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Meet Dream Meet Dream, the Mysterious Minecraft YouTuber who is one of the Fastest-growing Creators on the Platform

YouTuber Dream has broken records and racked up millions of views, but the person behind the avatar is still unknown. Dream is a YouTube channel with 16.4 million users on YouTube is among the fastest-growing YouTube channels. Even though he's been the subject of controversy however, the Minecraft expert is still one of the most loyal and devoted fanbases online. For more stories, go to Insider's homepage.

Minecraft YouTuber Dream has rapidly risen in the creator hierarchy and has become one of the fastest-growing YouTube channels of 2020 and the top two overall creator of the year, according to the platform. The green faceless avatar with a knack for discovering "Minecraft's" cavern-filled secrets has managed to garner over 16 million users in less than two years. What exactly is it that is it that makes Dream so distinctive and popular when there have been thousands of content creators who have created worlds with Minecraft's characteristic blocks?

Who is Dream?

Dream's life and identity are unknown and the YouTuber with the name of Sleepy choosing to keep his face secret. His avatar on YouTube is a simple neon-green image. The style of the figure is iconic, and easily recognizable to the average "Minecraft" user.

As YouTuber Mysticat puts it, "Dream's branding is unprofessional however this doesn't mean that it's bad. Dream employs a Microsoft Paint drawn character that's super doofy and appealing to kids, which is Minecraft's core target audience."

Although Dream started his YouTube channel in 2014 it's not clear whether his videos were uploaded regularly until July 2019. In his first video Dream "triggers" viewers by playing the game as bad as possible. He does this by placing blocks on the top, killing sheep for their wool eating rotten meat, and even placing blocks on the top.

After his first upload, Dream started posting content regularly. Felix Kjellberg, known online as the wildly popular PewDiePie, was playing "Minecraft" for his massive audience of over 100 million users at the time he uploaded his first post. Dream managed to find a way to re-engineer Kjellberg's "world seed," meaning, the randomly generated world that his "Minecraft" game had created, using tricks he learned from forums. The video was viewed by 200,000 viewers within two days. Dream then created three more videos that would receive over two million views each. At the end of July, Dream had gained 54,000 subscribers , and his fame was born.

In the coming months, Dream's channel would continue to gain millions of views and thousands of subscribers but his most memorable breakthrough moment was in November 2019. Dream produced a number of videos that benefited from the popular format "___ but it changes each time." His video titled "Minecraft, But Item Drops Are Random And Multiplied ..." went viral, pulling in 32 million views and giving the video 600,000 new subscribers.

In the following year, Dream would upload fairly regularly, steadily increasing his number of subscribers per month and millions of views on video. His "Minecraft Speedrunner vs." series, in which Dream would choose to finish the game while certain NPCs (also known as non-player characters), chased after his pursuit, or set goals that had to be accomplished were hugely popular. Dream also began working with GeorgeNotFound, an acquaintance and a potential member of Dream's roleplaying server that he created in the month of May of 2020.

Dream has been accused of cheating in Minecraft

Dream's channel was at the highest growth in subscribers, with 2.6 million subscribers as of August 2020 and Dream becoming the face for the game. He 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 launched later that year, he needed to adopt it. He finished his run in fifth place, happy with where he was on the leaderboard.

Geosquare who is the moderator of the official speedrun forums, uploaded a YouTube video that was titled "Did Dream fake his Speedruns – Official Moderator Analysis" on December 11 20th, 2020. Geosquare and his colleagues Minecraft moderators had looked over the livestreams and concluded that Dream had recorded events that were statistically unlikely to have occurred without the help of mods or cheats. In a document that spanned 29 pages the moderators reached the conclusion that the chances that Dream managed to find the two items needed to finish the game that quickly was 1 in 1.75 trillion.

Dream has denied any fraud or wrongdoing in a variety of Twitter threads and videos. Free forums Dream posted an interview on December 23 in which he discussed the claims. Dream shared a research study he conducted with Photoexcitation. It concluded that there was a one out of 100 million chance of his winning.

The speedrunning mods then released another five-page document dismissing Dream's study. SOME FORUMS Dream responded with a final tweet writing that "this drama has been a stressful time for most of the Minecraft community and a large portion of that was probably due to my initial reaction to the drama, and I'm fully responsible for this."

Dream has faced harassment including doxxing

On January 1, 2021, Dream fans managed to locate his house using a photo of his kitchen posted on his second account and then shared the data, an invasion of privacy, referred to as doxxing.

In a Twitlonger from January 7 Dream addressed the incident as well as his ex-girlfriend whom he believes is spreading false rumors about him. Dream denied that what he said were her claims, saying that he "doesn't take a lot of interest in YouTube" and that his friends who appear in his videos do not get the "revenue" taken from his channel.

How Dream masters the YouTube algorithm?

Dream's huge growth in the period of 2019 and 2020 could be attributed to his understanding of the YouTube algorithm.

He places his keywords in the right spots and capitalizes on trends and creates thumbnails that people would like to click. Similar to the genius of Jimmy Donaldson, the highly-popular Mr. Beast creates in his videos, Dream has figured out how to succeed on YouTube.