Dream finally fulfils LGBTQIA+ charity promise after fan backlash over lack of streams The Trevor Project \/ Instagram: DreamwastakenMinecraft star Dream has donated a considerable $140,000 sum to The Trevor Project, a LGBTQIA+ charity, in light of backlash to his lack of streaming throughout the month of June. After weeks of grabbing headlines with various controversies and trolls, Dream opted to end the month on a high note. The popular influencer donated $140,000 to The Trevor Project \u2014 a charity offering support to LGBTQIA+ young people \u2014 though even this good-willed gesture copped a wave of backlash online. At the very beginning of June, celebrated as Pride Month in the LGBTQIA+ community, Dream made a promise on Twitter. \u201cAny money that I get from subs, donations, bits, or otherwise from streaming this month will go to The Trevor Project.\u201d However, critics say Dream didn\u2019t live up to his promises. https:\/\/twitter.com\/defnoodles\/status\/1410352033949904897 Prior to the final day of the month, Dream\u2019s main Twitch channel was completely inactive. \u2018Dreamwastaken\u2019 remained dormant since May 31. Instead, the streamer took to his secondary account \u2018DreamAlt_\u2019, and went live just once in June. \u201cHe has a single two-hour stream on his alt, which has a tenth of his main\u2019s followers and is not linked to his socials,\u201d one person shared on June 30. \u201cThe subs and donations were off for that [two-hour] stream.\u201d As a result, many argued Dream didn\u2019t live up to his promise and that he had all but forgotten his donation incentive for the month. With just hours to go, Dream finally went live on his main Twitch channel for a 2.5 hour broadcast. During this June 30 stream, along with various social media podcasts, he raked in \u201c$20,000 in subs, $60,000 in donations, and over $10,000 in ads.\u201d $90,000 was raised in total, even with his main account being inactive for 29 out of 30 days. Adding to this, Dream chucked in a further $50,000 before sending the collective sum to The Trevor Project. This is being donated to the Trevor Project an LGBTQIA+ charity dedicated to LGBTQIA+ youth. You can read more and donate here: https:\/\/t.co\/4jBYTFKPrd Happy end of pride month, and I’m glad we were able to raise so much for such an amazing cause! \u2014 dream (@dreamwastaken) June 30, 2021 \u201cHappy end of Pride Month,\u201d he followed up on Twitter. \u201cI\u2019m glad we were able to raise so much for such an amazing cause.\u201d Raising close to six figures with just a single stream on his main channel goes to show what could have been raised with regular streams throughout the month, though a $140,000 donation is nothing to scoff at.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dream finally fulfils LGBTQIA+ charity promise after fan backlash over lack of streams The Trevor Project \/ Instagram: DreamwastakenMinecraft star Dream has donated a considerable $140,000 sum to The Trevor Project, a LGBTQIA+ charity, in light of backlash to his lack of streaming throughout the month of June. After weeks of grabbing headlines with various […]<\/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-47800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47800","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=47800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}