About
Herobrine, also known as “HIM”, is a mysterious character from a Minecraft creepypasta story. He is portrayed as a non-player character in single-player Minecraft that has the default skin, and completely white eyes. (See also: Majora’s Mask Creepypasta, Slender Man)
On TV Tropes he is referred to as an “Urban Legend Of Zelda”, a trope regarding strange rumors about video games that reach urban legend status.[1]
Original Creepypasta
Hoax
A hoax was staged on August 30, 2010 on the “Brocraft” stream (which is now known as “Ghost in the stream”). Copeeland, the stream’s creator, showed Herobrine, actually just a retextured painting or iron door, near the end of the stream at 20:45:
In another stream, Copeeland’s friend Patimoose faked a game crash, then put up a page with a default Minecraft face with actual human eyes photoshopped on. According to Minecraft Wiki, the page’s source had the following secret message:
It has been reportedd that some victims of torture, during the act, would retreat into a fantasy world from which they could not WAKE UP. In this catatonic state, the victim lived in a world just like their normal one, except they weren’t being tortured. The only way that they realized they needed to WAKE UP was a note they found in their fantasy world. It would tell them about their condition, and tell them to WAKE UP. Even then, it would often take months until they were ready to discard their fantasy world and PLEASE WAKE UP.[4]
Notch’s Response
Notch has posted on twitter about the subject of Herobrine, and claims that he is not a real character in the game. It is unclear whether or not Herobrine will eventually become a real character in the game. There were claims that Notch confirmed Herobrine would be included at Minecraftcon 2010, but on October 19th, 2010, he tweeted that he had “no plans of adding herobrine.”[5]
Minecraft Update
On May 31st, 2011, Notch posted patch notes to his site with the last item reading “Removed Herobrine”.[3] This is most likely a joke as Notch has publicly stated that Herobrine is not a real character in the game.
External Links
[2] Creepypasta Wiki – “Herobrine”
[3] Tumblr – Notch – Minecraft Beta 1.6.6