Aaaand now I know how I'll waste the rest of my vacation time. There is a "Backrooms" themed "Industrial Skyblock" type of minecraft modpack.
It's NOT a monster fest. It's very strange.
#Backrooms
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When you're pushing the boundaries of what's possible, you really need to learn how to duck and cover.
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@steven @petebrown Here in my opinion is one of the scarier #Backrooms videos. I don't think it's a coincidence that it plays out almost exactly like the original "The Blair Witch Project."
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@steven @petebrown Here's the original text-based wiki where the #Backrooms mythos was first created. If you don't know, a creepypasta is when someone comes up with a germ of an idea ("a tall slender man has started appearing outside people's windows at night"), then hundreds of others contribute details ("he's called Slenderman!"), the ones most liked becoming the ones most repeated, and thus "canon." It's a fascinating subculture, particularly loved by teen boys.
backrooms.fandom.comBackrooms WikiThe Backrooms Wiki is centered around the exploration and documentation of the Backrooms. Discover and share knowledge about levels, entities, and more!
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@petebrown Ha, I saw that too! @clive always puts together the best links!
On a related note, I'm now contemplating actually learning Blender, because after watching something like 200 #Backrooms videos in the last month, I have all these ideas now for how to make them MUCH scarier.
Saw this at my neighborhood Target today, and all I could think was, "I've been watching way too many #Backrooms videos"
Pac-Man in the style of a #Backrooms "AI gone insane" horror short
Nice -- a new art book examines American locations in real life that look like the "hallucinating AI horror" series #Backrooms.
https://www.lensculture.com/articles/orejarena-and-stein-american-glitch
SOMEONE HELP ME
I CANNOT STOP WATCHING #BACKROOMS VIDEOS
MY BROTHER MADE FUN OF ME WHEN I TOLD HIM
"THAT SHIT'S THREE YEARS OLD, PETTUS!!!!"
I CANNOT HEEELLLP IIIIITTT
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Yep, I'm back to obsessively watching #Backrooms videos tonight! (See previous posts on my profile page for a whole lot more.) This particular video makes me realize how indebted these horror shorts are to the original "Blair Witch Project," in that 99% of the running time is devoted just to establishing a creepy vibe, then with something truly horrific only in the last 60 seconds to send you on your way legitimately terrified.
Okay, last thought about Kane Parson's horror series #Backrooms, that I think why they've touched such a nerve (he's a bored teen who's nonetheless gotten 200 million views) is that they express our collective dread over AI right now, how it kind of gets reality right by being based on bits of reality, but puts the bits together so nonsensically that it creates existential repulsion. This video especially feels like if we were living inside a faulty AI bot.
I take back what I said earlier (see previous posts for more), about how Kane Parson's #Backrooms horror videos are "kind of" inspired by Mark Danielewski's Generation-X experimental classic "House of Leaves;" this video is basically a shot-for-shot ripoff of the novel, but with his own creepypasta spin on it all. (Don't feel bad for Danielewski; after all, he himself was just ripping off "Poltergeist.")
Still deep into my rabbit hole today of the collective horror mythos known as #Backrooms (see previous posts for more). What makes the videos so effective by the first person to make them, teen filmmaker Kane Parsons, is that he steals heavily from Mark Danielewski's experimental classic "House of Leaves" as far as setting a vibe, but then adds an edge that is sometimes legitimately terrifying. Here's the best one yet I've seen at his channel when it comes to all that.
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3/ What really strikes me about #Backrooms is how dankmemes-like it is, a subreddit I'm obsessed with as a 56-year-old because I know how much I would've loved it at 17. Creators of Backrooms content play off each other's ideas, no one person owning or defining the horror mythos but rather each person adding whatever details they want, the most clever ones repeated more and more until they become "canon." That's a fascinating way to make art and tell stories. /END
Deep into my rabbit hole dive into #Backrooms (see previous posts for more). A really fascinating part of it is that it's "creepypasta," or a collective non-copyrighted horror mythos not created or owned by any one person; there are hundreds of people adding to the story, through a written wiki and tons of YouTube vids, a marketplace of ideas where each person plays off whatever details from others they like the most, so that the best ideas become the "canon." (cont)
I've fallen DEEPLY down the #Backrooms rabbit hole today, a collective non-copyrighted horror mythos based around the idea of a portal into an otherworldly infinite universe of "liminal spaces" (dead malls, abandoned offices, empty hotel corridors), home to wandering malevolent creatures. One thing that really strikes me is how much it's a Gen-Z reflection of dread over abandoned '90s spaces from their childhoods, mashed up with "House of Leaves" and "Annihilation."
Over the years, I've learned that I'm rarely one of the first people to discover something from the underground arts; but that once I do discover it and get obsessed with it, it tends to be just a little bit before that piece of underground art explodes into the popular consciousness. In that spirit, may I please introduce you to today's discovery, the 2022 creepypasta liminal-space horror mythos known as the Backrooms.
yeah
I think it's that corporate bit that takes some of the joy out of it for me... and it's also why things like #backrooms #thebackrooms excite me so much... because they mostly fail to be really owned by any company (even though, lord knows, some are trying to make that happen)
So it feels more like real folklore.
I didn't invite corporate mascots to the campfire to tell stories. Please go away.
A24 are working on a Backrooms movie from 19-year-old Kane Parsons https://www.liveforfilm.com/2025/06/13/a24-are-working-on-a-backrooms-movie-from-19-year-old-kane-parsons/
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