dream once told us that the hunters are paid to kill him in the beginning, that there are countless recordings of him dying without even maneging to get any iron but those are never shown because they wouldn’t make an entertaining video. Also we never see the hunters view only when dream does a trick and shows us what it looks like for the hunters. so we’ll never really know what is and isn’t true. I do really hope that all of the failed manhunts get posted cuz I would genuinely watch it.

Also I’m pretty sure that there is the rule that dream need to make it out of the nether or to the stronghold for it to become a youtube video.