ORLANDO, FLORIDA: Clay "Dream," a well-known 'Minecraft' streamer, became the center of debate within the gaming industry due to his involvement in a cheating incident during one of his popular 'Minecraft' speed runs.
Felix "PewDiePie" responded to Twitch streamers who had been found cheating in a video that he posted in July 2021. He also alluded to the scandal surrounding Dream's cheating in this video.
'Want people to think you're good'
PewDiePie shared his opinion that the cheating had taken the pleasure out of the game even though Dream had accepted it in a Twitlonger post that has since been deleted.
Pewds said, “It just takes out all the fun in the game. How badly do you want people to think you're good? I don't get it.”
Dream received a lot of backlash when some blogs and content producers disputed Dream's speedrun, claiming that the amazing drop rates he attained were mathematically impossible. A member of the Speedrun.com verification team named Geosquare provided an analysis of the speedrun along with a 29-page report on December 11, 2021, and denied Dream's record in the process.
The numbers reported by the streamer had a stunning one in 177 billion probability of being achieved, according to Geosquare, raising more questions about the veracity of the speedrun.
Did Dream actually cheat?
Dream originally refuted the accusations, but in a post on Twitlonger in May 2021, he admitted to his wrongdoing. He acknowledged running a mod during the speedrun, giving him access to advantageous drops.
He clarified, “In our challenge videos, before 1.16, we always increased the enderman spawn rates and pearl drop rates out of convenience...It makes the videos better because we don’t spend hours looking for pearls or spend so much time farming blaze rods (a totally RNG thing, mostly pearls). When 1.16 came out...A server-side plugin was made for our videos that slightly increases the rates.”
He added, “I had considered at the time that this potentially could have been a problem, but brushed it off because server-side and client-side are completely different and as far as I was aware nothing had been done client-side.”
Later, he apologized and said, “I’m sorry to anyone that I let down or disappointed. I always strive to be the best person that I can be and that whole debacle wasn’t the best that I can be or anywhere near it.”
Dream has since been embroiled in several scandals, one of which surfaced in October 2022 when he was accused of grooming behavior. This incident received a lot of media coverage and was well-documented.
