Unfollowing Stans, the situation explained.
me: *having a good day*
me: *sees fire on tl*
me: oh shit, here we go again.
HOW IT STARTED
On 27th November, 2021, Manatreed/Ollie made this tweet.
hi i’m manatreed and im the newest member of the Dream SMP :)
Ollie, as I will refer to him, has been somewhat of a huge topic in dsmptwt. It still isn't confirmed if it is just Dream on another twitter account but Ollie has been getting a lot of mentions from dream smp streamers as well as other minecraft streamers. so let's just leave it at that.
Instantly, people got MAD. Their main argument is 'why is Ollie being added to the dsmp when he doesn't stream or make content when there are other smaller content creators who have been working their ass off?' And then someone made a space. Yep, a twitter space. If you aren't a twitter user, a space is a new feature added where you can host podcasts and let others listen in. There has been some good and bad uses out of it. For example, Tubbo, Ranboo and TapL have used spaces to talk to their fans and share their thoughts. They tend to use a hashtag to surf through the comments of live listeners of their space.
Anyways. This particular space was called circecallisto, and the hashtag used was #circecallistospace. It had around 1.5k+ followers. The thing about spaces is that there's no recording of it so once it's over, it's over. And because I have better things to do than to listen to some people talk about how anti black Dream is, I have no idea what they said. But looking through the hashtag and losing many of my precious braincells that I should have used for my cybersecurity exam paper that is coming up soon, I can more or less conclude that people got mad that Dream 'added a cis white man' to the dsmp.
the fact that kentai and so many other black cc’s were in the comment section and none of them were given that same opportunity #circecallistospace
#circecallistospace the reason why these creators are upset is because of this wasted potential that was given to another random white person who has no content, when for some of them thats a job for them
the annoying part is that manatreed DOES NOT POST.he doesn’t post at all but he gets added. so many people showed that them joining the smp would kick start their career but one yt man that shows his chin and gets added. #circecallistospace
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And then another space was hosted, I presume this was in defense of Dream. It's called 'talking about dream' and like you can guess, I wasn't in it. And then people got mad again for people listening to that space, why? Because it's hosted by white people, duh!
nah if you’re sitting in the “talking about dream” space over #circecallistospace , you’re absolutely ridiculous. circe’s space is full of black creators, but you’re letting white people lead a space on black issues?
why are there more listeners in this stupid dream space? i still can’t get over it. i hope damn well that any of those white folks arent trying to speak on black or poc issues in the community just one black person has the ability to... #circecallistospace
I've tried to get the 'hit' tweets (tweets with many likes and rts) to prove that this is general consensus of the black mcyt community. Probably not a good idea to generalise but you understand what I mean.
In summary, Ollie (which could very well be Dream) gets added to the DSMP (no confirmation if this is real yet or not, and I'm not buying anything), black people get mad because he's a cis white man and thinks black content creators deserve better and proceeds to call Dream out.
DREAM UNFOLLOWS
Dream, I'm sorry if you don't like your stats being looked at.
This is Dream's following count (28th for me because I'm Asian). As you can see he unfollowed 12 people. Apparently 9 out of 14 people and 1 is a poc. I believe they were in the original space which called Dream out, hence him unfollowing them.
This really escalated the entire situation. People got even angrier (if that is even possible) and proceeded to call Dream racist just because he unfollowed them. Man, everyone who unfollowed me is now racist and have something against asians i guess, shrugs.
Someone called LJ pulled this dm out of their ass . Apparently they were once part of rbgc and one of the people Dream unfollowed. Do what you wish with this information. The screenshot is a dm from Dream apologising for whatever he did for Feral Feb. The tweet has since been deleted but hey, the reddit post aint going anywhere. The thing that irks me is that they saved the screenshot and only pulled it out now? When they got unfollowed? It's like they're holding onto this screenshot like fucking ammo to use it against Dream. Bruh.
THE OTHER SPACE
There was another space with black hosts, around 300 listeners or so? talking about Dream being racist. It's titled 'Manatreed //Talking ab racism // Dream Unfollowing Blk ppl???'. Here's the link if you wanna listen for whatever reason.
I went in, heard something about twitter's algorithm being biased because of its coder and I'm like what? WHAT? The algorithm suggesting shit for you to see has nothing to do with the coder. IT'S MACHINE LEARNING. It learns and adapts based on what you tend to interact with, and what you tell the algorithm you're not interested in.
I lost so many brain cells for that. Never entering a space ever again.
Also, on a more serious note, someone claims that they're going to doxx Dream. How genuine this threat is, I have no idea, for it is a claim. Please take care.
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Anyway, that's the whole situation. Dream did comment on this subreddit recently but in his comment he never really confirmed if Ollie is him or someone else. You go king, take my energy. Rest up for the lore stream later. I'm off to play league of legends study.