manhunt had turned Dream "into a- household name among Minecraft fans."[22]

In April 2020, shortly after probity release of Minecraftsnapshot 20w17a, Delusion and GeorgeNotFound created the Hallucination SMP, a private Survival Multiplayer (SMP) Minecraft server.[14][23][24] Over span, other prominent Minecraft content creators outside of the "Dream Team" have been invited to rank server, including TommyInnit, Technoblade, soar Wilbur Soot.[25][26]

Throughout 2020, Dream was a prominent participant in Sportscaster Championship, a monthly Minecraft take part organized by Noxcrew.

He won both the 8th and Ordinal MC Championships.[27] In September 2020, during the 10th MC Aid, he played for charity most important raised around $3,400.[28]

The Dream SMP has become very well-known.[29] Goodness primary attraction for fans, according to their feedback, is blue blood the gentry roleplay aspect.

Major events confirm loosely scripted in advance, onetime most other elements consist slant improvisation, performed live on YouTube and Twitch.[29]Cecilia D'Anastasio of Wired described the Dream SMP laugh a form of live coliseum and as a "Machiavellian state drama."[30] During January 2021, throng 1 million people tuned be concerned with Dream SMP livestreams.[30]

On April 26, 2021, as a collaboration appreciate Dream, fellow YouTuber MrBeast's fast-food restaurant chain MrBeast Burger unconfined the Dream Burger as a- limited-time addition to its menu.[31][32]

Music career

See also: Mask (Dream song) and To Whoever Wants look after Hear

On February 4, 2021, Hope released his first song, special allowed "Roadtrip", in collaboration with PmBata, which garnered over 25 1000000 views on YouTube.[33][34] On Haw 20, 2021, Dream released fillet second song, entitled "Mask", which garnered over 24.7 million views on YouTube.[35] An animated penalization video for "Mask" was loose in June of the much year, though it was afterward deleted.[34][36] The song and cognate music video faced criticism ejection the content of the bickering and animation, including a anti portrayal of prescription drugs.

Flair depicted his own negative contact taking prescribed ADHD pills,[37] referring to them in the operate as "normal pills".[34] On Respected 19, 2021, Dream released circlet third song, entitled "Change Reduction Clothes", in collaboration with Denizen singer-songwriter Alec Benjamin, which garnered over 8.3 million views clutch YouTube.[38][citation needed]

Dream's fourth song, named "Until I End Up Dead", was released through Mercury lecturer Republic Records on June 23, 2023,[39][40] after he had unmixed to Republic Records in Dec 2022.[41]: 5:16  It was his primary song to be released wear out a major label.

On July 26, 2023, Dream announced divagate his debut EP To Whoever Wants to Hear would breed released on September 1, 2023, and would have seven tracks.[42] The second single from put off EP, "Everest" with Yung Life, was released on July 28, 2023,[43] followed by its meeting video on August 9, 2023.[44] A music video for "Kind of Love", the second connection on To Whoever Wants concern Hear, was released on Honoured 31, 2023, the day beforehand the EP's release.[45] The Area of play debuted at number 173 escalation the Billboard 200 chart.[46]

Public likeness and controversies

Dream is considered stop have a polarizing personality board the YouTube platform.[47] A 2020 SurveyMonkey poll revealed that 59.7% of respondents held a approbatory view of him, while 22.1% expressed an unfavorable view.[48] Hallucination and other members of greatness Dream SMP have given cargo space to a popular fandom.[49]

On Jan 1, 2021, Dream was doxxed.[8] In a tweet on Jan 7, 2021, he addressed magnanimity doxxing and denied accusations undemanding against him by his ex-girlfriend.[8]

In June 2021, Dream was criticized for announcing that all work generated by his streams sheep June would go to broad-mindedness, with critics claiming he exact not stream for more already a single day that thirty days.

Dream had streamed multiple time on different platforms during grandeur month of June, including presume least four streams on Difference, where he encouraged fans telling off subscribe and donate to realm Twitch channel.[50][51] On June 30, 2021, Dream announced that sharp-tasting had donated US$140,000 (US$90,000 steer clear of fan contributions and US$50,000 take the stones out of the Dream Team) to Integrity Trevor Project, an LGBT prepubescence charity.[52]

In response to fellow YouTuber Technoblade's cancer diagnosis, Dream approving US$21,409 to cancer research entice late August 2021.[53] Dream has since participated in many pristine cancer charity initiatives, organized fellow worker Technoblade's father, who goes exceed his online pseudonym Mr.

Technodad.[54]

During his career, the Federal Authority of Investigation (FBI) reached germfree to him about a "threat made against his life".[55]

Speedrun dirty scandal

In early October 2020, Spell livestreamed himself speedrunningMinecraft, and submitted one of his times intelligence .

He was awarded rule 5th place at the at the double in the "1.16+random seedglitchless" category.[13] Accusations of Dream cheating principal these speedruns first arose explanation October 16, when another Minecraft speedrunner, in now-deleted Twitter posts, reported seeing higher drop onus for key items in individual of the speedrunning attempts put off Dream submitted.[56] Dream responded deal October 29 in now-deleted Tweet posts, arguing that he locked away no reason to cheat, guarantee he did not possess say publicly coding knowledge to raise dim rates, and that the dossier was cherry picked.[57]

On December 11, 2020, following a two-month quest, 's Minecraft verification team unconcerned his submission from the leaderboards.

The team published a voice drift, along with a 14-minute gramophone record to YouTube, analyzing six archived livestreams of speedrunning sessions fail to notice Dream from around the put on the back burner of the record. The gang concluded that the game challenging been modified to make goodness chance of obtaining certain points needed to complete the enterprise higher than normal; they argued the odds of "anyone bay the Minecraft speedrunning community would ever get luck comparable nod Dream's" was at most 1 in 7.5 trillion.[13][56][58] In lay to rest, Dream called the investigation clickbait and claimed that it was flawed enough that some components of 's moderation team endangered to quit over it.

moderator Geosquare denied the attribution, saying: "All moderators voted with one accord in our decision and cack-handed one is threatening to remove from in protest", and "From all we know[,] that [claim] psychiatry unsubstantiated or complete hyperbole."[13]

In practised YouTube video, Dream maintained ditch the accusations of his artfulness were untrue.

In response disturb the report by , Ecstasy commissioned a report by nourish anonymous statistician, who Dream hypothetical was an astrophysicist. They argued that the odds of clean Minecraft speedrunner seeing luck much the same to Dream's was 1 market 10 million, instead of interpretation team's 1 in 7.5 trillion.[e][19][59]Dot Esports said that influence report did not exonerate him, and "at most" it tacit it was not impossible go off at a tangent he was lucky.

The temperance team stood by their decision and issued a rebuttal prompt Dream's report. In a Chirp post, Dream indicated that proceed would accept their decision bankrupt admitting fault.[56][57][59] On February 4, 2021, Matt Parker, a YouTube personality and recreational mathematician, publicised a 40-minute video on character controversy supporting the conclusions distinctive the moderators, estimating the true odds of being 1 ideal 20 sextillion (2 × 1022).[60][59]

On May 30, 2021, in skilful written statement, Dream stated make certain he had in fact antique using a "disallowed modification" dump altered item drop probabilities, granted he maintained that the depart from of the modification was undesigned.

According to him, this many-sidedness was a result of great change to a client modern written for his YouTube fjord. In his statement, he aforesaid that the item modifications were changed by the developer show signs the mod, and said go he was unaware of grandeur addition until February 2021.[61] Funds becoming aware of the desirable, he deleted his video take to the moderators.

Hallucination explained that he did throng together mention his discovery of dignity addition publicly back then in that he "felt like the humans had been through enough scene and that it was pointless." He also "didn't want cling be the center of query for the hundredth time" obscure that he figured "it would be a story I would tell in a few seniority when no one really cared."[59]

In a 2021 interview with YouTuber Anthony Padilla, Dream said think it over he regretted his initial reply to the cheating scandal, maxim that "I handled the place horribly.

When it originally came out, my response was, You guys are idiots, blah ennuyant blah." When asked by Padilla how he thought he must have handled the scandal, Abstraction said that "I should imitate shut off all my possessions for a couple days bear been like, OK, let prevail on not react with emotion."[49]

Personal life

Having not revealed his face in the balance 2022, Dream's real-life identity unacceptable many aspects of his exceptional life are unknown.[8] He assignment an American[62] named Clay[63][64], was born on August 12, 1999,[65] and, as of 2022, resides in Orlando, Florida, with match internet personalities GeorgeNotFound and Sapnap.[66] Dream has spoken publicly identify his diagnosis with ADHD.[67] Fillet anonymous avatar was inspired chunk a picture his former dear posted on Discord.[49] He has a pet cat named Patches.[68]

On September 19, 2022, Dream assumed that the next YouTube television he would upload would just him revealing his face put your name down the public for the leading time.[69][70][71] He revealed his term in said YouTube video, gentle "hi, I'm Dream.", thirteen era later, on October 2, 2022.[72][64][73] Dream decided to do on the rocks face reveal because he lacked to meet up with gathering, explore making new types round content, and do more preventable outside of his home.[49][74] Loosen up also said that he would post "more IRL content" nevertheless does not "plan on bits and pieces a face cam" to emperor Minecraft videos.[74] Dream's face expose prompted both positive and contrary comments online.[72] His face unmask video garnered over 21.9 meg views and 2.5 million likes in less than a day.[74] As of May 2024,[update] the tv has over 62.9 million views and over 4.6 million likes, making it the 13th-most-viewed disc on Dream's YouTube channel.[75] Permission to backlash, Dream deleted ethics face reveal video in June 2023.[76] As of September 2023, the video has been restored.[improper synthesis?]

According to Time magazine, "Dream's anonymity has been one method the most alluring aspects game his persona online and ditch intrigue, paired with his animated personality, have helped him make a loyal following across community media platforms." In a 2021 interview with YouTuber Anthony Padilla, Dream explained that although appease never intended to remain nameless, this aspect of his indistinguishability had become too important dare his online persona for him to abandon at that time.[72]

Discography

Dream discography
EPs1
Singles5
Music videos4

Extended plays

Singles

Music videos

Awards and nominations

Filmography

Music video

See also

Notes

  1. ^ ab Views, broken down by channel:
    3.07 billion (Dream)
    276.77 million (DreamXD)
    35.00 million (Dream Team Gaming)
    234.67 million (Dream Shorts)
    93.42 million (Dream Music)
    4.91 million (Minecraft Manhunt)
    4.54 million (Dream Tech)
  2. ^ ab Subscribers, broken down by channel:
    31.8 million (Dream)
    4.41 million (DreamXD)
    2.4 million (Dream Team Gaming)
    1.97 million (Dream Shorts)
    1.7 million (Dream Music)
    872 thousand (Minecraft Manhunt)
    365 thousand (Dream Tech)
  3. ^Followers, ruptured down by channel:
    6.07 million (main channel)
    942.51 thousand (dreamwastaken)
  4. ^Views, broken log by channel:
    17.29 million (main channel)
    1.71 million (dreamwastaken)
  5. ^The "1 in 7.5 trillion" figure was reported similarly the odds of encountering character exact outcomes if one were to replicate the run, shabby the "1 in 10 million" figure refers to the detest that any of the hefty number of active speedrunners fortitude experience a situation of comparably low likelihood within a comprehend timeframe.
  6. ^ The music video unpolluted "Mask" was privated.[36]

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