YouTuber John Swan has finally admitted to being the impersonator behind fake Dream accounts on Discord, saying he is ashamed of his actions. Dream says he’s happy the situation is over, but is disappointed in Swan.
Earlier in February, drama swirled around Minecraft YouTuber Dream, as users made fake accounts pretending to be him and then posted heinous messages, particularly on Discord.
This was then linked to John Swan, another YouTuber over 150,000 subscribers. After Dream called Swan out for being behind the profiles and the messages, Swan retorted by claiming Dream was trying to “smear” his name.
Now, Swan has admitted and taken “full responsibility” for his actions, in a lengthy Twitter post on February 27.
John Swan admits Dream messages
In his post, captioned “taking accountability”, Swan says “there is no excuse for what I did and I take full responsibility.”
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“I panicked. I told a lie and thought it would never get brought back up again. I was wrong.
“…I should have just said it was me all along, but I didn’t. I dug myself deeper and deeper, and I got caught up with everything. I lied about a massive creator and I’m sorry. There is no excuse.”
https://twitter.com/JohnSwanYT/status/1365593093450330116
Dream responds to John Swan
Following his admission, Dream thanked Swan for taking responsibility, plainly replying: “Thank you for the apology and confession.”
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Shortly before Swan’s post, Dream had posted a lengthy Twitter thread confirming that Swan was behind the whole thing.
“I’m glad this has come to an end, but severely disappointed in John Swan for continuing to lie about me, despite me giving him multiple opportunities to tell the truth. I would like an apology to me and my community from John Swan, but I’ll probably not get one.”
I knew about this new evidence about a week ago, and I offered in private for him to confess to me and apologize and delete his tweets and I wouldn't criticize him publicly for it (without telling him about the evidence), and he still denied it fully and continued to tweet lies.
— dream (@dreamwastaken) February 27, 2021
As I was writing this he actually put out an apology, so I take that part back. The rest stands!
— dream (@dreamwastaken) February 27, 2021
He retracted the apology statement, following Swan’s post.
Swan says he would have made a video about it instead of a Twitter post, but is unable as he is traveling currently. It’s likely that he will release a video upon returning.
His channel currently has 176,000 subscribers – eyes will be on that count either increasing or decreasing as fans make their minds up about the situation. Meanwhile, Dream’s channel continues to blow up, currently on 18.7 million subscribers.
