Dream and Technoblade Fan Appreciation Analysis

This might seem like a random comparison to make but as a Technoblade stan and a psuedo Dream stan I have a lot of opinions. A lot of this analysis relates to twitter since that's where they do their fan interaction but you'll never catch me saying anything that matters on twitter so here I am. It's really interesting how both fanbases feel really appreciated by their respective content creators despite being treated very differently. Some of this is a little speculative so sorry about that.

[Fanart]

Technoblade interacts with fanart by liking and occasionally retweeting or replying in addition to using art as thumbnails. He was praised for how well he credited a piece he used in his 5 mil community post and is considering putting together a playlist of animatics together to help people discover those artists. He's very happy about having a community of artists and tries not to criticize any style (despite saying he preferred pig!Techno for thumbnails). He made an outro of fanart and put signs with credit for posters on the dsmp.

Dream is on twitter in a large part to interact with fans. He made a fanart account to promote artists and show his appreciation for fanart. He's done art competitions with prizes for profile pictures and did a big shoutout for vnzndt. He's done artist promotion threads and follows a lot of artistsnin the community. He doesn't use fanart much but when he does he tries to make it important and show how he values the artists involved.

[Other fans/stan interaction]

Technoblade lurks. People on twitter refer to him as having a "stalklist" of stan accounts. He also makes fun of his fans (in good humour) for being sad about stuff and caring about him. He's deliberately dodged the concept of openly supporting stans. In mcm5 he awkwardly sat their while Carson insulted his viewers. He seemed very relieved that it was xqc's viewers not his sending death threats to Carson indicating that he feels somewhat responsible for fans causing problems. In mcc7 he says something along the lines of "you may not like stans but you have to respect their military might". Aka he's aware of stans enough to not avoid them but doesn't want the hate of defending them.

Dream is on twitter as much to interact with artist fans as non artist fans. He created his private twitter just to have a random chance of interacting with fans. He's vocally defended stans in tweets and a video. He's active enough in the community to call out things he doesn't like including dsmp tweets being confused with tweets about the content creators and Addison Rae getting hate. He answers questions on twitter and responds to disapproval from his fanbase. He's verbally supportive of his fans in his streams and says how much he loves them on stream.

[Conclusion]

Dream goes out of his way to support his fans in twitter and Techno goes out of his way to support fanartists within his content. They're both very cool I just think it's funny how Technoblade can barely acknowledge us and we're so happy while Dream is creating his 7th twitter account to vibe with us for the same effect. There's not any real takeaway I just like to overthink these things.