The Cruel Reaction To Dream’s Face Reveal Highlights The Biggest Problem With Content Creators
YouTuber Dream recently revealed his face, and we work in an industry where this is front page news - or at least would be if we wrote our news in newspapers and not endless spoils of online content ready to demand your attention at any given moment. I had some vague knowledge of Dream - I knew we hadn’t seen his face, I knew his avatar was a smiley on a green background, and I knew he cheated at Minecraft. That’s about it. I don’t care that he revealed his face and, in a way, I suppose I’m slightly saddened that it’s news. But in the immediate aftermath, I feel compelled to go to bat for him.
As for why I’m sad, that’s more of a personal note. I’ve seen a few peers dismiss the Dream face reveal, scoffing at the very idea of it. But ten million people watched it on its first day. Like it or not, this is major gaming news. If you want to go where the action is, this is it. A huge slice of the gaming audience, particularly the young emerging audience, cares about the Dream face reveal. It’s something I’m a little out of the loop on, despite feeling so plugged in to gaming news at large, and that’s why I feel saddened by it. Seeing the reaction though, I remember why I rarely pay this slice of media any mind.
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Dream just looks like a guy. He’s a white man like any other - if you walked down the high street you’d see ten guys just like him. He’s a normal man, but he’s famous, so he’s fair game. Dream has been insulted for looking normal and for looking abnormal. There are roughly 7 million tweets expressing mock shock that ‘oh the Minecraft YouTuber is an average white guy?’, and at this point everyone has already made that joke. It makes me think of one of my all time
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