Minecraft YouTube star Dream has taken a step back from social media, and released the promised response video addressing several allegations including accusations of grooming a minor.
In late 2022, Dream was accused of flirting with and grooming a minor by Twitter user ‘Anastasia’ who claimed she was 17 years old at the time she had an encounter with the YouTube star.
Since then, the YouTuber claims he has been “harassed for almost a year due to false accusations.”
On November 20, 2023, more allegations came from an anonymous Twitter/X account ‘b88221141’, which posted videos and screenshots of messages from a Snapchat user named ‘Dream Dream’ — claiming they can “confirm without a shadow of a doubt” it was the YouTuber’s Snapchat account.
The user alleged that the YouTuber exchanged sexually explicit messages to a girl aged between 16-17 named “Jamie” in 2019.
In response, Dream promised fans a video to address the allegations — where he said that he’s a prior victim of domestic violence, has also been recently physically assaulted, and has had “revenge p*rn” used against him.
He stated: “I’m not a p*do, I didn’t groom anyone, and what’s being spread in this particular instance is black and white, and I will lay everything out in my video. Including the situation with me being assaulted, and other situations that are incredibly serious.”
Dream grooming allegations continue
Since the post on November 21, Dream remained silent across social media. That was until December 19, when he addressed several accusations in an 82-minute-long YouTube video right after another post claiming to show evidence supporting the authenticity of the allegations of grooming and sexual misconduct emerged.
X/Twitter user ‘DreamEv33233’ provided a 24-page document indicating that Dream’s Snapchat account in question, the one which he allegedly used to groom the minor, appears to match his Snapchat account that he publicly shared years ago.
TW // DISCUSSION OF GROOMING, SEXUAL MISCONDUCTDREAM PREYED ON A 16-YEAR-OLD FAN24 PAGES OF EVIDENCE:https://t.co/SHFObXsYtV‼ PLEASE LIKE + RETWEET ‼TL;DR IN THREAD 🧵 (1/12)
— dream scraper (@DreamEv33233) December 19, 2023
Not only that, but the document provides details about Jamie in an attempt to verify their authenticity and using the Wayback Machine, an internet archive of screenshots, indicated that their first public interaction with the YouTuber was in August 2019.
Furthermore, screenshots appear to show that Dream followed Jamie’s account as early as September 3, 2019, while posts from her in October 2020 claimed she was turning 18 the following December, suggesting she was only 16 at the time of her meeting the YouTube star.
Dream responds to grooming allegations
In his response on December 19, Dream flat-out denied the accusations of grooming any minors. The YouTube star first made note of several “inconsistencies” in Anastasia’s allegations, who claimed he flirted with her while she was underage.
“I didn’t have any inappropriate contact with this person. I didn’t have any sexual contact with this person. I hardly even remember who this person is at all,” he stated.
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Dream claimed the only conversation he could find with Anatasia were “friendly” Twitter DMs, in which screenshots reveal that he recognized she had “18” in her bio — suggesting she was of legal age at the time.
However, the YouTuber admits Anatasia contradicted her age, wherein a message asking for advice if she should drop out of school she confessed she was turning 18 “soon.”
Later in the video, the 24-year-old addressed allegations from “Amanda” — who also claimed she received inappropriate messages from Dream and exchanged sexually explicit images while she was 17 years old. Once again, the YouTuber denied the accusations.
Dream also denied Amanda’s claims that he intended to meet up with her for sex in August 2022 while she was in Orlando, Florida. “None of this is true,” he said.
He then addressed the latest allegations from the anonymous burner account accusing him of grooming the 16/17-year-old girl named Jamie. “I immediately want to say this is not true. I did not groom anyone. I did not groom Jamie, and I would never be inappropriate with anyone underage,” Dream said.
The YouTuber responded to the videos in which he allegedly sent audio of him “moaning” with sexually explicit messages. He admitted he was in contact with Jamie, who is also followed by several of his friends. “The claims are completely false,” he declared.
The burner account claimed they reported the situation to the “proper authorities.” However, during his response video, Dream provided an audio conversation with an Orange County Sheriff’s Office, who declared that there’s nothing relating to his name in their “broad database.”
Finally, the Minecraft streamer even provided a statement from the alleged victim Jamie. “I want to make it very clear that I was never groomed. I definitely am not a victim of Dream,” the statement read. “I don’t know how or why people are using my name and information without having ever asked me if any of it is true.
“Everything claiming to be about me was posted without my consent. Leave me alone.”
The statement continued: “I want nothing to do with this. I have been getting harassed by people either saying I’m looking for attention or digging through my life trying to confirm things I want nothing to do with. Leave me alone.”
In his response video, the YouTuber also spoke on several other controversies, such as his infamous Minecraft cheating scandal as well as being assaulted by voice actor Nicolas Cantu. Going forward, Dream will be taking a step back from social media following this incident, claiming he will only be using it “promotionally” while someone else will be managing his account.