Why The Backrooms Will Never Go Away
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- čas přidán 27. 04. 2022
- The Backrooms are here forever
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I've always felt that the Backrooms isn't really a new thing, we just gave it a new name. Because it's not just a place, it's also a feeling. To be trapped endlessly, and to suffer constantly while always feeling confuse, unsure, hopeless.
I can imagine the Backrooms as a concept itself fading into obscurity one day, but the idea, the *feeling* will never go away.
i hate the backrooms i just think it is an overrated creepypasta
@@Sewersquatter tbh all creepypastas are overrated. At least this one doesn't throw in blood everywhere and dead children
@@strangedudee yes
@@strangedudee especially the original, which is supposed to be an empty dimension, and there being an uncertainity of the existence of entities in there
sir this is a mcdonalds drive thru
I've heard people say that our humour nowadays is bland and very unusual. And to that, I would like to point our that we have made the image of an inconspicuous yellow room into the stuff of legends, inspiring dozens if not hundreds of well-made animated videos and interesting pieces of literature.
@@newciouss Damn who asked
@@TheUltima_Werewolf 😂😂😂😂😂
@@TheUltima_Werewolf Probably the person hosting that bot
@@TheUltima_Werewolf I did asshole, I’ve been waiting for this for a while now and, finally its here
Well, sadly *the fact that humour is blan and unusual is true*
But I admit that *there is still some sane ingredient in the mess*
It's very nice that the backrooms fandom is expanding beyond what it was when I stumbled across it, but I feel like some of the new things people are making go a bit too much away from the core idea.
The original was focused on the idea of eternal isolation but the new one introduces fun stuff and makes it more interesting but it also removed the sole reason why it existed
You’re not alone in noticing the alienating sensation, I think it derives from the fact that people wanted to understand or apply logic to the mystery. Heard of those levels and monsters that folks who also took notice called those version of backrooms as Diet SCP.
It’s an issue with many horror stories I’ve noticed, people wanting more and wanted to understand it more. Takes away the core of it (which you already know) that is *the unknown* - where your imagination runs wild and be fearful of it.
@@diavolojaegar I think the levels idea is great, but the entities make it less scary, just dangerous. ( I like the partygoers though)
I did join in "late" though, and I can see why the vanilla 4chan type backrooms is what some enjoy the most
@@Und3rcov3r I don't agree.
First off, levels make the Backrooms sound like some kind of video game, they also kind of defeat the purpose of the Backrooms, as levels indicate you've gone deeper into the Backrooms and, closer to an escape, (they also take away from how the Backrooms kind of torture you through repetition) I don't think there should be any indication of that.
And entities, things like Partygoers are just killer clowns in the Backrooms, the creator of them doesn't really like them because of that.
And the rest are just... things smiling... yeah
@@IIFan-bn8vq That's very true now that I think about it.
In defense of levels, I don't want an escape, but I like the idea of doing something random, and ending up somewhere completely unexpected, forced to now roam that place for however long you stay until the cycle repeats
Tbh I preferred the plain old "stuck in some dimension" backrooms not with people adding multiple floors or monsters and lore. What made the backrooms stand out from the rest of creepypasta is it's lack of physicality and information, it should stay as conceptual horror(idk what to call it).
The Timeless Places wiki got you covered on that
The term is called psychological horror (internal danger/struggle), and the ones you described first are part of the thriller genre (external danger/struggle).
Level 86201 Futa monster
For me personally, the adding of the depth to the concept made it more intriguing for me. If it was just infinitely stretching room with damp carpet, yellow walls and fluorescent lighting, it still would have been quite a thing where everyone had their own unique takes on how the concept goes, but with addition of vast levels and lore to the wikidot, I feel like that made the backrooms concept more engaging to the general public and made it more than just another known urban legend.
@@funnygamer.692 not the futa monster 😭😭😭
I swear I had a nightmare with of the backrooms years before it was really a thing, everything was the same, the walls, flickering lights and the damp carpet. Absolutely terrifying.
Well, liminal spaces, backrooms is just like that of whats similarly seen in dreams but with the feeling of dread, loneliness and hopelessness
I've had dreams where I've been trapped in a series of featureless concrete hallways before , except unlike the backrooms, they were finite
I once had a dream which started with a buss with people I knew on it breaking down, everyones a bit annoyed, but because dreamland, everything looks a bit off, anyway; as if its no big occurance, I turn and start to lift off the ground, I was looking for something, I went further and further outwards and the ground was far beneath me, it had a weird texture to it, like google earth/older video game graphics and appeared to be distorting in a weird way as I flew. like I was going forever upwards but the ground kept a constant distance, like a hill but all features were flat, eventually I saw something on the surface that peeked my interest, it was thing this building, this castle made out of floor texture with several concentric motes, and as I came to the ground I saw floating before me the ghoste of a girl. even now, everytime I think of that dream my eyes grow wet and my hairs stand up on end, its the weirdest sesnation, but that place was quintessentially a liminal space.
@@noahfenech3369 I've had dreams where I could fly but often I couldn't fly high enough to avoid running into power lines
Same I too have a nightmares about the backroom before it was really a thing. A nightmare about me finding my love ones but once I found them they don't really want to be found resulting in an endless chase and seeking.
Liminal spaces, as a concept, are perfect for the horror genre. It’s beyond just jump scares and cliches. It’s an environment in of itself that creates unease and tension. With a combined sense of familiarity and dissociation, like deja vu. I’m especially excited to see what Kane Pixels comes out with next
Could be unrelated but I feel the exact same way about these liminal space as when I first watched Barton Fink.
I knew nothing of the movie except for "it's good watch it bro," and I was genuinely expecting it to be an "unexpected" (my sarcastic wording at the time) thriller film during the rising action scenes. I was wrong (it was a psychological horror disguised as a thriller) but it felt no less creepy despite how seemingly casual the movie came to an end. Or maybe that's why it felt unnerving, because once the movie conveyed that "everything is wrong, everything is dangerous," Barton went to the beach after the fact. I had no idea what he was thinking or even feeling, therefore, I didn't know what I was thinking or feeling except "strange."
@Soda Pop insane asylum one, no monsters, no objectives, just the first to go insane lose
The closest thing we got so far is Anemoiapolis.
Who's Kane Pixels?
@Internet Dog Try Minecraft Version 1.000.000. Also known as Notches World.
I had a friend who said he went to the backrooms, he works at the Daily Mail now
I also went to the backgrounds
before he edited the comment he said backgrounds so thats why i said backgrounds
@@OfficialSuperRadiant lmfao
@@kitstar2587 lmfao
@@OfficialSuperRadiant me too
@@OfficialSuperRadiant I played at Newgrounds
I've never seen a creepypasta with a core concept that's so flexible and allows for all sorts of strange, scary, or strange AND scary situations. And they keep expanding on it too! I think that flexibility will keep the Backrooms relevant and ever-evolving for a very long time - probably longer than some of the classics.
Have you heard of SCP? There are so many different horrifying 'anomalies' people have thought of (some nice ones too). It's amazing
Other than childhood nostalgia in general, I think that popularity of backrooms is tied to video games too. Images shared as “backrooms” or “liminal spaces” are always giving the same feeling a realistic video game level gives. You know it’s supposed to be this or that but it feels weird. It’s empty or just not in the state you would expect or too many things are recurring that it doesn’t feel normal anymore.
Also the famous backrooms story is that you literally “noclip” out of reality. Styling of the classic office backrooms you showed throughout the video is very similar to unreachable areas in video games too. Just out of the map and you have to use noclip to go there. It might be a part of a cut/upcoming level, or just an empty room used to store stuff by the game while you play.
I've never been involved with The Backrooms stuff at all but I have been aware of it forawhile but I always think of how the Source Engine makes me feel vaugeuly uncomfortable in alot of it's empty maps, examples would be rp_downtown_v2 without any players or GM_Construct, I get the feeling when playing stanley parable as well.
@@hunter2818 I don't get the uncomfortable feeling while playing Source engine games. I mostly feel nostalgic.
I personally find the Backrooms less interesting since the "Entities" started getting inserted into them. It ceases to be a liminal space and just becomes a generic horror environment. Knowing what the monster is changes everything. The initial intrigue with the Backrooms was the air of mystery around them. Not knowing what might be around every corner, or if there's an end to the mazelike environment, or if the situation is even threatening at all. Now, that air of mystery is mostly gone. Information has been inserted by internet culture, and irreparably changed what the Backrooms is as a concept in consequence.
Edit: There seems to be quite a bit of misunderstanding going on, so I want to take a moment to clarify my point and address a few others.
What I am discussing here is a genre shift, specifically from liminal space to horror. As with any transition from one genre to another, some people may find the original appeal gone, such as myself, while others may be drawn in by the new appeal generated by the new genre the subject matter has taken on. This isn't necessarily a good or bad thing, that's more up to subjective opinion, but it is a natural consequence of swapping from one genre to another.
The point of the original appeal that some people don't seem to get was that it wasn't scary, but uncanny. Liminal spaces aren't about horror or fear, so it's only natural that if you're looking for the horror genre you're going to find liminal spaces boring.
For those that the genre does resonate with though, it's often the case that the reason it resonates with them is because of the immersion into environments that simultaneously invoke feelings of familiarity and insecurity, hence the uncanniness to them. There's a dreamlike quality to liminal spaces, and that's what gives them appeal. It's like immersing yourself out of reality into another space between spaces.
As for the mentioning of the entities within the original post, it was more of a vague warning than anything descriptive. It left it entirely up to the imagination, including whether the entities themselves even exist within the backrooms at all. They were not shown within the image, and were not described in any detail. This is what allowed the backrooms to remain a liminal space without collapsing into the horror genre; The very same uncertainty exists within any liminal space. It only collapses once the "monster" becomes anything more than a "maybe".
It's basically turned into a poor man's SCP Foundation, like if someone took a single SCP and absolutely ran it into the ground. It's such a shame, since the concept really had a lot of potential for a completely unique horror concept.
The original 4chan post mentioned the existence of entities...
@@cyrixgamingandbackrooms4059 Vaguely. It was more of a warning than a proper description. It left everything to the imagination.
Yeah I agree. I like personally like the idea of infinite levels, but I can't stand the introduction of entities or the idea that you can starve/die of dehydration. Most people would submit to the entities because a lifetime walking in endless rooms is far more terrifying than death.
@@cyrixgamingandbackrooms4059 it can still be the wrong move even if the original did it. There's no reason to be dogmatic or prescriptive about it.
Liminal spaces are appealing because they create tension. They are the anticipation of a threat. When you show the threat, the tension is broken. You replace the anticipation with a completely different emotion, and the liminal space ceases to exist.
It really is scary when you would never expect it. One moment you were outside with friends or not, then all the sudden you no-clipped through the ground and found yourself in the backrooms
even worse when you have absolutely no clue what is going on
Imagine you're hanging xith your friends and suddenly you fling out of the Earth slowly drifting into the endless space as you watch your planet shrink.
Ive been a fan of the backrooms for quite a while so, id be prepared lol
The Backrooms is legit one of the few actually GOOD creepypastas, and I hope it never dies
The thing is that the Idea will keep evolving with every spike in popularity. Originally there was 1 Level, but now there is hundreds.
@@newciouss It's a scam, and you're a bitch.
I literally fell in love with this liminal space a few days ago and started taking pictures of creepy and unnerving empty areas
With the world almost nearing its end, its nice to know that the reality known as The Backrooms is merging with ours.
Wdym nearing its end?
Ehhh..maybe end of humans but not quite the Earth, unless global warming keeps goin on
Fun fact, Our reality is known as the frontrooms. The entities being for example, Dogs, Cats, Bears, Parrots, basically every animal in the whole world.
@@PokefanGuquizUjixyz he's up to something
not true, bozo, if you're scared of earth ending then go to a psychiatrist
*The Backrooms is honestly my most favorite creepypasta ever for its uniqueness and the scary atmosphere.*
SCP uhmmmm
@@FIVEBASKET “ummmmm” 🤓
Your comments are so dry and boring.
I think it’s important to mention that its resurgence in popularity is due almost entirely to the series by Kane Pixels. Many channels have tried to replicate it, but Kane keeps expanding his version with consistent quality and creativity and mood that other knock-offs don’t have
what about broogli :(
@@intermissionmint5936 best backrooms youtuber
@@intermissionmint5936 To be honest, I feel like Broogli's career was greatly boosted by the popularity the Backrooms got from Kane Pixels alongside an increased interest for both the fandom and wikidot canons due to it. So it's more that the success came naturally.
@@Eurasian_ broogli
started making videos before kane
i kind of remember the backrooms before 2019 or 2018 i just feel like level 0 existed before in like 2016 or maybe before it just all seems so similar to things ive heard of and seen in the past
I never knew that a creepypasta could have make it on this channel. This guy covers literally everything. Good job man.
Need to work on the spelling there bud
On*
had a minor stroke reading that first one
its cause people memed it
*knew
Don't say that, I was really hoping for the hype to die down, and now you've made a video on it. Personally the Backrooms are an amazing concept but so many people fail to fully grasp what it means to be a "liminal space" compared to an "eerie place". So many people now have misconstrued ideas of what liminal space is and the specificity of it's meaning has now been washed away and replaced with "eerie and empty place". tl:dr I'm just tired of the masses misusing the term liminal space and the Backrooms' popularity only damages its meaning.
Look no further then the timeless places wiki
Also, don't blame the people who work on such wikis. Let them do what they want. Everyone does have their own concept on what "liminality" is. Sometimes, its about darkness, sometimes, it's about childhood memories. Not everyone will have the same POV of what Liminality is compared to you
@Aerosma pov: you got ptsd from the backrooms because you were chased by sussy amogus in a dream
@@cyrixgamingandbackrooms4059
I never commented negatively on the people who produce liminal / Backrooms-esque wikis. Frankly some of their ideas are just as intriguing as the original, so don't try to put words in my mouth. Second, that's not how words are (supposed) to work. You cannot just say something is the other. Liminal is a word & concept, and if you try and contort it into other meanings then you're literally just making things up. Labelling dark/scary/eerie images as liminal is factually wrong, it's like saying frogs are the same as fish. Sure they both live in the water but they're not all the same. You're essentially stating that everyone has their own "truth" with this liminal concept. And that may be true to an extent, but to use the word itself on mismatching media is factually wrong. Thanks for proving my point on how the original and correct meaning of the word & concept "liminal" is being misinterpreted and muddied by the masses.
good to know someone else feels this way, can’t help but feel like this stuff will never reach its full potential of storytelling
The Backrooms are simply built different.
Literally
The funny thing is, that the backrooms in the memes come mostly from the found footage thing, so now there are 2 backrooms technically, the original (my favorite) which is completly supernatural and infinite, and the found footage one, which is a chaos controled by us, which is also pretty cool
The backrooms are another kind of creepypasta. The fact that they’re divided in levels makes it possible that anyone can add something of their own and this, whenever it’s used for memes or not, grants a long lifetime for the backrooms.
The entire reason the idea of the Backrooms was creepy was that it was just that for eternity, and the way people have added all these entities and levels ruined that. That's what the SCP Foundation mythos was created as, a way for anyone to create their own places and entities and objects under the horror genre.
@@rosesnviolets7444 new backrooms is basically just the infinite ikea scp but if someone just decided they were gonna add levels
A meme with a lore this dark and deep is just too good to disappear from the internet
The backrooms started as a pic grew to become a terrifying infinite liminal space of loneliness knowing that you can't escape into a labyrinth of mazes where there is entities that is hostile,neutral,and ally but also has different levels that has it's own variety of rules and stuffs. Each backrooms is interesting to me. The "Infinite" backrooms is more of a psychology test of what it feels to be lonely and eternally suffering all alone and the fear of something and yet it isn't there. The "Leveled" backrooms is more of a fun developed levels that had it's own lore and stuffs. Each levels having different scenery completely contradicting what was the first intended but also interesting.
People who make the backrooms content are either with lore and creepy or just memes and funny
Im moving to the backrooms Hopefully rent is cheaper since its an infinite space
I know it started as a picture then grew into a whole community with tons of theories
The backrooms is where the dead memes go to
The Backrooms is popular because the threat is not shown by a character or a creature. It is because the danger is shown through an empty *room* .
(I know there is creatures in the Backrooms, but I think the horror is more to the architecture of the place more than the creatures)
Id be more afraid of a guy trying to eat my skin than i am with walls but aight
Been a fan of the backrooms for a while (at least the one thats kinda like scps with levels instead of anomalies) I'm happy to see that its getting the recognition it deserves.
And you will NEVER get away too
Backrooms is an amazing creepypasta. A certified one.
The Backrooms: "Why does no one want to be my friend?"
Win95 Screensavers: "Keep at it, son. You'll get the hang of it."
I think the best explanation I've heard for liminal spaces like this is because it evokes a very rare feeling.
The images are always something that seems quite familiar to us somehow, usually going so far as to evoke a sense of nostalgia. Something is always clearly wrong however because they're totally empty. You will not find a good liminal space photo that has any people in it, usually not even any other living things. You get the distinct feeling that you're trespassing or otherwise not supposed to be here now.
I work in night shift security so that feeling was actually very present in the building I watch over. No other people there, dim lighting, it's a tangible liminal space. I became sort of used to it because after all, I am supposed to be there as my job, but I won't lie that certain areas just innately give me that feeling when I'm there. Some parts are just the "second home" where I spend most of my time watching the entrance, while much of it remains a liminal space in my mind, a place I shouldn't linger for long in.
I think a similar feeling comes out if you ever go into a cave by yourself, and I'd imagine that if you lived inside a cave, caves that are unoccupied would be liminal spaces while the one you live in is just your home.
Honestly it just is extremely cool and I like the back rooms
The Backrooms with how the wiki is set up
with all its details is pretty much another SCP thing
a great concept with curated free writing as the hook
as long as the backrooms have people coming up with stories levels and entities they will continue to be popular
plus backrooms entities feel verry videogame-ish so unlike a "bad" SCP where its just edgy bullshit
in the backrooms it can be excused as thats the nature of them
Backroom entities are so videogame-ish that I just cringe at their concept. To begin it with, isn't the point of the backrooms the fear of the unknown? Having all of this catalogued really ruins it in my opinion.
@@catsukisubaru3715 if you don't like entities, there is only one thing to blame, the original 4chan post which even mentioned the existence of them
@@catsukisubaru3715 then go check out Kane Pixels videos as those lean more towards that then the wikidot does
"It's been 4 years since the concept's been introduced"
oh cool, it's been existing for that long?
"It all began in 2018"
Wait what....
The most terrifying thing about the backrooms imo is that we all find this place very familiar, yet no one is able to recognize it.
Its because its always following you Limc, it could be in your walls, you better run.
imagine we got a series based on the backrooms, shit would probably be more succesful than squid game
I love how any slightly dingy, dark, and empty hallway is now labeled as a place of pure dread. I swear future generations are going to be afraid of architecture.
Normal everyday stuff had always been a favorite object of horror in storytelling, and it will always succeed for as long as people have normal everyday stuff.
'Future?' Dude BLAME!s been written like two decades ago, we're already basically there
Just like you can't leave it, it won't leave us.
hot take: i like the entities and multiple levels in the backrooms, even though it kinda ruins the liminal space feeling it adds a new depth to it, my favorite part is some of the logs on the wikidot, like the megs backstory.
Agreed
I like both it and the original concept, and prefer to think that both would exist in tandem. When you accidentally fall through the floor, it’s a roll of the dice which version you wind up in.
same, i dont really like the meg but i think liminal archives keeps it kinda small while making interesting levels
Same here
Honestly, I love that The Backrooms are much more popular now. I've been a big fan, even before all of these memes, so it's epic to see.
one of my favorite details from the original post is how it describes the backrooms not as infinite, but as approximately 600 million square miles large. you can't write it off as just being some strange alternate dimension that generates rooms in front of you and culls them as you leave them, no, the whole thing exists at once, and its about 3 times as large as earth's surface area
Backrooms decor legit looks like every convention center next to the airport I've ever been to.
I love the Backrooms, but the lore and all the new things they keep adding like colonies and entities kinda ruined it. It's all become so confusing and uninteresting. I would've loved the idea of just having weird liminal spaces with no explanation and few if not no entities in them whatsoever. It would make the Backrooms an actual collection of liminal spaces rather than just creepy rooms with confusing, plot hole filled lore.
It reminds me of when me and my mom used to go to malls but these were old ones that have been around since like The 80s or 90s and your walk passed all the clothing and you just give you this weird depressing feeling With old 2000 music playing in no one in the malls then if you walked into the back areas like the bathroom or dresser rooms it’s rooms like this
It's such a shame that they ended up getting run into the ground by Kreepypasta Kiddies. They turned what had some real potential for a completely unique horror concept into little more than a poor man's SCP Foundation.
Personally I disagree but really what is there to agree with, the backrooms are open-ended, up to people to interpret what they think the backrooms should be, and it's not always the same.
The backrooms themselves may eventually fade away, but the true core of the backrooms is a part of humanity. it is loneliness. it is being lost. it is every "empty" feeling we can experience. And it will always return to us in some form or another. It may be a dark section of the woods you never go to, it could be an abandoned building, it could even be an old website. The infinite, unchartable, monochromatic yellow office space we know as the backrooms is merely its current form. but on things like the backrooms wiki (or wikis, since there are at least 3), we can see some other forms that this can take, and its really interesting to me. (in case you couldn't already tell, i am a BIG backrooms fan)
“No sustenance”
Me with my almond water:
I like how the backrooms have been expanding its lore in different wikis, even the fandom too. Its a shame there are arguments or debates on which wiki is better, tbh they all have cool ideas. Still the well written articles or "files" are fun to read, and inspiring for a beginner fiction writer.
I say the Wikidot is for more sophisticated well-crafted thought out levels, entities, and ideas. However, the Fandom is a good place to go for the wackier entries, ones not so intricately planned but rather more absurd or crazy. Fandom is also a good place for backrooms fans to meet up and communicate.
I'm not that into horror but I am somewhat familiar with backrooms and it always gave me that vibe like you were there before but the creepy part is that it never ends... it sort of feels like that unfinished room in a game with no physics and models or that one weird room employees only can go to in that one building that you could only see for a moment through a closing door.
The Backrooms will never go away.
Why? Because ever since we saw it, it has been forever engraved in our brains. Minecraft knows what theyʼve done here.
Yes
True
Yes
True
Minecraft?
**drops pen**
"Where the hell did my pen go?!"
My pen:
"This is the backroom"
"Dear GOD"
*"There's more"*
*_"NO"_*
I wonder where the person who take the pic. What if he's asking for us to help him get out? 😂
Fun fact: the creepypastas in the backrooms are BTS stans, dream stans, that vegan teacher hypocrites and toxic hackers father's who went to get the milk but never came back
I wonder what youll upload tomorrow, my birthday's meme HAS to be good
Hey!! You did it! Just like I suggested...and wonderfully made!
I love kane pixels reinterpretation of the backroom's "layers" as different biomes in a single interconnected labyrinth. One of many factors to his videos that make the backrooms fresh.
The backrooms may be fake, but it is real in our hearts
The backrooms of my heart are the reason I can't find love.
I heard of the backrooms when it was relatively new around late 2018-2019ish. Had no clue what it was cuz I only heard about it being referenced a few times and I saw a picture or two, but I never thought to look it up. Come 2021 and I start seeing stuff about the backrooms again so I think "Oh this sounds familiar" and again I'm too lazy to look up stuff about it. Now in 2022, I keep seeing way more stuff about the backrooms and honestly I think its a really cool concept. I don't go out of my way to look up stuff about it, but when I see a video or something on it I tend to watch it, or someone winds up showing footage of the backrooms that someone sent in on a stream for whatever reason. Honestly it is a pretty neat take on horror through an unsettling atmosphere, kinda like how FNAF was back in 2014 but with a lot less...interesting....fan art than FNAF had. It is cool though to see the backrooms hasn't changed over the years and that it still gives that eerie nostalgic feeling.
*In about three years...*
"Hey dude, do you remember backrooms?"
"the what? whatre u talkin' 'bout?"
I like Kane Pixels’ rendition of the concept especially since it expands on the lore of the backrooms in a classic Analog Horror format while not straying too far away from the original spirit of the backrooms.
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If I ever become a multi-billionaire one of the first things I'd probably do is have someone build like 10 square miles of backrooms in the middle of nowhere.
Sunnyv2 and LLC collab would be deadly 💀
dude this creepypasta got me so many ideas for essays which all got A+ so it literally improved my grades
Thank you for the lesson as always.
Hey.. hey kid... wanna go into my van... you can go into the back rooms... yeah...
I never thought The Backrooms as an office I always pictured it as an abandoned store inside a mall.
I wish someone made a survival horror game set in the backrooms. Something like all those The Forest or Green Hell type of games. Except you wouldn't really craft stuff, instead you'd have to just collect things (including food, imagine you'd find an office kitchen or a food court, with somehow still fresh food) and move around, because you'd go crazy if you'd stay in one place for too long. You'd find weapons, but never fight anything. You'd probably see some shadowy figures/other people(?)/entities around corners and in the hallways, but they'd just stand there, MENACINGLY, and leave if you'd try to approach. Even if you tried to retrace your steps, you'd never end up back where you came from.
It would be unsetteling and stressful, rather than scary. It would FEEL like a horror, not necessarily be one.
that'd be cool
I like that there’s entire sites dedicated to SCP like community writing on different levels of the Backrooms and what they contain
I hope The Backrooms get a online survival game set there, with us survining the backrooms, setting up communities etc
I think it's very interesting how the original image has much nore duller colors and are much less saturated, while most models and drawings give it a more saturated and stornger color, at least from what i've noticed
I absolutely love liminal spaces. To me, they're places I wanna chill for an hour or so
plot twist:
the backrooms has its own optical illusions to make you go back to where you exactly were,
the backrooms has ends lol
I think the back rooms mainly is a thing that strikes close a lot to people who play video games like myself who accidentally glitched and or exploited into areas you weren’t supposed to be especially like dev rooms like in fallout 4 where it’s just an empty area with some buildings and a cliff where if you look over it actually glitches and shows the last thing you were looking at just giving it an uneary vibe
personaly the original backrooms is the best, no monsters, no other floors, nothing, just empty
I have been seeing this meme float around of many rotating rats with "Free bird" playing over it
i still can't believe the backrooms concept was so recent, i was so conviced it was made around the early 2010s
The backrooms is such a creepy concept, like, imagine doing something completely normally when all of a sudden you end up an infinite set of environments with no escape, you escape to new levels thinking your getting closer to some way out but one never shows up, you only find yourself becoming more vulnerable to dangers or even starvation or dehydration. I think it's scary because you would be trapped, no way out, you might see a place that makes you think you made it out, only to realize when you notice something off, that you're just in another level, and the threats are just as real. I liked the backrooms without the whole exit thing, kinda ruins the whole trapped thing when you can leave, and yes, it might be good for an end goal but I think that's the point, there's not supposed to be an "end goal" just an infinite descent into more terrors, the groups of people you find may comfort you, but it won't last, you'll only find yourself deeper.
I honestly agree that the entities take away from that loneliness, but I have a soft-spot for some of them. Those mainly being the well written ones that go into more detail that just “aaa scary monster look like this, run from it to survive!”.
it's like a blank canvas or template, you can paint whatever you want on it, copy a famous piece but do your own spin on it, or just scribble on it as a joke.
"everybody's been there and I don't mean on vacation"
Just like LiMC in my inbox, the Backrooms refuse to listen to my futile attempts to tell CZcams I don’t want to watch this
My bad dreams are built on the same concept as the backrooms. I need to get somewhere else but I can't get there..I try every path but always some new issue appears.
But weirdly when I saw these specific concept for the first time..I felt chilled and in a comfortable way scared. Hard to explain
“You’re going to Brazil” has taken on a whole new meaning for me
ive been facinated w yhe concept of the backrooms since its inception, even if it eventually falls put of favor, its always gonna have a special place in my heart. this goes for liminal spaces and weirdcore too
backrooms some years ago: endless labyrinth without exit...
backrooms now: labyrinth with enter and exit; terrifying creatures; hundreds of levels...
I have a feeling that the original backrooms made people so uncomfortable that they had to start adding new concepts such as levels and entities to make it less unnerving.
For me, i don't find anything familiar. They are completly unknown with only the eerie manmade structure.
What really creeps me out is how you're completly alone in a place that always looks the same and is a maze in which you can quickly get lost but you can never find an exit. You're trapped there for who know how long with nothing else to do other than wandering around and hoping you will find something - something like an exit or an entity that will kill you and end your suffering for good.
no mention of the backrooms in vrchat. that was one of my first actually horrifying experiences i ever had using vr
The Backrooms Wiki is one of my favourite websites on the internet. Period. It's got a lot of stuff on it, and it's got tons of beautiful writing work and it's got so much lore to it. I also like Kane's BACKROOMS video series, which is quite pretty in its visuals and it really seems like it's going somewhere with its own lore and stories. There's also another wiki called Liminal Archives which is pretty cool too.
The wiki just became a knock off scp with all the entity’s and “MEG” bases I’m so happy with this new universe.
bases are cringe smh
Someone on 4chan: Heres an empty office with yellow walls and it feels eerie right?
Someone else: *So...*
Look guys I have an Idea for a backrooms movie and it will be. Found Footage (kinda like what Kane did and yes it will involve Kane as a producer) Soo basically It's the 2000's A girl Went missing without any trace The Brother of the sister (named Quentin) and his Friends Maya and Jonathan are investigating where could his sister go and one of the evidence points to A Sync.
Quentin takes a camera to record any possible things that could happen. Jonathan (the oldest) drives them to A Sync,when they get there they have to get past security soo they wait until night falls and so when nobody is there they enter in. They wonder around for a few hours until Maya Finds the iconic portal and she accidentally opens the portal to the Backrooms. Jonathan and Quentin are amazed and they decide to enter there. The portal closes and they freak out wondering how can they escape but Quentin reasures them that it will be ok. After a few hours they start seeing blood wondering if it's Quentin's sister they start going after the trail only to see a person with a hazmat suit on them. They start to freak out and at that point Quentin realizes something lurks here In the backrooms and soo they start trying to find an escape until they see a door saying exit. Jonathan, Quentin and Maya are delighted and so they all go in only to enter the room that Kane did when he jumped in that square hole anyway the trio is confused as to where the fuck they are and start wondering but to no avail and so they go up stairs going to the same rooms but this time another door appears and it says outside they all go into that door just too see that they are in a weird type of hotel structure (level 188) they now realising what they got themselves into they hear a growl being the same entity that appeared in the original found footage and so they start running as fast as they can but Jonathan get's killed but without hesitation they keep going and they are back into level 0 but this time they are near the exit. They think it's fake and they keep running until that monster appears again and with no other choice they run to the exit leading back to the A Sync Room portal thingy. Quentin and Maya Scared for they're lives decide to never go here again but when they try to exit A Sync Employees start to jump them. In the post credit scene we are shown Quentin in his room somewhere in 2018 along with his wife Maya posting a picture of the Backrooms on 4Chan. NOW who I would cast well for Quentin I would cast Asa Butterfly or Aaron Taylor, for Maya I would go for Anya Joy Taylor or Hailee Steinfiled and Jonathan would be hmmm Dylan 'O Bryan and thanks for reading and tell me what you think in the replies
I suppose to me, I'm divided on how I feel about the concept of The Backtooms and the Liminal Spaces horror feeling in general.
If we were to noclip into the Backrooms and feel that anxiety of "but something's not quite right/there", it'd work. At least until we grow out of our fear of it. We'd probably just die before we could escape anyways, so just accept the truth.
Personally, I see it as a place where things once existed. Your fears of Liminal Spaces can exist, but if you expose yourself to it for too long, sometimes that fear can just...go away. A fear of death might exist within you, but only because you can't escape.
If these were places where you feel like things once existed, I feel like it'd be necessary for one or two entities to exist on each level, slowly trying to find you and stalk you down. In the Backrooms, you don't know if there's an exit, so you can either waste all your energy trying to find one or take it slowly and analyze your surroundings. With an entity on the loose, it adds more tension in the air and more dire need to escape.. You can't tell if you've even got enough time to escape or analyze or what to do in general.
I guess to each their own.
Anxiety, but also a strange form of peace for the "Backrooms with no entities" enjoyers.
Fear and tension for the "Backrooms with entities" enjoyers
Personally, I like a mix of both. :)
Fun fact. The backrooms do have multiple exits. Its just that you have to go through more dangerous parts of the backrooms to reach it