![]() The user was apparently 17 years old at the time of the incident. According to the user, Dream made several advances before inviting her over to his house. ![]() The news broke when a user on Twitter made a series of serious allegations, claiming to have been groomed by the streamer at some point in 2020, a remark first spotted by Dot Esports. Dream is mostly known for streaming Minecraft content on YouTube, suddenly rising to a new level of notoriety last month after revealing his face for the first time. The news immediately brought on a backlash from a large segment of his followers, causing “Dream is a freak” to briefly trend on Twitter. “It's nice to be able to have food and sit in a restaurant and not worry about it.The popular content creator Dream was recently accused of grooming underage girls. “Even just going to the dentist, I’d go out of state,” he said.Īnd yet despite it all, Dream said, revealing his face felt right. As a result, he rarely went outside and took extreme precautions in his personal life. Since over 30 million people have listened to his voice, Dream said, he worried about being identified in public, especially given that he’d allowed some information to be known, like the city he lived in, his first name, and his roommates, the Dream SMP members. The fear of being recognized was much worse when he was anonymous, he said, because it combined with the fear of being found out. I don't even know how to describe what I was feeling.” She was like, ‘Is it because there’s too many people?’ And I don’t know what it is. “My mom came over - she came with me to this - and she was talking to me and consoling me. After his first panel Friday, “I literally went and planked on my bed, facedown,” he said. The growing pains of becoming a corporeal internet celebrity have also been a mixed bag of overwhelming emotions, which Dream described as somewhere between disbelief, joy, and awkwardness. “If you tweet something and it hasn’t been tweeted a lot, then it’s more likely to trend.” In 2020, his fandom trended “JHSFGJSLF” after a series of niche arguments between fans and anti-fans. “Most people don’t even understand how the trending system works on Twitter,” he added. “There’s gonna be bad people, people that are going to be mean, so I didn’t take it to heart,” he said. #HesUgly started trending on Twitter shortly after the video posted several memes comparing his likeness to cartoon characters and Shane Dawson were liked by thousands of people online.īut Dream said it didn’t bother him at all. In addition to all the hype, there was also lots of negativity after the reveal. “But while I was running over there like, Oh my god, I slipped in my socks, and now I have a massive green bruise on my shoulder from hitting the ground.” “After I saw the view count, I ran out into the kitchen, where George was,” he said. 1 trending video on YouTube that week, and it currently has over 37 million views. Dream’s official face reveal battled the Try Guys’ cheating scandal statement for No. It was a highly profitable cultural moment. were like, ‘We want to make IRL content together, so what’s another couple of months to wait to make sure that we can actually make money off of it and have fun?’” “The decision had nothing to do with business,” he said, “But I will say part of the decision on when to do it had to do with business. Dream’s streaming creator squad, Dream SMP, has several British members, like TommyInnit and Georgenotfound. ![]() But his friends were a major key in picking the right time for it. The plan had always been to reveal his face, Dream said. Most of my friends, they've traveled around and met people, and they've gone to games.” “I've never been to a concert ever,” he said. 2 he posted his reveal video, and in an interview Saturday, he told BuzzFeed News that he’s been excited to catch up on all the things he wasn’t confident doing when anonymous. And as a date began to materialize, Dream also began sharing details of his face ahead of the full unveiling and also started a viral chain of other influencers posting clips of Dream revealing himself to them before the public announcement. He previously announced that there would be an official face reveal in 2022, and anticipation ramped further. Dream, who had always worn a mask since he first went viral for his videos on speed skills and world-building in Minecraft, has long been building up to revealing his face. ![]()
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