Clay (born: August 12, 1999 [age 22]), better known online as Dream (formerly DreamTraps, GameBreakersMC), is an American YouTuber and vocalist known for his Minecraft collaborations and manhunts.
His channel is one of the fastest-growing channels on YouTube, gaining over 10 million subscribers in a little over a year. In addition, he is part of the collaborative group “Dream Team”, consisting of himself, GeorgeNotFound, and Sapnap.
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Personal life
Clay was born on August 12, 1999. He grew up with a 15-year-old sister nicknamed “Drista” by TommyInnit, a portmanteau of “Dream” and “sista”. He also has an older sister and a younger brother. Clay has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
He was the quarterback of his high school flag football team and recreationally played basketball and soccer. Although he went to high school for two years & graduated in early 2018, he did not attend college because he felt he knew enough about technology to get a job without a degree. He formerly worked for AppleCare.
Clay is over 6’2″ (189 centimeters) tall. He lives in Orlando, Florida, with his cat Patches & his best friend Sapnap. He is agnostic.
Dream’s Face reveal
On September 25, 2019, Dream uploaded a video titled ‘my face reveal’. Nothing is known about the video, as it was deleted only a few days after Dream uploaded it. The description only reads, “Hey, that’s me.” The video only got 34,000 views before Dream deleted it.
On December 24, 2020, Dream teased a picture of himself in real life with a sign covering his face, leading people to speculate that Dream may do a face reveal. Then, on December 31, 2020, Dream tweeted, “let’s start 2021 off with a Bang…” along with an 8-second video of his teasing his face reveal again where he holds up a sign covering his face with music in the background.
In the unofficial YouTube rewind 2020 published by MrBeast on January 1, 2021, he shows his face covered by a mask resembling his iconic Minecraft Skin.
Dream revealed in an interview in 2021 with Kavos that his face reveal was delayed due to COVID-19. However, he also shared that he would be doing a face reveal in early 2022 if COVID-19 was gone by then.
On April 1, 2021, as an April Fool’s Day joke, Dream retweeted a tweet from Danny Gonzalez claiming that he was Dream and that he’ll reveal his face in a live stream. Dream then tweeted “I’m live” along with a link to Danny’s Twitch, where he was streaming with the title “I was dream the whole time“. During this Livestream, Danny proceeded to go through a spoof PowerPoint presentation explaining how he was Dream and how he pulled it off, as well as mispronouncing a lot of the Dream SMP members’ names along the way.
Dream has tweeted out on his main account as a joke that he has done a face reveal and posted a picture of a random person from a photogeneration site. Moreover, there were many instances where people on Twitter claimed that several random blonde people were Dream. Dream has talked about the face reveal drama.
How Much is Dream Worth?
Dream is Worth about 12 million dollars as at November 2021
Content
Dream is well-known for his Minecraft videos. Dream’s content usually consists of challenge videos. He is also known for his popular Minecraft series “Minecraft Speedrunner VS 1/2/3/4/5 Hunter(s).”, as well as another popular series “, Unsolved Mysteries”, where he goes in-depth on some in-game mysteries.
Bio and a Brief History of Dream
Dream uploaded his oldest widely-known video on July 13, 2014, titled “1000 subs.” During this time, Dream was an administrator on BadBoyHalo’s Minecraft server. Dream was stuck on about 1K subscribers until his breakthrough in 2019. He started uploading more consistently after uploading the video “this cursed Minecraft video will trigger you…” on July 5, 2019.
Dream’s first official video was titled “Mine HQ Threatens To DDos Me + Gold Glitch”, it gained around ten thousand views, getting Dream’s first subscribers. After that, however, Dream deleted the video and all of his other old videos on July 10, 2019.
His 1st video was titled “McPvP “The Saw Trap” Want to Play a Game?” and was uploaded on February 8, 2014. The oldest archived video was “McPvP/McTeams/Elite Torch Trap Montage. Mega Loot.” uploaded on February 13, 2014. However, the first video he appears in is “Switcher Levitator Trap Tutorial“, posted on August 26, 2013.
Dream studied YouTube, the algorithm, and Reddit, which was a huge factor that contributed to Dream’s success.
He initially gained attention after organizing a project to find PewDiePie’s Minecraft world seed. Dream often collaborates with GeorgeNotFound, Sapnap, and BadBoyHalo. He also has a relation to Skeppy through BadBoyHalo. He met GeorgeNotFound on BadBoyHalo’s Minecraft server, MunchyMC in 2016, and met Sapnap on McPvP in early 2013.
Dream’s Music career
On February 3, 2021, Dream announced on his main Twitter account that he would be releasing a song in 24 hours called Roadtrip, featuring PmBata. Shortly afterwards, he deleted the tweet. After announcing the song, he posted a snippet on his private Twitter account dream hangout of his new music. On February 4, 2021, he premiered the official lyric video for Road Trip on YouTube.
The song was about remembering good things from the past, even if things have changed since then, and holding on to the good memories.
Following this, Dream teased a new song he was creating on the dream hangout Twitter account. Responding to fans, he stated that the clip was not part of the finished product, he would not be featuring other music artists on it, and that the whole song is titled “Mask”.
