For 8 years, YouTuber Dream has been successful with Minecraft , and in recent years, his popularity has skyrocketed. He recently revealed his face in a face reveal and had to hear quite a bit: While some on Twitter compared him to “Rumpelstiltskin” from Shrek, Twitch streamer Pokimane praised his eyes. A Twitch streamer explains why the reaction was so intense.
Who is Dream?
- The content creator Dream has been making Minecraft videos since 2014: He became enormously popular around 2019. He played Minecraft while being hunted by friends.
- Dream was involved in a cheating scandal, but emerged even more popular: he had achieved a legendary record during a speed run while using a modified version. He claimed it was an accident.
- Over the years, he has always appeared wearing a mask. In an interview, he once explained that he didn’t actually want to remain anonymous, but when he thought of an avatar, he just ended up being the guy with the mask.
This was the reveal: In a livestream on YouTube, Dream now took off his mask on October 2, 2022:
- It was a huge event that a million people were looking forward to
- Currently, the video of the face reveal has been viewed by 31.8 million viewers
- Countless YouTubers and Twitch streamers have reacted to and commented on the video. People are also sharing their opinions on Twitter.
Immediately 3 ugly Twitter trends about Dream – “Put the mask back on”
What do the negative reactions say? As you might imagine, this was a festivity for some grumpy people on the internet.
As Kotaku reports, 3 hashtags trended on Twitter that referred to Dream:
- #Rumpelstilskin
- #HES UGLY
- #PutTheMaskBackOn
It particularly spread the strange idea that Dream looks like “Rumpelstiltskin”, the villain from “Forever Shrek” (2010).
People joked: He would now take their “firstborn” – or he should play the villain in the live version of Shrek.
Are there other reactions? Yes, there are. The highest praise comes from Twitch streamer Pokimane, who flirted with how cute she found the somewhat shy Dream.
Pokimane made some “Oh, he’s cute” noises and then judged:
“He has anime eyes!” – It’s like from Demon Slayer, “his soul is pure”.
Pokimane is the streamer with the most followers on Twitch.
Even one of the big fish on YouTube, Mr. Beast, seems delighted (via dexerto): He made Dream an offer: “Now that this is out of the way, come here and be in a few videos.”
The YouTuber opportunist Ludwig cleverly used Dream’s “face reveal” for his own purposes. He pulled in nearly 150,000 viewers to his stream by waiting for the face reveal. Ludwig is just a fox (via sportskeeda).
Even if he looks like Henry Cavill, he would have been hated
Why so much hate? As Twitch streamer MistCr1TiKal explains, the hate was to be expected, no matter what face comes out from under the mask (via dexerto):
There are myriads of people who hate Dream, who hate his fan base, who just can’t stand the guy. So I believe that no matter what he does, that would happen. It was inevitable. He could have done a face reveal and looked like Henry Cavill and Twitter would still have devoured him alive and called him ugly.
The Twitch streamer seems to be right. Especially since the cheating allegations, Dream has become a polarizing figure:
Minecraft: Speedrunner admits he cheated, but it was “just an accident”
