The Vlog

The Vlog was a hoax created by Dream and George where Dream allegedly visited George and Wilbur Soot at Pizza Hut in Brighton. The hoax ran from July 12, 2020 to October 2, 2020, when Dream announced that it was fake on his second Twitter. Most of the tweets tied to this hoax were deleted after a purge of tweets on Dream's main twitter account.

Asking Dream out
Tommy was playing on the Dream SMP on July 10, 2020 when Wilbur joined his call and proceeded to ask him to be the messenger man to Dream. In particular, Wilbur wished to ask Dream on a pizza date at a Pizza Hut in Brighton. While there were light compliments and seeming flirtations happening between the two at first (as the famous phrase "deffo flerting" describes, which Tubbo would later coin), Wilbur ultimately asked Dream out through Tommy in the game chat. The conversation ended in the game chat after both of them have confirmed the details regarding the date, mainly being they would be meeting "this weekend" to get pizza at Pizza Hut, and Wilbur would be paying. Wilbur also once again reiterated with the time and place of the date on Tommy's stream, being "tomorrow... Pizza Hut... Brighton... 8pm time."

In response to the event, George tweeted out "??? @WilburSoot."

Postponement
The following day, July 11, Wilbur posted a tweet captioned "sometimes people lie. @DreamWasTaken." The tweet included a photo of Wilbur sitting on the tables outside a Pizza Hut and a photo of the restaurant itself. Apparently, Dream missed the scheduled time for the date, which was 8pm BST. Dream replied to this tweet saying "I thought it was at 8PM EST wtf I'm on the plane," to which Wilbur replied "Okay! I'll see you tomorrow at 8pm BST same Pizza Hut!" Eleven hours later, Dream tweeted on his alt account "friends don't lie" in response to Wilbur's initial tweet with the picture below attached. The picture was of an airbridge, suggesting that Dream truly took a plane to the UK from Florida to meet with Wilbur. By now, many fans were suspicious of the entire event, suggesting that it was impossible that Dream would take a plane to the UK so randomly just for a pizza date with Wilbur. In response to Dream's airbridge picture, fans conducted Google reverse image searches, and to no avail, one Twitter account attempted show that the photo can be found in Google images. However, it was quickly debunked by Dream responding that the screenshot of the reverse image search was either photoshopped or reuploaded after Dream had posted the photo. This caused many believe that Dream was indeed in the UK.

Around another nine hours later, Dream continued the thread, stating that he was now in the UK, and asked whether Wilbur was free. Once again, the date was postponed as Wilbur had a stream to do with both agreeing to meet "tomorrow." At the end of the thread, Dream tagged George, possibly to tell him about the change of plans. Many fans started to speculate that George would be joining the date.

This speculation was then confirmed by George after he tweeted "10k retweets and i'll run dream over with my scooter" followed by "ok watch out dream..." after the retweet goal was reached.

The date
On July 13 at around 6pm, Dream tweeted out "hey @WilburSoot" with the following picture attached. It included the Pizza Hut that Wilbur was at two days ago along with a piece of A4 paper with Dream's icon drawn on it. It was assumed that Dream took this photo at the Pizza Hut while holding the piece of paper as he has not revealed his face yet. He also added that he was "waiting."

A few minutes later, Dream tweeted again, now atop the parking lot that oversees the Pizza Hut. Wilbur had arrived and was standing by the Pizza Hut. However, as he was on the parking lot, Wilbur was unable to see him, leading to Dream tweeting out "minecraft manhunt IRL." This is especially significant as Wilbur actually inspired the manhunt series, which are now Dream's most popular series and signature videos.

Wilbur then supposedly found Dream, holding the same piece of paper up in a photo in the tweet. Dream then told fans on twitter that George would be arriving in around 20 minutes.

Almost half an hour later, Dream tweeted out a photo where George and Wilbur were supposedly in deep conversation. He also claimed that he took the photo of the two.

The rest of the day was mostly not shared by the three on social media except few videos and pictures.

After the meet-up, all three of them expressed joy in meeting with each other in their respective tweets, Dream's Tweet, George's Tweet, and Wilbur's Tweet. Dream also claimed that there would be a vlog coming out one week after the meeting, including a video of George and Wilbur talking.

Theories and Dream's debunking
After the meet-up, many fans were still suspicious of whether Dream truly went to the UK or not. These theories ranged from the United Kingdom's immigration regulations and limits due to the coronavirus to Dream's ability to arrive at the United Kingdom and return to Florida without any quarantine or breaking any laws. However, on his merch Discord server, Dream explained: "Nobody is at risk, I self isolated for more than two weeks before leaving, took a private aircraft, and wore a mask in public. There is literally zero chance that I have covid or that I passed it on to anybody, and I was extremely responsible about everything."

Despite Dream's clarifications, many fans were still weary of Dream's visit. Some did not believe that Dream actually brought his PC to the UK or that he made a nine-hour flight trip to the UK just to meet up with his friends for one day.

"Editing the vlog"
Although Dream claimed that the vlog regarding the Brighton meet up would be ready in about a week from the meetup itself, weeks and even months had passed without any new content. Whenever fans donated to George's stream regarding the vlog, he always replied that he was not done with the video. George's friends also teased him regarding the vlog and how he was "too lazy" to edit the video. This joke was also later participated by George himself, in which he claimed that he would upload the vlog if he won in a (light-hearted) fandom war against Dream.

Revealing the Truth
On October 2, Dream tweeted on his alt account admitting that the Brighton meetup was hoax. He confessed that he "never actually went to the UK," but they thought it would be funny to say that he did then. George was originally going to make a video about the meetup. However, ultimately, as he did not wish to upset his fans so much, decided against it in the very end. Dream also said that they have "done so much to convince [the fans] and the video was originally going to be titled 'we trolled twitter.'" Nevertheless, there was a lot of content created that documented Wilbur and George's meetup, although much content remains unreleased. Dream was, however, able to release a few video clips including dog content and George meeting Wilbur. It was also later revealed that at least six people knew about the hoax. This included George, Wilbur, Dream, Sapnap, Tommy and Sylvee.

Inspired meetups
Although Dream's meetup with Wilbur and George in Brighton was fake, other YouTubers and streamers have also taken up on the trend and met up on those few days. In particular, Skeppy and Sapnap met each other on July 14 at Sapnap's home. This meetup is especially ironic, as they originally planned to fake their meetup in order to "troll twitter," but actually ended up meeting each other in the end. Skeppy uploaded a vlog of the meetup.