The Backrooms

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**The Backrooms,** is an urban legend and creepypasta, which originates off of 4chan, an anonymous imageboard website; on its /x/ paranormal board, in a thread about unsettling images. The original image for the backrooms was posted by an anonymous user, and backstory for the image was also created by an anonymous user on the board on May 12th 2019. The original comment from the board reads as follows:

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> “"If you’re not careful and you noclip out of reality in the wrong areas, you’ll end up in the Backrooms, where it’s nothing but the stink of old moist carpet, the madness of mono-yellow, the endless background noise of fluorescent lights at maximum hum-buzz, and approximately six hundred million square miles of randomly segmented empty rooms to be trapped in.
> *God save you if you hear something wandering around nearby, because it sure as hell has heard you.” ”*
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The post sparked the imagination of people who generally liked adding fuel to the fire, and many users on /x/ started coming up with theories about this supposed "Backrooms", witness accounts, and other such thing that related to the Backrooms. The first Backrooms wiki was created on June 2nd 2019, about 2 months after the original post on 4chan, and the wiki continues to operate to this day. Many other wikis also came around during 2019 and leading into 2020; this being the start of the Backrooms and it's earliest era. The Backrooms is also one of the first examples on the internet of a Liminal Space; however that's not to say it was the first one, as Liminal Spaces as a whole date back to around the 1800's, which itself comes from the Latin word līmen, meaning "threshold".

The original creepypasta describes that you are able to "fall" out of reality, described here as "no-clipping" a phenomenon in video games where a users fail to collide with in-game surfaces and objects, making them pass or phase right through them, falling through the map. The picture shows a room with yellowed wallpaper and fluorescent lighting, with the post going onto describe the lighting being louder than normal, as well as the carpet here being damp. The Backrooms in the post also encompass over: "six-hundred million square miles of randomly segmented empty rooms". The location of the photo has never been found, and it is possible that the image is a procedurally generated digital composition. In Virtual Carbons video about the origins of the photo, he mentions the type of camera possibly used to take the photo, dating back to around 2001 - 2002, meaning the photo could have been taken as far back as the early 2000's. In the video he also disproves that the photo was generated as it had no signs of editing or tampering with the image. Instead, it was most likely an advertisement for a renting or real estate website.

Along with the adaptation made by the wiki's, various adaptations were made of the Backrooms in various forms. Such as Kane Parsons immensely popular series on the Backrooms, with his original video: The Backrooms (Found Footage), garnering over 40 Million views. Since then his series has spanned over several videos, allowing Kane to create horror not just through the ambiguity of the Backrooms, but also through a strong narrative. Kane's series also inspired a number of other smaller, yet still popular channels to do that same in hopes of gaining as much success as he did. Channels such as: A-Sync Research, Frag 2, and Matt Studios, to name a few. All of these channels seem to have their own narratives that either follow one character throughout the Backrooms, or the titular A-Sync Research Institute, Kane's group of interest in the Backrooms.

The Backrooms became popular from writers and internet users, most of which commented on its uncanniness. The creepypasta has also been cited as the origin and most-well known example of Liminal Spaces, with the tag '#liminalspaces' amassing over 100 million views on the social media platform TikTok. The horror aspects of The Backrooms drew comparisons to the conspiracy theories of UFOs in Area 51, as well as aspects that share similarities the the SCP Foundation, most notably with SCP 3008, The Infinite IKEA, that contains an infinite interior space within a pocket dimension.