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YouTuber Dream has broken records and racked up millions of views, but the man behind the avatar is still a mystery. Dream is a YouTube channel with 16.4 million subscribers on YouTube is one of the fastest-growing YouTube channels. Even though he's been the subject of controversy, the Minecraft expert is still one of the most loyal and committed fans on the internet. For more stories, go to Insider's website.

Minecraft YouTuber Dream has rapidly risen up the ranks of creators and is now one of the fastest-growing YouTube channels of 2020, and the second overall creator of the year, according to the platform. The faceless green avatar who is adept at discovering "Minecraft's" cavern-filled secrets has managed to garner more than 16 million users in less than two years. What exactly is it that makes Dream so special and popular when there have been thousands of content creators creating worlds with Minecraft's characteristic blocks?

Who is Dream?

Dream's personal life and identity remain unknown, with the sleepy-named YouTuber opting to keep his identity private. His avatar on YouTube is a simple, neon green image. The design is famous, and easily recognizable to the average "Minecraft" user.

Mysticat, a YouTuber, says that Dream's branding is "unprofessional but that doesn't mean it's not good." Dream employs a Microsoft Paint drawn character that's hilarious and appealing to children, which is Minecraft's core target audience."

Although Dream began his YouTube channel in 2014, it's not clear whether the channel was active until July 2019. In his first video, he purposefully "triggers" viewers by playing the game as poorly as he can. He does things like placing blocks on the top of chests, killing sheep for their wool and eating rotten meat.

Dream began posting content more often after his first upload. Felix Kjellberg, known online as the wildly popular PewDiePie was playing "Minecraft" for his massive audience of over 100 million subscribers by that point. Dream managed to find the way to modify Kjellberg's "world seed," meaning, the randomly generated world that his "Minecraft" game had created, using tricks that he had learned from forums. The video garnered 200,000 views within two days. He then created three more videos that would receive more than two million views each. His star was born when Dream had 54,000 subscribers at the time of the end of July.

In the following months, Dream's channel will continue to grow in millions of views and thousands of subscribers but his most memorable breakthrough moment was in November 2019. Dream made a lot of videos that capitalized on the current trend of "___ but it changes every time." His video titled "Minecraft, But Items Drops Are Random and Multiplied ..." became a viral hit and racked up 32 million views and giving him 600,000 new subscribers.

Dream would upload regularly over the next year, steadily increasing hundreds of thousands of subscribers per month and millions of views. His "Minecraft Speedrunner vs." series, in which Dream would choose to complete the game while certain NPCs or non-player characters, chased after him, or objectives needed to be accomplished were hugely popular. He would also start working with GeorgeNotFound, an acquaintance and future participant of Dream's roleplaying server which was launched in May of 2020.

Dream has been accused of cheating in Minecraft

Dream's channel was at its peak of subscriber growth, with 2.6 million subscribers as of August 2020, and Dream becoming the face for the game. He had uploaded an accelerated version of the 1.14 version of Minecraft in March of 2020, and 1.15 in June, so when the 1.16 version launched later that year, he was forced to adopt it. He ended his run in fifth position and was happy with the position he was on the leaderboard.

On December 11 , 2020, the moderator of the official speedrun forums Geosquare uploaded a YouTube video titled "Did Dream Fake His Speedruns - Official Moderator Analysis." Geosquare and his co-workers Minecraft moderators had examined the livestream runs and believed that Dream had recorded events that were too statistically unlikely to have occurred without the assistance of cheaters or mods. The mods analyzed the 29-page document and concluded that Dream was 1 in 1.75 trillion likely to have discovered the items needed to play the game.

In multiple videos and Twitter threads, Dream denied any wrongdoing. Dream posted his video on the 23rd of December discussing the claims. He shared a study he conducted using Photoexcitation. It concluded that there was a 1 in 100 million chance of his run.

Dream's study was rebuffed by the speedrunning mods who released a five-page study. Dream responded with one final tweet, writing that "this drama has been stressful for the majority of the Minecraft community and a large portion of that was probably due to my initial reaction to the drama, so I take full responsibility for the situation."

Dream was targeted for harassment, including doxxing

Dream fans were able to find his home using a photo of his kitchen, which was posted to his second account on January 1, 2021. They also shared the information, which is referred to as doxxing.

Dream spoke out about the incident in a Twitlonger post on January 7th. He also spoke about his ex-girlfriend, who he believes is spreading false allegations. He denied her accusations and said he doesn't have any issues with YouTube. He also said that his friends who appear in his videos don't receive an amount of his earnings.

How Dream achieved the YouTube algorithm

Dream's massive growth over 2019 and 2020 could be attributed to his knowledge of the YouTube algorithm.

He uses keywords in the right spots and leverages trends to create thumbnails that fans will be compelled to click. Similar to the skill Jimmy Donaldson, known as the wildly popular Mr. Dream has mastered, Beast has also learned to succeed on YouTube, just like Beast.