Minecraft Star Dream Meets His Screaming Fans for First Time
Minecraft celebrity Dream, 23, who showed his face for the first time ever to more than 50 million fans across the internet on Tuesday, got to meet some of them in person at Twitch's annual convention in San Diego on Friday. Hundreds of his screaming followers queued to get a glimpse and photograph the cyber superstar.
Dream, whose real name is Clay and last name is unknown, seemed overwhelmed by the the reception.
“Good,” he said, when a moderator asked how he was. Shrieks followed. “I just said ‘good.'” More shrieks. “I'm shaking,” he said. “I love you guys.” The shrieking continued.
The Minecraft celebrity rose to fame meteorically during the pandemic. In his videos, which regularly receive more than 20 million views, he has mastered the art and sport of playing Microsoft Inc.'s computer game, the best selling of all time, in which Lego-like characters can create any object or environment with simple blocks.
In his most popular videos, Dream is outrunning a band of superstar YouTubers and Twitch streamers by magicking solutions to obstacles out of innocuous bricks. Other times he alters the game's code to generate strange, funny videos like “Minecraft, But Gravity Flips Every Minute” or acts out theatrical plots with his friends on his own server.
“I feel like I've done everything you can possibly do in that game,” Dream said in his first face-to-face interview.
Online, Dream is known to his fans by his voice, a Minecraft avatar and an image of a lopsided smiley face. In a digital-attention economy, where appearance is currency, Dream's anonymity and massive fame were unusual. He says it may have helped more than it hurt; he compares himself to Spider-Man, who could have been anyone under the mask.
As his channel grew,
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