# Herobrine Herobrine is a Minecraft creepypasta figure, a silent doppelganger of Steve with blank white eyes who supposedly stalks players in single-player worlds. The story began in August 2010 with a forum post and a staged livestream sighting, and grew into one of gaming's best-known urban legends. ## Origin The earliest known Minecraft Forums thread mentioning Herobrine was posted on August 30, 2010[4]. That same evening, streamer Copeeland showed a figure with white eyes near the end of a session on his "Brocraft" livestream, later renamed "Ghost in the Stream," around the 20:45 mark[6]. Viewers who rewatched the clip suspected the sighting was actually a retextured painting or iron door[1]. In a companion bit on another stream, Copeeland's friend Patimoose faked a game crash and dropped in a Minecraft face with photoshopped human eyes, hiding a "WAKE UP" message in the page source[1]. - **Platform:** Minecraft Forums / Brocraft livestream (viral spread) - **Creator:** Copeeland (Brocraft stream) - **Date:** 2010 ## Overview The character wears the default Steve skin but with pupil-less white eyes, and never speaks or attacks the player directly[1]. Sightings in fan lore usually involve traces left behind in the world: sand pyramids dropped in the middle of deserts, two-by-two tunnels bored at right angles, and trees stripped bare of leaves[1]. Herobrine, also called HIM, was never part of vanilla Minecraft, though creator Markus "Notch" Persson started slipping "Removed Herobrine" into patch notes as a running gag[3]. Fan-made mods do add the character, giving him teleportation, structure-building AI, and jump-scare behavior aimed at the lone player[4]. In the gaming press, Herobrine became a go-to example of the urban-legend-style rumor whose spread outlasts any real evidence[2]. ## How It Spread The creepypasta image landed on FunnyJunk on September 25, 2010, and Urban Dictionary picked up a definition on October 12, 2010[6]. A Creepypasta Wiki entry followed on October 30, 2010[5]. Notch weighed in on Twitter on October 19, 2010, telling followers he had "no plans of adding herobrine" to the base game[6]. The line that kept the joke alive was Minecraft Beta 1.6.6 on May 31, 2011: Notch's patch notes closed with "Removed Herobrine," and the next patch ended with the same line[3]. Community mods pushed the character further into the game. On December 10, 2010, Minecraft Forums user Mr. okushama added Herobrine to his Humans mod[4], and YouTuber x01011000 posted a "Simple Herobrine Mod" walkthrough that swapped zombie skins for the white-eyed figure[7]. ## How to Use Players typically invoke Herobrine when they find something odd in a single-player world, like a strange pyramid, a stripped tree, or a straight two-by-two tunnel, and joke that HIM must have paid a visit. Modders often build encounters where he spawns, stares at the player, then disappears. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Herobrine? Herobrine is a Minecraft creepypasta character portrayed as a silent Steve doppelganger with pure white eyes who supposedly appears in single-player worlds[1]. ### Where did Herobrine come from? The story started with an August 30, 2010 Minecraft Forums thread and a Brocraft livestream sighting posted the same day by streamer Copeeland[4][6]. ### What does Herobrine mean? The name comes from the original creepypasta itself; fans also refer to the character as "HIM" in forum posts and mods[1]. ### How do you use Herobrine? Player-made mods add Herobrine as an in-game entity that stalks the player, builds unsettling structures, and vanishes on approach[4]. ### Is Herobrine still popular? Herobrine is a fixture of Minecraft folklore, kept alive by the running "Removed Herobrine" line that Notch added to patch notes starting with Beta 1.6.6 in May 2011[3]. ## References 1. [https://minecraft.wiki/w/Herobrine]() 2. [https://www.ign.com/articles/2011/10/28/gamings-weirdest-ghost-stories]() 3. [https://notch.tumblr.com/post/5910543910/minecraft-beta-166]() 4. [https://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/off-topic/general-gaming/1935555-herobrine-v10]() 5. [https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Herobrine]() 6. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/herobrine]() 7. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjhN7HjZSCY]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/herobrine Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library