After more than eight years of waiting, the guesswork is now over: The Minecraft player Dream, who is one of the most popular YouTubers with over 30 million subscribers, revealed his face for the first time in the night from Sunday to Monday – and went viral with it.
Over 16 million people have seen his face reveal, but the reasons behind the decision to show his face aren’t as positive as the views.
Masked YouTuber Dream shows his face for the first time
Who is Dream? Dream is currently the biggest Minecraft YouTuber and has been active on YouTube since 2014. Among other things, he is the inventor of the Minecraft Manhunt multiplayer challenge that attracted millions of viewers in 2020 and was involved in a cheat scandal:
Minecraft Manhunt
What is behind the popular multiplayer challenge & the Twitter trend
Dream has always kept a big secret about his face because he only showed himself with a mask. Just like other well-known YouTubers like Corpse Husband or EuropeLetsPlay, who also want to remain anonymous, this caused a lot of speculation as to what the YouTuber might look like.
Prior to the reveal, he built his Face Reveal as an event by Facetimening many of his YouTuber friends for the first time and they all posted their reactions on his face, such as tech pundit Marques Brownlee:
link to Twitter content
The hype surrounding his upcoming Face Reveal has now culminated in the following video, which is currently dominating YouTube trends:
link to YouTube content
Why Dream shows his face
In his video, Dream reveals some personal details: The American is actually called Clay and is 23 years old.
He also reveals the reason why he has now decided to show his face. One of his YouTube friends moved to America with him and he was just fed up locked in his bunker
to be. He wants to do things in real life without constantly worrying about leaks.
However, there is probably more to it than that: For years, trolls and toxic fans have tried to gain attention with fake leaks, making tangled claims and stalking his family and friends on social media:
link to Twitter content
With his Face Reveal, Dream has now put an end to the speculation. But despite looking like a pretty average 23-year-old man, he’s been enduring quite a lot of hateful comments about his looks these days. The hashtag is currently trending on Twitter #Dreamfacerevealunder which mainly insults and strange comparisons can be found, which in his case are about a Habsburg chin want to recognize.
