You order a package off Amazon. When the Amazon delivery guy shows up to your door, instead of giving you the package you bought, he beats the shit out of you. Then, when he sees that you are not dead yet, he calls all of the Amazon delivery people in the area and they all proceed to beat the shit out of you. Miraculously, you survive. Another miracle: a friend in your neighborhood caught the assault on video. After a month of recovery and extensive hospital bills that you have no idea what to do with, the video has gone viral. You read the comments below. “This is what happens to people who fuck with Amazon!!!” Someone says. “I’ve never been beaten up by Amazon employees, and I’ve been using them all my life!” Someone else comments. Later, you start to see articles popping up about your story. They all mention that when you were 17, your license was revoked for reckless driving. In a Facebook post on your mom’s feed, someone is going on a rant about how not all Amazon delivery guys are bad, and that if you look really close, the “bad” ones are just stressed out. Your name is trending on Twitter. Jeff Bezos films a response to your attack, denouncing the video of you getting beaten to within an inch of your life by his employees as becoming “a symbol of hate towards Amazon.” The people who attacked you still deliver packages around your neighborhood. You saw one of them just yesterday as you were watering your plants. You still can’t pay your hospital bills. Your phone dings- Twitter again. “Maybe if you didn’t order from Amazon,” someone pipes up, “this wouldn’t have happened!”
DREAM: i know there are a lot of people who might just think "oh you can just post anything, we don't care" and it's like yeah but I Love This, okay? i LOVE this- and i don't mean this, i mean making content, i love it. i love it. it is my favorite thing in the world to sit down, come up with an idea, do everything in my power to execute it, and then put it out there and see people's reactions. or just see people and how it affects them, how it changes their day, or just makes them smile, or whatever. or just creating, just like, making things
DREAM: um, so there's the day like, a lot of stuff people [say is] "oh you can just go play minecraft", no i don't wanna do that, okay? i've never done that, i've never done that. even with manhunt, which just seems so simple, "you're just sat down and playing minecraft and have your friends try to stop you" yeah but every video i was looking into editing techniques and new ways of using music, and new ways of making music and- um- new evolutions in minecraft and new bugs and glitches and how to y'know, practice. i was evolving as a player, so there was a lot of things i was spending my time on that was part of a creative process, and i feel like i maxxed out in a lot of those things. that's not- that exact thing is not- it's not fun for me
DREAM: so what is fun for me is creating new things, and evolving the space and um- anyway
The difference between dream and the other content creators in this space and probably the reason why he's so popular is just the genuine admiration he has not just for the game but also content creation as a craft. Like sure he loves his audience but more than "maintaining" it by uploading things that he doesn't fully like or is half assed he makes sure to only put out the best and it's obviously the perfectionist in him but it also makes me feel so special when i watch his videos because you can tell the care that's gone into making and editing it.