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|registered in = 2012 (made screamer in March 2014)

'''Herobrine.com''' was a [[screamer]] webpage with a misleading domain name that tricked the user into thinking the website was about the [https://ign.com/wikis/minecraft/Herobrine Herobrine] urban legend. The website is specifically a mirror of [[Shafou.com]], and contained an animated file of [[Regan MacNeil]] from [[Wikipedia:The Exorcist(film)|The Exorcist]], while the same scream from [[The Maze]] plays.

[[File:Herobrinescreenshot.png|thumb|250px|The chinese blog (circa December 2014).]]

The earliest archive state shows GoDaddy's parked site in late 2012. In March 2014, the site changes to a blog created by a chinese user, 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 changed 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 bought 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 used the image of Regan instead of using the .swf file. The website, as a [[screamer]], is now closed, along with [[Shafou.com]], though in 2021, the domain was acquired again and simply showed a photo title 1.jpg of a QR Code from Alipay, which is a Chinese third party online and mobile payment platform.

The website also had a variant called "Herobrine.96.It", which was hosted by an Italian user. This site presented the same content as the original site. However, a script was provided to lock the .mp3 sound file at 50%. There was a title that stated "''ORA MORIRAI''" which translates to "''NOW YOU WILL DIE''".