Minecraft’s GREATEST Piece of Lost Media

Minecraft as a whole doesn’t really have a lot of lost media only a few scrapped items and blocks and a few lost updates in the very early years of the game however there is one extremely important part of Minecraft’s cultural history that is missing today and that is the

Live stream that captured this image now if you’ve been in the Minecraft Community for long enough you’ll probably recognize this image or maybe even were terrified of it at some point but this photo was part of a live stream one that would turn herobrine from just

A creepy story on 4chan to a full out internet Legend and this live stream now known today as Copeland’s Herobrine stream is completely lost and so let us look at the background the stream and its impact and the ongoing search to find it and best of all how I’m gonna

Pay you 200 to find it but before we start I demand you after this video to go check out Ender boss 25’s Channel and watch his three-part series on the search effort so far and watch all of his other videos they are truly incredible and he helped me make this

Video so thank you so much bro and with that being said let us begin foreign 2010 on the Paranormal forms on 4chan a post was made about a strange encounter referred to at first as him him was building strange tunnels sand pyramids and was building more strange things the

Poster would finally see him when wandering through the world and him had a Steve skin but with all white eyes the poster would then go to the Minecraft forms asking if anyone else had encountered this his post would get deleted multiple times anyone with supposed to receiving a message from

Someone named Herobrine telling him to stop so the poster and some others looked for Herobrine across the internet and eventually found that it was the name of Notch’s brother the poster emailed Notch about Herobrine and Notch only responded by saying that he’s no longer with us and thus The Legend of

Herobrine was created and the story would quickly be reposted around the Paranormal forms this post was seen by a young man named Copeland Copeland at the time was a streamer which was still a relatively new thing at the time and he was also a part of a streaming group called

Brocraft and a part of their thing was to stream Minecraft every day so Copeland reading the post and wanting to bring attention to him and broke craft as a whole came up with his own Herobrine prank he would then Photoshop a photo of herobrine into his world and

Posted it in his chat the photo would spread around and get a large amount of reactions from his audience he now knew he had to make a stream on it since if he pulled it off perfectly it would be Minecraft’s greatest hoax and he would get tons of new viewers so he would

Re-texture one of the two by one paintings to be Herobrine and would put them in a specific out of place room in his house and when the time came he would then showcase the painting and pretend to be spooked out and run out of his house ending the stream to add on to

This he would plan to add a gif of Steve with real eyes that would freak even more people out and on August 30th of 2010 he would make Minecraft history the stream was a massive success and would soon spread across the Minecraft forms and numerous other forms in message

Boards across the the entire internet it was so huge that the Minecraft forums had to start Banning any discussions on Herobrine or him and Copeland stream would be quickly followed up by two other Herobrine hoaxes the first one by kunuk which saw him being scared by Herobrine and then falling to his death

And patimus which did his own stream and did the exact same thing as Copeland but used retextured doors over lava to make it seem even more real the impact of Copeland’s stream and the follow-up hoaxes would turn herobrine from a small internet myth on 4chan to an internet

Craze as in some people’s eyes it just could not be fake how would someone on a single player live stream be able to make something like this it can’t be fake it can’t be and as stupid as it may sound you have to realize that it wasn’t

Absurd to believe at the time you have to realize that there really wasn’t any Minecraft short films and live streaming was a very new thing in August 2010. this just seemed very legit and because of that Herobrine would quickly spread around to become a part of Minecraft and

Internet culture as a whole being featured in short films complimations and eventually update changed logs but what happened to Copeland stream after its success and how did it become lost today Copeland himself would go back to normal streaming of Minecraft for the next year but on October 12 2010 the stream was first noted as missing on the r slash Minecraft subreddit it was noted as missing because the original link only redirected to broke Craft’s rebranded page now called ghost in the Stream a

Year later on December 11 2011 the stream was once again mentioned as missing on the Minecraft Wikia and throughout 2012 it would repeatedly be mentioned as missing but by this time the Minecraft Community either forgot about the stream didn’t know about it entirely or just assumed that it was

Somewhere on the internet and so it just became lost with the occasional fake in discussion thread for the next eight years on October 21st 2020 a YouTuber by the name of Ender boss 25 would make a video explaining the backstory it would start a search for the live stream he

Would follow this up with two more videos eventually being able to get in contact with Copeland himself who answered many of the questions around the stream however he had no recordings but Copeland did have the exact World used and it was pretty much untouched from the original live stream so I will

Leave the link to the World download Below in the description and that being said let us get into everything we have found so far and on to the cash reward to begin Ender boss and his search team have found six screenshots from the stream and the original Steve of a

Freaky eyes GIF they also have found all the original Links of both the stream the original Minecraft forms reaction and a separate link for the Steve with freaky eyes and well that is pretty much it there are no partial recordings and there are no official transcripts of it

As for fakes there is this one which was recorded sometime in 2014 and is just completely wrong especially since we have the map now this being said there is one very important thing that is still very hazy and that’s just when the stream was deleted some say it was in

October 2010 when they switched to Ghost In The Stream and some say it was in late 2011 and this leads me to the cash rewards section of this video I’m just gonna say this it was either on YouTube or the stream site itself till sometime

In September 2011 and how do I know that well because I saw this stream I vividly remember watching this stream sometime in early to mid 2011 and so much so that it surprised me that this stream was gone since this was one of my first Minecraft memories I remember watching

This back in the day and was freaked out because I actually thought Herobrine was real but because of this I actually was like oh my God it’s real I will say this though I have zero idea on what Channel or title it was and I was too young to

Really go off YouTube and discover streaming so in my memory and in my opinion is that it’s somewhere on YouTube and that it was briefly shown or cut together and that video is either deep on the internet somewhere or it’s just gone today and because this video

Is one of my first Minecraft memories and due to it being extremely important to the history of both Minecraft and internet culture I will be paying 200 US dollars to whoever can find at least the video portion of him going into the room coming across Herobrine and running out

I don’t ask for the full stream since it was anywhere from 30 minutes to two hours long and there is zero way that will be found since they actually reach out to livestream.com which hosted the stream and they were unable to get it but I just required that two minute time

Span of him coming across Herobrine and running out if you want to participate in the search or if you have the video then please go to the Ender boss Discord which is on screen now and will be in the pinned comment anyways I’m gonna let the rest of this video be my recounting

Of the stream but before I do I want to say that I apologize as for not making any Minecraft videos the last few weeks I ran out of ideas and just got burnt out of the game so I tried some other things out but I plan to once again

Start doing Minecraft videos anyways thank you so much for watching and let us get into the recounting hello everyone the homie here and I want to talk about my experiences because I guess I should lay it out in terms of actually exploring the world so I believe I saw this video sometime in

2011. I can’t put an exact date probably sometime in either the spring or summer of 2011. I don’t remember it in 2012 or anything so I don’t think it was past that so I guess let’s just get started with what I remember so let’s just go

All the way back here and then we’ll go kind of that way so I remember the video either starts where I just came from right here or starts in this area right here and he’s kind of just exploring around this area just kind of looking around I don’t a

Little bit down here too he’s just kind of looking around in this area and this is where the original screenshot well the original screenshot was up the original screenshot was up there and then he uh the Herobrine was right here so maybe he was looking for it or something I don’t remember

But I just remember him being in this area and then he went up here or he could have gone reverse and then just went back up but either way he was over at this point in the video now the question for me is I don’t remember where he went from here I don’t

Recall this house being here so much as much like in my memory I don’t really recall it being here maybe I just mixed it with this one but I think maybe he in the video kind of just went up here sometime maybe I’ve just kind of looked around

And just kind of you know checked it out and then he went back but I do remember he did go down this way at a point which I think the recreation showed us he did go this way which I think is correct he went through these doors

And then you know he went up and this is where one of the screenshots was taken the screenshot I don’t you know the screenshot really proved my memory that it was during the daytime I don’t remember it being at night I don’t remember being at dusk or at morning

Nothing it was it was just middle of the day he goes up the stairs and he looks around I think or something and then right here of course would be the Herobrine I just don’t have the thing in but yeah and then from there I do remember him running out but I don’t

Remember that so well because I think you know I saw a cut but I’ll talk about that in a second but yeah he ran out ran out the house close these doors and then dropped right there so that being said it I did not see a live

Stream I don’t recall watching a 20 minute live stream of it because I think I would have remembered more of the beginning of it of the screenshot with the shovel digging which I suppose was right here maybe somewhere else I don’t recall that at all and um I personally just don’t think that

That was what happened but I do recall just just kind of cutting maybe in some places so whatever I saw oh my God why does it rain so much in this world anyways so I do recall it just kind of like not it was not 20 minutes it was

Probably two minutes or so so maybe I just saw a re-upload or something but it definitely featured this area and I think that some people probably remember this area as kind of a different thing and it’s a different part of it and maybe it’s just a completely different video that mixed

With this kind of created that but it definitely he was definitely down here investigating that part of the photo and then he goes up here and there you go so I don’t know what I saw if it was a re-upload you know it’s got to be somewhere but I don’t know I don’t

Know for sure and it may have just been a recreation done very very early on or something because there are some things that make me think it could have been a recreation like the texture pack I don’t remember so much this kind of house area I don’t remember I don’t remember this

Area a little bit too much I remember it being a lot more spread out but I think that was more just influenced by how the screenshot was taken more upwards but yeah that’s kind of my experiences with it personally I think it still exists somewhere it’s got to be I don’t I just

Can’t imagine that it would allow something like this to just be lost well we’ll have to see I don’t know but that’s my experiences if you have something like that let me know anyways uh just gonna jump off this Cliff now