Īnother user replied to this post with the first description of the Backrooms: It is not known where the photo was taken, but it appeared in an earlier thread on April 21, 2018. One of the posts was the original photo of the Backrooms: a picture of a large carpeted, open room with yellow wallpaper and fluorescent lighting on a Dutch angle. On May 12, 2019, an anonymous user started a thread on /x/, 4chan's paranormal-themed board, asking users to 'post disquieting images that just feel 'off ''. Fan-made video games, collaborative fiction wikis and YouTube videos have also been created: a series of horror shorts created by YouTuber Kane Parsons in 2022 is credited with popularizing Backrooms content on the mainstream internet, and he is slated to direct a film adaptation of his Backrooms videos. One of the most well-known examples of the Internet aesthetic of liminal spaces, which depicts usually busy locations as unnaturally empty, the Backrooms was first described as a maze of empty office rooms that can only be entered by ' noclipping out of reality'.Īs its popularity grew, internet users expanded upon the original concept by creating different levels and entities which inhabit the Backrooms. The Backrooms are an online urban legend originating from a creepypasta posted on a 2019 4chan thread. A typical depiction of the Backrooms, digitally rendered
