Asmongold defends Dream after finally admitting to Minecraft speedrun cheating Twitch: Asmongold\/Twitter: DreamPopular Twitch streamer Asmongold stepped in to defend Dream\u2019s apology over the Minecraft speedrunning drama, saying he acted as anyone else would if they had people try to expose him. Thanks to his Minecraft videos, Dream exploded in popularity in 2020, gaining huge followings across social media, especially on both YouTube and Twitter. However, the Minecraft YouTuber was plunged into controversy in December when one of his trademark speedrun records was rejected over alleged cheating, something which he denied for quite a while. Dream even had an astrophysicist try and clear him from any wrongdoing. Despite trying to clear his name, on May 29, Dream finally admitted to having cheats enabled for his speedruns which upped the spawn rate of some key items. Some long-time doubters have taken a victory lap following Dream\u2019s apology, but others have also defended him. That includes popular World of Warcraft streamer Asmongold who said that Dream only acted as he did, because he\u2019s human, and anyone else who was only so much pressure would have done the same thing.R \u201cI mean after reading the apology, he admitted fault in a half dozen different ways and that the run was illegitimate,\u201d Asmon tweeted after the apology did the rounds on social media. \u201cEven though he did kinda play victim, he probably had millions of people trying to \u201cexpose\u201d him or talk s**t about him. I think that would f**k with anyone\u2019s head.\u201d I mean after reading the apology, he admitted fault in a half dozen different ways and that the run was illegitimate Even though he did kinda play victim, he probably had millions of people trying to “”expose”” him or talk shit about him I think that would fuck with anyone’s head \u2014 Zack (@Asmongold) May 31, 2021 The Twitch star further added that anyone who was being \u201cpushed\u201d like Dream was would have gone into defense mode anyway. \u201cIf you look at him as a person rather than an entity, it makes sense for him to act the way he did,\u201d he added. Yeah exactly, getting pushed like that by so many people would send almost anyone into defense mode, regardless of the reason If you look at him as a person rather than an entity, it makes sense for him to act the way he did \u2014 Zack (@Asmongold) May 31, 2021 Dream hasn\u2019t uploaded a speedrun since the drama kicked off, but he has been active in the Minecraft community still, taking part his own DreamSMP server and the Minecraft Championship. It remains to be seen if he\u2019ll ever return to speedrunning now that he\u2019s cleared things up, but some fans will be hoping he does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Asmongold defends Dream after finally admitting to Minecraft speedrun cheating Twitch: Asmongold\/Twitter: DreamPopular Twitch streamer Asmongold stepped in to defend Dream\u2019s apology over the Minecraft speedrunning drama, saying he acted as anyone else would if they had people try to expose him. Thanks to his Minecraft videos, Dream exploded in popularity in 2020, gaining huge […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}