The Backrooms

Have you ever been in a space that's usually occupied by a lot of people, but in this one instance it isn't? It's completely empty except for you, you might hear a stray noise or two, but its only you. Now imaging that, but with an old unused office space with rotting carpets. Then make it unnecessarily large and labyrinthine. You now have the original idea of the backrooms.

Backrooms?

Originally posted on a random thread on /x/, the original image was included with a short snippet of text:

“	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, and 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.	„
—The original post

yellow wallpapers.... spooky

At first glance this is a short and sweet little creepypasta, that leaves plenty to the imagination. Then like slenderman and the SCP Foundation before it, everyone wanted to latch onto it and make it their own story. In this case very literally as once a backrooms wiki was made people were self inserting themselves into the imaginary lore of the place, reddit usernames and all. The wiki is pretty much a bootleg SCP Wiki as well.

The original vs now

• In the original while a creature was mentioned it was never definitely stated whether it was real or merely a figment of the trapped person's declining sanity.
• On the wiki, the creature is very real and its more of a deal of how many of them there are and which creature it is specifically.
• While, there was only the one area of the backrooms, they decided the backrooms was actually a whole separate universe of empty forgotten places.
• It was originally a one person experience, now there are whole groups of people stuck in the layers of it, wacky factions too!

Ok, but why does this exist?

Some sections of the Internet have an odd obsession with empty areas, they refer to them as "Liminal spaces", the Backrooms is merely a product of this. A Liminal Space is just a fancy word for saying a place that has been abandoned or is abnormally empty of human activity. This also one of the side effects of a generation of people bored due to current circumstances.

Do you see the guy off to the left there? or is that just me?

Notable "Levels"

• Level 0- The original
• Level 9- An infinite suburb
• Level 10- Wheat fields
• Level 11- The endless city
• Level Fun- A large birthday party
• Level 33- Infinite mall

Gallery

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  Level 3
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  Level 4
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  Level 9
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  Level 10
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  Level 11
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  Level 33
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  The Backrooms give its insight on current events

See also

• Creepypasta
• Autism
• Mario 64 Iceberg - Similar amount of retardation.
• Iceberg Image Trend - Became popular around the same time.