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The backrooms
If you're not careful and accidentally teleport out of reality in the wrong areas, youll end up in the backrooms. Here, it is nothing but the stink of old, moist carpet, the madness of mono-yellow, the endless backround noise of fluorescent lights at maximum hum-buzz, and about 800 million square miles of randomly connected empty rooms where you are trapped. God save you if you hear something wandering around, because by that point, it already knows you are there.
The backrooms by Thanos Wang May 18, 2019
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The Backrooms
The Backrooms is a realm that first appeared on 4Chan. This realm is out of the boundaries of the real world and can only be accessed by nocliping through a floor or wall in a place that inspires deja vu or an uncomfortable feeling of nostalgia. It consists of a never-ending maze of yellow-ish empty rooms with beige carpets, old wallpaper, the smell of mildew and moldy carpets, and the faint buzz of fluorescent lighting.
The Backrooms by Madison Gomez June 9, 2019
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Backrooms
The Backrooms are a concept first showcased in a post on 4chan, where one user described a realm made up of nothing but infinite, empty, interconnected rooms with horrible yellow wallpaper and loud fluorescent lights. The concept has now been expanded upon and revamped numerous times over.
The Backrooms, in general, are a series of liminal spaces designed to evoke a feeling of eeriness and nostalgia. They are designed to be a form of psychological horror, with the emptiness and eerie feelings as the main point of the Backrooms. They take elements from everyday life, things that one would not ordinarily pay attention to, and takes them out of context to create something uncanny. Something empty. They are designed to feel surreal, dream-like. Often, the structure and physical design of these liminal spaces are completely nonsensical, as if they were not deliberately made, which, of course, only adds to the psychological horror of the Backrooms.
If you'd like a more in-depth explanation, take a look at Solar Sands' video on YouTube on the subject, titled, "Liminal Spaces".
There's also a Fandom site for the Backrooms, at backrooms.fandom.com.
The Backrooms, in general, are a series of liminal spaces designed to evoke a feeling of eeriness and nostalgia. They are designed to be a form of psychological horror, with the emptiness and eerie feelings as the main point of the Backrooms. They take elements from everyday life, things that one would not ordinarily pay attention to, and takes them out of context to create something uncanny. Something empty. They are designed to feel surreal, dream-like. Often, the structure and physical design of these liminal spaces are completely nonsensical, as if they were not deliberately made, which, of course, only adds to the psychological horror of the Backrooms.
If you'd like a more in-depth explanation, take a look at Solar Sands' video on YouTube on the subject, titled, "Liminal Spaces".
There's also a Fandom site for the Backrooms, at backrooms.fandom.com.
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