Formant, creator of DATA.MAC said that he "should not be considered an MX retake", he never said anything about people saying that MX and DATA.MAC are similar in colors or anything like that.

Let me give you an example: I think that 2011X and Executable M are similar in some way, both are retakes of the original creepypastas, and both look uglier and a bit intimidating than their original counterparts. And there will always be a person that would tell me to "not compare characters". Brotha it's not that deep, no need to get mad at me over that, not my fault their similar.

The only thing I do not appreciate is calling one character a retake of another character without creator of said character confirming that.