DreamNotFound

DreamNotFound is the slash ship between Dream and GeorgeNotFound from the Dream SMP fandom.

Canon
Dream and George met in 2016 on BadBoyHalo's Minecraft server, MunchyMC. Dream had known of George, but hadn't officially met him until then. Dream was an admin and developer, and George was a coder. Their first interaction was when Dream asked George for help on coding a plugin, but George ignored him, kickstarting him on how to learn to code himself. Over the years however, the two would eventually become best friends.

In late 2021, George applied for his American VISA, which he announced he finally received on September 18, 2022. Dream and George, along with their other best friend, Sapnap, would all be living together in the affectionately called "Dream Team House" which had been in the making since 2020. Dream and George have been insistent on the fact that George has never seen Dream's face. The two agreed that when George received his VISA, they would facetime each other, which Dream confirmed they did. They wanted two separate reactions to them meeting for the first time, instead of George reacting to both meeting Dream and seeing his face for the first time. Fans speculate because that would have been too overwhelming for them both. Dream revealed he didn't cry when George showed him he got his VISA, however he did a couple days following.

On October 2, two weeks after announcing the VISA, Dream posted his face reveal video. His phrasing in the video indicates George had yet to arrive in Florida, and was on his way. He explains why he's face revealing now: the answer being George. He wanted George with him. The following day, George uploaded the vlog of their meet up. In the video Dream and George are incredibly nervous, but also very excited. Due to their preplanned agreement of Dream showing his face to George before anyone else of their friends, with the exception of Sapnap, they had facetimed each other. With this "meet up," Dream and George are officially living together and are roommates.

Later that same week, from October 7-9, Dream and George attended their first public event together: TwitchCon San Diego 2022.

Content
Dream is seen in nearly all of the videos on George's channel and George is featured in over half of Dream's videos. They custom code Minecraft plugins which they use to challenge themselves in Minecraft. Their challenges usually involve one person trying to beat the game while being hunted by the other, or working together to beat the game. They also co-own and created the Dream Tech channel together.

In Beating Minecraft With One Inventory Slot..., Dream gives George roses in-game and then spends about five or more minutes trying to get George to say "I love you" to him. Threatening to withhold George's sword if he didn't say it. Though, George is embarrassed the entire time, he eventually agrees to say it when his hunger bar runs low. George cuts it out, but the beginning ("I lo-") can be heard before the cut.

Dream gave his friends Sapnap and BadBoyHalo $500 to spend on Amazon in this video, but gave George $5,000.

Dream and George are linked together in Speedrunning Minecraft As Siamese Twins...: Dream controls the player's body, and George can place and break blocks. Throughout the video, George is repeatedly terrified by Dream's parkour stunts and yells at Dream multiple times to "eat the bread!" The video is supposedly sponsored by George, but it was really Dream trying to get more people to watch George's videos and support him; since as Dream stated at the beginning of the video, he "loves [George] a lot."

At (12:56) in Beating Minecraft, But It Rains Lava..., there is a brief flash of text that says, "It's like a married couple fighting... tsk tsk," while Dream and George argue over Dream's inventory drops. Dream has never announced or said anything about having an editor, so it is likely that the text was put there by Dream himself.

In Minecraft, But A Black Hole Grows Every Second..., there are many moments where viewers joked would've been romantic or sexual if taken out of context. For example, Dream comments on how big the black hole is, and George replies, "are you sure?"

When Dream and George are about to get sucked into the black hole, Dream uses his only Ender Pearl to teleport out, leaving George behind. Despite this, George urges for Dream to survive for all of them. However, Dream gets pulled into the black hole at the end of the video, resulting in the following dialogue:

In Minecraft, But We Can't Stop Flying..., at around (17:56), Dream and George's MC avatars end up in an awkward position because of the plug-in combined with Minecraft's sitting position. They, being dirty-minded, end up laughing/wheezing the entire boat trip to find the Stronghold. This moment has been dubbed by their fans as, "the boat scene".

Dream is present with George when he tries on his colorblind correction glasses for the first time in Minecraft, But I'm Not Colorblind Anymore.... When George gets nervous about putting on the glasses, Dream hypes him up by saying that he (Dream) will be the first thing George sees with his glasses. For a couple minutes George is surprised that Dream's avatar is actually green and keeps telling him to stand next to a dandelion so he could compare the colors. Throughout the rest of the video, Dream helps George describe and identify the new colors he's seeing.

George ended up telling Dream he loves him at the very end of his MC Championship stream.

They were featured together as one of the pairings in Dangthatsalongname's (also known as Scott Smajor) Escape Room Valentines Edition video. Although they didn't win the light-hearted competition, many viewers commented on their superb communication compared to the other pairings.

Livestreams
In Minecraft Ultimate Tag..., Dream loses the game and therefore the bet and has to give George $1,000 and his mom's phone number. George lets the comment section decide what he should text Dream's mum, which ended up being, "Hi this is your son's boyfriend". He texted Dream's mum live on his 28 April 2020 livestream. By the end of the conversation, Dream's mum had welcomed him to the family.

In a BadBoyHalo livestream, he asked Dream if he would marry him, Dream replied no. However, when Bad asked if Dream would marry George, Dream paused and then replied "maybe" and that he would think about it. Dream says later in the same stream that he would marry George if he were a woman.

According to Dream on one of George's facecam livestreams, George had tried the previous day to get Dream to marry him off-camera, with the excuse of getting a visa into the U.S. This apparently lasted fifteen minutes, with George telling Dream the benefits of them marrying and that if Dream wanted to marry someone else, they could just divorce. Some fans have described George's reaction to Dream's recount to the stream as embarrassed.

In one of George's facecam livestreams at 1:46:24, he reads "isle of dream" from a donation which sounded like "I love Dream". He doesn't realize what he's said until Dream starts laughing.

During the last two hours or so of an 8 hour stream (MC Championship) on June 13, 2020; Dream and George made a "deal." If Dream facetimed George for at least 30 seconds, George would have to say, "I love you, Dream." Considering that both of these actions were out of their comfort zones, it was considered a big deal for both the streamers and the viewers.

Dream had facetimed Sapnap on stream with no problem, but seemed to be nervous about showing George his face. Dream insisted that George had already seen his face before, but George said that he couldn't "recall" anything like that happening. When the time comes to actually "facetime," Dream shows George his profile picture instead of his actual face, arguing that George had asked to see Dream's face, not Clay's (Clay is Dream's real name). Dream begins to actually get mad at George, saying that even if he had shown him his face, George would've found a way to not fulfill his end of the deal, a scammer, essentially. He bans George from their teamspeak and unbans him a couple minutes later. When George rejoins, Dream seems genuinely upset/angry, and asks George to just end the stream and drop the subject, before leaving the teamspeak. George spends a couple minutes building up the nerve, then turns off his facecam, and says "I love you, Dream." The stream is ended right after he says this.

When George asks Dream why he refuses to show him his face, Dream says that George "makes [him] shy." George seems confused by his answer and responds that it's fine if he doesn't want to.

During the Minecraft Championships Week 6 event, George has trouble identifying a lime wool block for the build battle. Dream tries to help by telling him, "it's the same color as me." Many Dream Team fans found this as a short sweet moment. For the Halloween-themed MCC11, Dream and George dressed up as members of their Harry Potter houses respectively along with their team. They ended up winning the Championships and Dream "kissed" George during the celebration.

Dream SMP
During Dream and George's first livestreams on Twitch, they decide to create a survival multiplayer world to build a house together. This SMP has since welcomed dozens of other streamers, leading to the starting of factions, countries, and wars. The original house that Dream and George built became known as The Community House. As they were working, George read a donation from someone who's username was "baby", so when George thanked them using their name Dream sounds jealous and asks who was he talking to. The Community House was eventually destroyed, and when it was Dream was genuinely upset. While he says it was because it was a historic building as the first of the server, some fans speculate whether its because it was Dream and Georges house together.

At the beginning of the Dream Team SMP vs. L'Manberg War, Dream names George as his second-in-command. They are canonically best friends and Dream is noticeably very protective of George. Although Dream is the "true villain" of the Dream SMP, it's unknown what he truly feels about George, as some fans have questioned his decision to make George the new king of the Dream SMP, a decision which led to George losing a life despite Dream's efforts to protect him.

After Tommy burns George's newly built house down, Dream builds an obsidian wall around the new L'Manberg as payback.

Love or Host
During the Love or Host Auditions for George, Dream was not invited but due to pressure from both the audience and Dream himself, he was added into the call. Once in the call, he says that he'll be the one to "win George's heart" and "take him to the crafting table." The latter of which is a dirty or suggestive inside-joke in the fandom. He also says at one point that if he were a candidate, the girls wouldn't stand a chance against him when he came down to winning George's heart.

In the same audition livestream, Dream says that the only man he's into is George, and tells Sapnap to "fuck off" after Sapnap interrupts his love proclamation with his own.

During George's Love or Host, Dream tweeted four times suggesting George to kick a certain girl off. In the end, JustaMinx won and choose 'love', which led to her and George having a Minecraft date. Despite his earlier tweet, Dream and Minx were friendly to one another and even laughed together at George because he thought Minx would've chosen 'host'. However, their date ends up foiling near the end and Minx leaves the call, leaving Dream and George alone. George tries to give Dream a poppy flower but he doesn't notice.

Among Us
They have a tendency to defend each other during meetings, but Dream is known to defend George even if he knows the latter is the Imposter. In a BadBoyHalo Among Us livestream, Dream defends George from the rest of the crew by saying he and George were "literally holding hands in the hallway." This is followed by George saying that Dream's hand is warm. During this livestream, BadBoyHalo notices Dream's behavior and says, "Dream knows it's George, he's just simping hard," when the crew almost fails to vote out George because of Dream purposely acting suspicious in an attempt to get the crew to tie their votes.

While waiting for a game to start, Dream hides behind one of the boxes in the dropship and tells George to hide with him. George joins him and a screenshot of the two behind the box ended up becoming a small meme on Twitter. Also, when Karl joins the two behind the box, Dream stops laughing with George and says, "No, not you [Karl]."

Jackbox Games
During a round of Jackbox rap battle where Dream was up against George, Dream wrote some extremely sexual and suggestive lyrics which George found funny and asked Dream what was wrong with him as a joke.

Twitter
George once tweeted a link to a "selfie" (a picture of his Minecraft skin at a beach) he took on Instagram, and Dream replied, "wow wanna date?" George then responded, "where you taking me?" It was quite obviously a joke, but many still found it cute.

In late 2019, George posted a questionable mic test in which he yells, "Don't touch me there, Dream!" Ear/Headphones recommended

As an April Fool's Day joke, George tweeted, "Happy to announce that @DreamWasTaken and I are getting married in 2021!" This inspired an influx of wedding fan art. Later on, in Dream's first Twitch stream, George actually built them a wedding altar, complete with a Villager priest and rows of seats. However, after an argument with Dream, George later tweeted that the wedding was off.

Dream replied to a tweet claiming himself to be the OG (original) George simp.

On June 1, 2020, (coincidentally, the start of Pride Month) George replied to one of Dream's tweets saying "love you dream ❤️" Dream retweeted this. In a later stream, Dream revealed to have paid George to tweet this.

#dreamisoverparty trended in the United States (eventually reaching up to #2 trending and more than 14k tweets) during and after June 13's stream, because Dream tricked George into saying a genuine "I love you" on stream in exchange for a minute of facetime, but Dream did not keep his end of the deal. See Livestreams.

On July 24, Dream jokingly deactivated his second twitter (@dreamwastaken2) briefly after a thread with Maia, also known as mxmtoon, over her apparent flirting with George where she called him cute and sang him a song. It is important to take away the fact that this whole thing was a joke, and that neither side were actually upset. Following this, fans messaged Dream on various platforms sympathizing over his "breakup."

From July to October 2020, Dream claimed that he had flown to the U.K. and met George and WilburSoot in real life, and that George had recorded a vlog. For three months, fans anticipated a U.K. vlog. On October 1st, 2020, Dream suddenly tweeted the truth behind why the vlog was taking so long to come out, which was because it wasn't real and that he hadn't actually gone to the U.K. He said that George was afraid that the fans would be upset if he posted the planned prank vlog. However, by posting the truth unexpectedly by himself, Dream took most of the backlash from angry fans; he also tried to apologize by posting pictures of his cat.

Dream tweeted saying that George said "I love you" to him privately in a voice channel, and due to odd circumstances he describes, not many fans believed him. George even responded to the tweet saying Dream was writing his own fanfiction.

On November 5, 2020, Dream tweeted that he hasn't done a face reveal because then there'll be two pretty best friends. Considering that Dream has multiple best friends, this tweet can be taken in two ways: The first one is that the best friend he was referring to was George, therefore implying that he thinks George is pretty; or the second way, which is that he thinks Sapnap is pretty. The first option is far more likely however, since most of Dream's fans know George more than they know Sapnap.

On January 20, 2021, George replied to a DreamNotFound fanart with 'hot' on his main twitter account. Even though it was most likely a joke, many found it confusing.

For Valentine’s Day 2022, George rejected to be Dream's Valentine's for the second year in a row. In response, Dream blacked out his Twitter and went on a 'love is dead' tyrant in response to other content creators wishing a happy Valentine’s Day. Dream also removed the LOVE U from his Twitter bio, leading to fans joking that it was never meant for them, but rather for George.

On February 20, 2022, in honor of potentially the last ever Minecraft Manhunt, Dream wrote out separately genuine kind tweets to George, Sapnap and BadBoyHalo, thanking them for everything and how he feels for them. George was the first person he wrote about.

On March 15, 2022, Dream cussed out a fan after they claimed SapNotFound was better than DreamNotFound.

On April 1, 2022, for an April Fools Day joke, Dream tweeted he hated GeorgeNotFound, claiming he's dumb, stupid and that he sucks. A couple minutes later, Dream replied to that tweet saying he was only "April fooling", asking George to ignore it and begged him to forgive him.

On February 24, 2023, Dream tweeted that DNF had "gone too far." He then replied "?!?!?" to a reply asking if Dream and George had sex.

Moments
General
 * George once stated that if he were to get anything in the world, it would be a plane ticket to Dream's place and a permanent room. Though, this was likely a joke.
 * In another stream, when George was talking about looking for a better place to live, Dream said that he would prefer it here (in Florida). When George asked why, he responded, "because I'm here."
 * They have plans to meet in real life one day. Dream was going to fly George out to Florida (his home state) and meet there, but their plans were interrupted by the international travel ban implemented due to the coronavirus. George lives in Brighton, England, while Dream is in Orlando, Florida.
 * BadBoyHalo trying to get George to call Dream "daddy" on stream.
 * George tweets "Dream left me for a furry..." after Dream married ItsFundy on the Dream Team SMP.
 * Before they started their YouTube channels, Dream sleep-talked "I love you" while in a voice call, which George recorded and put on a soundboard.
 * When George lands a MLG water bucket, Dream comments "that was hot".

Love or Host
 * Dream changes his mind about kicking JustaMinx after she says she'd share George with him.
 * Dream tells the girls on Love of Host that George is married to him.
 * When prompted by one of the girls, Dream claims that George has "jealousy issues" which was likely a reference to when Wilbur asked Dream out on a date and George's reaction to it.
 * George following Dream's suggestions and kicking Caprice off.
 * Dream tweets "George left me for some girl..." after he chose Minx as the winner.
 * George gives Dream a poppy flower while he's looking away.

Events
TwitchCon San Diego 2022
 * Dream and George wore matching hats in style. On day two of the event, Dream wore the hat George wore on day one.
 * During a meet and greet, a fan offered George a selection of pins they had made; George took the Dream pin.
 * George was given a photo of Dream using his now famous strawberry Snapchat fitter, which George happily accepted and showed off.
 * During Foodbeast's Kitchen League Battle Royale, Dream and George threw food at each other throughout the event's course; Dream played keep away with something (camera is too far away to see what) and used his height over George to keep him from getting the thing, leading to George jumping for it; Dream wiped his hand on George’s shoulder; Dream stood by George to get the crowd to cheer for him; and finally when George's team won the entire event, Dream walked over to hold George's arm in the air.
 * While George competed in Name Your Price, Dream carried George's team shirt that he wore for Foodbeast's event over his shoulder for a few hours. Dream also watched the event from the audience.
 * George drew on Dream's eyepatch.
 * For George to get more Twitch viewers than HasanAbi, Dream implies they should kiss.
 * Dream wanted a "good luck kiss".
 * At Sapnap's request, Dream kissed the back of George's head.
 * Upon seeing the word "Minecraft," Dream points and tells George, "That's us!"

Livestreams
"I love you, Dream."

- George at the end of his June 13th MCC livestream

"George, you are such a cutie. Oh my God. I love you so much, I just wanna kiss you."

- Dream's Twitch

"George is beautiful, and he's handsome, and he's smart, and he's kind, and he is wonderful. He's a wonderful friend."

- Dream to Sapnap

"The only man that I'm into is George."

- Dream, Love or Host Auditions

"Meeting George. Easy. Easy peasy. I say, it goes: number 1: meet George, number 2: being able to do things and not have to be cooped up in my house 99% of the time."

- Dream, answering a dono about what he's most excited for in 2022.

"I realized when I was half way through, like, "Why am I doing this?" I'm just a simp. Okay? That's the only reason I'm editing this video because I'm a George simp. If I wasn't a George simp, I would have told him to screw off and edit his own damn video. Okay. Ugh. Finally, I've gotten that off my chest."

- Dream, answering a dono about editing a video of George's.

Extras
"We always joked about that. If his visa got denied. If we were to get married, like what are they gonna say? "Oh you're getting married for the visa?" No, look. Just Google us. Look, look, there's proof right there. There's fanart – there's us kissing, right there, look. Look! Look at it! Look, you need to do the research, visa office. Look at it! Google it! You don't believe us? You think we're faking our marriage to get him the visa? Well look! Google. We have a whole ship. Google "DNF", okay? Go to images. Yes. Scroll. They're covering their eyes. "What, what is all this?" Like, yeah, yeah. You still don't believe us? I can show you a little worse if you want. He's like, "No! Please, please!" "Alright, fine. Cool. Let us in. Let him in. You better.""

- Dream joking if George’s visa is declined.

Behind the Scenes
Dream has spoken up about DreamNotFound shippers on his friend HBomb94's stream on November 21st. In it, he defends his shippers, saying "Everybody expresses their creativity in a different way, if you think that's creepy, leave them be." This is also not the first time Dream has commented his thoughts on his ships, for he and George have said in April 2020 that they did not care if people shipped them since they find the fan works funny.

Songs

 * Heat Waves | Glass Animals
 * Song that inspired popular fanfiction of the same name by tbhyourelame on AO3

Fanon
The ship name "Gream" was the original name for DreamNotFound when it first appeared in January 2020. However, the name started falling out of use after Dream and George made fun of how disgusting it sounded on a stream. In turn, fans joke how- since Dream's real name is Clay- that if he were to go by his real name, then his and George's ship name would've been Gay.

The first post ever created under the #dreamnotfound tag on Tumblr was a piece of fanart by user, 4oh3-dot-zip, on 30 January, 2020.

Fans initially started shipping Dream and George because of their dynamic in videos. One of Dream's iconic lines is him saying George's name creepily during Minecraft Manhunts, usually coupled with him sneaking up on or ambushing his friend. Oftentimes, much to the fans' amusement, George somehow becomes the hunted in any scenario of Minecraft Manhunt, regardless of whether or not he was the hunter. As such, one of George's iconic lines is him screaming Dream's name when the latter hunts him or gets his health low. The ship began gaining popularity when Dream's channel blew up and people started paying more attention to his and George's interactions.

Some fans speculate that by giving George $5000 to spend on Amazon, Dream was actually trying to buy George a new PC in disguise of a video idea since it had been known for a while that George's old PC had been slowly dying.

Following Dream's unexpected appearance on George's Love or Host Auditions, along with his behavior there, many fans cracked jokes how Tommyinnit was right about Dream being in love with girls and GeorgeNotFound in one of his tweets.

Friendship
As there is some controversy with shipping real people, Some fans of DreamNotFound ship them platonically. Most fans also try to keep explicit content to a minimum and avoid tagging them in shipping posts. This doesn't apply for everyone in the fandom, but some ship DNF as a friendship as to respect the creators' existing friendship.

As a result, DreamNotFound is also the most popular bromance in the fandom. Fanworks primarily consist of the artwork of intense/iconic moments from their Minecraft Challenges series, livestreams, or extras. The third member of the Dream Team, Sapnap, and their non-official member, BadBoyHalo, are two who've appeared frequently in DreamNotFound fanworks.

Their friendship is supported by most, if not all of the Dream Team fandom. There are many who, when #lovelettersfordream and #heartsforgeorge were trending, stated that their friendship and genuineness was what made their videos so attractive and enjoyable.

Fandom
FAN FICTION

ART

FOURMS
 * DNF Archive on Wordpress.com

TUMBLR

TWITTER

Trivia

 * Dream and George are 4 years apart in age, born 1996 (George) and 1999 (Dream) respectively.
 * Dream is 6'3" (190cm) and George is 5'9" (175cm).
 * According to Dream, George used to swear like a "sailor," while he never did. Over the years, Dream's began to swear more, while George has lessened on streams/videos. George balanced Dream "upwards," while Dream balanced George "downwards".
 * George was the first person Dream ever facetimed.
 * The thumbnail for Anthony Padilla's video "I spent a day with SAPNAP" features the Minecraft skins of DNF hugging.
 * "DNF" is on Dream's 30 million merch hoodie. Fans also took notice of how the "F" of "DNF" and a half-heart symbol look like a full heart shape.
 * "Ages ago" on Snapchat, Dream had the lollipop emoji next to George's name, because "it was saying he sucks".
 * George is red-green colorblind, meaning that Dream's Minecraft skin looks yellow to him. He revealed on a livestream that if Dream hadn't told him his skin was green, he would've thought it was yellow. Dream was the first thing George saw through his colorblind glasses.
 * Dream was the one who came up with George's current username, GeorgeNotFound.
 * dreamwastaken.com redirects to George's second Twitter account, @GeorgeNootFound. Meanwhile, georgenootfound.com redirects to Dream's second Twitter account, @dreamwastaken.
 * dnf.gay redirects to George's merchandise website.
 * Dream's Valentine's merch and George's Valentine's merch have similar designs. This has caused fans to view their merch as matching.

Variations

 * Crew Boys refers to the ship between Karl Jacobs, Quackity, Sapnap, Dream and GeorgeNotFound
 * Dream Team refers to the ship between Sapnap, Dream and GeorgeNotFound
 * Dreamy Boys refers to the ship between Karl Jacobs, Manatreed, Sapnap, Dream and GeorgeNotFound
 * The Four Muffinteers refers to the ship between BadBoyHalo, Sapnap, Dream and GeorgeNotFound
 * KarlNotTaken refers to the ship between Karl Jacobs, Dream and GeorgeNotFound
 * Karlwasnotnap refers to the ship between Karl Jacobs, Sapnap, Dream and GeorgeNotFound
 * ManaDreamNotFound refers to the ship between Manatreed, Dream and GeorgeNotFound
 * XDNF refers to the ship between DreamXD and C!George