It started off with the classic sonic screen and the creepy red eyed Sonic and the blood as it should be, and even though I’ve seen other YouTubers play the game it felt like this was the first time I have ever approached this myself. Part of the humor may lie in the juxtaposition of a cheery, silly video game with grim horror tropes. Anyways without getting off topic On my desktop I extracted all the files and ran the game. It’s not clear how much of the creepypasta’s appeal was due to its scariness or an ironic appreciation of its amateurish writing and clichéd style, which later got it removed from the Creepypasta Wiki. The game and story both gathered tributes and parodies. Sonic.exe grew in popularity, and a game based on Sonic.exe was created in August 2012 by MY5TCrimson, along with other tributes and parodies. The creator later explained that the creepypasta had been inspired by an edited screencap of the character. A prominent feature of the story was the look of its murderous incarnation of Sonic, who had been given black, bleeding eyeballs with glowing red pupils. It centered around the video game franchise and character Sonic the Hedgehog. The CD had SONIC.EXE written on it (.exe is file extension designating an executable file).
In August 2011, user JC-the-Hyena submitted a story on the Creepypasta Wiki about a strange CD-ROM the narrator received from a friend. Sonic.exe is part of a genre of online horror stories known as creepypasta.