Popular streamer Dream has caused anger online by appearing to downplay the seriousness of ‘doxxing’.
Although streamer keeps his own identity entirely anonymous, despite his massive audience, he’s recently been criticised for his attitude towards doxxing.
Doxxing is the act of revealing a person’s personal information online in public. This is routinely attempted on Dream himself, as the audience tries to get a look behind the, literal, mask.
Dream’s stance, while discussing the issue on , was that if it were to happen to a smaller content creator it wouldn’t be a problem as the chances of anything negative happening are extremely low.
Talking to a live audience of over 100,000 people, Dream was discussing controversy in regards to other tweets he made recently, which were seen by some as homophobic.
‘I’m just gonna express that, if you are a person on Twitter and you have seven followers and you get doxxed on Twitter, the odds of you having something happen to you in your life are so astronomically small it’s not even worth worrying about.’
This has led to Dream having to acknowledge his statements, stating that the clip was ‘out of context’ and that he’s against doxxing.
‘If you participate in doxxing of people, if you participate in harassing and threatening people, you are not welcome in my community.’
This hasn’t stopped everyone, as people on Twitter have taken to using the hashtag ‘’, using it as a hotbed for online arguments in regards to the creator.
Who is Dream?
Dream’s YouTube subscribers currently sit at 29 million, while he regularly brings in hundreds of thousands of people per stream on Twitch. Collectively, his YouTube presence (over seven channels) has amassed 39 million subscribers.
Dream has garnered nearly 3 billion views, with his content mostly revolving around Minecraft, which has garnered its own controversy.
In 2020 he submitted a ‘speedrun’ of Minecraft, where the game is completed as fast as possible. But he was subsequently removed from the leaderboards – he’d earnt fifth place – for cheating.
For months afterwards he denied using any cheats, until finally admitting that his game had been modified to acquire items more easily.
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