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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.
Someone help, ive teleported to the backrooms.
The backrooms by Thanos Wang May 18, 2019

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.
Someone please kill me I’ve been in the backrooms for so long I just want to die

Backrooms 

A really big yellow liminal office building that you get to by no-clipping IRL.
Person 1: Do you know where the backrooms are?
Person 2: In the wall.
Backrooms by smoorkcab June 18, 2021

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.
Oh, look! It's Level 37 of the Backrooms!
Backrooms by ParallaxAstro December 8, 2022
Word of the Day on February 6, 2026

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 nearby because it sure as hell has heard you.

The Backrooms are an alternate dimension, but one that is not like many other alternate dimensions in the universe. While others seem to be pocket dimensions that are linked to our own reality, the Backrooms runs deep INSIDE our own reality, meaning there is no physical way to enter it. Rather, a person enters the Backrooms when in a state of deep despair, or during sleep.
Man I dreamed about The Backrooms, it was so trippy.
The Backrooms by HarrisonWells September 22, 2020
A Blackrom describes a category of relationships that fall under the hate hemisphere, and are associated with the color black. They are tied to strongly negative emotions.

There are two kinds of Blackroms: Auspisticism and Kismesissitude.

1. An auspistice is a "facilitator" of some sort between two others, mediating interactions between them and keeping their relationship functional. Auspisticism need only be felt by the auspistice and not the two parties in the mediated relationship.

2. Kismesissitude is linked to hatred, and it is necessary that both parties feel hatred towards each other. Although, it may be based on a mix of hatred and sexual attraction. The person you feel kismesissitude for is known as your kismesis. The term is closely related to "potent arch-rivalry".
John: What's with Rose and Eridan these days?
Dave: I don't know man, but I smell a Blackrom brewing.
Blackrom by bottledair May 4, 2014
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