The Minecraft YouTuber Dream was a huge topic on the internet in October 2022 when he revealed his face for the first time after 8 years as a content creator. Now the 23-year-old American puts on a mask again.
Who is Dream?
- The content creator Dream has been making videos about Minecraft since 2014: He became immensely popular around 2019.
- On YouTube, he has 31.6 million subscribers. His videos regularly reach views in the double-digit millions.
- Dream became known with the format “Manhunt” in Minecraft, where he tries to complete Minecraft as quickly as possible without dying while other players hunt him down and try to stop him.
- In October 2020, Dream was involved in a cheating scandal where he was accused of having achieved his incredibly fast speedrun unfairly. Later, Dream admitted that he had been playing on a modified version of Minecraft.
On October 2, 2022, Dream revealed his face for the first time eight years after the start of his YouTube career. Within just a few hours, Dream’s face reveal video had 14 million views.
“I will gradually delete all pictures of myself online”
Will Dream appear without a mask in the future? Probably not. While this cannot be completely ruled out, Dream released a new video on June 9, 2023, in which he announced that he would be wearing a mask again. In the video description, he writes: “I deleted my face reveal, and this is the reason.”
In the video itself, it can be seen how Dream hints at deleting the face reveal. Attentive viewers can also take a look at the view count of the video: 57.47 million clicks.
Some comments are also shown that wrote nasty messages about the YouTuber’s face reveal. Shortly after the reveal, various hashtags trended on Twitter that were anything but nice. These ranged from “He’s ugly” to “PutTheMaskBackOn”.
Dream also writes in the video description: “I will gradually delete all pictures of myself online and just be a gamer with a mask.”
The face reveal of Dream was a much-discussed topic among marketing professionals in 2022:
