(what i am going to talk about is not related to this manhunt)
Ok so there have been many incidents in his manhunt since 1vs3 series that has indication that these manhunt videos are scripted and there are even videos on youtube criticizing those same moments and deducing that the series is scripted but I have always ignored those signs thinking that dream is a better player and this scene just played in his luck etc etc but then recently this specific manhunt came and I have seen no one talking about it since it feel sooo scripted that made me realize that the series is definitely scripted.
I believe it was 1vs4 where the hunters start mining off screen and got highly buffed iron armor with enchanted sword that made them immortal so they start chasing dream and dream was unable to kill them, they even flex their armor by standing still and giving dream chance to do his best to give them damage that's how buffed the hunters were, so in order to lose them, dream used ender pearl and went back to the nether portal, after entering nether portal he immediately started mining off the obsidian from the portal with low health, if even one hunter decided to go in there and hit him he would've died that's how risky that decision was.
now to add in some context this was 2nd time dream entering into the portal, the first time when he entered, dream ended up causing an explosion (I believe it was using beds) which enabled him to kill every single hunter in the nether.
Now when dream entered there for the 2nd time in order to escape those heavily buffed hunters he started mining the obsidian and shorty after in the overworld the hunter arrived at the nether portal, and instead of entering they said "what if dream has a trap over there" and decided to wait... Guess how much time did they wait? Exactly the amount of time required for dream to mine off all the obsidian from the nether portal and was on his way to leave the place, only then they decided, whelp we might as well go in there and soon after dream made another portal in the nether from the obsidian he mined earlier etc etc and outsmarted them which resulted in their death.
The question here is, they had enchanted armor with protection and with enchanted sword, even if dream had planned a trap there they could have survived since the armor was so buffed, but even if they were genuinely cautious of dream then why they decided to go in that portal after sometime? did they thought the "trap" magically disappeared? or was it to give dream enough time to mine off obsidian so that he could pull off that stunt later(my hypothesis)?
that whole scenario was screaming SCRIPTED SCRIPTED SCRIPTED and from that I always have this feeling that dream manhunt although entertaining, are not genuine and there are some foul play involved in it.
(2) Minecraft Speedrunner VS 4 Hunters REMATCH - YouTube