I know I said I was leaving, but there's some things that I need to say.
I do definitely think there was sub-botting involved to keep the momentum going, I just don't know the extent of it.
He got lucky through trend-jacking and now acts like he gamed the algorithm and is a YouTube genius.
I'll agree that's it's certainly "unique", though I would argue on the entertaining part after the next "4 HUNTERS VS SPEEDRUNNER GRAND FINALE OVERTIME REMATCH 3". His first viral video was when he switched from DreamTraps to Dream, he posted said video on r/mildlyinfuriating IIRC and begged for people to watch them, and got lucky. (Though I'm pretty sure he bought upvotes to boost the post lol). The PewDiePie seed stuff was months before the jump video as well. In regards to the PewDiePie seed thing; he took credit for a bunch of other smarter people like EarthComputer writing programs to brute-force the world seed based off of procedurally generated land-marks, then folded hard when they all got pissed at him.
Now onto my main point of contention... The manhunts are faked - reality TV style, let me explain. The earlier manhunts were legitimate but took a lot of tries to film; which is why you'd see George (his faggot Britbong friend) winning a lot of manhunts as well. At the start when Dream was relatively small, they were collaborating for fun and to help each others channels out. However - as Dream made more money, it was only inevitable that George would ask for a cut; since he's half of the fucking video.
Dream agreed, but either George or him decided that since George was being paid now, they'd script the manhunts to a degree. So on they went making videos, scripting them allowed for longer videos with more exciting and "impossible" events and clutches, and to perpetuate the myth that Dream is "the best Minecraft player". (This is despite the fact that he no longer even holds his 1.15 WR in first place, can only shield PvP in 1.9 and is relentlessly bullied for it by 1.9 PvP sweats whilst still somehow managing to be beaten at it, and clicks 7CPS in 1.7/1.8 whilst randomly spamming right-click to "block-hit" because he thinks he's still playing Soup duels on Kohi and wants to do le epic Stimpy refill).
Eventually, through a mix of scripting and adapting to his friends strategies; he ends up at three hunters vs speedrunner. They tried to do it semi-legit a lot of times, but Dream kept getting chased and crit raped. In fact, he uploaded the original take of it to his Patreon and it got leaked:
Around this time - the manhunts started getting scripted
heavily to the point there was very little organic content. Unfortunately for our buddy Clayton Ray Huff, a few keen viewers noticed and decided to call him out on numerous suspicious elements, a good example:
Dream claimed it was a "server rollback issue" and that the server
totally crashed when he tried to do the /pause command because he needed to go to the bathroom, and not that he fucked up and just wanted to rollback his player-state! For some reason, people bought this and forgave daddy has spent $5k on Minecraft accounts (not a joke). Leading into now, this is my hypothesis for how his manhunts work.
1. A script is written with the rules and events that need to happen at certain points during the manhunt, sometimes including the outcome of the manhunt are posted in their Discord GC.
2. Dream is given a head-start so he doesn't get instantly get cornered and beaten to death.
3. Any deaths or fuck ups caused by Dream himself are met with a rollback to his player-state
4. Scripted events start unfolding
5. To unnaturally extend the length of his manhunts, his friends deliberately throw until about mid-way through nether (you can legitimately see them getting better at around this time in most videos)
6. A conclusion is delivered, either a pre-decided one or an organic one presumably depending on the levels of suspicion at that time regarding his man hunts and the fluctuations in his ego. For example, if he films twice keeps getting beaten when he wants to win to make himself look better, he'll decide that he will win the manhunt. This is especially obvious in some videos.
If you watch through the videos and all of the evidence, this makes the most sense. He only released one unedited man hunt video, where it's very obvious his friends are throwing and could still be following a freeform script off of Discord.
Dream is a huge faggot, and really doesn't have natural talent. He just no-lifes the game and has been doing so since 2014/2015.
To end this post which is way too-long off, here's a Tweet where Dream admitted to pissing the bed at 20 years old.
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I'd also like to point out that there is a high chance that Dream is reading this thread, if you're seeing this Dream; how much did the door replacement cost?
![:\](/styles/custom/emotes/svg/chris-confused.svg "Confused :\")
He's trying to simultaneously say that he's innocent while also acknowledging that evidence shows that he's guilty. It's like watching a robot short-circuit when it's asked for the meaning of life. Except in this case, the robot is surrounded by underdeveloped brains who reassure it, "You're SO right, king!"