After his face reveal, the Minecraft streamer Dream was bullied. Nevertheless: He is satisfied that he did it.
Some streamers have built their online personality without showing their face. This was the case for “Disguised Toast” for a long time, and “Dream” also fell into this category. Especially known for his Minecraft content, Dream was long known before another topic began to overshadow it: Dream’s face reveal, the revealing of his face.
In hindsight, it went only “so-so” – yet Dream does not regret the decision.
What happened after the face reveal? After Clayton Huff, whom most know as “Dream”, revealed his face, what often happens on the internet under the cover of anonymity occurred. Many expressed disappointment in Dream’s face, as he just looked “like an average guy”. This disappointment also brought insults, including nasty memes and demeaning videos.
Ultimately, this even led Dream to delete the video of his “face reveal” and he now mainly produces content wearing the mask again.
Does Dream regret the face reveal? No. During a podcast, he revealed that he does not regret showing his face.
The mask was always a big part of everything I did. I never actually planned to not show my face. So I just started as a faceless content creator because I never had shown my face online before. […]
I didn’t have any social media accounts. I had no Twitter. I had no Facebook. I had no Instagram. I had none of that before I started YouTube. It just so happened that I didn’t have any pictures of myself for all these things. […]
Then I got the mask sent to my mailbox and thought “This is so cool.” It came from the fans and I think I just never wanted to lose that.
In this, Dream believes that he simply had to show his face:
I think I had to show my face. I lived in this constant state of paranoia, but my life is so much better now that I can finally live my life and do what I want.
I might maybe do a few things a bit differently, but it’s hard to say because that would then trigger a different chain of events that could then unfold completely differently, so I’m pretty satisfied with [how it went].
