Earlier this month, a Youtuber named GeoSquare posted a video claiming that Minecraft Youtuber Dream’s 1.16 speedrun record had been achieved by cheating, and hence his record should be discarded.
Soon after GeoSquare’s 14-min long video titled “Did Dream Fake His Speedruns – Official Moderator Analysis” went live, it went viral and within 2 weeks the video had more than 2.6 million views. In the description of the video, GeoSquare stated that “this video is NOT my content. Please please DO NOT interact with my channel after watching this, this is just a PSA from the mod team.”
GeoSquare is also a moderator of speedrun records and after posting his video, the forum went wild and accused Dream of faking his speedrun to garner more views and fame. Following which a drama unfolded on Twitter where Dream hit back at GeoSquare, calling the accusations “total BS” and labeling the video clickbait and GeoSquare using his position to tarnish Dream’s name.
Following the drama, Dream promised a full response with adequate proofs to back up his claims. Yesterday he followed through that promise and posted a 24-min long rebuttal video, where he provided a full analysis of the “luck”, he went as far as hiring an astrophysicist statistical expert to disprove the claims of his “luck” being possible only through “cheats”.
The video is divided into 4 sections: Professional statistical analysis, public access files, corrections to false information, and new information. TLDR of the video is that there is no statistically significant evidence that Dream was modifying the probabilities and his odds were “consistent with the random chance.”
Finally concluding his video, Dream said:
“I don’t care at all about my speedrun, I care more about defending my character than defending a dumb leaderboard position. I have an amazing community and an amazing group of fans, and I don’t need to officially speedrun. I do it because I like it. I get fewer views on my record videos than I do on my normal videos.”
In less than 24 hours, Dream’s response video had close to 1 million views and started trending on Youtube’s gaming section. GeoSquare and other moderators of speedrun records haven’t responded to Dream’s video yet.
