August 2010.The first ever report was from a normal player about the virus(Herbrine).According to him he started a new world , it was all good at first but then he saw a sheep ,after a closer look he discovered that it was somthing else ,but as the footsteps got closer to Herobrine he vanished in thin air.Shocked by this, the player decided to report.Nobody really cared at the time Herobrine was actually popularized in the same year(2010) by a video game streamer named Copeland in a hoax on Brocraft, his livestream channel of the video game Minecraft.The news spread like wild fire.As the time pased everybody started seeing it and complaning about it.Some people say that he was also found in different games as well but not sure about it.He made small structures e.g. peramids and tunnels.
He had a steve skin but with no eyes/white bright eyes.He was mostly found in fog watching players from a distances(in singleplayer worlds).Although there is a picture of him and many more caught videos as well.We still arent even sure if he was in the game or he even existed or not.
Some also say that it was by the developers themselfs.But still no clue.
Copeland after seeing many sittings of Herobrine , started playing minecraft normally but Herobrine appeared and stream ended.He deleted the world and sended a post that said:
"It has been reported that some victims of torture,during the act,would retreat into a fantasy world from which they could not wake up.In this catatonic state the victim lived in a world just like their normal one ,except they weren't been tortured.The only way they realized they needed to wake up was a note they found in their fantasy world.It would tell them about their condition,and tell them to wake up.Even then,it would often take months until they were ready to discard their fantasy world and PLEASE WAKE UP"
After all the posts ,They were all deleted at once and one post that said "stop" was from a user named Herobrine.After this every update included the message in the "mob change section" was
●Removed Herobrine.