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'''Herobrine.com''' was a [[screamer]] webpage with a misleading domain name that tricks the user into thinking the website was about Herobrine sighting or any stuff that relates to it, the website is specifically a mirror of [[Shafou.com]], The website contained an animated file of [[Regan MacNeil]] from [[Wikipedia:The Exorcist(film)|The Exorcist]], while the same scream from [[Winterrowd]] games plays. | '''Herobrine.com''' was a [[screamer]] webpage with a misleading domain name that tricks the user into thinking the website was about Herobrine sighting or any stuff that relates to it, the website is specifically a mirror of [[Shafou.com]], The website contained an animated file of [[Regan MacNeil]] from [[Wikipedia:The Exorcist(film)|The Exorcist]], while the same scream from [[Winterrowd]] games plays. | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||
The earliest archive state of the site is a GoDaddy's parked site in late-2012, In 2014, the | [[File:Herobrinescreenshot.png|thumb|250px|The chinese blog. (December 2014)]] | ||
The earliest archive state of the site is a GoDaddy's parked site in late-2012, In March 2014, the site now changes into a blog created by a chinese person, stating about his experience on his first job.<ref>web.archive.org/web/20140327063416/herobrine.com/ - March 2014 Archive</ref> In December 2014, the website changes into another blog which contained a text stating: "''Hi, I am Chinese, Born in 1989, Male. I want to go to the US Travel, But My Tourist Visa(B2) Did Not Pass, Who can help me?''". <ref>web.archive.org/web/20141219231600/herobrine.com/</ref> | |||
However, someone else got the website domain and turned it into a [[screamer]] by adding a redirect to [[Shafou.com|Shafou | However, someone else got the website domain and turned it into a [[screamer]] by adding a redirect to [[Shafou.com|Shafou]], leaving people who visited the website in shock, In 2017, the website now uses the image of her instead of using the .swf file, The website, as a [[screamer]], is now closed, along with [[Shafou.com]], though as of 2021, the domain has been acquired again and simply shows a photo of a QR Code from Alipay, which is a Chinese third party online and mobile payment platform, not to mention that this sticker also used in [[Shafou.com]], which can be seen at the very bottom. | ||
According to ICANN Lookup, the hoster of the site lives in Toronto, revealing its nationality as Canadian. | According to ICANN Lookup, the hoster of the site lives in Toronto, revealing its nationality as Canadian. |
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