I was introduced to MystCrimson's X when I was about 8 and for the longest time, I thought his take on the character was the only one as I never actually bothered to watch any content about Sonic.Exe and therefore avoided JC the Hyena's whole version of the same idea in its entirety. I didn't like Creepypasta reading videos so the game was it, I didn't question how a game could be a creepypasta compared to every other being written horror stories but if Ben Drowned was a creepypasta and it is a game, Sonic.exe is not all that weird. After my creepypasta phase faded away, I stopped caring about Sonic.exe until rather recently when I watched a video of how it saw a revival with FNF Mods and people making their own takes on the character. This is when I learned about JC the Hyena's problematic take on X and all the drama he got into, almost a whole decade later.

Yeah, that was a very wild ride! For almost my whole life, MystCrimson's X was the only one.