After a while, Copeland removed the painting and reverted to normal textures, then proceeded to stream further, pretending to be scared. Other users in the thread began debating whether Copeland's sighting was real and started posting their own screenshots with Herobrine edited into them. 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 hopes of getting similar reactions. Copeland then screamed and ran out of the house, promptly ending the stream. 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 room and saw the re-textured painting. He edited Herobrine into several screenshots to show to his chat and, after getting largely good reactions, 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. The 4chan post also contained a screenshot of the encounter, showing Herobrine in the distance amidst the fog.īrocraft streamer Copeland came across the Herobrine story on 4chan's /v/ board and took a liking to it. 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. 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 exact origin of this version of the story is unknown, with the earliest known instances of it being from a comment in a Minecraft Forum thread on August 30, 2010, and a now-deleted image posted on 4chan's paranormal /x/ board on August 31.
Īt some point before August 19, a similar altered version of the story surfaced: "White Eyes" gained the name "Herobrine", and was now described as the deceased brother of Notch (in reality, Notch has never had a brother ), taking the form of a human entity with white eyes. On August 24, a modified version of the story appeared, in which "White Eyes" was now a default player model with whited out eyes. The "White Eyes" story began spreading through the Minecraft Forum, either stemming from or being popularized by the aforementioned thread. The phenomenon was attributed to "White Eyes", a female creature who would stalk the player from afar with no visible traits other than her blank white eyes. The same video was linked as an example of an appearance of these white pixels. The following day, Forum user Endorphine posted a thread recounting a myth surrounding the ambient sounds added to caves in Alpha v1.0.3, in which "a pair of white pixels" would appear whenever these sounds would play.
This story is the first known instance of the concept of a creepypasta regarding a white-eyed paranormal being in Minecraft. One supposed instance of these eyes was linked in the comment, which was a YouTube upload of "13" posted the previous day (the same day that the disc was added to the game), showing a screenshot of a dark cave with two white eyes in the bottom left corner. On July 31, 2010, Minecraft Forum user Flaky posted a comment, supposedly copied from a post on 4chan's /v/ board, containing a story of a player encountering an entity with glowing white eyes after listening to the "13" music disc. For more detailed information regarding the Brocraft events, see the Minecraft Wiki's interview with Copeland and his recounting of the events. Zoomed-in excerpt of Herobrine in the original image. The popular story and screenshot detailing a Herobrine "encounter", posted on 4chan's /x/ board on August 31, 2010. The original screenshot which inspired the "White Eyes" story, from July 30, 2010, with an enhanced excerpt below. Notch's automatic reply to any email containing the word "Herobrine".
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