New Evidence in the Search for Herobrine's Origins

[@RetroGamingNow]

What’s your favorite Herobrine memory?

[@jimmyneedshiskfc]

Making the shrine with my friends back in the day on the xbox 360 version

[@javengabriellarboleda2864]

Playing Minecraft with my Cousin on the PS4 then looking at the map and seeing 3 player markers (we played splitscreen with just the two of us on an offline world.) Never touched that world since. (honestly it was probably a bug or something but it terrified us, i didn't sleep at all that night)

[@ZXR4GRZ]

Hey bro, I really love your videos about Minecraft mysteries, especially Herobrine. The mystery of Herobrine is being solved now, but never mind if the reason behind Herobrine is not just in the Minecraft version. If you look at the older Minecraft launcher versions, that could be a big clue about the mysterious character known as Herobrine. I think the old Minecraft launchers from the days of Windows XP and Windows 7 hold a big mystery. We haven't found any files of Herobrine in old versions like 1.0.16_2 or 1.0.17_4. Mojang keeps saying "Removed Herobrine" with every update, which makes me think there's a dark secret behind the old versions of the Minecraft launchers. Perhaps if we find an old official version of the Minecraft launcher from an old computer or hard drive, we might uncover something. We've all looked at Minecraft files but haven't found any clues about Herobrine. However, the Minecraft launcher has a big mystery-"A DARK MYSTERY." Some players keep saying they saw Herobrine in the old days, like 2009 to 2011, during the days of Windows XP and 7. Maybe some old computers running old versions of Minecraft were "HACKED BY THE REMOVED VERSION OF THE OLD MINECRAFT LAUNCHER." Mojang kept updating the launcher every month without changing the old Minecraft files. At the end, I think Notch managed to create a modified version of the Minecraft launcher and versions 1.0.16_2 and 1.0.17_4. These are the only two versions we focused on and realized something was wrong, like Herobrine or glowing eyes. Notch might have trolled the old Minecraft players like Copeland. We need to take a look at the old Minecraft files from any old computer if we can find them. Goodbye and good luck with your investigations! I really like your KZbin channel too, Mr. RGN.

[@aykarain]

making a command block that spammed lightning on a herobrine shrine thing lol

[@licorice.thecat]

@@javengabriellarboleda2864i might have an answer for this one. iirc if you placed a map in an item frame that map would show up as a white player marker when you looked at a map in your hand

[@soapgaming4903]

I miss the days when he was the scariest thing imaginable. And every time there was a glitch we blamed it on him and abandoned the world.

[@novvut]

you have no idea how many dead worlds i have from “herobrine encounters”

[@Popcorn_Pillow]

Same

[@ResyPatron]

mbf

[@legendreactstostuff]

Its never too late to have a resurgence y'know

[@TheScreenplayer]

Fr. My sister deleted a world after a tree set fire 2 blocks away from a lava pool

[@Dicerollball]

When I was a kid, I believed Herobrine was real and while I was scared of him I also liked the idea of having a withdrawn friend in the Minecraft world. So, anytime I saw something weird or found a glitch, I would always chalk it up to Herobrine. I started leaving things around for him, made a chest specifically to give gifts to him or show him items I was proud of getting (like a god apple), and even though the ambience and music became scary I always thought to myself: "That just means Herobrine is nearby watching out for me." Literally he was the reason I played Minecraft the most back then as a kid. I was so scared of him but also so eager to show off to the mysterious entity that I just killed a skeleton with my bare fists, or tamed my first wolf in the new world I created.

[@CouscousEnjoyer]

Wholesome

[@Kaika433]

that's so cute

[@Herobrine-g7w]

Gotta say, you always made my day Thanks for doing that, never failed to make me smile :]

[@gustavinhokavalo]

This made me 2g more happy, thanks for sharing it.

[@ticktock3507]

I'd love a story about this concept, a normal kid befriending some eldritch entity would be some wholesome horror

[@ctrlaltrepeat245]

People have this tendency to underplay the sheer terror of Herobrine that existed back in the day. It was never about how powerful he was, but simply the idea that something just as intelligent, if not more intelligent than you existed in your game, and was actively aware of you. You didn't know its intentions, what it stood for, what it wanted from you. He can build and mine just like you, but his intentions remain unknown. He wasn't like a simple mob that pathfinded toward you and smacked you a few times, he was an intelligent entity that actively wanted to cause mental anguish.

[@deepfakes4567]

102 likes and no replies lemme fix that

[@ValtheFemboy]

@@deepfakes4567no

[@0Blueaura]

completely, i remember in beta days as 14 years old being scared of playing with the fog, and was scared of the tiniest sounds i heard. one time i was building a staircase out of half slabs, then i heard something behind me like footsteps of sorts. i saw nothing. and i remember it to this day now that im 27 years old. these were fun times now i think about it...

[@Insert_creative_unused_name]

THe fear doesn't come from sheer strength, but intellegance. No amount of brute force is of any use with out the Intellegence to use it.

[@SanityDrop]

nah bro it was scary cause we were fucking kids xd.

[@Warentan]

I was about to buy something, but then my debit card fell out of my hand and i involuntarily walked to my desk and was forced to click this video by the heroic brine himself.

[@winkystinky]

I don't think... no

[@Loy_Otterton]

😮, spooky

[@Theguywhowanders]

And people will say it’s jesus guiding you or something among these lines 😭

[@Indianawoodchuckjunior]

Okay

[@cihloun]

If heroinbrine is not real, then why did my uncle died due to heroin overdose? Huh? COINCIDENCE?

[@ItsJoeyG]

6:45 "Sorry, image is currently unavailable." Also Photobucket, "Protect more of your memories for less". Ironic. Remember to make local backups kids.

[@RetroGamingNow]

Haha I didn't even catch the irony!

[@Shadow6678-j5s]

@@RetroGamingNow2 WHITE PIXELS

[@joechristo2]

@@Shadow6678-j5s I can't take it. I see an image of a random object posted and then I see it, I fucking see it. "Oh that looks kinda like two little white eyes" it started as. That's funny, that's a cool reference. But I kept going, I'd see a fridge that looked like white eyes, I'd see an animated bag of chips that looked like white eyes, I'd see a hat that looked like white eyes. And every time I'd burst into an insane, breath deprived laugh staring at the image as the words “WHITE EYES” ran through my head.

[@Shadow6678-j5s]

@@joechristo2 I built a tower. A tower so I can see if it approaches me. IM SO FUCKING AFRAID OF EVEN GOING IN MY HOUSE. Let alone the mines. ALL BECAUSE OF 2 WHITE PIXELS. 2 FUCKING WHITE PIXELS. I don’t swear irl

[@DripCheems]

​@@Shadow6678-j5si confronted herobrine signed the herobrine-ribbentrop non-agression pact me and herobrinr partitioned world #73628 together

[@SuperKlondike64]

I wish we could have gaming urban legends back. Herobrine seemed to be the last one before it basically became impossible to make something up because you could just dig through the files. It's a real shame, these little rumors made the game feel much larger and more lively than they really were.

[@MeryoQuestion]

This is more easy on game consoles since its harder for dig through code in game consoles

[@waddledeegaming3242]

SM64 every copy is personalized was the only good one in the last few years.

[@SuperKlondike64]

@@waddledeegaming3242 I agree, that one was great because of how it played off of your false memories of the game.

[@firstnamlastnam2141]

Datamining really was a mistake when it came to secrets.

[@schmecklin377]

Gta 5 was the last big game to have urban legends and cryptids, but even then people started file digging and disproving stuff

[@KyanoAng3l0_Mtvtks]

I frankly prefer _blank_ eyes over glowing eyes. The idea that something that seems blind to the light of the world is observing you for some reason is unnerving.

[@Skaaks]

He cannot see, but he is watching.

[@myst1que_mach1ne]

To me, the idea of a normal pair of eyes somehow appearing visible in the dark as if it were in broad daylight is creepier than actual glowing eyes.

[@Max_Aimz9392]

@@myst1que_mach1ne That's terrifying why did you make me imagine that 😭

[@Apothecartea]

@@myst1que_mach1neThe only way I can picture this is in cartoons when they want to save some money on a scene so they make the whole room dark and only have to animate characters’ eyes LMAO

[@sinistrecigogne]

​@@Apothecartea Was that really just to save costs? I reckon the reason they only drew the eyes in those scenarios was so people could somewhat know what the characters were up to and wouldnt be staring at a black screen for so long.

[@ND62511]

It should be noted that the “Please Wake Up” story that you had to decode on the site is almost a word for word copy-paste of a preexisting Creepypasta. Some interesting trivia on the history of it all

[@rustkitty]

iirc the biggest difference is that the original was about rpe specifically rather than torture in general.

[@tastydeaths]

@@rustkitty ffs way to ruin it at least this version is the one most remembered

[@rustkitty]

@@tastydeaths Huh? How exactly is that "ruined"?

[@derangedfreackingtwistedps5048]

@@rustkitty Jack Black as Steve will go blind, become Herobrine, impregnate a woman with a turkey baster, then be the unquestionably heroic protagonist of the Minecraft Movie 2

[@Frittin762]

@@derangedfreackingtwistedps5048I guess the dog model is gonna have to be a rott weiler lol

[@WarmNitrogen]

This video should prove to everyone that Minecraft horror shouldn't be about big cave monsters or jumpscares. Minecraft is pure existential dread in singleplayer mode and honestly one of the best sources of psychological horror in a non-horror game. Modders should focus on that.

[@barrytaylor889]

Like how the mod From The Fog did it, made it into a horror game with no jumpscares and big horror creatures

[@deepfakes4567]

@@barrytaylor889 yeah but thats literally herobrine

[@ToyFreddyGaming1987]

I find it funny how the Cave Dweller was mentioned in this video. Gives me a bit more appreciation for that mod, knowing it (may have) actually been based off of an actual myth from old Minecraft.

[@Guardian-of-Light137]

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Modding minecraft to be scary makes it less scary. ... Kinda anyway. With horror there are 3 stages, the buildup where tension builds, the scare, and the calm down, where the scare has happened, and either you're character is dead or you've paused the game or something and you just take a moment to let out a sigh a scream or even cry. But after you do so, you calm down even if only a little bit. Default minecraft ... doesn't allow the scare (Unless you count sudden mob attacks you don't see coming.) It just endlessly builds tension as your mind plays tricks on you. Your own mind does worse than any mod could EVER do. Because you know more than anyone else what you DON'T want to see down in those mines. Oh sure cave dwellers creepy texture packs, mods etc etc are all spooky ... but familiarity becomes comfortable. If you KNOW what to expect. Eventually it becomes mundane. The scare happens and the tension is lost. And it quickly becomes a cycle where the worst it can do is annoy you. ... But if you're alone in a minecraft world with nothing that can actually scare you. There is no herobrine in those mines ... but you think there is. And because you JUST can't shake the thought he MIGHT be (or whatever else) but the scare never happens. The tension builds ENDLESSLY! And even if you do calm down by going to do something relaxing ... you gotta head back down Eventually.

[@R3ELL1ON]

I can't play Minecraft without a buddy anymore

[@ventrox3991]

the fact that every major changelog includes removing herobrine implies they never succeeded at removing him for good

[@IchigoShinagami]

Bro's more powerful than the Coders.

[@AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHs]

They stopped doing it now

[@Smashburrogames]

Do you think that they stopped doing it out of lack of belief, or because they could no longer keep him out

[@AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHs]

@@Smashburrogames maybe he’s just dead now

[@true_drip_master]

Or they believe he's dead​@@AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHs

[@KyanoAng3l0_Mtvtks]

Cave sound mockup: natural, immersive C418/Aberg's cave sounds: send shivers up your spine and your soul

[@brandonbombplays9304]

C418 actually.

[@KyanoAng3l0_Mtvtks]

@@brandonbombplays9304 Oh right. My bad.

[@5spec]

"Zoom in. Herobrine.." "That's impossible, he was last seen 14 years ago." "Someone's just using a skin?" "No, there's no nametag. It's him."

[@Srikar91]

Soldier Boy reference lmao

[@maxTheTimeSlasher]

Took me a while to get the reference 😭

[@RizzMist]

How is it a soilder boy reference?​@@Srikar91

[@RizzMist]

Wait I get it now

[@demonchild25289]

lmfao soldier boy

[@TehBeef_]

I've always thought that Notch snuck herobrine into the game at one point just to mess with people, even if only for a week or two.. especially during the 'Secret Friday' updates period where we never got any solid patch notes... I wonder how many of these 'sightings' are actually legit.

[@normalhuman9878]

That would’ve been hilarious, but I think people could go back and check the files now

[@keekorsomthin]

​@@normalhuman9878damn files

[@Dumba55]

@@normalhuman9878i mean, some versions are completely lost, for example the alpha version that added redstone

[@billybobsgamingchannel6711]

yeah ive had like 4 instances in one version were me and my cousin found him i sometimes think hes still real but than realize it probably was my cousin or our other friend

[@314rft]

@@Dumba55 Trust me, plenty of us very old minecraft lovers like myself have looked through the game files extensively, and there's sadly no Herobrine in any of the found versions.

[@FrogmaskMusic]

31:50 Jeez, the “WAKE UP” variant got me bad back in 2011 and still gets me now. Unnerving

[@yhd_skeetsy]

ME TOOOO OH MY GOD. definitely stemmed the way uncanniness can get a visceral reaction out of me now.... like there was this uquiz i took recently called "what your favorite color?" and for some reason it totally blindsided me and had me dropping my phone every other question 😭 thank you herobrine wake up creepypasta you will forever be famous

[@FrogmaskMusic]

@@yhd_skeetsy Apparently the “wake up” copypasta has been around since at least 2008. Really goes to show what a freakish amalgam Herobrine is

[@Graffels]

Wake up.

[@Mostimastica]

It was genuinely an unnerving one. But seriously though, wake up. We miss you. Dont leave us.

[@ozziemahboi]

@@FrogmaskMusic I will say this, i can't find it? Is it lost media like i can't find the original link to the creepypasta

[@PedanticUnionist]

It's honestly sort of sad that we don't know who created the Herobrine myth. You make the most popular gaming legend of all time, and nobody even knows you who you are.

[@layt187]

kinda adds to creepy factor of it, if you think about it

[@RavenGamingOverLord]

Well it does make it more creepy if you ask me

[@ProjectionProjects2.7182]

Yeah its sad. I wonder if the person who made the myth even knows how popular their creation became.

[@NatsumiHinata]

I think there could be three scenarios. The creator might be aware of it considering how popular Herobrine has become, but they are refraining from revealing themselves since there is no proof. It would only potentially mark them as a troll without any substantial evidence. They might have told it to select a few friends who would believe their words but not to the general public. Or the creator really might no longer be interested in Minecraft and living a normal life. In this scenario, they are alive and well but genuinely oblivious to what is happening to the Minecraft fandom. Even though Minecraft is the best-selling game of all time, it rarely gets mentioned in the public media or news. It’s just a children’s video game to many people. Herobrine isn’t very well known outside of the Minecraft fan base. Then there’s another possibility that the creator might have died. It’s been 14 years after all, and even in the Minecraft fandom, some of the greatest players have met their demise. It wouldn’t be a surprise if the same happened to the Herobrine creator.

[@roroo]

They definitely know that it’s popular but saying you created hero brine is like talking to a brick wall you’re never gonna be able to truly take credit for it

[@ImmaLittlePip]

Anyone miss when gaming urban legends like this could spread around and everyone could get lost in the sauce and have fun with this

[@scarlettarana]

Absolutely, Herobrine was a big part of my childhood My brother pretended to be him once, on Minecraft PE where you could join worlds with whatever skin and name you wanted. That day solidified my love for Minecraft and creepypastas and all sorts of creepy stories, I don’t think I’d be who I am now without that moment

[@slim5816]

@@scarlettarana LOL! I did the same to my little sister on PE. Idk if there was some setting or if I used mods but I was able to change gamemode and use /kill on her. I was flying to her while she was digging some hole. She ended up burying herself out of fear. I acted like I was on my way coming for help 💀💀💀 Then finally i used the kill command. 10 years ago and she still vividly remembers 😂

[@BorzoiSpotProductions]

FALLOUT EQUESTRIA MENTION

[@UnderscoreAngel]

Seeing copeland's stream after a very loong time makes me feel weird, i always remembered it soo realistically as if that re-textured painting was an actual player, it's interesting how mind can twist memories, haha fun video

[@derekstryder2281]

Not to mention that it was basically lost media meaning it would have been impossible to double check the facts.

[@UnderscoreAngel]

Derek Stryder no I actually remember the """original""" footage (somehow) now don't ask me where I saw it, I think it was a really old creepy Minecraft video that is also lost now, but seeing it after so long, I remember the ending being completely different

[@derekstryder2281]

@@UnderscoreAngel The one where he jumps into a nearby lava pool and burns while Herobrine looks down on him?

[@UnderscoreAngel]

+derekstryder2281 that one is a recreation, but i remember one where copeland just jumps off a bridge outside of his house in the server, bridge that does not exists in the original map.

[@UnderscoreAngel]

or said bridge might be on a different place

[@BreadTeleporter006]

I think that the concept of a White Eyes and Herobrine, inspired Notch to make a mob with creepy sounds and glowing eyes, The Endermen.

[@HungryWarden]

They really leaned into their horror aspect in Minecraft Dungeons, having them give you a slight tunnel vision effect and warp the screen a bit.

[@ktokolwiek8545]

and not slenderman?

[@CowsEatPineaples30]

@@ktokolwiek8545both

[@keekorsomthin]

​@@ktokolwiek8545that could have played more into their height

[@ktokolwiek8545]

@@keekorsomthin i think all of their appearence just look at comparison beetwen them. slenderman was popular back then in 2011

[@novvut]

a wise man once said: “if you were born in the 2000’s, your 2 biggest fears were failing your grade 3 spelling test, and Herobrine.”

[@ReaperSymbiote]

Happened to a buddy of mine

[@InfectiousViper]

And white cars driving down a winding road

[@Nightswarmer]

@@InfectiousViper If any family member sends me any video that isn't obviously of them, I'm turning the volume all the way down, it's just that integrated now.. Trust no one..

[@InfectiousViper]

@@Nightswarmer Same! It’s engraved in my brain now

[@throwaway7679]

@@Nightswarmer People should be doing this all the time with shit audio balancing, and people thinking loud = funny.

[@ScarsOfTheStars]

If something has white eyes, they've must be related to Herobrine, as a young me thought. There's a reason I stopped playing Minecraft for a while as a kid after encountering a Stray for the first time.

[@tom-ment-Capybara]

I remember as a child a blind cat with white eyes ran across the porch outside my kitchen lmao Didn’t help that I thought that it looked like my cat (which had died semi-recently at the time) (It didn’t actually look like my dead cat but I thought it did)

[@fidget0227]

@@tom-ment-CapybaraNothing is scarier to humans than our own ability to make up patterns and exaggerate the hell out of them.

[@imsomeonesomewheresomehow]

I didn’t know strays were added and i was just messing around in the festive mash up pack and I saw one spawn in and wow it scared me

[@mxtrashtm]

This is so beautiful, minecraft scares have NEVER changed, from beginning to now. We still think about stalker entities, "dwellers" and something being the reason for the cave sounds. This is a connection through time, young and old players with remain the same in a way, fearing the same things and trying to explain why.

[@videohousejsq]

0:13 if we want to TRUE answer to the mystery of Herobrine, somebody needs to interrogate that chicken. Blud be lookin like he know too much…

[@eljugasodemanzana8390]

Underrated comment

[@ToyFreddyGaming1987]

I really like the idea that White Eyes is the true "backstory" of Herobrine. The idea that he was Notch's dead brother always felt very "2010 creepypasta" to me. However if Herobrine truly is White Eyes, that opens up the room for so many possibilities. Most importantly though is that it keeps the mystery of Herobrine intact, given how mysterious White Eyes is. I think my favorite little implication is that the original Herobrine story was purposeful misinformation to lead people astray on what Herobrine actually was. But why would someone post purposefully wrong information about a spooky Minecraft entity in the game? Well, the original poster was anonymous... Perhaps Herobrine has been watching more than just Minecraft.

[@ladvargleinad7566]

"But why would someone post purposefully wrong information" Welcome to the Internet.

[@ToyFreddyGaming1987]

@ShadowWolf2023-yp5zg Okay, admittedly worded that part very poorly. What I was trying to say is that somebody posting about an unknown entity in the game and saying it was actually the creators dead brother felt... a little strange to do. Truthfully that isn't out of the realm of possibility though.

[@jacobcaraway1754]

@@ToyFreddyGaming1987 Notch never actually had a brother.

[@Estra_Estra]

herobrine/white eyes fucking with people on like, 4chan, the mc forums and twitter is so funny tho...

[@AlastorFan5900]

i remember thinking that Herobrine was a sentient AI that notch added and could never actually remove, thus the continual "removed Herobrine" changelogs.

[@Dusty_Doggo]

I went on seed 666 as a kid and built that firey Herobrine shrine. Saw a mossy cobblestone lump after a bit of exploring, freaked out, deleted the world, and cried in my room for a good 5 minutes. For the next year or so I made a good effort to never say the "H word" out loud and delete any world that had even one floating block or other anomaly in it until Orepros, MrFudgeMonkeyz, and Monster School became a thing (if you know you know). THAT'S DA 2000S FO YA EVERYBODY

[@frederichfazbearingtonthefith]

Lmao

[@isaacsucks]

mossy cobblestone? that’s just chris

[@dogmadude1399]

Oh, what’s this? A little gem in my recommended? Minecraft has never been so engaging

[@CouscousEnjoyer]

His channel is great and he composed all of the background music, if you like this you'll like his other stuff

[@yhd_skeetsy]

heavy vouch w the commenter above! you should check out his minecraft mob centric videos if a little world building theorizing interests u 👍

[@Csbees]

Herobrine lore is really crazy

[@Inunah]

Hi, I'm the owner of that blog! I did do the grammar corrections in that post (I was getting made fun of for terrible grammar from direct copy/pasting lol), but otherwise I copied the text directly from the image you showed. Back then, I would post the stories just about the same day I found them. I remember finding that particular story on a "creepypasta dump thread" on 4chan's paranormal board, alongside a lot of other creepypastas of varying ages. Sorry for causing a momentary red herring in your investigation!

[@Rainok]

Not sure if anyone else picked up on the enderman parallels, but I find it really cool that they likely have the same inspiration as Herobrine

[@bastianleyton1951]

God i love Herobrine and the history of it so much i remember playing on tablet and being anxious about it, I remember seeing fake name tags on the distance (prob a tecnical error of Minecraft PE), perfectly dug out crosses in the ground, wierd generation of terrain that looked man made and white pixels that looked static throught the snow. Its just so nostalgic thinking about it now lol

[@tropiccloud1337]

fuck god then 🕋🕋🕋 ez ​@ShadowWolf2023-yp5zg

[@fotnite_]

In a recent modpack I've been playing, there's a mob like this called the Nightmare Stalker (the mod it's from is Born in Chaos), it spawns extremely rarely and only in pitch darkness, and until it takes damage, the only thing you can see is its glowing eyes. The eyes are difficult to spot, so you usually only see them if it hasn't decided to ambush you yet, so if it does try to ambush you, you will instead notice it by the distinct sound of it running just before it reaches you.

[@V.A.T.O]

THE unprecedented horror's of ALPHA Minecraft were terrifying.

[@aitorleal4676]

I've realized that the very first time i saw or heard anything about minecraft was teh Herobrine image, kinds wild to think i was so young when this became popular enough to reach other country forums.

[@okaydash4763]

Something deep just happened in my life... But this video helped me calm down! Thank you for these great videos!!! Congrats on 500k

[@CouscousEnjoyer]

Spill the beans

[@JeebusMcWeebus]

@@CouscousEnjoyer rude

[@CouscousEnjoyer]

@@JeebusMcWeebus 🪨

[@Chris_Cross]

This still doesn’t answer the biggest question I have. Who the hell came up with the name "Herobrine" in the first place. It's such a weird name

[@luminiti1094]

I think the name came from an old creepypasta that was posted a long time ago, its anonymous tho, so noone knows who made it

[@Deadliermlg]

Hero Brian

[@user-is7xs1mr9y]

It doesn't matter if it's silly and I was already an adult when I started playing Minecraft in 2012, Herobrine will always have a special place in my heart so this kind of videos always make me happy.

[@nemaele]

Banger of a video as always. Herobrine is such an integral part of Minecraft, and I still keep my Minecraft skin as it is, a female version, albeit with changes every time the default skins get a new coat of paint. It's been 12 years, and I don't think I can keep it different for too long before going back. Even if nowadays so many people don't even recognise the skin, sometimes.

[@alternativeaccountmercury]

wait people don't recognize herobrine nowadays???

[@ToyFreddyGaming1987]

Womanbrine

[@nemaele]

@@alternativeaccountmercury I've genuinely ran into people who didn't, no.

[@starleaf-luna]

sherobrine

[@lazycloud4684]

let me guess, you're a trans woman

[@kjs026]

it feels cool to be one of the only people to know about the white eyes myth before a video about it is made

[@flamsey]

Do you have the original fan art by Flakey?

[@Everything-Productions-Studios]

Same Here... Kinda? I Heard About Before THIS Video, Just Not Before Any Video.

[@Tooblekep]

Same

[@RavenGamingOverLord]

Good for you

[@AlOstosman]

Bruh, dozens of videos have already been made already ☠️

[@DrEagle1776]

HELL YEAH, bringing me back to my childhood with Herobrine. I remember playing around 2011 being scared to be alone cuz of him

[@x9kz]

Same thing bro, me and my friends would come up with story’s about him for days man. It was the best.

[@Rand0m1nternetpers0n]

Same

[@_Th1nk3r]

Minecraft horror mods would be so much more effective if they were made on older version of the game. The setting of older mc is already unsettling, and it already has such a haunting atmosphere, and feels so unknown. You know you're alone, but it never feels that way.

[@X3n0nLP]

Something I did was create a world in the early beta version of the game, then load it up on a new version, loaded the old textures and changed lighting and render distance, then played with the From The Fog mod. Perfect herobrine experience in my opi nion

[@vermillion1670]

10 years later and I still can't play Minecraft singleplayer because of the cave sounds. I've always been a scaredy cat, but Minecraft levels up my fears, when playing alone. The worst part about the cave sounds: I like building my bases in caves or underground, so I hear the sounds constantly. As for the cave sounds, there are some "cave" sounds in the Nether. First time I heard it I almost shat myself. It was so loud and completely unexpected.

[@netwicks1126]

Theres "ocean sounds" which are cave sounds that play in the sea, they're slightly rarer i think cause i dont hear them often but when i do it triggers my thalassophobia lol

[@gabe.mov3]

Bro you think this is scary, try playing subnautica

[@HeroManNick132]

You know you can disable them?

[@AlastorFan5900]

you can just turn "ambient sounds" to 0 in settings.

[@bakedgatorade]

I love these topics so much. They're a comfort for me in my hardest times, and especially when they're more than just 10 minutes long. Thank you.

[@luziferj2789]

Apart from Herobrine, the cave sounds were truly surprising sometimes. After a long session building or something like that you jump out of your seat because of a freaking sound. Same as with creepers surpising you, nobody can tell me that didn't happen at least once to everyone. The jumpscare was unfair, and I didn't know about this story. Nice video, as always well told story.

[@cjrensh]

I started playing Minecraft back on the PS3 Edition, decided to do some building in a super flat creative mode just to get used to the controls, figuring things out. I had only recently at the time heard about Herobrine, nothing much. So I was building a big sandstone mansion got off for the day, there was an update coming the next day. So excited about getting some new blocks I got back to building my mansion. As I'm placing my floor I hear began to hear creepy noises (not knowing about cave sounds. It really creeped me out to the point that I stopped playing for awhile.

[@xodiousfaith1858]

my 2 favorite creators posting within 5 minutes of one another is life changing

[@JJaylenPlays]

Who's the other guy? Just curious

[@travistreadway3180]

@@JJaylenPlayssame fr

[@travistreadway3180]

We wanna know who’s the other

[@theplayer4664]

Tell us who it is, NOW!

[@eessndjd]

Who's the other?

[@ihavenoideawhatimdoing3692]

I'm so exited every time there is a new RNG video in my recommendations. I really enjoy your ARG videos and also the side content you do sometimes but nothing is better than a good old classic minecraft mystery like herobrine. So thanks for this trip back to the roots and thank you so much for all the hard work man. Love your channel!

[@rooodis456]

I just love the vibe of your videos man, your style is uniquely eerie and I’m here for it

[@D1stop1an]

I believed in herobrine, but I was never afraid of him as a little kid, I more so wanted to seek him out bc i thought he was like some boss you could fight. I was never really afraid of most things videos focusing on nostalgia talked about, like Mario 64.

[@FrogmaskMusic]

9:40 Huh. I've been following Minecraft since 2010 (my age was in the literal single digits for context) and rapidly entered its apparent age demographic as the popularity exploded in the early 2010s. Never really thought much about the switch from "niche indie game" to "huge corporate undertaking" beyond when the website UI went from simple HTML to a javascript maze, but...

[@christocream]

I love how we were all 8 year olds back in 2011 believing something so stupid that notchs dead brother was haunting every single world ever made, possessing mobs, building 2x2 tunnels, creepy redstone torch caves, leaveless trees, sand pyramids, glowstone letters of his name, scary signs yet without ever seeing any of this except for the cave ambience which is still horrifying to this day as a 21 year old

[@unter1103]

it's the truth

[@alejandroe3616]

I like how this feels like a natural progression of a folktale like in the real world, even the “old text that was lost through time but was mentioned in another text” is a very real thing in this case

[@AsherCalleja-mh8oq]

Congrats Retro on 500K. You deserved it!

[@RndmlyUnknown]

Herobrine is the perfect example of that one imaginary friend, or one that is no longer with you and you miss him after a while...

[@DrLamington1]

Still crazy how the copeland stream has actually been found

[@narrativeless404]

Probably someone has archived it Way too many people cared to just let it disappear

[@MrCheeesy]

You single handedly saved Herobrine from being classified as a dweller 💀💀

[@ToyFreddyGaming1987]

@@MrCheeesy Nah, Herobrine has never been classified as a Dweller. Personally I've never seen anyone classify Herobrine as a Dweller.

[@TiagoAlvesNogueira-r3q]

Dweller aren't scary tbh, he looks like an human made of potato with long teeths and white eyes

[@JustyandRaymond]

33:45 is probably the most legendary sighting. It's my longtime favorite, too.

[@novvut]

whenever you upload my pancreas starts to wiggle violently from raw excitement

[@johnnyrats7083]

That’s something hahaha

[@UKMDI]

I love your mic quality. Late night radio vibes with your channel, never "fix" it.

[@Phxsical]

Congrats On 500K man, well deserved! 🔥Video as always too

[@ViniSocramSaint]

It's interesting that the way folk lore and myths happen in the Minecraft community in the same way it happens in real life. Usually we see people talking of how scared we were of a Steve with glowing eyes as kids. But it rests on the shoulders of "The Glowing Eyes Phenomenon": a decade of people testing an unfinished game, getting sorts of cues from developers revolving around increased creepiness, way too convenient glitches, new stuff appearing out of nowhere and a strange fixation on glowing eyes in the dark. Then one person listen to the testimony of other and make they own, adding details and references, iterating further an further. Next thing you know there is a malevolent entity living in the game that interacts only with a player's avatar but is somehow alive and can interact with the physical world as long as we play the infected world. That's how we get half of all culture from any ethnic group in real life.

[@phoenixwright5545]

Always a joy when RGN uploads. Thank you, brother!

[@HereticalKitsune]

Not the first time I heard about this recent discovery, but as I hoped, here it goes way more in depth, thank you!

[@chickennuggies906]

alpha 1.0.16 was also release on a friday 13th. so much coming together that makes this myth so iconic.

[@turingtestingmypatience]

fantastic to hear that the streams were found again! always wanted to see it unfold. been playing with From the Fog enabled in multiplayer recently, hero is our buddy now. he leaves us lil signs and scares the heck outta my partner :] would recommend with all the destructive settings off

[@MimickingEntertainment]

*your own fear will consume you, my presence with soak through your skin and my eyes with pierce your soul* -Herobrine

[@fridolinfreimann6753]

Dude this video is a BANGER. keep the good work up :D

[@cheepi_pls]

Thanks for uploading this right before I gotta sleep brah, now I can't sleep yet

[@a_loozer4382]

i just LOVE RGN Videos. Thanks for posting another banger.

[@REXMORTIS-99]

Just found your channel the other day Great videos 👍

[@novvut]

my mans just started an unskippable sidequest you’ll never be able to stop watching his videos 😔

[@alternativeaccountmercury]

​@@novvuthe will be found unconscious in a few hours outside a K-Mart with the videos still playing, it's a rite of passage for any new retrogamingnow viewer

[@somerandomskywalker9854]

I love your way of editing, keep up great work!

[@laguaridadesyx]

The phenomenon of entering an unnaturally big cave and then becoming lost with your torches disappearing and new holes and paths suddenly appearing in previous corners actually happened to me once. I wasn't scared at all because i thought it was just me being stupid and not rembering the correct path to the exit. The way I managed to scape was by mining a straight line up to the surface, and when I reached it, it was when I noticed that something weird was happening: the moment i reached the surface I just realized that the place i was standing in was just variour miles away from where I started mining (wich was in a cave near my home in that world). I had no way to go back since looking at the coordinates was useless due to how far I was... So i had to exit the world and activate cheats so I could just teleport to my home again.

[@laguaridadesyx]

And yeah, I later tried entering that cave again out of curiosity but I don't remember ever finding that exact hole again.

[@Flairis]

This was a fantastic video, thanks for filling me up with your content once again 😘

[@G.P.M_7]

Great video as always Retro! I know that this is not a complete showcase of all of Herobrine's history, but i still have one lingering question: why is hi named like that? A name such as "white eyes" makes more sense for such a basic premise, or something like "evil Steve". But no, instead he has a unique name thats not something generic at first glance at least. I couldnt find solid evidence behind the thought process of his name so if anyone has it, please let me know

[@Jemack10]

WAKE UP! rgn just dropped

[@hmmm.74]

The WAKE UP text is a creepypasta that existed before Herobrine.

[@gh0stdoggJ]

i love your early minecraft videos, man. you're fantastic at taking a heavy discussed subject and finding new things to talk about!

[@Crow_Rising]

The internet has a bad habit of taking a vague concept that has appeal specifically because it's so vague and open to interpretation and ruining it by expanding on it to the point that there's nothing unknown about it anymore. Herobrine is an example of this. Originally the appeal was simply the idea that there was another intelligent entity in the world. You didn't know whether this entity was hostile or not, whether it had sinister intentions or not, or ultimately if all it really wanted was to be left alone. All you had to work with was the idea of this entity being present in the world and you had to fill in the blanks with your own imagination. Then, after it started to get popular people started adding lore to it. Herobrine went from a mysterious entity to an outright supernatural one. Just another generic horror monster. The backrooms shared a similar fate. While the original post about it did allude towards the existence of "entities", it was vague and open ended. It was worded in such a way that could even be interpreted to be little more than a rumor. The very existence of these entities at all was very much up for debate and subject to your own imagination. Other than the vague possibility that maybe they exist, we didn't know anything about them. That was the original appeal to the idea, the fact that they were mysterious was what made them scary. The internet did its thing however, and before long we had a whole lore built up about generic horror monsters. This kinda ruined the whole appeal for me, because what was once vague and open ended had traded that mysterious intrigue for something more definitive and generic. That's only two examples of this kind of thing, but it seems like inevitably the same fate will befall anything similar. Nothing is allowed to remain mysterious for long in our culture, even if being mysterious was originally the whole point. The issue with casting light onto such mysteries is that you're limiting down the appeal to only those who will like the specific direction you are taking it in. It's like taking a choose your own adventure book and removing all but one pathway that leads towards a particular ending. I find myself desperately wishing that just once a cool, vague, and mysterious concept like this could be allowed to remain as such. Allow us to fill in the gaps with our own imagination, speculating but never truly knowing. Sometimes "maybe" is far more terrifying than "for sure".

[@that_one_helljumper]

All of this is why I enjoyed minecraft so much in the Alpha to Beta versions..it was so mysterious when notch was running it

[@DrakeDragonton]

Please cover the mysteries of Fez! It’s right up your alley, it would be awesome if you finally got people to get the intended puzzles route to the black monolith!

[@TrafficPartyHatTest]

Man, I kinda wish Minecraft went the horror route people thought it was gonna go down

[@trippybruh1592]

Hell, I wish villagers were actually recruitable NPCs as long you had an empty bed and a smithing table for example. I'm sure there is a mod for that but when their is whole 20 minute videos on how to create a villager breeding farm through unintended mechanics, people are yearning for companionship in their solo worlds. I think it would be cool if your builds attracted stray villagers that would help with mundane tasks around the base but I guess you could just walk off a village and build your castle there.

[@Kyuwabara]

villager kinda ruined that

[@superanimator1944]

the cat music disk goes hard ngl. minecraft music in general goes hard

[@klovexthewolf]

shoutout c418 :P

[@420yoloswag4jesuss]

Great video!! I absolutely loved this era and definitely was still trying to get him in my world 2012-14

[@Sharkdapuss]

It’s a good day when you see an RGN video pop up on the feed. Another great video man, love your work.

[@RetroGamingNow]

Thank you...I appreciate it!

[@anitakim_]

That first livestream with “him” was so charming and cute lol. When he opened the door and scream I actually got scared 😅

[@thomwalks]

I hate it when I am only 1 block short of the exit and the noise comes up, and then I start to go crazy with my mouse trying to build under myself to escape whatever is behind me

[@Technovore9953]

Thank you for reviving a true legend of early minecraft. You're a hero for this.

[@txrg3nxll]

welp, im finally watching my favorite content again, from my favorite KZbinr, yay

[@MildManneredBen]

I'm old enough to have been playing the alpha and beta versions of Minecraft as they released, and I remember learning about Herobrine back then. I also definitely remember finding it creepy to be alone playing the game, as it had that feeling of always expecting to bump into someone else, like that empty multiplayer Source game phenomenon. But I never knew the full context of where the early Minecraft community's heads were at and how that progressed into the iconic story. Thanks for another awesome video.

[@annieapple8974]

I’m so annoyed I missed out on this era. I only started getting into Minecraft around 2013-14.

[@zudpy]

I really like the effort you put into all your videos. Every time I see you upload I know I'm in for an interesting video

[@smokevrofficial]

Finally, something to awaken my herobrine nostalgia. And all it took? TWO. WHITE. PIXELS. Always watching, judging your every move through the falling snow. Those eyes. Jesus Christ…

[@RetroGamingNow]

Thank you so much!

[@BODEGAtrash]

The new generation of Minecraft players will never truly understand just how terrifying even the idea of Herobrine was back in 2011/2012. Between this and the Ghosts of Halo I had a lot of "Oh FUCK" moments as a younger gamer.

[@oliwardcomics]

would be awesome if one day a mojang developer just slips herobrine into the game without telling the players. they could make it so he only shows up in caves if you build the shrine andd even then, only rarely. always keeps distance from the player and disappears after a few moments. eventually a player would notice and post online about it and no one would believe them lmao. I wonder how long it would take for the community to catch on

[@Bruh-bx9mh]

Someone did in pocket edition. I swear to god I can tell my whole story if given the chance to share it to a group of people. I’m not lying and I desperately need someone to say they’ve seen the same thing.

[@leafy126.5]

i swear that some dev did back in the day. I saw some sort of steve skin in my single player world

[@Kyuwabara]

@@leafy126.5 fr

[@Beneluxian-Studios]

Congrats on 500K🎉

[@bottomtoxt]

Silence sleep schedule RGN posted new vid

[@xItschii]

Finally a new RGN Video!!! Keep up the great Work, i love you videos!

[@yhd_skeetsy]

adding my experience in herobrine's hayday to the ringer, as a kid i would always hole myself up before i left my SINGLEPLAYER worlds in the total off chance that herobrine might get me while i was off, be right behind me when i logged back in, etc. 😭 cave sounds would genuinely make me abandon worlds for new ones and whenever they added ambient sounds underwater that was also a real kicker even if i was a little older at that point in time. despite all this herobrine they could never make me hate you. i kinda wish they could slap a reference to him in an april fools update like how they did for the 15th anniversary map.....

[@ii25chess]

You know it’s a good day when retro uploads a video👍

[@afflixion8970]

New RGN video dropped, time to go wake the sleeping dragon in my backyard, we LOVE your conent!

[@iago7010]

Nunca decepciona juro, amo seus vids irmão. Continua 🫡