Film Theory: Decoding the Horror of The Backrooms

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    It's time to re-enter The Backrooms, the scary found footage series that I have been OBSESSING over lately. Last time we covered the main story, so today I am looking to dive deeper into The Backrooms lore. What is the Monster? Is ANYTHING real or is reality a lie? That and more in today's Film Theory!
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  • @jshanks_
    @jshanks_ Před 2 lety +10348

    Imagine you no-clip into the backrooms and then you see matpat holding a notebook aggressively writing stuff down as he stares at a wall

    • @itzmeB2
      @itzmeB2 Před 2 lety +177

      This is the only comment i will like

    • @theblaze5530
      @theblaze5530 Před 2 lety +230

      I'll trust him with every cell of my body

    • @Shtickyaight
      @Shtickyaight Před 2 lety +163

      @@theblaze5530 every non-mutated cell of your body*

    • @69block11
      @69block11 Před 2 lety +89

      To be honest i would die from shock right then and there

    • @tigergamer998
      @tigergamer998 Před 2 lety +68

      the twist is he isn't looking at you but at a blackened wall.

  • @eyevisa77
    @eyevisa77 Před 2 lety +23025

    Theory: mothers are able to clip in and out of the backrooms, but only to find objects their kids have been looking for for 20 minutes

    • @boomshlang32
      @boomshlang32 Před 2 lety +670

      Underrated comment

    • @sapphirethegrrem
      @sapphirethegrrem Před 2 lety +430

      Nah nah, that's a fact.

    • @vanitas5908
      @vanitas5908 Před 2 lety +126

      ima clip through dA Bathroom

    • @3RaccooonsInATrenchcoat
      @3RaccooonsInATrenchcoat Před 2 lety +154

      Everything makes sense now!

    • @mercuryfalconog
      @mercuryfalconog Před 2 lety +224

      For real. For some time I actually thought my mom would take some things hide them and place them in my room in plain sight if I asked her if she saw it somewhere. Like a conspiracy. I am still convinced to this day that this is what happened. That or mothers have some special item find ability like you said

  • @Banan_Man_
    @Banan_Man_ Před 2 lety +2376

    the monster's screams kinda sounds like its saying "dont go" and stuff like that, and when the monster finally reaches the cameraman, instead of knocking him down, it saves the dude from falling down into the hole and most likely to his death. It seems to be trying to help the cameraman, but is too strong and likely kills a lot of its victims, hence the scary situation. who knows, could it be a human corrupted by the bacteria, barely hanging on to life?
    is this a job for the master theorist himself?

    • @not_estains
      @not_estains Před rokem +549

      Everyone asks "Where is the monster"
      But no one asks "How is the monster"

    • @ThermalScopes
      @ThermalScopes Před rokem +26

      @@not_estains wow I saw this 10 minutes after you made it

    • @not_estains
      @not_estains Před rokem +14

      @@ThermalScopes jesus christ

    • @samkohlo9158
      @samkohlo9158 Před rokem +9

      @@not_estains im seeing this now, 40 minutes later

    • @not_estains
      @not_estains Před rokem +7

      @@samkohlo9158 ;-;

  • @pajamies0
    @pajamies0 Před 2 lety +2742

    I personally love the idea that the Backrooms is just a really intense, glitchy game of Prop Hunt

    • @smilloww2095
      @smilloww2095 Před 2 lety +49

      Tbh I really don't hope that the video game theory is true. Much like "dream theories", it kinda takes away the grand mistery and reality of the whole thing imo.

    • @thaankyoou3881
      @thaankyoou3881 Před rokem +37

      @@smilloww2095 speak for yourself, for the others who easily become paranoid, the fact that the backrooms are a game or fiction gives everyone immense relief to continue living our lives

    • @smilloww2095
      @smilloww2095 Před rokem +25

      @@thaankyoou3881 I literally am speaking for myself. ?

    • @thaankyoou3881
      @thaankyoou3881 Před rokem +14

      @@smilloww2095 oh true, my bad

    • @idokaravani2916
      @idokaravani2916 Před rokem +3

      Ye me too

  • @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache
    @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache Před 2 lety +24352

    The idea that The Backrooms is “a video game” that you simply no-clip into as you’ve mentioned, I bet speedrunners would find a way to escape The Backrooms through glitches and “mechanics”.

  • @ec23472
    @ec23472 Před 2 lety +3687

    Theory: When the guy was separated from his group, he trespassed time-space and came back as some time later, which is how he finds the control room that is barely being built just as he goes out, as shown in Motion Detected

    • @NanoBotSigma
      @NanoBotSigma Před 2 lety +174

      Yeah! This ties in with another comment on the new pitfalls video. They noticed that the kids song plays in the video despite it coming out 17 years after the date of the footage. You are definitely onto something.

    • @kufASMR
      @kufASMR Před 2 lety +36

      YOU ONTO SOMETHING

    • @mrreyes5004
      @mrreyes5004 Před 2 lety +87

      To be honest, we probably should've figured this out way sooner. It's been known for a while now that irl space and time are actually closely linked together (IIRC some physicists are actually starting to think that time and space may actually be part of the exact same thing instead of different ideas). This means that if the Backrooms really are disconnected from conventional space (and indeed it is), then it makes perfect sense that the flow of time is also out of wack.

    • @nathanstafford8412
      @nathanstafford8412 Před 2 lety +6

      This is true

    • @NathanDavisVideos
      @NathanDavisVideos Před 2 lety +3

      Yeah I noticed that.

  • @hassi44
    @hassi44 Před rokem +562

    7:00 No. Not dumb. When you are in an infinite maze, the capacity to build walls is perhaps one the most useful things you can have. By building walls, you can simplify the maze, making it far easier to navigate - particularly if you're using colored lanes and signs to indicate where you are. That means it's also easier to remember the layout of a given area. Additionally, by building rooms and closing them off with marked doors, you even further simplify the maze, because you reduce the necessary navigational area. Even further, you can close off any undesirable passages that lead to dangerous zones within the maze, making it far safer to traverse.
    Don't underestimate walls, MattPat. They've been a genius invention that's lasted us for thousands upon thousands of years.

  • @bonetodesfall
    @bonetodesfall Před 2 lety +112

    I think the backrooms monster is some sort of mutated camera. It could be one of the cameras in Motion Detected because the creature seems to be attracted to motion("don't move" written on the wall in the first Backrooms video) and also records its victims' screams because the camera starts recording when it detects loud sounds, making it able to imitate humans like you see in Pitfalls.

  • @adambump5297
    @adambump5297 Před 2 lety +1093

    The idea that you can just randomly stumble into a portal that leads to an endless maze of hallways that are filled with monsters while walking around is absolutely terrifying. If it was real I’d never leave my house like ever I mean I barely do anyway as is but you get my point.

    • @grumpyramzeee173
      @grumpyramzeee173 Před 2 lety +12

      ur not alone

    • @myscreen2urs
      @myscreen2urs Před 2 lety +123

      what makes your think that staying in your house would make you any safer from no clipping. You could no clip just lying in your bed in the middle of your sleep. sleep tight, don't let the backrooms bite🙃

    • @diamom_
      @diamom_ Před 2 lety +56

      Bro you can no-clip even without moving at all

    • @tanjiro6522
      @tanjiro6522 Před 2 lety +10

      @@diamom_ yep

    • @paulcoy9060
      @paulcoy9060 Před 2 lety +34

      People who lock themselves in their houses tend to disappear anyway. Maybe that's what really happens to our missing persons.

  • @Steveobrine_Official
    @Steveobrine_Official Před 2 lety +2606

    I absolutely love how much research and science Kane puts into these episodes. Most horror episodes are just, “oOOoOoH cReEpY bRoDcAsT” but this is actually a really realistic project. Even better that the graphics add even more realism to it. Glad to see you’re just as obsessed with these as I am!

    • @Shinransa
      @Shinransa Před 2 lety +53

      Yeah this is the main criticism I have towards analogue horror, it's either mixed in with actual footage and has some semblance of reality to it(as in, it looks like it could be an actual tape at first) OR it's just a creepy and clearly made up PSA tape that tries to scare you. The reason this genre is scary is because it's blended with a lot of reality.

    • @temmie9430
      @temmie9430 Před 2 lety +8

      I think i will always carry a bottle of 🧋almond water.
      Just in case . . .

    • @DanTutorial
      @DanTutorial Před 2 lety +4

      And some were just. Oh no, the monster is chasing you!
      But I still do like the chase scenes, making feel familiar from a dream you remember.

    • @outgoingcall
      @outgoingcall Před 2 lety +8

      Yeah and he's 16.

    • @Gorbthegreatmind14312
      @Gorbthegreatmind14312 Před 2 lety

      I just wish he went to the wiki but whatever

  • @HugoJugoPro
    @HugoJugoPro Před 2 lety +764

    Theory: The description of “The Backrooms (Found Footage)” dates the video as September 23, 1996, but if you look at the movie clapboard, the dates is stated as 7/4/91. I believe September 23, 1996 was the date the footage was FOUND, when the recording was made July 4, 1991. Could be important.

    • @adinoabiadanadyaksa7007
      @adinoabiadanadyaksa7007 Před 2 lety +51

      You're Right! After Kane Noclipped Out Of Reality!
      Before Kane Is Missing!
      Camera Landing On Grass
      Kane Was Presumed Died!

    • @SStupendous
      @SStupendous Před rokem +21

      This is good, good. At 16:37 I picked something out also - the evidence MatPat mentions like the random stuff about, desn't really mean it's a simulation; some of these are different levels of the backrooms, that's insufficient evidence to say the Backrooms/reality is a simulation...

    • @HenryBoiProductions
      @HenryBoiProductions Před rokem +1

      That's exactly what I was thinking!

    • @WapTek123
      @WapTek123 Před rokem +1

      YES!

    • @crangejo
      @crangejo Před rokem +4

      It's confirmed that the Back Rooms can shift you to different points in time by the series

  • @teeblrtok2100
    @teeblrtok2100 Před rokem +448

    Theory: Theoretically speaking, there is an infinite distance between any 2 given particles if you are small enough so if the backrooms were actually just super small with a some how seamless transition while shrinking/"falling in" that would explain the size of the bacteria, how no one ever gets seriously hurt when falling large distances, and the seemingly infinite volume of the backrooms.

    • @jackalenterprisesofohio
      @jackalenterprisesofohio Před rokem +8

      Like when you stub your toe on a flat floor?

    • @child722
      @child722 Před rokem +7

      i like this

    • @WapTek123
      @WapTek123 Před rokem +3

      ok O please just stop,
      this is not making me feel safe dreaming ...

    • @WapTek123
      @WapTek123 Před rokem +3

      ps: do this as a short story lol

    • @jinx8624
      @jinx8624 Před rokem +2

      Im not smart enough to understand what u saying

  • @winterdreller5840
    @winterdreller5840 Před 2 lety +14878

    I like how enthusiastic he is about all the series he does. It almost doesn’t matter what he covers, so much as he himself likes it

  • @HumanoidG0rilla
    @HumanoidG0rilla Před 2 lety +2823

    About the monster, I have my personal theory on what it is. It most likely is bacteria but I also think it is more.
    This cluster of bacteria seems to have some sort of exoskeleton. During the brief moments we see it it maintains a basic shape, a long narrow design that mimics a human. It has legs, arms, and a face but a weird ejection on the side.
    With that being said I would like to direct your attention to something else. In the very first video there was a warning right before the monster was fully shown. It said “Don’t move, stay still.” Strange that it says that, shouldn’t you be running away from it? What could possibly be the reason?
    There’s only one thing we’ve found that in the backrooms that could detect motion, the cameras. You see, during the motions detected video, one of the cameras had a “microphone failure” and shortly after that it shows the creepy “motion detected” scene. My guess is that this bacteria doesn’t just walk around as a culture, it “infected” one of the cameras and used this body as a way to move around. It also has a very similar design to it, two arms and one leg (the same amount of limbs on the camera stands), along with a weird protruding stick (which is the stick used to adjust stands from what I know), and the final thing being it’s head (it’s the camera).

    • @Prestonian1
      @Prestonian1 Před 2 lety +338

      That actually really makes since, and would explain its weird design

    • @rokeYouuer
      @rokeYouuer Před 2 lety +280

      Just from it's design, I thought it was a creepy camera on a tripod.

    • @strawberrypencl
      @strawberrypencl Před 2 lety +140

      Bro I actually love this theory

    • @georgemurdock7670
      @georgemurdock7670 Před 2 lety +62

      Pretty sure motion cameras can’t differentiate if something moves in front of them or you move them in front of something. So if its a camera wich moves on his own, how could it know if you move or don’t move? Either way it sees movement.
      That this monster looks human even tho its most likely not can be explained with converged evolution.
      Maybe its just a wolf or smth but glitched. Just look at footage of fallout 76 after it got released, when the backroom is simulated there could be way worse glitches.

    • @geekygamergirl7259
      @geekygamergirl7259 Před 2 lety +47

      I honestly had that thought the moment we were introduced to the cameras. I mean MatPat even compared the basic structure of the monster to a tripod the very first time he saw it. I even thought to myself in the motion detected video before they decided the shape was legs "Hey. That reminds me of the 'arms' when school textbooks talk about bacteria and cells!"

  • @YouCanCallMeIz
    @YouCanCallMeIz Před rokem +74

    I love how kane uses already existing liminal space images that are popular in the backrooms community in some of his work. Seeing the weird apartment complex was such a treat, I hope he does more stuff like that.

  • @dontask9000
    @dontask9000 Před 2 lety +103

    I’d genuinely love a TV series about the Backrooms. It would be the perfect horror series.

  • @Oraclix
    @Oraclix Před 2 lety +929

    The whole ‘mundane horror’ thing is what gets me.
    Looking at this shade of yellow forever would drive me insane.

  • @grid644
    @grid644 Před 2 lety +1709

    The thing with the backrooms is that there are multiple timelines/lore. The different wikis all have different lore, with Kane creating his own lore and making up the whole ASYNC storyline. So just beware that there is different lore depending on the story.

    • @miyaismyqueen6277
      @miyaismyqueen6277 Před 2 lety +91

      Matpat keeps neglecting the whole lore and wiki, I love kane pixels and all... but they're only focused on the yellow room. I want vids about the Crimson forest, the Sky room, the Void. A whole lot more being completly left out!

    • @the_oofer
      @the_oofer Před 2 lety +9

      Some talk about multiple levels too

    • @drishalballaney6590
      @drishalballaney6590 Před 2 lety +11

      These Backrooms are completely fictional right?

    • @bmuhammadthariqhumaid4670
      @bmuhammadthariqhumaid4670 Před 2 lety +17

      @@drishalballaney6590 yes

    • @alligatorwithinternetacess3972
      @alligatorwithinternetacess3972 Před 2 lety +62

      @@drishalballaney6590 No they're real, been there, the demons are pretty chill

  • @tamia8298
    @tamia8298 Před rokem +58

    It is interesting that the creatures are so violent from an evolutionary perspective. Usually things are only aggressive if they have to hunt or defend themselves from being hunted (think horses vs zebras)
    Why are these creatures so aggressive? Do they fight each other? Are they targeted by something else?

    • @kisa8930
      @kisa8930 Před rokem +7

      I do see your points although this is the backrooms a lot of the time things don’t follow our typical rules.

    • @KickenItOldSchool
      @KickenItOldSchool Před 9 měsíci +1

      Bacteria doesn't think like a fully sized mammal

    • @tftc97
      @tftc97 Před 8 měsíci +1

      i think it's just bacteria going crazy

  • @TheRealCybop
    @TheRealCybop Před 2 lety +37

    The camera guy that glitched was glitched forward in time by the backrooms. At the end of "Backrooms - Presentation" there was a camera showing a guy in a hazmat suit under a red alarm 🚨. This shows that the backrooms can change time for some people.

  • @noteleks_
    @noteleks_ Před 2 lety +1996

    It’s also possible that the entity could be one of the motion detecting tripod cameras covered in the bacteria. Those only activate when they see movement, and the writing on the wall from the first video advises you not to move while the monster is near, so the possibility does make sense. The bacteria could have spread from a nearby wall onto the camera, and used it as a makeshift skeletal system to move with. The entity also has a very rigid way of moving, which could be due to the tripod’s legs being very stiff, or just animation limitations. Either way, it’s an interesting possibility.

    • @vyncopz505
      @vyncopz505 Před 2 lety +81

      I really like your theory

    • @noteleks_
      @noteleks_ Před 2 lety +79

      @@vyncopz505 I love the theory too, I actually wasn’t the one to come up with it though. I’ve seen different parts of it in the comments section of the Kane Pixels videos, and I just pieced them together here. The community’s smarter than I am lol

    • @thecomposerchanginggames5250
      @thecomposerchanginggames5250 Před 2 lety +21

      I mean, I have heard many people compare it to a walking tripod, so this makes sense

    • @Friendlynuker
      @Friendlynuker Před 2 lety +25

      @Kyle Conley NO! NOT TOO BAD, BE VERY GLAD THIS DOESN'T EXIST (at least i really hope it doesn't), IMAGINE NOCLIPPING INTO NUNREALITY WHILE JUST LIVING!

    • @lookstothetroon
      @lookstothetroon Před 2 lety +11

      @@Friendlynuker is this 'nunreality' just reality but everything is nun related?

  • @AromonChannel
    @AromonChannel Před 2 lety +1165

    Fun fact: the backroom video lore made by "kane" is not entirely based on the official backroom wiki or fandom story, it is based on his own story, so all of the lore and science that kane put into his video is pure original idea by kane himself! Dangg that guy is definitely gonna make some more awesome cgi movie in the future

    • @4Angel4cross4eyes
      @4Angel4cross4eyes Před 2 lety +53

      I think that is what makes the Backrooms idea so interesting. Is that all of us technically can create our own interpretations of the Backrooms or something like it. I mean the lore in itself is malleable. Same as any Creepypasta or urban legend. There are so many interesting things people can do with all these new internet-created mythos.

    • @lueezationlueezaming2928
      @lueezationlueezaming2928 Před 2 lety +12

      W h e r e is t h e a l m o n d w a t e r

    • @santigamerprogamer6493
      @santigamerprogamer6493 Před 2 lety +2

      @@lueezationlueezaming2928 Go raise your floppa elsewhere

    • @ZeranZeran
      @ZeranZeran Před 2 lety +1

      @@4Angel4cross4eyes I love the Local58, Project Gemini, and Monument Mythos so much. it is honestly some of the scariest, and coolest thing I've seen since I was a small child. It scares me, and gives me a sense of hope at the same time. I love them.

    • @thecatacombhimself
      @thecatacombhimself Před 2 lety

      thanks hat kid hilda

  • @cats101_yt3
    @cats101_yt3 Před rokem +26

    You’ve been comparing the backrooms to being like the unused assets in games, and the monsters are bacterial. What if they could be viruses instead, and quite literally viruses in both senses: game virus, and microorganism virus

    • @elknackebroto7447
      @elknackebroto7447 Před rokem

      serious question: in your opinion, wat is a game virus?

    • @cats101_yt3
      @cats101_yt3 Před rokem +2

      @@elknackebroto7447 when I say game virus, I guess I mean some kind of malware/glitch that corrupts the game

    • @Julian-pw5mv
      @Julian-pw5mv Před rokem

      @@cats101_yt3 you mean a computer virus?

  • @R.DeMora
    @R.DeMora Před 2 lety +7

    For anyone that's interested, there is a second channel that shows another aspect of this series called A-Sync Research, showing us even more lore. Matpat has a lot material he could work with, other than Kane Pixels uploads!

  • @RealPlasmat1c
    @RealPlasmat1c Před 2 lety +1583

    If this theory is actually proven correct, then wouldn't that mean that the monster is a computer virus or a piece of malware? Could that mean that the players being attacked is like files being attacked by malware and being corrupted, like the body?
    edit: huh, this comment blew up, guess I wasn't alone in thinking that the backrooms could be related to computers.

    • @TheEpicGalaxy21
      @TheEpicGalaxy21 Před 2 lety +82

      Maybe, though he's just assuming that the monster is an evolved bacteria from our simulation, so it's less of a computer virus or malware and more of a crazy bugged out enemy.

    • @ShadowPhoenix82
      @ShadowPhoenix82 Před 2 lety

      No, it being correct doesn't change the fact that biological matter is entering. It doesn't suddenly mean they are digital. It's just as likely to prove a corporeal construct in a dimension beholden to new laws of physics.
      But yes, it could also just mean the whole world is a digital game and the backrooms is storing unused assets

    • @salihm4531
      @salihm4531 Před 2 lety +51

      I'd think that, following the theory above, it'd make more sense to me if the entities were actually like some form of firewall. He stated that reality itself was a simulation and the backrooms were merely storage for the unused parts of the simulation, and if that's the case, it also means that something created the simulation, and wouldn't want to leave the 'construction site', IE the place where all assets of the simulation are stored, unprotected.
      And so they created a firewall to protect the storage 'file' from malware, or unwanted access from humans, rather. Most likely the creator(s) of the simulation would be aware of the glitches, also, so its not all that surprising that they'd know to protect the assets from corruption from the humans, who themselves would technically be an asset stored away somewhere in the backrooms.
      Another take could be that the creatures are what's left of humans who got trapped there.
      Having an asset--humans would technically be an asset stored somewhere in the backrooms--explore the place where assets are stored, would probably cause some form of corruption to the data. Perhaps the entities within the back rooms are humans who did something within them that caused their data to be corrupted, thus turning them into the creatures.

    • @peppermint13me
      @peppermint13me Před 2 lety +6

      Nah... I think that's taking the simulation theory too far, I think it's more like what the series already suggested. It's a mutated strain of bacteria that took on a more animal like form.

    • @KamenDesantis
      @KamenDesantis Před 2 lety +4

      What about an AI, like the ones we train to play mario brothers and other video games? Those are evolving programs that change their routine, literally changing the shape and structure of their code, based on what they encounter in the simulation. If such an evolving system had a physical presence inside the simulation, how might it be rendered? And how might it adjust itself, how might it be shaped, when encountering humans?

  • @zakthefurryfeline8865
    @zakthefurryfeline8865 Před 2 lety +808

    I like how he explains all the bacteria stuff like he’s pieced together the puzzle, and then drops the bombshell that Kane literally said it’s a bacteria

    • @Yikes_Doodles
      @Yikes_Doodles Před rokem +19

      exactly- watching this for the first time is just. "... He knew that the whole time and chose to tell us that last..?"

    • @ayt3877
      @ayt3877 Před rokem +19

      not necessarily, Kane might be implying it is an invader/unnatural occupant of the backrooms, like a bacteria infecting the body.

  • @jackmcgrath9570
    @jackmcgrath9570 Před rokem +21

    I love how theories can go from backrooms to The Simpsons. I love it.

  • @YanntastischGER
    @YanntastischGER Před 2 lety +5

    I find it kinda funny that Kane Pixel's series is in most people's head, even tho it has nothing to do with the lore (summarized on the Fandom and Wikidot). xD
    I see less theories about the pre-existing lore, but so much for the video series, Kane really hit with the quality of these videos. Of course I find them amazing.

  • @wholesomemusic9
    @wholesomemusic9 Před 2 lety +1646

    I guess what I immediately thought of when I saw the Backrooms was the story of "The Yellow Wallpaper" which was written by a British author about a woman who had gone crazy while being exposed to such a hideous yellow wallpaper. As she continued to stare and observe it, she soon became obsessed with it, even hallucinating a woman trying to break free from the interior of the design. This can kind of reflect into the Backrooms, where the main character is trying to find a way out of this yellow wallpaper.

    • @e.8462
      @e.8462 Před 2 lety +51

      That was my first thought too I loved that short story. She was locked in that room with the yellow wallpaper right?

    • @Folker46590
      @Folker46590 Před 2 lety +3

      HorrorBabble.

    • @robotoorigato7288
      @robotoorigato7288 Před 2 lety +5

      Oh yeah, I remember reading that story.

    • @wholesomemusic9
      @wholesomemusic9 Před 2 lety +39

      @@e.8462 Not locked inside with it, but her husband wouldn't let her leave the house so she spent a lot of time inside that room with the wallpaper

    • @youngcuzzoproductions
      @youngcuzzoproductions Před 2 lety +2

      but what abt the other levels? how would you describe them?

  • @Wrenosaur_
    @Wrenosaur_ Před 2 lety +6121

    It's so inspiring how Kane Pixels is only 16 yet he's able to do all this

    • @lucaskuk6453
      @lucaskuk6453 Před 2 lety +381

      He's gonna have a good career

    • @backroomsvfx1781
      @backroomsvfx1781 Před 2 lety +29

      IKR

    • @shame1039
      @shame1039 Před 2 lety +63

      @@powdereyes2210 yeah you should just give up, If you're older than them and they're better honestly you should just give up in life you will not reach the greatness that they achieve.

    • @thereader6371
      @thereader6371 Před 2 lety +26

      That is because of male privilege to be honest, if it was a female that created this series you all would not have given any attention to it.

    • @Wrenosaur_
      @Wrenosaur_ Před 2 lety +429

      @@thereader6371 lmaoo no ? What ever made that thought cross your mind? Its not about his gender its about his age, you cant just assume everyone on earth is sexist?

  • @heidilarsson6000
    @heidilarsson6000 Před rokem +5

    The backrooms were the last places we were safe before the internet crash. We appreciate you helping us understand our stories together.

  • @fauxxfire_7803
    @fauxxfire_7803 Před rokem +4

    I’ve always kind of looked at the back rooms as an alternate dimension such as the upside down is in Stranger Things. Much like the Upside Down this space was formless or unknowable until humanity tore a breach into it, upon which the space began to try to mimic the human world as a strange, warped, and incomplete version of our own.

  • @rat8907
    @rat8907 Před 2 lety +817

    As a child I listened to a radio station called “when radio was” and Sunday nights they’d play old timey recordings of twilight. Little Girl Lost was played one night. It was horrifying for me and has stuck with me for a long time. No wonder this concept is so popular when it’s so terrifying in the first place

  • @Gabe_Cross
    @Gabe_Cross Před 2 lety +2377

    They say that in the backrooms, there is this substance called almond water. I would be interested in knowing what that would taste like.

  • @fbi6937
    @fbi6937 Před rokem +4

    The intro ended up scaring me so much that I freaked out so much about hearing creaking in my floor that I almost reached for the closest deadly weapon and ran to baracade my door but it turned out to be my cat and keep in mind that this was at 3 in the morning so I FREAKED TF OUT

  • @TimeBucks
    @TimeBucks Před 2 lety +3177

    how much research and science Kane puts into these episodes

    • @ahimahmad8932
      @ahimahmad8932 Před 2 lety +71

      Yes true he puts ALOT of effort into these videos and I also just blocked a guy from saying "FIRST I COMMENTED FIRST ON A VERIFIED ACCOUNT HAHA NOOBS"
      thank me later

    • @mrchunkorius
      @mrchunkorius Před 2 lety +4

      lol

    • @leafy126.5
      @leafy126.5 Před 2 lety +7

      He puts pretty much no research into these videos. Barely anything he has made is accurate to backrooms lore

    • @itsprodigit
      @itsprodigit Před 2 lety +66

      @@leafy126.5 he has his own lore

    • @itsprodigit
      @itsprodigit Před 2 lety +60

      @@dogsalami3324 nobody said kane created the concept, he just took said concept and made it his own. he did not create the backrooms, but created his own take on it

  • @kurtbarlow9402
    @kurtbarlow9402 Před 2 lety +435

    I like his designs the most.
    Very few actual "rooms", just lots of open areas, spaces and hallways. Almost every area you enter has at least one other way out, and there aren't many traditional doorways, only floor to ceiling openings

    • @FracturedPixels
      @FracturedPixels Před 2 lety +7

      It feels distinctly procedurally generated, much like Diablo's endless labyrinths. It uses an algorithm of drawing squares of floor at random, connecting them with hallways and then drawing walls around any open sides, which produces this exact pattern you describe.

  • @Dark-cq1sj
    @Dark-cq1sj Před 2 lety +4

    I know im a bit late to this and he's probably already realized this but in an earlier video it literally shows that the backrooms are a computer generated place, so it would make sense there are glitches and stuff, like the rest of the crew disappearing

  • @Wreckingballblu
    @Wreckingballblu Před rokem +1

    Honestly, the fact that Kane has made a continuity that stays in line with one cannon is so much better than what the backrooms and scp foundation have become, I came to adore Halo and Fallout lore because it stays consistent and makes sense, there pretty much only one cannon story, but with these two, any guy and his discord gaggle can make a new cannon story that completely upends any amount of credible, interesting, or understandable story that there is, these community made stories just don;t have the same love or power put into them as a solo or like minded team could do, and it sucks because there's so many decent ideas that get left by the waste side because there's zero unity in the storytelling.

  • @DashFlashTheLife
    @DashFlashTheLife Před 2 lety +756

    We really need to acknowledge how incredible it is that a 16 year old is making such a good series
    Edit: Kane Pixels is 16! He’s also a TREMENDOUSLY talented sound designer. His second channel, “Not Kane Pixels,” has a backrooms OST. He weaves music that really, REALLY take you inside the head of someone in the backrooms. It’s terrifyingly intriguing. Go check some of his music out! “Not Kane Pixels”

    • @Trifvas
      @Trifvas Před 2 lety +5

      Play the game Control. Bakrooms just seems to be a live action copy. Still cool though.

    • @WD_Gaster66
      @WD_Gaster66 Před 2 lety +52

      @@Trifvas I mean, no. Specially since Control is SCP based

    • @bussin5878
      @bussin5878 Před 2 lety +31

      16???

    • @fbiagent3998
      @fbiagent3998 Před 2 lety +34

      THEYRE 16???

    • @Deltexterity
      @Deltexterity Před 2 lety +11

      if anything isnt that kind of insulting? like, *thats* what you focus on, and only kanes age is what makes it impressive? seems demeaning to me. why is age used in a demeaning way so frequently, its really frustrating.

  • @unknownvariable9239
    @unknownvariable9239 Před 2 lety +502

    It’s so cool how it feels like a modernized version of Minotaur’s labyrinth with endless halls and an unknown monster. The video game idea actually makes a lot of sense and makes me even more excited for future episodes in Kane’s story

    • @alicechengo3003
      @alicechengo3003 Před 2 lety

      czcams.com/video/MmxQR1qr6r4/video.html

    • @nedflandersmustache
      @nedflandersmustache Před 2 lety +7

      @Yasmen Mostfa Crazy! Almost like nobody asked!

    • @AG-zv9jo
      @AG-zv9jo Před 2 lety

      I've seen you around.. algorithm I guess.

    • @ItzPaydayFellas
      @ItzPaydayFellas Před 2 lety

      There are already backroom video games, made years before kane's vids

  • @jonahbeghtol4832
    @jonahbeghtol4832 Před rokem +4

    My personal universe is a mix of the fandom backrooms, Kane's backrooms and the original backrooms. So people have been no clipping since the beginning of time and the fandom backrooms are made, levels, entities, the MEG etc. Then the A-sync team discovered the backrooms. After it was discovered it created a spike in people no clipping.

  • @red.rose.rose.r0se
    @red.rose.rose.r0se Před rokem +1

    16:17 I find it ironic and satisfying that matpat used the term "threshold" . The Backrooms are what is considered a "liminal space" which is derived from the Latin word "Limen". That word translates to "threshold" in English.
    Idk if that was intentional or just a coincidence :))

  • @TG-om1ue
    @TG-om1ue Před 2 lety +504

    I like the idea of the backrooms without monsters, the feeling that there might be monsters lurking around than there actually being some is way worse

    • @paulcoy9060
      @paulcoy9060 Před 2 lety +41

      Yeah, mutant bacteria isn't really my idea of a "monster". It's like a normal everyday problem, just bigger. Throw some Lysol on it and no problem.

    • @ILikedGooglePlus
      @ILikedGooglePlus Před 2 lety +7

      Factos

    • @MatthewT394
      @MatthewT394 Před 2 lety

      have a bunch of soldiers hunt you down in there, unique take.

    • @TheSkyman8
      @TheSkyman8 Před 2 lety +19

      eh i kinda like it from the perspective that they are people who got twisted and mutated gives an additional layer of fucked. if you survive everything you’ll just end up another hunter

    • @NamHoang-oy7lj
      @NamHoang-oy7lj Před 2 lety

      Yeah idk man feels like you haven't watched the data on EVERY OTHER LEVEL THAN LEVEL 0

  • @mqtyqs
    @mqtyqs Před 2 lety +270

    As the camera fell to the ground after the attack, the next cut already showed that it was falling into the Earth. My theory is if you are stuck in backrooms you can get back to reality by throwing yourself heavily to the ground or by running into a wall. You just need to find a bug

    • @epicmonke3319
      @epicmonke3319 Před 2 lety +31

      You need to miss every single atom by pure luck after touching an object, that is theorically possible in real life, it's just that even missing one single atom is insane

    • @ClockworkGearhead
      @ClockworkGearhead Před 2 lety +11

      @@epicmonke3319 Unless that universe isn't made of atoms. Dun dun dun!

    • @GrandWushu
      @GrandWushu Před 2 lety +1

      Hope you are wearing a parachute when you attempt it, because you might get back to reality, but I don't think you would survive the fall.

    • @bryanmullins379
      @bryanmullins379 Před 2 lety +1

      @@ClockworkGearhead you just need those cosmic rays to hit

  • @mrmemes7883
    @mrmemes7883 Před 2 lety +7

    I think the hay bacillus came from the corpse of nick bolton. See how there's so much of it around him? I think that it came from his gut, and adapted to the backrooms, likely attaching to one of the cameras and using it as a host (as commenter Eastcorp presented under this video) He was ground zero for the monster.

  • @PlaneCrazy1999
    @PlaneCrazy1999 Před rokem

    that pen meme was so dank I literally screenshotted, cropped, and even emailed it to myself to treasure it forever on my other devices

  • @colevinson5578
    @colevinson5578 Před 2 lety +856

    the new episode "pitfalls" is extremely interesting with the lore. The episode is dated 5/6/1990, and as seen at the beginning the structure the team was building is finished. What's interesting though is that this room is clearly the same room seen at the end of "informational video", which is dated 2/29/1990, when no such room existed. On top of that the names of George and Marvin(Marvin being the one to fall down the hole in "pitfalls") appear in both episodes as the group of three we see disappear in "informational video" and the main group in "pitfalls". This means that the one to disappear was our camera holder in "informational video" and he must've time traveled in some aspect.

    • @twoshillings7292
      @twoshillings7292 Před 2 lety +23

      don’t forget that 2/29/1990 is not a real date, as 1990 wasn’t a leap year!

    • @smiley7399
      @smiley7399 Před 2 lety +2

      @@twoshillings7292 Watch the video..

    • @twoshillings7292
      @twoshillings7292 Před 2 lety +4

      @@smiley7399 yeah…i did…? weirdo

    • @smiley7399
      @smiley7399 Před 2 lety +3

      @@twoshillings7292 If you did, then you would know that Matpat said "It maybe possible in a different timeline/universe" where it could've possibly happend.

    • @twoshillings7292
      @twoshillings7292 Před 2 lety +4

      @@smiley7399 you lack common sense huh buddy

  • @wittymchitty
    @wittymchitty Před 2 lety +114

    What I'm getting from this is that the Backrooms is a terrifying version of Pac-Man.
    - Big maze that repeats itself
    - Monster that wanders the halls and chases you
    - Random items you can use to your advantage
    - deafening repetitive noise

    • @TheRealAxolotlAnimates
      @TheRealAxolotlAnimates Před 2 lety +15

      Then that means there are power pellets are in the maze that allow you to eat the monsters. I will find the power pellets

    • @BeefSupreme1422
      @BeefSupreme1422 Před 2 lety +10

      waka waka waka

    • @user-lk2ex7ng8r
      @user-lk2ex7ng8r Před 2 lety +1

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    • @whoasked6696
      @whoasked6696 Před 2 lety +3

      So.. a Minecraft cave

    • @moonlightgarden1921
      @moonlightgarden1921 Před 2 lety +2

      @@user-lk2ex7ng8r I don't know what you mean by that (And I don't trust random links on CZcams, as clicking on them could hurt you), but personally, I think MatPat and his theories are really smart. Sure, not all of them turn out to be true, but that's why they are theories.

  • @BingusBongusss
    @BingusBongusss Před 2 lety +7

    0:16 bro be breathing like darth vader

  • @cactichris9829
    @cactichris9829 Před rokem +6

    If you ever read “ dark they were, and golden eyed” I like to believe that the back rooms is like that. In the book colonists go to mars but slowly turn into martions. I believe that you turn into the monster eventually in the backrooms

  • @Beebs4583
    @Beebs4583 Před 2 lety +923

    This is such a cool series! I love the ominous layout. It’s scary even without a monster.

    • @MbitaChizi
      @MbitaChizi Před 2 lety +2

      Dont Read My name😑

    • @user-jm6qe6sz2p
      @user-jm6qe6sz2p Před 2 lety +1

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    • @bruh1521
      @bruh1521 Před 2 lety +24

      Jesus Christ help, these replies are too much

    • @Yanzinator
      @Yanzinator Před 2 lety +8

      well that's good because that floor shouldn't have a monster

    • @cyber_gypsygaming7452
      @cyber_gypsygaming7452 Před 2 lety +2

      Dude someone just copied your comment 😢

  • @user-bn9ss2hv6v
    @user-bn9ss2hv6v Před 2 lety +3269

    I would love to see an actual movie based off the backrooms called "Noclip."

    • @benito23453
      @benito23453 Před 2 lety +4

      MatPat is a brain burner!(Правдивое видео):
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    • @Grimmmmmmmm454
      @Grimmmmmmmm454 Před 2 lety +4

      Is it any good?

    • @user-bn9ss2hv6v
      @user-bn9ss2hv6v Před 2 lety +36

      @@Grimmmmmmmm454 if it gets right attention and has enough money and is made by a good movie company with good actors then yes it will be good

    • @nugget1024
      @nugget1024 Před 2 lety +5

      Tho heres the problem which backroom

    • @user-bn9ss2hv6v
      @user-bn9ss2hv6v Před 2 lety +9

      @@nugget1024 how about somewhere to three levels. Since the backrooms is endless I thought that we should stick with 3 or 4 levels to choose. Any rooms we can choose from?

  • @mateomzARCHIVES
    @mateomzARCHIVES Před rokem +1

    3:53 The best subtle easter egg Matt’s done in the channel.

  • @samt4201
    @samt4201 Před rokem +1

    12:09 - This is so funny, because I did an entire 12 page essay about the Hollow Earth theory for my English IV Persuasive Rhetoric class in my last year of high school. From what I read (Though I was limited to the websites my school allows, so I'm sure this might not be right), the first person to believe that the Earth was hollow was the man who founded Halley's comet, Edmond Halley. He came up with the idea because he had gathered information from something that involved the magnetic pole of our planet and saw how the differed from one place to another. So, he came up with this Russian-doll nesting idea about our Earth and how, beneath our crust, there is another layer of our planet with space in-between, sustainable for human life, and under that crust was another crust with the same aspects and so on. Some people even took that idea and added entrance points at the poles, though, I couldn't find anything about those **Completed** expeditions to find those entrances. So yeah.

  • @JAMJR84
    @JAMJR84 Před 2 lety +415

    This reminds me the most of how you could access weird out of bounds areas in the original NES Metroid. They weren't really "there" but rather just a quirk with how the engine rendered the rooms and stitched them together to form the game world. They were empty, dead ends basically, and I remember being pretty creeped out by it for some reason when I was younger.

    • @jojoversus1100
      @jojoversus1100 Před 2 lety +6

      You should look up Mountain Climber Sky glitch. It's an Atari game, & the glitch let's you basically fly up past the boundaries of the game, & you enter an entire world of glitches. It's really cool to see.

    • @jojoversus1100
      @jojoversus1100 Před 2 lety +4

      & yeah, theres a strange feeling when you go into dead areas in games you werent meant to go to. I remember getting outside of the gate in Castlevania: Symphony of the Night for the first time. It was a very strange feeling.

    • @mannav1466
      @mannav1466 Před 2 lety +4

      @@jojoversus1100 can you describe that particular "feeling" you felt?

    • @jojoversus1100
      @jojoversus1100 Před 2 lety +3

      @@mannav1466 It felt like, idk, like a rush of dopamine. Like I was seeing something new that nobody else had (I know that's false, it just felt that way). Like feeling nostalgia but in the moment that it's happening.

    • @jojoversus1100
      @jojoversus1100 Před 2 lety +4

      @@mannav1466 like I want supposed to be there. Very Uncanny Valley type of feeling. Idk how to describe it.

  • @lostwastaken1
    @lostwastaken1 Před 2 lety +125

    i honestly think that the "monster" might be one of the cameras that got infected with the "mold" and grew legs and arms and a mind. wet carpet helps with mold so that supports the theory i crafted

    • @ecogreen123
      @ecogreen123 Před 2 lety +12

      and the backrooms is well known for having super anomalous properties so i would say that ain't to bad of a theory, tho what do you think happened to the electronic bits of the camera?

    • @lostwastaken1
      @lostwastaken1 Před 2 lety +1

      @@ecogreen123 it would probably take a lot of time for this monster to be created, so in the process the "mold" or bacteria however you want to call i, probably disintegrated some of the parts.

    • @majortom4711
      @majortom4711 Před 2 lety

      As much as I love mycology, if you're trapped alone in this infinite expanse of rooms with no other living material, I don't know what mold or bacteria could survive on. I know life always finds a way, but the only microorganisms that would be in the backrooms are the ones you brought with you.

    • @lostwastaken1
      @lostwastaken1 Před 2 lety

      @@majortom4711 well we did see a dead body in one of the episodes soooooooooo i dont know lol

    • @bitbreaker_creator
      @bitbreaker_creator Před 2 lety

      Its a motion sensor camera too which is why on the Wall it said dont move stay still

  • @BoredByItself
    @BoredByItself Před 2 lety +3

    You know, even though I don't exactly care for many horror games/movies/shows, the lore for this is actually interesting. I'm interested to see where they go with this

  • @brody3d
    @brody3d Před rokem +2

    Any one else think its wild how Game/Film theory can basically write lore for developing projects. Like i think most people except that the howler/bacteria are people lost in the backrooms who got infected and changed. i think matpat was the first to propose this.

  • @ZefulStarson
    @ZefulStarson Před 2 lety +489

    One thing you seemed to have missed Mat, is that the "exit" the ASync employee found appears to be the same room ASync was building in Motion Detected, note the tile in both videos. So the latter half of Informational Video appears to be some nebulous point in time after Motion Detected.

    • @custommediacreations
      @custommediacreations Před 2 lety +14

      I have been thinking the same thing, however the dates don’t match, yet the rooms both feature the same tiles and dimensions. It can’t be a coincidence.

    • @killnet5638
      @killnet5638 Před 2 lety

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    • @joshuatheyoutuber4727
      @joshuatheyoutuber4727 Před 2 lety +1

      Also, there is only 5 exits, and the "exit" is only the exit to level 0, there is infinite levels.

    • @n-arc03talks57
      @n-arc03talks57 Před 2 lety +5

      @@custommediacreations what he meant was that the backrooms teleported that one guy into the future.

    • @n-arc03talks57
      @n-arc03talks57 Před 2 lety +5

      @@joshuatheyoutuber4727 not sure if the infinite levels thing applies to Kane's version yet

  • @Wifi_Thief
    @Wifi_Thief Před 2 lety +1536

    Actually Mat, since you spoke of the timeline here, I noticed something intresting.
    In the informational video where the 4th Async employee goes missing, at the end of the video he stumbles across that weird room where the alarm goes off.
    And remember how at the start of the Motion detected video Async has started building a room inside the Backrooms?
    Those 2 rooms look VERY similar, in fact I believe it is the same room if you look close enough at the blueprints and details, *which indicates timetravel is at play here*
    The employee got lost and time travelled, and arrived back when this room had been completed.
    This is even more confirmed by the date on the first video, where the guys started recording in 1991, yet the description says 1996. Kane fell into the backrooms in 1991 and then at some point time traveled to a point where it was 1996

    • @greencat1849
      @greencat1849 Před 2 lety +71

      Daaaang, nice find!

    • @Redditard
      @Redditard Před 2 lety +36

      Woah big brain

    • @natsnottheking9041
      @natsnottheking9041 Před 2 lety +53

      I hope MatPat sees this and can use this information for the next backrooms theory; or even the science behind the backrooms that would be a really good video

    • @senorlamington4338
      @senorlamington4338 Před 2 lety +9

      so it's travel *into* the future

    • @Howthetoastcrumbled
      @Howthetoastcrumbled Před 2 lety +5

      Its a found footage, the footage have to noclip back somehow. and since it doesn't travel back in time, I'm pretty sure nothing happen to the cam from 1991 to 1996

  • @marionetteplush-etnp-etnp9351

    Me: I swear I just had my phone?
    My phone: Being used by bacteria

  • @scizorswlsh7509
    @scizorswlsh7509 Před 2 lety +5

    Crazy how the back rooms aren’t just the yellow walls but many different places

    • @carcharoclesmegalodon6904
      @carcharoclesmegalodon6904 Před 2 lety +1

      I think this isn't what the person who came up with the backrooms had in mind.

    • @LucidFacade
      @LucidFacade Před rokem +1

      @@carcharoclesmegalodon6904 Agreed. The original backrooms was just an unsettling image with an unsettling caption. From there, people have taken the concept and turned it into their own (think of it as kind of being open sourced, anyone can do with it as they please) so there’s many different sub concepts of The Backrooms. Kane took The Backrooms and added sci-if and historical elements to give it realism, but follows his own version.

  • @theironycomedy6
    @theironycomedy6 Před 2 lety +97

    As someone who's a pro at 3D game engines, I'll be honest, this stuff's actually REALLY accurate. Every game has it's glitches, like one red pill disconnecting you from a server.

  • @thepersonthatfollowsyou6858
    @thepersonthatfollowsyou6858 Před 2 lety +262

    I just imagine people going in the backrooms and finding how to escape as fast as possible with these videos

  • @qw3rtystudios358
    @qw3rtystudios358 Před 2 lety +2

    I know this is supposed to be an in-depth theory about how the backrooms is a simulation, but the objects around could just be stuff that no-clipped into the backrooms itself or stuff in earlier experiments that ended up in random areas.

  • @gup-gup2346
    @gup-gup2346 Před rokem +1

    I think the bacteria-string monster that we see in “motion detected” later took control of one of those cameras, forming into the monster we know from “Backrooms found footage.”
    I think this because the drawings on the wall say “don’t move” And “stay still.” The monster itself you can also presumably hear say “Stop” and “Don’t move.” I think the reason being is because it detects your motion, which leads it to you.
    This would also explain how it was able to mimic the explorers voice in “pit falls” and why it looks like a tripod/camera.
    Edit: I remember watching that Simpson episode maybe a week ago and thinking “did he just no-clip through the wall into the backrooms?”

  • @the_monstah6378
    @the_monstah6378 Před 2 lety +598

    I’m willing to bet that the monster we see in the backrooms is the product/creation of mankind itself. The fandom loves to refer to the monster as the “ Tripod Creature “. My thought here is that the monster is the spawn of some type of bacteria accidentally introduced to the backrooms by Async. My theory is that enough of this bacteria clumped together into one of those Voltron creatures and then attached itself to one of the camera tripods that the Async employees set up. This would allow the bacteria creature to move and capture things quicker instead of being some slow and gelatinous blob.

    • @ic0nic707
      @ic0nic707 Před 2 lety +5

      exactly what I was thinking
      amazing

    • @prodigymalique5701
      @prodigymalique5701 Před 2 lety +8

      And in the new video it’s claimed there’s a dead camera

    • @HexagonThatReallyLikesVinegar
      @HexagonThatReallyLikesVinegar Před 2 lety +8

      "run, it's that damnned tripod again!"

    • @jykalin
      @jykalin Před 2 lety +7

      isnt a tripod creature also the main enemy from a movie called war of the worlds

    • @RealityRogue
      @RealityRogue Před 2 lety +2

      “The monster”?
      Are you talking about Kane’s? Because there’s like 1000+ entities in the backrooms

  • @sobasicallyimsalad9367
    @sobasicallyimsalad9367 Před 2 lety +481

    to me, it seems that the "walls" they were building were the ones our lost employee stumbles upon. the area that they were building in has + shaped wall structure things, and so does the area that the employee finds. just something to think about, matpat.

    • @ShaggyDabbyDank
      @ShaggyDabbyDank Před 2 lety +26

      That would have to mean following his glitch, he appeared several weeks into the future in the Backrooms when construction of that room was complete.

    • @reflex3843
      @reflex3843 Před 2 lety +7

      Maybe they were trying to build an outpost inside the backrooms. As a remote safe space.

    • @Godzillagamer1577
      @Godzillagamer1577 Před 2 lety +2

      i really hope he does the real good stuff which is the wiki of the backrooms i really hope that

  • @mackenziewoloschuk7375
    @mackenziewoloschuk7375 Před 2 lety +2

    So the little ball I threw at the school theatre curtain that had rolled down the little trough near one end and couldn't seem to find despite telling a teacher and rushing over to it immediately upon seeing it drop is just...in the backrooms?
    Huh. Good to know.

  • @sarahcox2957
    @sarahcox2957 Před 2 lety +1

    limnal spaces. the uneasy feeling of occuping a previously occupied space that is now empty.

  • @mmmirei
    @mmmirei Před 2 lety +636

    When I was very young, I had a recurring dream, and it was very strange. I don’t remember much about the dream except that I was trapped in a building and an evil tulip-human thing was out to get me. I also remember that the building had a maze-like office space type of feel. Im not entirely sure what to think about that anymore.

    • @adrijanasani5899
      @adrijanasani5899 Před 2 lety +46

      B A C K R O O M S 0_0 ?

    • @sixbytex
      @sixbytex Před 2 lety +45

      i've had dreams like that too, i think. BUT HEY THATS JUST A THEORY A CONSPIRACY THEORY

    • @t1sd3d
      @t1sd3d Před 2 lety +50

      I think it’s just a common nightmare, multiple common fears mixed together. Being alone, being chased, and the unknown.

    • @Eidel_Rose
      @Eidel_Rose Před 2 lety +28

      @@t1sd3d and a work office

    • @aspectofthecat9781
      @aspectofthecat9781 Před 2 lety +7

      Oh god, same?

  • @proto.cowboy
    @proto.cowboy Před 2 lety +346

    The "tunnel" at 12:23 looks a lot like a tunnel from the game "Iron Lung". The same type of spiraling cylinders, with identical or similar patterns, is prevalent in that game as well. If you're interested, I would recommend checking out Power Pak's video on it.

    • @samchrischristopher4786
      @samchrischristopher4786 Před 2 lety +4

      Yoo i just came from that vid to here

    • @shadxw_hunter
      @shadxw_hunter Před 2 lety +2

      "iron lung"
      like polio iron lung?

    • @AshXiao1
      @AshXiao1 Před 2 lety +4

      @@shadxw_hunter i think they may be talking about the "underwater/ocean exploration" game. Where, ur a criminal or something and are sent down into this ocean like place and ur taking pictures at certain coordinates. Its... interesting and is considered to be in the horror genre.

    • @samchrischristopher4786
      @samchrischristopher4786 Před 2 lety +1

      @@AshXiao1 yep

    • @imosskito3011
      @imosskito3011 Před 2 lety +1

      i just came from there

  • @fumikagetokoyami5040
    @fumikagetokoyami5040 Před rokem +2

    7:19
    It’s odd that this scene of the monster came after when we see that three async members go down the same hallway to the right, and come back, but there is only two of them. Yet somehow, the monster is on the other side (the side they came from originally.) odd, right?

  • @warr1ck1998
    @warr1ck1998 Před rokem +2

    Theory: the voices he hear may change from time to time as those voices are near a no clip zone ( as you can’t just no clip anywhere ) so the theory made in this with the office party would make sense but with a whole new piece branching off(also could the farmhouse be a so called “level”)

  • @ErikhWasHere
    @ErikhWasHere Před 2 lety +275

    Fun fact : the part where Kane explored some weird shaped indoor garden is actually both in real life and the real backrooms wiki ! Level 188 and it's some hotel in London. Don't trust the windows.

  • @ThumbsTup
    @ThumbsTup Před 2 lety +568

    It gets really confusing that there are two types of "backrooms". There's the backrooms files that are similar to SCP with many entities and levels, and then there's the web series that's mostly comprised of Level 0 and so far only one entity.
    Is there any kind of terminology that people use to distinguish them?
    Edit: I do not care which one is based off of the other, I'm asking for the *terminology*, not the characteristics

    • @glitchxmars7415
      @glitchxmars7415 Před 2 lety +78

      Not really, i think the main difference here is that kane pixels’ interpretation of the backrooms may be different than interpretations we’ve seen before, meaning we shouldnt rely on lore provided to us from those, but rather just what we see from this series

    • @ThumbsTup
      @ThumbsTup Před 2 lety +26

      @@glitchxmars7415 I get that, but I feel like there should be different names for them, like "Kane Pixel's Backrooms" or something

    • @ThumbsTup
      @ThumbsTup Před 2 lety +6

      @@Tyneras thanks

    • @crimsonhawk5188
      @crimsonhawk5188 Před 2 lety +31

      Its called Kanon/kaneon from what I see fans call kanes stuff.
      Wikidot for the wiki stuff
      The fan rooms are... Fandom or fandot (I forgot lol,)

    • @poppy63765
      @poppy63765 Před 2 lety +2

      I agree because I personally feel as though this is different from what I'm used to.

  • @NoahWilliams-fr4ts
    @NoahWilliams-fr4ts Před 7 měsíci

    Technically Dan has gotten a raise. He gets all the funniest bits. This episode, for example

  • @beverlyblanton6031
    @beverlyblanton6031 Před rokem +1

    Petition for mat to make theorys about the other back rooms stories about the other levels

  • @biggerdoofus
    @biggerdoofus Před 2 lety +282

    A minor correction on the history the term: "no clipping" originated from Commander Keen (a 2d platformer) as a type of cheat, with the name referring to "clipping" the movement vector (meaning cutting off the part that would be blocked by an obstacle. The term then entered popular usage with Doom 2's use of "idclip" as the code to trigger no clipping. The usage to refer to bugs came later as more companies made full 3d games.

    • @milkofamerica6448
      @milkofamerica6448 Před 2 lety +2

      I watched the backrooms thingy again and the monster starts saying NOO DONT GO STOP then starts saying GO GO GET OUTTA HERE and others

    • @alex.g7317
      @alex.g7317 Před 2 lety +2

      ….ok

    • @theRPGmaster
      @theRPGmaster Před 2 lety +2

      A vector is a series of numbers. So clipping the vector would be limiting it to some number, when hitting a wall for example.

    • @TimeMasterOG
      @TimeMasterOG Před 2 lety +2

      @@milkofamerica6448 No... it really didnt

  • @DrKElite243
    @DrKElite243 Před 2 lety +1297

    I could have sworn “The Backrooms” was a thing from early 2010. But every single thing I see about it is new things. I’m so confused. Like I remember me and my friend telling stories about it. Last time I saw my friends was 2016 (3 years before the supposed creation of “The Backrooms”) I’m so confused about all of it. I looked up more info online everything saying 2019. But I have so many distinct memories about it.

    • @DrKElite243
      @DrKElite243 Před 2 lety +121

      @@dl5836 the thing that threw me off the most is I swear I saw the kid “clipping” through the floor video a few years ago but apparently it was only a few months.

    • @clearestseb
      @clearestseb Před 2 lety +26

      Thats exactly what I was thinking

    • @PaulineDuhadinLife
      @PaulineDuhadinLife Před 2 lety +80

      Just recently watched an old video of someone finding « the back rooms » on google earth but it’s from like 2015 or so … very weird

    • @ad43150
      @ad43150 Před 2 lety +15

      @@PaulineDuhadinLife can u link the video i’m intrigued now 😫😫

    • @squirtle_10
      @squirtle_10 Před 2 lety +110

      you no-clipped from another timeline into this one lol

  • @zaadus112
    @zaadus112 Před rokem +1

    The backrooms could be some sort of Schrödinger cat. If you dont seek it, it doesnt exist (ik about the No clipping, but I’m talking about the scientists). But if you seek it out and explore it, the more of it exists and the more it breaks in and of itself.

  • @anyanaylor
    @anyanaylor Před rokem +3

    To be fair, endless rooms with moist carpet does sound like the perfect breeding ground for crazy strong mutated bacteria

  • @zen-frog3197
    @zen-frog3197 Před 2 lety +154

    I love analog horror, The Backrooms is so well done
    It makes me genuinely uneasy, props to the creator

    • @user-lk2ex7ng8r
      @user-lk2ex7ng8r Před 2 lety

      MatPat is a brain burner!(Правдивое видео!.):.
      czcams.com/video/cAQxPSwM4h0/video.html

  • @Txaster
    @Txaster Před 2 lety +998

    I love how Kane can turn an originally generally safe level with only a few rare occurrences of entities, into an extremely dangerous level as if to test the worthiness of people who noclipped inside in order to continue through the levels.

    • @marshmallowmountains4636
      @marshmallowmountains4636 Před 2 lety +78

      It hink Kane said somewhere there aren't really other "levels" in his own canon, it's just the backrooms.

    • @mattynorthcott4824
      @mattynorthcott4824 Před 2 lety +45

      Kane has said that his series isn’t directly linked to the larger “backrooms” universe.

    • @bruhbruh-ui5en
      @bruhbruh-ui5en Před rokem +24

      In the lore from wikidot, fandom, and liminal archives.. level 0 is still NOT SAFE as it drains your sanity and most starve to death. It’s creepier this way, just a maze with no hope of seeing anything but those dingy walls….

    • @Txaster
      @Txaster Před rokem +11

      @@bruhbruh-ui5en “an originally GENERALLY safe level with only a few RARE occurrences of entities.”

    • @mytasteinmusicisyourface3020
      @mytasteinmusicisyourface3020 Před rokem +9

      kanes lore is separate from the wiki lore :)

  • @gladysmelvysriscoalmenares6618

    Once a sharpener of mine noclipped through reality, turns out an asshole friend of mine just stole it lmao

  • @elnico5623
    @elnico5623 Před 11 měsíci +1

    15:40 i like how the clip you use completely disproves the claim you make :p

  • @maxcatters3956
    @maxcatters3956 Před 2 lety +176

    Personally, I think that the 6th experienment went *wrong*
    Like Async was trying to create an endless storage space, but we can see how unequipped the facility was to handle that much energy when the gateway was finally successfully activated. So the machine went haywire and created this endless space that's uncanny and broken instead of a simple storage area.

  • @elementkingaming1947
    @elementkingaming1947 Před 2 lety +147

    I love the concept of the backrooms, just the unsettling area suroundng it, that extra layer of realism that makes it so terrifying to have it show up in your dreams, its why i like kanes ideas that hes implemented, and his own little universe hes created, a world with a layer of realism and an unsettling space surrounding it. I dont like how people have kinda botched it the way they have, adding way too much stuff through it, and setting it as its the original instead of just trying to create their own world, like adding over 10000 floors with their own individuality, over 1000 monsters roaming ever floor, and every floor having a ton of items you could use. Takes the scary out of it, The feeling of loneliness and helplessness with a thought of "Is there something following me" makes it the most terrifying thing ever. But hey thats just my own personal opinion, either way Kane is doing an amazing job with the videos

    • @joshuatheyoutuber4727
      @joshuatheyoutuber4727 Před 2 lety

      You know there is infinite floor with infinite entities and infinite species.

    • @colecaldwell4278
      @colecaldwell4278 Před 2 lety

      I agree

    • @peppermint13me
      @peppermint13me Před 2 lety

      I think the "levels" are more like specific areas, and I think it's fine to document different areas, but not all documents are created equal. I do agree that some articles are too off theme and that can make it easy to forget that the backrooms is cold, hard, and unforgiving.

  • @parkerdittmer7343
    @parkerdittmer7343 Před rokem +2

    Glad my birthday got to get featured in this video :)

    • @izukubf
      @izukubf Před rokem

      Happy birthday!!!❤️

  • @christianstoykov7420
    @christianstoykov7420 Před 2 lety +3

    Matpat should check out the backrooms wiki with all the levels.

  • @thecodeson99
    @thecodeson99 Před 2 lety +697

    15 years old and he already has made videos of this quality for us. I think he's definitely got a future in this line of work.

    • @shaneens1547
      @shaneens1547 Před 2 lety

      If EDM artist Nitro Fun can do it, so can he.

    • @Lil_Ducky43
      @Lil_Ducky43 Před 2 lety +9

      He’s 16 he made attack on titans when he was 15

    • @adinoabiadanadyaksa7007
      @adinoabiadanadyaksa7007 Před 2 lety +2

      The Channel Of 16 Year Old Name: Kane Pixels AKA Kane Parson
      Kane Real Name

    • @Lilyy284
      @Lilyy284 Před rokem

      16*

    • @neodore2657
      @neodore2657 Před rokem

      Facts. But have you seen this guy's video in the backrooms and simulation argument - czcams.com/video/cszXpIpb_-s/video.html

  • @glitchxmars7415
    @glitchxmars7415 Před 2 lety +268

    My favorite theory about the backrooms by far has to be the one where someone suggested that we accidentally created the backrooms but don’t have control over them. The concept is that scientists took a room and scanned it, and then had computers generate hallways and storage areas; this would explain the way the backrooms have an ai-generated vibe, how things won’t connect properly, and if they were created under the control of computers, then it could make sense that they would involve glitching and other digital issues. I think that the backrooms is a real space, but since the rules for how that space works was laid out by computers, we get glitching and no-clipping anyway. The other terrifying aspect that was suggested was that if human beings scanned a room for computers, that its highly unlikely that the room would be completely sterile… meaning there would probably be bacteria. The bacteria in this room, when replicated (and then possibly corrupted or mutated) in the backrooms, could lead to the bacteria monster we see in the first upload

    • @cherriemaesicad8830
      @cherriemaesicad8830 Před 2 lety +3

      yhis theory is from kane pixels so that is why you love it -_-

    • @IzraelGraves
      @IzraelGraves Před 2 lety +4

      Pretty sure the "bacteria monster" is a camera.

    • @muffinman3052
      @muffinman3052 Před 2 lety +14

      I like this type of theory more than the matrix style idea matpat proposed. It just makes more sense to me that it actually does take place in the real world and they've just accessed or created an alternate reality outside the normal 3 dimensions, rather than everything being fake

    • @victorvangrimgamming6784
      @victorvangrimgamming6784 Před 2 lety +5

      Was I the only one who noticed what async means, and it's relation to repeating programs.

    • @custommediacreations
      @custommediacreations Před 2 lety +3

      @@victorvangrimgamming6784 nope.

  • @the1andonlym3
    @the1andonlym3 Před rokem +1

    the fact a 2 year old at 5:06 went missing and most definitely ended in the backrooms…like thats messed up.

  • @henrysanonymous7663
    @henrysanonymous7663 Před rokem +2

    If you covered yourself in rubbing alcohol, and the bacteria monster tried to grab you, would it’s hand just evaporate?

  • @Al-vj9ht
    @Al-vj9ht Před 2 lety +244

    It's so cool to see Kane's work get this much attention, well deserved as a person whos been following him for more than a year now. Thanks Matpat!

    • @SomeGuy_Somewhere
      @SomeGuy_Somewhere Před 2 lety

      Kane didn't create the backrooms, it was some anonymous guy on 4chan

    • @Al-vj9ht
      @Al-vj9ht Před 2 lety +6

      @@SomeGuy_Somewhere everyone knows dude

  • @pota07
    @pota07 Před 2 lety +211

    I love the Backrooms. The entire idea of it. Its so terrifying and unsettling, but so intriguing. I also love that the whole community is making their own levels and stuff too

    • @user-lk2ex7ng8r
      @user-lk2ex7ng8r Před 2 lety

      MatPat is a brain burner!(Правдивое видео!.):. czcams.com/video/cAQxPSwM4h0/video.html

    • @jovanka--------5098
      @jovanka--------5098 Před 2 lety

      🌈THE CUTE GIRL ARE🌈
      specialdate.my.id/Damara
      de los mejores 🍑
      11:12 Sun: "Hotter"
      11:12 Hopi: "Sweeter"
      00:18 Joonie: "Cooler"
      18:00 Yoongi: "Butter"
      15:55 Son unos de los mejores conciertos
      , no puede ir pero de tan solo verlos desde pantalla, se que estuvo sorprendente..🤣💋

    • @mqtyqs
      @mqtyqs Před 2 lety +2

      As the camera fell to the ground after the attack, the next cut already showed that it was falling into the Earth. My theory is if you are stuck in backrooms you can get back to reality by throwing yourself heavily to the ground or by running into a wall. You just need to find a bug

    • @sohotimhot7975
      @sohotimhot7975 Před 2 lety

      Only for fans over 18 years old tinders.club/agnez 🥵
      tricks I do not know
      Megan: "Hotter"
      Hopi: "Sweeter"
      Joonie: "Cooler"
      Yoongi: "Butter
      So with toy and his tricks, do not read it to him that he writes well mamon there are only to laugh for a while and not be sad and stressed because of the hard life that is lived today.
      Köz karaş: '' Taŋ kaldım ''
      Erinder: '' Sezimdüü ''
      Jılmayuu: '' Tattuuraak ''
      Dene: '' Muzdak ''
      Jizn, kak krasivaya melodiya, tolko pesni pereputalis.
      Aç köz arstan
      Bul ukmuştuuday ısık kün bolçu, jana arstan abdan açka bolgon.
      Uyunan çıgıp, tigi jer-jerdi izdedi. Al kiçinekey koyondu wins taba algan. Al bir az oylonboy koyondu karmadı. '' Bul koyon menin kursagımdı toyguza albayt '' dep oylodu arstan.
      Arstan koyondu öltüröyün dep jatkanda, bir kiyik tigi tarapka çurkadı. Arstan aç köz bolup kaldı. Kiçine koyondu emes, çoŋ kiyikti jegen jakşı dep oylodu. # 垃圾
      They are one of the best concerts, you can not go but just seeing them from the screen, I know it was surprising
      💗❤️💌💘1

    • @zillbot
      @zillbot Před 2 lety

      Read House of Leaves if you have not already.

  • @nuonites5620
    @nuonites5620 Před rokem

    The scariest thing Mat Pat would find in the back rooms is a whole slew of new FNAF sequels

  • @allexhoughton
    @allexhoughton Před 2 lety +1

    Anyone else notice how each of the found footage videos, all taken from first person POV, where the character was in the Backrooms for a prolonged period of time, hazmat suit or not, all of them began to cough which could be support for the bacteria, more importantly the bacteria using human bodies or monsters being the mix of bacteria and human bodies, it appears to be infecting them.

  • @yphoenix5957
    @yphoenix5957 Před 2 lety +141

    This might be a silly or obvious comparison, but The Backrooms concept seems to be a modern take on the Greek mythological Labrinth, the bacteria monster being your minotaur.