Clay [1] [2] (born: August 12, 1999 ( 1999-08-12 ) [age 21] ) [3] [4] , better known online as Dream (formerly DreamTraps), is an American gaming YouTuber and known for his Minecraft collaborations and speedruns.

His channel is one of the fastest-growing channels in the history of YouTube, gaining over 10 million subscribers in a little over a year. He is part of the collaborative group «Dream Team» which consists of himself, GeorgeNotFound, and Sapnap.

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Personal Life

Clay was born on August 12, 1999. He grew up with a 14-year-old sister nicknamed «Drista» by TommyInnit, a portmanteau of «Dream» and «sista». He also has an older sister and a younger brother. [5] Dream has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). [6] [7]

He was the quarterback of his high school flag football team and recreationally played basketball and soccer. He did not attend a college because he felt that he knew enough about technology to get a job without a degree. He formerly worked for AppleCare.

Dream is about 6’3″ (191 centimeters) tall. He lives in the city of Orlando, Florida with Sapnap & his cat Patches.

Face Reveal

On December 24, 2020, Dream teased a picture of himself in real life with a sign covering his face [8] , leading people to speculate that Dream may do a face reveal. On December 31, 2020, Dream tweeted «let’s start 2021 off with a bang. » [9] along with an 8 second video of him teasing his face reveal again where he holds up a sign covering his face with music in the background.

In the unofficial YouTube rewind 2020 published by MrBeast on January 1, 2021, he shows his face covered by a mask resembling his iconic Minecraft Skin. [10]

Dream revealed in an interview in 2021 with Kavos that his face reveal was delayed due to COVID-19. He also shared that he would be doing a face reveal in early 2022 if COVID-19 was gone by then. [11]

On April 1, 2021, Dream retweeted a tweet from Danny Gonzalez claiming that Danny is «Dream» and that he’ll reveal his face in live stream. Dream tweeted saying «I’m live» and left a link of Danny’s twitch, and shows of Danny streaming with the title «I was dream the whole time», with a brown hair, light-blue eyes & not freckles, and the voice Danny and Dream isn’t similar. People didn’t fall for it since it’s April Fools day, but some of them did believe.

Content

Dream is well-known for his Minecraft videos. Dream’s content usually consists of challenge videos. He is also known for his popular Minecraft series «Minecraft Speedrunner VS 1/2/3/4 Hunter(s).», as well as another popular series «Unsolved Mysteries», where he goes in-depth on some in-game mysteries.

Music career

On February 3, 2021, Dream announced on his main Twitter account that he would be releasing a song in 24 hours called Roadtrip, featuring PmBata. [12] Shortly afterwards, he deleted the tweet. He posted a snippet of his new song on his private Twitter account dreamhangout after announcing the song. [13] On February 4, 2021, he premiered the official lyric video for Road Trip on YouTube. [14] [15]

The song was about remembering good things from the past, even if things have changed since then, and holding on the good memories. [16]

Following this, Dream teased a new song he was creating on the dreamhangout Twitter account. [17] Responding to fans, he stated that the clip was not part of the finished product, he would not be featuring other music artists on it, and that the full song is titled «Mask». [18]

History

His oldest widely-known video was uploaded on July 13, 2014, titled «1000 subs.» During this time, Dream was an administrator on BadBoyHalo’s Minecraft server. Dream was stuck on about 1K subscribers until his breakthrough in 2019. He started uploading more consistently after uploading the video «this cursed Minecraft video will trigger you. » on July 5, 2019.

His first video was titled «best traps 2014 mcpvp», and was uploaded on February 13, 2014. He can be seen showing off a trap with players. The video was uploaded 4 days after he created his channel, although the 1st video that he appears in is «Switcher Levitator Trap Tutorial» Posted On August 26, 2013.

Dream studied YouTube, the algorithm, and Reddit, which was a huge factor that contributed in Dream’s success. [19]

He initially gained attention after organizing a project to find PewDiePie’s Minecraft world seed. He is also known for his distinct wheezing laugh. Dream often collaborates with GeorgeNotFound, Sapnap, and BadBoyHalo. He also has a relation to Skeppy through BadBoyHalo. He also met GeorgeNotFound on BadBoyHalo’s Minecraft server, MunchyMC.

Minecraft Unsolved

The Unsolved series introduces and analyzes strange things within Minecraft. This includes the following videos:

Minecraft Challenges

Dream is known for his Minecraft challenges series in which he attempts to beat the game in survival mode with some type of challenge in place, usually making the game more difficult. Dream and George code all the plugins for their challenge videos. On occasion, Dream features well-known people in his Minecraft Manhunt series, including Notch, MrBeast, and friendly speedrunning rival IlluminaHD. His Manhunt videos are often said to be directly inspired by the original Minecraft Manhunt video made by British YouTuber Wilbur Soot, although the content in the original video is different from the newer one made by Dream.

Minecraft Manhunt

Survival Challenges

Other Challenges

*DNP = Did Not Participate

Events

Minecraft Championship

Minecraft Championship is a Minecraft tournament for YouTubers and streamers run by the Noxcrew, in which 10 teams of four compete in a series of 8 minigames decided by the participants. A point multiplier makes each game worth more as each round passes, incentivizing teams to vote for games they might be bad at early on in the event. In the end, the two teams with the most points face off in a round of ‘Dodgebolt’ to decide the winner of the tournament. This makes it possible for a team to win despite potentially having fewer points than the runner-up.

• MC Championship 1-5: Did Not Participate
• MC Championship 6: Team Lime Llamas.
  • Teamed with GeorgeNotFound, Mefs, and TheEret
    • Placed 3rd individual and his team placed 3rd overall.
• MC Championship 7: Team Purple Pandas
  • Teamed with GeorgeNotFound, Sapnap, and Sylvee.
    • Placed 3rd individual and his team placed 4th overall.
• MC Championship 8: Team Pink Parrots
  • Teamed with Technoblade, KingBurren, and Michaelmcchill.
    • Placed 2nd individual and his team placed 2nd in the main event.
      • Because the team placed 2nd in the main event they played in the championship game, dodgebolt, which they won thus winning the whole event.
    • They were the lowest-scoring team in MCC history to win the event.
• MC Championship 9: Team Lime Llamas
  • Teamed with Fundy, Tubbo, and Sylvee.
    • Placed 13th individual and his team placed 6th overall.
• MC Championship 10: Team Red Rabbits
  • Teamed with GeorgeNotFound, Solidarity, and CaptainPuffy
    • Placed 3rd individual and his team placed 3rd overall.
• MC Championship 11: Team Fuschia Frankensteins
  • Teamed with GeorgeNotFound, Sapnap, and KarlJacobs.
    • Placed 1st individual and his team placed 2nd overall.
      • Because the team placed 2nd in the main event they played in the championship game, Dodgebolt, which they won thus winning the whole event.
• MC Championship 12: Team Pink Parrots
  • Teamed with CaptainSparklez, Spifey, and Michaelmcchill.
    • Placed 7th individual and his team placed 5th overall.
• MC Championship 13: Team Pink Presents
  • Teamed with Shubble, CaptainSparklez, and Dangthatsalongname.
    • Placed 7th individual and his team placed 3rd overall.

Minecraft Ultimate

MC Ultimate is a Minecraft Hunger Games event for 250+ streamers. Organized by Pikaclicks, or Noah, it is known as the largest hunger games event held in the MC Community (Of all time).

• MC Ultimate Season 1: Teamed with GeorgeNotFound.
  • He was eliminated early on in the game. Got eliminated by Joko’s team due to lag, and a -15% damage nerf.
• MC Ultimate Season 2-3: Did Not Participate

Dream SMP

The Dream SMP is a Minecraft SMP server created and played on by the Dream Team and various YouTubers and streamers. The SMP is mainly played during live streams either on Twitch or YouTube by a majority of the members.

Members

• Dream
• GeorgeNotFound
• Sapnap
• BadBoyHalo
• Callahan
• Ponk
• ItsAlyssa
• awesamdude
• TommyInnit
• Fundy
• Punz
• Tubbo
• Purpled
• Skeppy
• Wilbur Soot
• Eret
• jschlatt
• JackManifoldTV (Formerly Thunder1408)
• Nihachu (Niki)
• Quackity
• Karl
• HBomb94
• Technoblade
• Antfrost
• Ph1LzA
• ConnorEatsPants
• Captain Puffy
• LazarBeam
• Vikkstar123
• Ranboo
• Hannahxxrose
• Foolish Gamers
• Slimecicle

Guests

• Ninja
• Drista (Dream’s sister, on Dream’s account)
• JustVurb (Vurb, on Skeppy’s account)
• Lani (Tubbo’s sister, on Tubbo’s account)
• KSI
• Corpse Husband
• MrBeast
• Pokimane
• Skepina (Skeppy’s sister, on Skeppy’s account)

Notable Locations

• Ponk’s lemon tree
• The Socializing Club
• The Wall
• L’Manberg (Formerly Manberg)
• The Giant Ball
• Holy Land (In Holy Land, you are not allowed to kill other members of the server)
• The Prime Path
• Tubbo’s Secret Bunker
• The Ninjia Alley way
• Pogtopia
• The L’mantree
• Eret’s Castle
• Community House
• Community Nether Portal
• Spawn Area (walled in)
• Logstedshire (TommyInnit’s temporary exile town)
• Boomerville

• Tommy’s disc war (Dream vs TommyInnit)
  • TommyInnit’s allies include Tubbo and Sapnap. Tubbo got the final kill.
• Dream SMP War (Dream Team vs L’manberg)
• The Manberg Rebellion (TommyInnit, Wilbur Soot, and Technoblade vs Manberg and members)
• The Pet War (ongoing; mainly Fundy, Sapnap, TommyInnit, & Niki/Nihachu)
• The Manberg Rebellion
• The War of the Burning Eiffel Tower
  • Includes The Battle of the Lake/Tower
  • Some reasons for this war include the same reasons as the ongoing Pet War
• The Manberg vs Pogtopia War

Controversies

Minecon Live 2020

During Minecon Live 2020, a vote was held in which players could vote on the next mob being added to Minecraft: the three options given were the Glow Squid, the Moobloom, and the Iceologer. Dream urged his Twitter followers to vote for the Glow Squid, tweeting to his fans about following them if they showed him proof of their vote, which he soon deleted. When the Glow Squid ultimately won the vote by a small margin against the Iceologer, this led many people to believe Dream had influenced the outcome of the vote, and vented their frustration against him. Dream later apologized for the incident in a twitter post and soon made another twitter post to apologize and reflect on all of the controversies he’s been in.

The backlash resulted in HelenAngel asking the Twitter community via a poll whether or not votes should be abandoned in future Minecon events, due to their propensity for controversy.

Feud with Jawsh

A popular YouTuber Jawsh made a statement [20] on his second Twitter account about how «stan culture» is unhealthy, monsters, garbage, and immoral as well as calling the people in the culture «unwell mentally». In his post, he stated he was tired of random people obsessing over him and other people, such as Dream. This statement received a lot of mixed responses, with Dream replying with «You’re an idiot». [21] Many people called this response immature and criticized Dream for not issuing a proper response. Jawsh responded to this tweet stating the following:

―Jawsh’s response to Dream’s reply [22]

Jawsh’s response received mixed receptions, mainly due to claiming that Dream’s friends were «bandwagoning» him because they didn’t agree with Jawsh’s perspective. He gained even more backlash after Karl and Tubbo made joke tweets about the situation, baselessly accusing them of «farming their Twitter for likes».

Dream then made a tweet defending his stans, by calling them «a group of people trying to meet other people with similar interests while expressing this interest through shared morals, love, and creativity.» [23]

Many people saw this drama, with some people like Spifey and Karl Jacobs supporting Dream’s opinion of his definition of a «stan» and people like CallMeCarson «agreeing» with Jawsh’s statement regarding stans, although it seemed to be in a satirical manner.

Former Lunch Club member Hugbox retweeted Dream’s definition of a «stan» with «You are unironically such a fucking pussy it’s not even funny,» [24] to which Dream responded where he told him «here I noticed you now go outside.» [25] Which garnered both support and disdain from his fans.

Dream made a video in his second channel where he explained that the meaning of the word «stan» has changed, that most of the stans are very supportive and just very enthusiastic fans, that the haters who accuse people of being stans are more toxic than the stans themselves, and that he sees more comments about how terrible Dream stans are than Dream stans themselves.

Speedrun Cheating Allegations

On December 11, 2020 a video by YouTuber and speedrun.com Minecraft head moderator Geosquare was uploaded, going over a statistical analysis paper made by the speedrun.com Minecraft moderation team. The paper covered Dream’s unusually lucky ender pearl trades and blaze rod drops through multiple full speedrun streams.

In order to account for any bias, they overcompensated for Dream, so that the bias is actually in favor of him. Through statistical evaluation and calculations after essentially giving Dream’s luck the benefit of the doubt, it was concluded that the odds of Dream getting the run he did was about 1 in 7.5 trillion. Due to this abnormally low probability which many of pointed out is statistically impossible to get, the moderation came to the conclusion that Dream’s game was modified in some way to manipulate the pearl barter and rod drop rates. [26]

Dream responded to Geosquare’s video in the following tweet after his run was officially rejected:

―Dream’s response to Geosquare’s video [27]

In response to these allegations, Dream claims to have neither the motive or ability to increase his chances artificially (by cheating and modding the game) in the way the paper claims him to. He believes the data is invalid due to sampling bias. These points have been addressed in Geosquare’s video (with the point about sampling bias being addressed along all the other possible biases in the paper).

Dream has sent a download to his speedrun world.

On December 23, 2020 Dream released his now deleted response video on his second account, DreamXD. Shortly after the video was published, members of r/statistics claim that the numbers stated in the video were flawed in order to give him a statistical advantage, according to the Redditors the researcher made amateur-level mistakes when discussing them and did not understand the concepts they were applying. [29] Since Dream did not release the person’s name and qualifications, people are skeptical if the undisclosed person is actually a Harvard graduate or an astrophysicist, as Dream has claimed.

On December 25, 2020 Dream was interviewed by GTA speedrunner DarkViperAU and answered a lot of questions that people had asked. [30]

On December 31, 2020 a video by YouTuber Karl Jobst showed a statistical analysis using a computer simulation of a run with trillions and trillions of simulations in order to prove to disprove if Dream was cheating, and it revealed that it was impossible to be replicated, Karl Jobst then concludes,

On December 31, 2020 YouTuber AntVenom uploaded a video where he used a binomial distribution calculator to find Dream’s odds. He then removed the last run in order to eliminate bias. He used Dream’s older streams with more believable odds and combined the two together. After using the approximate number of speedruns ever done, he came to the odds that there was a 1 in 6.9+ trillion chance that Dream’s luck could have happened.

On February 16, 2021 Dream deleted his response video for unknown reasons.

The cheating controversy would later become a massive running gag within the Minecraft community.

John Swan Drama

On February 14, 2021, John Swan tweeted out that Dream was a «douchebag» alongside a clip of YouTuber penguinz0 criticizing him. Dream fans were not happy with this categorization of their favorite content creator and replied by the hundreds to Swan’s account.

John’s response was posted to the DreamWasTaken2 subreddit, with the title «What a way to milk the drama.» Dream responded to the post, writing that Swan had interviewed him for his Minecraft documentary series a year ago.

Later, John changed his own profile picture and avatar pretending to be Dream sending «the n-word» as well as «sexual stuff» to multiple fans, one of whom contacted him. The comment had only received 20 likes before he posted a rebuttal to Dream’s claims.

After Dream found himself in trouble & discovered John pretending to be him, Dream decided to call out John for the same, but he denied these allegations at that time, claiming he had logged into his Discord account on a friend’s computer and that the friend had «decided it would be a good idea to start trolling,» sending out the n-word as well as conversations about a «Minecraft sex mod» to others, including YouTuber and fan of Swan’s HarleyTBS. Shortly, John made another tweet claiming Dream was attempting to “smear his credibility”. This Twitter thread caused the drama to continue to snowball, with Dream responding to the thread, writing that he «didn’t believe» Swan’s story.

―Dream’s reply on John Swan

On February 16, Dream went live streaming on Twitch explaining why he didn’t believe John’s story. Over the course of the now-deleted hour-long stream, Dream showed the messages sent to HarleyTBS from Swan’s account as well as one pretending to be Dream, comparing the language to how Swan typically talks online. The stream itself spread throughout the internet with «caught in 4k» and «john swan lied» trending on Twitter with thousands of tweets over the next few hours.

John Swan then tweeted out after discovering the trending about him getting called out.

Later that day, Keemstar created multiple Twitter videos asking John Swan to come on his DramaAlert show and appear in a debate with Dream. Swan declined, telling fellow YouTuber Optimus that he was only given 10 minutes to prepare, which wasn’t enough time. Keem denied that, tweeting that he had been given at least two hours before he was set to record. When reached for comment on February 17, Swan told Insider he «wouldn’t be doing any interviews until his response drops.»

Over a week later on February 24, John Swan releases an 18-page Google Doc and audiobook explaining his side of the story. In the doc he attempts to debunk every single claim made by Dream in his live stream and tweets. Swan also attempted to hurt HarleyTBS’ credibility, writing that «you probably shouldn’t be listening to him when it comes to his takes on serious allegations.»

A few days later on February 27, John Swan posted on Twitter that he had been lying and he was involved in sending the messages. «I told a lie and I thought it would never get brought back up again,» Swan wrote. «I have let you all down. I am ashamed and disappointed in myself. And I am sorry.» shortly afterword, he deactivated his twitter account.

The same date, a YouTuber LtCobra wrote on his Twitter, claiming that he was the one on Swan’s account and had «pretended he was good friends with dream and sent Harley dreams discord account.»

Again the same day, many YouTubers such as Kavos, AugieRFC & Optimus, tweeted their fury about the situation. Dream responded with his own Twitter thread, writing that he is severely disappointed in John Swan for continuing to lie about him and very disappointed in all the commentary channels that made the narrative that he «slandered a small creator», and that he decided he will not talk about it anymore and should forget about it.

«N-Word» Situation

On March 25, 2021 Twitter user & YouTuber named Turkey Tom tweeted out (now deleted right after it was explained) accusing Dream of using the n-word [32] . He included screenshots of Minecraft and a NameMC, showing the username Dream with a skin of a ninja girl. He showed a video from a youtube channel «untrusted» of a person playing Minecraft counter-strike mod with his friends in 2017 as hearing somebody said the n-word, this leads to many people believe it sounds like Dream and the drama starts to blow up, as well as Geosquare agree with Tom and accused Dream of saying the n-word.

Dream tweeted out on his second account, hinted that it was not him in the video, as he only bought the Dream account in 2019. He didn’t explain this properly, as it is against the Minecraft Terms Of Service. He also explained that the IGN «DeltaNinja» in the NameMC history wasn’t him. Sapnap & BadBoyHalo tweeted out on his second account that it wasn’t dream in the video, as he has known dream for a while, and it didn’t sound like him.

According to a unknown sales site, somebody named Ken sold the account «Dream» in February 2019 and Dream bought it. This proves that it wasn’t Dream saying the n-word. [33]

Also on twitter user named TheDeltaNinja and on YouTube, he confirmed that it was the old Dream before and that it wasn’t the real Dream. and that when he saw the clip of the video, he confirmed that it was someone who he knew and who likes to say racial slurs and homophobic slurs. He also confirmed himself that he sold the account «Dream» and the Dream himself bought the account in February 2019, and that the old Dream and real Dream is completely different people. After it was explained, the storm was calmed and Geosquare apologized for his wrongdoings and for accusing Dream of using the N-word.

Trivia

• Dream wrote two books years ago and stated that he might write again soon. [34] He started planning out a book and wrote a few paragraphs in early 2019, however never finished it. [35]
• He loves banana pudding. [36]
• His favorite bug is the ladybug.
• His favorite flower is the rose.
• His favorite color is green.
• He is scared of heights.
• Dream has an iPad with «george is gay» engraved on it. [37]
• According to his Twitter and on a stream, he has dirty blonde hair, green eyes, and freckles. He also stated that he doesn’t wear glasses.
  • On his Instagram, he posted pictures of him wearing merchandise, in which he showed his hair. His hair is short and appears to be dark brown in specific lighting and when wet.
    • However, Dream’s hair is dirty blonde, leading to the speculation that the person in that photo is GeorgeNotFound and not actually Dream.
• He almost met Sapnap in real life three times when they were in the same cities. The first time, they didn’t meet because Dream was scared of Sapnap’s mom.
• When he was 13 and Sapnap was 12, he blocked Sapnap on Skype over a Minecraft game, due to a misunderstanding of the rules.
• According to the Pottermore Sorting Hat Quiz, which he took on one of GeorgeNotFound’s streams, his Hogwarts house is Slytherin.
• He has a PO box that fans can send things to. He did an unboxing video on his DreamXD channel, opening things he received from it.
• He met his friend and fellow YouTuber, GeorgeNotFound, in person for the first time on July 13, 2020, along with Wilbur Soot. It has been confirmed that there will be a vlog made of this meetup which will be released on GeorgeNotFound’s channel. Wilbur said that Clay was shorter than he expected.
  • On October 2, 2020, it was revealed on Dream’s Twitter that he never actually met up with them and all his tweets regarding his trip were all a joke.
• According to his now-deleted Q&A video on his second channel, he is a very sensitive and emotional person.
• His Twitter account username used to be @Dreamwastaken, but was changed to @Dream in September of 2020. [38]
• He once ate cat poop when he was a toddler. [39]
• He was once taken to the hospital because a frog was stuck in his mouth (his father has a video of the event).
• Dream showed a picture on Twitter of when he was 10 years old, showing him on top of an alligator. This is one of the few known pictures of Dream.
• Dream was nominated for the 2020 tenth annual Streamy Awards in the Gaming and Breakout Creator categories. The Streamy Awards took place on December 13, 2020. He won the Streamy Awards in the Gaming category.
• He was obsessed with Percy Jackson when he was younger and loved Greek mythology. [40]
  • His favourite Greek God is Poseidon. [41]
• The smell of coffee makes him gag.
• Dream’s main Twitter account’s and music channel’s profile picture was made by @nyrazzz on Twitter. [42][43]
• Dream taught himself how to code. [44]
• Dream hit 1 million followers on Twitter on October 9, 2020. [45]
• Dream used to be a Technoblade fan. Saying that his first DMs with Techno on Twitter was about how he wanted to team up with Techno in Minecraft Mondays.

Minecraft

• His Minecraft Java IGN is «Dream».
• His known past IGNs include DreamAF.
• He co-owns and was previously a developer on BadBoyHalo’s Minecraft server MunchyMC​​​​.
• He has a YouTooz collectible figure which is Dream’s likeness with a smiley mask falling into water referencing the famous scene of him falling into the void and landing on a dissipating water stream in ‘Minecraft Speedrunner vs. 2 Hunters’.
• Dream has claimed the world record in Minecraft Any% Random Seed Glitchless for versions 1.9-1.15 threetimespreviously, his most recent time beaten by user Korbanoes.
• He has appeared in the Minecraft Championships along with his friends GeorgeNotFound and Sapnap.
• In the eight week on Minecraft Championships, Dream clutched his first victory from Dodgebolt, when he defeated HBomb94’s team by an arrow shot.
• He has a friendly rivalry with the famous Minecraft YouTuber Technoblade. They both compete for being the «best» player in Minecraft, but they are good friends otherwise.
• On the MrBeast Gaming channel he and Technoblade had a duel for $100,000 to see who was the best Minecraft YouTuber and Techno won, causing a lot of conflict with the YouTuber’s fans. Dream and Techno decided to split the money before the duel. It is not known who came up with the idea.
• He used to be a developer on Skeppy’s server, InvadedLands.

Quotes

• «LET’S GOOO!»
• «I wanna see white flags! White flags! Outside your base, by tomorrow, at dawn, or you are DEAD!»
• «This is war. We show no mercy! NO MERCY!»
• «I DISOWN YOU!»
• «Yeah, speedrunning to the toilet.»
• «We’re going on a trip, Illumina is sh*t.»
• «ALL IS FAIR IN WAR, SAPNAP!»
• «Leave me alone!»
• «COME HERE GEORGE!»
• «Oh George.»
• «I don’t give a F*CK about Spirit.»
• «YES. «
• ‘NO. «
• «NOWHERE TO RUN! NOWHERE TO HIDE! YOU’RE A DEAD MAN WALKING!!»
• «UNDA DA TREE! BA BA BA BA! UNDA DA TREE! BA BA BA BA! I AM A DOG, UNDER A LOG, UNDA DA TREE! BA BA BA BA!»
• «WHO THE F*CK IS LARRY?»

Subscriber Milestones

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