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The "White Eyes" story began spreading through the Minecraft Forum, either stemming from or being popularized by the aforementioned thread. On August 24, a modified version of the story appeared, in which "White Eyes" was now a default player model with whited out eyes.<ref>{{citation|url=https://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/minecraft-java-edition/discussion/115039-horror-in-minecraft|title=Horror in minecraft|website=Minecraft Forum|author=Goatie|date=August 24, 2010}}</ref>
At some point before August 19,<ref>{{citation|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221118014621/https://twitter.com/TacticsNNiblics/status/21587389080|title=@xnotch Hey, someone made a story about your brother Herobrine! You remember him, right? *tap tap* You should TOTALLY add him to minecraft!}} - {{tweet|TacticsAndNiblics}}, August 19, 2010</ref> a similar altered version of the story surfaced: "White Eyes" gained the name "Herobrine", and was now described as the deceased brother of [[Notch]] (in reality, Notch has never had a brother<ref>{{tweet|notch|23849639551700992|Herobrine isn't real in any way, no. I never had a brother (well, there's a half brother I never meet..), and he's not in the game.|Jan 8, 2011}}</ref>), taking the form of a [[
The story details an encounter in ''Minecraft'' with a nameless human entity in a single-player [[world]] who displayed strange behavior such as stalking the player from afar, creating unnatural constructions such as [[sand]] pyramids in the [[ocean]] and long 2×2 tunnels, and removing [[leaves]] from [[tree]]s. The writer then attempted to start a topic about the encounter on the Minecraft Forum, only to have it be repeatedly deleted, followed by a private message from a seemingly nonexistent user named "Herobrine" telling them to stop. The 4chan post also contained a screenshot of the encounter, showing Herobrine in the distance amidst the [[fog]].
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