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- (FBE) All right. This is an interesting one.
- Okay. - (FBE) You're gonna be reacting to a
popular Minecraft YouTuber. - I'm also very curious
to see who this is, because I don't watch
a lot of YouTube. That's like a sin.
- (FBE) Do you play Minecraft? - (laughs) No.
- (FBE) Okay. Perfect. - I love Minecraft.
Everybody gets so surprised, and they're like,
"You play Minecraft?" I'm OBSESSED with Minecraft.
I'm always on it, I swear. (laughs) - Oh my god! Okay, Dream.
I already know from the skin. (laughs) That's so funny.
- (player) He's going up the mountain.
- I don't understand this game.
I don't get it. I'm so sorry, you guys.
But I tried to play it with my friends before.
I just can't. Someone comment down below.
Let me know what you get from this. How do you feel when you play this?
- (gasps) Oh, I've seen this! I've seen this clip!
I've seen this clip! - (player) What?! Did he jump?
- (player) I almost just jumped. - (player) He had a hay bale.
- (player) Okay, go to him. Go to him. - (player) Oh, he's right there.
Hit him back. Hit him. Hit him! Oh, he died.
- (player) He's going down. Where's he going? What?
- I watched his regular speedruns. I can't believe he can do
half the stuff he can do. - I've seen this.
I've seen this clip on TikTok before. - (player) Where is he?
- (player) He's in an underwater cave.
- How did he go underwater so fast? What the heck?
- (player) Oh, I see Sapnap.
- (player) Is he-- is there air? - (player) No, there's not.
- (player) Where is he? - He needs to get out.
He's gonna die. (laughs) - This was crazy, bro!
I can't believe it. Talk about taking Minecraft
to another level. I play this game, man.
I'm just trying to make a farm, you know?
Find another, try to make a little path.
I always get lost. And here's Dream.
- How does he know there's a cave there?
'Cause the person fell close by... - (player) I just wanna see him die.
Come on. Oh, he's on the edge of a lower pool.
- The new Nether is so scary. - (player) WHAT?!
What is he doing?! - Oh! (laughs) [Censored]!
Dude... - (player) What did he do?!
- That's crazy. I've never actually seen that before.
I want to know what the first attempt at that was, though. (laughs)
There's no way he got that first try. - (player) Oh, he's on the edge
of a lower pool. - (player) Oh my god. Get him.
- What? What?! - (player) WHAT?!
- Wait! (laughs) - (player) Oh my god!
WHAT?! HOW?! - Wait. I just wanna know
how he was just stacked with these boats.
- (player) What just happened? - Oh my gosh!
- (player) Oh, he's on the edge of a lower pool.
- (player) Oh my god. Get him. - (player) WHAT?!
What is he doing?! - (player) Oh my god!
WHAT?! HOW?! - Okay, wait. Okay, I lost-- okay.
I'm confused now. (laughs) - (player) Oh, he's on the edge
of a lower pool. - (player) Oh my god. Get him.
- (player) WHAT?! What is he doing?! - (player) What?!
- Oh! Did he just escape death by bricking? That's cool.
- (player) What did he do?! - Ooh! I can't keep up. (snickers)
- (player) He's back up. Wait, wait, wait.
- (player) Get him. - (player) All right.
I'm here. I'm here. GET HIM!
- (player) Oh, god. - (player) Oh.
- (player) Kill him. - (player) He's gone.
- (player) Get him. - (player) No, no!
- They're trying to kill him. (gasps) Wait, wait! (laughs)
This is funny. This is so funny. He's just running away
from his friends, and his friends are just
STRUGGLING to get him. But, like, oh my gosh.
He's too quick for them. (laughs) - Just Minecraft in general
really just made a resurgence in 2020. It's pretty awesome.
I've been playing this since I was a little kid,
so to see it still be relevant in 2021 is, like, you couldn't have
written this, you know? (chuckles) Call of Duty's got to make a game
every year to stay relevant. Minecraft just needs dream
or a YouTuber every couple years. - (player) Did he just come in?
- God. Minecraft is just like Animal Crossing is what I'm getting.
That's what I'm getting. (chuckles) Slice of life.
Oh, this-- okay, a little violence, but slice of life.
Have a happy home. - (player) What?!
- (player) RUN! George! - (player) NO!
- Where are they? So, they're on an underground ship.
- (player) Did he just come in? - (player) We're taking our time here.
- (chuckles) - (player) There's no helping it.
He will die.
- No way. - (player) What?!
- (player) What?! - (player) What?!
- (laughs) - (player) RUN! George!
- I would have NEVER thought of this. He's thinking of every single scenario
in his head, and that was the one that worked out best,
you know what I mean?
LOL in the chest too! (laughs) That's so funny.
Really pushing the game's design to another level.
There's been Minecraft speedrunners before.
I watched XQC do a couple. But I have never seen no one
like Dream before. - I think people probably watch this
to find strategies on how to play it themselves.
But if every Minecraft is so different and you build your own,
how do you get strategies from other people
when it's like everyone's game is so different?
- (player) Yeah, we're taking our time.
- Okay.
Into the Ender portal we go. Oh.
What?!
- (player) What?! - (player) What?!
- (player) What?! - (player) RUN!
- Dude, he's so smart! He's so smart! (laughs)
Oh my gosh. - (player) YESSSS!
- (player) What? - Wow. (laughs)
I love how every single time, they're always like,
"Wha-wha-what just happened?!" (laughs) 'Cause we get to see
what did happen, and they're just like,
"What just happened?!" (giggles)
- There we go. We love to see it.
- (FBE) What did you just watch? Break it down.
- They were just fighting with each other.
I don't know what it was. It was some type of killing game.
This guy just always, always, always outsmarts them.
And he's so fast. And it literally takes me
three years just to make a frickin' crafting table. (laughs)
- The point of view that I was seeing, I thought he was with his friends,
and I thought he was chasing somebody. I didn't know he was the one
that they were chasing. - (FBE) All right.
So, those were a few what's called big brain plays
from the Minecraft YouTube creator known as Dream
from his most popular video Minecraft Speedrunner VS 3 Hunters
Grand Finale, where he tries to speedrun Minecraft
all while his friends try to kill him
before he can slay the Ender dragon.
So, he often plays with GeorgeNotFound and Sapnap,
who are in this clip you just saw, who, along with Dream,
make the collaborative group Dream Team.
- Awww! How cute. - (FBE) Dream's been one
of the fastest growing YouTubers despite the fact that he doesn't
show his face and currently has over 16 million subscribers,
which he gained in just a couple years.
- That's so cool, man. It's like, YouTube can still
be this place where anybody could come on here and do their thing.
It's 2021, and the Minecraft speedrunner
with no face cam is one of the most subscribed channels ever.
That really says something. - (FBE) He even made an appearance
in Mr. Beast's 2020 YouTube Rewind. - Yes! (claps) I watched that.
- That's right. I did see that. I was actually surprised to see
how many other YouTubers brought him up, you know?
I thought that was super cool. Especially, you know, it must've
been super cool for him to hear people that he probably
didn't even know were thinking about him think about him.
- (man 1) I really like this person. - (man 2) Dream.
- (James Charles) Dream. - (man 3) Dream.
- (man 4) The Dream SMP. - (man 5) I have a strange feeling
that Dream will be left out of YouTube Rewind.
- (man 6) What Dream's been doing is crazy.
- (player) No, no, NO! - (player) WHAT?!
- (man 7) There's no way! - (FBE) All these guys bring up Dream.
What do you think about that. - He did Dream's portion by just
repeating people saying Dream, (laughs)
'cause there was no Dream to include in there.
- I'm happy that he's getting recognized.
That's pretty cool, man. Yeah. - I love that they put
the Minecraft guy instead of a face cam. (laughs)
So epic. Leave it to Mr. Beast to make a better Rewind than YouTube.
- Wow! A lot of people know who he is.
- (FBE) Dream showed up in the actual video.
- That's right. That's right.
It's so funny. This is one of the best little trolls ever,
'cause when I was watching this, I was like, "Oh, is it actually
gonna show his face?" (music stops)
(laughs) That was super smart, though. I feel like you could kind of
be expecting it, but I thought that was
a smart decision by him.
- (gasps) Wow!
I saw this. (music stops)
People that just don't do face reveals... grrr!
It always makes me just want to know who it is!
- Yes! (chuckles) ♪ (suspenseful music) ♪
(fart noise) (music stops)
(laughs) - How do they know
that Dream's a guy? - (FBE) So, what do you think
about the fact that he's in that Rewind like that?
- Oh, that's pretty cool, man. That's really nice,
especially since it happened so fast. I'm happy that other
top tier YouTubers are aware of it and know him,
because YouTube is so broad with all the different categories.
I'm happy that different people from different categories
are aware of gaming or gamers and brought him up.
- (FBE) All right. So, one of the things that he's become
very well known for are his Minecraft speedruns.
So, we're gonna show you his fastest and most controversial play.
- I like that people call it plays,
like it's a football game or something.
- I'm super excited, because I've heard of this speedrun,
I know all the controversy behind it, but I haven't actually found it,
so this will be my first time watching the clip.
- (Dream) I'm going for sub 25, guys. I was like 10 minutes deep,
and I was like five minutes deep into the Nether,
already at ten minutes. - Okay.
- (Dream) That just doesn't work. - Is he starting from scratch here?
- This is an insane strat. I never knew you could build
a nether portal without actually needing obsidian.
That's crazy.
It's just the next level of thinking, man.
It really-- Minecraft speedruns really require people to get out
of their element. - (Dream) Ooh!
- Crazy spawn, bro. I swear, it's taken me
weeks at a time to find another fortress,
and this is right next to dude's portal.
It's ridiculous. - What happened?
- (Dream) No way. That is an ultra pog.
Oh my god. One more. Give me one more.
Give me one more. Give me one more trade.
- Trade. He's building-- he's trying to build something
very fast. He's trading. Okay.
Building a lava kingdom.
Ahh!
(laughs) Man, I don't like that.
That's a sleep demon. - I feel like I want
more commentary from him so I know exactly what he's doing.
But I understand people that are watching this
probably know what he's doing and know what his next steps are
or where he is. - I watch people stream and stuff
like that, so it's not like I don't watch people play video games.
It's just, I usually watch people play video games
that I've played before, and I just wanna see
what their reaction is, since this is firsthand
me seeing Minecraft. - I think the pixelation
is what kind of confuses me. - (Dream chuckles) Let's GO!
- I mean, it's very simplistic, I guess.
- Okay, okay, I see (whispers) the dragon.
What?!
Wait. And he's not losing any health at all. (laughs)
- (Dream) Let's GO! - Oh, oh, oh, oh!
Oh my gosh! - (Dream chuckles) Let's GO!
- What did he do? Did he just burn down all his work?
Was he trying to create a-- - (Dream) Hell yeah! HELL YEAH!
- All right. I'm gonna look like a Minecraft noob.
I've been playing my whole life. I never beat the Ender dragon.
I'm working on it, though, okay? I swear I'm working on it.
But people like Dream taught me this strat here.
I never even knew.
That's he crazy. He didn't take out the towers!
(laughs) Oh, man. Now he's just gotta sit there
and wait for it. I could just imagine
what it's like to be in the last 45 seconds
of the speedrun, just like (panting)
"Am I get it?" (laughs)
- (FBE) What this video was was him beating the entire game
in under 20 minutes. - That's crazy.
- Not even 20 minutes! - Some YouTube videos are longer
than Dream's Minecraft runs. - That's really something right there.
- I want to play Minecraft with him, but I don't wanna
PLAY Minecraft with him. I wanna like play Minecraft
with him. (laughs) Let's just build a house together.
Let's climb some trees. (laughs) - (FBE) Dream started
his YouTube career posting Minecraft trapping videos
with his channel named Dream Traps at the time.
After taking a break from the platform,
he restated his channel with this first video,
which gained him over nine million views
and many subscribers to his new channel.
This is called This Cursed Minecraft Video Will Trigger You.
- Okay. (chuckles) - Oh my god. Okay.
I think I have actually seen this video,
and this was the first I EVER saw of Dream.
So, I'm actually really excited to revisit it.
- Oh, no. I'm scared. I don't wanna be triggered, guys!
- (Dream) So, this is the entrance to my house.
- (dog whining) - (Dream) And, um...
- Oh my gosh. He just threw the do--
he didn't even acknowledge it! He just kept talking,
kept moving into his house tour. - (Dream) So, this is
the entrance to my house. - Did he kill that animal?
- (Dream) So, this is the entrance to my house.
- I was like, "Oh, he's petting him with the sword." (laughs)
- (Dream) So, this is the entrance to my house.
- (laughs) Not-- I already know everybody
at the beginning is freaking out. He was just chilling, man.
He could've been around for the cursed Minecraft run.
- (gasps) NOOO! Stop it!
- (Dream) So, this is the entrance to my house.
- (chuckles)
I don't know if it was his dog or a lurking dog,
but he just killed him. - What can I do to piss
the most people off? (laughs) It works. Eating the rotten flesh.
(laughs) - (Dream) Anyway...
- This guy's a menace is what you're telling me.
- (Dream) I'm going to eat. I'm hungry.
- Did he just...
eat... the... dog?
- And he's eating flesh. Lovely.
Is it the dog?!
- (Dream) And I'm going to eat. I'm hungry.
- (chuckles) Gotta do what you gotta do, I guess, man.
- (FBE) As we mentioned, Dream has been able to grow
incredibly fast on YouTube. He gained over 10 million subscribers
in just a year. What do you think it is about him
or his content that would have made him so popular?
- I think it's gotta be the simplicity.
He sticks to what he's really good at. He knows his audience
likes Minecraft. He's gonna do Minecraft.
And he's gonna do what he's best at. And that's speedruns and, you know,
making funny videos like that. - Streaming is just growing
so rapidly, I think. And then, also that he's really
good at the game and he can just beat it in 20 minutes.
- (FBE) All right. So, is Dream a creator
that you think you would watch in the future?
- Oh, yeah. Dream is a creator I think I would watch in the future.
I know I am subscribed, but now I gotta hit that bell.
- Nope! Sorry. Don't hate me.
- 100%. - If I was interested
in Minecraft, yes. I think it kind of
passed me by, so no. But I definitely could see why.
Like, if somebody said that this was their favorite YouTuber,
I would understand it completely. - (FBE) Is there anything that you
would wanna say to him? - Screw the haters, bro.
Keep doing you. You'll be successful, bro. (laughs)
Everyone loves what you do.
- Thanks for watching this episode. - Which gamer should we react to next?
- Let us know in the comments. - Don't forget to subscribe.
- Bye, everyone! - Hey, guys. It's Sierra,
React producer. Thanks so much for watching
this episode. And don't forget that I'll be
down in the comments for the first 30 minutes
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