I'm going to be a bit contrarian here. Dream's content in the context of Minecraft is actually both unique at the time and also entertaining. The Death Swap and modding the game in various dumb ways to try and complete it with his faggot friends was refreshing, it wasn't just another "let's play" type of boring crap. There's only one good channel that does "let's play", and it's Ethoslab. The rest are either boring or just suck.
Dream also made a name out of himself with that maximum jumping distance video, that was his first truly viral video I suppose.
I'm not sure about that PewDiePie seed thing. Did he get the same seed "randomly" and went viral? The chances of one getting two same seeds in one go is 1/(2^48 ), it's actually not that low if someone just does nothing but create a new world for 12 hours a day, I'm guessing maximum 1 year, the person will have 2 same seeds. This is similar to the "Birthday paradox", once you consider how many people are playing. Was Dream "lucky" and got the same seed as PewDiePie? It's not hard to fake, but by chance it's not that low.
His manhunt stuff is really fun. Is it scripted? Well, I'll be a bit contrarian again. I think there's a pretty general framework to it, but at large I think it's genuine. He uploaded the full footage of his previous VS 4 hunters video where he assraped his gay friends with a punch 2 bow. I think they do have a large framework to follow, we know there's rules such as Nether travelling and Portal trapping isn't allowed. The most recent one, he didn't even make it to a stronghold, got fucked by a dumb splash potion. That was lame. Definitely not scripted.
If anyone can just gain the algorithm and ride it, we'd be seeing far more vapid cunts with 10 million subscribers and be able to buy a nice house. The guy does have talent, he's also not a communist troon, too bad he's a cheating faggot and can't just concede. He will just become more and more popular, his infidelity and cheating niggery will just be a tiny footnote, but I probably won't be watching any of his new videos. If he conceded, none of this would have blown up.
Are his subscribers fake? I don't know how this stuff works and frankly I don't care enough to research it, despite this sort of actuarial autism being my field. What I do know is, his dumbcunt shit trends all the time which is both mind boggling and downright stupid. That's why I have a plugin called "calm twitter" that rids all the cancer trending shit. His fanbase is large enough and mostly stupid, I'm inclined to believe his followers are real.
He also created a circle of friends who grift and chase clout. It's like a human centipede, but in the form of grift and clout. This artificially enlarges his reach since people will think "oh shit look at these 4 other queers in his videos, each with over 2 million subscribers!" The full shit circle gains them more clout because YouTube will recommend their channels and in the description, or in the video, what do we have? Other channels ran by his faggot associates. This kind of shit applies everywhere. Luxury brands such as Gucci and Louis Vuitton will do collabs with punkass shitty youth brands such as "supreme" and "Tommy Hilfiger", it's all just a giant grift. People unaware of this incestry will be confused, why would a high end brand associate with some trash kid's brand?
Talent or not, he's still a gigantic faggot.