8:13 For anyone that is confused, that A-sync worker is the one who got separated from his exploration group in the informational video. At the end of the informational video, he finds a door which leads to the entrance. The alarms go off. But that entry area was not built until later videos. This could prove a theory that the timelines are different between the real world and the Backrooms.
It think it alludes more to the idea of those null zones that have been mentioned in his prior videos. I think it implies the lost researcher wandered into a null zone and got desynced from his original time frame.
I don't think it necessarily means time travel, what if he was just wandering for so long that the whole thing was built by the time he got back? In the original backrooms, it is said that it's incredibly easy to lose track of time.
@@knightofthenorth926 As another poster mentioned, this tape is dated 3 months after the informational video. There's no way he'd survive that long without food or water. I believe time is a little fucky in the backrooms.
In informational video, The Async researcher was lured away from the group by the sound of a lot of voices. We know that the area he went to distorted spacetime and the researcher got sent into the future. So the voices could be from a farther future in which the backrooms is commercialized and a large group of people is present.
At the time, I remember a theory that what he heard were voices from the real world leaking into the backrooms, but that is also a very good proposition.
It looks like A-Sync took the dimension that they found and planned to develop it after seeing the potential that they thought it had. Knowing why A-Sync was exploring it and trying to map it out so thoroughly makes so much sense now. Really adds so much more depth as opposed to just finding and exploring a space.
I got the idea that they were actively searching for something similar to the backrooms, and didn't have a fully detailed picture of the concept before they found it.
@@riftvallance2087 there are multiple hints that they had a contract with the us defence but that the contract was canceled, so this seems like they are trying to get new funding
I also like that A-Sync isn't just seemingly a mindlessly evil group. We saw a hint of it when they activley worked hard to actually RESUCE one of their own agents who went in and seem to have a lot of precautions to make sure they keep their people safe. Not that they are all good. Just that they don't seem to be mindlessly evil like other top secret groups in these sorta things
My dad used to work for a copy repair company and occasionally I would go with him when he went to different work sites. One place he took me left a very distinct memory in my mind as a kid in the 90's; it was an empty office building with fluorescent lights and seemingly endless space. There was a strong almost spiced scent and I wandered around until I got lost and shouted into these large empty rooms. After about ten minutes he found me and took me back to the front room. These videos tap into a nostalgia that I thought only I knew.
This comment is great. The psychology of new generations being obsessed with backrooms seems to boil down to western youth not conventionally working anymore so they create this artful and philosophical interface with endless 'work'spaces (key word being 'WORK'). It's like they are grateful for their youth and enjoying the benefits of modern society, but have this genetic memory of the horror of an actual white collar job their ancestors 'HAD' to do....fascinating
@@yannyyansen9743 "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."
@@yannyyansen9743 It might be random but some says that original photo of the backroom is look like the yellow offices in The Stanly Parable which was Released on 2013
*IMPORTANT DETAIL :* The person at the end is 100% the person that got lost in the "Informational Video" tape, but look at the dates from both, this tape is 3 months ahead of the date he was separated from his group. He *time travelled in the future* when the glitch happened, that would explain why he saw his group dissapear. So now we know for sure that the backrooms is a place where time can be manipulated aswell.
@@carlstevens781 | For anyone who might have trouble looking him up, since it's a common name, he's referred to more specifically as "James D. Watkins".
He likes to hide subtle details that link back to the real world. The man at 6:00 is a real person: US Secretary of Energy James D. Watkins. He served under President George H. W. Bush.
3:52 i enjoy the detail that the mysterious holes in the floor are not only acknowledged in this presentation, but are shown with nothing more than a simple guardrail around them as if they're just quirky parts of the terrain.
What I also noticed (as a not native English speaker) is that on the trucks it says Freight I translated it, and it basically means cargo, but why not use the word cargo? I Feel like Freight sounds like fright (when you're scared) which I think is very idk weird ig
@@Mo67740 I get what you mean, but I don't think that's the intent. Freight isn't an uncommon word- I think "freight" is more associated with the vehicle that is carrying cargo, while "cargo" is more associated with the items that are transported. If I were the creator, I wouldn't think much of this. Interesting detail, though!
I feel like their intended use of the backrooms is like a physical version of the internet. You could access it from anywhere, as long as you had a machine. You could probably take anyone to the same place within it from any of those entrances. It has a basic structure that can be manipulated into anything else. It goes on forever with no real limit. It's abstract and confusing but has a visible form. Edit: Not entirely sure about my second point but I'm leaving it in. Also adding that the structure forms patterns, it's not completely random, meaning those patterns could be learned. Like a computer language.
Kind of meta in a way, much like how the backrooms have spread through the internet and also the original video game reference about no clipping. It's all very interwoven.
So basically it's like using nether portals but without all of the hazardous conditions (supposedly), because for every block in the the base world is 8 in the nether realm. So based on your statement, the backrooms could also serve this function and act as a more efficient source of transport.
@@OutlawRemy86 the back rooms is what you get if you accidentally clip out of reality. Reality is all that is. The backgrooms has everything that isn’t. There’s a lot more of that.
That's a very good interpretation. It looks like that what they are trying to sell with that presentation video isn't the space inside the backrooms, but a machine to create a gate to access it from people's homes, especially in these seconds 1:10; They are not explaining what are the backrooms, where they came from. how they were created, they are explaining what is and how their machine works.
This feels like an 80s corporate high tech utopia hellscape. With a score by Boards of Canada. The optimism portrayed by the narrator gives me the chills. Original Half Life on crack. What a masterpiece.
@@4nt4r4y it's somewhere between Half-Life "the chance of a Resonance Cascade is highly unlikely..." and Portal "the preying mantis DNA injection test is cancelled", yeah. Black Mesa had a really long stick for poking, Aperture Science had **no** stick, while the stick for Async research is negligently short. Black Mesa had the bad luck of a perfect storm and Aperture the excuse of insanity. Async has neither.
I love the idea that the backrooms are massive but the door to get in and out is absolutely tiny. So the biggest issue would be getting people in and out of that tiny threshold as fast as possible. With possible horror scenarios such as the entire residential sector rushing the door at once.
I feel like this is exactly how a company in the 90s would try to sell the idea of a infinite space in another dimension. It's honestly amazing. Great job Kane!
I can hear a dubbed commercial video of this already... "We want to invent a way with this new dimension to have... Infinite storage, traversal passages, family homes, working businesses, and even more!" "But nope!" "We gone ahead and made a off giving vibe dimension full of mechanical demons!"
⚠️ The thought of actual offices, stores, restaurants, cafes, apartments and houses in the Backrooms is terrifying. Can you imagine ? People casually going about their whole lives working, eating and living in the Backrooms. That in itself deserves a spot in the analog horror hall of fame. Async was really trying to normalize a dimensional distortion in time-space before they even really knew what they were dealing with. My imagination is going wild ! Thanks for another quality upload your gift and talent go without saying. ✌️⚠️
I don’t see anyone talking about this, but I think the most unnerving part about the whole video is that when it compares the space sizes, the A-Space expands off the screen as the conventional space disappears. I’m not sure why that gives me chills
As a 90’s kid, the old business presentation was on point, very reminiscent of failed big business ventures with larger than life ambitions, and using the back rooms for industrial purposes is very logical and also a corporation being unaware that the back rooms have hidden dangers and the back rooms themselves are dangerous since it’s an infinite looping dimension. I really loved this one.
Details like this make me sort of question if this series is really being made by a 16 year old or if this channel is another case of a company pulling a lonelygirl15.
It’s such a realistic way to look at the back rooms. Humans will find anyway to make profit. It’s funny how something so dystopian as the back rooms is still made industrial because humans are driven by greed.
@@jakefoley9539 - I thought about that, I mean the level of production on these videos is astounding, there’s live actors, some very seamless blending going on, I can’t tell what’s purely a set location or totally CGI, and to my trained film making eye this stuffs pretty top tier for a 16 year old kid, it’s a little too well made for an amateur film maker. The one video where it had live actors made me begin to think otherwise that there’s a production company behind this, how could a 16 year old hire actors, get a location to film, there’s obviously a budget for these videos, there’s just a lot of high quality production in these videos that’s definitely above everyone else on TH-cam. So it wouldn’t shock me if there’s a very talented team behind these videos and they’re producing this elaborate series for TH-cam, but I do question if this guy is 16 or not.
@@10191927 Just to clarify, Kane is actually a student in a film school where he's learning movie direction. it all makes sense and blender is a free software with tons of amazing tutorials on TH-cam. anyone can become a great VFX artist
This is such a good idea, accessing the backrooms and using it for storage space and even setting up offices and transport systems, you've created some fascinating lore with this
I don't know why to build offices there, I would just stick a big pipe in the door and send all the shit of this world there. Upd: Bakteria: 'time to eat some humans' Big wastes pipe: 'AMERICAAAAA, F*CK YEAH' Upd 2: Bakteria: 'dear diary. I can't describe the pain in words...'
What makes me think that it's not going to work isnt the fact that they're the backrooms and there are anomalies but think what would happen in case of a fire. Or even a chemical fire. There's basically 0 ventilation, it's all connected. On the other side though, we could get a parallel universe where uscsb covers incidents in the backrooms lol
I think one of the emotions evoked by this in the context of the Backrooms is: Sadness. Seeing all the hopes laid into this project, and all the uses the space *could* be for, just to all end up abandoned and empty.
Your ear for audio is so, so very good. Your music, the ambiance, even distortions and overlapping voices. Everything in your videos seems so natural and appropriately dated. The concepts you have put forward in this video are brilliant. I don't know who you are Kane but you have such a bright, and slightly strange, future ahead of you. ❤️🌿
This is actually genius and loops back to what the backrooms originally were, by introducing the narrative of people using it for storage, commercial space, etc, it opens up the explanation of why there are so many almost infinite rooms full of nothing or odd structures - because they were simply used by people until they were forgotten
I disagree. I think it was always there and parts of it happen in different parts of time. Thats why the scientist left the initial entrance to the backrooms and after being teleported went theough the new finished one.
Using 32 quantum field oscillators, The Low-Proximity-Distortion-System create distortions within the space-time continuum, condensing distinct reality layers and allowing their resonant vibrations to be detectable by sensitive equipment rapidly. This process continues until a critical balance is achieved, at which point the distortions are proportionate enough for adjusted stable micro-wormholes to form.
Meaningless drivel. Did you repolarize the quantum deflector as well ? Ooohhh or maybe try a reverse tachyon beam. Ooooohh or maybe try re-energising thermal couplings !
Dude! I keep worrying that the quality of this series might drop, but it just keeps getting better! Keep up the great work, but don’t burn yourself out. Good luck, Kane!
Making videos is hard and easy to burn out... But I think the month wait is just the right time.... I don't think Kane has is too busy, he should have lots of time for video, especially with his subscribers and the adds... Glad he can finally have the resources to make better videos. When I made my backrooms video, I had to squeeze it between work, at 2am in the morning to complete it. Its uploaded to my channel, but I feel that's all I can make for now. I will see.
It only makes sense that our world would try to profit from the Backrooms by using it as storage and living space. I love how realistic this whole series seems. Instead of a creepypasta with countless unrealistic things you took a unrealistic idea and built a realistic world around it. Perfect.
Its not viable for living space however, the cost of infraestructure (working electricity and running water) would only go up the further it is from the entrance.
@@neztimar43 lmao you assume that the ordinary laws of physics apply in the backrooms It potentially all encoded in the tech, it’s almost assumed that it’s an all inclusive miracle, besides the technochron waiting around the corner
i grew up in the 90s and presentations like these bring me back to elementary school when they would wheel out the crt tv and play a teaching video obviously recorded a decade earlier. you did a good job capturing that. a lot of people didnt realize that yeah, we did get new tech in the 90s like cell phones and better\ affordable computers. but every text book and movie in school was from the 80s and felt dated even then.
Even in school in the early 2010s, we still watched shows from the 80s on the old cart TVs for social studies and music class sometimes. Even now, some of our textbooks are from around 20 years ago.
@@micahbell122yearsago6 I've had similar mundane fever dreams. They are bizarre and hard to explain because they're so abstract and random. I believe other people have had the same dreams. Idk what that's about.
@@micahbell122yearsago6 I used to have a nightmare where I was looking at a small ball, then everything would zoom out to this impossibly larger ball. I would wake up sweating.
I absolutely love how upbeat and 90/80s style this music is compared to the grotesque, bleak ambience that is in most of Kane’s backrooms videos, as well as the constant jump cuts to the footage with that same bleak music. Really helps build the overarching sinister atmosphere associated with the backrooms. You never cease to impress, Kane!
I like that at no point has ASync been presented as evil. Usually the corporation is cartoonishly villainous and casual about risking the entire human race, but with ASync they haven't been needlessly endangering their workers and have a very mundane proposed use for the backrooms.
And Kane's brilliant! "How can we make infinite storage space meaningful, interesting, and frightening too!" lol "How do I take an Internet folk story and build upon it without pissing off the fanbase?"
@@jamisonk.097 Backrooms are just a different dimension don't worry about what created them The issue is that Async wants to harness the infinite space to use for storage which is a good idea we are going to run out of space on this planet The actually issue is something is already using that space
Interestingly enough the backrooms would solve many of our problems: - Since the backrooms are infinite, we could move our argricultural production there. 50% of habitable land on Earth is now farmland, and our livestock 62% of mammal biomass on Earth (34% humans, 4% all wild mammals, from the smallest mouse to the largest whale). The extra space we get on Earth could be used to house more humans or preserve more of nature. - We could also harness free energy from the backrooms with minimal environmental damage to our planet. - We could move the more polluting industrial processes in there as well to decrease pollution and increase habitable lands on the surface, such as the refining and production of carcinogenic or radioactive substances and fossil fuel plants (if they haven't been rendered obsolete by point 2) - It would also be a nifty space to store spent nuclear fuel, making nuclear energy more ideal as an energy source compared to fossil fuels than it already is.
@@randompheidoleminor3011 sunlight? photosynthesis to provide habitable conditions? how would that fit in, unless we industrialised the outside oart seen in ‘pitfall’ but we saw that that was inhabited by monsters. also can the ‘outside’ in the backrooms actually become daytime which would being the question of sunlight again
@@jaackaboytheiii1107 there are multiple techniques of harnessing the energy from the available lights if there is not enough. There are also entities like 10.5b that may be of use
Something critical I don’t think everyone caught onto yet: the person at 6:00 is presumably Kane’s recreation of James David Watkins, Secretary of Energy under George H. W. Bush. This goes along with the DOE we keep seeing in certain clips which should be the department of energy.
Wow good eye. From James David Watkins' wikipedia page: "On November 9, 1989, Watkins established the Office of Environmental Restoration and Waste Management within the Department of Energy. On August 15, 1990, Secretary Watkins announced plans to increase oil production and decrease consumption to counter Iraqi-Kuwaiti oil losses caused by the Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait." So the date of his visit to the backrooms was after establishing the Office of Environmental Restoration and Waste Management. The narrative edging towards storing some nuclear waste inside the backrooms, perhaps causing mutations.
@@oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368 That’s a distinct possibility; it looks like another concept they were considering was pumping the CO2 output from industry into the Backrooms rather than the atmosphere. It might be that after the monster sightings, the company started pivoting towards applications where humans aren’t exposed to the Backrooms but it’s instead used for hazardous material storage. Then doing that either causes more problems with the monsters or the process of opening more thresholds winds up not working as expected, leading to the spatial anomalies experienced in the first video. That, or the time distortion effect (the guy at the end is definitely the one from Informational Video, which takes place three months before this) leads to more issues. Maybe they pivot again to trying to figure out how to control the time distortions and figure out how to monetize that property of the Backrooms instead?
Wow great catch! I am blown away by the attention to detail, by such a young creator nonetheless, and the details that get discovered by the community. He really thought this out and did some homework on history, science, physics, and industry.
This video alone adds so much depth to the series. “Virtual Storage Space” just like how we can virtualize servers and IT infrastructure… a-sync is literally virtualizing physical space as a commodity. Very cool and very deep. This video series can go on indefinitely…
@@A_Stereotypical_Heretic it's a perfect word for this. What do you think it means? Before you answer, keep in mind the word has been around longer than computers have existed
@@2ManyGoats well colloquially it means not quite exactly the same thing as the thing your prefixing it with, or something is not an exact representation of what you are describing...as in "those two houses are virtually identical". So...if you're using it in that manner how is the space being a commodity not quite 'space being a commodity'? If you're using it in the way that you're describing a replication of something that is nearly but not quite exactly like the original copy...it still doesn't really fit does it? I mean it is physical space...and it is a commodity...soooo...
I love this sort of stuff. I love the science fiction-ish, futuristic feel couched in a more comfortable nostalgic vintage area/visuals. I enjoy that trope used in shows as well. Makes me think of the show Loki where the TVA is immensely powerful and yet the technology and aesthetics do not seem futuristic really. Retrofuturism I believe is one of its names. So cool.
I like how the creepier and more unusual aspects of the backrooms show up in the concept videos at 3:04. It's a bit surreal to realize you are waiting for the monorail next to the bottomless pits, or the entity drop vent is at the end of the hallway to your apartment.
I think the idea is that things like bottomless pits and entities weren't supposed to exist in the original concept. It was supposed to be just normal space used for a variety of purposes. Something went haywire during its creation which caused it to get all screwed up and it turned out to be what it is
Did anyone else just feel uneasy thinking about the fact that this company wanted to basically move a whole civilization to this very unnatural space? Even though this could be seen as a way to solve housing problems and just spacial problems in general, it just puts a pit in my stomach to think that there is something deeply off about this space (forgetting the fact that we know there's a scary creature lurking around) it doesn't feel like humans are supposed to be there let alone trying to live normal lives there
Ugh, yes. It's so unnerving to think that people would be permanently housed down there. There's no sunlight. No fresh air. No windows or doors. These videos give off such a trapped, hopeless feeling, like being stuck forever in an office building. It seems like this space could be so easily forgotten, even if the company didn't intend to. Like if things started going wrong, perhaps gradually, but no one from the company came to fix the problems, and gradually everyone realizes they're all alone...
This series is by far the most authentic feeling of any analog type series. Every graphic chosen, every filter, every sound choice is exactly how these videos were back then and it's scary how good you are at recreating it.
Something else that’s scarily good recreation: the man at 6:00 is A 3d model of James Watkins, which was the US Secretary of energy from March 1st 1989 to January 20th 1993
It plays with our imagination. The intention of the company is to show just how innovative and convenient this infinite space is but really it shows the horror of The Backrooms. How it's always growing and is beyond our capability and understanding, the fear of an ever growing horror
This seams like a dated company presentation from the 80s and 90s 100%. Your work is amazing especially because the longest it has taken you to upload is a month or so. Your content is getting longer, your animation is improving, your music and ambiance are great, and the fact that you can get people in your sets and make it look like they really are there is astounding. You do amazing work!
its not animation this guy is searching through secret governments abandoned hardrives to find these videos. The government could of been doing experiments and all sorts in here but we dont know
I love how even outside of the monster the Backrooms in the setting would be incredibly dystopian. If the project had succeeded, just getting to live on Earth and have the chance to see the sun would become a privilege for the wealthy.
It's even worse if the monsters were still there, having the chance to be killed in an instant would become part of daily life, or taking a wrong turn would leave you stranded forever.
That could definitely be a dystopian storyline for sure, but also, you could literally walk to a portal to the outside world and on the other side your home could be something absolutely massive and decadent or whatever you specified in your design document for A-sync to process. However, your "palace" would have no real windows to the outside world, you'd have to cross a threshold of your a-space portal in order to see the actual outside world. I don't know, how would living in a place like that affect a human being even if you could go outside? I feel like it would be a very tough call personally to weigh up the possibility of having any sort of dwelling I desire, yet at the cost of having no "real" windows to the outside world. If anything I feel like the world would get less populated with this technology, not more populated.
The dystopian vibe reminds a little of Escape from New York, what happens when corporate state power systems sends everyone into a hellhole and then collapses.
Kane Pixels is, by my understanding, a young man who wasn't even around in the 1990s. As a genuine antique person who was there, it is UNCANNY how well he nails what things looked and sounded like back then. It's insane.
Born in 1977 and growing up in the 80's I recognize the 'music' in Kane's video as those you would hear whenever you were seeing a promo video of... whatever. He may be 17 - but he absolutely nailed it! 👍
This is a compliment but it comes off as super dismissive. As if you’re labeling him a child first and a creator second. As if that’s all that can define him.
Those videos showing the potential uses of the backrooms give me a weird sinking feeling. People talk about these videos giving a nostalgia feeling but I can pinpoint the exact location that those videos relate in my life and cause that feeling. It is also quite a niche reference. They remind me of educational videos that used to play on British TV in the very early hours of the morning in the early 90's (coincidentally the time these videos are set). They had a similar feeling/style and the music feels very similar to what was played on them. It brings back memories of waking up alone, going through to my living room, turning on the TV and watching them in the dark while my parents were sleeping. It really made my heart sink.
After writing this comment I had a quick search to see if I could find anything related to this memory on TH-cam and found this video. They used to have these educational 'marathons' run through the night on TV. I guess this is what it reminds me of th-cam.com/video/0oqgXQ2aq_c/w-d-xo.html
It’s called “simulacrum” probably, smth unreal but pretended to be real vis-à-vis, due to common nostalgic patterns and all in all style, like “retrowave” also
Every, single, episode. Every single one makes me want the next to happen already. I haven't felt this way about a series since before streaming came around. Having to just wait for the next one, I love it and your work. I can't wait to see where this goes.
I like how this series started off eerily creepy from a first-person perspective of a random stranger getting stuck into this horror dimension and slowly turned into an analog world-building of society in the backrooms. Kane Pixels you just made the community proud!
"building a society in the backrooms" ain't gonna end well. matching this to wiki-lore, A-sync has basically created an artificial noclip that is stable and therefore reversible. They haven't yet found the manilla room because they are simply too cautious.
@@sirzorg5728 Humanity have known to adapt in any environments no matter how harsh and futile it is. Even this facility ASYNC created is a fraction of a 0.00000000000000000000000000000001 % explored in the backrooms. You can even fit an entire population on the planet if we decided to escape to the backrooms if Earth goes south
My heart sunk when the blueprints included "residential" - imagine people living in this... and it seems like A-Sync just shrugged off the "incident" from earlier and sealed it off, because the project has too much going for it. This series has gone from scary to downright existentially terrifying... and I love it.
That's very much what would happen in real life, isn't it? Don't let the Lovecraftian monster dissuade you from making a substantial business, just look at Jurassic Park! I'm sure it'll be fine! :P
Does NOBODY talk about how the guy in the last 10 seconds of this video is the guy of the "Backrooms - Informational video"? This is too sick. So correct me if I'm wrong, but they were presenting the idea to a client when the lost guy from the informational video returns? This series are so good. Thank you Kane for bringing this to our world.
exactly and that employee with the suit was in the same room that the 2 clients crossed to go see the scale model of the backroom, the same that we see closing off near the end of this video if i understand correctly
Yeah, the message is clear: the Backroom dimension is too extensive as a concept for us to understand. It is on a whole new order of magnitude. We can't even begin to grasp the infinity that it contains...
Explanation: In the episode “Informational Video” dated 2/29/1990, the main character was a hazmat researcher exploring the back rooms. During the expedition, he experience a sort of error, which caused him to jump forwards in time. At the end of “Informational Video” the researcher entered a human built room that looked very similar to the room we seen in this video with a distinct alarm. In episode: “Presentation” dated 5/08/1990, at the end of the video, we see 5 people, presumedly high ranking researchers of A-synch, having a meeting. During the meeting, a researcher monitoring the Backrooms threshold noticed that the sensors inside the Backrooms were triggered. When checking the cameras, we see the same researcher from 3 months ago, in the same room with the same alarm. That basically explains this videos plot.
I like how at the beginning they say “Modern innovations have the potential to irreversibly scar our world with lots of bad byproducts” but in a way they’re really talking about themselves opening up a “modern/new” portal which will forever scar our reality because of no-clippings.
It’s like in the Watchmen graphic novel where Veidt has his own fitness method that promises “bodies beyond belief”. He actually delivered on his promise if you count the millions who were killed when his extra dimensional alien made its presence known.
GAH these episodes are getting IMPOSSIBLY good. I freaking love this series way too much, it’s literally the best thing on the Internet right now. This episode was kinda different, but just as insane and definitely provided us lots of important lore. Infinite Storage is a cool concept, but it comes at a big cost… even if it’s way cheaper than normal storage. I can’t tell you how hyped I was when that familiar alarm started going off, the one we heard so many episodes ago… I knew exactly what was about to happen. Of course, we can’t forget to mention how this has literally turned into a full-on ARG with research, codes, and even hidden channels. Seriously, thank you so much Kane. I really hope the best for you!
These songs give me different feelings. Although it seems a little unsettling, I can also feel a deep sense of nostalgia...remembering my childhood in the 90s, mainly because these songs are very reminiscent of the songs from the 90s TV commercials here in Brazil. Another reason why these videos give me nostalgia too, is that, today I realize that when I was a child in the 90s, I was completely obsessed with strange geometric shapes (which I would later know as " Non-Euclidean Geometry") and Liminal Spaces, although I had no idea about these terms,. I remember that in the neighborhood where I grew up, I used to pass in front of a building that had a small shopping arcade on the ground floor. It looked like an alley, a corridor with shops on both sides. From the outside, it seemed literally endless. I used to imagine that that corridor was in fact a portal that could take people to other neighborhoods, or even other cities and countries.
It's actually sort of sad to see how A-Sync failed to use the Backrooms because of its hostility since this actually looks like a great solution to all of humanity's problems. Housing, storage and whole other problems are essentially no longer a concern due to the infinite space they have.
Anyone else notice that after the threshold was opened in that one test that almost failed, it was never closed afterwards? The only way they “close” it is by closing the shutter on it, that means the thing is always on and possibly why people keep going missing in the series, opening and closing the thing in the original way is a hassle. It also means the only thing separating earth from the entities in the backrooms is a metal door. Also explains why they’re able to get signals and footage from it without having to invent a new form of trans-dimensional communication.
@@suburbanshatters more horrifically, you would continue to exist, but from your perspective, earth would stop existing, and it would be just the back rooms.
I completely agree, and have something to back you up as well. In “Motion Detected”, it says that one of the noises captured is the “Threshold barrier closing”. NOT the “threshold”, the “threshold BARRIER”
This mean’s people won’t stop no clipping unless A sync finds a way to completely close the threshold instead of just putting a metal door to “close” it.
Stellar world building and presentation as always! That ending was what I was hoping for and the buildup was perfect. Exciting to see more dots connect :)
Another important world building detail that ties into the real world: the man at 6:00 is James Watkins, which was the US Secretary of energy from March 1st 1989 to January 20th 1993
2:30 this part is amazing. Consider "conventional storage" as basically all the space we have available in earth, and then they compare it with the non stop expanding spave in the backrooms. Scary af.
What I find the most unnerving about the back rooms is the fact that it mimics a human space (offices, pools, furniture, etc.) yet, as far as I understand, it was not created by humans. It makes it more sinister, like it has a life of its own, like it makes its own choices. And humans venturing into this for the sake of profit is very realistic.
Throwing an idea out there: It IS created by humans, far in the future for an unknown (probably non nefarious) reason like shelter from a catastrophe or even just as extra space for a growing population. They didn't realize that what they created exists independent from normal time and we can access it now, far before we are ready.
I always wondered, bc it's this feeling these places exist somewhere. Do they echo parts of reality, like forgotten elements that are copied and paste randomly?
@@mayeulraffin5926 I think it's meant to be like that yeah. The description of how you enter the backrooms is by "no-clipping" into it. That's a video game term. It stands to reason that the backrooms could be the leftover reality of a higher power's video game.
OH THAT ENDING REVEAL! I remember a previous video way beforehand where an A-Sync employee suddenly got lost from their designated group while exploring the unknown territory. One of the last scenes from that video was when he stumbled upon a room which activated an alarm. Now A-Sync found the man I presume. Jesus… everything is tying up together isn’t it? Well done good sir.
There are multiple ways to exploit the Backrooms. Like as a landfill for long-life nuclear waste. Or as a power source by redirecting the power used for the lighting, Etc. The most troubling point in this video is trying to commercialize it without understanding it beforehand, nor getting rid of the entity. Which... sounds very human in fact. Greed is good. But I would be concerned about a residential/industrial usage of it : CO2, CO, O2 etc. must be managed, which will require a perfect ventilation system. And what would happen if the supply of O2 is cut ?
@@skymarshal3330 It seems that there is already plenty of oxygen present in the Backroom's atmosphere(s). And given its effectively infinite size, ventilation wouldn't be much of an issue.
I think the key difference that makes this a possibility is the fact that the Backrooms/Complex/A-Space can be willingly accessed through artificial means, whereas most or all previous depictions made accessing the Backrooms something that happens completely by chance with no known methods of egress.
This series is so good. It gets everything right, even the hubris of humanity that we can just move in and set up shop in an alternate dimension with no problems! Its perfect!
Let’s just say no issues occurred in accessing this pocket dimension, how would people survive without weather, and for that matter, plant life which gives us much needed oxygen?
@@leociresi4292 It's a different dimension. It could have different properties like plant life or oxygen, we don't know, but it's fiction so it could be possible + They got people inside the backrooms without hazmat suits
I appreciate you are very technical in how you create this plot. Instead of jampacking the backrooms with countless monsters and badass scenes like a lot of other videos do, you actually know how to create mystery and intrigue. You only have one monster right now and yet everyone is on the edge of their seat
maybe a couple monsters instead, just of the same kind, the multiple instances of "not person" are probably the depiction of black holes since now it's clear the way backrooms are accessed is through distorting gravity, it was never seen for a monster being overpowered, which could mean they had near-infinite strength and just decided not to move their bodies at full power, else they'd easily destroy everything and anything in there
Crazy to think that they were planning on society living in the backrooms. That’s frickin insane… I couldn’t imagine not seeing the light of day and moving my family down there.
I like how Async is messing with a large and dangerous force they can't comprehend, and see it as a way to solve space issues. 2:28 also gave me chills when regular storage became infinitely smaller compared to how large Async estimates the backrooms to be.
For anyone wondering, that seal in the corner of the screen starting at 6:17 is the seal of the US Department of Energy. Also, great work on the vid. Lots of little details really sell the authenticity of all this, and this nails the look of any 1990's corporate video. Plus we finally get to see how the guy who got lost plays into everything.
I like how in the graph comparing the storage space the “A-space” cube grows incredibly large compared to the conventional one showing just how vast the backrooms are
What was most unsettling to me in that part was not necessarily the implied size of the Backrooms, but how the animation just kept on going. I’ve always really liked the type of horror that flips corporate jargon and imagery on its head to show something completely inhuman and borderline eldritch.
What I find interesting about this story is that there's no true villain. Just a research company who found this cool unlimited space and are trying to use it for productive and positive causes, they just didn't know that peple could just slip into it out of nowhere and that some wierd bacteria monster had nested in it. Judging by the look on the managers' faces in "The Report" I think it's a pretty safe bet that they hadn't a clue what the thing that Marvin E. Leigh had caught on film actually was
I don't think the company is as innocent as you make out. They've definitely stumbled onto an amazing technology with huge potential benefits, but they're also very clearly ignoring, and possibly concealing, the dangers therein. It's clear that they have experienced dangerous phenomena that they don't fully understand, and yet they already have marketing videos? They're creating mock dioramas and giving presentations to what appear to be officials in some capacity? Perhaps even more directly damning, there's a three frame glitch in the transition of the footage at 4:51. I took a screenshot, flipped it horizontally, and compressed it vertically. The text that appears is incomplete, but it says"...ED TO DECEIVE THE FEDE...". Imo, "fede" is most likely "federal", implying that they're deceiving federal bodies to fly under potential regulation that would cause them to cease, or delay, what they're doing.
@@elemenopycuaress7454 Exactly. I have no idea how people are interpreting Async as being benign. It's pretty clear that they're more on the "Evil" spectrum by intentionally omitting the existance of entities and anomalies in their upbeat promotional videos. They are prioritizing profit over human lives.
He's really good, but don't dimish that the guy has a lot of people working with him. Things like this are not one man jobs. I do not know his process, or what all he specifically handles, but it is very obvious that many hands are touching this series. He can't be all the actors, nor do I believe he's doing all the shooting, making the models, etc. The entire team behind this is fantastic.
@@hellbreakfast1590 < What this guy said, it's nice and all that we're putting Kane in holy light but we should remember that it's not just him that's making this series possible. Sure he's got the creative process but that creative process would not be put into reality without the help of other people with a similar creative process.
Wow, that ending part was so unexpected. I love how everything is coming together so smoothly, keep up the amazing works Kane! :) Greetings from Hungary!
@@freedom667 correct, as i see the researcher didnt get teleported or something like that, instead, he got teleported to another time where the Threshold lobby or something like was already built.
I like that the company isn't being played off as evil or greedy, just far too ambitious with their vision. The Backrooms could certainly help with storage problems, but to put residential areas and even a tram system seems a bit too excessive considering what lives in there.
I love this series because of how tense, how distressing it is without actually jumpscaring the viewer. It takes the backrooms and perfacts it rather than adding onto it unnessecarily.
Yeah I really do not like the extended lore that people wrote about it with “levels” and almond water. Really took the mystery of the back rooms out of it. What Kane has done with the back rooms is incredible.
The found footage analog horror scene recently has felt very stale and old. But this is an exception, this is something new. It doesn't follow the same contrived tactics. Very good, my dude, keep it up.
@@nottstarrr They are unstable, it's been shown you can clip out into the real world at dangerous locations, and you may time travel into the future at any time, without even taking entities into account.
This interpretation of The Backrooms is genius on it's own, just in concept. And then we add your editing, and I say it's one of the greatest series ever uploaded to TH-cam. We can't wait to see what you do next!
holy fuck i was blown away with all the actors in the same room, only to realize he was using cg models this whole time and just cleverly masking them with the low fps camera distortion, that was really fricking cool
@@janitor3853 i mean it was all masked in a diegetic way, as in through a shitty in world cctv. a low fps, low quality cctv, which i think is really cool. if there weren’t all the shitty scan lines and such on the security cam footage you’d probably be able to tell all the actors were cg models, but what kane did was clever and cool
@@yungkimchee7172 well that's the main reason he can pump these videos out as quick as he does. with the VHS filters you don't have to render out as many samples as normal because most detail gets covered up in post
I know theres a lot of backrooms content out there but honestly in my mind this is the only content thats "cannon" so to speak. Definitely the best and most well developed I have seen out there. You are seriously so talented and I cannot wait to see what comes next. You deserve a movie or TV show 100%.
to a certain extent backrooms stuff is sorta like SCP stuff in that there is no "true" canon. if you like the oringinal only 3 layers idea thats your interptation, you like the expansive dozens or hundreds of strange unpredictable layers you can just stumble into forever and ever better? then go with that idea like something else? a mixed ideal? go ahead. its really cool the weird levels of the backrooms one can create, and with the do or don't canon style anything can be applied anywhere.
I see it as it’s own cannon. The Backrooms is a concept that isn’t really owned by anyone. Kane Pixels definitely has created the most consistent lore for The Backrooms but there’s other content creators who do it too.
In my opinion there are 2-3 canons. This one is the main canon. Then there are the many levels of random bullshit. Then there is the idea on how to get there
Definitely agree with everyone I know that there’s no true “cannon” I just meant for me personally it’s the one I conceptualize most strongly as what the backrooms is.
That explains a version of this mythos nicely: that it was created intentionally as a theoretically-limitless space which could be used for manufacturing, warehousing, workrooms, meeting rooms and even employee living quarters at low cost, but then it instead expanded in ways that change constantly, its physics are unstable, and it attracted (or created) dangerous entities. Then, instead of being used as originally planned, teams went in to investigate its layout and properties.
I disagree with the created part. Some parts of Kanes videos simply do not add up to that. If they where created, how could they send things these before they made the large Scale facility happen? And how did stuff from decades, possibly hundreds of years ago get there? Why would it be absolutely nonsensical in construction if it was created? And why is it carpets and yellow wallpapers for industrial areas as they clearly had not yet found the more rudimentary parts? The name given to thze facility is also a bit of. Its specifically "The Threashold" or "Doorway" and not something like "Origin" or "Source". It appears more as if they have been there beforehand, and were discovered and then repurposed. Humanity digging up some eldritch horror and trying to capitalise on it.
Kane pixels said A-Sync found it, not created it... I dunno about you though, but creating an interdimensional portal (A-sync did that) still pales in comparison to creating an entire parallel universe infinite in size. And considering the tech humans had at the time... yeah
This new perspective of the backrooms being just a huge place to store items is actually interesting and different from the “levels” and monsters the rest of the internet comes up with.
kane's backrooms will always be better than the levels trash. because the reality is just that everyone is trying to capitalize on popularity by trying to add their own floors and monsters and its basically become a discount scp copycat with even lower creativity. its become so over inflated that the original feelings the backrooms are supposed to convey are incredibly forced with everyone trying to inject phobia-esque themed elements and monsters and calling it "done". even though the TRUE backrooms is just a photo and nothing more, kane's backrooms provides the most natural and fluid experience without any tacked on garbage. the only other concepts i will accept along with kane's are the poolrooms by matt studios and jared pike (you can look up videos by those creators). because they SPECIFICALLY stylize the poolrooms to be based on the same liminal presence of kane's backrooms. the true fear isnt supposed to be whats _in_ the backrooms, but the fear that amounts due to paranoia based insanity from being in the backrooms itself.
To say I was excited to see another post is an understatement. This series is by far the best thing I've seen in the 36 years I've been on this earth so far and that means something. Visuals and CCTV videos are crisp, audio is to die for especially in headphones, and the story is the chefs kiss! Keep up the good work! Can't wait for more!
And also Man i goot terefied by what this godamn company goona do in the future whit this backroom's thing. Kane deserve more than an oscar for a 17 yo
I love the fact that you never go for the cheap jump scare, ramping up the tension and mystery without doing the "BOOGH SCARY THING" just to get the heart racing. Absolutely wonderful.
No creepypasta story will ever make me fully shakes up then The Backrooms. This series truly captures the perfect point of how something can keep you unsettled from beginning to end. With how much lore was put in for the Arg, the people behind the project definitely deserve all the credit they presented for something that gave fear to many. Thank you all for how far you have come.
I totally agree! I check every day to see if Kane has given us another chapter 😅 the backrooms now sits in the back of my mind permanently. I had to go to a hospital appointment last week and the yellow paint on the walls gave me the ick haha
Finally the time traveler appeared, I had my doubts about what happened to this guy and from what I see A-Sync is now going to have a hard time with this project because of these security inconveniences for humanity I love how kane pixels knows how to make this story excellent
Can you imagine what it must have been like for the prospective clients, sitting at the table when the alarm went off, and what lame-ass story had to be offered to carefully make them suddenly leave? Further still, what if Time-Traveler-Man hadn't even been hired yet? Or even more curious, what if Time-Traveler-Man was already hired, and is at home, watching TV in his off hours, when a phone call from A-Sync happens... That *too* , would be one helluva conversation!
@@creatornat those potential buyers are government agents since they financed a lot of money to A-Sync for this project and knowing that these types of insecurities and creatures abound in the backrooms, it is possible that A-sync managers care more about their reputation than the safety of their people As for the time traveler, for me he was already considered missing for a long time and because nobody dares to look for him in the enormous backrooms
@@creatornat those clients aren’t your average people, they’re big shots. The man that can be seen at 6:00 is James D. Watkins, US Secretary of Energy under President George H. W. Bush.
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8:13 For anyone that is confused, that A-sync worker is the one who got separated from his exploration group in the informational video. At the end of the informational video, he finds a door which leads to the entrance. The alarms go off. But that entry area was not built until later videos. This could prove a theory that the timelines are different between the real world and the Backrooms.
It think it alludes more to the idea of those null zones that have been mentioned in his prior videos. I think it implies the lost researcher wandered into a null zone and got desynced from his original time frame.
OMG that makes perfect sense!
I don't think it necessarily means time travel, what if he was just wandering for so long that the whole thing was built by the time he got back? In the original backrooms, it is said that it's incredibly easy to lose track of time.
Where's his camera?
@@knightofthenorth926 As another poster mentioned, this tape is dated 3 months after the informational video. There's no way he'd survive that long without food or water. I believe time is a little fucky in the backrooms.
In informational video, The Async researcher was lured away from the group by the sound of a lot of voices. We know that the area he went to distorted spacetime and the researcher got sent into the future. So the voices could be from a farther future in which the backrooms is commercialized and a large group of people is present.
bruh this is such a good theory why doesn't this have any likes
Great theory. I always thought it was a portal in a cafeteria area waiting to swallow somebody
The researcher gets the world record for going into the future
That makes a lot of sense!
At the time, I remember a theory that what he heard were voices from the real world leaking into the backrooms, but that is also a very good proposition.
It looks like A-Sync took the dimension that they found and planned to develop it after seeing the potential that they thought it had. Knowing why A-Sync was exploring it and trying to map it out so thoroughly makes so much sense now. Really adds so much more depth as opposed to just finding and exploring a space.
Probably know that it's an impossible endeavor, just trying to generate income from gullible investors to continue thier research
I got the idea that they were actively searching for something similar to the backrooms, and didn't have a fully detailed picture of the concept before they found it.
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@@riftvallance2087 there are multiple hints that they had a contract with the us defence but that the contract was canceled, so this seems like they are trying to get new funding
I also like that A-Sync isn't just seemingly a mindlessly evil group. We saw a hint of it when they activley worked hard to actually RESUCE one of their own agents who went in and seem to have a lot of precautions to make sure they keep their people safe. Not that they are all good. Just that they don't seem to be mindlessly evil like other top secret groups in these sorta things
My dad used to work for a copy repair company and occasionally I would go with him when he went to different work sites. One place he took me left a very distinct memory in my mind as a kid in the 90's; it was an empty office building with fluorescent lights and seemingly endless space. There was a strong almost spiced scent and I wandered around until I got lost and shouted into these large empty rooms. After about ten minutes he found me and took me back to the front room.
These videos tap into a nostalgia that I thought only I knew.
A-Sync was charged for corruption and i illegal bussines in 2010 i think
Oh no......
Anyone that worked in or visited offices like this in the 80s and 90s can relate to it...that's why it works so well.
This comment is great. The psychology of new generations being obsessed with backrooms seems to boil down to western youth not conventionally working anymore so they create this artful and philosophical interface with endless 'work'spaces (key word being 'WORK'). It's like they are grateful for their youth and enjoying the benefits of modern society, but have this genetic memory of the horror of an actual white collar job their ancestors 'HAD' to do....fascinating
@@carlosoomanowtf are you smoking? I want to know so i can stay away from it
who knew a 4chan post that's a couple sentences long could be so inspiring and create such amazing content
A simple post becoming a whole expanded universe
When was the original post?
@@yannyyansen9743 "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."
That is how SCP started
@@yannyyansen9743 It might be random but some says that original photo of the backroom is look like the yellow offices in The Stanly Parable which was Released on 2013
*IMPORTANT DETAIL :*
The person at the end is 100% the person that got lost in the "Informational Video" tape, but look at the dates from both, this tape is 3 months ahead of the date he was separated from his group. He *time travelled in the future* when the glitch happened, that would explain why he saw his group dissapear. So now we know for sure that the backrooms is a place where time can be manipulated aswell.
Well atleast he got to the threshold lucky enough and I’m so excited to see how they react to time travel!
Well time and space are one in the same. They are a fabric that is warped by mass. So infinite space means infinite time, whatever that is.
That’s whAt I sAid
Another important detail: the man at 6:00 is Jame Watkins, which was the US Secretary of energy from March 1st 1989 to January 20th 1993
@@carlstevens781 | For anyone who might have trouble looking him up, since it's a common name, he's referred to more specifically as "James D. Watkins".
I love how subtly Kane expands on this lore. Presentation is a cool way of using subtext to paint a bigger picture.
Mayo with a spoon bruh 🍦🥄
Mr obvious
He likes to hide subtle details that link back to the real world. The man at 6:00 is a real person: US Secretary of Energy James D. Watkins. He served under President George H. W. Bush.
Monet could learn from this
it does not expand lore it actully reavels lore of how in informational video it is the same person that was lost from the group
3:52 i enjoy the detail that the mysterious holes in the floor are not only acknowledged in this presentation, but are shown with nothing more than a simple guardrail around them as if they're just quirky parts of the terrain.
Right I imagine they will put signs saying “what for the whole when walking across the storage unit”😂😂😂
❤ I would love to visit this place 😂
What I also noticed (as a not native English speaker) is that on the trucks it says Freight I translated it, and it basically means cargo, but why not use the word cargo? I Feel like Freight sounds like fright (when you're scared) which I think is very idk weird ig
i guess because freight trucks and cargo trucks are words used interchangeably @@Mo67740
@@Mo67740 I get what you mean, but I don't think that's the intent. Freight isn't an uncommon word- I think "freight" is more associated with the vehicle that is carrying cargo, while "cargo" is more associated with the items that are transported. If I were the creator, I wouldn't think much of this. Interesting detail, though!
I feel like their intended use of the backrooms is like a physical version of the internet.
You could access it from anywhere, as long as you had a machine. You could probably take anyone to the same place within it from any of those entrances. It has a basic structure that can be manipulated into anything else. It goes on forever with no real limit. It's abstract and confusing but has a visible form.
Edit: Not entirely sure about my second point but I'm leaving it in.
Also adding that the structure forms patterns, it's not completely random, meaning those patterns could be learned. Like a computer language.
Kind of meta in a way, much like how the backrooms have spread through the internet and also the original video game reference about no clipping. It's all very interwoven.
So, the backrooms are what is actually inside of wormholes?
So basically it's like using nether portals but without all of the hazardous conditions (supposedly), because for every block in the the base world is 8 in the nether realm. So based on your statement, the backrooms could also serve this function and act as a more efficient source of transport.
@@OutlawRemy86 the back rooms is what you get if you accidentally clip out of reality. Reality is all that is. The backgrooms has everything that isn’t. There’s a lot more of that.
That's a very good interpretation. It looks like that what they are trying to sell with that presentation video isn't the space inside the backrooms, but a machine to create a gate to access it from people's homes, especially in these seconds 1:10; They are not explaining what are the backrooms, where they came from. how they were created, they are explaining what is and how their machine works.
This feels like an 80s corporate high tech utopia hellscape. With a score by Boards of Canada. The optimism portrayed by the narrator gives me the chills. Original Half Life on crack. What a masterpiece.
This whole mythos reminds me a bit of Portal too
@@4nt4r4y and Doom
@@4nt4r4y it's somewhere between Half-Life "the chance of a Resonance Cascade is highly unlikely..." and Portal "the preying mantis DNA injection test is cancelled", yeah.
Black Mesa had a really long stick for poking, Aperture Science had **no** stick, while the stick for Async research is negligently short.
Black Mesa had the bad luck of a perfect storm and Aperture the excuse of insanity.
Async has neither.
just gonna turn into another dystopia
@@heyitsdazy how?
“What could possibly go wrong with inhabiting an extradimensional space that is infinitely expanding?”
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Are you a discord mod? I swear you just sit on your PC all day
Nothing could go wrong, right? There totally wouldn’t be any bacteria monsters chasing after you
He’s back
Well a problem might be is if it's expanding up and down too after a certain size it would collapse.
Love that initial gap its like "How does it work"?
Step 1. Magic door way
Step 2. Stuff goes thru magic doorway
Step 3. -
Step 4. Profit.
LOVE IT!
i mean its not magic your literally ripping spacetime apart and they use manchinery capable of this
I love the idea that the backrooms are massive but the door to get in and out is absolutely tiny. So the biggest issue would be getting people in and out of that tiny threshold as fast as possible. With possible horror scenarios such as the entire residential sector rushing the door at once.
nah what is with that big mf that chases u and kill u
that rushing scenario is actually such a terrifying concept. i love it.
660 million square miles
@@vanplays5216 approximately, give or take a few hundred thousand feet.
@@thareasonisme no, the original person who “created” the back rooms described it as 660 square miles😡
I feel like this is exactly how a company in the 90s would try to sell the idea of a infinite space in another dimension. It's honestly amazing. Great job Kane!
@star war maybe it’s not here
Not click in link
It’s not infinite. It’s a little more than six million square miles.
@u know me don't trust Quandale Dingle, he scammed me of all my life savings 😥
I can hear a dubbed commercial video of this already...
"We want to invent a way with this new dimension to have...
Infinite storage, traversal passages, family homes, working businesses, and even more!"
"But nope!"
"We gone ahead and made a off giving vibe dimension full of mechanical demons!"
⚠️ The thought of actual offices, stores, restaurants, cafes, apartments and houses in the Backrooms is terrifying.
Can you imagine ? People casually going about their whole lives working, eating and living in the Backrooms. That in itself deserves a spot in the analog horror hall of fame. Async was really trying to normalize a dimensional distortion in time-space before they even really knew what they were dealing with. My imagination is going wild !
Thanks for another quality upload your gift and talent go without saying. ✌️⚠️
No sunlight in sight...
It would be OK if they just did something about the monsters.
Sounds like how our government would act now.
Honestly its funny as fuck lmao just to imagine thats the first idea they had instead of selling it to the military or something instead.
@flower has eaten okay but what still isn't here? your father
I don’t see anyone talking about this, but I think the most unnerving part about the whole video is that when it compares the space sizes, the A-Space expands off the screen as the conventional space disappears. I’m not sure why that gives me chills
Same
Best part
It’s that feeling of overwhelming cosmic horror. It’s so subtle, but it just makes you realize just how tiny you are
because "conventional storage" is all usable space on earth
Same.. the space expands until it is not only far bigger than the conventional storage space but has *utterly crushed it*
A perfect way to end the day, thanks Kane.
my day just started bruh
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As a 90’s kid, the old business presentation was on point, very reminiscent of failed big business ventures with larger than life ambitions, and using the back rooms for industrial purposes is very logical and also a corporation being unaware that the back rooms have hidden dangers and the back rooms themselves are dangerous since it’s an infinite looping dimension. I really loved this one.
Details like this make me sort of question if this series is really being made by a 16 year old or if this channel is another case of a company pulling a lonelygirl15.
It’s such a realistic way to look at the back rooms. Humans will find anyway to make profit. It’s funny how something so dystopian as the back rooms is still made industrial because humans are driven by greed.
@@jakefoley9539 - I thought about that, I mean the level of production on these videos is astounding, there’s live actors, some very seamless blending going on, I can’t tell what’s purely a set location or totally CGI, and to my trained film making eye this stuffs pretty top tier for a 16 year old kid, it’s a little too well made for an amateur film maker.
The one video where it had live actors made me begin to think otherwise that there’s a production company behind this, how could a 16 year old hire actors, get a location to film, there’s obviously a budget for these videos, there’s just a lot of high quality production in these videos that’s definitely above everyone else on TH-cam. So it wouldn’t shock me if there’s a very talented team behind these videos and they’re producing this elaborate series for TH-cam, but I do question if this guy is 16 or not.
@@10191927 Just to clarify, Kane is actually a student in a film school where he's learning movie direction. it all makes sense and blender is a free software with tons of amazing tutorials on TH-cam. anyone can become a great VFX artist
This is such a good idea, accessing the backrooms and using it for storage space and even setting up offices and transport systems, you've created some fascinating lore with this
In theory yes, but remember it's the backrooms we're talking about here. Nothing is as it seems here.
That has already been the lore for ages..
I don't know why to build offices there, I would just stick a big pipe in the door and send all the shit of this world there.
Upd:
Bakteria: 'time to eat some humans'
Big wastes pipe: 'AMERICAAAAA, F*CK YEAH'
Upd 2: Bakteria: 'dear diary. I can't describe the pain in words...'
And dying
What makes me think that it's not going to work isnt the fact that they're the backrooms and there are anomalies but think what would happen in case of a fire. Or even a chemical fire. There's basically 0 ventilation, it's all connected.
On the other side though, we could get a parallel universe where uscsb covers incidents in the backrooms lol
I think one of the emotions evoked by this in the context of the Backrooms is: Sadness. Seeing all the hopes laid into this project, and all the uses the space *could* be for, just to all end up abandoned and empty.
Always got that feeling, but never knew how to explain it.
Your ear for audio is so, so very good. Your music, the ambiance, even distortions and overlapping voices.
Everything in your videos seems so natural and appropriately dated.
The concepts you have put forward in this video are brilliant.
I don't know who you are Kane but you have such a bright, and slightly strange, future ahead of you. ❤️🌿
Well said! Especially the last part
kane pixels slays!!! there’s no doubt about that!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😍😍😍😍😍 -grant and aj
his other channel "Not Kane Pixels" has all the music for the series and then some. its all rly beautiful
@UC4vIW75g1uPaSzd1FzleHgA " I dont like people being nice"
The corporate music is very reminiscent of Petscop in places
This is actually genius and loops back to what the backrooms originally were, by introducing the narrative of people using it for storage, commercial space, etc, it opens up the explanation of why there are so many almost infinite rooms full of nothing or odd structures - because they were simply used by people until they were forgotten
Yeah I actually realized that as well.. And makes a lot of sense why there are items such as Almond Milk, but little do
they know....
@@SealWithoutHat it's super almond water
I wonder if there's gonna be a clear distinction between abandoned sections of the backrooms vs untouched sections.
I disagree. I think it was always there and parts of it happen in different parts of time. Thats why the scientist left the initial entrance to the backrooms and after being teleported went theough the new finished one.
@@SealWithoutHat I think there's no such thing as almond water or entities in this canon
Giving off some major classic analog horror vibes. Love to see it! Can’t wait to see where this leads
another day, another back rooms video
Same
Using 32 quantum field oscillators, The Low-Proximity-Distortion-System create distortions within the space-time continuum, condensing distinct reality layers and allowing their resonant vibrations to be detectable by sensitive equipment rapidly. This process continues until a critical balance is achieved, at which point the distortions are proportionate enough for adjusted stable micro-wormholes to form.
damn
Meaningless drivel. Did you repolarize the quantum deflector as well ? Ooohhh or maybe try a reverse tachyon beam. Ooooohh or maybe try re-energising thermal couplings !
Bro just said alot of jargon, but nothing that means anything
Is this official?
Terrence Howard? Is that you?
Dude! I keep worrying that the quality of this series might drop, but it just keeps getting better! Keep up the great work, but don’t burn yourself out. Good luck, Kane!
>I keep worrying that the quality might drop
>don't burn yourself
bro, that's exactly the type of comment that makes content creators get burned
The behind the scenes must be insane
Making videos is hard and easy to burn out... But I think the month wait is just the right time.... I don't think Kane has is too busy, he should have lots of time for video, especially with his subscribers and the adds... Glad he can finally have the resources to make better videos. When I made my backrooms video, I had to squeeze it between work, at 2am in the morning to complete it. Its uploaded to my channel, but I feel that's all I can make for now. I will see.
I ain't afraid I've been invested since the first video and I am glad I was on TH-cam today or else I would've been a week late
The quality's good in parts but there's bit too much zoom out of still shots for my taste. Still a great series so far
It only makes sense that our world would try to profit from the Backrooms by using it as storage and living space. I love how realistic this whole series seems. Instead of a creepypasta with countless unrealistic things you took a unrealistic idea and built a realistic world around it. Perfect.
Didn't they set out to create living an storage spaces?
Not even about profit, goober, about affordability and running out of space.
Definitely better than the discount SCP shit people started coming up with.
Its not viable for living space however, the cost of infraestructure (working electricity and running water) would only go up the further it is from the entrance.
@@neztimar43 lmao you assume that the ordinary laws of physics apply in the backrooms
It potentially all encoded in the tech, it’s almost assumed that it’s an all inclusive miracle, besides the technochron waiting around the corner
i grew up in the 90s and presentations like these bring me back to elementary school when they would wheel out the crt tv and play a teaching video obviously recorded a decade earlier. you did a good job capturing that. a lot of people didnt realize that yeah, we did get new tech in the 90s like cell phones and better\ affordable computers. but every text book and movie in school was from the 80s and felt dated even then.
@hope Noooooooooooo, that's not backrooms, my latest vid is.
@hope Finally it is here *YES*
*th-cam.com/video/xvFZjo5PgG0/w-d-xo.html*
Even in school in the early 2010s, we still watched shows from the 80s on the old cart TVs for social studies and music class sometimes. Even now, some of our textbooks are from around 20 years ago.
Same here man old times (in early 2000s living in Tucson az
kinda love the dated aesthethic, 2020s is pretty piss poor in interior design and architecture
The attention to detail is insane. They even showcased James Watkins, the secretary of the department of energy in 1990.
I loved how subtly horrific it was to see A-SpaceTM get so infinitely huge compared to all the storage space in the entire nation
It's a great example of analog horror. Something as mundane as a box growing is incredibly unnerving givin the setting and context
@@micahbell122yearsago6 I've had similar mundane fever dreams. They are bizarre and hard to explain because they're so abstract and random. I believe other people have had the same dreams. Idk what that's about.
@@micahbell122yearsago6 I used to have a nightmare where I was looking at a small ball, then everything would zoom out to this impossibly larger ball. I would wake up sweating.
The backrooms empire 🤣
Also they realy have to watch out for the entitys to be honest
@@tom_the_animator Regarding entities... Don't ask. Don't tell.
I absolutely love how upbeat and 90/80s style this music is compared to the grotesque, bleak ambience that is in most of Kane’s backrooms videos, as well as the constant jump cuts to the footage with that same bleak music. Really helps build the overarching sinister atmosphere associated with the backrooms. You never cease to impress, Kane!
Do you know what's the music called ?
I like that at no point has ASync been presented as evil. Usually the corporation is cartoonishly villainous and casual about risking the entire human race, but with ASync they haven't been needlessly endangering their workers and have a very mundane proposed use for the backrooms.
And Kane's brilliant! "How can we make infinite storage space meaningful, interesting, and frightening too!" lol "How do I take an Internet folk story and build upon it without pissing off the fanbase?"
I don’t exactly understand the purpose of the “back rooms” why are they there? What is a sync purpose for them? Thanks
@@jamisonk.097 It's literally explained in this video
@@jamisonk.097 Backrooms are just a different dimension don't worry about what created them
The issue is that Async wants to harness the infinite space to use for storage which is a good idea we are going to run out of space on this planet
The actually issue is something is already using that space
@@koc988 oh alrigy
Dude those plans for the storage rooms and offices reminded me so much about the severance show
Honestly such a human solution. Endless hellscape filled with incomprehensible horrors? Just turn it into a warehouse
Interestingly enough the backrooms would solve many of our problems:
- Since the backrooms are infinite, we could move our argricultural production there. 50% of habitable land on Earth is now farmland, and our livestock 62% of mammal biomass on Earth (34% humans, 4% all wild mammals, from the smallest mouse to the largest whale). The extra space we get on Earth could be used to house more humans or preserve more of nature.
- We could also harness free energy from the backrooms with minimal environmental damage to our planet.
- We could move the more polluting industrial processes in there as well to decrease pollution and increase habitable lands on the surface, such as the refining and production of carcinogenic or radioactive substances and fossil fuel plants (if they haven't been rendered obsolete by point 2)
- It would also be a nifty space to store spent nuclear fuel, making nuclear energy more ideal as an energy source compared to fossil fuels than it already is.
@@randompheidoleminor3011 sunlight? photosynthesis to provide habitable conditions? how would that fit in, unless we industrialised the outside oart seen in ‘pitfall’ but we saw that that was inhabited by monsters. also can the ‘outside’ in the backrooms actually become daytime which would being the question of sunlight again
@@jaackaboytheiii1107 there are multiple techniques of harnessing the energy from the available lights if there is not enough. There are also entities like 10.5b that may be of use
@@randompheidoleminor3011 We could also use the lights to power solar panels
@@randompheidoleminor3011 Can you explain 10.5b? just letting you know that wiki/fandom is not involved in kane's lore
Something critical I don’t think everyone caught onto yet: the person at 6:00 is presumably Kane’s recreation of James David Watkins, Secretary of Energy under George H. W. Bush. This goes along with the DOE we keep seeing in certain clips which should be the department of energy.
Wow good eye. From James David Watkins' wikipedia page:
"On November 9, 1989, Watkins established the Office of Environmental Restoration and Waste Management within the Department of Energy. On August 15, 1990, Secretary Watkins announced plans to increase oil production and decrease consumption to counter Iraqi-Kuwaiti oil losses caused by the Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait."
So the date of his visit to the backrooms was after establishing the Office of Environmental Restoration and Waste Management. The narrative edging towards storing some nuclear waste inside the backrooms, perhaps causing mutations.
@@oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368 That’s a distinct possibility; it looks like another concept they were considering was pumping the CO2 output from industry into the Backrooms rather than the atmosphere. It might be that after the monster sightings, the company started pivoting towards applications where humans aren’t exposed to the Backrooms but it’s instead used for hazardous material storage. Then doing that either causes more problems with the monsters or the process of opening more thresholds winds up not working as expected, leading to the spatial anomalies experienced in the first video.
That, or the time distortion effect (the guy at the end is definitely the one from Informational Video, which takes place three months before this) leads to more issues. Maybe they pivot again to trying to figure out how to control the time distortions and figure out how to monetize that property of the Backrooms instead?
Wow great catch! I am blown away by the attention to detail, by such a young creator nonetheless, and the details that get discovered by the community. He really thought this out and did some homework on history, science, physics, and industry.
@@oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368 Solid follow up 👍
@@Nathan-kk6lb Wow that is a great theory. My imagination is going nuts lol
This video alone adds so much depth to the series. “Virtual Storage Space” just like how we can virtualize servers and IT infrastructure… a-sync is literally virtualizing physical space as a commodity. Very cool and very deep. This video series can go on indefinitely…
With infinite space comes infinite story potential
they dont know the dangers the backrooms may hold
You have no idea what virtual means do you?
@@A_Stereotypical_Heretic it's a perfect word for this. What do you think it means? Before you answer, keep in mind the word has been around longer than computers have existed
@@2ManyGoats well colloquially it means not quite exactly the same thing as the thing your prefixing it with, or something is not an exact representation of what you are describing...as in "those two houses are virtually identical".
So...if you're using it in that manner how is the space being a commodity not quite 'space being a commodity'?
If you're using it in the way that you're describing a replication of something that is nearly but not quite exactly like the original copy...it still doesn't really fit does it? I mean it is physical space...and it is a commodity...soooo...
I love this sort of stuff. I love the science fiction-ish, futuristic feel couched in a more comfortable nostalgic vintage area/visuals. I enjoy that trope used in shows as well. Makes me think of the show Loki where the TVA is immensely powerful and yet the technology and aesthetics do not seem futuristic really. Retrofuturism I believe is one of its names. So cool.
I like how the creepier and more unusual aspects of the backrooms show up in the concept videos at 3:04. It's a bit surreal to realize you are waiting for the monorail next to the bottomless pits, or the entity drop vent is at the end of the hallway to your apartment.
Imagine a Skin Stealer Posing as a pizza delivery person
Also the walls in illogical places that don't serve any purpose.
@@leociresi4292 Hey, Uber Eats has got to get their labor pool from somewhere.
@@Ubbenstein It's avant-garde/edgy architecture! Says the rental brochure.
I think the idea is that things like bottomless pits and entities weren't supposed to exist in the original concept. It was supposed to be just normal space used for a variety of purposes. Something went haywire during its creation which caused it to get all screwed up and it turned out to be what it is
This series has really come a long way since the beginning
Yes
true
@Uploads no its not
Your mom has come a long way since the beginning.
Fax
ASYNC seriously discovered this abnormal space filled with monsters and unnerving areas and thought "this is the perfect spot for a dollar general"
Most normal American business ever
a normal day in america
But that is Dollar General.
I mean, the backrooms does look like the average dollar general
bro monsters are gone in level 0
The story you've put together across these Backrooms videos is excellent! I'm glad I came across them.
Did anyone else just feel uneasy thinking about the fact that this company wanted to basically move a whole civilization to this very unnatural space? Even though this could be seen as a way to solve housing problems and just spacial problems in general, it just puts a pit in my stomach to think that there is something deeply off about this space (forgetting the fact that we know there's a scary creature lurking around) it doesn't feel like humans are supposed to be there let alone trying to live normal lives there
Specially cuz they also want to do industrial stuff in there too. Imagine breathing in those byproducts.
A few monsters
Whoever would live there would have to endure sleepless nights from all these buzzing neon signs...
Ugh, yes. It's so unnerving to think that people would be permanently housed down there. There's no sunlight. No fresh air. No windows or doors. These videos give off such a trapped, hopeless feeling, like being stuck forever in an office building. It seems like this space could be so easily forgotten, even if the company didn't intend to. Like if things started going wrong, perhaps gradually, but no one from the company came to fix the problems, and gradually everyone realizes they're all alone...
Looks like the beginning of the world depicted in the movie THX1138
This series is by far the most authentic feeling of any analog type series. Every graphic chosen, every filter, every sound choice is exactly how these videos were back then and it's scary how good you are at recreating it.
@yea I'll save you all the trouble, that link is not to a backrooms video... Instead, my latest video is backrooms related...
Something else that’s scarily good recreation: the man at 6:00 is A 3d model of James Watkins, which was the US Secretary of energy from March 1st 1989 to January 20th 1993
@@carlstevens781 i've never thought of that before
2:31 That intentionally long scene were the storage space was so much bigger, is a very cool little detail!
It's like food, bigger may look better, but there's a limit
@@iv689 indeed
It plays with our imagination. The intention of the company is to show just how innovative and convenient this infinite space is but really it shows the horror of The Backrooms. How it's always growing and is beyond our capability and understanding, the fear of an ever growing horror
Where*
Forgot to mention that its the same eerie yellow.
It's very impressive that someone so young can accurately emulate that 80s/90s nostalgic vibe. He understands it as if he was there! 😀
This seams like a dated company presentation from the 80s and 90s 100%. Your work is amazing especially because the longest it has taken you to upload is a month or so. Your content is getting longer, your animation is improving, your music and ambiance are great, and the fact that you can get people in your sets and make it look like they really are there is astounding. You do amazing work!
@star war lol
shit, i'm early to the video!!!!!
@Kurtis stop dude it’s not good
No. I've seen this Way TO many times. Sorry, im not clicking.
its not animation this guy is searching through secret governments abandoned hardrives to find these videos. The government could of been doing experiments and all sorts in here but we dont know
I love how even outside of the monster the Backrooms in the setting would be incredibly dystopian. If the project had succeeded, just getting to live on Earth and have the chance to see the sun would become a privilege for the wealthy.
It's even worse if the monsters were still there, having the chance to be killed in an instant would become part of daily life, or taking a wrong turn would leave you stranded forever.
literally everyone who would've lived in the backrooms would be depressed
They probably will put strong steel fences from bottom to top from entrances that are dangerous and can kill you
That could definitely be a dystopian storyline for sure, but also, you could literally walk to a portal to the outside world and on the other side your home could be something absolutely massive and decadent or whatever you specified in your design document for A-sync to process. However, your "palace" would have no real windows to the outside world, you'd have to cross a threshold of your a-space portal in order to see the actual outside world.
I don't know, how would living in a place like that affect a human being even if you could go outside?
I feel like it would be a very tough call personally to weigh up the possibility of having any sort of dwelling I desire, yet at the cost of having no "real" windows to the outside world.
If anything I feel like the world would get less populated with this technology, not more populated.
The dystopian vibe reminds a little of Escape from New York, what happens when corporate state power systems sends everyone into a hellhole and then collapses.
Kane Pixels is, by my understanding, a young man who wasn't even around in the 1990s. As a genuine antique person who was there, it is UNCANNY how well he nails what things looked and sounded like back then. It's insane.
He’s 16 years old.
@Epic how u guys know that?
Born in 1977 and growing up in the 80's I recognize the 'music' in Kane's video as those you would hear whenever you were seeing a promo video of... whatever.
He may be 17 - but he absolutely nailed it! 👍
@@X13-w6z his channel description
This is a compliment but it comes off as super dismissive. As if you’re labeling him a child first and a creator second. As if that’s all that can define him.
0:51 i'm sorry but this concept is maybe the most terrifying moment of the series thus far. "we have too many people, stuff 'em in the endless rooms".
Those videos showing the potential uses of the backrooms give me a weird sinking feeling. People talk about these videos giving a nostalgia feeling but I can pinpoint the exact location that those videos relate in my life and cause that feeling. It is also quite a niche reference.
They remind me of educational videos that used to play on British TV in the very early hours of the morning in the early 90's (coincidentally the time these videos are set). They had a similar feeling/style and the music feels very similar to what was played on them. It brings back memories of waking up alone, going through to my living room, turning on the TV and watching them in the dark while my parents were sleeping. It really made my heart sink.
After writing this comment I had a quick search to see if I could find anything related to this memory on TH-cam and found this video. They used to have these educational 'marathons' run through the night on TV. I guess this is what it reminds me of th-cam.com/video/0oqgXQ2aq_c/w-d-xo.html
Healthy emotional response. They are designed to be as distressing as possible without pointing directly to a cause. Gaslight horror.
@@MatSallehTV Yeah I remember this stuff too
for me personally it feels the same way I feel about playing portal or portal 2 with the mystery of it.
It’s called “simulacrum” probably, smth unreal but pretended to be real vis-à-vis, due to common nostalgic patterns and all in all style, like “retrowave” also
Every, single, episode. Every single one makes me want the next to happen already. I haven't felt this way about a series since before streaming came around. Having to just wait for the next one, I love it and your work. I can't wait to see where this goes.
I like how this series started off eerily creepy from a first-person perspective of a random stranger getting stuck into this horror dimension and slowly turned into an analog world-building of society in the backrooms. Kane Pixels you just made the community proud!
"building a society in the backrooms" ain't gonna end well. matching this to wiki-lore, A-sync has basically created an artificial noclip that is stable and therefore reversible. They haven't yet found the manilla room because they are simply too cautious.
@@sirzorg5728 different continuity
@@sirzorg5728 Humanity have known to adapt in any environments no matter how harsh and futile it is. Even this facility ASYNC created is a fraction of a 0.00000000000000000000000000000001 % explored in the backrooms. You can even fit an entire population on the planet if we decided to escape to the backrooms if Earth goes south
That was the presentation, but it’s clearly not going to work. That’s not what the story has turned into
@@sirzorg5728 kane's world is explicitly not the wiki one, the wiki stuff doesn't exist here
I loved the whole series, I'm revisitin this one because I got shocked by how amazing this chapter was.
My heart sunk when the blueprints included "residential" - imagine people living in this... and it seems like A-Sync just shrugged off the "incident" from earlier and sealed it off, because the project has too much going for it. This series has gone from scary to downright existentially terrifying... and I love it.
That's very much what would happen in real life, isn't it? Don't let the Lovecraftian monster dissuade you from making a substantial business, just look at Jurassic Park! I'm sure it'll be fine! :P
@@Rune3D Reminds me so much of the "the apocalypse may negatively affect fishing season" meme
You mean how they blocked off the pitfalls in report
The homeless can live here
It's like the Mystery Flesh Pit National Park
Does NOBODY talk about how the guy in the last 10 seconds of this video is the guy of the "Backrooms - Informational video"? This is too sick. So correct me if I'm wrong, but they were presenting the idea to a client when the lost guy from the informational video returns? This series are so good. Thank you Kane for bringing this to our world.
Thanks for explaining, I forgot about that guy :)
Yeah few seem to have noticed it, i also thought he was the guy that stepped into an alarm room at the end of a past video.
exactly and that employee with the suit was in the same room that the 2 clients crossed to go see the scale model of the backroom, the same that we see closing off near the end of this video if i understand correctly
It's unclear to me whether he's a prospective client or an A-sync executive.
He time travel
The larger than life “A-Space” Total Available Storage Graphic is as fascinating as it it is terrifying. One of my favorite moments from the video.
It sorta replicates the disorientation effect you experience at night on your bed in the pitch dark.
Yeah, the message is clear: the Backroom dimension is too extensive as a concept for us to understand. It is on a whole new order of magnitude. We can't even begin to grasp the infinity that it contains...
This is the first video I could tell it was animated, and only for brief moments. Whomever makes these is a master of animation
that user name aged very well
Explanation:
In the episode “Informational Video” dated 2/29/1990, the main character was a hazmat researcher exploring the back rooms. During the expedition, he experience a sort of error, which caused him to jump forwards in time. At the end of “Informational Video” the researcher entered a human built room that looked very similar to the room we seen in this video with a distinct alarm.
In episode: “Presentation” dated 5/08/1990, at the end of the video, we see 5 people, presumedly high ranking researchers of A-synch, having a meeting. During the meeting, a researcher monitoring the Backrooms threshold noticed that the sensors inside the Backrooms were triggered. When checking the cameras, we see the same researcher from 3 months ago, in the same room with the same alarm.
That basically explains this videos plot.
The guy must be very confused
Imagine its a big ass time travel record
And it’s not the last time they will deal with it. The meeting was about the encounter by Marvin only two days ago based on the time stamp.
@Cutthroat yes, bacteria grows with time.
thanks
I like how at the beginning they say “Modern innovations have the potential to irreversibly scar our world with lots of bad byproducts” but in a way they’re really talking about themselves opening up a “modern/new” portal which will forever scar our reality because of no-clippings.
That's what we in the business call "foreshadowing"
It’s like in the Watchmen graphic novel where Veidt has his own fitness method that promises “bodies beyond belief”. He actually delivered on his promise if you count the millions who were killed when his extra dimensional alien made its presence known.
made up: I guess they stop noclipping in 1997.
2022 we enter by dreaming
@@roastortoastjustgivememost2384 maybe they sealed it back up by that time
GAH these episodes are getting IMPOSSIBLY good. I freaking love this series way too much, it’s literally the best thing on the Internet right now. This episode was kinda different, but just as insane and definitely provided us lots of important lore. Infinite Storage is a cool concept, but it comes at a big cost… even if it’s way cheaper than normal storage. I can’t tell you how hyped I was when that familiar alarm started going off, the one we heard so many episodes ago… I knew exactly what was about to happen. Of course, we can’t forget to mention how this has literally turned into a full-on ARG with research, codes, and even hidden channels. Seriously, thank you so much Kane. I really hope the best for you!
@Memexid 🅥 that video looked disgusting why would anyone watch a video about cats.
Hidden channels?? Mind to share?
@@papaputra7280 look in the description, he made a new channel with one video called “Simpsons”
These songs give me different feelings. Although it seems a little unsettling, I can also feel a deep sense of nostalgia...remembering my childhood in the 90s, mainly because these songs are very reminiscent of the songs from the 90s TV commercials here in Brazil.
Another reason why these videos give me nostalgia too, is that, today I realize that when I was a child in the 90s, I was completely obsessed with strange geometric shapes (which I would later know as " Non-Euclidean Geometry") and Liminal Spaces, although I had no idea about these terms,. I remember that in the neighborhood where I grew up, I used to pass in front of a building that had a small shopping arcade on the ground floor. It looked like an alley, a corridor with shops on both sides. From the outside, it seemed literally endless. I used to imagine that that corridor was in fact a portal that could take people to other neighborhoods, or even other cities and countries.
It's actually sort of sad to see how A-Sync failed to use the Backrooms because of its hostility since this actually looks like a great solution to all of humanity's problems.
Housing, storage and whole other problems are essentially no longer a concern due to the infinite space they have.
Even without the hostility, I don't see an endless labyrinth of moldy carpet and drywall being a great solution to all of humanity's problems lol
@@sportsentertained it can be interesting if we're talking about storage only, but I can't imagine living a place like the backrooms
@@sportsentertained Perfect place to dump all of our unrecyclable or long decay waste
@@watema3381 it would be a perfect place to dump waste even if it were completely infested with various monsters, tbh
Or this is just pretext to prison humanity and keep a monopoly above all
Anyone else notice that after the threshold was opened in that one test that almost failed, it was never closed afterwards? The only way they “close” it is by closing the shutter on it, that means the thing is always on and possibly why people keep going missing in the series, opening and closing the thing in the original way is a hassle. It also means the only thing separating earth from the entities in the backrooms is a metal door.
Also explains why they’re able to get signals and footage from it without having to invent a new form of trans-dimensional communication.
I mean, imagine being in the backrooms, and they close the threshold, and you just *stop existing*
@@suburbanshatters more horrifically, you would continue to exist, but from your perspective, earth would stop existing, and it would be just the back rooms.
yeah i think so too, you are so fucking right lol
Edit:
Wow! didid
I completely agree, and have something to back you up as well. In “Motion Detected”, it says that one of the noises captured is the “Threshold barrier closing”. NOT the “threshold”, the “threshold BARRIER”
This mean’s people won’t stop no clipping unless A sync finds a way to completely close the threshold instead of just putting a metal door to “close” it.
Stellar world building and presentation as always! That ending was what I was hoping for and the buildup was perfect. Exciting to see more dots connect :)
It made me do the Leonardo DiCaprio pointing
Ye bro
Another important world building detail that ties into the real world: the man at 6:00 is James Watkins, which was the US Secretary of energy from March 1st 1989 to January 20th 1993
here is your 600th like
Was that Marvin?
Using the backrooms as a giant storage facility is actually... pretty smart.
2:30 this part is amazing. Consider "conventional storage" as basically all the space we have available in earth, and then they compare it with the non stop expanding spave in the backrooms. Scary af.
That's really what i thought lol
thats what i thought too
Ditto
300 times the size of argentina
@@osarr che 👃
What I find the most unnerving about the back rooms is the fact that it mimics a human space (offices, pools, furniture, etc.) yet, as far as I understand, it was not created by humans. It makes it more sinister, like it has a life of its own, like it makes its own choices.
And humans venturing into this for the sake of profit is very realistic.
Simpson Parody, “Welcome to the Back Rooms Mall! Please follow the Bacteria for all your shopping needs!”😁
Throwing an idea out there: It IS created by humans, far in the future for an unknown (probably non nefarious) reason like shelter from a catastrophe or even just as extra space for a growing population.
They didn't realize that what they created exists independent from normal time and we can access it now, far before we are ready.
I always wondered, bc it's this feeling these places exist somewhere. Do they echo parts of reality, like forgotten elements that are copied and paste randomly?
@@mayeulraffin5926 I think it's meant to be like that yeah. The description of how you enter the backrooms is by "no-clipping" into it. That's a video game term. It stands to reason that the backrooms could be the leftover reality of a higher power's video game.
I feel like it could be luring humans by using familiar shapes/objects
OH THAT ENDING REVEAL! I remember a previous video way beforehand where an A-Sync employee suddenly got lost from their designated group while exploring the unknown territory. One of the last scenes from that video was when he stumbled upon a room which activated an alarm. Now A-Sync found the man I presume. Jesus… everything is tying up together isn’t it? Well done good sir.
Yep, i think he came from the past.
Hopefully he isn't dead
About 3 months ago, give or take maybe an hour or week
The video where the guy was in the place with the alarms said 2/29/90 as the date, and this video is 3 months in the future
It's interesting that this guy is still alive before and after even the pitfalls event I think he might have gotten the director attention that day.
If the backrooms didn't end up being full of monsters and turning into a creepy pasta, I'm sure it would've been revolutionary.
it still is, even without living there its a whole new era of exploration, to boldly go where noone had gone before
I never really thought of the idea of commercializing the backrooms! I can’t wait to see where this goes, great work as always :)
There are multiple ways to exploit the Backrooms. Like as a landfill for long-life nuclear waste. Or as a power source by redirecting the power used for the lighting, Etc.
The most troubling point in this video is trying to commercialize it without understanding it beforehand, nor getting rid of the entity. Which... sounds very human in fact. Greed is good.
But I would be concerned about a residential/industrial usage of it : CO2, CO, O2 etc. must be managed, which will require a perfect ventilation system. And what would happen if the supply of O2 is cut ?
@@skymarshal3330 It seems that there is already plenty of oxygen present in the Backroom's atmosphere(s). And given its effectively infinite size, ventilation wouldn't be much of an issue.
I think the key difference that makes this a possibility is the fact that the Backrooms/Complex/A-Space can be willingly accessed through artificial means, whereas most or all previous depictions made accessing the Backrooms something that happens completely by chance with no known methods of egress.
America moment
Genre? It's not a genre lmao, it's a concept.
This series is so good. It gets everything right, even the hubris of humanity that we can just move in and set up shop in an alternate dimension with no problems! Its perfect!
Let’s just say no issues occurred in accessing this pocket dimension, how would people survive without weather, and for that matter, plant life which gives us much needed oxygen?
@@leociresi4292 It's a different dimension. It could have different properties like plant life or oxygen, we don't know, but it's fiction so it could be possible
+ They got people inside the backrooms without hazmat suits
"Ah yes, this looks like a big enough house, Let's move in!"
3 seconds later: "AAAAAAAAAAAAA"
It’s fine it’s just a infinitesimal pocket dimension.
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I appreciate you are very technical in how you create this plot. Instead of jampacking the backrooms with countless monsters and badass scenes like a lot of other videos do, you actually know how to create mystery and intrigue.
You only have one monster right now and yet everyone is on the edge of their seat
Technically we’ve seen four so far.
@@destroyerofturtles5024 I think the first episode was more of a pilot, but aren’t there only 3?
maybe a couple monsters instead, just of the same kind, the multiple instances of "not person" are probably the depiction of black holes since now it's clear the way backrooms are accessed is through distorting gravity, it was never seen for a monster being overpowered, which could mean they had near-infinite strength and just decided not to move their bodies at full power, else they'd easily destroy everything and anything in there
@@tcr2574 there were 2 in the first episode, one in motion detected, and one in pitfalls.
@@doodlebro. wat
Crazy to think that they were planning on society living in the backrooms. That’s frickin insane… I couldn’t imagine not seeing the light of day and moving my family down there.
I like how Async is messing with a large and dangerous force they can't comprehend, and see it as a way to solve space issues. 2:28 also gave me chills when regular storage became infinitely smaller compared to how large Async estimates the backrooms to be.
i mean the backrooms are infinite so it would be bigger then any storage space ever
@@yikesthatsrough5788 Could you really prove that it's infinite though.
It's around 900000000 million square miles
@@yikesthatsrough5788 it’s not infinite it’s just so big that it seems like infinite
@@dexterthomson860 and thats just level 0
For anyone wondering, that seal in the corner of the screen starting at 6:17 is the seal of the US Department of Energy. Also, great work on the vid. Lots of little details really sell the authenticity of all this, and this nails the look of any 1990's corporate video. Plus we finally get to see how the guy who got lost plays into everything.
The old dude at 6:00 is the Secretary of Energy at the time, James D. Watkins.
The guy pictured at 6:00 is actually the Secretary of Energy in 1990: Admiral James Watkins. I really do appreciate the details.
Wrong seal
I like how in the graph comparing the storage space the “A-space” cube grows incredibly large compared to the conventional one showing just how vast the backrooms are
I like how at one point it swallows up the conventional storage, I thought that was low-key creepy
a-space is a code name for the backrooms, async thinks the backrooms are infinite due to their recent discoveries of entities, new levels, etc.
What was most unsettling to me in that part was not necessarily the implied size of the Backrooms, but how the animation just kept on going. I’ve always really liked the type of horror that flips corporate jargon and imagery on its head to show something completely inhuman and borderline eldritch.
The asshole-space
@@database_enjoyer3000 levels don't exist in this Kane pixels version
So 70's! So strangely intoxicating. What a work of art.
Big facts 💯🔥
What I find interesting about this story is that there's no true villain. Just a research company who found this cool unlimited space and are trying to use it for productive and positive causes, they just didn't know that peple could just slip into it out of nowhere and that some wierd bacteria monster had nested in it. Judging by the look on the managers' faces in "The Report" I think it's a pretty safe bet that they hadn't a clue what the thing that Marvin E. Leigh had caught on film actually was
They absolutely had that "what the absolute shit is this shit" look
Yeah, it's a refreshing split from the "corporations are evil" bit. I like it! What if they just want to solve a problem? Economics 101!
I don't think the company is as innocent as you make out.
They've definitely stumbled onto an amazing technology with huge potential benefits, but they're also very clearly ignoring, and possibly concealing, the dangers therein. It's clear that they have experienced dangerous phenomena that they don't fully understand, and yet they already have marketing videos? They're creating mock dioramas and giving presentations to what appear to be officials in some capacity?
Perhaps even more directly damning, there's a three frame glitch in the transition of the footage at 4:51. I took a screenshot, flipped it horizontally, and compressed it vertically. The text that appears is incomplete, but it says"...ED TO DECEIVE THE FEDE...". Imo, "fede" is most likely "federal", implying that they're deceiving federal bodies to fly under potential regulation that would cause them to cease, or delay, what they're doing.
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@@elemenopycuaress7454 Exactly. I have no idea how people are interpreting Async as being benign. It's pretty clear that they're more on the "Evil" spectrum by intentionally omitting the existance of entities and anomalies in their upbeat promotional videos. They are prioritizing profit over human lives.
I can't imagine the painful hours if not days of work it takes to create this Kane.
You're a prodigy at what you're doing
@senni bgon yes but then it would all change. The studio/investors would want to take control and do what they want
He's really good, but don't dimish that the guy has a lot of people working with him. Things like this are not one man jobs. I do not know his process, or what all he specifically handles, but it is very obvious that many hands are touching this series. He can't be all the actors, nor do I believe he's doing all the shooting, making the models, etc.
The entire team behind this is fantastic.
@@hellbreakfast1590 < What this guy said, it's nice and all that we're putting Kane in holy light but we should remember that it's not just him that's making this series possible. Sure he's got the creative process but that creative process would not be put into reality without the help of other people with a similar creative process.
Heck, finding other people is hard enough already, so finding the right ones is a massive accomplishment.
@@thamrew676 Also Trendwatch did a lot of the graphic design and the slideshows in this video
Wow, that ending part was so unexpected. I love how everything is coming together so smoothly, keep up the amazing works Kane! :)
Greetings from Hungary!
the guy is from informational video
I knew that he would come back , I had a feeling that he would timetravel & appear when I saw the finished room .
@@freedom667 correct, as i see the researcher didnt get teleported or something like that, instead, he got teleported to another time where the Threshold lobby or something like was already built.
@@thedogprofilepicture4361 so basically no clipping but thru time?
@@samuelgiroux6819 kinda like that
2:27
Never in my life did I think that a simple graph would make literally laugh out loud.
That was hilarious.
I like that the company isn't being played off as evil or greedy, just far too ambitious with their vision. The Backrooms could certainly help with storage problems, but to put residential areas and even a tram system seems a bit too excessive considering what lives in there.
I don't think they knew what was in there at this point. Since everything is out of order it's harder to say.
@pyropulse wrong, pitfalls and report come two days before this
the things werent intentionally mmade
@@Lotus_River no he's correct, the dates that kane posts in the description show that pitfalls come before this
@@Lotus_River i thought they were in-universe dates though
I love this series because of how tense, how distressing it is without actually jumpscaring the viewer. It takes the backrooms and perfacts it rather than adding onto it unnessecarily.
@Morbius time no
@Morbius time grabing some ip don't click it
@Morbius time Shut up bot
@@Faux40s it's a TH-cam link, how can it grab an ip ?
Yeah I really do not like the extended lore that people wrote about it with “levels” and almond water. Really took the mystery of the back rooms out of it. What Kane has done with the back rooms is incredible.
I like how the pitfalls are fully acknowledged and present in this presentation and their solution to them is guardrails.
Still better than working on the Death Star, I guess.
Yeah I'd work for Aysnc than work on the deathstar
I really love backrooms and thanks sync to create this ❤
The found footage analog horror scene recently has felt very stale and old. But this is an exception, this is something new. It doesn't follow the same contrived tactics. Very good, my dude, keep it up.
It's so fresh, haven't been so exited for uploads since Marble Hornets
I feel like this is less horror and more lore
I love how Async put some paintings in the Backrooms to make it look more cosy for the presentation while knowing the place is in fact dangerous
how is the backrooms dangerous?
@@nottstarrr there are entity's in the backrooms
@@nottstarrr Theoretically, since everything is infinite... Anything can happen.
And because of it's infinity, any THING can exist.
Finally it's here *YES*
*th-cam.com/video/vn8WdvkmTGs/w-d-xo.html*
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@@nottstarrr They are unstable, it's been shown you can clip out into the real world at dangerous locations, and you may time travel into the future at any time, without even taking entities into account.
This interpretation of The Backrooms is genius on it's own, just in concept. And then we add your editing, and I say it's one of the greatest series ever uploaded to TH-cam. We can't wait to see what you do next!
I love how this went full circle and ends with the guy who set off the alarm after getting separated from the pack in a previous episode.
holy fuck i was blown away with all the actors in the same room, only to realize he was using cg models this whole time and just cleverly masking them with the low fps camera distortion, that was really fricking cool
tf you mean by masking them with low fps camera distortion??? motion blur or what?
@@janitor3853 i mean it was all masked in a diegetic way, as in through a shitty in world cctv. a low fps, low quality cctv, which i think is really cool. if there weren’t all the shitty scan lines and such on the security cam footage you’d probably be able to tell all the actors were cg models, but what kane did was clever and cool
@@yungkimchee7172 well that's the main reason he can pump these videos out as quick as he does. with the VHS filters you don't have to render out as many samples as normal because most detail gets covered up in post
If a movie studio gave this dude a budget, he'd probably make a modern horror classic. Great job dude
I think this already IS a modern horror classic.
oh my god that would be amazing
A GOOD modern Horror movie too.
dude im literally waiting for the BACKROOMS: The Film for like 1 year now, there is no trailers or teasers i just think that someone might do it
I’d be damn proud of him
I know theres a lot of backrooms content out there but honestly in my mind this is the only content thats "cannon" so to speak. Definitely the best and most well developed I have seen out there. You are seriously so talented and I cannot wait to see what comes next. You deserve a movie or TV show 100%.
to a certain extent backrooms stuff is sorta like SCP stuff in that there is no "true" canon. if you like the oringinal only 3 layers idea thats your interptation, you like the expansive dozens or hundreds of strange unpredictable layers you can just stumble into forever and ever better? then go with that idea
like something else? a mixed ideal? go ahead. its really cool the weird levels of the backrooms one can create, and with the do or don't canon style anything can be applied anywhere.
I see it as it’s own cannon. The Backrooms is a concept that isn’t really owned by anyone. Kane Pixels definitely has created the most consistent lore for The Backrooms but there’s other content creators who do it too.
*canon
In my opinion there are 2-3 canons. This one is the main canon. Then there are the many levels of random bullshit. Then there is the idea on how to get there
Definitely agree with everyone I know that there’s no true “cannon” I just meant for me personally it’s the one I conceptualize most strongly as what the backrooms is.
bro kane pixels this is actually brilliant we just need air conditoniers and anti entity sprays
That explains a version of this mythos nicely: that it was created intentionally as a theoretically-limitless space which could be used for manufacturing, warehousing, workrooms, meeting rooms and even employee living quarters at low cost, but then it instead expanded in ways that change constantly, its physics are unstable, and it attracted (or created) dangerous entities. Then, instead of being used as originally planned, teams went in to investigate its layout and properties.
I disagree with the created part. Some parts of Kanes videos simply do not add up to that. If they where created, how could they send things these before they made the large Scale facility happen? And how did stuff from decades, possibly hundreds of years ago get there? Why would it be absolutely nonsensical in construction if it was created? And why is it carpets and yellow wallpapers for industrial areas as they clearly had not yet found the more rudimentary parts? The name given to thze facility is also a bit of. Its specifically "The Threashold" or "Doorway" and not something like "Origin" or "Source". It appears more as if they have been there beforehand, and were discovered and then repurposed. Humanity digging up some eldritch horror and trying to capitalise on it.
@@theexchipmunk 🙄
Kane pixels said A-Sync found it, not created it...
I dunno about you though, but creating an interdimensional portal (A-sync did that) still pales in comparison to creating an entire parallel universe infinite in size.
And considering the tech humans had at the time... yeah
@@danmystro “🙄” - 🤓
@@danmystro 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
This new perspective of the backrooms being just a huge place to store items is actually interesting and different from the “levels” and monsters the rest of the internet comes up with.
Totally.
Totally agree it’s a lot less ridiculous and poses a real like relatable issue.
kane's backrooms will always be better than the levels trash. because the reality is just that everyone is trying to capitalize on popularity by trying to add their own floors and monsters and its basically become a discount scp copycat with even lower creativity. its become so over inflated that the original feelings the backrooms are supposed to convey are incredibly forced with everyone trying to inject phobia-esque themed elements and monsters and calling it "done". even though the TRUE backrooms is just a photo and nothing more, kane's backrooms provides the most natural and fluid experience without any tacked on garbage. the only other concepts i will accept along with kane's are the poolrooms by matt studios and jared pike (you can look up videos by those creators). because they SPECIFICALLY stylize the poolrooms to be based on the same liminal presence of kane's backrooms. the true fear isnt supposed to be whats _in_ the backrooms, but the fear that amounts due to paranoia based insanity from being in the backrooms itself.
@@MasterOfTruck the pool rooms are pretty unnerving for sure
the “levels” thing is so bad, from my time reading the wiki it seems like a 12 year olds first attempt at writing an scp.
To say I was excited to see another post is an understatement. This series is by far the best thing I've seen in the 36 years I've been on this earth so far and that means something. Visuals and CCTV videos are crisp, audio is to die for especially in headphones, and the story is the chefs kiss! Keep up the good work! Can't wait for more!
I agree man. Kane Pixels is a seriously talented story teller. Total natural
Kane is 16 so it’s even more impressive
@@geimenberg1718 He’s 17 now check his About section but yeah I get your point. He’s incredibly dedicated to his passion at such a young age
And also
Man i goot terefied by what this godamn company goona do in the future whit this backroom's thing. Kane deserve more than an oscar for a 17 yo
I have not idea what is going on, and that's exactly the point and why I keep watching these.
I love the fact that you never go for the cheap jump scare, ramping up the tension and mystery without doing the "BOOGH SCARY THING" just to get the heart racing. Absolutely wonderful.
No creepypasta story will ever make me fully shakes up then The Backrooms. This series truly captures the perfect point of how something can keep you unsettled from beginning to end. With how much lore was put in for the Arg, the people behind the project definitely deserve all the credit they presented for something that gave fear to many. Thank you all for how far you have come.
It may even rival the scp foundation one day
@@I.disagree it has
Go look at the real thing dude. This retarded lore is everything but scary
I totally agree! I check every day to see if Kane has given us another chapter 😅 the backrooms now sits in the back of my mind permanently. I had to go to a hospital appointment last week and the yellow paint on the walls gave me the ick haha
I can see the Backrooms as a kind of SCP
Finally the time traveler appeared, I had my doubts about what happened to this guy and from what I see A-Sync is now going to have a hard time with this project because of these security inconveniences for humanity
I love how kane pixels knows how to make this story excellent
Can you imagine what it must have been like for the prospective clients, sitting at the table when the alarm went off, and what lame-ass story had to be offered to carefully make them suddenly leave? Further still, what if Time-Traveler-Man hadn't even been hired yet? Or even more curious, what if Time-Traveler-Man was already hired, and is at home, watching TV in his off hours, when a phone call from A-Sync happens... That *too* , would be one helluva conversation!
@@creatornat those potential buyers are government agents since they financed a lot of money to A-Sync for this project and
knowing that these types of insecurities and creatures abound in the backrooms, it is possible that A-sync managers care more about their reputation than the safety of their people
As for the time traveler, for me he was already considered missing for a long time and because nobody dares to look for him in the enormous backrooms
time traveller? you mean the guy who entered in that room who got separated by his team?
@@jaimdiojtar yes, he is the time traveller
@@creatornat those clients aren’t your average people, they’re big shots. The man that can be seen at 6:00 is James D. Watkins, US Secretary of Energy under President George H. W. Bush.