The concept of the Backrooms was the perfect epitome of “Less is More.” A simple uncanny environment with an uncanny atmosphere that everyone can somehow relate to.
One similar concept that occurred to me looking at the movie theater hallway is that each door off the hallway opens to an identical endless door lined hallway instead of a theater. There is a way to escape, though, as exactly one door in each hallway goes back to the lobby, but it's completely random for each hallway, which all have a near infinite amount of doors, and you can't go back to try a different door in the last hallway since as soon as you step through the door, it disappears as the new hallway stretches into seeming infinity in both directions.
I find liminal spaces and analogue horror incredibly fascinating in how it affects people. I've started liminal space photography now and I hope to eventually start posting some of it! Artists like Trevor Henderson (creator of siren head) are a big inspiration for the style because he uses unsettling photos as a basis for his horror creations! I love the genre because it takes something usually overlooked or avoided, and turns it into an outlet for imagination and building upon each others ideas. I love the SCP foundation for the same reason
I followed Trevor Henderson for years it’s sad that he got so popular that he stopped posting frequently with new creative things and hung onto siren head
Not nearly as cool as photography but I "make" liminal spaces in my dreams with the magic of either lucid or my mind knowing that it wants something (while not being conscious). My favourite so far is this storage facility crossed with Ikea, with high ceilings and bold blue numbers to mark the area. From clothing to plants, it's really just a high ceilinged Ikea. It then continues into an actual storage facility with cargo, and my favourite area out of there is the cellar or downstairs. Old corridors with yellow tiled flooring. Exposed insulation and visible piping. The corridors and hallways led to these 80's style offices. Yellow floor tiles, curling wallpaper, dusty, ancient yellowed computers and yellow fluerescent buzz of the lights above. Think of Old Aperture in Portal 2. I highly recommend getting into lucid dreaming or something similar. There's norhing more fun or cool about exploring a place that your subconscious mixed with conscious created!
@@Twiddle_things How do you even get into lucid dreaming it seems so cool!! I been wondering should i search it up on google or smth? Please respond i gett a notification, plus your lucid dream sounds so cool!!
@@briewilliamson3623 If you focus on it while you're falling asleep, you can "train" yourself to do it. I did. Also, for me taking L-tryptophan (supplement) makes my dreams more vivid. Don't take too much, just the recommended dose. The trick is to realize that you're dreaming, without waking up. Once you do that you can start to control your dreams, little by little. I saw liminal spaces in my dreams way before I found out about the phenomenon online.
The situation with levels is about the same as with SCP, when people began to gradually add more and more objects, but at some point they began to downfall.
But the thing is SCP actually has a quality standard, and doesn’t just allow shitty concepts. The backrooms does, and which is why it has become so much worse.
SCP used to have a quality standard, now it's just nepotistic discord nonsense and general annoyance. We had our fun with the backrooms, now the new people can have theirs, honestly I prefer this situation over what happened to SCP.
And that's why Liminal Space is always better than Backrooms. Hard to make something shit, when you can just take a photo of a real life place, give a creepy title, and share it.
People don’t understand what made the backrooms scary on its own, they only understand one type of horror, that horror being chased by a goofy boofy monster through a maze
@@Bunihime that was the point the isolation and FEELING like you were being watched but nothing being there, always keeping you tense and on edge until you gradually lose your absolute shit and go insane trapped in an isolated hell forever.
@@cyanyde4950 I do like the idea that there are no actual entities in the backrooms, but the subject/victim trapped there eventually begins to hallucinate them from enduring the _feeling_ of constantly being watched.
to be honest the only way monsters can work is if there more psychological like alternates just walking and seeing shadow people out the corners of your eye hearing sounds of other people only for it to fade away once you get near it hearing footsteps behind you or just some unknown monster that blends in with the wallpaper
I think the real point of the backrooms is being alone in a place devoid of all life, no humans, no birds, no cats, no animals, yet machines like escalators, lights, ventilation fans are still working.
actually the back rooms being very boring it's actually part of the horror because eventually after being in the same repeating space over and over again forever the sensory deprivation is gonna start to wear on you
I've been in so many empty airports because I either got trapped in it due to weather or overbooking. The white lights, the random announcements, the only room populated being the smoking rooms that were really yellow from all the cigarette smoke. Super spooky
I just had a revelation! The first time I came into contact with liminal spaces wasn't in image-form, it was in a book. It was about a girl that ended up in "special care" in an old school building (basically isolating her because of mental illness). There were two caretakers, probably retired teachers, that lived in the huge school building. The girl thought that she was sent to a boarding school with hundreds of students, but it was just her and the caretakers in the whole building. She was walking around in the whole school building, expecting the building to be full of life around every corner, but... nothing. Completely abandoned/shut down. I won't spoil too much but I can say as much that I had the feeling that the girl was pretty much going insane because of the surroundings. I got that "liminal space" / "backrooms" feeling while reading this book at the age of about 10 or 11, but I didn't have a name for it back then. The book is called "Behind the attic wall" by Sylvia Cassedy for those interested.
I would love to see you play "Enter the backrooms"! It's the most enjoyable and fun backrooms game I've seen so far, it's kinda like a walking simulator/survival game. It really forces you to explore every level because you never know where you'll be able to find the exit to the next one. It also doesn't have unnecessary jumpscares, and has a looot of levels and secret rooms. Awesome video as always!!
The complex is also a very good backrooms game, there is no objective or monster everywhere, you just have to walk trough the levels. It's very atmospheric and it's free
Wouldn't it be cool if someone built the backrooms irl in some cheap, desolate area, and you could pay for entrance kinda like an escape room? 😊Added points if you get dropped on a random floor 🙌. Then one floor leads to another and you gotta find a way out You could have an emergency button for when the panic sets in if you can't find your way out
Do you realize how much money that would cost… doesn’t matter if it was in some desolate area for cheap, it won’t feel real unless it’s a giant area. would be stupid af to build a house sized backrooms simulation. It’s gotta be huge
I used to clean doctor offices at a hospital, at night and alone. It was a sprawling maze of empty office suites. It was easy to get lost and disoriented. I don't work their anymore and I'm mad at myself for not taking photos or video of it. It was so creepy.
Those types of German trains are pretty long because they don't drive along curvy tracks 😊 and I also agree that the pool rooms are the most interesting and uncomfortable backrooms so far 😂
3:20 I like how the reflection of the ceiling lights from inside the classroom and fog make the sky look like you’re trapped somewhere and extremely liminal. Probably wasn’t intentional since it is a reflection but that just makes it feel so much more like the backrooms
Y'know, if I crashed in the middle of the Namib desert, and was completely alone with no sign of help for days, I'd rather a lion eat me than slowly starve to death.
That's the point of liminal space horror; being alone in a vast emptiness. That's why it's scary. So of course, you'd prefer to not be alone. Having the company of a monster is more preferable than having no company at all.
An Entity always makes it better. The entity should just blend together with what makes the backrooms in the first place, instead of making random animal like creatures for the hell of it. The reason why i like Bacteria (Kane Pixels). is because of the timing and execution. It makes it much more terrifying to be completely alone, never to see another human again, knowing something completely inhumane may find you. Thats why bacteria is better than most monster with a bunch of lore behaviors and established perks. They are too humane or animal like.
the backrooms as a concept of noclipping to some sort of purgatory is extremely interesting to me. What ruined the backrooms for me were the unnecessary levels, entities, and all sorts of details. These made the backrooms cringe
even if i agree with the whole "the backrooms as a concept is better just being level 0" type thing, i think people making their own levels + stories and all that is completely fine. plus it's funny that i never see people complaining about SCP when in reality it falls under the same issues as the backrooms IMO. oh yea also i hate when people try to gatekeep the backrooms and get mad at people who don't limit their view on the backrooms to level 0. i may enjoy the lonely and desolate vibe of the backrooms just being level 0 but is it gonna kill me to see people expanding on an idea in their own way? hell no. really nice vid btw!
18:00 I feel like Covid desensitized me to the liminal space phenomenon. Suddenly it was normal for familiar settings to be completely “unnaturally” empty.
Re: Backrooms games- there’s an old PS1 game called LSD Dream Simulator (yes, that is the real title) which has weird layers of dreams and stuff- mix of some liminal rooms and pointless open spaces that don’t have much sense to them and lead to different things when you have certain interactions- basically a Backrooms game from decades ago
I noclipped into the backrooms, I would just sit on the floor and cry until the entity kills me. (rip) And liminal space images are so creepy and so unnerving! The liminal artists get so much better each month! (Have a great Christmas and have a good day! ❤) ;)
Well instead of a entity killing you, you would take Very long to die in there, you would hallucinate until you Lost ALL of your sanity and, the actual entities, are the shadows that you would see while losing your sanity slowly.
I like Kane Pixel's adaptation of the backrooms but the monster shouldn't be the main fear. It should be more of a possibility that shows up every now and then.
I'm making a giant building in Minecraft as a puzzle/maze for my 9 yr old daughter. We both love Minecraft and the reason I bring this up is that in the process of building it it has been looking like a backrooms/liminal space kinda thing. It's massive and flat and all white and beige and brightly lit except one hallway that's spooky and has mob heads and chains throughout and I made a rail cart going in endless circles beneath it under ground so you get the scary loud sound "chasing" you. I'm not done but it's going to be awesome when I finish it!
I used to work as a supervisor at my school’s rec center and thinking back on it I could have gotten some excellent liminal space photos on the nights when I closed and was the only one in there. But I was also usually in a rush to get out😅
3:18 what sells this one for me is the reflection of the lights make it look like they are actually in the sky, adding to the liminal weird off feeling to it all
The Poolrooms always remind me of the tile levels in Pikmin 2. Come to think of it, Pikmin 2 is full of weird liminal spaces in general, the cave areas where you spend most of the game just feel so empty and not like a place where anything should live, and yet they're full of real-world objects.
I agree that a lot of the backrooms games get old fast, either due to poor quality or being solely exploration of only a few levels. I'd suggest Escape The Backrooms, you get to see so many interesting levels and it's much more interactive than just exploring cos you gotta figure out puzzles for each one. and it has a good ost.
the backrooms at this point has multiple perspectives on what's canon and what's not due to how large the community is-the backrooms wiki does describe the different kinds of "canon", and they all vary from person to person. personally, i like the completely boundless one because it lets your mind wander and contribute your own pieces too. although a lot of people find that that makes it much less scary, it somehow manages to just make me much more hyperfixated on the topic. also, if you want to cover a backrooms level that dives deep into some lore that might be confusing, you should check out "th3 sh@dy gr3y"!! it kinda unnerved me and i don't often get too unnerved by backrooms levels. this level doesn't feel as much backroomsy as other levels, but there's kind of a reason why. you'll probably know as you look father into it! :)
We had a fence high enough to block off the view of the house behind my brother's house. And before I ever met the neighbors, all I had to go on was their roof and a walnut tree that was right on the fence. The overhang of the tree created a special attention zone when we mowed the yard, but other than that, I could only guess. So I naturally assumed the house had nothing but bathrooms behind every door. And you can't bring it up if you're in there. They know you want to know, but pretend everything is normal.
6:07 i also hate the fact that you can faintly see ANOTHER slightly opened door there leading to possibly more empty rooms and dark doorways. gives me the heebie jeebies
That old 90s computer game Myst gave me this exact vibe. Makes me wanna play it again and see if it still has that effect, such a fun feeling to tap into 😀
I love the pool rooms. ...if you have ever seen/played The old 90's video"Goldeneye" game had areas in it that featured large areas of tiled rooms and corridors, before virtual liminal spaces became a thing
When I found out about the backroom, I had a great laugh because I actually work in that environment for almost 15 years now. We even wear an isolation suit (we call it the bunny suit). It's called the photolithography in Semiconductor fabrication. Go look it up, it's uncanny to the backroom.
Seeing Greg looking at every image from r/backrooms that I’ve already seen is quite the experience, because his breaking down explanations of all the images are fun!
Anyone had that moment in school where you're about to go home, but you forgot something on your desk so you go back to get it. And then get creeped out by how silent the school was? That's why I love liminal spaces so much. The backrooms has become something completely different and i love it, but it doesnt scratch the same horror liminal spaces do.
I once had a job interview in a building that was half finished, all the ceilings were undone, you could see wires and HVAC ducts showing with some fluorescent lights on. The office spaces where empty and with cubicles here and there and I had to walk a long corridor then make a few turns to get to the actual office that was finished where 3 people were working. I got the same sensation when I saw the original backrooms video.
No. The black-walled clothing store is lit by and LED spectrum. That puts it plainly newer than 1998. The majority of Backrooms aesthetic falls within industrial park design of the 1990s. The office space, but with the cubicles (from the Stanley Parable) moved out. Green florescent lighting. The major tangents from the office space are the Poolrooms, and the daycare center. The pool rooms tend to follow the layout of indoor malls from the 1980s. But for the most part, empty retail spaces falls outside Backrooms, and into Dead Mall. In the core office space, any furnishings are a harbinger of doom. The entity can't be far when you see a couch.
greetings, fellow Greg. Great video, i always like to see more backrooms content. I too favor the poolrooms and the song "Semi Decay Period" by Zerofuturism is one i like to listen to while watching poolrooms found footage. just really fits the aesthetic in my opinion. and the thumbnail showing the bathrooms level of the backrooms reminded me of a dream i had once where i was running through a liminal bathroom with just long rows of toilets on each side and no lighting at all in the place save for the flashlight i was carrying and at the end of the hall was a stairwell that led down to yet another identical hallway. trying to find a way out/seeing how deep the place went. idk what my motive in the dream was but such is the way of dreams i guess.
the way it completely skyrocketed in 2021 ruined it all. all these kids putting huggy wuggy or whatever in the backrooms and adding so many levels with so many “rules” just took away the true beauty of it.
here's a little thalasophobia two sentence horror for you gregbrodudeman, i think i have thalasophobia myself so i hate writing this: 1. I stood on the edge of the pier, hands up, then dove into the sea and immediately started swimming upward 2. after a few seconds opened my eyes meters away from the blurry surface... but it wasnt getting any closer.
The flooding stairwell thing happened in a similar fashion in a lot of subway stations where I live 6 years ago. It had rained A LOT in a very short time.
I hate what the back rooms became, it was scarier when it was just an infinite floor of walls and lights. Not everything needs a dumb monster chasing you. The terror of the back rooms is the isolation, the emptiness, and the way our minds play tricks on us when we are alone. All of this SCP monster garbage with multiple levels completely ruins the true horror of an endless labyrinth of liminal space
Ok the thing about the German train is that the turning segments are accordion style, so whenever it turns, the accordion compresses toward the turning side. You can make a train all hallway with this design. Articulated busses and trams work the same way.
The Backrooms has an infinite amount of levels and rooms, the concept alone is amazing, the Backrooms gives opportunity for many creators to add to the concept and yes some will be cringe but I can not wait to see what the Backrooms looks like in 10 years or more
It was best in 2021 though it had a bunch of amazing levels but then the moderators deleted them all and now their replaced with shitty new levels… also everyone knows it cuz of Kane pixels but I think it wa setter when not everyone knew it
Well, on my opnion the backrooms after 10 years would probably be left behind, and the actual concept of it would Just dissapear replaced with Those crappy daycare entities, well Its concept would be completely changed.
@ 14:36 looks like an old k mart maybe? or hobby lobby as the one close by STILL uses older florescent fixtures and yellow bulbs, honestly with how they buzz and how empty they are most the time, it for sure feels like the backrooms could be the backrooms to the store itself, like you could just walk into the back and vanish into the back rooms
14:40 looks like an empty semiconductor manufacturing fab space. I used to be a contingent worker at Intel and this is almost exactly what my workspace would’ve looked like without all the machines and other equipment in it
17:59 once woke up to an empty airport, t was about 8:30, not a soul in sight. not even anyone in TSA. There was another time in the international Miami airport. it was a big group of us moving. but aside from us, everything was empty. it was such a large space too, we were walking for around 10 minutes it felt like. the biggest airport I've ever been to.
9:24 the idea here is that it’s obviously not real but eerily familiar. it seems like something from a dream, in a way. parts of the backrooms are connected to weird/dreamcore in this way. there’s a theory about how the backrooms are trying to recreate reality, so it would make sense for something like this to appear, real-ish but not.
What I find interesting is that un the original prompt it says if "you no clip out of reality in the wrong Areas, you'll end Up in the Backrooms". Here the "wrong areas" part can be taken 2 ways. 1: It simply means that you can no clip on some specific spots which would be the wrong areas. 2 : It could mean that you can also no clip elswhere but that elsewhere would not be the "wrong areas" and so you would no clip but not into the Backrooms. It's just a diferent way to read the words but interesting to think about nonetheless.
The best part about the Poolrooms in my opinion is the fact that no hostile entities reside on the floor. Within the expanded mythos, friendly entities do exist across many levels, and I’d like to think some exist here too. However, the Poolrooms seem to be a lot bigger subjectively than other levels, being the “spawnpoints” are a lot more spread out and you’re even less likely to come across anyone or anything in this level compared to pretty much any other.
Bro no joke. Your video got me into backrooms like 2 years ago but the thing is I was on acid when I first came into it and then some video about dementia and the album everywhere at the end of time or something. Man what a fucking trip I was scared as hell to lay down and I could not close my eyes when showering. Analogue horror had me in cold sweats lol
Does anyone rember a video someone made about an older man with dementia that got lost in the employee access tunnels of a huge colossal mall? The poor man saw nothing but "tunnel rooms" for 3 days WITH dementia!! Until he literally died of starvation 😔
you know I had a dream where I flied through a enormous room, wich was like a creepy distorted reflection of a vintage theatre. With browny reddish walls, and ceiling, and curtains. The curtains were (I just knew it) very dirty. There were a couple of seats, but the place was mostly empty. The floor was all covered by a dirty carpet with the same oppresive brick hue. The two things wich made me feel uneasy were the absurd height of the ceiling, and two big darks holes at each end of the room, wich exhaled a strong, warm wind, like if they made a creepy ventilation system of some sort.
I didn't know about the backrooms back in 2020, it's a shame because during the very first lockdown I definitely got liminal space vibes going out. Had an authorization from my boss to come work on site unlike many people, was 100% alone in the office and streets were mostly empty.
If anybody is also confused by the train featured in this video it's fairly common for lighter commuter trains to be open the whole way because they're built as a set unit and thus can't be separated, This also has the added benefit of letting passengers board faster seeing as they can just step on at any carriage and then wander up and down the train until the find a seat. Larger multiple unit trains do have a similar setup but the tend to have doors separating the carriages but even then multiple unit trains aren't terrible common in the US so there's no shame in being a bit confused by it.
6:01 is it just me or is that a full length mirror going across just at the base of the wrist of your mouse cursor? It almost reminds me of a ballet room without the bars people can practice their form on...in front of a "wall" mirror...
Backrooms creepypasta is about being trapped in Jumanji style simulation videogame and stuck in infinite maps that can glitch you Alive. My theory goes that tech advanced Aliens slaved eldritch beings for maps creation, and trapped Small cosmic Beings for chasing humans. But also there are more NPCs for chasing Humans such as bacteria humanoid, partygoers and glitchings. There are infinite number of NPCs. Those same aliens also created Jumanji as well
a key aspect of backrooms-esque vibes is "this place is clearly meant to have people, and yet there are no people and you are completely alone" with a side of "this looks like if someone put "a place" into an AI image generator."
People that worked in offices and buildings for years hold The Backrooms as the actual hell. If you have ever explored empty buildings at night it reminds you of that.
The most weird thing about the backrooms phenomenon is that there's the Canon that people follow that assigns numbers to levels and considering it's a complete internet thing, they actually adhere to it pretty tightly. I guess it's all about dreams people have, being trapped in a ______ all alone. The backrooms fascination shows absolutely no signs of letting up or slowing down. New users are getting into making the "found footage" videos, and they get tons of subscribers very quickly. I've never had these kinds of dreams, though. Mine are often like being in a place where there are far too many people and I'm in something embarrassing (like no pants on, etc). I have a lot of dreams about money or currency. They're not necessarily bad, except when I'm thumbing through change that I get from a store purchase, only to discover the bills are not legit; they're photocopied, one-sided, the wrong size or color, etc. And then I wake up still pissed that I got ripped off at a store that I was never really at to begin with. 🤣
15:00 - looks like S-Bahn Hamburg(?), these trains (de.wikipedia.org/wiki/DB-Baureihe_490) are indeed quite long (we have lots of those multiple unit trains all over the country), but instead of pragmatically snapping in half they came up with gaiters between the wagons so the whole unit can bend nicely and you can even walk from one end to the other! 👌 And it's actually not that long (66m), the ICE trains follow the same principle on 350m length. May look weird if you're only used to those "short single wagon trains" (or whatever they're called), but it works. ^^
For the record, Endless Ocean (and the sequel Endless Ocean: Blue World) are amazing free diving games for the Nintendo Wii. There are some rather fiddly emulators that let you play them on PC now; the graphics haven't aged great (especially compared to something like Subnautica) but the game play is still really solid and fun. Also you get to tame dolphins and go diving with a dolphin buddy.
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The concept of the Backrooms was the perfect epitome of “Less is More.” A simple uncanny environment with an uncanny atmosphere that everyone can somehow relate to.
The backrooms is like a dream. Areas do not link together like they should, like you enter a closet only to be in a forest, Stuff like that.
Narnia is Backrooms confirmed.
One similar concept that occurred to me looking at the movie theater hallway is that each door off the hallway opens to an identical endless door lined hallway instead of a theater. There is a way to escape, though, as exactly one door in each hallway goes back to the lobby, but it's completely random for each hallway, which all have a near infinite amount of doors, and you can't go back to try a different door in the last hallway since as soon as you step through the door, it disappears as the new hallway stretches into seeming infinity in both directions.
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I find liminal spaces and analogue horror incredibly fascinating in how it affects people. I've started liminal space photography now and I hope to eventually start posting some of it! Artists like Trevor Henderson (creator of siren head) are a big inspiration for the style because he uses unsettling photos as a basis for his horror creations! I love the genre because it takes something usually overlooked or avoided, and turns it into an outlet for imagination and building upon each others ideas. I love the SCP foundation for the same reason
I followed Trevor Henderson for years it’s sad that he got so popular that he stopped posting frequently with new creative things and hung onto siren head
Not nearly as cool as photography but I "make" liminal spaces in my dreams with the magic of either lucid or my mind knowing that it wants something (while not being conscious). My favourite so far is this storage facility crossed with Ikea, with high ceilings and bold blue numbers to mark the area. From clothing to plants, it's really just a high ceilinged Ikea. It then continues into an actual storage facility with cargo, and my favourite area out of there is the cellar or downstairs. Old corridors with yellow tiled flooring. Exposed insulation and visible piping. The corridors and hallways led to these 80's style offices. Yellow floor tiles, curling wallpaper, dusty, ancient yellowed computers and yellow fluerescent buzz of the lights above. Think of Old Aperture in Portal 2.
I highly recommend getting into lucid dreaming or something similar. There's norhing more fun or cool about exploring a place that your subconscious mixed with conscious created!
@@Twiddle_things How do you even get into lucid dreaming it seems so cool!! I been wondering should i search it up on google or smth? Please respond i gett a notification, plus your lucid dream sounds so cool!!
@@briewilliamson3623 If you focus on it while you're falling asleep, you can "train" yourself to do it. I did. Also, for me taking L-tryptophan (supplement) makes my dreams more vivid. Don't take too much, just the recommended dose. The trick is to realize that you're dreaming, without waking up. Once you do that you can start to control your dreams, little by little. I saw liminal spaces in my dreams way before I found out about the phenomenon online.
The situation with levels is about the same as with SCP, when people began to gradually add more and more objects, but at some point they began to downfall.
But the thing is SCP actually has a quality standard, and doesn’t just allow shitty concepts. The backrooms does, and which is why it has become so much worse.
SCP used to have a quality standard, now it's just nepotistic discord nonsense and general annoyance.
We had our fun with the backrooms, now the new people can have theirs, honestly I prefer this situation over what happened to SCP.
@@theplaguedocta the backrooms wikidot has quality standards
Maybe the popularity we wanted became the downfall of the entire thing.
And that's why Liminal Space is always better than Backrooms.
Hard to make something shit, when you can just take a photo of a real life place, give a creepy title, and share it.
People don’t understand what made the backrooms scary on its own, they only understand one type of horror, that horror being chased by a goofy boofy monster through a maze
I think what was scary about the backrooms is being alone stuck inside a endless loop untill you lose your mind.
@@Bunihime that was the point the isolation and FEELING like you were being watched but nothing being there, always keeping you tense and on edge until you gradually lose your absolute shit and go insane trapped in an isolated hell forever.
@@cyanyde4950 I do like the idea that there are no actual entities in the backrooms, but the subject/victim trapped there eventually begins to hallucinate them from enduring the _feeling_ of constantly being watched.
Not true everyone loves the backrooms esp from Kane Pixels imagination
to be honest the only way monsters can work is if there more psychological like alternates
just walking and seeing shadow people out the corners of your eye
hearing sounds of other people only for it to fade away once you get near it
hearing footsteps behind you
or just some unknown monster that blends in with the wallpaper
I think the real point of the backrooms is being alone in a place devoid of all life, no humans, no birds, no cats, no animals, yet machines like escalators, lights, ventilation fans are still working.
For Greg to upload is already great. But for Greg to also upload a 20 minute video is amazing
Agreed!
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@@zomnomnom5953 great minds think alike 🗿🍷
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actually the back rooms being very boring it's actually part of the horror because eventually after being in the same repeating space over and over again forever the sensory deprivation is gonna start to wear on you
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I've been in so many empty airports because I either got trapped in it due to weather or overbooking. The white lights, the random announcements, the only room populated being the smoking rooms that were really yellow from all the cigarette smoke. Super spooky
I just had a revelation! The first time I came into contact with liminal spaces wasn't in image-form, it was in a book. It was about a girl that ended up in "special care" in an old school building (basically isolating her because of mental illness). There were two caretakers, probably retired teachers, that lived in the huge school building. The girl thought that she was sent to a boarding school with hundreds of students, but it was just her and the caretakers in the whole building. She was walking around in the whole school building, expecting the building to be full of life around every corner, but... nothing. Completely abandoned/shut down. I won't spoil too much but I can say as much that I had the feeling that the girl was pretty much going insane because of the surroundings. I got that "liminal space" / "backrooms" feeling while reading this book at the age of about 10 or 11, but I didn't have a name for it back then. The book is called "Behind the attic wall" by Sylvia Cassedy for those interested.
That sounds interesting, I’m going to check it out. Thanks!
I would love to see you play "Enter the backrooms"! It's the most enjoyable and fun backrooms game I've seen so far, it's kinda like a walking simulator/survival game. It really forces you to explore every level because you never know where you'll be able to find the exit to the next one. It also doesn't have unnecessary jumpscares, and has a looot of levels and secret rooms.
Awesome video as always!!
The complex is also a very good backrooms game, there is no objective or monster everywhere, you just have to walk trough the levels. It's very atmospheric and it's free
Wouldn't it be cool if someone built the backrooms irl in some cheap, desolate area, and you could pay for entrance kinda like an escape room? 😊Added points if you get dropped on a random floor 🙌. Then one floor leads to another and you gotta find a way out
You could have an emergency button for when the panic sets in if you can't find your way out
What if someone brings a pickaxe in?
@@just-a-fnf-fan yeah they will have to pay
Do you realize how much money that would cost… doesn’t matter if it was in some desolate area for cheap, it won’t feel real unless it’s a giant area. would be stupid af to build a house sized backrooms simulation. It’s gotta be huge
@@Werk4Cash They aren't pitching an Idea to the dragon's den, Mr "Well, actually".
It's only a "what-if" hypothetical typed into a youtube comment.
Ikr 😅!!
I used to clean doctor offices at a hospital, at night and alone. It was a sprawling maze of empty office suites. It was easy to get lost and disoriented. I don't work their anymore and I'm mad at myself for not taking photos or video of it. It was so creepy.
Those types of German trains are pretty long because they don't drive along curvy tracks 😊 and I also agree that the pool rooms are the most interesting and uncomfortable backrooms so far 😂
3:20 I like how the reflection of the ceiling lights from inside the classroom and fog make the sky look like you’re trapped somewhere and extremely liminal.
Probably wasn’t intentional since it is a reflection but that just makes it feel so much more like the backrooms
I saw that too, makes it extremely eerie
man I love this guy's goofy editing style
I love your editing. You don’t overdue it but the moments you add something are perfect and catch me off guard like 2:03
Honestly find it funny that while shopping your mind went straight to the perfect backrooms photo while walking through a cult clothing store 😂
I'd actually prefer something being in there to get you. Can you imagine just being stuck in there alone instead?
Y'know, if I crashed in the middle of the Namib desert, and was completely alone with no sign of help for days, I'd rather a lion eat me than slowly starve to death.
That's the point of liminal space horror; being alone in a vast emptiness. That's why it's scary. So of course, you'd prefer to not be alone. Having the company of a monster is more preferable than having no company at all.
An Entity always makes it better. The entity should just blend together with what makes the backrooms in the first place, instead of making random animal like creatures for the hell of it. The reason why i like Bacteria (Kane Pixels). is because of the timing and execution. It makes it much more terrifying to be completely alone, never to see another human again, knowing something completely inhumane may find you. Thats why bacteria is better than most monster with a bunch of lore behaviors and established perks. They are too humane or animal like.
I love the Poolrooms and would love to live in there if it's possible so I don't appreciate predatory creatures encroaching my water kingdom.
That was the original idea of the backrooms but like everything on the internet that gets popular, it got oversaturated.
the backrooms as a concept of noclipping to some sort of purgatory is extremely interesting to me. What ruined the backrooms for me were the unnecessary levels, entities, and all sorts of details. These made the backrooms cringe
I personally believe that the backrooms was more depraved with entitys
Facts
even if i agree with the whole "the backrooms as a concept is better just being level 0" type thing, i think people making their own levels + stories and all that is completely fine. plus it's funny that i never see people complaining about SCP when in reality it falls under the same issues as the backrooms IMO. oh yea also i hate when people try to gatekeep the backrooms and get mad at people who don't limit their view on the backrooms to level 0. i may enjoy the lonely and desolate vibe of the backrooms just being level 0 but is it gonna kill me to see people expanding on an idea in their own way? hell no.
really nice vid btw!
18:00 I feel like Covid desensitized me to the liminal space phenomenon. Suddenly it was normal for familiar settings to be completely “unnaturally” empty.
Merry Christmas Greg and Happy New Year! Thanks for a great year of videos dude
A few days ago I had a dream about the pool rooms, it was the most liminal place I've been, quite uncanny also.
Re: Backrooms games- there’s an old PS1 game called LSD Dream Simulator (yes, that is the real title) which has weird layers of dreams and stuff- mix of some liminal rooms and pointless open spaces that don’t have much sense to them and lead to different things when you have certain interactions- basically a Backrooms game from decades ago
I noclipped into the backrooms, I would just sit on the floor and cry until the entity kills me. (rip)
And liminal space images are so creepy and so unnerving!
The liminal artists get so much better each month!
(Have a great Christmas and have a good day! ❤) ;)
Well instead of a entity killing you, you would take Very long to die in there, you would hallucinate until you Lost ALL of your sanity and, the actual entities, are the shadows that you would see while losing your sanity slowly.
I like Kane Pixel's adaptation of the backrooms but the monster shouldn't be the main fear. It should be more of a possibility that shows up every now and then.
I'm making a giant building in Minecraft as a puzzle/maze for my 9 yr old daughter. We both love Minecraft and the reason I bring this up is that in the process of building it it has been looking like a backrooms/liminal space kinda thing. It's massive and flat and all white and beige and brightly lit except one hallway that's spooky and has mob heads and chains throughout and I made a rail cart going in endless circles beneath it under ground so you get the scary loud sound "chasing" you. I'm not done but it's going to be awesome when I finish it!
I used to work as a supervisor at my school’s rec center and thinking back on it I could have gotten some excellent liminal space photos on the nights when I closed and was the only one in there. But I was also usually in a rush to get out😅
3:18 what sells this one for me is the reflection of the lights make it look like they are actually in the sky, adding to the liminal weird off feeling to it all
The one at 19:00 could be a giant server room, all the racks could be where servers were
The Poolrooms always remind me of the tile levels in Pikmin 2. Come to think of it, Pikmin 2 is full of weird liminal spaces in general, the cave areas where you spend most of the game just feel so empty and not like a place where anything should live, and yet they're full of real-world objects.
Especially dare I say it, the Submerged Castle
@@meeper46 The Submerged Castle is straight up a survival horror game just hidden in there.
I agree that a lot of the backrooms games get old fast, either due to poor quality or being solely exploration of only a few levels. I'd suggest Escape The Backrooms, you get to see so many interesting levels and it's much more interactive than just exploring cos you gotta figure out puzzles for each one. and it has a good ost.
the backrooms at this point has multiple perspectives on what's canon and what's not due to how large the community is-the backrooms wiki does describe the different kinds of "canon", and they all vary from person to person. personally, i like the completely boundless one because it lets your mind wander and contribute your own pieces too. although a lot of people find that that makes it much less scary, it somehow manages to just make me much more hyperfixated on the topic. also, if you want to cover a backrooms level that dives deep into some lore that might be confusing, you should check out "th3 sh@dy gr3y"!! it kinda unnerved me and i don't often get too unnerved by backrooms levels. this level doesn't feel as much backroomsy as other levels, but there's kind of a reason why. you'll probably know as you look father into it! :)
We had a fence high enough to block off the view of the house behind my brother's house. And before I ever met the neighbors, all I had to go on was their roof and a walnut tree that was right on the fence. The overhang of the tree created a special attention zone when we mowed the yard, but other than that, I could only guess. So I naturally assumed the house had nothing but bathrooms behind every door. And you can't bring it up if you're in there. They know you want to know, but pretend everything is normal.
6:07 i also hate the fact that you can faintly see ANOTHER slightly opened door there leading to possibly more empty rooms and dark doorways. gives me the heebie jeebies
Bro that weird store you found was clearly a hot topic 🤣🤣🤣 that was their aesthetic. The tiny closet was the fitting room.
Liminal space/backrooms/poolrooms are always my favorites
That old 90s computer game Myst gave me this exact vibe. Makes me wanna play it again and see if it still has that effect, such a fun feeling to tap into 😀
im pretty new to your channel and so far you are the only youtuber i watch
Thanks for sticking around!
I love the pool rooms.
...if you have ever seen/played
The old 90's video"Goldeneye" game had areas in it that featured large areas of tiled rooms and corridors, before virtual liminal spaces became a thing
When I found out about the backroom, I had a great laugh because I actually work in that environment for almost 15 years now. We even wear an isolation suit (we call it the bunny suit). It's called the photolithography in Semiconductor fabrication. Go look it up, it's uncanny to the backroom.
10:44 this is so true!! I feel like in every hospital there's that one empty hallway that gives off creepy vibes
Seeing Greg looking at every image from r/backrooms that I’ve already seen is quite the experience, because his breaking down explanations of all the images are fun!
Anyone had that moment in school where you're about to go home, but you forgot something on your desk so you go back to get it. And then get creeped out by how silent the school was? That's why I love liminal spaces so much. The backrooms has become something completely different and i love it, but it doesnt scratch the same horror liminal spaces do.
I once had a job interview in a building that was half finished, all the ceilings were undone, you could see wires and HVAC ducts showing with some fluorescent lights on. The office spaces where empty and with cubicles here and there and I had to walk a long corridor then make a few turns to get to the actual office that was finished where 3 people were working. I got the same sensation when I saw the original backrooms video.
The pool rooms look really relaxing, I think I'd really enjoy that provided the whole thing didn't fill to the ceiling.
Stop being so funny and charismatic, thank you
FINALLY a new backrooms video!!!!
No. The black-walled clothing store is lit by and LED spectrum. That puts it plainly newer than 1998. The majority of Backrooms aesthetic falls within industrial park design of the 1990s. The office space, but with the cubicles (from the Stanley Parable) moved out. Green florescent lighting. The major tangents from the office space are the Poolrooms, and the daycare center. The pool rooms tend to follow the layout of indoor malls from the 1980s. But for the most part, empty retail spaces falls outside Backrooms, and into Dead Mall.
In the core office space, any furnishings are a harbinger of doom. The entity can't be far when you see a couch.
greetings, fellow Greg. Great video, i always like to see more backrooms content. I too favor the poolrooms and the song "Semi Decay Period" by Zerofuturism is one i like to listen to while watching poolrooms found footage. just really fits the aesthetic in my opinion. and the thumbnail showing the bathrooms level of the backrooms reminded me of a dream i had once where i was running through a liminal bathroom with just long rows of toilets on each side and no lighting at all in the place save for the flashlight i was carrying and at the end of the hall was a stairwell that led down to yet another identical hallway. trying to find a way out/seeing how deep the place went. idk what my motive in the dream was but such is the way of dreams i guess.
This is one of the first vids I have seen on this channel and I think WAY more people need to sub.
it's so funny how chill you are
the way it completely skyrocketed in 2021 ruined it all. all these kids putting huggy wuggy or whatever in the backrooms and adding so many levels with so many “rules” just took away the true beauty of it.
Your title caught my eye. I have reoccurring dreams of endless 50s style bathrooms. A good theme for the BRs I think
here's a little thalasophobia two sentence horror for you gregbrodudeman, i think i have thalasophobia myself so i hate writing this:
1. I stood on the edge of the pier, hands up, then dove into the sea and immediately started swimming upward
2. after a few seconds opened my eyes meters away from the blurry surface... but it wasnt getting any closer.
The flooding stairwell thing happened in a similar fashion in a lot of subway stations where I live 6 years ago. It had rained A LOT in a very short time.
“I think, what makes a good backrooms image, is when it sort of implies that there’s nothing else,, but this..”
Oooohhhh,, that’s quite a nail! 👏
I hate what the back rooms became, it was scarier when it was just an infinite floor of walls and lights. Not everything needs a dumb monster chasing you. The terror of the back rooms is the isolation, the emptiness, and the way our minds play tricks on us when we are alone.
All of this SCP monster garbage with multiple levels completely ruins the true horror of an endless labyrinth of liminal space
Nice music. I think a Pool Rooms game would be interesting. I wonder what would happen if you typed "Pool Rooms" into an AI art generator?
Ok the thing about the German train is that the turning segments are accordion style, so whenever it turns, the accordion compresses toward the turning side. You can make a train all hallway with this design. Articulated busses and trams work the same way.
Laughed out loud on the "Mustache Monster" part and then "What is you gonna do? BRUSH YOUR TEETH?"
The Backrooms has an infinite amount of levels and rooms, the concept alone is amazing, the Backrooms gives opportunity for many creators to add to the concept and yes some will be cringe but I can not wait to see what the Backrooms looks like in 10 years or more
The backrooms are not infinite.
It was best in 2021 though it had a bunch of amazing levels but then the moderators deleted them all and now their replaced with shitty new levels… also everyone knows it cuz of Kane pixels but I think it wa setter when not everyone knew it
Well, on my opnion the backrooms after 10 years would probably be left behind, and the actual concept of it would Just dissapear replaced with Those crappy daycare entities, well Its concept would be completely changed.
@ 14:36 looks like an old k mart maybe?
or hobby lobby as the one close by STILL uses older florescent fixtures and yellow bulbs, honestly with how they buzz and how empty they are most the time, it for sure feels like the backrooms could be the backrooms to the store itself, like you could just walk into the back and vanish into the back rooms
14:40 looks like an empty semiconductor manufacturing fab space. I used to be a contingent worker at Intel and this is almost exactly what my workspace would’ve looked like without all the machines and other equipment in it
17:59 once woke up to an empty airport, t was about 8:30, not a soul in sight. not even anyone in TSA.
There was another time in the international Miami airport. it was a big group of us moving. but aside from us, everything was empty. it was such a large space too, we were walking for around 10 minutes it felt like. the biggest airport I've ever been to.
9:24 the idea here is that it’s obviously not real but eerily familiar. it seems like something from a dream, in a way. parts of the backrooms are connected to weird/dreamcore in this way. there’s a theory about how the backrooms are trying to recreate reality, so it would make sense for something like this to appear, real-ish but not.
What I find interesting is that un the original prompt it says if "you no clip out of reality in the wrong Areas, you'll end Up in the Backrooms". Here the "wrong areas" part can be taken 2 ways. 1: It simply means that you can no clip on some specific spots which would be the wrong areas. 2 : It could mean that you can also no clip elswhere but that elsewhere would not be the "wrong areas" and so you would no clip but not into the Backrooms. It's just a diferent way to read the words but interesting to think about nonetheless.
I don’t like sand.
It’s rough and irritating, and it gets everywhere.
11:52 "I don't like sand. it's coarse and irritating and it gets everywhere"
How amazing this tier list is.
Excellency at it's finest.
Liking is all this should get.
Perfect video, keep it up.
The best part about the Poolrooms in my opinion is the fact that no hostile entities reside on the floor.
Within the expanded mythos, friendly entities do exist across many levels, and I’d like to think some exist here too. However, the Poolrooms seem to be a lot bigger subjectively than other levels, being the “spawnpoints” are a lot more spread out and you’re even less likely to come across anyone or anything in this level compared to pretty much any other.
"Production Value" LMAO Love it!!
It’s just crazy the amount of times Greg says the word “crazy”. It’s borderline contagious…
Bro no joke. Your video got me into backrooms like 2 years ago but the thing is I was on acid when I first came into it and then some video about dementia and the album everywhere at the end of time or something. Man what a fucking trip I was scared as hell to lay down and I could not close my eyes when showering. Analogue horror had me in cold sweats lol
Does anyone rember a video someone made about an older man with dementia that got lost in the employee access tunnels of a huge colossal mall? The poor man saw nothing but "tunnel rooms" for 3 days WITH dementia!! Until he literally died of starvation 😔
13:29 unironically gave me the chiiills omg
you know I had a dream where I flied through a enormous room, wich was like a creepy distorted reflection of a vintage theatre. With browny reddish walls, and ceiling, and curtains. The curtains were (I just knew it) very dirty. There were a couple of seats, but the place was mostly empty.
The floor was all covered by a dirty carpet with the same oppresive brick hue.
The two things wich made me feel uneasy were the absurd height of the ceiling, and two big darks holes at each end of the room, wich exhaled a strong, warm wind, like if they made a creepy ventilation system of some sort.
I didn't know about the backrooms back in 2020, it's a shame because during the very first lockdown I definitely got liminal space vibes going out. Had an authorization from my boss to come work on site unlike many people, was 100% alone in the office and streets were mostly empty.
Greg, I’d recommend u to play anemoiapolis, a liminal space horror video game. Only chapter one is out so far, but it’s worth a try
It has the bathrooms, the poolrooms, and the mall rooms
If anybody is also confused by the train featured in this video it's fairly common for lighter commuter trains to be open the whole way because they're built as a set unit and thus can't be separated, This also has the added benefit of letting passengers board faster seeing as they can just step on at any carriage and then wander up and down the train until the find a seat. Larger multiple unit trains do have a similar setup but the tend to have doors separating the carriages but even then multiple unit trains aren't terrible common in the US so there's no shame in being a bit confused by it.
6:01 is it just me or is that a full length mirror going across just at the base of the wrist of your mouse cursor?
It almost reminds me of a ballet room without the bars people can practice their form on...in front of a "wall" mirror...
9:38 I don't know, that structure gives off "children's museum" vibes to me.
Always happy to see an upload alert!!! And one of the most fun topics tooo
18:05 At the height of covid panic I visited my airport and it was so empty. More police than normal people. It felt almost illegal to be there.
So much about this channel is oddly unsettling but I'm kinda here for it and that personal inclination is also disconcerting. Thanks Greg.
Backrooms creepypasta is about being trapped in Jumanji style simulation videogame and stuck in infinite maps that can glitch you Alive. My theory goes that tech advanced Aliens slaved eldritch beings for maps creation, and trapped Small cosmic Beings for chasing humans. But also there are more NPCs for chasing Humans such as bacteria humanoid, partygoers and glitchings. There are infinite number of NPCs. Those same aliens also created Jumanji as well
Backrooms is like the 80's. I love it
idk why but the boing sound effect actually made me laugh out loud
I love your content. It brings a smile to my face everytime you upload. I hope
You know your helping more than you know just doing what you do.
a key aspect of backrooms-esque vibes is "this place is clearly meant to have people, and yet there are no people and you are completely alone" with a side of "this looks like if someone put "a place" into an AI image generator."
People that worked in offices and buildings for years hold The Backrooms as the actual hell. If you have ever explored empty buildings at night it reminds you of that.
The most weird thing about the backrooms phenomenon is that there's the Canon that people follow that assigns numbers to levels and considering it's a complete internet thing, they actually adhere to it pretty tightly.
I guess it's all about dreams people have, being trapped in a ______ all alone.
The backrooms fascination shows absolutely no signs of letting up or slowing down. New users are getting into making the "found footage" videos, and they get tons of subscribers very quickly.
I've never had these kinds of dreams, though. Mine are often like being in a place where there are far too many people and I'm in something embarrassing (like no pants on, etc). I have a lot of dreams about money or currency. They're not necessarily bad, except when I'm thumbing through change that I get from a store purchase, only to discover the bills are not legit; they're photocopied, one-sided, the wrong size or color, etc. And then I wake up still pissed that I got ripped off at a store that I was never really at to begin with. 🤣
there's a strong backroom vibe going on in some Kubrick and David Lynch movies, both of which seem to resonate with 5:55
15:00 - looks like S-Bahn Hamburg(?), these trains (de.wikipedia.org/wiki/DB-Baureihe_490) are indeed quite long (we have lots of those multiple unit trains all over the country), but instead of pragmatically snapping in half they came up with gaiters between the wagons so the whole unit can bend nicely and you can even walk from one end to the other! 👌
And it's actually not that long (66m), the ICE trains follow the same principle on 350m length. May look weird if you're only used to those "short single wagon trains" (or whatever they're called), but it works. ^^
For the record, Endless Ocean (and the sequel Endless Ocean: Blue World) are amazing free diving games for the Nintendo Wii. There are some rather fiddly emulators that let you play them on PC now; the graphics haven't aged great (especially compared to something like Subnautica) but the game play is still really solid and fun. Also you get to tame dolphins and go diving with a dolphin buddy.
You should play Anemoiapolis, it's about liminal spaces and has some deep water too
me and my friend everytime greg posts: “GREG POSTED” “ILL GO WATCH”