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Revision as of 23:25, 9 July 2021

For other uses, see Dream (disambiguation).

Dream
File:Dream icon.svg
Personal information
OccupationYouTuber
YouTube information
Also known asDreamWasTaken
Channels
Years active2014–present
GenreGaming
Subscribers
  • 23.5 million (main)
  • 34.5 million (combined)[b]
Total views2.26 billion (combined)[a]
Associated acts
100,000 subscribers
  • 2019 (Dream)
  • 2020 (DreamXD, Dream Team, DreamTech, Dream Shorts, Minecraft Manhunt)
  • 2021 (Dream Music)
1,000,000 subscribers
  • 2019 (Dream)
  • 2020 (DreamXD, Dream Team)
  • 2021 (Dream Shorts, Dream Music)
10,000,000 subscribers2020 (Dream)
Last updated: July 9, 2021

Dream is a YouTuber and Twitch streamer known primarily for Minecraft content. He began his YouTube career in 2014 and gained substantial popularity in 2019 and 2020 having uploaded videos based around the game Minecraft. He is well known for his YouTube series Minecraft Manhunt, and for speedrunning Minecraft.[1] Content created in his Dream SMP Minecraft server has also attracted considerable attention.[2] As of June 2021, his seven YouTube channels have collectively reached over 34 million subscribers and over 2.36 billion views. YouTube awarded Dream the Streamy Award for Gaming in 2020.[3]

At the end of 2020, Dream was accused of cheating in a Minecraft speedrun, following an investigation by moderators from speedrun.com. In May 2021, Dream stated that his game had been modded during the speedruns in question, but claimed to not have realized that the mod caused increased chances of obtaining certain items.

Career

YouTube

Dream created his YouTube account on February 8, 2014.[4]

In a video from January 2020, Dream and another YouTuber, GeorgeNotFound, connected an Arduino board to an electric dog collar which emitted an electric shock whenever a player lost health in the game Minecraft.[5]

In December 2020, in place of their annual YouTube Rewind series, YouTube released a list of their top-trending videos and creators. On the U.S. list, YouTube ranked Dream's "Minecraft Speedrunner VS 3 Hunters GRAND FINALE" video as the number seven "Top Trending Video", and ranked Dream as the number two "Top Creator" and number one "Breakout Creator".[6] A livestream by Dream on YouTube in November 2020 with around 700,000 peak viewers was the 6th highest viewed gaming stream of all time as of January 2021.[7] A December 2020 Polygon article stated that "2020 has been a tremendous year for Dream", describing him as "YouTube's biggest gaming channel of the moment".[8]

In 2020, Dream gained over 15 million subscribers.[1]

Minecraft Manhunt

Dream's most well-known and most-watched series is Minecraft Manhunt. In Minecraft Manhunt, one player—usually Dream—attempts to finish the game as fast as possible without dying, while another player or team of players (the "Hunters") attempts to stop this player from beating the game by killing them. The hunters each possess a compass pointed towards the player's location and are allowed to respawn whenever they die. The hunters win the game if the player dies before beating the Ender Dragon.[9]

On December 26, 2019, Dream uploaded the first video in this series, titled "Beating Minecraft But My Friend Tries to Stop Me".[10] Dream would subsequently repeat this style of video on many occasions, increasing the number of Hunters over time.[9] Many of the videos have received tens of millions of views.[11] One of his Manhunt videos was sixth in YouTube's Top Trending Videos of 2020.[12]

Nicolas Perez, writing in Paste, described Minecraft Manhunt as "an experience that leaves me slack-jawed every time", stating that the format of Minecraft Manhunt "seems to guarantee the hunters come out on top. But more often than not, Dream pulls just enough aces out of his sleeve to narrowly beat the hunters, and eventually the game."[9] Nathan Grayson, writing in Kotaku, said that Minecraft Manhunt had turned Dream "into a household name among Minecraft fans".[13]

Dream SMP

Main article: Dream SMP

Along with YouTubers Sapnap and GeorgeNotFound, Dream is a member of the "Dream Team". The group frequently collaborate to create new content.[14] In May 2020, they created the Dream SMP Minecraft server to play together online.[14][15]

The Dream SMP is a private Survival Multiplayer Minecraft server owned by Dream. Dream and other prominent Minecraft content creators play on it. The server is divided into factions and includes heavy roleplay[16] with major events being loosely scripted in advance, most other elements being improvisation, performed live on YouTube and Twitch. Cecilia D'Anastasio, writing in Wired, described the Dream SMP as a form of live theatre and as a "Macchiavellian political drama", with over 1 million people tuning in to the livestreams during January 2021.[17]

Minecraft competitions

Throughout 2020, Dream was a prominent participant in Minecraft Championship, a monthly Minecraft competition organized by Noxcrew. In 2020, Dream came first in the 8th and 11th Minecraft Championships.[18] In September 2020, during the 10th Minecraft Championship, he played for charity, raising around $3,400.[19]

Dream Burger

On April 26, 2021, as a collaboration with Dream, fellow YouTuber MrBeast's fast-food restaurant chain MrBeast Burger released the Dream Burger as a limited time addition to its menu.[20][21]

Public image

Opinion polls have shown that Dream is both one of the most liked and disliked YouTubers on the platform with a 2021 SurveyMonkey poll showing that 59.7% of respondents have a favorable view of him, compared to 22.1% who had an unfavorable view.[1]

On June 30, 2021, Dream announced that he had donated $140,000—$90,000 from fan contributions and $50,000 from the Dream Team—to The Trevor Project, an LGBT youth charity.[22]

Speedrun cheating controversy

In early October 2020, Dream livestreamed a speedrun of Minecraft in the "1.16+" category, and submitted his time to Speedrun.com. They awarded him 5th place for the record.[8] Accusations of Dream cheating in these speedruns first arose that same month when another Minecraft speedrunner in now deleted tweets reported seeing higher drop rates for key items in one of the speedrunning attempts that Dream submitted.[23]

On December 11, 2020, following a two-month investigation, Speedrun.com's Minecraft verification team removed his run from the boards. The team published a 14-minute video to YouTube and a report analyzing six archived livestreams of speedrunning sessions by Dream from around the time of the record; they concluded that the game had been modified to make the chance of obtaining certain items needed to complete the game higher than normal. The report found that the odds of obtaining the items legitimately were 1 in 7.5 trillion.[8][23][24] Dream said in a YouTube video that the accusations were untrue, and responded with a commissioned report written by an anonymous statistician, who he said was an astrophysicist.[11] The report said that the actual odds of Dream obtaining the items legitimately were 1 in 10 million.[25] Dot Esports said that the report did not exonerate him, and "at most" suggested it was not impossible that he was lucky. The moderation team stood by their ruling and issued a rebuttal to Dream's report. In a tweet, Dream indicated that he would accept their decision, without admitting fault.[23][26][25]

On February 4, 2021, YouTube recreational mathematician Matt Parker published a video on the controversy, which supported the conclusions of the moderators.[25]

On May 30, 2021, Dream said that he had a mod that altered item probabilities, saying he accidentally had modifications enabled. According to him, this discrepancy was a result of an unknown change to a client mod written for his YouTube channel. In his statement, he said that the item modifications were changed by the developer of the mod, and said that he was unaware of the addition until February 2021.[27] After becoming aware of the addition, he deleted his video response to the speedrun.com moderators. Dream stated that he did not mention his discovery of the addition publicly back then because he "felt like the community had been through enough drama and that it was pointless. I didn't want to be the center of controversy for the hundredth time" and that he figured "it would be a story I would tell in a few years when no one really cared."[25]

Discography

List of singles as lead artist, with selected chart positions
Title Year Peak chart positions Album
CAN
[28] 		IRE
[29] 		UK
[30]
"Roadtrip"
(featuring PmBata) 		2021 87 70 75 TBA
"Mask" 96 43 38

Awards and nominations

Year Award Category Result Ref.
2020 Streamy Awards Gaming Won [31]
Breakout Creator Nominated

See also

References

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  2. ^ Asarch, Steven. "Minecraft's top streamers are taking over the internet with their exclusive roleplaying server called Dream SMP". Insider. Retrieved June 30, 2021.
  3. ^ "10th Annual Streamy Nominees & Winners". The Streamy Awards. Archived from the original on December 14, 2020. Retrieved June 11, 2021.
  4. ^ Dream. "About". YouTube. Archived from the original on December 12, 2020. Retrieved December 17, 2020.
  5. ^ Livingston, Christopher (January 13, 2020). "Watch this Minecraft player get shocked by a dog collar whenever he takes damage". PC Gamer. Future plc. Archived from the original on January 6, 2021. Retrieved December 28, 2020.
  6. ^ Allocca, Kevin (December 1, 2020). "2020's top-trending videos and creators". YouTube Official Blog. Archived from the original on January 6, 2021. Retrieved January 6, 2021.
  7. ^ "Here Are The Biggest Twitch And YouTube Livestreams Ever". GameSpot. Archived from the original on January 13, 2021. Retrieved January 18, 2021.
  8. ^ a b c Hernandez, Patricia (December 15, 2020). "YouTube's big Minecraft cheating scandal, explained". Polygon. Vox Media. Archived from the original on December 15, 2020. Retrieved December 17, 2020.
  9. ^ a b c Perez, Nicolas (October 23, 2020). "Why Watching Dream Beat Minecraft Against the Odds Is So Addicting". Paste Magazine. Archived from the original on January 7, 2021. Retrieved January 4, 2021.
  10. ^ Dream (December 26, 2019). "Beating Minecraft, But My Friend Tries To Stop Me". YouTube. Archived from the original on January 6, 2021. Retrieved December 17, 2020.
  11. ^ a b Boier, Peter (December 29, 2020). "Populær youtuber fanget i massivt stormvejr: Har han snydt?" [Popular YouTuber caught in massive storm: Has he cheated?]. DR (in Danish). Archived from the original on January 11, 2021. Retrieved January 9, 2021.
  12. ^ Matt Patches (December 1, 2020). "YouTube announces the top videos and creators of 2020". Polygon. Vox Media. Archived from the original on January 6, 2021. Retrieved December 28, 2020.
  13. ^ Grayson, Nathan (June 1, 2021). "Minecraft Megastar Admits To Cheating After Months Of Denial, Death Threats". Kotaku. Retrieved July 2, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  14. ^ a b Stachurski, Sophie (February 28, 2021). "The Great Revival: The Rise of Minecraft YouTube". The Georgetown Voice. Archived from the original on February 28, 2021. Retrieved May 28, 2021.
  15. ^ Çakır, Gökhan (January 1, 2021). "What is the Dream SMP?". Dot Esports. Archived from the original on January 6, 2021. Retrieved May 28, 2021.
  16. ^ Arsach, Steven (January 25, 2021). "Minecraft's top streamers are taking over the internet with their exclusive roleplaying server called Dream SMP". Insider. Archived from the original on March 18, 2021. Retrieved January 30, 2021.
  17. ^ D'Anastasio, Cecilia (January 12, 2021). "In Minecraft's Dream SMP, All the Server's a Stage". Wired. Condé Nast. Archived from the original on January 13, 2021. Retrieved January 13, 2021.
  18. ^ Michael, Cale (September 26, 2020). "Minecraft – All MC Championship Winners". Dot Esports. Gamurs. Archived from the original on January 6, 2021. Retrieved January 2, 2021.
  19. ^ Michael, Cale (September 26, 2020). "The best of MC Championship 10: Pokimane learns the game, Dream plays for charity, and more". Dot Esports. Gamurs. Archived from the original on January 3, 2021. Retrieved December 28, 2020.
  20. ^ "MrBeast Burger Releases New Dream Burger". QSR. Archived from the original on April 29, 2021. Retrieved June 9, 2021.
  21. ^ "MrBeast Burger Introduces Limited-Edition Sandwich With 'Minecraft' YouTuber Dream". Tubefilter. Archived from the original on June 9, 2021. Retrieved June 9, 2021.
  22. ^ Galloway, Ryan (July 1, 2021). "Dream donates $140,000 to LGBTQIA+ charity with proceeds from Pride month streams". Dot Esports. Retrieved July 3, 2021.
  23. ^ a b c Watts, Rachel (January 7, 2021). "A brief summary of the cheating scandal surrounding YouTube's biggest Minecraft speedrunner". PC Gamer. Future plc. Archived from the original on January 7, 2021. Retrieved January 8, 2021.
  24. ^ Asarch, Steven (January 27, 2021). "Meet Dream, the mysterious Minecraft YouTuber who's one of the fastest-growing creators on the platform". Insider. Archived from the original on March 18, 2021. Retrieved February 11, 2021.
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  28. ^ Peaks in Canada:
  29. ^ "Discography Dream". irish-charts.com. Archived from the original on March 18, 2021. Retrieved February 17, 2021.
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  31. ^ "10th Annual Streamy Nominees". The Streamy Awards. 2020. Archived from the original on December 14, 2020. Retrieved October 21, 2020.

Notes

  1. ^ Views, broken down by channel:
    • 1.911 billion (Dream)
    • 174.5 million (DreamXD)
    • 28.3 million (Dream Team)
    • 122 million (Dream Shorts)
    • 28.5 million (Dream Music)
    • 1.35 million (Minecraft Manhunt)
    • 3.61 million (Dream Tech)
  2. ^ Subscribers, broken down by channel:
    • 24 million (Dream)
    • 3.94 million (DreamXD)
    • 2.21 million (Dream Team)
    • 1.82 million (Dream Shorts)
    • 1.47 million (Dream Music)
    • 705,000 (Minecraft Manhunt)
    • 379,000 (Dream Tech)
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