{"id":47839,"date":"2025-01-28T17:21:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T17:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/dream-responds-to-grooming-allegations-after-videos-surface-dexerto\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T17:21:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T17:21:36","slug":"dream-responds-to-grooming-allegations-after-videos-surface-dexerto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/dream-responds-to-grooming-allegations-after-videos-surface-dexerto\/","title":{"rendered":"Dream responds to \u201cgrooming\u201d allegations after videos surface &#8211; Dexerto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dream responds to \u201cgrooming\u201d allegations after videos surface YouTube: DreamPopular streamer Dream has taken to X\/Twitter to respond to allegations of grooming after screenshots of a Snapchat encounter were shared by an anonymous account claiming that he had groomed a minor. Popular content creator, streamer, and occasional musician, Dream, 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. On November 20, 2023, a new grooming allegation was aimed towards the YouTuber after an anonymous X\/Twitter account by the name of Burner 22 posted videos and screenshots of messages from a Snapchat user named \u201cDream Dream\u201d. As the messages are opened on the videos, a black screen can be seen with audio of someone moaning. The snaps also included short, explicit messages from the \u201cDream Dream\u201d Snapchat user. Going with the video, the tweet read: \u201cI was informed none of the videos in the previously posted messages contain any form of CSEM and they have been sent to me under an anonymous source. **I was given permission to post these** \u201cI can confirm without a shadow of a doubt it was Dreams Snapchat account.\u201d Dream response to \u201cgrooming\u201d allegations after anonymous tweet In response to the anonymous tweet, Dream took to X\/Twitter on November 21 to tell his side of the story. He started his message by saying he\u2019d been assaulted and lied about by a drunk voice actor. \u201cThen a burner account posted a secondhand claim, telling stories for a \u2018victim\u2019 that doesn\u2019t agree or even know what\u2019s going on. This is people\u2019s lives, I\u2019m begging you to listen to what I have to say and watch my video when it\u2019s out, it\u2019s not this week\u2019s joke. \u201cIt\u2019s not just \u2018haha Minecraft YouTuber is a pedo\u2019, or \u2018haha cringe speed run guy got beat up by Gumball!\u2019 it\u2019s incredibly serious and impacts so many lives, my friends, my family, my employees, and all actual victims of abuse, physical &#038; sexual. This is terrible and not \u2018haha dream moan audio just dropped\u2019.\u201d He continued to say: \u201cI\u2019m not a pedo, I didn\u2019t groom anyone, and what\u2019s being spread in this particular instance is black and white, and I will lay everything out in my video. Including the situation with me being assaulted, and other situations that are incredibly serious.\u201d He ended the tweet by saying he would post a video on YouTube and that this was just a \u201ctemporary statement\u201d and urged fans to \u201cwithhold judgment\u201d until they\u2019ve watched his video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dream responds to \u201cgrooming\u201d allegations after videos surface YouTube: DreamPopular streamer Dream has taken to X\/Twitter to respond to allegations of grooming after screenshots of a Snapchat encounter were shared by an anonymous account claiming that he had groomed a minor. Popular content creator, streamer, and occasional musician, Dream, 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-47839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47839","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=47839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}