Dreamfall AI Academy review: $800 course — broken promises, gatekept content, second paywall

A student reached out to me about their experience with Dreamfall Art Studio Academy by Maria Rubtsova and I am sharing this so others don't make the same mistake.

They paid $800 and were promised a full prompt PDF as part of the course deliverables. For weeks Maria kept telling the group it was coming. When students asked her directly she would say "sure let me check, it's been a while" — then nothing. What was eventually delivered was 5-6 chopped up vague prompts dumped into a Telegram chat with zero explanation, expecting students to figure it out alone.

She then created an entirely new viral workflow course and charged extra for it. Everything she already owed her paying students repackaged behind a second paywall.

The course has no real structure. Instruction is hard to follow. No real workflows. No accountability.

There are courses out there for $100 where the creator shares every prompt, every workflow, everything — because they actually care about their students. Maria is selling her 700K following and her fame. Not her knowledge. She gatekeeps from her own paying students.

Don't let the follower count fool you. Save your $800.