The 23-year-old YouTube star Dream revealed his face to the world a week ago. The American became extremely popular through Minecraft. In his first interview without a mask, on the sidelines of TwitchCon, he addresses the fuss about himself and how he deals with the insults.
This is the situation:
- The Minecraft YouTuber Dream is one of the most famous gaming personalities in the world: On YouTube, he has nearly 31 million subscribers; on Twitter, 2 million people follow him. Even a cheating scandal could not shake his popularity.
- For over 8 years, Dream only appeared behind a smiling mask, keeping his face under wraps. The face reveal video now has 38 million views.
- This changed on October 2, when Dream did a face reveal on YouTube. Following this, the 23-year-old received numerous ugly comments about his appearance. People compared him to the Shrek villain Rumpelstiltskin. Three negative hashtags about his appearance trended on Twitter.
What does he say about the hate? At TwitchCon, Dream (23) was seen for the first time as “the human with a face”. He gave an interview to Bloomberg, his first without a mask over his face.
When asked how he deals with a hashtag like “#HESUGLY” trending about him on Twitter, he says:
I received many text messages from my friends asking: Are you okay? I said: Well, when you have 30 million pairs of eyes on you, then there will be one or two million people who make jokes or are mean or just not great people. If you make the pool big enough, you have that part of it.
Before the face reveal, he wanted to look as good as possible, and even hired a makeup artist.
Started with $20,000 reserve on YouTube – 3 years only PC, food, bed
What does he say about his life? The life of Dream in the interview doesn’t sound too spectacular, which he lived under the mask.
He said that when he decided to pursue YouTube full-time, he had saved about $20,000 and quit a job at Apple. But then he lived practically only for YouTube:
I woke up, went to my computer, got away from my computer to eat, then back to my computer, off to bed – maybe watch a little TV or something.
He led this life for 3 years while striving for success.
What did he do to remain anonymous? Dream says he wanted to take absolutely no risk that anyone would recognize him by his voice in real life and then blow the secret of Dream. The fans knew his voices and they knew that he lived in Orlando, Florida.
He wanted to exclude even the tiniest chance of being discovered. Revealing his face was supposed to be his moment. He even traveled to another state to go to the dentist.
When he went to the movies or out to eat with his mother, they did not do it in Florida, but in Georgia.
In the interview with Bloomberg, Dream says: He believes the mask helped him more than it harmed him. He compares himself to Spider-Man, where anyone could be under the mask.
Now that he can show his face, he wants to enjoy “real life” with his friends, many of whom he knew only online: They too had no idea what he looked like under the mask until last week.
Now that he can show his face, he wants to enjoy “real life” with his friends, many of whom he knew only online: They too had no idea what he looked like under the mask until last week.
