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)
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 UA-cam channel too, Mr. RGN.
@@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
When I was a kid, I believed Herobrine was real and while I was scared of him I also liked the idea of having a withdrawn friend in the Minecraft world.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.
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.
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...
@@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.
@@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
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.
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.
@@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
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.
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 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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
@@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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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)
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
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
@@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 😂
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.
@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.
i remember thinking that Herobrine was a sentient AI that notch added and could never actually remove, thus the continual "removed Herobrine" changelogs.
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
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 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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
@@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..
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.
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...
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.
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!
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.
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
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
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!
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.
@@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
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
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
I remember any glitch would make me think herobrine was in my world, my friend made of me because of that saying herobrine wasn’t real but then was I built a shrine to herobrine she got mad and destroyed my house
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.....
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
HEROBRINE THAT SO NOSTALGIA NOW We Have Got The WARDEN With A GLOWING CHEST PLATE AND RIBS AND SCULK BLOCK'S AND SCULK SHRIEKERS Did I Mention That the WARDEN IS BLIND AND IT Can SMELL THE PLAYER ASWELL AWESOME VIDEO ❤
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.
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
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.
Not really related to the video, but I would love to see more Minecraft lore deep dives. One on ghosts would be interesting, as there are ghasts, vexes, and allays in Minecraft that all seem to be inspired by ghosts but act very differently, and I wonder if they have any interesting lore implications.
I wonder when Minecraft made the shift away from creepy horror? I'm glad they at least revisited their roots with the Deep Dark. P.S. If anyone knows more horror games in that vein, stuff like Voices of the Void & early Minecraft, leave a comment?
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.
Still one of my most standout memories from Minecraft was when I was still playing a cracked version of the beta when I was a kid. I entered a cave, seeing no sign of monsters, and began to mine, only to suddenly start being attacked a few seconds later. I turn around, see two zombies right in my face, and instantly pause the game out of fear. I had no equipment or armor to fight with, and there were no sounds announcing the zombies' arrival, so it caught me completely by surprise. I ended up sitting there speechless for almost a minute, unsure of what to do, until I eventually bit the bullet and switched the game to peaceful. Nowadays, a situation like that is a small inconvenience for me, but back then when I was still trying to understand the game, it was terrifying. Just goes to show how a lack of preparation and a lack of knowledge on how a game works can make even minor encounters seem utterly terrifying (that along with being a very imaginative kid at the time that also had a fear of the dark). Something I admittedly miss about that era of the game. Back then, updates would happen so often and without warning that you can never know what to expect. But nowadays, with how heavily documented new updates are prior to their release, it's hard to be surprised by new content when it happens. Not to say I hate the updates that have been coming out for the game - the Caves and Cliffs update and the Nether update are two of the best content releases the game has seen in years, and the Trials update is looking promising. It just doesn't have the same surprise factor since so much is shown.
For anyone who wants to relive the herobrine feeling: try From The Fog. A datapack and/or mod (you can choose whichever you prefer) that is perfectly subtle horror.
What’s your favorite Herobrine memory?
Making the shrine with my friends back in the day on the xbox 360 version
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)
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 UA-cam channel too, Mr. RGN.
making a command block that spammed lightning on a herobrine shrine thing lol
@@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
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.
you have no idea how many dead worlds i have from “herobrine encounters”
Same
mbf
Its never too late to have a resurgence y'know
Fr. My sister deleted a world after a tree set fire 2 blocks away from a lava pool
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.
Wholesome
that's so cute
Gotta say, you always made my day
Thanks for doing that, never failed to make me smile
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This made me 2g more happy, thanks for sharing it.
I'd love a story about this concept, a normal kid befriending some eldritch entity would be some wholesome horror
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.
102 likes and no replies lemme fix that
@@deepfakes4567no
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...
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.
nah bro it was scary cause we were fucking kids xd.
6:45 "Sorry, image is currently unavailable." Also Photobucket, "Protect more of your memories for less". Ironic. Remember to make local backups kids.
Haha I didn't even catch the irony!
@@RetroGamingNow2 WHITE PIXELS
@@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.
@@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
@@Shadow6678-j5si confronted herobrine
signed the herobrine-ribbentrop non-agression pact
me and herobrinr partitioned world #73628 together
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.
This is more easy on game consoles since its harder for dig through code in game consoles
SM64 every copy is personalized was the only good one in the last few years.
@@waddledeegaming3242 I agree, that one was great because of how it played off of your false memories of the game.
Datamining really was a mistake when it came to secrets.
Gta 5 was the last big game to have urban legends and cryptids, but even then people started file digging and disproving stuff
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.
He cannot see, but he is watching.
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.
@@myst1que_mach1ne That's terrifying why did you make me imagine that 😭
@@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
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.
I don't think... no
😮, spooky
And people will say it’s jesus guiding you or something among these lines 😭
Okay
If heroinbrine is not real, then why did my uncle died due to heroin overdose? Huh? COINCIDENCE?
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
iirc the biggest difference is that the original was about rpe specifically rather than torture in general.
@@rustkitty ffs way to ruin it at least this version is the one most remembered
@@tastydeaths Huh? How exactly is that "ruined"?
@@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
@@derangedfreackingtwistedps5048I guess the dog model is gonna have to be a rott weiler lol
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.
Like how the mod From The Fog did it, made it into a horror game with no jumpscares and big horror creatures
@@barrytaylor889 yeah but thats literally herobrine
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.
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.
I can't play Minecraft without a buddy anymore
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.
That would’ve been hilarious, but I think people could go back and check the files now
@@normalhuman9878damn files
@@normalhuman9878i mean, some versions are completely lost, for example the alpha version that added redstone
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
@@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.
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.
kinda adds to creepy factor of it, if you think about it
Well it does make it more creepy if you ask me
Yeah its sad. I wonder if the person who made the myth even knows how popular their creation became.
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.
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
Cave sound mockup: natural, immersive
C418/Aberg's cave sounds: send shivers up your spine and your soul
C418 actually.
@@brandonbombplays9304 Oh right. My bad.
the fact that every major changelog includes removing herobrine implies they never succeeded at removing him for good
Bro's more powerful than the Coders.
They stopped doing it now
Do you think that they stopped doing it out of lack of belief, or because they could no longer keep him out
@@Smashburrogames maybe he’s just dead now
Or they believe he's dead@@AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHs
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.
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)
@@tom-ment-CapybaraNothing is scarier to humans than our own ability to make up patterns and exaggerate the hell out of them.
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
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.
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.
and not slenderman?
@@ktokolwiek8545both
@@ktokolwiek8545that could have played more into their height
@@keekorsomthin i think all of their appearence just look at comparison beetwen them. slenderman was popular back then in 2011
31:50 Jeez, the “WAKE UP” variant got me bad back in 2011 and still gets me now. Unnerving
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
@@yhd_skeetsy Apparently the “wake up” copypasta has been around since at least 2008. Really goes to show what a freakish amalgam Herobrine is
Wake up.
It was genuinely an unnerving one.
But seriously though, wake up. We miss you. Dont leave us.
Anyone miss when gaming urban legends like this could spread around and everyone could get lost in the sauce and have fun with this
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
@@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 😂
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.
"But why would someone post purposefully wrong information" Welcome to the Internet.
@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.
@@ToyFreddyGaming1987 Notch never actually had a brother.
herobrine/white eyes fucking with people on like, 4chan, the mc forums and twitter is so funny tho...
i remember thinking that Herobrine was a sentient AI that notch added and could never actually remove, thus the continual "removed Herobrine" changelogs.
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
Not to mention that it was basically lost media meaning it would have been impossible to double check the facts.
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
@@UnderscoreAngel The one where he jumps into a nearby lava pool and burns while Herobrine looks down on him?
+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.
or said bridge might be on a different place
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.
"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."
Soldier Boy reference lmao
Took me a while to get the reference 😭
How is it a soilder boy reference?@@Srikar91
Wait I get it now
lmfao soldier boy
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…
Underrated comment
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
Lmao
Oh, what’s this? A little gem in my recommended? Minecraft has never been so engaging
His channel is great and he composed all of the background music, if you like this you'll like his other stuff
heavy vouch w the commenter above! you should check out his minecraft mob centric videos if a little world building theorizing interests u 👍
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.
And yeah, I later tried entering that cave again out of curiosity but I don't remember ever finding that exact hole again.
it feels cool to be one of the only people to know about the white eyes myth before a video about it is made
Do you have the original fan art by Flakey?
Same Here... Kinda? I Heard About Before THIS Video, Just Not Before Any Video.
Same
Good for you
Bruh, dozens of videos have already been made already ☠️
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.
Herobrine lore is really crazy
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.
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
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.
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.
wait people don't recognize herobrine nowadays???
Womanbrine
@@alternativeaccountmercury I've genuinely ran into people who didn't, no.
sherobrine
let me guess, you're a trans woman
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.
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
Bro you think this is scary, try playing subnautica
You know you can disable them?
you can just turn "ambient sounds" to 0 in settings.
HELL YEAH, bringing me back to my childhood with Herobrine. I remember playing around 2011 being scared to be alone cuz of him
Same thing bro, me and my friends would come up with story’s about him for days man. It was the best.
Same
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
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
fuck god then 🕋🕋🕋 ez @ShadowWolf2023-yp5zg
Something deep just happened in my life... But this video helped me calm down! Thank you for these great videos!!! Congrats on 500k
Spill the beans
@@CouscousEnjoyer rude
@@JeebusMcWeebus 🪨
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.
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.
THE unprecedented horror's of ALPHA Minecraft were terrifying.
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.”
Happened to a buddy of mine
And white cars driving down a winding road
@@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..
@@Nightswarmer Same! It’s engraved in my brain now
@@Nightswarmer People should be doing this all the time with shit audio balancing, and people thinking loud = funny.
my 2 favorite creators posting within 5 minutes of one another is life changing
Who's the other guy? Just curious
@@JJaylenPlayssame fr
We wanna know who’s the other
Tell us who it is, NOW!
Who's the other?
Still crazy how the copeland stream has actually been found
Probably someone has archived it
Way too many people cared to just let it disappear
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.
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...
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.
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
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!
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.
You single handedly saved Herobrine from being classified as a dweller 💀💀
@@MrCheeesy Nah, Herobrine has never been classified as a Dweller. Personally I've never seen anyone classify Herobrine as a Dweller.
Dweller aren't scary tbh, he looks like an human made of potato with long teeths and white eyes
This video scared me so much and idk why. Haven’t felt this way about the game for a while. Thanks, rgn!
I just love the vibe of your videos man, your style is uniquely eerie and I’m here for it
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.
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
it's the truth
Congrats On 500K man, well deserved!
🔥Video as always too
Congrats Retro on 500K. You deserved it!
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
33:45 is probably the most legendary sighting. It's my longtime favorite, too.
*your own fear will consume you, my presence with soak through your skin and my eyes with pierce your soul* -Herobrine
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
alpha 1.0.16 was also release on a friday 13th. so much coming together that makes this myth so iconic.
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!
Always a joy when RGN uploads. Thank you, brother!
Man, I kinda wish Minecraft went the horror route people thought it was gonna go down
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.
Just found your channel the other day Great videos 👍
my mans just started an unskippable sidequest you’ll never be able to stop watching his videos 😔
@@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
Not the first time I heard about this recent discovery, but as I hoped, here it goes way more in depth, thank you!
the cat music disk goes hard ngl. minecraft music in general goes hard
shoutout c418 :P
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
I’m so annoyed I missed out on this era. I only started getting into Minecraft around 2013-14.
Dude this video is a BANGER. keep the good work up :D
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
I love your way of editing, keep up great work!
whenever you upload my pancreas starts to wiggle violently from raw excitement
That’s something hahaha
I love your mic quality. Late night radio vibes with your channel, never "fix" it.
I remember any glitch would make me think herobrine was in my world, my friend made of me because of that saying herobrine wasn’t real but then was I built a shrine to herobrine she got mad and destroyed my house
The gold blocks and redstone?
@@ladvargleinad7566 And also moss stone redstone torches and netherrack
i love your early minecraft videos, man. you're fantastic at taking a heavy discussed subject and finding new things to talk about!
That first livestream with “him” was so charming and cute lol. When he opened the door and scream I actually got scared 😅
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...
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.....
i just LOVE RGN Videos. Thanks for posting another banger.
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
WAKE UP! rgn just dropped
HEROBRINE THAT SO NOSTALGIA NOW We Have Got The WARDEN With A GLOWING CHEST PLATE AND RIBS AND SCULK BLOCK'S AND SCULK SHRIEKERS Did I Mention That the WARDEN IS BLIND AND IT Can SMELL THE PLAYER ASWELL AWESOME VIDEO ❤
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.
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
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.
i swear that some dev did back in the day. I saw some sort of steve skin in my single player world
Thank you for reviving a true legend of early minecraft. You're a hero for this.
It’s a good day when you see an RGN video pop up on the feed. Another great video man, love your work.
Thank you...I appreciate it!
You know it’s a good day when retro uploads a video👍
Thanks for uploading this right before I gotta sleep brah, now I can't sleep yet
welp, im finally watching my favorite content again, from my favorite UA-camr, yay
Not really related to the video, but I would love to see more Minecraft lore deep dives. One on ghosts would be interesting, as there are ghasts, vexes, and allays in Minecraft that all seem to be inspired by ghosts but act very differently, and I wonder if they have any interesting lore implications.
New RGN video dropped, time to go wake the sleeping dragon in my backyard, we LOVE your conent!
Silence sleep schedule RGN posted new vid
It's easy to forget how easy it was to believe in these things- we weren't just stupid kids, nobody actually knew what notch was adding to the game...
I wonder when Minecraft made the shift away from creepy horror? I'm glad they at least revisited their roots with the Deep Dark.
P.S. If anyone knows more horror games in that vein, stuff like Voices of the Void & early Minecraft, leave a comment?
When Microshart bought it.
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.
I always left a sword and some armor in case he wanted to fight. My friend group dubbed him a coward.
Still one of my most standout memories from Minecraft was when I was still playing a cracked version of the beta when I was a kid. I entered a cave, seeing no sign of monsters, and began to mine, only to suddenly start being attacked a few seconds later. I turn around, see two zombies right in my face, and instantly pause the game out of fear. I had no equipment or armor to fight with, and there were no sounds announcing the zombies' arrival, so it caught me completely by surprise. I ended up sitting there speechless for almost a minute, unsure of what to do, until I eventually bit the bullet and switched the game to peaceful. Nowadays, a situation like that is a small inconvenience for me, but back then when I was still trying to understand the game, it was terrifying.
Just goes to show how a lack of preparation and a lack of knowledge on how a game works can make even minor encounters seem utterly terrifying (that along with being a very imaginative kid at the time that also had a fear of the dark). Something I admittedly miss about that era of the game. Back then, updates would happen so often and without warning that you can never know what to expect. But nowadays, with how heavily documented new updates are prior to their release, it's hard to be surprised by new content when it happens. Not to say I hate the updates that have been coming out for the game - the Caves and Cliffs update and the Nether update are two of the best content releases the game has seen in years, and the Trials update is looking promising. It just doesn't have the same surprise factor since so much is shown.
You never played Minecraft as a kid if you didn't troll your friends by shearing trees, building pyramids and the DanTDM "Herobrine spawners"
For anyone who wants to relive the herobrine feeling: try From The Fog. A datapack and/or mod (you can choose whichever you prefer) that is perfectly subtle horror.