One notable fan creator is SAD-ist, an animator from the Philippines who illustrates events from the server's story set to music and dialogue clips. Although unusual for an online creator, Dream has encouraged fan fiction to be written about him, stating that it ultimately helps his career. The server's storylines have inspired fan art, fan fiction, and online musicals. In September 2021, Benjamin Herold of The Hechinger Report said that the Dream SMP "helped millions of kids stay connected to the social world" during the COVID-19 pandemic. Broderick also attributes the Dream SMP's unprecedented success to how its story is showcased, describing it as being "a profound idea essentially turns viewers into their own directors, hopping through streams to see which version of the story they want to focus on".
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Its storylines are analyzed in documentary-style videos, such as those of MatPat, who describes the series as "narrative storytelling through the lens of gaming". The Dream SMP has garnered a large following and a popular fandom, with hundreds of thousands of viewers turning up for live events. In a 2022 interview with Variety Dream remarked that the Dream SMP was just Minecraft being used as a storytelling medium as opposed to being an actual game, with GeorgeNotFound adding they don't actually "really" play Minecraft when doing Dream SMP streams. The Disc Saga was described by Julia Alexander of The Verge as a "dramatic tale of good versus evil" as Dream and TommyInnit fought over dominance in the server. Ryan Broderick of Polygon describes the server's plot as being played out like "a silly Game of Thrones with anime pacing", and describes the story's characters as being "not unlike how the wrestler John Cena plays the wrestler John Cena inside the narrative of WWE".
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According to Rich Stanton of PC Gamer, "L'Manburg was taken very seriously by its players, to the extent the nation has not only a flag but a national anthem." The plot was likened to live theater by Cecilia D'Anastasio of Wired, describing it as a " Machiavellian political drama". The heavy emphasis on the roleplaying aspect of the server and their overarching plots has attracted a lot of attention. In January 2021, L'Manberg would go on to be invaded, destroyed, and permanently disbanded. This coalition party went on to win the election with 46 percent of the vote. When SWAG2020 running mate GeorgeNotFound failed to show up, Quackity, the presidential candidate for the party, formed an impromptu coalition party with Jschlatt, SchWAG2020. L'Manberg would later hold a presidential election, which involved heated roleplay debates between the fictional political parties SWAG2020 and POG2020. It seceded from the Greater Dream SMP nation and won a war for independence. Īnother conflict broke out when Wilbur Soot founded L'Manberg, an in-game breakaway state for non-American players. TommyInnit's Twitch broadcast of the events peaked at over 650,000 viewers, making it the third-highest all-time concurrent viewer livestream on the platform. The Disc Saga concluded in January 2021, with Dream being imprisoned. Throughout the saga, Dream and other characters fought over ownership of the discs, and use them as leverage against each other. The Disc Saga, the server's longest-running story arc, was a series of events centered around two rare music discs belonging to TommyInnit.
Some members play multiple characters, including ghost versions of themselves. Within the plot, characters can die up to three times before being permanently dead. The server's early storyline was inspired by Hamilton, and the musical has been referenced many times by the server members. Wilbur Soot, who planned many of the early story arcs, said in an interview for Insider, "I write up a series of plot hooks and points that should tie together, however we improv dialogue and comedy throughout to take us from point to point." The server has over 20 "eras" in its plotline and over 30 characters as of August 2021. Most content is improvised, apart from major plot points which are loosely scripted in advance. They engage in lengthy conflicts over political power and rare artifacts. It stars fellow Minecraft YouTubers such as Sapnap and TommyInnit, who roleplay as characters loosely based on themselves. It quickly gained popularity, in part due to the COVID-19 pandemic and collaborations across various YouTube channels. The Dream SMP was created by Dream and GeorgeNotFound in April or May 2020 as a small server for a few friends.
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