![]() For instance, a blogger might write under the name LucyBear (I'm making this up, so don't attempt to Google this person), with a husband referred to as El Hubbo (people did stuff like this, I'm so sorry) and kids referred to as Floofy and The Crasher. In early blogs and online journals, pseudonyms were very common for the people in your life, and even for yourself. So obviously, this revelation about cheating was an issue. Fulmer is what people refer to as a "Wife Guy," a guy whose public image is very much centered on his loving relationship with his wife. ![]() At one place where I worked, the phrase "stick it in a blog" was used as a kind of eye-rolling acknowledgment that if you have so much to say about something, go make yourself a space to say it.īut this week's drama about Ned Fulmer of the YouTube outfit The Try Guys losing his gig after he admitted to cheating on his wife with an employee of the show (catch yourself up with this useful explainer if you must) also emphasized the ways in which YouTube contains elements of 2003-ish blog culture and journaling. ![]() It was the culture of a quick take, a chance to see a writer's fresh thoughts on a weekly (or more frequent) basis, and it was independence from traditional publishing. Seeing blog culture in Substack and other newsletter platforms isn't difficult. "Here is some writing, here are some links, here is some information." That was also the mission statement of a blog, particularly in the more "journaling" incarnation, as opposed to the "rolling succession of tiny posts that were really just links" incarnation. Jacobs and Dream haven’t been friends for as long as some of the other creators but have quickly become extremely close, with both mutually calling the other one of their closest friends.As someone who had not just one blog but several in the late '90s and early aughts - and as someone who originally came to NPR to write one about pop culture - I have found it fascinating to see blogs boom, and then bust, and then be reinvented as newsletters essentially indistinguishable from blog posts. The first creator to see Dream’s face since he revealed it to GeorgeNotFound, which will be shown in an upcoming YouTube video centered around the Dream Team meeting for the first time, was Karl Jacobs. When GeorgeNotFound obtained his visa to move to America so that he could live with Dream and Sapnap, the duo then FaceTimed for the first time after over six years of friendship. Related: Dream hits new milestone on YouTube, becomes most subscribed Minecraft channelīefore he began face revealing to his creator friends, only Sapnap, a Minecraft creator who lives with Dream, and Alyssa, a mostly inactive Minecraft creator who used to play alongside Dream and on the Dream SMP frequently, had seen the creator’s face. The Minecraft star has been close friends with some of these creators for around 10 years, but he is only now revealing his face to them for the first time. ![]() The Minecraft star previously teased that his mask would soon be coming off and that his face reveal was imminent, but now everything has been set in motion, and it could happen at any given moment.Īhead of his face reveal to the world, Dream has been revealing his face to many of his creator friends, who have been sharing their reactions to seeing him for the first time. All throughout his content creation career, Dream’s face has been a shrouded secret, but this is about to change forever.
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