p>YouTuber? Dream has broken numerous records and received millions of views. However, the person behind the avatar is still a mystery. With 16.4 million subscribers on YouTube, Dream is one of the fastest-growing YouTube channels on the platform. - Though he has faced controversy, the Minecraft expert is still one of the most loyal and devoted fans on the internet. For more news, visit Insider's homepage.
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p>Minecraft YouTuber? Dream has quickly risen up the ranks of creators, becoming one of the fastest-growing YouTube channel's of 2020 and the top two overall creator of the year according to the platform. The unassuming green avatar who is adept at uncovering "Minecraft's" cavern-filled secrets has managed to garner more than 16 million subscribers in under two years. What exactly is it that makes Dream so special and popular, when there are thousands of content creators who have created worlds with Minecraft's characteristic blocks?
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p>Who is Dream?
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p>Dream's identity and personal life are not yet known. The YouTuber? who prefers to keep his identity secret, chose not to reveal his identity. The avatar he uses online is a simple neon-green model. The style of the figure is famous, and easily recognizable to the average "Minecraft" viewer.
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p>Mysticat, a YouTuber?, states that Dream's brand is "unprofessional however that doesn't mean it's not good." Dream uses a Microsoft Paint drawn character that's hilarious and appealing to kids, which is Minecraft's core audience."
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p>Although Dream launched his YouTube channel in 2014 it doesn't seem that his videos were uploaded regularly until July 2019. In his first video, he intentionally "triggers" viewers by playing the game as badly as possible, doing things like placing blocks on top of chests, killing sheep to get their wool and eating rotten meat.
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p>Dream began posting content more frequently following his first upload. Felix Kjellberg, known online as the hugely popular PewDiePie?, was playing "Minecraft" for his massive audience of over 100 million followers at that point. Dream found an opportunity to alter Kjellberg's "world seed," meaning, the randomly generated world that his "Minecraft" game had created, using tricks he had learned from forums. The video garnered 200,000 views within two days. Dream then created three more videos that would receive more than two million views each. At the end of July, Dream had gained 54,000 subscribers , and his fame was born.
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p>For the next few months, Dream's channel will continue to gain millions of views and thousands of subscribers but his most memorable breakthrough moment was in November 2019. Dream made a lot of videos that capitalized on the trend format "___ but it changes every time." His video titled "Minecraft However, Items Drops are Random and Multiplied ..." went viral and racked up 32 million views and giving his 600,000 new followers.
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p>Over the next few years, Dream would upload fairly often, gaining hundreds of thousands of subscribers a month and millions of views on video. His "Minecraft Speedrunner vs." series, where Dream would choose to complete the game while certain NPCs, or non-player characters pursued him, or objectives needed to be completed was a huge hit. Dream would also begin working with GeorgeNotFound? who was an acquaintance and a future participant on Dream's roleplaying site which he launched in May 2020.
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p>Dream has been accused of cheating in Minecraft
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p>Dream's channel was at its peak of subscriber growth, with 2.6 million subscribers by August 2020 and Dream becoming the main character of the game. He had uploaded a speedrun of the 1.14 version of Minecraft in March of 2020, and 1.15 in June, so when version 1.16 version came out later in the year, he was forced to take it on. He finished his run in fifth place and was pleased with where he was placed on the leaderboard.
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p>Geosquare who is the moderator of the official speedrun forums and YouTube channel, uploaded a YouTube clip entitled "Did Dream fake his Speedruns ? Official Moderator Analysis" on December 11, 2020. Geosquare and his colleagues Minecraft moderators had examined the livestream runs and believed that Dream had recorded events that were likely to have occurred without the assistance of mods or cheats. In a lengthy document of 29 pages, the mods came to the conclusion that the chances that Dream managed to find the two items required to complete the game quickly was 1 in 1.75 trillion.
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p>In multiple videos and Twitter threads, Dream denied any wrongdoing. Dream posted a video on December 23 discussing the claims. Dream shared a research study he'd conducted with Photoexcitation. It concluded that there was a 1 in 100 million chance of winning.
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p>The speedrunning mods later released a new five-page document discrediting Dream's research. Dream responded in a final tweet writing that "this drama has caused stress for the majority of the Minecraft community and a large portion of that was probably due to my initial reaction to the drama, so I'm fully responsible for this."
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p>Dream has been subject to harassment, including doxxing
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p>Dream fans were able to locate his home using a photograph of his kitchen, which was posted to his second account on January 1, 2021. They also shared the information, which is known as doxxing.
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p>Dream expressed his opinion about the incident in a Twitlonger on the 7th. He also spoke about his ex-girlfriend who he believes is spreading false allegations. He denied what he said were her accusations, that he "doesn't take a lot of interest in YouTube" and that his friends who appear in his videos do not receive an "revenue" cut from his channel.
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p>How has Dream has mastered the YouTube algorithm
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p>The massive growth of Dream between the period of 2019 and 2020 could be attributed to his understanding of the YouTube algorithm.
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p>He puts his keywords in the right spots, capitalizes on trends, and creates thumbnails that people are eager to click. Similar to the genius of Jimmy Donaldson, the highly-popular Mr. Beast puts on his videos, Dream has figured out how to make it on YouTube.
