Who Is Dream And Why Do People Care So Much About The 'Minecraft' YouTuber's Face Reveal?

If you've interacted with any Zoomers who are into Minecraft, then you've likely heard of Dream. Dream is a Minecraft YouTuber who was the masked face of the Twitch genre of Minecrafters for many years. Dream, who ran the Dream SMP, was always careful for years and made sure that their face was never revealed, with barely any real info being known about them, until they decided to reveal their face on October 2nd.

Who Is 'Dream'?

Dream, whose long-form name is DreamWasTaken, started as a Minecraft channel and continued to make content surrounding the game, getting a heavy boost when Minecraft had a sudden resurgence starting in 2019, and with the Covid-19 helping to popularize streamers. Outside of the Minecraft YouTuber space, Dream was primarily known for one thing, his Cheating Allegations. After posting a speedrun of the game Minecraft that had a few peculiar things going on with it, Dream's name and his Minecraft playing became synonymous with cheating in speedruns.

What's The Big Deal About Dream's Face?

Since his days of early content creation, Dream had refused to reveal his face, instead opting to be known more for his Dream Mask and green aesthetic. This is prevalent in fan art, and even a music video named "Mask" that the content creator released on May 21st, 2021, helped to solidify his position on refusing to "face dox" himself. This, however, would get in the way of being able to collab with other creators, which since the pandemic has picked up with a focus on more IRL meetups and events.

What Happened In Dream's Face Reveal?

On October 2nd, 2022, Dream tweeted that his face reveal would take place that day, in a video posted to his YouTube later. At 9 p.m. EST, Dream then uploaded the video titled "Hi, I'm Dream." to his YouTube channel, where he finally revealed his face after some teasing around the 1:17-minute mark. The video rapidly went viral, garnering over 18 million views and nearly 300,000 comments in 13 hours, as well as becoming the No. 1 trending video on the platform.

Why Did Dream Reveal His Face?

Dream says in his video that part of the reason why he revealed his face now is to get to do more collaborations and meet more people, with the biggest reason being that fellow Minecraft streamer GeorgeNotFound had just moved to Florida to live in a content house with Dream and possibly others, leading to the need to face reveal. Another possible reason not stated is that Twitchcon is coming up in a few days, and other previously face-less content creators have all done face reveals in the days leading up to a big reveal at a convention.

For the full history of Dream, be sure to check out our entry here for even more information.