Dream, a Minecraft YouTuber, is facing allegations of grooming and pedophilia, according to media website Win.
A twitter user alleged that Dream sexually harassed her two years ago when she was a minor. The user also attached screenshots of their alleged conversations, most of which happened while he was using a burner phone, she claimed.
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They talked on Twitter prior to moving on to Snapchat, where Dream felt safer about not getting caught, she alleged.
Dream, a well known gamer in the Minecraft fandom, made headlines last week as he finally revealed his face to his audience.
Who is Dream?
Clayton Huff, popularly known as Dream, is an American YouTuber and twitch streamer. He is known for uploading Minecraft videos. Huff created his YouTube account on February 8, 2014 though he started uploading regularly much later, in the year 2019.
He initially posted ‘trigger videos’ for Minecraft players, where he intentionally played poorly to trigger the viewers. Afterwards, he studied YouTube algorithms and Reddit which contributed majorly to his success.
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He gained attention after organising a project to find PewDiePie’s Minecraft world seeds. Dream’s most well known YouTube series is the Minecraft Manhunt series, where one player tries to finish the game as fast as possible without dying, while other players try to hunt this player and try to stop them from finishing the game.
He live streams using a mask with a smiley face printed on it.
He is also the part of ‘DreamTeam’ along with other popular Youtubers like Sapnap and GeorgeNotFound. They are frequent collaborators and create new content for YouTube. He also shared a friendly rivalry with late Minecraft YouTuber Technoblade.
Along with Minecraft, Dream has also displayed his interest in music. Dream released his first song called ‘RoadTrip’ in collaboration with PmBata. The song garnered a total of 25 million views. He later on released a song titled Mask, but it was criticized heavily due to its portrayal of drugs.
Dream is no stranger to controversy. He was caught in a Speedrunning cheating scandal in December of 2020, which generated a lot of buzz in the online gaming community.
Very recently, Dream revealed his face to the public for the first time, citing his intentions to do more meet up with his friends and ‘get out into the world’. The fandom was divided over this face reveal, hence it generated a lot of mixed reactions from people.