After 13 Years, Herobrine Mystery Unveiled!

Herobrine is the most famous myth and Legend in all of gaming becoming so synonymous with Minecraft itself that even after Notch would repeatedly tell players he didn’t exist players would still report seeing him in their worlds from 20110 to 2014 Herobrine not only spread through the internet like wildfire but also seemingly made

Thousands of appearances in player survival worlds forever cementing himself as a nostalgic Legend of Minecraft’s earliest days however nobody knows who created Herobrine exactly nobody knows how Herobrine came to be and almost nobody knows that for 13 years now the story of Herobrine has been very wrong Herobrine’s true origin

Story and original form were only just recently discovered we all know the Legend of Herobrine but I’ll give you a brief rundown of his most known origin story as a refresher herob Brian was first mentioned in an old creepy pasta on forchan where a player recounts his paranormal noral experiences and post

The first ever screenshot of Herobrine the player recently spawned in a new single player world where everything was normal at first as he began chopping down some trees amongst the fog he saw what he thought was a cow but it was another character with empty eyes and no

Name he tried to pursue the strange figure out of curiosity but before he knew it he was gone the player then began finding strange things around his world 2 by two tunnels sand pyramids trees with no leaves the play took to the forums to ask if anybody else had

Seen such an anomaly to which his post was deleted by a user named Herobrine who told him to stop the player then managed to get in contact with other users on the forums who had claimed to see him and after further research it was supposedly revealed that hobr was

The name of Notch’s dead brother from there a player called Copeland stumbled across the creepy pasta and liked it Copeland was part of a streaming duo with his friend called brocraft and decided to photoshop herobrine into a screenshot of his world getting great reactions out of his chat so he decided

To do a stream where he would encounter Herobrine of which we now know was a retextured painting his viewers and the community did not though and soon after his encounter Copeland would post the clip to the Minecraft forums where it would receive almost 700 responses most players at the time were freaked out

Scared to touch the game again and utterly terrified by the clip from there Herobrine and this clip spread all around the Minecraft Community with a variety of other players having their own sightings and telling their own stories of strange occurrences in their worlds by this point Notch and Mojang

Had become well aware of Herobrine and as a joke decided to include starting in beta 1.6.6 the famous removed Herobrine text in the game’s change logs this would be a regular occurrence appearing in a variety of Minecraft updates at the time and this tradition is still continued today with it last being

Mentioned in the 1.20 change logs back then the change logs used to immediately appear when you opened the Minecraft launcher and as such a lot of people saw Herobrine was removed and likely Googled him out of confusion to get more information growing his popularity immensely and the rest is history there

Have been mods hundreds of slighting videos with millions of views and a lot of videos revisiting the now well-known story of Herobrine and they are all wrong now something many of you may not have noticed is that back in 2010 herob Brien was regularly referred to as another name him in fact Copeland’s

Original sighting thread where Herobrine first began getting popularity referred to Herobrine as just him as well you can find a lot of posts referencing him and his mythical white eyes Herobrine’s key feature and the sole thing distinguishing him from Steve but things start to get confusing when you realize

That many of these posts where Herobrine is not named at all but instead referred to as just him were made da days or even weeks before Copeland’s sighting and seem to refer to a different entity Al together let’s first go back to July the 31st 2010 exactly 1 month before

Copeland’s stream a post was made to the forums called 13. OG a work of fiction by user IMA Hedgehog just a day before this post Minecraft Alpha 1.0.14 a secret Friday update had released containing dis 13 which at the time a alongside cat were the first two

Music discs to ever be added to Minecraft cat was a nice melodic disc Pleasant to listen to but on the other hand 13 was extremely unsettling of putting an outright creepy it’s important to note that Minecraft at the time during Alpha was significantly scarer the darker lighting lack of a

Brightness slider secret updates where Notch would add features to the game without telling players what exactly was added amongster game’s young age leading to players not knowing much about it made Minecraft a vast scary scary and unknown world at the time not only that but cave Ambience noises were also only

Recent additions to the game at the time making Minecraft much scarier especially when in Pitch Black caves players were very confused about 13’s Edition upon discovering the disc in game creating stories about it and theorizing if there was more to the disc than what they could see or rather here I’m a hedgehog

Happened to write one of those posts a fictional tale of the behind dis 13 but what’s actually notable about this thread isn’t the original post rather a comment on the third page left a few hours later by a user called flaky flaky had reposted a story from an anonymous

User on forchan that went like this I think I’m going crazy I abandoned my mind due to strange happening like blocks coming out of nowhere and my torches going missing it was really strange the strange thing was that there wasn’t a single Monster or slime or or

Anything down there but there was a lot of minerals quite a lot of cave Ambience that I’ve never heard before must have been included in the secret Friday update I don’t know but recently I’ve been hearing really strange things around the building I boot around it it feels like Whispers it’s strange really

I feel like going back down there but I really don’t want to because the creepy that happens plus I’d need a lot more torches it just seems that the cave is alive and angry at me I decided to go down there one day one last time to see

If I could get any stuff that I could before truly abandoning it I couldn’t find a single one of my torches that I left down there I don’t know what’s happening to them this just made me want to leave the cave even more I spent about 2 minutes inside and noticed that

I couldn’t hear anything the ambience stopped at this point I was creeped out and decided to leave before it got dark outside I left the cave and turned around and the hole went dark as if once again my torches were removed I ran without looking back the anonymous player continued on mentioning he

Flooded the cave with lava buckets and then let it be for a few days he began to run low on Cobblestone and iron but did not want to ever set foot in that cursed cave again instead making a new base further away from his current one

He did so and went back to mining again until he accidentally fell into a very dark cave the player continued exploring eventually coming across his very first dungeon however strangely no mobs were spawning he checked the chest the first was completely empty the second contained an unusual item he had never

Seen before a black disc he decided to leave the cave to check out this strange item more and as he was doing so he began to find holes in the walls that weren’t there before he continued towards his exit but his torches were suddenly gone again then out of the blue

Loud cave Ambiance played and the player terrified began running and placing as many torches as possible the player makes it back to his base and now wanting to play the disc had to go back to his old base to get diamonds to make a jukebox as he reluctantly arrived at

His old house all the Torches were gone he went to his mining room to get the diamonds from his chest and couldn’t help but take a quick peek at his old mine he slowly poked his head down it was dark and nothing could be seen except for two white dots next to each

Other like eyes something was down there looking into my eyes I felt like I was looking at death itself I felt dizzy and fell backwards into a solid object the door which was open just seconds ago I bashed my way through it and through the other door outside it was still night

But I didn’t care I ran back to my shack with my heart pounding in my chest like it wanted to escape I got in and closed my door destroyed my windows the door everything that could let me see the outside world and placed as many torches as possible I didn’t want to see

Darkness again I went into a corner and sat there terrified why me why didn’t this happen to anyone else the player put the disc inside the Juke Box mentioning that he was lost at what he had just listened to claiming it was evil and needed to be destroyed the

Player decided he had to return to the cursed cave to throw the disc in the lava he flooded it with days before as he enters the cave he hears a ghoulish laugh behind him and in the pitch black two white eyes were looking right at him

He turns and runs finding a dark pit and looking straight back at him from the pit are the white eyes getting bigger and bigger he begins hearing voices and Whispers as well as music in his head but continues on to the lava pit he can’t go any further though the disc

Won’t let him it has consumed him he is unable to destroy the disc and possessed he returns to his home back where the disc belongs the post has this video Linked In it a video with only 54,000 views uploaded on July the 31st 2010 the video is simply an image of a dark

Minecraft cave with the 13 disc playing however there are a pair of small white eyes in the corner amongst the darkness in the comments some players even mentioned if this is the mysterious white eyes they kept hearing about white eyes who is white eyes well I’m not

Entirely sure but what I can say is that all of this white-eyed stuff is really scaring me scaring me just as much as the number of viewers who are not subscribed you all better change that or else no pressure of course anyways one day later on the 1st of August a another

Post would be made to the Minecraft forums by user endorphine titled I cannot take it anymore which gives us some more information surrounding this white eyes creature Jesus Christ I can’t do it I can’t take it anymore I can’t go back home I can’t go into my Minds I

Can’t do anything anymore but slowly try and build something under the frozen ocean and it’s all because of two little pixels two pixels two white pixels I haven’t even seen them myself except in screenshots I know it’s there though waiting in the mines watching me from my

Tow balcony while I’m outside I can’t see it through the constant snowfall but I know it’s there and I know it can see me the white eyes myth surrounding ambient noises it started a couple weeks after a secret Friday update some people started reporting seeing a pair of white

Pixels whenever an underground ambient noise was triggered I figured it was just a bug or something maybe some way he did it to trigger The Sounds themselves I didn’t hear much more about it for a while then all of a sudden recently I’ve been seeing reported sightings everywhere and a supposed

Screenshot of them this post once again linked the same YouTube video with the same image in the comments of the post there are some Skeptics but also many people reporting having the exact same experience these two stories are the first of the known white-eyed sightings but seem to indicate that there were

Many more sightings prior and this is further backed up by users complaining of these posts mentioning they had gotten sick of seeing so many people talk about white eyes there are a handful of posts from early August 2010 where players mention spotting white eyes in the pitch black darkness of

Caves providing links that are now unfortunately dead as well as recounts of their sightings flaky would even create fan art of white eyes and what players at the time believed it to look like but once again all links are dead with no archives likely lost to time a

Amongst the many curious and terrified players some players in the original thread by endorphine mentioned it was a rendering bug or graphical glitch where a Block’s texture does not fully fit to the Block’s edges there are in fact similar bug reports from a few years later of such rendering bugs but

Endorphine declined such an idea and notably mentioned right here in response to one such player that they were wrong and it was white eyes as we named her her okay we need to p pause here who is white eyes what does white eyes actually look like what does Herobrine have to do

With all this and where did the whitee story come from and to understand that we need to skip ahead a few years 13 to be exact you see in May of this year small YouTuber Aussie flal came across the I cannot take it any more thread and in doing so began noticing some

Inconsistencies with the Herobrine story first of all Aussie flowell discovered that the link of the osed original Herobrine image and copy pter contained what’s known as a Unix timestamp a special computer time format used to basically stamp a date on when certain things on a computer were done anywh who

This Tim stamp when converted using a website gave the date August the 31st 2010 but what’s odd is that the version of the game which is in the screenshot is a version released August 13th which then became outdated 1 week later on August 20th so this screenshot had to be

Taken within this 7-Day period furthermore the earliest known mention of Herobrine was on Twitter where a now deleted user tagged Notch telling him to add Herobrine to Minecraft on August the 19th so how is it that Herobrine could have originated from a post made almost

2 weeks later well as it turns out the original creepy pasta image posted to 4chan long believed to be the original source and creation of Herobrine was in fact not the original and that same image can actually also be found in Copeland’s original thread posted by a

User called the camera works one day earlier than the one on 4chan so the original source of the image and thus Creepy Pasta which was made sometime during August the 13th to August the 19th 2010 likely before the 19th due to that tweet is now unknown and keep in

Mind at earliest this all occurred 2 to 3 weeks after the creation of white eyes is white eyes just a different form of Herobrine well let’s quickly get a timeline of events because it all happened so fast on the 31st of July that video with the white eyes image and

Dis 13 audio was uploaded to YouTube that same day flaky would repost the white ey story then a day later on August the 1st the I can’t take it any more thread where white eyes was officially named was posted as well as a now lost fan art of what white eyes was

Supposed to look like while those images are gone Aussie was able to conceptualize white ey’s form based on comments responding to the f art which described it as a skeleton spider hybrid the model you’ve seen in this video is one I got custom made based on those conceptualizations by the way a few

Dozen white eyes post later and then on August the 24th a user on the forums named goatee made a post about their own white eyes encounter where they supposedly ran into a player on their single player world with Whited out eyes and the default Steve skin this is the

First known conceptualization of the Herobrine we are all familiar with today and also where he began being referred to as a man particularly him there were no mentions of the name Herobrine yet this was still just white eyes interestingly a comment on that post mentioned that this is the second story

They’ve now seen of a white-eyed player model potentially implying that the original post and story are yet to be found and maybe the first ever post or thread where Herobrine was created considering that tweet was made 5 days before this thread it’s highly likely anywh who continuing on and Copeland did

His stream encountering him and the rest is history let’s now go back to that original video where the white eyes image was first made by kak kak was this the original creator of white eyes and thus the inspiration or even the creator of Herobrine Aussie Flo and a few others

Managed to get in contact with them on Discord who mentioned that they didn’t remember exactly why they put the white dots in the bottom of the image but confirmed it might have been inspired by the same rendering bug we mentioned earlier and was more of just a fun joke

They didn’t write the original forchan Creepy Pasta flaky reposted nor created the concept of white eyes it’s still a mystery so what’s believed to have happened is this someone on forchan saw this video likely when looking for dis 13’s audio and came up with the whitee

Story based on the image and the creepy dis 13 audio that story was then reposted to the forums by flaky and then endorphine created their similar post potentially inspired by the story flaky reposted and officially named her white eyes from there somewhere between August the 13th and August the 19th Herobrine

Was created and somewhere between August the 13th and August the 25th his Steve form and identity was conceptualized likely as some players interpretation of the original white eyes story Herobrine evolved from white eyes or was heavily inspired by her he was not the first and not the original but a mere different

Version of the white eyes myth that was so commonly known at the time This creepy pasta and image is likely not the first Herobrine story or encounter flaky’s reposted story is the first known instance whereby white eyes and thus later Herobrine was created yet it was Herobrine who became cemented in

Minecraft history with white eyes forgotten to time the problem is this just leaves us with more questions than answers the original Creator and source of white eyes is unknown the original Creator and source of Herobrine is also now even more of a mystery than before while it was previously believed that

The original source of Herobrine was this Creepy Pasta we now know there’s a good chance it was created elsewhere where did the name Herobrine even come from how did we go from white eyes to Herobrine these are questions we may never answer all the notable individuals involved have attempted to be tracked

Down and contacted by Aussie and others part of the white eyes research team on Discord with only Cura responding thus far this is where we need your help if you happen to know or are any of the individuals mentioned in this video please join the white eyes Discord below

Or leave a comment on this video as you could hold the keys to finding the truth behind white eyes and Herobrine share this video around so as many people as possible can see it as well so what have we learned from this entire ordeal well what’s so cool about Herobrine is that

Now over 13 years later new information is still being uncovered with potentially more still left to find continuing to cement how legendary he oh sorry I mean she truly was I hope you enjoyed this video be sure to subscribe thank you all so much for watching