The Backrooms

 

I think by now, we have all heard of "The Backrooms", the famous picture of the yellow walls, and fluorescent lights, that was posted on 4chan back in 2019, for some odd reason, it feels like ages ago, even though it was only 3 years ago really. Since then, the idea, concept, and the whole notion of The Backrooms has pretty much exploded into a full-blown phenomenon all over the internet. 

I guess you can say there's two types of fans of The Backrooms, the old school fans, who liked the simple concept of what it was originally, that you were stuck in an endless maze with no way out, no food, no water, time distorted, you slowly losing your sanity, basically phycological horror. Then there is the other type of fandom of The Backrooms, the people who prefer to add multiple levels, monsters, sound effects, basically something in your face all the time, the setting changing constantly, the polar opposite of phycological horror entirely.

People have even made videogames of The Backrooms, then there's all the spin offs and the lore all over Reddit itself, with people adding their own take of what The Backrooms is, and what's inside of it. Some people speculated and questioned even question if The Backrooms is real at all, other's just treat it as a meme, a form of entertainment. You can basically find stuff about The Backrooms everywhere online, on YouTube, Reddit, TikTok, even on forums probably. 

Also, with The Backrooms, it also brought on, the conversation regarding the concept, Liminal Spaces, you go on YouTube, and you'll find hundreds of video essays about Liminal Spaces. 

It's strange, how one little idea, could grow into something so massive, just within a few years in fact.