Editing Steve (Minecraft) (section)

===Herobrine===
[[File:HerobrineMinecraft.png|thumb|upright|A screenshot of a Minecraft creepypasta, Herobrine: a figure with white eyes said to haunt Minecraft from 2013.|alt=A screenshot from the waist up of the character Steve, except the eyes are white.]]
Herobrine is an [[urban legend]] and [[creepypasta]] which originated as a hoax propagated by an [[anonymous post]] on the English-language imageboard website [[4chan]].<ref name="Creepypasta">{{cite news |last=Morton |first=Lauren |date=February 1, 2021 |title=The story of Herobrine, Minecraft's decade-old creepypasta mystery |work=[[PC Gamer]] |url=https://www.pcgamer.com/minecraft-herobrine-story-creepypasta-explained/ |access-date=September 26, 2021}}</ref> A "ghost" who haunts single-player ''Minecraft'' worlds, the character is supposed to look like a standard character model for Steve, except for a pair of glowing white eyes which lack pupils.<ref name="Creepypasta" /> Theories that explain the character's supposed origins range from his purported identity as Persson's supposedly deceased brother to an "unlucky miner" who haunts living players out of a desire for vengeance.<ref name="Creepypasta" /> The first purported sighting of Herobrine was from the time period when ''Minecraft'' was still in the [[Software release life cycle#Alpha|alpha phase of development]]: an anonymous 4chan poster claimed that they spotted a character who stared at them from the dense fog between the trees before vanishing and that they received a private message from a user called Herobrine, which simply said "stop".<ref name="Creepypasta" /> This occurred after a subsequent post they made which inquired about the sighting was allegedly removed without explanation.<ref name="Creepypasta" />