User blog comment:SuperMarioman11/My Thoughts on Sonic.exe and Criticism in General/@comment-25393922-20140910204454

Sonic.exe cliches were already cliche when it was written. It was written in 2011. The original pastas that used it were written in 2008 or below.

That being said, it wasn't ever a good story. The reason it stayed was because it got popular and if we had deleted it earlier, we would've been unprepared to deal with the massive shitstorm that accompanied it not long after.