@penguin15

1 year ago

Behold the entire story of Herobrine: The first canonical sighting of Herobrine, and the first media about him in general, was posted as a now-deleted story on 4chan's paranormal board, around August 19, 2010. The story details an encounter in Minecraft with a nameless human entity in a single-player world who displayed strange behavior such as stalking the player from afar, creating unnatural constructions such as sand pyramids in the ocean and long 2x2 tunnels, and removing leaves from trees. The writer then attempted to start a topic about the encounter on the Minecraft Forum, only to have it be repeatedly deleted, followed by a private message from a seemingly nonexistent user named "Herobrine" telling them to stop. Further research by the writer revealed that Herobrine was the name of the dead brother of Notch (in reality, Notch has never had a brother). The 4chan post also contained a screenshot of the encounter, showing Herobrine in the distance amidst the fog. It was only after this post that Herobrine grew in popularity, when the Brocraft streamer Copeland edited Herobrine into several screenshots to show to his chat. He had recently taken a liking to the story, and wished to be a part of it. After getting largely good reactions, he decided to stage a hoax; he changed the texture of a painting to display Herobrine and put it in a work-in-progress house in his world, planning to show it on a livestream. On August 30, Copeland played through the world as a normal player would, deliberately avoiding the work-in-progress room he had set up for the hoax, until about 20 minutes and 45 seconds in, when he entered the house and saw the re-textured painting. Copeland then screamed and ran out of the room, promptly ending the stream. He pretended to be shaken up in the chat, and later posted a message onto the forums, linking to the video to spread it around in the hope of getting similar reactions. Other users in the thread began debating whether Copeland's sighting was real and started posting their own screenshots with Herobrine edited into them. After a while, Copeland removed the painting and reverted to normal textures. He proceeded to stream further, pretending to be scared. He announced that he would delete the world to never meet Herobrine again. Later on, another streamer, Patimuss, made a stream showing Herobrine in a user-made lava pool. This Herobrine was free-standing, unlike in the previous stream, likely meaning he was a re-textured door. The livestream went down after Patimuss ran away and saved his game, only to resume ten minutes later, where Herobrine had supposedly disappeared. Afterwards, during the second stream, Patimuss could be heard talking to his wife, stating he was trolling. This flooded the livestream chat with outrage. He then faked a game crash. Copeland disliked that Patimuss outed Herobrine as a fake.

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