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So the creator of the original story, JCthehyena, remade the story in 2017 (it was just as bad) and he was also outed as a groomer or pedo or something and he fucked off more or less
Then
>Or did someone 'claim' it like the kid who does backrooms videos?
this kind of thing gets involved. """""""""Ownership"""""""""""" is a big deal in the EXE fandom, mostly cause, at its core, it's just an extension of the Sonic OC community which has the same deal going on. """""""""""Official Ownership""""""""""""" of the original og Sonic.EXE, hereafter referred to as 2011X, changed hands a few times but is now under JoeDoughBoi's ownership.
OC ownership is a whole fucking mess, usually changing hands after the creator gets outed or does something stupid or gets brigaded for whatever reason.
There's a few """""""official""""""" characters and canons (this shit is all very loosely defined of course). It's mostly just different approved creators doing their own stories. Please consult the attached chart.
There's also a bunch of smaller creators doing their own things. There's games like the Sonic.OMT series, the Shin Sonic video series (don't really know anything about this one, it is really popular I know), roblox games like The Disaster, Outcome Memories, Sonic saves Robloxia, Pillar Chase 2 (not actually an EXE game but it features a form of Sonic.EXE, rabbit hole). There's certainly more I'm forgetting.
The FNF side of things is also a huge part of it with the original Vs Sonic.EXE mod being ground zero for the entire resurgence of Sonic.EXE. Stuff like Rewrite and Sonic Legacy have also been hugely influential. Sonic EXE is really defined by pre-FNF and post-FNF eras.
There's also the Mario side of things which is very closely related, but that's a whole nother can of worms.
It's a huge subfandom of Sonic OC autism at the end of the day. Pretty crazy when you look into it.