The story then goes that when you try to play the game, it will seem normal at first, but something will go wrong and everything will turn demonic. The story, published sometime in 2011, tells of a cursed or haunted CD-ROM with just “Sonic.EXE” written on it. In either case, one inspired the other, and soon enough a creepy meme was born. There is still some debate about which came first - the creepypasta story or the edited image of a demonic Sonic.