Hi there. Dream96 is my Minecraft username, but how did that come to be given the circumstances?
Last revised 30/10/2024

My original Minecraft name was Dreamsword96. I am from a part of the world where English is not the first language, so naturally the IGN I made for myself in 2012 was on par with something dreamt up by a 4-year-old from Utah. In June 2019 (source: Namemc - https://i.imgur.com/oWRNEzt.png), I shortened my name to Dream96 because I thought it looked better, my friends had been calling me Dream for multiple years instead of Dreamsword, and at that time, I was given a leadership position in my favorite Wynncraft guild of all time—Phantom Hearts.

Unfortunately, in the same year, the same month, disaster struck. YouTuber "Dream"—from now on we’ll refer to him as "the other Dream"—hit it big. In that month alone, Dream went completely viral, going from a stable 1,200 YouTube subscribers to 55,000 by the end of the month, rocketing him to Minecraft YouTuber stardom. By the end of that year, he was at 1 million. The pandemic came around, Minecraft YouTube exploded, and we got the Dream we have today—one of, if not the biggest Minecraft YouTuber on the planet. How did he get there? He used every trick in the book to obtain his holy grail, his viral video. Clickbait, jumping on popular topics and drama, leeching off bigger rising YouTube stars—he has done it all. Not that it matters now, of course; all those old "impure" videos are deleted. You’ve got to give it to this guy; he really hustled his way to the top.

You wouldn’t be surprised to know that I don’t really like the other Dream as a content creator, YouTuber personality, or even as a person, given what we know about him. But now our Minecraft fates are interlinked forever. The only way to find my peace in this world now is to save up the millions required, and one day, when the guy's YouTube career is over and Minecraft probably doesn’t exist anymore, buy the name from him, like he did on a black marketplace all those years in the past.