The minecraft YouTuber told BuzzFeed News how anonymous gaming shaped his personal life for years and how he felt when his 30 million subscribers finally saw him for the first time.
But Dream said it didn’t bother him at all. “There’s gonna be bad people, people that are going to be mean, so I didn’t take it to heart,” he said. “I expected stuff like that.”
“Most people don’t even understand how the trending system works on Twitter,” he added. “If you tweet something and it hasn’t been tweeted a lot, then it’s more likely to trend.” In 2020, his fandomThe growing pains of becoming a corporeal internet celebrity have also been a mixed bag of overwhelming emotions, which Dream estimated somewhere between disbelief, joy, and awkwardness. After his first panel on Friday, “I literally went and planked on my bed, face down,” he said.
The fear of being recognized was much worse when he was anonymous, he said, since it doubled with the fear of being found out. Since over 30 million people have listened to his voice, Dream said he worried about being identified in public, especially given that he’d allowed some information to be known, like the city he lived in, and his first name, and his roommates, the Dream SMP members. As a result, he rarely went outside due to fear and took extreme precautions in his personal life.
And yet, despite it all, Dream said revealing his face felt right. “I feel way more free,” he said. “It's nice to be able to have food and sit in a restaurant, and not worry about it.”
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