Which came first? The story or the world?

I am really curious as to which came first for the writting that everyone else is doing. To expand on the question that the title asks, do you make your stories start with making a world and filling it characters and lore and letting the story write itself? Or do you prefer to write out a story with twist and turns, love and betrayal, and fill in the blanks later on.

I ask because I am kind of at a cross roads as to which way to go. I have a decent amount of chracters thought out already and also lore and religion and all the fun stuff. On the other hand I have some scraps of dialogue written already, along with the beginings to the plot started. I am just unsure which way to focus my attention on more or to continue on the path of bouncing between the two.

I d my worlds and characters first, then I procrastinate for a year, then I come up with a plot

I have had this one character rattling around in my head for YEARS at this point, and I decided to include my friend's OC. Then, things just kinda spiraled out of control from there.

The story came first for me but I only had a general idea of the characters and I hadn't decided what I wanted their names or specific traits to be. The world was actually the last thing I thought of because I wanted the world to fit the characters instead of the characters to fit the world.

Its nice to see that it is back and forth between the two. It makes me feel better that I bounce between them.

Story for what im writing now

Sometimes the character will come to me first but mostly it’s the story i want to tell that I can recognize first.

I had a small idea for a short story that only had two characters. Later I expanded the world, then came up with a bigger plot