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Clay, better known as Dream, is a Minecraft speedrunner and YouTuber known for his challenge videos, for example, beating the game while multiple people hunt him down and try to kill him.
Dream often collaborates with GeorgeNotFound and Sapnap, both of whom he has been very close friends with for years, and with those two he has a channel called Dream Team.
In addition to his challenge videos, Dream is also an accomplished Minecraft speedrunner, and has even got a few world records in the 1.9 to 1.15 category. He also did a documentary series called “Minecraft Unsolved”, in which Dream is the narrator who covers the many mysteries of Minecraft, ranging from the urban legend Herobrine to the infamous competition known as Minecraft Monday (which Dream himself participated in on Week 9), as well as a series of skits on his alt-account, Dream Shorts. But perhaps what’s most well known about him is that he’s one of the fastest-growing YouTubers on the platform.
Long ago, in the eyes of many, Dream used to be an standard, run-of-the-mill YouTuber. After a few viral hits in late 2019, he got a few hundred thousand subscribers, but that was about it. However, in late December 2019, Dream made a video called “Beating Minecraft, But My Friend Tries To Stop Me…”, a video he also dubbed “Minecraft Manhunt”. Within the video, Dream tries to kill the Ender Dragon before the designated hunter, his friend George, kills him once.
The video was followed by a sequel, during which Dream and George held a rematch. The two videos were originally just yet another duo of challenge videos, and per Dream’s words in the first video he didn’t plan on making more. However, Dream soon ate his words as the two videos quickly became massive hits, eclipsing Dream’s prior hits in a fraction of the time. The Minecraft Manhunt duology’s quick success led to Dream deciding to make Manhunt into a full series, a decision that would earn Dream and his friends lots of views, money, fame, and subscribers.
As the Manhunt series went on, more hunters (including the aforementioned Sapnap and other close friends, BadBoyHalo, AntFrost, and Awesamdudenote ) were added to keep things challenging and interesting. Minecraft Manhunt itself is well-received for being a tense series of confrontations where many mind-blowing moves are made by both sides to try and win (especially on Dream’s end), with hundreds of thousands viewers tuning in to the initial premiere see how Dream outplays the hunters and vice-versa, and tens of millions more tuning in afterwards.
Dream and his friends were propelled to massive internet fame through this series — Dream himself ended up at over 14.5 million subscribers within a yearnote , while George reached nearly 5 million in the same time frame. Currently, Dream sits at 23 million subs while George is at over 8 million (Sapnap also sits at a comfortable 3.5 million, with Bad at over 3 million, Ant at over 600knote , and Sam at nearly 150k subscribersnote . The Manhunts themselves get a very high spot in trending the day they release, and often show up on YouTube’s front page. Manhunt was also effectively a Star-Making Role for the Dream Team, and as their fame grew they gained more and more prominence as creators, landing spots in the Minecraft Championship tournamentsnote and being widely renowned across the Minecraft community — it’s easier to find a creator who hasn’t at least heard of Dream, and a few creators (such as famed PVP master Technoblade) have at some point mentioned watching Dream’s videos. Dream has also become friends with several of those creators, in particular forming a Friendly Rivalry with Techno. In short, Dream went from an effective nobody to a mainstream name in mere months, and his growth is among the fastest YouTube has ever seen.
In December 2020, Dream was accused of cheating in a livestreamed Any Percent Random Seed Glitchless Minecraft 1.16 speedrun where he won 5th place overall on speedrun.com. Specifically, he was accused of modifying the game to increase bartering rates for Ender Pearls and drop rates for Blaze Rods, increasing his chance of obtaining both and thus cutting down the time needed to beat the game. A mathematical analysis of his streams showed that the probability of these rates occurring normally was 1 in 7.5 trillion. Dream enlisted an astrophysicist to argue against this conclusion, but their own math resulted in odds of 1 in 10 million (later revised to 1 in 100 million). Speedrun.com’s moderators have stood by their judgment, invalidating his runs and banning him from submitting further runs. Having long accepted the decision, Dream eventually admitted on May 30, 2021 via Pastebin that he did modify the game to increase the item probabilities, although he claimed that he never intended to use the modified game for anything other than casual play with friends (in short: he cheated without intending to), having also apologized to Speedrun.com’s mods for the problems he caused.
On February 4, 2021, Dream made his foray into music-making with a song titled “Road Trip”, which premiered on YouTube that afternoon and released on various other platforms, including Spotify, at midnight.
Dream also has an SMP server where many others play. Every major participant in Manhunt is a membernote , but there are dozens of other members, including fellow YouTubers Skeppy, WilburSoot, TommyInnit, and TheEret. The server is famous for its improvised roleplay, which at least one news outlet has compared to a Macchiavellian political drama.
