Was the herobrine sighting a hoax? Conspriracy

Today i am bringing you a blog on Was the herobrine sitting a hoax? I don't really believe the story because it looks like it has been photoshopped in. Look at it-



If you see this it looks fake. I think it was painted with a texture pack or it was on a server or photoshop. But in Alpha the graphics were different so it could be real. Notch tweeted this-


This shows that mojang never put him in the game. That could show that the person who got this photo could be trolling and he could've used a texture pack. From this photo I can't tell if it was with a texture pack or photoshop.
This is just a conspiracy it may not be true.