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



YouTuber Dream has broken numerous records and gotten millions of views. But the man behind the avatar remains unidentified.With 16.4 million users on YouTube, Dream is one of the fastest-growing YouTube channels on the platform. Although he's faced controversy but the Minecraft expert still has one of the most loyal and devoted fanbases online. Visit Insider's website for more stories.



Minecraft YouTuber Dream has rapidly risen up the ranks of creators and is now one of the fastest-growing YouTube channels of 2020 and the top two overall creator of the year according to the platform. The faceless green avatar who is adept at discovering "Minecraft's" cavern-filled secrets has managed to acquire more than 16 million subscribers in just two years. What exactly is it that makes Dream so distinctive and popular when there have been thousands of content creators building worlds with Minecraft's characteristic blocks?



Who is Dream?



Dream's identity as well as his personal life aren't known to the public. The YouTuber, who prefers to keep his image secret, chose not to reveal his identity. The avatar he uses online is a simple, neon-green figure. The style of the figure is famous, and easily recognizable to the common "Minecraft" viewer.



As YouTuber Mysticat says, "Dream's branding is unprofessional but this doesn't mean that it's bad. Dream utilizes a Microsoft Paint drawn character that's fun and appealing to children, which is Minecraft's core audience."



Although Dream started his YouTube channel in 2014, it's not clear if the channel was active until July of this year. In his first video Dream "triggers" viewers by playing the game as bad as he can.soundzpromising He does this by putting blocks on the top, killing sheep for their wool, eating rotten flesh, and even placing blocks on top.



After his first upload, Dream started posting content frequently. Felix Kjellberg, known online as the massively popular PewDiePie was playing "Minecraft" for his huge audience of over 100 million followers at the time he uploaded his first post. Dream found the way to modify Kjellberg's "world seed," meaning, the randomly generated world his "Minecraft" game had created, using techniques that he learned from forums. In the first two days the video would pull in around 200,000 views, prompting Dream to make three videos that would garner more than two million views total in a little under two weeks. The star of his career was born when Dream had 54,000 subscribers by the end of July.



For the next few months, Dream's channel would continue to grow in millions of views and thousands of subscribers but his second big breakthrough moment was in November 2019. After uploading several videos that made use of the trending format "___ but ___ changes every time," Dream struck diamond. His video titled "Minecraft However, Items Drops Are Random and Multiplied ..." went viral, pulling in 32 million views, and giving his 600,000 new followers.



Over the next year, Dream would upload fairly frequently, steadily growing hundreds of thousands of subscribers per month, and millions of views on video. His "Minecraft Speedrunner vs." series, where Dream would decide to play the game while certain NPCs or non-player characters, chased after his pursuit, or set goals that had to be accomplished, were massively popular. Dream also began working with GeorgeNotFound as an acquaintance and a potential member of Dream's roleplaying server that he developed in May of 2020.



Dream has been accused of cheating in Minecraft



Dream's channel was approaching its subscriber-growth apex, gaining 2.6 million subscribers by August 2020, and was becoming the mainstay of the game. He had uploaded a speedrun version of the 1.14 version of Minecraft in March of 2020, and 1.15 in June, so when version 1.16 version came out later in the year, he needed to go with it. He finished his run in fifth place, happy with where he was on the leaderboard.



On December 11 , 2020, moderator of the official speedrun forums Geosquare uploaded a YouTube video titled "Did Dream Conceive His Speedruns - Official Moderator Analysis." Geosquare and his colleagues Minecraft moderators had analyzed the livestream runs and believed that Dream had recorded events that were too statistically unlikely to have happened without the assistance of cheaters or mods. The moderators looked over the 29-page document and concluded that Dream was 1 in 1.75 trillion likely to have found the necessary items to play the game.



Dream has denied any wrongdoing or cheating in numerous Twitter threads and videos. In his own video discussing the claims posted on December 23 Dream shared a research study he had commissioned with analysis company Photoexcitation that came to the conclusion that the chances of his run occurring were in fact 1 in 100 million.



The speedrunning mods later released a new five-page document discrediting Dream's studies. Dream responded in one final tweet, writing that "this drama has been a stressful time for most of the Minecraft community and a lot of that is probably due to my initial response to the drama, so I take full responsibility for the situation."



Dream was subject to bullying, including doxxing



Dream fans were able to locate his home using a photo of his kitchen uploaded to his second account on January 1, 2021. They also shared the information, which is referred to as doxxing.



Dream expressed his opinion about the incident in a Twitlonger on the 7th. He also spoke about his ex-girlfriend, who he believes is spreading false reports. Dream denied her allegations and stated that he does not have any issues with YouTube. He also stated that his friends who appear in his videos do not receive a cut of his revenue.



How Dream mastered the YouTube algorithm?



The massive growth of Dream between the years of 2019 and 2020 could be attributed to his knowledge of the YouTube algorithm.



He employs keywords in the right spots and leverages trends to create thumbnails that viewers will want to click. Similar to the genius of Jimmy Donaldson, the highly-popular Mr. Dream has learned to be successful on YouTube similar to Beast.