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. He had recently taken a liking to the story, and wished to be a part of it. 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.

The 4chan post also contained a screenshot of the encounter, showing Herobrine in the distance amidst the fog. 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 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 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, /x/, around August 19, 2010. Zoomed-in excerpt of Herobrine in the original image. The /x/ story and screenshot detailing the first Herobrine 'encounter'. Origins and popularity For more detailed information regarding the Brocraft events, see the wiki's interview with Copeland and his recounting of the events. Any appearances of Herobrine are caused by either mods being installed or because of another player using the skin. It is not possible for Herobrine to have ever existed in any unmodded clients or servers. There are no references to him at all in the source code, and there is no code to allow for any entity to act like Herobrine. Herobrine is not in vanilla Minecraft, and never has been.

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