You are in a pool and not knowing what to do. You can't remember when you were in the interior room with wall-to-wall tile. The next room is a pool and the following room is bathed in light. It's Shit. You find a small ledge to get out of the water as your anxiety increases.
There is no time to relax. A shiver goes down your spine as you hear a splash in the distance. Something disappears behind the corner while someone tries to get a clear look. You walk along the ledge. The splashing is closer. A walk turns into a jog. As everything goes black, you slip, fall, and hit your head against the tile. It all starts to rush back when you wake up. You are in the backrooms.
What are the backrooms?
The Backrooms aren't a real place. According to Vice, the concept originated on 4chan with a single eerie image of a fluorescent-lit interior. It is difficult to capture the essence of the original photo. The image shows no furniture or people. The viewer can see an entryway covered in yellow wallpaper and an empty room covered in brown carpet. You can partially see another open passage, but the view is not clear.
In response to the photo, online posters imagined an abandoned maze filled with moist carpet only reached by slipping through the cracks of reality. Reality breaking is often referred to as no-clipping in video game culture. There are different environments, monsters, and survival ratings in the Unreal place.
The Backrooms are considered to be a weirdpasta and follow in the footsteps of Slender Man, but the conceptpredates that. A lot of people on the internet are obsessed with a scary idea. They write reams of fan fiction expanding the horror story and venturing far from their original intent. There are amateur filmmakers who make viral videos.
During a bout of insomnia, I first encountered the Backrooms. A video titled The Pool Rooms (Found Footage) was recommended to me. The camera operator is in the water. The first two paragraphs are about an imagined encounter. The New York City-based artist's page is a bastion of partially submerged interiors.
The video description gives credit to Kane Pixels. A visual effects artist from California uses the online name of Pixels. The Backrooms (Found Footage) has over 26 million views on YouTube. A celebrated figure on the active r/backrooms subreddit, the praise Pixels receives is well deserved. His recent video, Backrooms - Pitfalls, is terrifying with a slick, high-value production that includes use of motion capture from the Rokoko Smartsuit Pro II.
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