Dream Crying at His Concert

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Overview

Dream Crying at His Concert refers to a series of viral videos in which Minecraft YouTuber Dream can be seen sitting down at his concert and crying while performing his song "Until I End Up Dead." The videos also showed Dream's young audience consoling him as he cried. Various internet users reacted to the clip, with some perceiving it as cringe and others defending Dream against critics by pointing to the fact that the song is about Dream's deceased friend Technoblade.

Background

Dream released the music video for his song "Until I End Up Dead" on YouTube^[1] on June 23rd, 2023, gathering over 4.5 million plays in three months (seen below).

According to Variety,^[2] Dream says the song is dedicated to his late friend and fellow YouTuber Technoblade, who passed away from cancer in 2022, and was also inspired by the death of his friend's mother as a child.

According to Dream, "[The song] is about enjoying every moment that life gives you because you never know when life will end… I was able to take two really serious events that impacted me and my community and put them into a song that I think is really meaningful."

Dream went on tour in 2023 to perform songs from his new album to whoever wants to hear. On September 28th, 2023, videos of Dream choking up and crying while performing his song "Until I End Up Dead" went viral on TikTok. The videos show a red-nosed and bleary-eyed Dream sitting at the edge of the stage and repeatedly putting his head in the crook of his arm.

TikToker^[3] @123dtkkisses posted an angle of the performance on September 28th, 2023, gathering over 50,000 plays in a week (seen below).

@123dtkkisses Dream crying over technoblade:/ dont talk to me. #dream #dreamwastaken #dreamwastakenwastaken #untiliendupdead #droncera #la #concert #dsmp #technoblade #technobladeneverdies #fuckcancer #song #uieud #twwth #dreamm #dream #dnf #fyp #fy #fu #foryou #foru #foryoupage #foryouforyouforyouforyouforyou #dreamcore ♬ original sound – Em • 1.4k

Online Reactions

On October 1st, 2023, Dream^[4] duetted a TikTok mocking his performance saying "200,000 likes on a TikTok making fun of me for crying during a song I wrote for my dead friend." The post gathered over 900,000 plays and 90,000 likes in five days (seen below).

@dreamwastakenwastaken #duet with @bohs bald head ♬ original sound – bohs bald head

X users began sharing clips from the performance as well, with X^[5] user @grey990s reposting the clip on October 6th, saying, "Like I said he’s this generations xxxtentacion." The post gathered over 6,000 likes in a day (seen below).

Like I said he’s this generations xxxtentacion https://t.co/9ZQncikwcO

— ! (@grey990s) October 5, 2023

Also on October 6th, 2023, X^[6] user @AntiPiker posted a sped-up version of the clip with the caption, "me when I have a magnet implanted in my forehead and forearm," gathering over 22,000 likes in a day (seen below).