Game Theory: Dream is my SON? (Dream Face Reveal)

Wow okay guys this is it for the past 12 years you’ve known me as this but uh I guess it’s time for me to introduce you to the real me not really sure what I should be doing here but uh all right here we go hi I’m matpat it’s great to meet you

Again also I’m dreams father Foreign [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] well everyone else is over here freaking out about dreams face reveal I’m over here scoping out that dream foot reveal oh yeah now in case you live under a rock over the past two years one of the biggest things to happen in the world of

Gaming has been the rise of dream a Minecraft speedrunner turned co-founder of one of the most popular survival multiplayer servers over those two years he’s done it all he’s won streamy awards he’s set World Records he’s amassed an absolutely huge following of 30 million subscribers the only thing he hasn’t

Done is reveal his face sure he gave a false face reveal in Mr BEAST’s 2020 rewind but to the world dream was this a rejected Rage Comic smile surrounded by click bait neon green he was a complete mystery one of the most prominent examples of the Gen Z pushed towards

Staying anonymous online Also let’s just be honest with ourselves here that simple smiley face brand allowed for like the easiest fan art ever I messed it up again and honestly that’s the way that it just could have kept going which is why last week the internet got set Ablaze when dream said

He was finally gonna reveal his face to the world the basic story here is that his best friend George not found finally got his visa and was coming to live here in the United States hence it being time to truly drop the mask fun fact on that

One actually George hit me up around this time last year to write him a letter of recommendation for that very Visa process apparently he needed an industry expert to write in and convince the government that he was a valuable addition to our country I am so glad it

Worked out for him anyway with his best friend now in the country and a wealth of IRL content waiting to be taped it was time for dream to go fully mask off but not before a multi-day Twitter campaign FaceTiming creators like Anthony Padilla Mark Rober Marquez

Brownlee and yes yours truly I saw a lot of jewelry also let the record show I was number 17 on the overall face reveal list but number one for face reveals on a Google device so weird flex but I’ll take it anyway with sufficient height

Built up it was finally time to drop the mask in a YouTube Premiere event and uh yep there it is it is a face honestly I was hoping for some sort of Epic Samus Iran Metroid reveal where the mask comes off and suddenly it’s like a girl

Underneath but not brown hair green eyes strong chin he wears a lot of rings but basically he’s dead center on the statistical distribution chart of YouTubers in the midst of all of this there were two names trending on Twitter alongside dream the first was OG YouTuber Shane Dawson even if you

Haven’t heard of him chances are you’ve heard of his content or at the very least his controversies I did a lot of things in this video that um will probably come back to haunting that was someone I did not expect to see and wait uh who else was on there trending with

Him oh yeah me people just really thought that dream looked a lot like me a lot of people they’re the same picture here’s what you get when you ask an AI to draw matpat he’s what happens when you try to draw matpat from memory but the comment that I saw more than

Anything else people saying that if Shane Dawson and I had a son it would be dream therefore for both of us trending now for years I’ve been calling myself the cool middle-aged dad pad of YouTube but never did I think that it would wind up being this literal so you know what I

Kind of like it I wanna know we have a weird little show here that covers weird little topics like this so let’s do it today I’m determined to see whether the tweets are right good dream possibly be the illegitimate love child of me and controversial YouTuber Shane Dawson

Could I be the father you are the father and if not then what online ship would result in the perfect Dream Baby to start off I wanted to see if a baby face predictor app might be able to help me out I mean these things are a dime a

Dozen surely one of them has to be good right right so I went to the first site on my list futurebaby.com I plugged in a picture of me and a picture of Shane and got this an Asian baby eating breakfast it was a prank site great things were

Off to a really solid start here I then went to morphing a site that has great facial merges on their home page I mean look at these things Michael Jackson meets Voldemort Shrek crossed with Gollum Harry Potter and Adolf Hitler I mean clearly these guys are dialed into

Some sort of formula so just get a sense of how the site worked I merged my wife Steph’s face with my own we got ourselves a kid now so we have an idea of what a mix of our genetics should look like if this site managed to get

Anywhere close I’d know that I was onto something and what It sped out was this Unholy concoction yes morphthing.com I too can overlay two photos and adjust the transparency some tells me they spent a little bit more time lovingly crafting that Harry Hitler mix regardless I was still curious so I

Threw my face in with Shane’s and got this blurry mess not only does it not look like dream it doesn’t look human like if a snap animatronic tried to use a sound illusion disc tldr another bust next up was the thoughtfully named Baby Generator guess baby face yeah that is

The official title of the app here when you plug in your two faces you watch a cool video of a mapping out key features of you and your partner it looks very sciency It produced as a result though that’s very genericy this is what I got

When I crossed Stefani and this is what I got when I crossed Shane and I it is the exact same kid I mean maybe the eyes are a bit Greener and the hair is a bit more Sandy but that’s not the way genetics Works friends I tried a lot of

Different picture combinations only to keep getting the same results over and over again so not only were the results pulling from what seemed to be a limited slate of stock images but worst of all none of them look like dream at this point I was pretty ready to give up but

There was still one more that I wanted to try baby AC this site had a special emphasis on its proprietary AI Tech that analyzes human faces I mean when you got a graphic like that you know that there are some serious science going on right there look at all those lines and

Triangles them’s smart images so I figured I’d give the pictures across and well what do you know it gave me an actual high quality baby face and when I crossed him with Steph it gave me something different a few more crosses and yeah each time it was similar but

Also slightly different it gave me a lot of Hope there is just one problem all that I was getting were babies dream while certainly young ain’t that young so I needed a way to age up our new kid onward to face app which may not be able

To predict my future kid but does have itself some pretty impressive aging functionality that can tell me what I’m gonna look like when I’m 70. here it is actually here’s me without the beard which wow I feel like this is actually shockingly accurate considering that my

Grandpa looks like this and my dad looks like this overall don’t really hate it pretty solid for 70. a little loose on the jawline but overall don’t hate it as I evolved become more and more old man YouTube just feel like I’m gonna have to swap in this image but enough about me

It’s time to talk about my dream love child I put the best results from baby AC into the app I pressed a filter that closely approximated dreams age of 23 and I got the exact same picture yeah apparently aging babies is trickier stuff than the app can handle here’s

What my little clay would look like at age 30 and here he is at 70. look at his little teeny beard but uh yeah now you can start to see the limitations of the technology so unless dream does a baby pic reveal there was no way I was gonna

Possibly be able to know how accurate this guy would be growing up which meant that I needed to now pull in something smarter specifically the smartest AI I know Dolly we’ve all seen these AI generated images floating around the internet over the past few months right

Well maybe the AI is smart enough to give Shane and I our long-lost Dream child we actually have ourselves an awesome programmer named Zach who works with us as a freelancer for research so I immediately tapped him to start hacking into the Matrix to try and give

Us our perfect baby and after a week of him tweaking the open source code and feeding the AI tons of facial data about me Shane Stefan dream we got ourselves this a literal folder of nightmare fuel I was out of luck you know if you wanted

To make me feel better you could always hit that subscribe button because let’s face it what other YouTuber is gonna take your random comments so seriously it’ll spend an entire weekend writing a six-page essay looking into the possible parentage of a popular gamer plus if

You’re a dream Stan we take the lore of the dream SMP so seriously that we’ve been known to even correct the creators themselves long story short speed run your way to that subscribe button if you’re having yourself a good time and so with technology not helping me at all

It was time to turn to science if you all remember one thing from 6th grade science mitochondria is the PowerHouse of the cell if you remember two things from sixth grade science it’s that all of our features are determined by genes sequences of DNA that encode for

Specific traits have our genes come from one parent and half come from the other parent which results in the genetic mix that is your body so to figure out whether Shane and I could produce a childlike dream let’s look at all our features and see what potentially fits

First round hair yeah easy like I said every male YouTuber is legally required to have poofy brown hair unless of course you’re Seth Everman in which case bald is beautiful next up eye color I have brown eyes shaines are green dreams are also green so what’s the probability

Of a brown-eyed parent in a green-eyed parent given birth to a green-eyed Minecraft speedrunner well eye color is polygenic that means it’s controlled by multiple genes there’s actually evidence that up to 16 genes can influence your eye color but the two most important are oca2 and hercu the first one OCA 2

Actually plays a major role in the production of melanin the more melanin in the iris the darker brown your eye the second Gene here hercu basically serves as a switch for oca2 which again affects your melanin levels so to grossly oversimplify let’s put it this

Way we have two genes that can either be on or off the first OCA 2 is dominant Brown and recessive blue the second is dominant green and recessive blue so doing the math if Shane and I were the parents half of our kids would have brown eyes 12.5 percent would have blue

Eyes and a little over a third or 37.5 percent that have green eyes like dream certainly low odds but far from unlikely which brings us to dream’s next major defining feature his face shape in general men’s facial shape breaks down into five main types the inverted triangle with a wide forehead and narrow

Chin round which is kind of what it sounds like the face when looked at straight on has no strong angles or lines oval which is soft kind of like round own face but it’s longer up and down Square which is defined by its strong jaw and finally Diamond which has

A strong jaw as well as high cheekbones if dream is truly meant to be my child he’d likely have a face that’s similar to mine so I busted out the website pink mirror which has itself both a beauty Rancor as well as a face shape analyzer

I dropped in my picture to get things started and immediately was impressed by the results I mean it ranked me as a perfect 10 out of 10 on beauty right off the bat if that doesn’t show you what a quality piece of technology this thing is clearly it is accurate to a fault

From a face shape standpoint though we all came in differently I was an inverted triangle Shane was an oval and dream despite the high cheekbones and strong jawline was round that might be surprising based on the face reveal video but there he’s facing off to the side this entire time when facing front

His overall structure actually becomes much smoother now those different face shapes might make you think that this thing was a bust but in actuality it lines up nicely with what science has suggested according to research done on the traits kids inherit from their pair and Sons tend to inherit more traits

From their mother daughters tend to show more balanced heritability and the parts of the face that are the most handed down are the tip of the nose as well as the area just below it known as the philtrum and wouldn’t you know it dreams nose and Phil trim fit Mama Shane well

Daddy matpat here would be giving him the stronger jawline and Chin he also has himself his mom’s eye color and my eye shape so yes it would seem that dream is my perfect child the ideal cross between me and Shane Dawson which is ironic since so much of his content

Is also theory-centric and also dream did his whole unsolved Minecraft Mysteries series hmm guess it’s all part of the family business or would be had it not been for one thing dream can’t be my son there’s one thing that ruins it you see the entire Face Reveal video

Dream is talking to us at an angle showing off his good side but it also shows us his ear notice anything interesting about it his earlobes are attached by that I mean the bottom of the lobe doesn’t dangle his ears neither hang low nor wobble to and fro that my

Friends is a recessive trait it only happens if you have two recessive alleles and considering that Shane and I both have dangling lobes as well as parents with dangling lobes it’s highly unlikely that we both have a kid like clay here so considering my dangling lobes darker eyes and more angular face

It appears like I have to be the one to step out of the gene pool but if it’s not me then who who can step in to deliver all the genetic traits that we need light eyes angular face shape brown hair and most importantly attached earlobes well let me tell you I dug

Through video after video picture after picture to compile my list and I think I have it I’ve narrowed it down to a list of three candidates that when paired with Shane could mix together to create a child that looks like dream interestingly enough Shane’s fiance Ryland Adams fits the attached earlobe

Criteria quite nicely and also matches for both eye and hair color but for as much as I’d love to say that they could just mix together to create dream rylan’s jawline and Chin just don’t match so Ryland is just gonna have to settle for honorable mention here next

Up is actor RJ midi famous for playing Walter Jr on the TV Show Breaking Bad the thing that holds him back nothing really he’s actually a near perfect candidate but to conclude this episode with him is kinda boring since some tells me that people interested in dreams ship parentage aren’t really into

Prestige television Circa 2008 so instead how about another famous gamer ninja he’s got himself the green eyes and attached earlobes and if you manage to spot his hair color between tie dyes it’s dark brown he even has himself the jawline and Chin ready to rock so who

Knows maybe Pro gaming runs in the family the only thing that really holds ninja back to me keeping him in second place is his face shape he’s still a bit too angular with his diamond-shaped face so to me the number one ultimate ultimate choice for dream’s True father

Has got to be ready for this face reveal drop that mask YouTube comedian turned filmmaker Bo Burnham the man who made inside which then inspired every other creator online to also want to make inside underneath that scraggly coveted beard is this face he’s got blue eyes light brown hair

Attached earlobes and a square face which can round out when crossed with Shane’s oval and while that alone might be enough to sell you on the connection I can do you one better here’s how he looked back in 2008. before YouTube I was just a skinny white kid that thought

He was funnier and cooler than he actually was and now well not much has changed but I have money notice the resemblance in short Bo Burnham it looks like you are indeed the father welcome to the internet welcome to the internet indeed Bo Burnham welcome indeed and with that I’m done

Here now if you’ll excuse me I’m gonna go wait in the corner for corpse husband or how to basic but hey that’s just a theory a game theory thanks for watching and if you want to keep watching more ridiculous dream related content click the video to the left where dream and I

Break down the appearance of the warden or if you want to see more mysterious parentage click on the video to the right my all-time favorite theory about how Rosalina is secretly Peach’s daughter the Subscribe button is there if you haven’t taken advantage of it and

As always I’ll see you next week I am so sorry Bo Burnham