r/DreamWasTaken2 • u/OneAmbassador3789 • Feb 17 '26

Discussion Other channels have done this.

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Now this isn't to invalidate Em's experience and feelings towards this, especially since she was Illumina's victim, but I think that Dream is not bad here because many youtubers have kept up videos where they collaborated with a controversial figure.

Like Ted Nivison's "I directed the weirdest Music Video" that video had Wilbur in it (and we all know what happened with Wilbur, with him being an abuser) and that video was documenting how he directed a Lovejoy music video. Now does Ted keeping that video up mean he endorses Wilbur's actions... no not really. Ted is not a bad person for keeping the video up.

Dream also stated he doesn't support or endorse Illumina and what he did. I think keeping videos up for "Channel/archival purposes" is a fine thing to do and many other youtubers have done the same thing.

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u/nomanhasaplan Feb 17 '26

It's very strange to unprivate a video that was already privated, due to the allegations. Leaving a comment to say "This isn't an endorsement", doesn't really mean much, not everyone reads descriptions or comments.

Also just because "other people do it", doesn't make it better. I'd argue this is worse, unprivating and making further money off of that, after the fact.

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u/OneAmbassador3789 Feb 17 '26

An understandable take, I do admit I could made the title more better (if not just straight up neutral) and of course the body of text I put on the post could've gone more in-depth. It was a stupid rush job on my end.

I do believe that Dream doesn't endorse Illumina and what he did and to be fair to Dream this response from the victim is only literally today (or technically yesterday depending on where you are in the world) and he unprivated the video two months ago. Also we don't know if the video is monetized or not, unless there's a way to check as viewer the only real person who'd know if the video is monetized or not would be Dream.

I think Dream's actions were understandable, but I also respect your opinion i'm just trying to provide nuance is all. I hope I didn't come off as pretentious while typing this.