Born from an anonymous 4chan creepypasta post, the concept of the “Backrooms” has evolved from a singular image to a YouTube phenomenon to a buzzy summer horror release. The original photo, which was shared on 4chan in 2019 and later identified as a 2002 snapshot taken at a former Wisconsin furniture store, was accompanied by a request for others to share “disquieting images that just feel ‘off.'” Another user then replied to the post with a caption that has come to define the Backrooms mythos: “If you’re not careful and you noclip [or glitch] 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.”
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