Dream calls for \u201cforgiveness\u201d in long post amid Karl Jacobs controversy DreamMinecraft content creator Dream posted a long message urging \u201clove, forgiveness, growth, and acceptance\u201d towards those who make mistakes, amid controversy surrounding friend Karl Jacobs. Having seen his popularity explode over 2020, Dream has become one of the highest-profile figures on the Internet. With his popularity has come instances of controversy, and Dream has often had to face it head-on. On April 29, Dream\u2019s friend and fellow content creator Karl Jacobs was criticized for his controversial association with now banned Twitch streamer Ice Poseidon. Jacobs initially responded on his Twitch stream, but felt \u201cit wasn\u2019t the best format to respond in\u201d and later clarified things further via Twitlonger. The situation has prompted wider discussion around the manner in which those in the public eye are held accountable for their actions. Dream had earlier backed up Tyler \u2018Trainwrecks\u2019 Niknam\u2019s call to \u201cteach and correct mistakes\u201d rather than \u201ccancel and alienate.\u201d \u201cHow you respond and grow from mistakes you\u2019ve made is what should define you, not your mistakes,\u201d Dream said. there\u2019s three types of people on the internet 1. people who have done or said dumb stuff on the internet 2. people who haven\u2019t used the internet long enough to and 3. liars. How you respond and grow from mistakes you\u2019ve made is what should define you, not your mistakes. \u2014 dream (@dreamwastaken) May 1, 2021 Three hours later, Dream posted a long message exploring this idea of accountability further, where he stressed the value of having a \u201cwillingness to learn\u201d from past mistakes. He emphasized that the post wasn\u2019t directly related to Jacobs\u2019 situation. \u201cMistakes that you make now are documented forever on the internet, and things that in the past before the internet would have been learning experiences can now very quickly spiral into something much bigger,\u201d he said. Read More: How does Dream make money? – \u201cI think that this is a good thing in a lot of ways as the world will hopefully slowly become a much less bigoted and ignorant place, and people whose voices never would have been heard can scream louder than ever before and can\u2019t be ignored.\u201d random 5am rambling about something that\u2019s on my mind https:\/\/t.co\/aHHPMx7Slf \u2014 dream (@dreamwastaken) May 1, 2021 However, he also urged critics not to take apologies at face value, explaining how incoherent apologies can often be the most sincere, and vice versa. \u201cWords can be helpful, words can be reassuring, words can be insightful, and words can be necessary, but at the end of the day, remember that not everyone is as good with words as others,\u201d he explained. \u201cDon\u2019t be manipulated by a forked tongue, but also don\u2019t confuse a normal one for a forked one because of a stutter.\u201d \u201cSpread love and positivity, hold those accountable that need to be held accountable, educate those that are ignorant, don\u2019t be a bystander to bigotry or hatred, and don\u2019t let anyone tell you that your personal feelings aren\u2019t valid because they are. \u201cHowever, love, forgiveness, growth, and acceptance are some of the most underappreciated things we have.\u201d While Dream stresses his words are not directly related to Jacobs\u2019 situation, they certainly have resonance in the wake of this controversy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dream calls for \u201cforgiveness\u201d in long post amid Karl Jacobs controversy DreamMinecraft content creator Dream posted a long message urging \u201clove, forgiveness, growth, and acceptance\u201d towards those who make mistakes, amid controversy surrounding friend Karl Jacobs. Having seen his popularity explode over 2020, Dream has become one of the highest-profile figures on the Internet. With […]<\/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-47793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47793","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=47793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}