You have both heard of Dream, or you might be over 25. Or you’re a video games journalist who has to learn about these items, however in case you are the third one, why are you right here? You already know this. Go away.
For these of you who’re out of the loop, Dream is a 23-year-old Minecraft YouTuber (actual identify Clay) with over 30 million subscribers who seems like this:
Except, clearly, he would not. That’s only a masks that he wears to match his on-line avatar. It wasn’t completely intentional to be faceless for thus lengthy, however he discovered that it created thriller and hype, plus actually cool fan artwork. It’s been clear for some time that the masks is holding him again, although — he spoke about “not having the ability to categorical myself totally” in an interview final yr — and now that his greatest buddy and fellow Minecraft YouTuber GeorgeNotFound is shifting from the UK to the US, he felt that it was time, within the hopes that the 2 can do extra movies collectively. With their faces.
Now, think about being a 23-year-old who has accidentally-on-purpose constructed up an concept of their very own face being an thrilling reveal… and the way anxiety-inducing it have to be to have all that stress put by yourself visage. There would all the time be backlash, particularly in direction of a creator who looks like such an untouchable superstar, and Twitter took no time in developing with inventive insults a few face that’s, truthfully, fairly common and unremarkable (in a great way). But as he stated, the dearth of a face is a limiting think about his personal profession, and to do the issues he needed to do, he needed to rip off the band-aid. Or, on this case, smiley-face.
Still, the video has been considered virtually 20.5 million instances by followers of Minecraft and faces alike, and the reception is essentially optimistic. How this face reveal will affect Dream’s legions of followers (a lot of whom ship Dream and George) is but to be seen.
