Fans react to YouTuber Dream announcing plan to delete all photos of his face off the internet: 'I will be getting rid of everything'
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The popular YouTuber and Twitch streamer known as Dream announced in a video uploaded on June 9 that he will delete his face reveal video after dealing with negative comments about his appearance.
Dream, who is known for his Minecraft videos, has 31 million subscribers on YouTube.
In the video, titled “bye, from Dream,” Dream explained that he would delete all evidence of his face online and continue wearing a mask during public events. He revealed his face to his followers for the first time in October 2022 after eight years of wearing a white smiley face mask during his streams. The video accumulated 57 million views before Dream deleted it, according to a screenshot he included in the clip.
Dream’s face reveal was a major cultural moment at the time, with it battling for the top spot on YouTube’s trending page. Roughly 1.2 million people tuned in to watch the reveal happen in real time, and over 18 million people watched the video in the following 14 hours after he posted it.
But some viewers took to social media to react negatively to Dream’s face reveal at the time, so much so that “HES UGLY” started to trend on Twitter in response to his video.
In an interview with BuzzFeed News, he said, “There’s gonna be bad people, people that are going to be mean, so I didn’t take it to heart.”
Dream decided to reveal his face for a number of reasons. He said that his fear of being recognized in public was worse when he was streaming anonymously. He wanted to go to more concerts and shows and wanted to collaborate with creators — things he felt that he couldn’t do as an anonymous public figure.
But now, Dream says, he hates what’s happened to him since revealing his face.
“I regretted the attention and hate, and am walking it back,” he wrote in the description of his newest video.
The video starts off with Dream scrolling through hate comments on some of his videos and transitions to interviews with fellow gamers and collaborators Sapnap and GeorgeNotFound, who joke that Dream had “fallen off” after revealing his face. Dream also showed a breakdown of his new smiley-face mask, which has been updated to allow him to operate in public while wearing it.
“I will slowly be deleting all pictures of me online, and going back to just being a gamer in a mask,” Dream wrote. “Starting with my Mr Beast Video, and my Face Reveal video, ‘Hi, I’m Dream.’ I will be walking it back. I will be getting rid of everything other than my new mask.”
“Only Dream can do a face reveal and an un-face reveal,” one commenter wrote in response to the announcement.
“It’s so sad that Dream felt the need to do this,” another person said. “The fact that he received so much hate just for revealing his face shows how truly messed up the world is.”
Dream will make his first public appearance since deleting his face reveal on June 23 at VidCon in Anaheim, Calif.
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