when i was a child, my friend convinced me sonic.exe was a interdimensional being that when it arrived at earth it would murder everyone. I was terrified lol
Honestly, he was intended to be exactly that in the original version of the Creepypasta. That's basically what the author actually said before any reboots happened
Fun fact: the author of this story later admitted in a deviant art interview that he regretted the blog post he made and wished he took the criticism at the time. So he eventually learned his lesson
Yeah. He rewrote the story, I beta-read it... I sort of regret posting that blog post he made, though. I heard he's been doing fucked up shit. Not that I would know much about it - aside from when he needed something from me, we weren't really friends.
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9:14 - 10:20 My guy really went out there and wrote an entire villain arc speech for himself because his horror Sonic fanfiction got moved to another website
That guy took "going insane from your own creation" to every possible level: deciding to just ruin a big chunk of the childhood, enjoying all the bloody violance like a sick phycopath, holding the grudge for all the negative reviews, experiencing the unbearable success that wasn't even possible to comprehend before, being shocked by the creation basically treated like a ioke, and having unbearable irrational energy to just go to a revange war. Like, of course it's gonna result in a villain arc sheech, what else did anyone on this planet expected?
I've always thought Tails Doll was much creepier than Sonic.exe. He was put into Sonic R officially as a playable racer who can float over everything, and nobody knows why. There's no info about him or where he came from.
Tails Doll was way efficient than Sonic.EXE in terms of fear factor, in fact Tails doll being actually real reminds me of how the "Freezer" glitch from Saints Row 2 is believed to be a fake and cheap creepypasta character, only for it to reveal that the "Freezer" DOES exist
That part where the kid screamed "Is That Sonic.exe" even thought that's clearly Shadow gave me physical pain. I hope that kid grows up, remembers that moment, and starts to feel dread.
It's embarrassing, but it had to happen. And also him remembering that moment is not necessarily a good thing, it would be even worse if random people on the internet cyberbullied him just because he does not recognize a fictional black anthropomorphic hedgehog.
As someone who plays old pc games, and for that very reason has file extensions turned on on my laptop, i still don't understand how people don't know that .exe basically is the heart of every windows program and application
Could be worse man. Imagine you watch that film, Sonic becomes SuperSonic, and the kid besides you say "HO MY GOD IT'S SONICHU THE ELECTRIC EDGEHOG POKEMON!!!" That would be the proof we are in the darkest timeline.
I think the reason why Sonic.exe is still so popular is the current analog horror trend: it's an old game, you can make it glitch and some fangames fuck around with your computer too, which makes you feel like you got a virus and is always pretty unsettling. It's sort of having the same treatment Five Nights at Freddy's had too, the base material fits the whole vintage aesthetic so it had an "analog horror" fan-remake. And in both cases it works better than the original story.
an analog series of sonic.exe had basically ended just a few days ago, called Needlem0use, personally i thought it was a fun watch, yeah the start was very rough with some unintentionally funny scenes that i can't help but always laugh when i see, but it starts to get better halfway through, it's great to see how creative people can get with these types of things
Honestly games like Godzilla nes and Ben drowned can get the same treatment and they're loads better written than sonic.exe and the writers are much better adjusted people
I am unaffected by horror jumpscare images after a second because they always have such a big smile and I imagine they’re just saying “ya got any games on your phone?”
I feel the reason other creepypastas havent found the level of resurgence is probably because a lot of them are kinda have baggage from the past(the slender stabbing as the most famous example), but also because a lot of them would require so much changes and rewrites to keep it from being bound to the past, you might as make something orignal. I mean... how would you remake shit like Jeff the Killer, Ticky Toby, Happy Appy, etc. to fit in to modern day without falling back into the original trappings?
its probably because sonic has been having a huge upward trend in general cuz of how sega is actually making good choices, so as a side effect a below average creepypasta written by a child groomer (im serious about this, hes apparently gotten exposed) exploded into popularity again. and if this mf stuff can happen then i pray that sonichu gets the same treatment just to laugh even harder
@@xiantrit5887 it's funny that you say that, Sonic.EXE did have a cancelled reboot in 2017 made by JC but it only lasted for a really, really, really long First Chapter
The fact that Sonic.exe not only had a resurgence in popularity but has outlasted practically every other creepypasta icon is still unbelievable to me.
It's because it's a Sonic creepypasta. I feel a lot of people baffled about this don't understand that when you give Sonic fans something, they'll _never_ let it go.
if mf sonic.exe can get a whole rebranding and rewriting even thought it was written by an actual predator then i damn well know that sonichu can get that same treatment and zap to the extreme
@@dachel683 i bet it's gonna happen in like 5 years, maybe 3 years from now on edit for those who came in from the future: shame on me if i got it wrong 💀
The lore is tied too deep to Chris once you remove Chris from it all you get is Sonichu just sitting there with nothing to do. Also Sonic.exe has more going on as a concept than oh Sonic and Pikachu fused. Although people have tried. While not exact Asperchu is a pretty funny read
@@TheUncivilizedNation Sonic OCS are in reality really creative! Of course not the ones made by children, but children who became artists today, have some really cool designs. Source: ( me who is in this fandom sice 2006 )
Man, I miss the early 2010s. The internet was so much more "raw" back then. So many actually good free flsh games, great content on TH-cam and terrible but memorable horror.
and nobody gave a fuck about how you were typing a message in a way that doesn't sound "rude" to the reader so some people now add these stupid /jk to say it's a joke
Tbh the NES Godzilla creepypasta just sounded like a legitimately fun game to play. Minus the demon being real and coming to steal your soul or whatever. Like, highly varied level concepts, mothra being less dogshit than in the original game, extra playable characters and cool new bosses? Sounded pretty tight. I’ve heard someone was trying to make it into a game but progress has been very slow.
It's legitimately cool. The pasta originated from the Bogleech forums, created by a user named Cosbydaf. Users there are fans of kaiju/monsters/etc, so the whole thing read like a love letter to that game, as well as the Godzilla franchise as a whole. While the fangame isn't finished, I've seen recreations of the levels where Red chases the player, and they're pretty impressive from the look of it.
The images that accompany the story are the best part. They're so creepy but cool. Imagine a fan game like that, or even better an original game with that art style? I'd play it
yeah I remember enjoying the story very much until the demon was real and caused the player physical pain. Just the image of the guy screaming in pain whilst cluthing his NES controller to defeat the pixel demon kinda ruined it for me. Until then AAA writing however
It's carried by the monster designs the author made for it, specially Red. The guy clearly knows his sprite work. But the actual story is nothing special, it's full of clichés of your typical videogame creepy pasta (possessed game, creepy images with no context to the overall story, if you lose in the game you die, etc) and the story completely falls apart in the last two chapters.
@@Xfushion2Thank you. I reread it somewhat recently and was pretty disappointed. It’s… fine. It’s not amazing writing though, but I will commend the writer for seeing it through and being fairly consistent for the whole thing. The images weren’t exactly as believable as I remembered especially since they were by and large clearly crammed with as many enemies as possible to show off the designs rather than trying to look like an actual level from a game. Cool sprites, cool monster designs (especially Red, holy fuck he’s cool), eh story up until the end where it shits everywhere and gets really bad. I think it just looks great compared to some of the other stuff that was popular like Jeff and Sonic.exe lmao
@@sambesiili4698 JC the Hyena. He turned out to be a pathetic excuse of a human being. (That's not really saying much because humans are a mistake of life itself)
@@ImmaLittlePip I'm glad, because he was just a very unlikeable person overall. It only seemed right that his overinflated (heh) ego would be his downfall.
this is one of those times where the friggen thing not only manage to hold on for dear life, but also got SIGNIFICANTLY more popular than its EVER been. Good god I went from only seeing EXE once in a blue moon, to it being a friggen DAILY occurrence to see it in my feed SOMEWHERE
You can thank that to the few "good" pasta games and specially Friday night funkin mods for catapulting EXE back into the spotlight stronger than before
@@chrispy5249 Curse sonic... The mere fact that *thing* even exist and *has* a following should tell you enough about the current state of creepypastas
Can we all agree that Fatal Error is a pretty good exe trope though. Like the concept of an ACTUAL VIRUS going into your pc and then into a sonic game and pretending to be the protagonist of said game is fucking glorious in my opinion
Sonic.exe is the embodiment of edge. You take a franchise that is already steeped in edge and plop an edgy horror filter over it and put it in the hands of furries? It writes itself.
@@rainbow-qn6um Funny you mention that, I once saw a picture of Tails and Shadow as regular furries instead of Mobians. It was extremely cursed, I don't recommend it.
is a way Sonic.exe is an evolution of the Dark Sonic we caught a glimpse of, in Sonic X way back in the mid 00s , hooo boy you just had to be there that that shitty recolor of sonic fueled shitty fanfics, amvs and deviantart pages like nothing else until .exe came around
@@7U57HTJRYGHG I vividly recall a fan animation long ago where Dark Sonic picked a fight with Shadow and won, only for Tails to show up at the last second and stop him. It really gave off the implication that Shadow was a villain and this evil powered Sonic was the only reason he won. Kinda screwed my perception of Shadow as a kid.
In my own opinion, I think the reason Sonic.exe came back full swing was just the "hey you remember Sonic.exe from when we were 9? What happened to that?" factor. Another part of it is that the creator (JCTheHyena I believe) gave up the copyright (yes, you heard that right) of Sonic.exe to his girlfriend, she then caught him cheating with a minor, and sold it to some somewhat trustworthy individuals. It's honestly a crazy back story to say the least but now Sonic.exe is kind of handled as a multiverse where you can make anything, it gives off almost minecraft vibes for the infinite possibilities you could do with it. Pun completely intended
@MoloTurbo True, the fact that it exists at all is probably only because of how lenient Sega is with this stuff. If you swapped out sonic for Mario, Nintendo would've shut this stuff down years ago.
Yeah, these people don’t know how copyright works. I doubt anyone cares who made Sonic.exe, I did t find out for years and I still didn’t care. Creepypastas were never a way to get fame, especially a derivative one, it just becomes a part of the internet.
I’m so glad you brought up the original “I am god” image that was in the game. I remember being 11 years old, finding out about Sonic.exe, playing it, and coming across that image for the first time. I’m 21 now, and seeing it still fucks me up. I can’t look at it. I had to cover my screen when it was put up in this video because i just can’t deal with it.
I don’t know what you mean when you say that NES Godzilla had a horrible ending, when it was revealed that red was actually John Madden that was one of most terrifying plot twists of all time. Also that narration part on the rant was hilarious. Good vid.
@@FrostVer Writer had a brain fart when writing the ending (probably trying to force a scenario that would allow a sequel come to think of it, since NGC2 exists). At least the rest of it is good.
@@Power-kn6fk no living person should know a fanfic "O"C from a franchise without knowing one of the most reoccurring and popular characters from said franchise. especially if the fanfic "O"C is as edgy, trite, pointless and badly written as Sonic.EXE.
@@sharzinlalebazri5673 You're just playing into my point. Children, Literal KIDS do not have to know or care to know about every old or forgotten character just because you do. They can not control what they are exposed to first. You're clearly speaking more out of hate for Exe than of a mature worldview. Grow up
Sonic.exe is so fucking big, merchandising for it is fucking widespread now. My brother got a Sonic.exe plush from a claw machine. It's been vandalised by my sister with positive messages.
@@13jasonvoorhees "Do you realize? Do you realize something, let me tell you. If the admins of the Creepypasta wiki... sees that story... that you put on the damn internet, that they could delete it? And we would have to move it to the Trollpasta wiki?"
I never knew that JC actually wrote an angry response when his creepypasta got moved to the trollpasta wiki. Good video MagicMush, gave me some laughs and it was pretty informative.
I was actually in a furry group chat with the creator of Sonic.exe about a year ago, the dude was completely insane. Writing in that verbose and "taking yourself too seriously" type of speech with the "fancy demonic all-powerful" character. He was completely fucking insane.
What is wrong with verbose, formal writing in a chat room? I mean, yeah, the dude is at the least egotistical (if not crazy), but his writing is not when he isn't mad.
I honestly like how the internet has evolved in what scares it much like we as people do. It started with the screamers which as the creator of this video said preyed on the weak and vulnerable. Much like children who are spooked by everything really. Then we get to creepy pastas which I can compare to pre teens or early teens who have developed more of a tolerance for horror and can get spooked but still more willing to throw themselves at it and even partake. Then nowadays we get things like analog horror and ARG’s which prey on more psychological aspects which I think is the most mature aspect of horror. Idk this is just my own personal thoughts.
That bit on the 'I am God' image reminds me of a creepypasta inspired image that gives me the creeps still. It's a suicide mouse themed image that's basically just a title card Mickey with intense, beady, glazed over eyes and gratuitous blood spatter. The round, relatively small HyPeR ReAlsTIC eyes (probably the only time that trope actually works) look deeply unnatural on Mickey's face, and combined with his typical toothless grin, give it a frenzied "I'm going to shiv you and enjoy every second" stare that still puts me in a vigilant "get ready to fight" posture.
Hey, so like, as an fan of Sonic.exe content I just wanna clear something up that I think should be mentioned. The creator [ Of the original story, not any of the fan-made content ], J.C the hyena was actually called out for interacting with minors in a not so family-friendly way [ Sending NSFW to minors, and doing something called ERP with minors, which is just roleplaying but heavy sexual themes thrown into it. ]. Not only that, he was also just a massive piece of shit. Now, I am not saying that he did or did not do what he did, since there are tons of other videos that can explain it better then I obviously can. But I would like to think the reason people made more fan-made content could just to shit on the creator and the original story, by making something of their own that people can go to. Think about it, since they found out that the creator turned out to be a big asshole, they flock to make their " own " version of the story and the characters, so that they don't have to feel bad about liking the concepts itself. Basically saying: " Oh, you made this thing? But you're also a fucking dumbass of a bitch? Well fuck you! I'm taking it and making it better then you ever could! " or also saying " I like this, but the creator is a bad person. What if I make my own version so that me and other people don't have to feel bad? " This is not to say that all sonic.exe fangames are just to prove that the original story was shit, or that they only make fangames just to piss off the creator. But ever since then, more fan-content has been poppin' in left and right, even after J'C was called out for this. Just goes to show that if you fucked up, people would remember you or your work more because of it.
@@Lucien_M Yea, that also happened too, a lot of people are not in support of J.C yet still like sonic.exe content. As at this point, the community just took it from him, rather it be due to his actions, or other reasons
I think one reason why Sonic.exe is still popular is because a lot of the people who talk about it today were kids when it was released. I was probably 6-7 when I learned about it and it stuck with me. Now I’m 15 and the fan game sticks in my brain to this day
@@Piss_Off_Plz Well, most kids don't think critically about a game or say "nah this is too cliché". They see Sonic's face with blood pouring out of his eyes, they get scared
The creator has full knowledge of that it seems and it looks like the sequel story is going to retcon that part of the story to be the game connecting with his mind and memories and using that to torment him even further.
@@Crackedcripple right now there is a game being made by the guy who made it. and also thats why there hasnt been any update about the sequel for a while.
I love your videos. It's nice to find someone who sounds interested in what he's talking about and not constantly spouting the words "guys" and "bro" 24/7. Godspeed, MagicMush.
I'm actually embarrassed of myself for thinking that this story was creepy at one point......now it just definitely overstayed it's welcome. Also I really don't know why...but the one ARG/Analog horror I have stuck in my head right now is Lacey's Wardrobe and Restaurant. There's just SOMETHING about them that won't leave me head, both are creepy, disturbing and actually pretty sad as well.
About Ben Drowned, it's still going on, and a lot of shit has happened after the Creepypasta, but it's mostly very obscure. I never really read the ARG and other stories, but to put it simply: the statue that was following you was the kid Ben actually trapped in the game calling out Jadusable for help, while the entity within the game was B.E.N., or the Behavioral Event Network, made up of digitized cult members* merged together in one hive mind. After the B.E.N. and Jadusable shenanigans on the computer, B.E.N. takes over Jadusable's youtube channel. *The cult, called The Moon Children, made a website for their members that resets every 3 days, and the members eventually get digitized into the Majora's Mask cartridge along with Kelbris, their cult leader. Jadusable then plays the cartridge again and awakens Kelbris, getting digitized in the process.The cartridge then goes to a hotel in the middle of an apocalyptic pandemic a decade later where people are forced to play the game or else they die. B.E.N. comes back, telling us that the cult was just a lab rat for Xavius Solutions, a company that basically wants to create digitized worlds for people; case in point, the Metaverse but your consciousness gets uploaded onto a server and leaves your body behind. Sarah happens to be one of them and thwarts a plan by some former cult higher-ups to eliminate Kelbris. Sarah is able to awaken Kelbris and save all of the digitized people in the game, including Ben (The kid) and Jadusable. You can watch some of the videos on Jadusable's TH-cam Channel.
context for the creator's whereabouts: JC the Hyena (the creator's username) is now currently rotting in jail for trying to groom children in multiple ocations and doing softcore CP stories and roleplay, the current owner of the "Sonic.EXE IP" is JC's ex, who dumped him for being a disgusting waste of skin
@@3Guys1Video I saw some some screenshots on Twitter on someone exposing her. Oh yeah, I'm pretty sure I saw screenshots of JC's EX giving Sonic.EXE to ASTRA for this exposing too. Idk why it's not talked about
3:50 based pick Nes Godzilla is a whole different level compared to other gaming creepypastas (Ben drowned is a close runner up for me, but it'll never beat nes Godzilla.) From the story itself, to the sprite works to the characters, everything about this story is awesome! And yes, I did enjoy the whole story, even if people hated the ending.
I too liked the ending, perhaps unorthodox for a creepypasta. It still is quite coherent with the plot points laid throughout the story, specially with the Melissa part working as a motivator for the player Zach to continue playing despite the game becoming more and more unnerving.
@@piporindo5788 exactly! Plus it's something that's personal to him. Something he doesn't talk about to many people. All and all, it's a solid ending Imo.
Fun fact, the original sonic.exe artwork creator from the original game (the artwork fron 19:03) is still active, their name is ian_exe. They have a weird furaffinity account tho.
I remember how insanely popular Sonic.exe was in 2012, finding out the author got pissed off it was moved to the Trollpasta wiki I lost it. The fangame made for it is the one sole reason it blew up like it did, no doubt. I can't throw shade at the dude who made it since it plays out exactly like the story described. However, I do like the positive little spin at the end of this video. Showcasing valiant efforts to make Sonic.exe a fairly well executed concept by making it more of a *spirit* or *ghost* who takes on Sonic's appearance. That Sonic PC Port game really impressed me, despite my dislike of the original Creepypasta's poor quality.
I wrote a parody Creepypasta called Fingers the Echidna and submitted it to Trollpasta. I got a notice off the admin, lolskeletons, a few days later saying they were deleting it for being "too good" for the site and it ended up on Spinpasta instead.
13:58 tbf, I don't think Mickey is all too relevant nowadays, aside of being part of brand iconography - I mean, most youngsters nowadays likely know him by Kingdom Hearts than anything else.
like honestly though... disney doesn't DO anything with mickey nowadays, it's kind of silly if you think about it outside of kingdom hearts, the last times i've ever heard people from the current younger generations even acknowledge The Mouse was in relation to fnaf fangames, friday night funkin mods, and/or creepypastas-- all of his appearances in which have a lot less to grab onto in the long term compared to the evergreen pastures of similar sonic fan content
I like how Epic Mickey was about bringing forgotten stuff to the foreground again, but Mickey himself became a background actor in the years after it. It's kinda funny.
I also think a contributing reason for Sonic.exe still being relevant is the Sonic fanbases tendency to cling to weird or obscure characters. The cast from SatAm, or even the archie comics like scourge are still brought up, despite not appearing in official media in years. Even some fan made characters have large chunks of the community fixated, which .exe is one of, they're an eccentric group but one of the most passionate fanbases around.
In Sonic R Tails Doll was supposed to be a joke character but people were too creeped out by it's appearance that they made a whole creepypasta for the character, nowadays Tails Doll is just kinda...cute!
16:53 I have to digress here and say the Sonic.EXE fangame with the most "eldritch horror" feel is the _"Sonic.EXE: One Last Round"_ The spooky sonic never looks the same in it, he turns into mutated abominations (giant hands, a nest of spiders ect), takes over the background, his face warps into a new disgusting warped version every time he "talks" and takes over the acreen.
I will admit the OLR is more horrifying, but as far as characterization goes, EYX feels more eldritch. OLR's characterization is pretty similar to the original.
@@firestarex3544 My views are the polar opposite. To me OLR is the definitive "eldritch" one while EYX is the more "effective" one. EYX doesn't really have eldritch characteristics aside form maybe 1 or 2 transformations, while OLR morphs constantly and is in control of everything, like he already won. EYX on the other hand doesn't take control as much and we see him more "in person" rather than all around us.
The pain of kids thinking Shadow is Sonic EXE brings me more pain and fear than any creepypasta ever could. Because it means I’m old because I grew up playing Shadow the Hedgehog and Sonic Adventure 2.
I think the reason Sonic.exe is still around is cause of this fandom’s impressive ability to make sure nothing gets forgotten, especially things that have become popular or have become a big topic of discussion at one point or another. The Sonic fandom really is just built different, sometimes for better, sometimes for worse.
Sonic.exe only seems to be so successful and unwilling to die mainly because the people changing it and making it better. It's funny how the reworks and revised versions made by different people are actually better, you'd think that would make the creator of sonic.exe even angrier, but they are technically getting what they wanted. P.s I love the ending of the video, it legit caught me off guard and when I rewatched it I couldn't help but laugh.
Its because sonic fans will be sonic fans literally every non cannon character or glitch or concept art is popular enough it will have its own fans and history in the rabbit hole its more of how art driven and creative the sonic community was made to be is what allowed sonic.exe to exist for so long
as your channel grows, don't let your userbase bully you into doing things they want you to do, or bully yourself into making stuff you don't like for the sake of others not like I'm smart or wise or anything but there's always things to worry about
Popularity is a double-edged sword. One side can benefit the creator for getting recognition for his work and the other can benefit a toxic fanbase or even greed.
I'm so glad you went on a tangent about the original "I Am God" image. Even when I was a kid who loved/hated creepypasta, I always found sonic.exe so lame and goofy. But to this day, that image STILL gives me the creeps
Cool vid. Love the delivery of the "subjugation of the internet itself." For 10:47 While I agree that Sonic.exe holds a special place in creepypasta, I would hardly call it the only one that gets remembered culturally. A google analytics showed me that over the past year Slenderman and Jeff the Killer have actually stayed ahead of Sonic.exe in searches. That's not the only way to measure cultural staying power of course, but I think it atleast shows that just as Sonic.exe isn't going anywhere soon, neither are many of the other big hitters
Creepypastas were a really big in spanish and portuguesse oriented regions, originally used as a fleeting spooky short story with 1 image post on really cheap webites with no more than 2k entries, and were usually taken down because they got "last weak" while obviously keeping the most famous ones. Here in Argentina they had an exra charm to it, spanish language made it so they were easier to come up with but also with a lot of silly errors that just broke the feeling, becoming cheaper and less thought of, which made a lot of creepypasta's versions really bad (and pretty cringy by now standards) but getting refined into EXTREMELY scary crap at the time.
Good video. But, I think a lot of people misunderstand what CreepyPastas are. Creepypastas, in their broadest form, are scary stories shared over the internet. The backrooms is a creepypasta, momo is a creepypasta. Its a scary idea that people all across the internet make more ideas about. They aren't a fad from the 2010s, no, the writers that make creepypastas and the people who read/listen to them, and also just the fun concepts that people share about creepy things is a still-strong community on the internet. But I understand the confusion because people often associate it with only slenderman, jeff the killer, or crappy lost episode/game creepypastas.
I'd argue the backrooms counts as an old creepypasta that's still popular today. It originated from a random 4chan post which just gave a creative description to a random creepy picture of an office someone found, and everything else grew from there.
I remember being spooked by Creepypastas back in the 2010's I would listen to them pretty consistently. At least that was my more edgy phase I guess lol.
I think many people underestimate just how dedicated most of the Sonic fandom truly is. Sure Sonic.exe sucks, but it doesn't matter because that will always interest the children anyways because, well, they love horror and they love Sonic, so that's not the surprising part. The surprising part is just how much quality content is still being made in general to the point where they rival even the content being put out by Sega officially. Sonic Mania is only one example of a game that started off as a fan creation. What about Sonic Triple Trouble 16-Bit? Sonic Robo Blast 2? (Which has its own community of different games that was already made on top of another game) Sonic P-06? Archie and Sonic The Comic Online? A goddamn SATAM season 3? A whole community hyper fixated on the Chao World mode in Sonic Adventure 2 Battle? Even efforts to make more content for the first two Sonic Riders games and to fix Free Riders, *FREE RIDERS!!!* ONE OF THE WORST OFFICIALLY RELEASED SONIC GAMES OF ALL TIME, and it's now suddenly at least possible to tolerate! If there's such a community out there where they are willing to fix *fucking Sonic Free Riders* of all things, then I think it's safe to say that said franchise has a pretty loyal fanbase. Even Tails Gets Trolled, which barely has anything to actually do with Sonic, has a pretty dedicated fan circle of its own. No joke, if Sega kept treating their fans the way that Nintendo does then I don't think any of their goodwill would've ever materialized, and Nintendo is only able to get away with it since the beginning because they still occasionally pump out good games and have a huge monopoly on the whole industry, kinda like with Disney except people are more forgiving of Nintendo just because it has some of their favorite game properties. (Even when many of those are already dead) Sega tried to take down other non-Sonic related things before like with Streets of Rage Remake, but fortunately that shit has been shut down, although by then it was already far too late since it seems most people don't give a crap about it anymore apart from that one time a fourth official game came out. Literally the entirety of Sonic's continued existence today is owed to Sega being so heavily lenient on the Sonic brand, because I have no doubt it would've faded into irrelevancy after the Dreamcast otherwise. So yeah, I don't give a shit about Sonic.exe, or even just horror in general for that matter, but for every Sonic.exe or something genuinely terrible like Chris-Chan and his Sonichu there's a least a dozen other good things to make up for any of those bad eggs. (Pun not intended) Granted the same can be said for a lot of other fandoms too such as furries for example, but I think Sonic is one of the few that has people constantly trying to make a point that there can be honest talent and hard work put to use. If Nintendo wasn't so cutthroat and anti-consumer then I believe a lot of things related to them would've had just as big of a following with similar types of fan content. Maybe by then stuff like Star Fox, F-Zero, Donkey Kong Country, Earthbound, Chibi-Robo, or even other things they no longer own like Banjo-Kazooie and Conker would be more widely appreciated and accessible to as many audiences as possible. Mario and Pokémon seem to be the only ones really going on in the fan scenes anymore, and that's only because those franchises are already gargantuan. You'll still have a hard time finding things on anything else like those and even Zelda, Kirby, Metroid, Smash Bros., and Splatoon for some other examples though. But the point is that you will find very few ell known companies allowing for a fan community like this to thrive, (I think Capcom is also ok with it but they still have considerably less compared to Sonic) so we should be very thankful for this while we still can. *TL;DR: Autism powers have no bounds when it comes to Sonic*
One Last Round is a case of them transforming the original work into something much bigger than it was. That version of the game is now genuinely freaky with all the ways your characters get killed, the environments you are surrounded in and the monsters Sonic turns into. It actually puts the “I am god” line which used to be seen as way too on the nose for the original story into something much more literal as you actually see Sonic.exe’s powers come into play during your run. I think this shows us that “old bootlegs turning real” stories has long past its expiration date in creepypasts. Just simply tell a story in the world of Sonic’s universe with a horror spin to it. Starved Eggman was another example of this and it felt much more authentic than other Sonic creepypastas
When Mr. Creepypasta did a reading of this back in the day I assumed it was a parody. A very on-the-nose parody of all the dead cliches in "lost episode" pastas. Somehow instead it only revitalized those awful cliches and brought them to the forefront. Crazy how that works. Also, what is the excellent tune at 5:47?
OK how many people did I catch with the Pitbull jumpscare, need it for scientific purposes
Not me
Nope didn't catch me
I did not expect it so I was startled
I came
i immediately called saul out of fear.
when i was a child, my friend convinced me sonic.exe was a interdimensional being that when it arrived at earth it would murder everyone. I was terrified lol
He lives in your walls
@@z1u512 ayo me too!
Honestly pretty usual
Honestly, he was intended to be exactly that in the original version of the Creepypasta. That's basically what the author actually said before any reboots happened
Alien Death Cults be like:
The fact that kids nowadays are more familiar with Sonic.exe than Shadow the Hedgehog is kind of worrying
*shadow appears at the end of sonic 2*
“OMG IS THAT SONIC.EXE???!!!11!”
@@SillyfellaX Pathetic
@@SillyfellaX blame the internet
@@SillyfellaX 11 years bro
A lot of things can change with that time
People are ignorants, that will not change
Fun fact: the author of this story later admitted in a deviant art interview that he regretted the blog post he made and wished he took the criticism at the time. So he eventually learned his lesson
He then rewrote thr whole thing and it's an 8 hour slog to get through
But he's still a pedophile and rewrote it just because he can't handle being wrong sooooooo.
@@hungryburger1170I saw he remade the story. I never finished it, but I'll give him an A for effort. It's not good, but at least the guy tried.
Yeah. He rewrote the story, I beta-read it... I sort of regret posting that blog post he made, though. I heard he's been doing fucked up shit. Not that I would know much about it - aside from when he needed something from me, we weren't really friends.
Was that before, or after the neo-noir detective thriller sequel? Or before or after the child abuse revelation for that matter?
The sonic.exe creator himself is more horrifying than the story itself
He's a pile of ass, I know.
Yeah sending nsfw to minor just for rp
0_0
@@takiallahjamai dude who tf told you that
Anti-furries when you tell them that basing your whole personality around hating a specific group of people doesn't make them "based", "chad", or "epic": 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡
@@Piss_Off_Plz because I am stupid
9:14 - 10:20
My guy really went out there and wrote an entire villain arc speech for himself because his horror Sonic fanfiction got moved to another website
That guy took "going insane from your own creation" to every possible level: deciding to just ruin a big chunk of the childhood, enjoying all the bloody violance like a sick phycopath, holding the grudge for all the negative reviews, experiencing the unbearable success that wasn't even possible to comprehend before, being shocked by the creation basically treated like a ioke, and having unbearable irrational energy to just go to a revange war.
Like, of course it's gonna result in a villain arc sheech, what else did anyone on this planet expected?
Also he was caught messaging a minor for the reasons you think. So he’s actually a freaking villain.
@@SpiderkillersInc a furry turns out to be a chomo? Color me shocked!
What are you on about Bro?
Sonic.exe is a masterpiece, i'm pissing in my pants because of much scary is it
Rhythm Thief fan, validation verified
8:00 "I am God.... You might wanna brush your teeth there, God." - Markiplier
I've always thought Tails Doll was much creepier than Sonic.exe. He was put into Sonic R officially as a playable racer who can float over everything, and nobody knows why. There's no info about him or where he came from.
True. I find Tails Doll more disturbing than Sonic.exe because he's *actually a real character*
Yeah, I never was scared of exe, but tails doll was just so much creepier
Tails Doll was way efficient than Sonic.EXE in terms of fear factor, in fact Tails doll being actually real reminds me of how the "Freezer" glitch from Saints Row 2 is believed to be a fake and cheap creepypasta character, only for it to reveal that the "Freezer" DOES exist
@@EskraxTheSleepless and it wasn't even intentional on top of that, insane
@@exotic1405 Which just means the Freezer makes Sonic.EXE and Tails doll look like actually good children
That part where the kid screamed "Is That Sonic.exe" even thought that's clearly Shadow gave me physical pain. I hope that kid grows up, remembers that moment, and starts to feel dread.
Where's that part? I wanna laugh at it.
@@Piss_Off_Plz At 12:08
@@viviantan1034 Absolutely pathetic...
@@Piss_Off_Plz I wanted to laugh at it too but felt actual legitimate pain
It's embarrassing, but it had to happen. And also him remembering that moment is not necessarily a good thing, it would be even worse if random people on the internet cyberbullied him just because he does not recognize a fictional black anthropomorphic hedgehog.
At this point people don't even know what .exe even means
Mega Man Battle Network might remind them, with the Legacy Collection out and what not
when i learnt .exe was just an executable file that wasnt inherently harmful i was geniunely shocked
@@RadikAliceThese kids are too stupid to know about Rockman.exe
@@iwakeupandboomimaratsame 🤣
As someone who plays old pc games, and for that very reason has file extensions turned on on my laptop, i still don't understand how people don't know that .exe basically is the heart of every windows program and application
Shadow being mistaken as Sonic.exe by a little kid is killing me 😂 guess he’s the Faker after all
Kids I’ve met know who Shadow is. Thank God.
“I’ll make you eat those words!”
This hurts. We know Shadow would win but JC loves to railroad.
Could be worse man. Imagine you watch that film, Sonic becomes SuperSonic, and the kid besides you say "HO MY GOD IT'S SONICHU THE ELECTRIC EDGEHOG POKEMON!!!"
That would be the proof we are in the darkest timeline.
@@Paugose Now I want to know if Sonichu.exe exists.
I think the reason why Sonic.exe is still so popular is the current analog horror trend: it's an old game, you can make it glitch and some fangames fuck around with your computer too, which makes you feel like you got a virus and is always pretty unsettling.
It's sort of having the same treatment Five Nights at Freddy's had too, the base material fits the whole vintage aesthetic so it had an "analog horror" fan-remake. And in both cases it works better than the original story.
I would've disagreed with the last point you made, but Security Breach exists, so you're right
an analog series of sonic.exe had basically ended just a few days ago, called Needlem0use, personally i thought it was a fun watch, yeah the start was very rough with some unintentionally funny scenes that i can't help but always laugh when i see, but it starts to get better halfway through, it's great to see how creative people can get with these types of things
Honestly games like Godzilla nes and Ben drowned can get the same treatment and they're loads better written than sonic.exe and the writers are much better adjusted people
@@ImmaLittlePip the possibilities are _ENDLESS_ if you know what i mean
@@ImmaLittlePip facts
I am unaffected by horror jumpscare images after a second because they always have such a big smile and I imagine they’re just saying “ya got any games on your phone?”
Oh my gosh. I will now think that every time I see a jumpscare.
me I always imagine the creator just going "Boo! Haha, did I get ya?"
From now on my objective in life is to be able to narrate as well as my dude did when reading the creator's war declaration
I feel the reason other creepypastas havent found the level of resurgence is probably because a lot of them are kinda have baggage from the past(the slender stabbing as the most famous example), but also because a lot of them would require so much changes and rewrites to keep it from being bound to the past, you might as make something orignal.
I mean... how would you remake shit like Jeff the Killer, Ticky Toby, Happy Appy, etc. to fit in to modern day without falling back into the original trappings?
Ben Drowned was relevant again a year or two ago because the creator finished the story, but then it faded back into the aether of internet history
its probably because sonic has been having a huge upward trend in general cuz of how sega is actually making good choices, so as a side effect a below average creepypasta written by a child groomer (im serious about this, hes apparently gotten exposed) exploded into popularity again. and if this mf stuff can happen then i pray that sonichu gets the same treatment just to laugh even harder
@@etalydnav I mean... sonichu technically got a revival in intrest.
But not for the reasons anyone wanted.
@@kingsteve4304 yeah we all know why LOL
@@xiantrit5887 it's funny that you say that, Sonic.EXE did have a cancelled reboot in 2017 made by JC but it only lasted for a really, really, really long First Chapter
The fact that Sonic.exe not only had a resurgence in popularity but has outlasted practically every other creepypasta icon is still unbelievable to me.
I think it's because it's so bad it's rememberable lol
It's because it's a Sonic creepypasta. I feel a lot of people baffled about this don't understand that when you give Sonic fans something, they'll _never_ let it go.
@@Yuli_BanLike when they have one good game after a decade or so of mediocre (at best) games?
@@Superstar5_ what good game is that?
@@64bitmodels66 i mean. Now we have sonicxshadow generations
if mf sonic.exe can get a whole rebranding and rewriting even thought it was written by an actual predator then i damn well know that sonichu can get that same treatment and zap to the extreme
somebody PLEASE improve somichu
@@lxstfulgrxvestone69420 too much work, the comic goes way too down the deep end. But who knows, maybe one crazy bastard will follow through with it
@@dachel683 i bet it's gonna happen in like 5 years, maybe 3 years from now on
edit for those who came in from the future: shame on me if i got it wrong 💀
I think Courtney/Project SNT would do just fine
The lore is tied too deep to Chris once you remove Chris from it all you get is Sonichu just sitting there with nothing to do. Also Sonic.exe has more going on as a concept than oh Sonic and Pikachu fused. Although people have tried. While not exact Asperchu is a pretty funny read
Fun fact: Hedgehogs actually do eat their own shit, so saying that .EXE Sonic has a "Shit Eating Grin" is actually accurate.
The story of the Sonic.exe is like a microcosm of the Sonic franchise as a whole.
Yea, a bunch of weirdos clinging on to shitty content by nothing more than their imagination
Just like how TH-cam refuses to fix their reply bug
Not as bad as the other Sonic OC’s
@Dylan Thomas
This comment about a supposed "microcosm" of the Sonic franchise is just like the sweeping generalizations people make about the series.
@@TheUncivilizedNation Sonic OCS are in reality really creative! Of course not the ones made by children, but children who became artists today, have some really cool designs. Source: ( me who is in this fandom sice 2006 )
Man, I miss the early 2010s. The internet was so much more "raw" back then. So many actually good free flsh games, great content on TH-cam and terrible but memorable horror.
Me too
Same
and nobody gave a fuck about how you were typing a message in a way that doesn't sound "rude" to the reader so some people now add these stupid /jk to say it's a joke
Back when creativity & absurdity were the kings of content.
@@Pioxys everything just felt so genuine
People spoke their minds a lot and we're allowed to be creative instead of the modern sanitize samey content
Tbh the NES Godzilla creepypasta just sounded like a legitimately fun game to play. Minus the demon being real and coming to steal your soul or whatever. Like, highly varied level concepts, mothra being less dogshit than in the original game, extra playable characters and cool new bosses? Sounded pretty tight. I’ve heard someone was trying to make it into a game but progress has been very slow.
It's legitimately cool. The pasta originated from the Bogleech forums, created by a user named Cosbydaf. Users there are fans of kaiju/monsters/etc, so the whole thing read like a love letter to that game, as well as the Godzilla franchise as a whole. While the fangame isn't finished, I've seen recreations of the levels where Red chases the player, and they're pretty impressive from the look of it.
The images that accompany the story are the best part. They're so creepy but cool. Imagine a fan game like that, or even better an original game with that art style? I'd play it
yeah I remember enjoying the story very much until the demon was real and caused the player physical pain. Just the image of the guy screaming in pain whilst cluthing his NES controller to defeat the pixel demon kinda ruined it for me. Until then AAA writing however
It's carried by the monster designs the author made for it, specially Red. The guy clearly knows his sprite work.
But the actual story is nothing special, it's full of clichés of your typical videogame creepy pasta (possessed game, creepy images with no context to the overall story, if you lose in the game you die, etc) and the story completely falls apart in the last two chapters.
@@Xfushion2Thank you. I reread it somewhat recently and was pretty disappointed. It’s… fine. It’s not amazing writing though, but I will commend the writer for seeing it through and being fairly consistent for the whole thing. The images weren’t exactly as believable as I remembered especially since they were by and large clearly crammed with as many enemies as possible to show off the designs rather than trying to look like an actual level from a game. Cool sprites, cool monster designs (especially Red, holy fuck he’s cool), eh story up until the end where it shits everywhere and gets really bad. I think it just looks great compared to some of the other stuff that was popular like Jeff and Sonic.exe lmao
That Author's reply seems like something that Chris-Chan would say
He turned out to be a piece of shit human and a pedophile.
@@Piss_Off_Plz That author or Chris-Chan?
@@sambesiili4698 JC the Hyena. He turned out to be a pathetic excuse of a human being. (That's not really saying much because humans are a mistake of life itself)
The author of sonic.exe got exposed for child endangerment
@@ImmaLittlePip I'm glad, because he was just a very unlikeable person overall. It only seemed right that his overinflated (heh) ego would be his downfall.
this is one of those times where the friggen thing not only manage to hold on for dear life, but also got SIGNIFICANTLY more popular than its EVER been. Good god I went from only seeing EXE once in a blue moon, to it being a friggen DAILY occurrence to see it in my feed SOMEWHERE
You can thank that to the few "good" pasta games and specially Friday night funkin mods for catapulting EXE back into the spotlight stronger than before
@@chrispy5249 Curse sonic...
The mere fact that *thing* even exist and *has* a following should tell you enough about the current state of creepypastas
@@fansee1368 .Sink
Jesus….
Can we all agree that Fatal Error is a pretty good exe trope though. Like the concept of an ACTUAL VIRUS going into your pc and then into a sonic game and pretending to be the protagonist of said game is fucking glorious in my opinion
Majority of exe mods are either revivals or ridiculously unpopular
Out of the many legendary creepypastas that have come and gone, THIS pile of dogwater is like a zombie that you cannot forever kill.
sonic is an autism magnet
It's like those zombies from Return Of The Living Dead. No matter what you do, they just won't die.
Well as least this pile of dog water got purely by some cool people
13:30 Out of all things in this video,This one got me laughing the most:"Damn bitch are you done yet?"
"help me"
"fuck off"
piss gaming
What game is that?
@@D1abolosMemez a bad game
PewDiePie screaming at the "I am god" face has stayed with me for the past decade.
Genuinely relieved to hear someone else say the NES Godzilla ending is horrible but dosent ruin the story
the voice he puts on at 9:14 for the creator of sonic.exe is legit incredible
he sounds like dr eggman
@@bobalicous7743 He kinda sounds like a weaker version of Mark Hamill’s Joker to me
The music in the background is the icing on the cake.
Sounds Like Kefka to Me.
@@SonGojit456 That sounds worse considering that the Sonic.exe creator got outed as a disciple of EDP
Sonic.exe is the embodiment of edge. You take a franchise that is already steeped in edge and plop an edgy horror filter over it and put it in the hands of furries? It writes itself.
funny of you to asume that sonic fans arent already furries
@@rainbow-qn6um Funny you mention that, I once saw a picture of Tails and Shadow as regular furries instead of Mobians. It was extremely cursed, I don't recommend it.
SystemofaDown-Toxicity.mp3.exe
Download and feel the terror
is a way Sonic.exe is an evolution of the Dark Sonic we caught a glimpse of, in Sonic X way back in the mid 00s , hooo boy you just had to be there that that shitty recolor of sonic fueled shitty fanfics, amvs and deviantart pages like nothing else until .exe came around
@@7U57HTJRYGHG I vividly recall a fan animation long ago where Dark Sonic picked a fight with Shadow and won, only for Tails to show up at the last second and stop him. It really gave off the implication that Shadow was a villain and this evil powered Sonic was the only reason he won. Kinda screwed my perception of Shadow as a kid.
13:25 your yell scared me more than the actual jumpscare did
In my own opinion, I think the reason Sonic.exe came back full swing was just the "hey you remember Sonic.exe from when we were 9? What happened to that?" factor. Another part of it is that the creator (JCTheHyena I believe) gave up the copyright (yes, you heard that right) of Sonic.exe to his girlfriend, she then caught him cheating with a minor, and sold it to some somewhat trustworthy individuals. It's honestly a crazy back story to say the least but now Sonic.exe is kind of handled as a multiverse where you can make anything, it gives off almost minecraft vibes for the infinite possibilities you could do with it. Pun completely intended
that actually sounds genius, you're right, we could turn this formula into *whatever* we wish...
@@kaxcommentssomethingREAL please no
Somewhere, there is a brony sonic exe. I can sense it
@MoloTurbo True, the fact that it exists at all is probably only because of how lenient Sega is with this stuff. If you swapped out sonic for Mario, Nintendo would've shut this stuff down years ago.
Yeah, these people don’t know how copyright works. I doubt anyone cares who made Sonic.exe, I did t find out for years and I still didn’t care. Creepypastas were never a way to get fame, especially a derivative one, it just becomes a part of the internet.
I was not expecting you to go that hard reading the creators unhinged rant. I spit alittle drink on myself laughing. Amazing video man
The creator turned to be a POS (piece of shit) and a pedophile.
Cool
@@yellowstarproductions6743 give me my fortnite 19$ card
I’m so glad you brought up the original “I am god” image that was in the game. I remember being 11 years old, finding out about Sonic.exe, playing it, and coming across that image for the first time. I’m 21 now, and seeing it still fucks me up. I can’t look at it. I had to cover my screen when it was put up in this video because i just can’t deal with it.
That’s how I feel too. Freaking hate that image. I never played those games but I have seen them on TH-cam and it was really disturbing.
I actually started laughing uncontrollably at Sneed.exe
City slickers would write it Like crap
I don’t know what you mean when you say that NES Godzilla had a horrible ending, when it was revealed that red was actually John Madden that was one of most terrifying plot twists of all time. Also that narration part on the rant was hilarious. Good vid.
Aeiou
@@FrostVer Writer had a brain fart when writing the ending (probably trying to force a scenario that would allow a sequel come to think of it, since NGC2 exists). At least the rest of it is good.
@@firestarex3544the sequel is at least good
@@dantheman9795 Nah. its worse. just weird self insert cringe like the first one.
@@AnAverageGoblin Oh, so it's good, then.
9:20 You should genuinely become a VA for Dr Robotnik, that voice is unironically incredible.
that moment with Shadow in the movie theater will forever fill me with a burning rage.
I hate Sonic, but I don't blame you.
That sounds like a loser's mindset. Just because you know Shadow doesn't mean some kid has to know your beloved.
@@Power-kn6fk no living person should know a fanfic "O"C from a franchise without knowing one of the most reoccurring and popular characters from said franchise. especially if the fanfic "O"C is as edgy, trite, pointless and badly written as Sonic.EXE.
@@sharzinlalebazri5673 You're just playing into my point. Children, Literal KIDS do not have to know or care to know about every old or forgotten character just because you do. They can not control what they are exposed to first. You're clearly speaking more out of hate for Exe than of a mature worldview. Grow up
@@Power-kn6fk "old or forgotten"
Sonic.exe is so fucking big, merchandising for it is fucking widespread now. My brother got a Sonic.exe plush from a claw machine. It's been vandalised by my sister with positive messages.
possitive message vandalised sonic.exe be like: i love you soul i inserted into the tails player, i will hug you and free you :)
@@elesqueleto2010 update: positive message vandalised sonic.exe isn't exactly optimistic anymore. it seems like it has been discarded some time ago.
@@doodoofard69 abandoned possitive message vandalised sonic.exe be like: yo soul in tails player, im abandoned, mind if i go back to my old business?
Okay, but imagine how pissed Kefka has to be that their own laugh is less associated with them than Sonic.exe
JCTheHyena's rant comes off like CWC's "I WANT EVERYTHING ABOUT MY HOUSE OFF THE INTERNET" rant
“NOW NOW NOW”
@@nman551 "I'LL SEND IN SONIC.EXE, I'LL SEND IN FURRIES, I'LL SEND IN EVERYONE IN MY POWER"
"Get that Git Thang Off the internet."
Internet: "Write something better"
JC: "I'm working on it..."
@@13jasonvoorhees "Do you realize? Do you realize something, let me tell you. If the admins of the Creepypasta wiki... sees that story... that you put on the damn internet, that they could delete it? And we would have to move it to the Trollpasta wiki?"
I never knew that JC actually wrote an angry response when his creepypasta got moved to the trollpasta wiki. Good video MagicMush, gave me some laughs and it was pretty informative.
I was actually in a furry group chat with the creator of Sonic.exe about a year ago, the dude was completely insane. Writing in that verbose and "taking yourself too seriously" type of speech with the "fancy demonic all-powerful" character. He was completely fucking insane.
Sound like he forgot to take his pills
What is wrong with verbose, formal writing in a chat room?
I mean, yeah, the dude is at the least egotistical (if not crazy), but his writing is not when he isn't mad.
least crazy furry
@@TurtleShroom3 cuz its dorky and pretentious as all hell
So he’s basically a worse version of H.P lovecraft?
I honestly like how the internet has evolved in what scares it much like we as people do. It started with the screamers which as the creator of this video said preyed on the weak and vulnerable. Much like children who are spooked by everything really. Then we get to creepy pastas which I can compare to pre teens or early teens who have developed more of a tolerance for horror and can get spooked but still more willing to throw themselves at it and even partake. Then nowadays we get things like analog horror and ARG’s which prey on more psychological aspects which I think is the most mature aspect of horror. Idk this is just my own personal thoughts.
This is actually so true what...
Dang bro, I think you just hit the nail right on the head! This feels like the most plausible take on the horror genre on the internet.
Screamers scared me way more than creepypastas and ARGs.
The things MagicMush puts out are outstanding. This is an interesting piece of internet history I never thought I’d be learning about.
7:13 the original creator of this image was Falsecow but sadly he is no longer on the internet :/
You're wrong, the original creator of this iconic image is compugecko532, it's even on the original gamejolt page wdym
That bit on the 'I am God' image reminds me of a creepypasta inspired image that gives me the creeps still. It's a suicide mouse themed image that's basically just a title card Mickey with intense, beady, glazed over eyes and gratuitous blood spatter. The round, relatively small HyPeR ReAlsTIC eyes (probably the only time that trope actually works) look deeply unnatural on Mickey's face, and combined with his typical toothless grin, give it a frenzied "I'm going to shiv you and enjoy every second" stare that still puts me in a vigilant "get ready to fight" posture.
fight or flight
@@ЛеонидЗурнаджи starved
@@3Guys1Video Prey
@@polaknasieci1331 Sink
@@polaknasieci1331 you cunts arent helping at all
Hey, so like, as an fan of Sonic.exe content I just wanna clear something up that I think should be mentioned.
The creator [ Of the original story, not any of the fan-made content ], J.C the hyena was actually called out for interacting with minors in a not so family-friendly way [ Sending NSFW to minors, and doing something called ERP with minors, which is just roleplaying but heavy sexual themes thrown into it. ]. Not only that, he was also just a massive piece of shit.
Now, I am not saying that he did or did not do what he did, since there are tons of other videos that can explain it better then I obviously can. But I would like to think the reason people made more fan-made content could just to shit on the creator and the original story, by making something of their own that people can go to. Think about it, since they found out that the creator turned out to be a big asshole, they flock to make their " own " version of the story and the characters, so that they don't have to feel bad about liking the concepts itself. Basically saying: " Oh, you made this thing? But you're also a fucking dumbass of a bitch? Well fuck you! I'm taking it and making it better then you ever could! " or also saying " I like this, but the creator is a bad person. What if I make my own version so that me and other people don't have to feel bad? "
This is not to say that all sonic.exe fangames are just to prove that the original story was shit, or that they only make fangames just to piss off the creator. But ever since then, more fan-content has been poppin' in left and right, even after J'C was called out for this. Just goes to show that if you fucked up, people would remember you or your work more because of it.
I mean, Save a Soul(a Sonic.exe related charity event) was started in response to JC's actions
@@Lucien_M Yea, that also happened too, a lot of people are not in support of J.C yet still like sonic.exe content. As at this point, the community just took it from him, rather it be due to his actions, or other reasons
n#gga no one cares
@@FrostVer Beyond pathetic...
Is this how that parody version of sonic.exe got made with the milk and cereal joke?
Let's be fair. Sonic.exe is probably one of the more tame things you'll be shown on youtube kids.
That was the best laugh I've had all day
0:34 unironically scared the shit outta me
Same💀💀
I think one reason why Sonic.exe is still popular is because a lot of the people who talk about it today were kids when it was released. I was probably 6-7 when I learned about it and it stuck with me. Now I’m 15 and the fan game sticks in my brain to this day
@@fansee1368 I found the "I AM GOD" Picture more hilarious than anything else. It's such a cliche quote too.
We're in the same boat!
@@fansee1368 yeah the Sally image still bothers me to this day lmao
@@Piss_Off_Plz Well, most kids don't think critically about a game or say "nah this is too cliché". They see Sonic's face with blood pouring out of his eyes, they get scared
@@yaruyaru Of course the do, cause kids are stupid.
3:11 Thanks for introducing me to the Shockmaster, I’ve been cracking up about that for so long now
I agree with your take on the NES Godzilla Creepypasta. Everything about it except the ending was great.
The creator has full knowledge of that it seems and it looks like the sequel story is going to retcon that part of the story to be the game connecting with his mind and memories and using that to torment him even further.
@@Crackedcripple right now there is a game being made by the guy who made it.
and also thats why there hasnt been any update about the sequel for a while.
spoiler?
I liked the ending :(
@@nman551 More power to you ig
17:35 caught me off-guard, and I'm giggling like I'm crazy now bahahaha!!
I love your videos. It's nice to find someone who sounds interested in what he's talking about and not constantly spouting the words "guys" and "bro" 24/7. Godspeed, MagicMush.
9:14 Did you hire someone else to read this or are you THAT good of a voice actor? It almost freaked me out by how different that voice change was
I'm a one man band bby
@@magicmush1998 bro became Raiden
@@magicmush1998 Do you got kids as well?
@@magicmush1998 W
@@magicmush1998bro became Dr. Eggman
2:17 had me rolling on the floor as soon as I heard the voice. LMAO
I'm actually embarrassed of myself for thinking that this story was creepy at one point......now it just definitely overstayed it's welcome. Also I really don't know why...but the one ARG/Analog horror I have stuck in my head right now is Lacey's Wardrobe and Restaurant. There's just SOMETHING about them that won't leave me head, both are creepy, disturbing and actually pretty sad as well.
About Ben Drowned, it's still going on, and a lot of shit has happened after the Creepypasta, but it's mostly very obscure. I never really read the ARG and other stories, but to put it simply: the statue that was following you was the kid Ben actually trapped in the game calling out Jadusable for help, while the entity within the game was B.E.N., or the Behavioral Event Network, made up of digitized cult members* merged together in one hive mind. After the B.E.N. and Jadusable shenanigans on the computer, B.E.N. takes over Jadusable's youtube channel. *The cult, called The Moon Children, made a website for their members that resets every 3 days, and the members eventually get digitized into the Majora's Mask cartridge along with Kelbris, their cult leader. Jadusable then plays the cartridge again and awakens Kelbris, getting digitized in the process.The cartridge then goes to a hotel in the middle of an apocalyptic pandemic a decade later where people are forced to play the game or else they die. B.E.N. comes back, telling us that the cult was just a lab rat for Xavius Solutions, a company that basically wants to create digitized worlds for people; case in point, the Metaverse but your consciousness gets uploaded onto a server and leaves your body behind. Sarah happens to be one of them and thwarts a plan by some former cult higher-ups to eliminate Kelbris. Sarah is able to awaken Kelbris and save all of the digitized people in the game, including Ben (The kid) and Jadusable.
You can watch some of the videos on Jadusable's TH-cam Channel.
I only have one thing to say after digesting all that information:
What.
mfw, man laid out the whole paragraph
@@amberhernandez You would believe me if I just told you I made it up. Go watch all of Jadusable's Ben Drowned content and see that I am not.
W h a t
As Ridiculous as this plot sounds, with the proper writting, this could perfectly work as a Sci-Fi Horror movie.
But still.
*W H A T*
context for the creator's whereabouts: JC the Hyena (the creator's username) is now currently rotting in jail for trying to groom children in multiple ocations and doing softcore CP stories and roleplay, the current owner of the "Sonic.EXE IP" is JC's ex, who dumped him for being a disgusting waste of skin
Her ex no longer owns the rights anymore. The current owner is Astra, with the co-owner by JoeDoughBoi who created and directed Sonic PC Port.
@@cha0trix493 I believe JC's EX got exposed for something similar, didn't she
@@paperprince2953 source?
@@3Guys1Video I saw some some screenshots on Twitter on someone exposing her. Oh yeah, I'm pretty sure I saw screenshots of JC's EX giving Sonic.EXE to ASTRA for this exposing too. Idk why it's not talked about
Wait hold the fuck up he copyrighted sonic.exe in the first place? The fuck?
9:42 can we agree this looks like it was typed by a bandit from borderlands lol
3:50 based pick
Nes Godzilla is a whole different level compared to other gaming creepypastas (Ben drowned is a close runner up for me, but it'll never beat nes Godzilla.)
From the story itself, to the sprite works to the characters, everything about this story is awesome! And yes, I did enjoy the whole story, even if people hated the ending.
I too liked the ending, perhaps unorthodox for a creepypasta. It still is quite coherent with the plot points laid throughout the story, specially with the Melissa part working as a motivator for the player Zach to continue playing despite the game becoming more and more unnerving.
@@piporindo5788 exactly! Plus it's something that's personal to him. Something he doesn't talk about to many people. All and all, it's a solid ending Imo.
thank you for the megatron creepypasta reading asmr I really needed that today
7:06 that image quite literally gives me goosebumps every single time I see it so I'm glad to see someone else is disturbed by the image
Your voiceover of the author's rant sounds like a cartoon mad scientist and I love it. 🤣
Sounds like eggman actually
That angry rant voice you put on really fit the speech lmao. I hope to see more of that at some point.
Fun fact, the original sonic.exe artwork creator from the original game (the artwork fron 19:03) is still active, their name is ian_exe.
They have a weird furaffinity account tho.
Ya got a link to his TH-cam?
@@ejicolxlombarx idk if he has one.
I remember how insanely popular Sonic.exe was in 2012, finding out the author got pissed off it was moved to the Trollpasta wiki I lost it. The fangame made for it is the one sole reason it blew up like it did, no doubt. I can't throw shade at the dude who made it since it plays out exactly like the story described.
However, I do like the positive little spin at the end of this video. Showcasing valiant efforts to make Sonic.exe a fairly well executed concept by making it more of a *spirit* or *ghost* who takes on Sonic's appearance. That Sonic PC Port game really impressed me, despite my dislike of the original Creepypasta's poor quality.
The voice acting on 9:14 is perfect lmao. Sounds just like a Saturday Morning Cartoon villain.
I wrote a parody Creepypasta called Fingers the Echidna and submitted it to Trollpasta.
I got a notice off the admin, lolskeletons, a few days later saying they were deleting it for being "too good" for the site and it ended up on Spinpasta instead.
I still don't understand how Sonic is even remotely scary.
Sonic is suppose to radiate Radical 90s Attitude. Not some cliche demon BS.
@@rickyrackey7930If that’s the case, I feel like Spawn would definitely enjoy pissing on EXE’s face.
what's supposed to be scary is the fact that Sonic is self-aware and kills his friends in the video game, which is supposedly unintended
13:58 tbf, I don't think Mickey is all too relevant nowadays, aside of being part of brand iconography - I mean, most youngsters nowadays likely know him by Kingdom Hearts than anything else.
like honestly though... disney doesn't DO anything with mickey nowadays, it's kind of silly if you think about it
outside of kingdom hearts, the last times i've ever heard people from the current younger generations even acknowledge The Mouse was in relation to fnaf fangames, friday night funkin mods, and/or creepypastas-- all of his appearances in which have a lot less to grab onto in the long term compared to the evergreen pastures of similar sonic fan content
I like how Epic Mickey was about bringing forgotten stuff to the foreground again, but Mickey himself became a background actor in the years after it. It's kinda funny.
Your voice acting really brings out the stupidity of certain things and it’s great
The only one i got into as a kid was Lavender Town Syndrome and i remember spending hours trying to figure out if it was real lmao
This channel is so underrated, keep em coming!
I also think a contributing reason for Sonic.exe still being relevant is the Sonic fanbases tendency to cling to weird or obscure characters. The cast from SatAm, or even the archie comics like scourge are still brought up, despite not appearing in official media in years. Even some fan made characters have large chunks of the community fixated, which .exe is one of, they're an eccentric group but one of the most passionate fanbases around.
Do not compare scoruge to exe, please
@@linguine4500 just did
In Sonic R Tails Doll was
supposed to be a joke character but people were too creeped out by it's appearance that they made a whole creepypasta for the character, nowadays Tails Doll is just kinda...cute!
its because of sonic fanbase tendency for autism
16:53 I have to digress here and say the Sonic.EXE fangame with the most "eldritch horror" feel is the _"Sonic.EXE: One Last Round"_
The spooky sonic never looks the same in it, he turns into mutated abominations (giant hands, a nest of spiders ect), takes over the background, his face warps into a new disgusting warped version every time he "talks" and takes over the acreen.
he's a bit like IT the clown in some sense (my bad if i got anything wrong), and that's pretty cool
@@kaxcommentssomethingREAL He does have some similarities to Pennywise, never thought about it.
I will admit the OLR is more horrifying, but as far as characterization goes, EYX feels more eldritch. OLR's characterization is pretty similar to the original.
@@Haispawner indeed!
@@firestarex3544 My views are the polar opposite.
To me OLR is the definitive "eldritch" one while EYX is the more "effective" one.
EYX doesn't really have eldritch characteristics aside form maybe 1 or 2 transformations, while OLR morphs constantly and is in control of everything, like he already won. EYX on the other hand doesn't take control as much and we see him more "in person" rather than all around us.
2:31 that's literally every mcdonalds in my area, nobody wants to work for them so they don't have the staff needed to keep the dining rooms open lol
where is it?
@@derpycat9347 most of eastern Canada in my experience
Damn does eastern Canada have corpses all over the tables too?
@@boxylemons7961 sometimes in Toronto
@boxylemons7961 Mostly just tweakers past out at the table. The corpses you usually find in the bathroom
The pain of kids thinking Shadow is Sonic EXE brings me more pain and fear than any creepypasta ever could. Because it means I’m old because I grew up playing Shadow the Hedgehog and Sonic Adventure 2.
If I'm gonna be honest you could probably do a pretty good angry Dr eggman impression if you tried. Just based off 9:55
I think the reason Sonic.exe is still around is cause of this fandom’s impressive ability to make sure nothing gets forgotten, especially things that have become popular or have become a big topic of discussion at one point or another.
The Sonic fandom really is just built different, sometimes for better, sometimes for worse.
Sonic.exe only seems to be so successful and unwilling to die mainly because the people changing it and making it better. It's funny how the reworks and revised versions made by different people are actually better, you'd think that would make the creator of sonic.exe even angrier, but they are technically getting what they wanted. P.s I love the ending of the video, it legit caught me off guard and when I rewatched it I couldn't help but laugh.
The creator of Sonic.exe turned out to be a pedophile and a shitty person overall.
Its because sonic fans will be sonic fans literally every non cannon character or glitch or concept art is popular enough it will have its own fans and history in the rabbit hole its more of how art driven and creative the sonic community was made to be is what allowed sonic.exe to exist for so long
@@Xx_SuperPenis_xX Sonic fans are a stubborn, feeble, and fickle bunch, aren't they?
Never underestimate the power of autism
@@Helm-0 Lmao, true.
as your channel grows, don't let your userbase bully you into doing things they want you to do, or bully yourself into making stuff you don't like for the sake of others
not like I'm smart or wise or anything but there's always things to worry about
I agree and love this piece of advice! Hope you’re doing well stranger!
true shit
Popularity is a double-edged sword. One side can benefit the creator for getting recognition for his work and the other can benefit a toxic fanbase or even greed.
I shit myself
Honestly, the whole sonic.exe creepypasta was carried by that image. For good reason too, that imagine still kind of freaks me out to this day.
great to be at the genesis of a new channel
Nothing like finding a new channel in it's infancy knowing it's definitely going to go places.
hehehe.... genesis
If sonic.exe was released today, it'd be memed and satirized into oblivion just like Cursed Woody
I'm so glad you went on a tangent about the original "I Am God" image. Even when I was a kid who loved/hated creepypasta, I always found sonic.exe so lame and goofy. But to this day, that image STILL gives me the creeps
Cool vid. Love the delivery of the "subjugation of the internet itself." For 10:47 While I agree that Sonic.exe holds a special place in creepypasta, I would hardly call it the only one that gets remembered culturally. A google analytics showed me that over the past year Slenderman and Jeff the Killer have actually stayed ahead of Sonic.exe in searches. That's not the only way to measure cultural staying power of course, but I think it atleast shows that just as Sonic.exe isn't going anywhere soon, neither are many of the other big hitters
Creepypastas were a really big in spanish and portuguesse oriented regions, originally used as a fleeting spooky short story with 1 image post on really cheap webites with no more than 2k entries, and were usually taken down because they got "last weak" while obviously keeping the most famous ones. Here in Argentina they had an exra charm to it, spanish language made it so they were easier to come up with but also with a lot of silly errors that just broke the feeling, becoming cheaper and less thought of, which made a lot of creepypasta's versions really bad (and pretty cringy by now standards) but getting refined into EXTREMELY scary crap at the time.
2:11 venom talks about his McDonald’s related trama
Good video.
But, I think a lot of people misunderstand what CreepyPastas are. Creepypastas, in their broadest form, are scary stories shared over the internet. The backrooms is a creepypasta, momo is a creepypasta. Its a scary idea that people all across the internet make more ideas about. They aren't a fad from the 2010s, no, the writers that make creepypastas and the people who read/listen to them, and also just the fun concepts that people share about creepy things is a still-strong community on the internet.
But I understand the confusion because people often associate it with only slenderman, jeff the killer, or crappy lost episode/game creepypastas.
This channel is gunna be huge.
God bless you mush, very cool.
I'd argue the backrooms counts as an old creepypasta that's still popular today. It originated from a random 4chan post which just gave a creative description to a random creepy picture of an office someone found, and everything else grew from there.
I remember being spooked by Creepypastas back in the 2010's I would listen to them pretty consistently. At least that was my more edgy phase I guess lol.
I think many people underestimate just how dedicated most of the Sonic fandom truly is. Sure Sonic.exe sucks, but it doesn't matter because that will always interest the children anyways because, well, they love horror and they love Sonic, so that's not the surprising part.
The surprising part is just how much quality content is still being made in general to the point where they rival even the content being put out by Sega officially. Sonic Mania is only one example of a game that started off as a fan creation. What about Sonic Triple Trouble 16-Bit? Sonic Robo Blast 2? (Which has its own community of different games that was already made on top of another game) Sonic P-06? Archie and Sonic The Comic Online? A goddamn SATAM season 3? A whole community hyper fixated on the Chao World mode in Sonic Adventure 2 Battle? Even efforts to make more content for the first two Sonic Riders games and to fix Free Riders, *FREE RIDERS!!!* ONE OF THE WORST OFFICIALLY RELEASED SONIC GAMES OF ALL TIME, and it's now suddenly at least possible to tolerate! If there's such a community out there where they are willing to fix *fucking Sonic Free Riders* of all things, then I think it's safe to say that said franchise has a pretty loyal fanbase. Even Tails Gets Trolled, which barely has anything to actually do with Sonic, has a pretty dedicated fan circle of its own. No joke, if Sega kept treating their fans the way that Nintendo does then I don't think any of their goodwill would've ever materialized, and Nintendo is only able to get away with it since the beginning because they still occasionally pump out good games and have a huge monopoly on the whole industry, kinda like with Disney except people are more forgiving of Nintendo just because it has some of their favorite game properties. (Even when many of those are already dead) Sega tried to take down other non-Sonic related things before like with Streets of Rage Remake, but fortunately that shit has been shut down, although by then it was already far too late since it seems most people don't give a crap about it anymore apart from that one time a fourth official game came out. Literally the entirety of Sonic's continued existence today is owed to Sega being so heavily lenient on the Sonic brand, because I have no doubt it would've faded into irrelevancy after the Dreamcast otherwise.
So yeah, I don't give a shit about Sonic.exe, or even just horror in general for that matter, but for every Sonic.exe or something genuinely terrible like Chris-Chan and his Sonichu there's a least a dozen other good things to make up for any of those bad eggs. (Pun not intended) Granted the same can be said for a lot of other fandoms too such as furries for example, but I think Sonic is one of the few that has people constantly trying to make a point that there can be honest talent and hard work put to use. If Nintendo wasn't so cutthroat and anti-consumer then I believe a lot of things related to them would've had just as big of a following with similar types of fan content. Maybe by then stuff like Star Fox, F-Zero, Donkey Kong Country, Earthbound, Chibi-Robo, or even other things they no longer own like Banjo-Kazooie and Conker would be more widely appreciated and accessible to as many audiences as possible. Mario and Pokémon seem to be the only ones really going on in the fan scenes anymore, and that's only because those franchises are already gargantuan. You'll still have a hard time finding things on anything else like those and even Zelda, Kirby, Metroid, Smash Bros., and Splatoon for some other examples though. But the point is that you will find very few ell known companies allowing for a fan community like this to thrive, (I think Capcom is also ok with it but they still have considerably less compared to Sonic) so we should be very thankful for this while we still can.
*TL;DR: Autism powers have no bounds when it comes to Sonic*
One Last Round is a case of them transforming the original work into something much bigger than it was. That version of the game is now genuinely freaky with all the ways your characters get killed, the environments you are surrounded in and the monsters Sonic turns into. It actually puts the “I am god” line which used to be seen as way too on the nose for the original story into something much more literal as you actually see Sonic.exe’s powers come into play during your run.
I think this shows us that “old bootlegs turning real” stories has long past its expiration date in creepypasts. Just simply tell a story in the world of Sonic’s universe with a horror spin to it. Starved Eggman was another example of this and it felt much more authentic than other Sonic creepypastas
@@mlgnoob4374 exactly
You are not wrong there, I totally agree with you on that. That’s how I feel too.
Kid : is that Sonic.exe
Me:I have never wanted to shoot someone so badly in my entire life
I too hate small children
I always joked that if sonic had sand thrown into his eyes, he’d become a narcissistic serial killer with a god complex and a stupid laugh.
1:01 THANK YOU, somebody needed to say that, just slap VHS static on something and make it cryptic.
Facts, my brotha.
When Mr. Creepypasta did a reading of this back in the day I assumed it was a parody. A very on-the-nose parody of all the dead cliches in "lost episode" pastas. Somehow instead it only revitalized those awful cliches and brought them to the forefront. Crazy how that works. Also, what is the excellent tune at 5:47?
i need to applaud the voice acting for the reading of jc's angry paragraph, that shit was funny as hell