Why Face Reveals Don’t Work If You’re 'Ugly' (Dream)

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We’re looking at why Dream’s face reveal was basically doomed for the beginning. Last year in October 2022 the Minecraft streamer Clay revealed his face to his audience – only to have the internet and Twitter turn on him. The expectations from his fans to look like a gamer version of timothee chalamet weren’t met and last week he decided to become a faceless creator again by putting the mask back on. Could it have been the parasocial relationships he fostered within his community that led to this reaction? Was it a series of unfortunate events throughout his career that caused this overreaction of an average looking guy finally showing his face? This whole situation says a lot about our society and the effects of pretty privilege. Social media has messed up our expectations of what normal human features look like. Why Face Reveals Don’t Work if You’re Ugly #edvasian

[CaraMarie]

It's wild. He's not even ugly. He looks like a normal human. He needs to get a comment moderator and never look at those things himself

[toast]

Not a dream fan. But he isn't ugly. His "fanbase" built up this unrealistic fantasy, where dream looks likesome anime dude. And So, when he made the face reveal, it went crashing down in flames. I feel bad for him, since it looked like he built up alot of courage to do it, and based on his body language/angle he was sitting at, made it seem like he was uncomfortable. Doesn't deserve the hate and bullying he's getting.

Edit: apparently, dream has allegations against him. I had no clue about this as i don't follow up on news about him. I apologise if i have offended anyone with my comment.

[Riverlily]

Dream is not ugly, he has questionable character imo, but he's not ugly. All the people who attacked him are chronically online mostly likely children who built up this cartoonish fantasy of him.

[putdogdirectlyonbed]

he isnt hideous, but the way he got multiple celebs to react to his face made it seem like he was the most beautiful man ever 😭 it did NOT help that his frankly toxic fanbase kept drawing him as a pretty anime boy and all of that set him up so bad... it wasnt like he had a good reputation before this, his face reveal was genuinely the worse move because he had it GOOD by hiding his face and letting his fans turn him into a bishounen anime boy!
I honestly cant say i feel bad for the man, i just genuinely cant fathom how he thought this would end up. and he keeps promoting that song which was funny ngl

[MelaninCosplay]

For me....with Dream, there's two reasons his face reveal didn't do well. (1) Because fans were imagining him like a hot anime/manga lead character. They even drew fan art with him and what they thought he looked like and wrote fanfiction about him. They do the same thing for Corpse. Which is why he keeps his face hidden bc what he looks like shouldn't matter. And when Dream did the face reveal and didn't look like an Anime/manga male lead, they attacked him. (2) Someone saw a picture of him way before the reveal and he was overweight and considered not attractive. He lied and said it wasn't him (even though you can tell it was him and allegedlya friend of a friend of Dream confirmed the picture was him), lost a crap ton of weight, and decided to do the face reveal so that people would stop mocking him for that picture. But then, he got mocked anyway when he did the face reveal for looking like what? A normal ass guy. I mean it's sad. He got so much attention from his fans' imagination of him and now he wants to go back to the mask because before all of this, when he had the mask, he had ATTENTION. I hate that he got bullied for not looking like what people thought he looked like. This also could be a PR Stunt too. Who knows?

[mana-yosw]

Dream is not ugly. People just need to touch grass ngl.

[soobinism]

Faceless creators need to stay faceless, Corpse for example. His face reveal reaction would be 10000x worse. He built up his whole image around being heavily sexualized, no human face can live up to that kind of expectation.

[Frisklikestoart]

He could've done it the Jayden way, where she made a video explaining why she didn't do a face reveal, and then did a face reveal in the end. I think that would've worked in his favour.

[AppleCinderr]

Honestly, I think the reason why everyone dogged on him was because of all the excessive buildup and his infamous reputation (Especially his fanbase’s reputation). Also when I first found out he made a “bye” video because he didn’t want to show his face anymore, I couldn’t even believe it because that was like over half a year ago, and everyone had pretty much dropped it at this point. Not saying he deserved being called ugly (I don’t like the guy one bit but still) but I feel like he definitely brought it up again for more attention. If he really wanted people to forget about it, why would he make a video? He’s not THAT dumb.

[RoxxyKaosGG]

Honestly, this all just makes me sad. I don’t know much about Dream. Maybe he’s awful, maybe he isn’t, but having the entire internet calling you ugly is beyond cruel. At the end of the day, he’s just a regular person, and I hope the person behind the persona is okay.

[rafonioslapronios]

As someone who has similar features to Dream I couldn't take the amount of hate and bullying he was getting... It hurt in my soul

[moonbiebie]

I won't lie, I had forgotten about his face reveal until he tweeted this... which feels like a PR move to me, because we had moved on from it. If he's genuinely bothered by it, the "damage" is already done : people are saving his face reveal video and it's going to haunt him for the rest of his career. His face won't ever leave the internet.
I do believe he's actually not bothered by it, and is using the buzz it generates to his advantage.

[puraidoeustass]

I don't follow Dream and I don't even really know who he was. I don't get all the hate. He looks quite good. Not exactly my type, but definitely not ugly.

[Kruhee]

Feels like a PR stunt when it comes to "deleting his image" because... it's the internet, unfortunately, you can't do that. It's not cool what happened. Having all those people call him ugly wasn't kind but yeah, unless Skillshare can teach time magic what's done is done.

[Fungfetti]

I am a full on dream anti but he isnt ugly, he looks normal, ive never understood why looks would matter anyway, its who you are as a person not your looks

[giapuffs]

I have a hard time understanding how unconventionally attractive and unconventionally beautiful people are "unconventional" 😢 Like, the societal norm is not really based on beauty, but on little pick and choose things. Not everyone with the perfect nose is pretty. Not everyone with an """ugly""" nose is ugly. And not everyone that fixes themselves to have all those little things close to perfection will be any better looking overall, they'll just look similar to a lot of other people? If you look good, you just do. If you want to look better, you can. But, however, that should be subjective. It's crazy how something subjective can be ingrained in society as a norm?

[Odileeeeeee]

People nowadays have such unrealistic beauty standards!

[horsekfobster]

He’s not ugly, he’s just awkward. By awkward I mean he had his head titled at a weird angle instead of looking straight at the camera like you’re doing. He was giving off weirdo vibes which made trolls get on his ass

[cinxiagem]

This is why I personally decided to never post on a public social media account. No matter what you do or who is watching you, some people will always find the most random things to criticize you about or just flat out bully you. I just generally praise anyone who has the courage to put their face on the internet, no matter how they look or what content they are making, it's tough.

[jadeluvzfeferi]

Dream isn’t totally ugly, but all of the allegations against him probably influenced other’s opinions.