I remain unconvinced that more than 20% of Dream's total audience actually played the game at any point. I'm not convinced that 10% of them play it regularly. He was becoming a "if you're rich and famous you get away with murder" kind of OJ Simpson argument, I'm glad that was untrue.
Same, I think his gaming of the algorithm has just lumped him in with the general dumb stuff kids watch on youtube.
To some people... no Karl wasn't paid off, that's just ridiculous and stupid because the video didn't make the green cheater look more innocent and it didn't paint him in better light. "I don't know" isn't a fucking excuse and there's no way 24 hours of streams with consistently boosted droprates isn't a product of some kind of cheating, he's just a fucking retard and since all he did was play Minecraft all day, he never learned anything useful in high school.
No way Karl was paid off for the video but it does make Dream look better, in my opinion. I think Karl was trying too hard to be professionally neutral and gave too many benefits of doubt to Dream as a result. There's not a chance that Dream didn't both recognize boosted drop rates across multiple runs and didn't consider his in-house mod after the speedrun mods called him out. This retard claimed to have reverse engineered things to try to figure out what was going on yet can't even reverse engineer a mod he would have access to the source code for. All of his excuses fall flat in hindsight.
When covering his talk with the mod developer, the mod dev apparently claims he just changed drop rates without anyone's knowledge (doubt) but also
specifically advised that certain drop rates be improved for all players in DreamSMP. So even giving Dream the benefit of the doubt on knowing drops were changed on the server, his developer apparently brought this up before ever doing it. I also find it unlikely that the same guy afraid to lose his job over all of this would say a single bad thing about Dream publicly and talking to Karl Jobst for his video is effectively public.
Karl says this is reasonable because the developer withheld these changes even when apparently helping Dream personally figure out the discrepancy. Did everyone just forget the developer brought up modifying drop rates before? Did no one notice these rates were different on the SMP?
2. Cheater
He cheated, plain and simple. Mod was installed, his modding employee stayed silent in fear of being fired. Reasonable. Still a cheater.
Unreasonable. I touched on it above but Dream apparently didn't even consider this mod even after being accused. The claim is that the mod developer included server-side things in the client-side version of the mod, which indicates at least Dream knew that drop rates were altered in the server plugin to some degree. This is fine on its own, but it begs the question, "Why didn't Dream even consider the client-side version of the plugin?" The accusations were that drop rates were affected and he had a server plugin affecting those same drop rates for his entertainment videos, so that would reasonably be one of the earlier things to consider. The retort is "Dream didn't know about any drop rate changes" which is just retarded. If that's true, his developer should be fired for willy nilly changing things without telling people and withholding it when it mattered most.
Karl barely touched on this, but Dream drug multiple people through the mud and used a lot of manipulation tactics to try to cover his own ass in his response video, tweets, bathtub apology, and more. I don't think someone who made an understandable mistake would behave so consistently like that for so long, particularly upon realizing their supposedly innocent mistake. He even tried to manipulate the Harvard guy to give him better odds and then tried to sell 1 in 100,000,000 as reasonable fucking odds for multiple runs in a short timeframe. Clay is a fucking snake. One of those snakes that engorged itself on an entire deer.
