It’s no small feat to reach a million subscribers on any platform, let alone YouTube! Dream, as he goes by in game, did that twenty-five times over! He was featured in a previous article of ours: “The Fastest Growing Twitch Streamers of 2021” and for good reason! His current Twitch subscribers is at just over 5 million people!
To commemorate this YouTube milestone, Dream did a live stream and was offering viewers and fans, limited time need on his merch store www.dream.shop. This exclusive sweatshirt and “challenge coin” were made specially to celebrate this milestone which is only available until August 8th. To make the stream interesting, for every item of merchandise that was purchased during the broadcast 1 mob would spawn in game, and that certainly made things get very interesting.
I’m not much of a Minecraft player personally. My kids are and they have been playing for years! I’ve seen some of the incredible things that can be done, a friend of mine spent 200 hours creating a full rollercoaster that went underground, inside of volcanoes, and underwater. He says it was “time well spent”. Beyond the fun and time wasting, there are great endeavors like, “The Uncensored Library”. This digital library of written materials lives on a server and map in Minecraft. It was released by “Reporters Without Borders” and created by BlockWorks, DDB Berlin, and MediaMonks to help combat censorship around the world! In countries where certain reading materials have been banned, this library is the only means some of those people have to gain access to some of the greatest works of in literary history!
Watching Dreams stream was entertaining at first. Dream was playing with two friends, Sapnap and Georgenotfound. As the stream started to pick up viewers, and they began to buy a lot of merchandise, a lot of mobs began to spawn all over the map. The three players spent a lot of their time running, getting separated, screaming, and trying to find each other again. When they did manage to get together, the small attention spans of his pals was causing more chaos than I think Dream had anticipated. The trio did a lot of dying! Dream tried his best to keep his friends focused but to no avail. He found Himself trapped and surrounded by mobs, unable to recover his dropped items while his friends can be heard on another part of the map apparently killing each other for laughs. They either couldn’t hear Dream over their own laughter or were just not interested in helping him. After dying several more times Dream reprimanded his friends for ruining his “25 million subscribers” stream and ended it all with a scripted closing pushing his merchandise.
I really felt bad for Dream and it goes towards something I wrote about in a “Toxic Gaming Chat” article. It’s important that the people you play with vibe well with you and the others in your party, or else it could lead to frustration in game and real life. I myself don’t game to get frustrated. I don’t know how well I would have handled a couple of “jackoff” friends ruining something as momentous as a 25 million subscribers YouTube stream. Perhaps Dream will start vetting his live stream partners better from now on. Regardless, Congrats on the milestone, Dream! The merchandise is well designed!
