Who is Dream and why is the internet going crazy over the face of the ‘Minecraft’ star?

History was made yesterday. It is quite possible that you are not aware of it.

popular and mysteriousMine Craft Content Creator Named Dream finally made an appearanceThis was followed by an announcement in late September that the face had been revealed, followed by reactions from friends online who had seen his face before he showed it to the wider world.

uselessMine Craft For players, and probably just about everyone under 40, reading headlines like “Dream finally reveals his face” probably felt a bit like reading a salad of words. How can you show that face? Wait, the creator is Mine Craft Did you dream of revealing his face? what?

So who is Dream and why is his face so important?

What do dreams do?

Dream, whose real name is Clay, is 23 years old. Mine Craft content creator. The Building Blocks Game has a really huge online his community, whose top content his creator is his YouTuber king.You can do it peruse his YouTube channel To understand his content and style.

what’s the deal with his face?

Dream didn’t make an appearance until this week’s big announcement. He hid it behind his smile, which has become an iconic part of the YouTuber’s branding. inspiring fan art and establishes some mystique around his character.It certainly brings the Dream to other Mine Craft content creator.

Dream has a huge number of online followers, rivaling major celebrities

In any case, since he started creating content three years ago, Dream has amassed a huge following on social media and YouTube due to his charming personality, mystique, and gaming skills. Few famous celebrities have as many followers as their dreams.

dream is 30.6 million YouTube subscribers and how many (From above 30.4 million last night). This is not on the same level as PewDiePie (111 million) or Mr. Beast (105 million and growing rapidly)

But it’s in the ballpark of major celebrities like Taylor Swift (47.5 million) and Billie Eilish (46.7 million) and Ninja (23.8 million). He is the popular game YouTuber Markiplier (33.7 million) but barely.

How big was this face?

About 20 million people watched Dream’s face reveal video (below), roughly the population of New York State in the last 17 hours (as of this writing). That number will continue to grow. Imagine watching 20 million viewers show off your face to the world.

“This is weird,” Clay says at the beginning of the video. i can only imagine.

Why reveal his face now?

“A lot of you are asking, ‘Why now?'” Clay says in the video below. The reason is that they are cute. his best friend — YouTuber George Not Found—Finally able to get a visa to live and work in the US, the two would like to collaborate on Clay’s real face and video. Mine Craft stream.

“Hi, I’m Dream. This is how I look. After years of being completely invisible online, I’ve finally decided to make my face public. GeorgeNotFound posted a video of our first ever meeting. It will be uploaded soon, so please be prepared.” video caption is.

How Bad Was the Internet Freakout?

Well, like any other big internet thing, the reaction was… mixed. Clearly, many fans were thrilled to attend the reveal and see their favorite content creator’s face for the first time.

Twitch streamers who streamed themselves waiting for Dream to make an appearance are breaking record viewership.

(Note: Dream’s video’s 20 million views is clearly only part of the equation, given how many people apparently watched it. other Not to mention everyone reading articles like this, content creators co-stream the “event”).

Unsurprisingly, the reveal has also inspired fan art, which itself draws huge numbers.

Dream continues to post pictures of herself after making them public to her millions of Twitter followers.

still don’t know

See, you shouldn’t get it. This is the story of the generation gap. As someone who has spent over a decade covering his video games, I don’t get it either. south park just satirized about this Nearly ten years ago.

Basically, Dream makes videos for young people who like to watch videos about the game of punching wood to get wood (sorry, south park jokes) and has created a mysterious persona around him that has intrigued millions of his devoted fans for years.

Now we know what he looks like… perfectly normal. he seems like a good boy But can we truly appreciate his success? Probably not, and that’s okay.