{"id":47811,"date":"2025-01-28T17:21:23","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T17:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/dream-frustrated-as-social-media-accuses-him-of-grooming-again-i-cant-defend-myself-dexerto\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T17:21:23","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T17:21:23","slug":"dream-frustrated-as-social-media-accuses-him-of-grooming-again-i-cant-defend-myself-dexerto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/dream-frustrated-as-social-media-accuses-him-of-grooming-again-i-cant-defend-myself-dexerto\/","title":{"rendered":"Dream frustrated as social media accuses him of grooming again: \u201cI can\u2019t defend myself\u201d &#8211; Dexerto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dream frustrated as social media accuses him of grooming again: \u201cI can\u2019t defend myself\u201d Instagram: dreamwastakenDream has taken to Twitter to defend himself against a tirade of grooming allegations after being \u201charassed for almost a year due to a false accusation\u201d. Popular content creator, streamer, and occasional musician, \u2018Dream\u2019, best known for his Minecraft work, was accused of grooming a minor back in 2022 when a Twitter user claimed the creator flirted with her using a burner account when she was 17. While these allegations were never proven, that hasn\u2019t stopped internet users from dragging Dream ever since. In an attempt to clear things up, he released a 42-minute response addressing the allegations. However, users have since taken a clip from the video out of context in order to propagate claims he had confessed. Now, Dream has seemingly had enough, defending himself in a series of Twitter posts. \u201cI talked on stream about how I\u2019m going to make a detailed video, with logs, screenshots, and evidence, and gave some bullet points, and it got completely clipped out of context and spread somehow as the lie that I \u2018admitted everything\u2019,\u201d Dream said. \u201cIf I\u2019m so terrible why do you have to misquote me, lie, exaggerate, and slander? If I\u2019m all these things you say I am, why is it so hard to be truthful?\u201d he continued. Expressing his frustration over the situation, Dream claimed he had been \u201charassed for almost a year\u201d due to the allegations, which were made shortly after his face reveal. He said, \u201cThis one false accusation turned into \u2018Dream talked to kids, there\u2019s tons of accusations, Dream never denied it, Dream was exposed fiddling kids\u2019, and so much worse. All due to past parasocialness (that, yes, I can be to blame for).\u201d Stating that the spread of misinformation was \u201charmful to real victims\u201d, Dream asked those convinced of his wrongdoings not to \u201cdevalue\u201d what grooming was just to ensure he \u201cfit the definition\u201d. \u201cThis isn\u2019t drama, this is serious stuff, with serious implications,\u201d he said. \u201cCan say in so many words, I\u2019m not a pedo, I haven\u2019t groomed anyone, and my heart goes out to any victims that have to have their real stories [and] trauma thrown in their face for internet points.\u201d Be sure to check out all the latest entertainment news on our page here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dream frustrated as social media accuses him of grooming again: \u201cI can\u2019t defend myself\u201d Instagram: dreamwastakenDream has taken to Twitter to defend himself against a tirade of grooming allegations after being \u201charassed for almost a year due to a false accusation\u201d. Popular content creator, streamer, and occasional musician, \u2018Dream\u2019, best known for his Minecraft work, [&hellip;]<\/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-47811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47811","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=47811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}