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Mfw I when I fall into a mono yellow maze and I spend 15 years trying to leave. I can't. die or even kill myself either because I just wake up on that moist carpet to start the cycle all over again. And navigate these horrible yellow walls. I miss my old life so much. made with mematic

27KiB, 640x480, 622.jpg View Anonymous Tue 28 May 2019 15:57:31 No.22742882 Quoted By: >>22742902 >>22743132 >>22743140 >>22743141 >>22744165 >>22745479 >>22745685 >>22746170 >>22746530 >>22746632 "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" How so? You should be awake to trigger this? I don't understand it at all and if creeps the s--- out of me, enlighten me anons

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The Backrooms is a creepypasta inspired by a comment on a picture of an "unsettling room" on 4chan's /x/ board. The comment inspired an expanded creepypasta and YouTube videos reading the creepypasta. In May 2024, the original location used in the iconic image of the yellowish, bleak room was discovered online.

Origin

On April 21st, 2018, an anonymous 4chan^[6] user posted the image in the /x/ forum in a thread about cursed images (shown below).

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On May 12th, 2019, an anonymous 4chan^[1] user started a thread in the site's paranormal board /x/ inviting users to post pictures of "disquieting images" that just feel "off." The user posted a picture of a yellow room at an off-center angle (shown below). A user replied with a narrative about the picture, writing:

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

Spread

On May 14th, another thread combining the picture and the comment appeared on /x/.^[2] Two days later, the post appeared on /r/greentext^[3] under the caption "Worse than any creepypasta out there," gaining over 32,000 points (shown below).

Anonymous 05/14/19(Tue)20:29:30 No.2267 The Backrooms 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 nearbv. because it sure as hell has heard vou

On May 18th, Redditor yourdndguy^[4] posted a creepypasta inspired by the post on /r/creepypasta, gaining over 200 points. Another was posted to the creepypasta wiki.^[5] On May 19th, Twitter user @GearboxGunman posted a computer-animated video of walking through "infinite" backrooms, gaining over 950 retweets and 4,400 likes (shown below).

Infinite. pic.twitter.com/qZt5wxtp3m
— Big Bunny 🐇 (@GearboxGunman) May 19, 2019

Some others on Twitter began making jokes about the area. User @DST_000 posted about the positive qualities of The Backrooms (shown below, left). User @LucasLayton4 posted a What If We Kissed In joke about The Backrooms (shown below, right).

ni DANİ STONER @DST_000 Follow v Good heavens, I wish I lived in the "Backrooms": Comfy carpet that lets you walk barefoot or with socks Yellowed green rooms with 90's styled wallpaper Good light that lets you do important things when needed Without unnecessary furniture, less is more You're alone 1:52 PM -18 May 2019

i am become honk, destroyer of w... @LucasLayton4 Follow hat if we kissed in the backrooms o 6:03 PM 19 May 2019

TikTok

In March 2020, the images of The Backrooms were shared in conjunction with images that seem creepily familiar on TikTok (shown below).

https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6802822723669118213

https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6809811829422869765

https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6812136416911412486

The Backrooms (Found Footage)

The Backrooms (Found Footage) refers to a series of found-footage analog horror videos based on The Backrooms creepypasta showing people experiencing strange phenomena and going missing while exploring the location, as well as showing people in hazmat suits studying it. The first video was uploaded to YouTube in early January 2022 by Kane Pixels, who uploaded two more videos in the series that month. The series received praise for its overall quality, particularly for the animation of the backrooms location, becoming the subject of reactions and discussion online.

Movie

It was announced on February 6th, 2023, that Kane Pixels would be directing a feature film of The Backrooms, with principal filming taking place during the summer of 2023, leading to a lot of excitement from fans of his and of the series mythos.

Discussing Film @DiscussingFilm A feature film adaption of 'THE BACKROOMS', based on the viral YouTube horror series, is in the works at A24. Kane Parsons will direct the film over his Summer vacation, with James Wan & Shawn Levy set to exec produce. 11:49 AM - Feb 6, 2023 9.4M Views ⠀ 11.3K Retweets 7,515 Quote Tweets 100.2K Likes

Real Place Found

On May 30th, 2024, Twitter / X^[7] user @tjxz_z uploaded a post that claimed their friend found the real place of "The Backrooms", which is from Wisconsin, while the photo was taken in 2003. The post received more than 8,200 reposts and 81,800 likes in one day (shown below).

the goofball @tjxz_z MY FRIEND FOUND THE BACKROOMS LOCATION ITS IN WISCONSIN AND THESE PICS ARE FROM 2003 5:50 AM · May 30, 2024 4.5M Views 8,298 Reposts 1,493 Quotes 81.8K Likes 16.6K Bookmarks

According to @tjxz_z's post, the photo was from a site named hobbytownoshkosh.com^[8]. In the site, the photo was uploaded around 2003 in the post titled "Revolution Raceway" (shown below).

Above is the original view of the East (Oval) room. Notice no windows are visible? You can not see in the pictures the extent of water damage, but it was there requiring all of this material to come out. Daryl doing some end of day clean up. The Dorsey's, Rob Henderson, Troy and Jeff helped today in addition to more people last week. I like the looks of the floor to the right of the picture. We are getting down to almost what the Eagles Club is, we will be sanding it also.

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N----- BE TRAPPED INTHE ENDLESS BACKROOMS FOR THIRUE STRAIGHT MONTHS LKE BRUH IS THERE WALL OUTLET AROUND HERE

Mothership Loudspeakerz @mamaship2 Follow Are these the b a ckr ooms? 8:57 AM-21 May 2019

Search Interest

External References

^[1] 4Plebs – unsettling images

^[2] 4Plebs – redpill me

^[3] Reddit – Worse than any creepypasta

^[4] Reddit – The Backrooms

^[5] Wiki – The Backrooms

^[6] 4Plebs – /x/

^[7] Twitter / X – MY FRIEND FOUND THE BACKROOMS LOCATION ITS IN WISCONSIN AND THESE PICS ARE FROM 2003

^[8] [Archived] hobbytownoshkosh.com – Revolution Raceway

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