#robs-sideblobs

[dreamhot]

so like is it time to start omegaverse posting or-

@robs-sideblobs

pardon !

[calamitydaze]

...what uh...what happened in january? /gq

-@robs-sideblobs (new to the fandom as of like, june)

(actual explanation under the cut 😭)

okay disclaimer: this happened ages ago and it’s unique in the sense that it pretty much never breached containment, so it wasn’t documented and everyone who was there kinda agreed not to talk about it anymore. so this is all just based on what i can remember, i don’t have receipts or anything (but i don’t mind you asking at all! i hate when people gatekeep stuff i wasn’t there for so i’m happy to explain, just wanna be clear why people are so hush hush about it)

so in november 2021 this guy popped up on twitter called manatreed who was an up-and-coming faceless streamer (he’d been posting sporadically since june, but people only started noticing then). and this was the era where dream team christmas was still a possibility, so people started putting the pieces together: faceless white guy in florida, has dream’s exact pair of arthritis gloves, wears the same clothing brand sapnap does, claims to be a streamer but never promoted a twitch, followed by/has dms with dream and sapnap and interactions with a lot of big ccs + ANNOUNCED TO BE JOINING THE DSMP despite having No content whatsoever, “manatreed” is an almost exact anagram of “dream team”, irl name is ollie and his first tweet was on the day sapnap posted a video of him doing an ollie (YES some of these are reaches but they’re all things people were saying) and most damning of all, dream hadn’t said “it’s not me /srs” even though he normally hates people impersonating him. what if....... this was dream?

and then manatreed says he’ll do his first stream when he hits 300k on twitter, and two months go by, and in january he hits 300k on twitter and goes live on the dsmp. and it’s... not dream. it’s just a guy. who isn’t dream. OKAY. he and dream explain (i think-- i don’t remember this part super clearly) that they were old friends who reconnected when mana wanted to start content creation, and dream agreed to give him a boost. which, okay. still fucking wild but it’s less weird if he isn’t Just Some Guy. and i was a twitter stan at the time (lurking on dtblr), but people on my tl really warmed up to him. i was pretty indifferent, but he seemed sweet enough, so sure, whatever. he ended the stream an hour or two later and we assumed he’d be continuing with content creation

and this is the part i’m gonna have to be really vague about unfortunately because a lot of it hinges on doxxed info which i don’t want to spread at all. but very very shortly after that first stream (could’ve been the day after? i’m not sure) a thread came out alleging that manatreed’s real identity was someone with a history of abusing women including an active battery charge, and dream had let mana live in his house and given him an online platform knowing this. again, without going into the info (the fandom, at least on twt, was worryingly willing to hold hands with doxxers and cyberstalkers to get to the bottom of this), the only thing i can really say about my opinion is that given dream’s history as a victim of domestic violence i found it unlikely that he would knowingly harbor and promote an abuser, and that it would be incredibly uncharacteristically stupid if he did know. i also know that the thread coming out was part of a planned takedown by kiwifarms + leaktwt, who have a history of faking things (regardless of whether or not it was true, that’s part of the context of a lot of dream’s controversies in this era). dream’s initial response was.... not good (when people refer to “the gullible tweet” this is what they mean-- he said we were being gullible for believing the accusations and sapnap immediately went live as damage control) but he later wrote a twitlonger which you can read here. recently manatreed’s twitch bio was changed to say that he will not ever be coming back to content creation, and... that was that.

as someone who’s been here since november 2020 i can say january was the worst incident to ever happen-- the fandom recovered, but it’s never really been the same. i think although it ended in a way that was satisfying enough to let most of us continue supporting him, it shook the foundation and the situation happening now is reminding people a lot of that, which might be why the reaction has been so extreme. so yeah! that was january

[animution11]

OMG!! The amazing @robs-sideblobs lined and coloured my sketch and its soo fuckin CUTE!!!! Pls for the love of god go follow them they are amazing!!!!

[calamitydaze]

hello bella i would like to say 2 things!!!

one, i hope ur day is going as well as it possibly can!!!

and two (sorry, its more serious), have u wanted Ro's video on The Situation? personally, i really really dont think i have the mental or emotional energy to, partially bc its an hour long, partially bc its just...an hour of talking about Not Good Things. idk, i kinda want to know what she says, but also do not want to injest the content directly, for my own mental health.

if anyone else has a tldr for it, i would be greatful!!

-@robs-sideblobs

thank you!! i’ve had a pretty alright day, went to work and got a haircut and then drove to the mall to get coffee that wasn’t starbucks for a change :P it wasn’t as good as i remembered though sadge

i haven’t watched ro’s video yet, but i was planning on it either tonight or tomorrow! i have a few anons i’m gonna answer once i do to talk about it, so i’d be happy to put in a tldr for you then ^__^

[calamitydaze]

Um, hi! 👉👈 📝

-@robs-sideblobs

[calamitydaze]

Bella you are the only thing keeping me afloat and up to date when something happens, THANK YOU ♥

-@robs-sideblobs

of course!!! :^) i’ve been much less online recently but if i know what’s going on i’ll always do my best to loop people in so never be afraid to ask! 🫶

[calamitydaze]

Wait what did jm do this time?

-@robs-sideblobs

he’s in a new video/podcast episode(? idk that’s what the thumbnail looks like) and the clickbait is “why [he] unfollowed dream” as if anyone gaf and then bitzel commented under the promo tweet saying “love this new era” (tweet here) so like nothing consequential in the grand scheme of things but still 🍅🍅 booooo tomato tomato

[calamitydaze]

...i was the anon and i STAND BY my statement. fr ur so pretty! and the DRESS-!!

-@robs-sideblobs

i had a feeling it was you hehe thank you again!!!!!! it’s actually the first time i’ve worn a dress in legit almost a decade, i usually avoid them like the plague but it worked best with the outfit i had planned so i decided to go for it and im surprised by how much i like it! it’s this one from amazon if anyone would like to hook themselves up