Honestly the most unnerving thing about the Backrooms is that no matter who you are, where you are, or what you are doing, good/bad person - you could just hit your elbow funny and slide sideways through a street lamp and end up in office space purgatory
@@a_donut This! I really feel like all the monsters and almond water and survivor groups are really taking away from the horror of the unfair isolation. It's an obersaturation I believe was the downfall of both Slenderman and Sirenhead, good alone, horrible when everyone tried to jump on it and make it their own, the curse of the modern folktale.
Imagine being a detective and getting assigned the investigation into the increase in missing persons, only to find zero evidence or perceivable connections between them and your bosses just think you're terrible at your job lmao
Lol that would suck. I'd like to imagine the missing people are from national forests since most of them bodies aren't even recovered. So in that sense the detective could be like yo it's not my fault I can't find them in a vast range of nature. 😂😂
@@Wetknees Imagine a show where the detective goes on this hunt as a drunk wash-up but is forced through withdrawal once he eventually no-clips into the back rooms himself
@@dylancohen3111 alcohol is one of the few drugs where the withdrawal can kill or permanently disable you. That would be funny "wahh I'm so sad I wanna drink my drunky juice or ima gonna suck me"
When Wendigoon began talking about how scary it is to have someone driving a car 70mph normally and then blink and appear into the backrooms while still going 70, little did he know that that was going to be referenced in a video Kane was releasing THE SAME DAY
It's objectively impressive but should be used as an example that age is not the biggest factor in quality work built on passions, rather than an all too common conclusion of "these younger people are doing better stuff than me" and internalizing that to mean it's over for you. I'm only 19 which is pretty comparable in the long run to the age of a lot of the up and comers and it's even gotten to me before, but it's that thinking that promotes the kind of irrational doubt that prevents people from moving anywhere good and disregards that we all have different lives and brains that should be incomparable in some ways, or the difference at least needs to be appreciated
What I think I love the most about Wendigoon is that despite nearly two Million subscribers, he still makes videos that feel personal. When I put on Wendigoon it feels like he's sitting in the room with you and chatting. The passion for the topics is infectious. Thank you Wendigoon. You do great work.
i keep thinking he's still at 50k subs... i looked at his subs after seeing how many views this has and im flabbergasted. Im so proud of him, and im glad he's finally gotten the recognition he deserves.
Scary theory: the creature in found footage could only mimic garbled speech patterns because it only came into contact with the 2yo that went missing whereas the creature in pitfalls had come into contact with a teen/adult as evidenced by the shoes in the house.
Now that I understand what the backrooms are, you don't even need the creatures/monster(s). The concept of slipping into an empty world where it's just rooms and hallways that seem like the real world, but they're obviously off or very wrong and illogical is extremely scary. Just wandering in this place that makes no sense and possibly never getting out as you're starving and thirsty is a nightmare
Or worse- you get thirsty and hungry but never die. So you're destined to roam the backrooms forever, eventually losing your sanity and becoming one of the 'lifeforms' yourself
The corporations in these online horror stories (backrooms, Mystery Flesh Pit, etc.), really reminds me of that line that Dr. Malcolm says in “Jurassic Park”: “You were so caught in up in whether or not you could, that you didn’t stop to think if you *should* .”
@@bioemiliano except mommy and daddy wont find him. That kid will be waiting for help that will never come. Trapped forever in an infinite, uncaring, emotionless maze.
You know what will be even worse? Seeing what Lifeform that baby might become. This small, screeching thing running after you; either because it's scared and wants help or because it's hunting you.
reminds me on fortnite cause of the way they always say that and then it isnt like what how is that even, its just so cool how EPIC GAMES can really do thing like that and i wish i really could but, sadly i cant and it is really, and i just want it to be like this, like really dude wth this thing is not that its just over there is better like, come on man you know it is to but u always act like it isnt so stop playing these games and exept the truth, herobrine IS REAL and he IS coming for YOUR DIAMONDS so start running cause he will kill anything in his way really seriously this isnt a joke, look behind you its there the masked man, Dream.... is that you.... the man behind the mask..... "I wear a mask with a smile for hours at a time." OMG IT REALLY IS YOU DREAM wait you have weird face ...... wut..... its like troll face, u most bee trying to troll me, sigh , dream please stop trying to troll me i really dont know why you are doing this man, i love your videos and stuff and i hit the like and subscribe button, so please dream, just *sigh* stop following me around my house and telling me to " take of my skin" cause i need it to feel stuff and stuff and im not a teddy bear filled with stuffing like stuffing from thanksgiving i dont know why stuffing is even that popular its kinda gross, im so glad they didnt add stuffing to fortnite, on that note, DC recentlly made a movie around the fortnite character the foundation wich is really cool cause i love fortnite i just wish i knew how they put the foundation in real life in the new movie black adam, by the way make sure to like and subscribe plus buy lots of ZOA ENERGY cause that is fortnite foundations favorite drink!!!
Kane should win some kind of award for his expert use of Blender alone. The environments look so real. Even the sway of the camera looks like it's a real person holding an old Sony camcorder. I don't even think the people are real; I'm pretty sure they're CGI as well. Someone give this kid a trophy! Please!
@@issacsantana6419 yeah he’s like some type of penis actor or something? From bulgaria!! They all specialize in all that penis acting type of method acting and are all experts at things like this pretty much lol it’s all wild and amazing
Still can't believe the original image's location was found. Out of all the big internet mysteries, I honestly figured that a single photo of a cleared office space would be the hardest to locate, and yet we still did it.
I love Kane's version. Instead of the typical military finding this world, it's this company that just wanted to help humanity but instead opened a portal to our own nightmares.
They bit off more than they could chew, which I feel makes it more relatable. We've all had that experience where we say yes to something, only to realize later "Oh shoot, I did not expect it to be like this" More relatable than military men shoot metal sqwiggly monster in funny yellow rooms
@@prufrock1977I think I that's why I like the first video so much, is that it lingered on the space itself for most of the time where the 'monster' shows up in the end. I feel like an endless maze of a reaccuring thing is more terrifying.
I just wanted to say: My favorite thing about this series: It's *CLEAR* and *CONCISE.* Kane had one simple concept and built a series around it. It doesn't feel unwieldly or unclear. It knows what it sets out to do, and does it. Not to mention, it has the best production values of any indie TH-cam horror I've seen.
That’s because the concept of the back rooms existed way before Kane made this. He did a great job expanding the universe but unfortunately people are forgetting the og back rooms
@@prostark8445 yea i dont like the idea of countries in the backrooms forming up and the 1 morbillion levels i haven't heard of og backrooms can you direct me somewhere where i can learn more about it?
I think the most terrifying take for the time jump in found footage is that there was no time jump. The backrooms are just so massive that the camera had been falling for five years.
I am a mariner in Alaska. I was working down in the engine room and my phone lost connection. I sat for a little bit and just kept working. Eventually I figured I would see what was going on with my phone. I pull my phone out of my pocket and the screen automatically turns on when I lift it. The first thing I see is the time. Less than a second later I get connection back and the video continues without me doing anything and the first words are "The real horror begins at 3:53 am". Guess what time I was being shown on my lock screen when that audio cut in. I promptly shit my coveralls.
I think its funny that Wendigoon actively noted how crazy it would be to be driving 70mph down a highway and just blink into the complex and kane posts a new episode showing the aftermath of THAT EXACT THING within 24 hours of THIS VERY SAME VIDEO
Apparently the driver got out and made it to a residential area and tried to nurse their wounds. Enough time passed for them to get desperately hungry, and they started eating the mold...
@@nzt1423 Well, no, not exactly. More like, by the time you realize you are no longer on your way to work, you are crashing into the first wall in front of you at 70 mph because you haven't even had time to register wtf is going on or get your foot on the brake.
33:41 Microbiologist here, bacillus is a very fast growing bacteria, it’s also a known spore former which could lead to the cough if the spores are being inhaled.
It would be interesting if something about the flow of time just caused bacillus that was already in humans to start even more rapid reproduction. Its common enough that most people have some of it in their system or on their skin even if they are not suffering a disease unless I am mistaken.
@@whitelabratArgument could be that, as a result of the isolation, the bacteria doesn't have any competition against other organisms. Therefore it completely thrives and devastates any organic material it comes into contact with.
Side comment: my hyperfixation as a kid was earthquakes and volcanoes, and I absolutely loved the detail of Async causing the 1989 San Francisco earthquake. That was so cool
As a person who struggles with horror these "explanation" type videos help me a lot. Hearing the voice in the background and knowing that Wendigoon will return to the screen comforts me
Especially when he says something along the lines of “you’ve been brave” I’m always like “yeah I am brave! For sure not brave enough to watch the original content though”
I also like how he explains what happened in the video instead of showing us so I'm still intrigued to watch the originals. In a way, its like a original content creator friendly approach to it.
I’m so down for any story that replaces the “evil corporation” trope with a “scientists pursuing science for its own end regardless of the consequences” like this or Jurassic Park, we don’t get enough of those
Doesn't it just become a different flavor of evil though, in the sense of the "ends justify the means". Its the banality of evil, such as the people in charge of Jurassic Park were doing sketchy and unethical cloning of animals with little oversight on a remote island.
@@richpryor9650 Oh yeah of course, I think it’s just a more interesting form of evil because it’s one that a lot of people tend to view as more excusable so it’s cool to see it portrayed in its full terror
Yeah but you can't propagandize the masses against the monetary system which granted them unprecedented luxury, so good luck. There's a reason all "popular" media sucks, it's not just a decade of coincidences
The pair of floating legs in Motion Detected makes me think that we’re not seeing an “entity”, but instead a regular person who is partially no-clipping into the Backrooms. They probably don’t even realize it and have no clue how close they came to entering a yellow hellscape. Also; the sounds of a crowd that the A-sync researcher heard in the Informational Video could have been the sounds of a real crowd in the real world. Maybe there was a no-clip point near to an actual crowd, and the sound of talking actually made it through the no-clip zone into the Backrooms. I think that’s a pretty cool concept. Also, considering the distortion of time in the complex, who knows WHEN those voices were originating from. It could have been any time period.
What if that feeling you get right before you fall asleep where it feels like you're falling is you partially no-clipping into the backrooms and that's what happened in Motion Detected? Also, i really like your idea of audio no-clipping in as well
I like your theory. It seems very likely that audio would be able to no-clip as well. I can definitely see that the legs are probably a result of no-clipping too. My theory runs along Wendigoon’s theory in that The Complex is trying to replicate humanity or human society but can’t quite do it right so the creature was trying to replicate a human but couldn’t accurately do so, which could be why the legs were floating, they could’ve formed at its shoulder or something. It probably doesn’t have an accurate idea of human anatomy yet.
People always give the entities flack, but if you were chilling in your giant corridor house and an unknown humanoid just appeared out of nowhere, you would be pretty violent too.
@bostonholland3704 Flack / flack means criticism or insult. For Example: "Don't give me flack just for doing my job!" Flack was the correct word to use here
The scariest episode for me, which ironically also happens to be the most relaxing, was Presentation. The concept of using a pocket dimension as a means of mass storage is a cool idea thats been done before in scifi, but the attempt to use an expansive and winding space for ordinary people to live and work is absolutely terrifying.
Today was released a new episode, Found footage #2... not the type of terrifying you described but its peak horror. In my opinion his best episode yet...
@higgs bonbon I believe he meant that companies would exploit an extradimensional space to expand human housing instead of just using the space for storage and industry.
As much as I love the trope, the subversion of the "evil corporation exploiting supernatural resource" is _so good._ Async isn't an Anodyne or UAC, they found a pocket dimension and genuinely thought "we can help so many people with this!" It's like discovering plutonium and thinking "now we can heat our cabins without fire!"
I feel like this is one of the best instances of eldritch horror I've ever seen, because it's one of the few that are subtle enough to actually drive someone insane, rather than just terrify them into a heart attack like a galaxy-sized monster would. Something as simple and "mundane" as realizing your room has more walls than it's supposed to or spotting someone in a crowd for a split second, whose face is upside down. That's the type of shit that slowly chips away at people's sanity, while they try to make sense of it.
omg fr imagine counting the walls in your room and being like “why are there 5 walls in my rectangle room” and counting again and it fixing itself. stuff like that freaks me out sm
The series feels really heavily inspired by House of Leaves, which is basically THE book centering this genre of horror. It’s exhausting to read and super dense and confusing but very worth it, highly recommend
"this is the definition of..." is usually used as a meme, not a way to speak facts. That's like saying 'this is the definition of forest fire" to a video of firefighters trying to put out a forest fire.
Fun tidbit: the body found on Feb. 3rd, 1990/the one examined in Autopsy Report, has a striking resemblance to Nicholas Bolton, one of the people on the posters in Missing Persons. I’m sure if you checked the date he was last seen, there would be some weird time stuff going on 👀
I'm just imagining you clip with your car and land on someone who was running to escape a creature and then 3 seconds later you hit the creature and just keep driving to get away from the scene lol
I'm sorry, but the mental image of a Backrooms video being abruptly cut short by the Lifeform getting absolutely *bodied* by a vehicle actually brought me to tears. That has to be the funniest concept I have been presented in a loooong time.
I want to imagine it's like a group of the guys in suits running from one and the one recording turns around to see a station wagon just SLAM into the side of the monster. They all stop cause they're like "what the _fuck_ " and some poor soccer mom like staggers out of the car, uninjured but visibly shaken, and that's it that's the video.
The idea that they're just lost back rooms victims who've been there for so long, been deprived of social interaction for so long, that they are BEGGING AND PLEADING is soul crushingly terrifying to me.
Those lifeforms don't seem to be screaming and growling in anger, they seem to be screaming for help. Maybe the thing that makes them cough is turning them into these creatures who can't really control themselves but are desperately attempting to hold onto their remaining semblance of humanity. This further makes sense with 'The Yellow Wallpaper' where the idea is becoming the monster you are trying not to become. Maybe the more a person panics and tries to leave the backrooms, the deeper and more entwined into it they become.
If the backrooms are some entity's idea of what human structures are supposed to be, wouldn't it make sense if the creatures inside are the same entity's idea of what humans themselves are supposed to be?
I like the Idea that the complex is basically a massive living thing, and the monsters are it's attempt to make an immune system by copping the things invading it.
My favorite theory I've seen about the lifeforms is that the fungus grew on the motion detection cameras and turned them into that. It explains the wire mechanical look of them as well as being able to mimic humans speech due to the camras recording it and also the writing on the wall saying "Don't move stay still" since they are motion detection camras.
It always scared me that the description of how one got stuck in the backrooms sounds almost exactly like when I have a seizure, a bad fall in juuuust the right way. I haven't had one in a few years, but it still gives me the creeps if I think too hard about it
now that you say it, yeah i really see it! i have epilepsy, and the other day i had a series of three seizures spaced out by about a half hour or so each. Being perfectly conscious at work, then in a dreamlike state on the floor, then in A&E, then finally fully aware in a hospital bed. felt like i was teleporting, barely conscious despite being able to talk and answer another person. It’s almost beyond description and that really aligns with the vibe of the back rooms
@@mikeystenning1760 and the way sometimes your (well, mine) language center is a bit messy after a seizure doesn't help either. Honestly it wouldn't be a bad concept for a scary movie if done right, sort of like Alice in Wonderland gone very, very wrong
I love the story The Yellow Wallpaper! The author Charolette Perkins Gilman was actually prescribed something known as “the rest cure” which basically meant she was confined to her home with little to no outside interaction and no activity such as reading or writing but it encouraged getting fresh air and sunlight. The story is about a woman who had been prescribed this “cure” by her husband who is a physician and they are staying in an old mansion and she is in a room that she absolutely hates due to the yellow colored wallpaper. She has been told that she is severely anxious and she appears to have a sort of postpartum depression because she mentions how she is afraid of being alone with her child. By the end of the story we can see her slow decent into madness as she begins so see an image of a woman trying to escape from the wallpaper and she thinks that her husband has been trying to get her out as well. It’s a great short story and I highly recommend reading it.
isn't that because of walls were actually covered in poison? I remember a video about a book and some paint that were affected the mind of people, women in particular
@@Gotten1888 from today’s perspective it could be because of more knowledge of things like asbestos and lead paint but at the time was written it wasn’t known. the author talked about how the rest cure drove her mad bc of the lack of autonomy people were left with. so in theory it could be a type of poison but in my interpretation it’s psychosis.
i love how kane has handled the Backrooms and turned it into something truly interesting and terrifying. after seeing the wikification of the Backrooms and all the internet talk about it's levels and monsters, it's refreshing to see a version of the story that abandons complexity and monsters and embraces the surreal, unnerving horror of the Backrooms itself.
He still uses some of the “extended” lore, but what makes his take the best is that he brings back the mystery of the back rooms. The wikis made it seem like we knew everything there was to know, with civilizations, trading routes, basically turning it into fallout.
@@braxinIV that was what the backrooms was made for in the first place. to be a surreal, terrifying mystery. I really think that’s what made kane popular. He brought us back to the good old days, like many movies unsuccessfully do
my favorite theory on the entity is that it's the spore-infected motion camera #3, which A: breaks and is never seen again B: is why the wall paint says not to move--it's a motion detecting camera, it can't see you if you don't move
the crazy thing about this whole series is that literally EVERYTHING is cg. the entire thing is a motiontracked render. the vhs style video quality both adds to the atmosphere and hides a lot of the imperfections in the cg
@@gray4675 I completely agree with you I had no idea that was all special effects! It was so good as I was watching these clips Wendigoon put together the whole time I was like WHERE DOES KANE FIND THESE BIG EMPTY INDUSTRIAL SPACES TO FILM IN?!!?!! LMAO legit his special effects are a lot better than most of what Hollywood puts out now. I'm very impressed he's clearly very talented
When I first started watching Kane’s Backrooms videos I didn’t realize it was all cg until the second or third one I watched. And then I still couldn’t decide for sure bc they just look so dang good!
I like to think that if I'd been born two decades later I could have done something like this. I'd probably have made something that caused a face-imploding level of cringe instead, but a guy can dream.
Yes! And he's got such a long life ahead of him and you can see how his content improves with each and every upload. It's so exciting that we get to be a part of his journey and seeing the future content he creates. I can't imagine how amazing it'll be in the future if he's already making extremely high quality content now!
The thing about the lifeforms from the Backrooms that I noticed is that, even when they're not moving much and the camera holds relatively steady on them, their bodies kind of morph and alter. It looks like what a 4+-dimensional being would look like if it was intersecting into three dimensions - as it naturally moves, little bits of it slide in and out of our reality. I feel like this has to be an intentional design. Also, I think the blue chairs might be a little reference to Alantutorial.
@Meat Caynon 🅥 Ive just been watching your videos for the past hour! So talented :) I love the way that you take something 'normal' like the guy giving his friend a car and just twist it and make it completely body horror.
I really love the fact that Kane included the video of the US testing of the nuclear bomb as a comparison to when they open the backrooms and are researching it. “Oppenheimer” the movie has a final scene (spoilers I know) where Einstein and Oppenheimer are talking about the 1% chance this bomb goes off and destroys the world, and Oppenheimer remarks, “I think we already have.” He KNEW there was no going back from the nuclear bomb once it’s been made, and that’s why I love how A-Sync is a similar concept. They were afraid because they quite literally were witnessing their “end of the world” as they knew it to be.
Something that always struck me in Pitfalls was “That’s not a person.” “What isn’t?” “That is not a fucking person!” There’s no reason to explain; the fear in his voice clearly tells that the thing calling out for help was not recognizable like a radio or a speaker, yet it was “not a person.”
By far the scariest thing about the backrooms to me is just how big it is. The fact that it dwarfs our entire planet, is absolutely horrifying. If you wound up stuck inside them, no one could ever find you, just due to the monstrous size of the labyrinth.
The backrooms are so big that not only do they dwarf our planet, they dwarf the ENTIRE orbit of jupiter, and its only around 200 million miles smaller than Saturn's orbit. Hell the backrooms are so big that they can be measured in Astromical Units rather than miles or kilometers. And thats only level 0
just as Async is looking into the backrooms and running experiments and trying to make sense of it, its like the backrooms are looking into our world and trying to make sense of it, but in a way that isn't natural or apparent to humanity.
the room with the axe, barn, leafy wallpaper, and wheel barrows is probably whatever resulted in the creation of the backroom attempting to generate outside environments. but for some reason not being able to do so, only being able to make associated objects and interiors resembling it.
@@ninyaninjabrifsanovichthes45 maybe that area wasn’t generated by the complex and instead made by the company for their housing project. It just got teleported back in time.
The thought of the space of the backrooms being either infinite or uncomprohensenmbly large and people noclipping into it and never meeting each other because the chance is just too small in this gigantic space is just cosmic.
Dude ur so cool. My best mate put me on your videos after I started watching other horrortubers like Nexpo. Your personality is honest, to the point but entertaining and friendly. You put in a ton of work and it’s incredibly impressive. Keep up the great work dude. A future long-time sub here!
I think the most horrifying part of the original backrooms is that there is literally no hope for you. There's no organization that has access to it using a portal, there's no other levels you can jump to that are safer, you're literally just dead on arrival, forgotten by the world in a place no one even knows about
True....I think the Backroom starts to lose it's magic once there's too many lores formed behind it with monsters, organizations etc. I think it works best on it's simplicity. I still remembered when the first time I watched Solar Sands covered the video about Liminal Spaces. The images shown were still some of the pics that unsettles me to this day.
@@freddice8156 Agreed! I think it's cool that some people like all the Backrooms lore, but for me, when you get too far into "This is level 84, and it is a giant motel that is exactly 696,420 square miles. Entities include facelings, fingerlings, hounds, and snarfers. Each motel room has a refrigerator that can be stocked with exactly 7 bottles of almond water. Exiting this level can only be done by jumping on the correct spot of certain beds, etc." type stuff, all the mystery and intrigue is gone.
@@freddice8156 Humans like to compartmentalize ambiguous and difficult to explain things. The "lore" that has built up reads more like a D&D system or a videogame dungeon. Too easily explained. Too easily dismissed. Too easily categorized. I vastly prefer Kane's interpretation. An infinite, procedurally generated maze dimension of confining, semi-recognizable things and places.
@@freddice8156 Yes! I always found the backrooms much freakier when there was no monster. I frankly think the reason people started talking about a monster in the backrooms is to in a sense make it less scary. Being trapped in an unknown place WITH a monster in it is a concept that is much more familiar to people. As opposed to a place that just goes on endlessly, with no change, and no life besides you. But that doesn't make good lore, but it's much better at striking dread into people.
So its been 7 months and we have a collection of new videos from Kane.... you should ABSOLUTELY do a part two that covers all the new ones. PLEASE? PLEASE.
1 year ago 1.73 million subs now at 3.68 million. Your growth is substantial but it is deserved as is shown by the care and the passion you put into each video. Thank you
One thing that he did not mention: In the video “Pitfalls”, there’s Blue Chairs among the equipments on the floor on the decrepit room. This references Alantutorial, whose web series consistently features a blue chair as a way to communicate emotions metaphorically.
He said that he wasn’t talking about the wild fandom side of the back rooms just this back rooms they have different lore it was probably just a nod to the other side of the fanbase
Hey Wendigoon, some more evidence of the time skips is in pitfalls, when he’s walking through the hallway to where he finds the backpack, the microphone glitches and you can hear the song “kids” by MGMT play over the microphone. However the song was released in 2007 and this takes place in 1990
Also, in the same general area (in the room with the chair) you can hear some audio in the background what is from an interview in the 2000's when the US had just normalized relations with Cuba and the reporter is asking if Castro would visit the President.
If you watch the music video for that song it starts with the mark Twain quote about turning into a monster if you spend time with them, kinda supports the people turning into monsters theory
@Red Crystal my theory is the back rooms can bypass the constraints of space and time and Warp them in different places. This explains the random 2000s radio playing
You and Caddicarus are the only people on this earth that can make me sit through a Raid Shadow Legends ad and not immediately skip it, because it's so fucking funny
i hope wendigoon continues this series! i love hearing his two cents on what could be happening within this series! so hopefully we get a video about volume 2 of the backrooms
Just want to point out that A-Sync is also short for "asynchronous," which means not simultaneous or concurrent in time. It can also refer to a type of digital communication where signals are transmitted without being passed through a central clock or mainframe.
There's something so dystopian and cynical about discovering a new dimension that breaks all laws of physics, completely changing all understanding of reality and being like "yeah, let's put McDonald's in there"
yeah been this world some decades, and i have read so much fiction that has became reality that yeah, at this point i think that this will be possible in 2055
Welcome to capitalism. But also it's kind of natural to seek a way of how this thing can practically benefit humanity apart from studying the science of it. Everybody is scared of AI but at this point it's very helpful and we find actual use out of what AI creates.
in my opinion the backrooms was far more scary and original before a million levels were added and entities were added. the true horror of the backrooms was the face that you were alone and had no escape. there were always hints of there being SOMETHING in the backrooms with you, but the fact that nobody knew what it looked like or if it was even really there was far scarier
So true Like,I watched a lot of videos explaining Backrooms levels and so many of them are just like "to enter-do this,this and that,but we do not recommend to go there".And I'm like what the heck happened to the idea that you can fall into this place RANDOMLY? To me,Backrooms now are more like a travel guide or some sort of a theme park that you can attend in case you have nothing better to do. Somewhere deep inside I hope that after some time of this bs some criteria will be created for Backrooms and most of the levels would be just re-written or deleted along with all the elements of comfort like almond water,wi-fi and people.
i think that the KNOWLEDGE of millions of levels makes the backrooms scarier, but as soon as people started to make the rooms, then it got way less scary. one of the scariest parts of the backrooms is how little you know about the backrooms.
Idk about you guys, but I think there is more evidence to indicate that the random objects throughout the Complex are things from our reality no-clipping into that reality (cars transporting randomly, a dumpster, chairs, even an entire farmhouse being glitched into the rooms.) I dont think the rooms are a creation that some other entity makes to replicate humanity, like Wendigoon says. Even so, lots of theories to go around with so much mystery and ambiguity in a series like this! Thanks for the video!
These spaces remind me of a place I visited many times as a kid. My dad was a computer system analyst with Blue Cross Blue Shield. I'd sometimes go in with him at night. Sometimes I'd play games on a multimillion dollar IBM mainframe, but when I got bored with that, I'd grab his RFID badge and go exploring. It gave me access to every part of the building. It was a sprawling 4 story complex of large rooms, corridors, and locked doorways for which I had the key. Some rooms were just cubicals for a couple hundred feet in every direction, filled with the whir of hundreds of computers, sporadically lit by overhead florescent light. Some rooms had rows of terminals to the mainframe. A few rooms were storage with rows and rows and rows of racks for 12 inch data tapes for the mainframe. Some rooms were just empty for no obvious reason. Ominous mechanical and electrical noises occasionally echoed from some distant point. All of this space, and stuff, and absolutely nobody around.... Acres of it, stacked on top of each other. Once I was unnerved deeply enough by it, I was forced to wander in a certain direction until I found the perimeter of the building, then take corridors along the perimeter that led back to the rear foyer, and then head back into the center of it, unlocking RFID locks with the card until I found my was back into the mainframe room with it isles and isles of cabinets. And somewhere in there my dad would be parked at a mini-computer doing some kind of work. These spaces are so much like that building at night.
What I like about Kane’s backrooms is that (to our knowledge) there isnt any other groups than A-Sync and any unlucky civilians. The Backrooms Wiki hyper-explained everything and made the idea more into a video game than cosmic/existential horror. There is no trade routes, no almond waters to drink, no moss to eat. Just you, an endless maze, and many deadly lifeforms. If the lifeforms dont kill you, exhaustion, sickness, hunger, or dehydration will
I like it this way. The wiki tries to make it seem as though there is a chance of escape if you're skilled enough, and it kinda ruins the helplessness of the story Kane is trying to tell. And I like to consider Kane's story as canon.
Here’s my take on the barn room - it’s an earlier version of the back rooms that would have made sense to a person from that time period. I feel like the back rooms exist outside of time, so people from all time periods would be stumbling in, and would find something that made sense to them. It fits with the almost human but not quite feel of the ‘modern’ back rooms.
Well we know people disappearing on our side of space-time only started happening after ASync opened the backrooms, so if your theory is true, who opened the backrooms before and what closed it? Maybe we'll get answers in the future of the series.
Thats actually a good point. Thats why the street is uncanny but still familiar. Its also why the 'observation room' is familiar to the researcher because its modelling itself on their experiences?
@@EliteVeyron835 Ever hear of John Dee? There were several people in the 16th & 17th centuries who dabbled in the occult, which was the drunk uncle of modern science. Who knows if in their investigations they somehow disturbed the balance?
Reminds me of walking alone through a big city multi level parking garage at 3 a.m. i thought I was being followed. I had myself so wired that I had my pocketknife open in my right hand and my car keys in my left. It was beyond creepy. Nothing happened. I just scared myself silly.
I've been watching Kanes backrooms for a while, had no idea that it was all CG, up until now I was baffled as to how a teenager had access to these grandiose sets with almost no budget. This kid is going to do amazing things
I really appreciate the restraint that Kane Pixels exhibits throughout the creation. So many people go so overboard so fast and want to essentially just make YET ANOTHER SCP roster. The ironic thing is the more the internet adds to the backrooms, the less scary and mysterious it becomes.
The Wiki definitely went too far long ago, to the point its structured more like a scp videogame than a luminal space hell. There is literal supplies that randomly “spawn in” for people traveling.
Yep, I agree. I think Kane did an excellent job with the weird creatures, but I have to wonder if the scariest possible thing is there being ... nothing and nobody else there. Just empty, infinite rooms.
Ok I know ppl just keep saying what a genius Kane is. But it’s more than that. Not only are his CGI skills insane, and his storytelling ability nuanced and subtle and yet horrifically plausible…he also made one of the best soundtracks on the platform. At 17yo. I mean, he’s a PRODIGY of horror.
Exactly! It’s rare that a Jack of all trades is *that* good at literally all of them. I’m really looking forward to whatever Kane makes throughout his career.
Dude these kids are coming out with insanely impressive stuff. Like the Mandela catalogue isn't Alex a teenager, too?? Awesome. So grateful these talented people are among us, we are lucky.
"The Yellow Wallpaper" creeped me out as a kid. We had to read it in school. Here I am all of 40 and still chilled by it. One of my greatest fears is going insane. This story is of one going insane through the eyes of the "victim". There is SO much going on in the background that is obvious and or alluded to that you never find out if it is real or not because your going insane with the woman. Most will probably laugh at it or think it lame or whatever, I loved it.
same, i had to read that freshman year of highschool and, while not particularly affected by it, its always stuck with me as one of those really good and effective short stories!
Why was "victim" put in quotes? She most definitely was the victim of her own husband. The Yellow Wallpaper is the first known instance of feminist literature, showing how women's voices were being silenced by men who think they know what's best for a woman.
I know I'm going to be pretentious about it, but the story is more than just "a woman going insane." It deals with the narrator going insane, but, taking it further, she is going insane by the people who have kept her in the room. The husband, negligent of his wife's condition, and the doctor, saying it is all hysterics, play a key role is making sure the woman doesn't get the help she needs. She literally begging for help but no one, especially the men who have the authority to help, wants to deal with her mental instability. I feel it's kind of wrong to say that the woman "becomes the monster she was afraid of" because she was held hostage in the room. Of course you're gonna go insane!
To be honest I think it would be scary/funny if kane's footage was the only thing that aliens ever found of humanity or our existence. They'd probably think we opened a pocket dimension and just never came back ..or think we are maybe trapped.
Also interesting that the entrance goes into lockdown when the researcher says "hello", I assume that this is a safety measure for any entities as the entities have been observed to say "hello" a lot, copying the confused and lost people they come across. The word "hello" is said so much I feel like it's a symbol or something.
Why would you assume it would be the word "hello" and not general noise that activated it? We have a sample size of one and its so much more logical to think that the threshold station shuts down when it hears noises
Saddest thing about the backrooms TRU ORIGIN (Level 0) is that the original post says that it smells like almonds, and someone thats doodoo at horror somehow came to the conclusion that almond is a miracle thingy and didnt know that almonds smell like cyanide.
30:33 I’ve got a theory. Its probably ‘the backrooms’ for an older time period. The industrial tools turn to an axe and wheelbarrow. The 80s wallpaper becomes 1800’s decorative pieces. Brutalist windows turn tudor. Maybe this is meant to imply that the backrooms, in one state or another, have existed for far longer than previously assumed. Thats also probably why it was dark. No fluorescent lights, you probably only had lanterns and candles to light the way I also guess the glitchy texture is that same wallpaper, but as if it was harshly cut down the side of the pattern.
I love this idea, and it could be used to explain the different 'levels' of the backrooms; sometimes you're walking through a past iteration, maybe even going into spaces of the future as well.
Well its been said somewhere the arrow of Time in the Backrooms is warped & distorted. So possibly theres a backroom that look like the mythical dark maze that had prisoners run around while a giant humanoid bull like creature chased them.
Kane's interpretation of the backrooms is like 90 times better than anyone else's, it's so cool and feels like a natural evolution of the initial concept instead of bootleg SCP content
@Kehath there's a massive difference between liminal spaces and the backrooms, while you are right about liminal spaces you are wrong in assuming they are the same I also think it's really funny how you assume I haven't seen anyone else's takes on the idea, readings from the countless bland, cookie-cutter wikis make up like 75% of the other backrooms content on TH-cam, it's frankly hard to miss
It’s interesting how in some countries there are similar ideas For example, in Russia there’s a thing called “Samosbor” which can be roughly translated as self-construction And it’s about an endless array of Russian houses from Kruschevs era with people living in it and there are monsters and overall sense of depression and hopelessness is one of the main things going for Samosbor
Finland has a similar idea of "slipping into another world" with Metsänpeitto (Forest's Cover), where people or animals walking in a forest can suddenly step into a gap between realities and vanish into an alternate, endless version of the forest, kind of a fey realm.
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The Backrooms reminds me of AI image generators... a computer program that's trying to mimic human ideas but sometimes creates things that fall into the uncanny valley.
The repeating but shifting features gave me that vibe. AI always looks to me like it's trying to play Exquisite Corpse with itself and gets caught in a feedback loop.
I kind of had the same idea as this but I extended it to the creatures in the complex, cause it doesn't look like an animal, it stands on 2 legs and has "limbs" and maybe even a head (I can't really tell). So either the creatures are people that got mutated by the disease or they were created by whatever created the complex
The backrooms always freaked me out cuz when I was little I used to have these weird dreams of the exact same environment of the backrooms. When the backrooms actually officially became a thing I had a bit of an existential crisis over it lol
Dude they feel far too familiar, like liminal stuff feels familiar whatever but like I can smell that shit I’ve been putting off watching this video almost a year now out of fear 😅
I had a nightmare before the back rooms existed.. it was my apartment complex but with furniture and broken items everywhere. I was like 8 at the time now I’m 16. But, as I wondered the complex. This huge 10 foot creature with two sickles for hands makes a nasty gurgling noise before swiping at my head. I woke up and was crying and felt sick afterwards.
I have had several dreams with backrooms-type areas in them. They’re not even always nightmares, sometimes just a brief moment in a drab, dimly-lit corridor. I think that’s why this concept is so terrifying and brilliant. So many of us have been to the backrooms in our dreams. It gives them a kind of reality. This video exploring the concept is also brilliant.
I imagine there is a giant warehouse section full of the things we lost and never found again, like a lego that fell and seemed to vanish, or a sewing needle, it all ends up in a warehouse in the backrooms
i hope they're enjoying my blue whiteboard marker which rolled off of my desk, and when i bent over to pick it up immediately after, it was nowhere to be found. it has been a year and it never turned up lmao.
Kane is a modern magician. His ability to create a convincing storyline, experience, etc. leveraging after effects and blender at 17 is astonishing. Kane, keep it up. I cannot wait to see what you are creating in the future. What a great breakdown of this series. Wendigoon, I’m loving the mutual respect and admiration in the interview, as well as both of you not getting too distracted during the virtual high-fives. Great stuff.
53:30-53:44 "Imagine youre just driving down the highway, and then you blink and now you fell through the floor, and youre still driving the same car, going 70 miles an hour through the backrooms" "Imagine if i was watching this trying to take notes, and then The Lifeform just gets dumptrucked by a Honda Civic, i think id just shut the laptop and be done with it." "McDonald's... *THROW IT IN THE POCKET DIMENSION" We need that in an Out of Context video
ALSO! Wendigoon, i hate to scare people with science like this, but, FALLING THROUGH THE GROUND IS REAL! Seriously, on EXTREMELY RARE OCCASIONS, molecules will sometimes miss a certain place theyre supposed to be in, causing objects on top of them to fall through, THAT INCLUDES THE GROUND. In fact, it is SO rare, that JUST to do this ON PURPOSE, would take you roughly take you 600 THOUSAND YEARS. ANOTHER fun fact: You are roughly between 3-13% more likely to die ON YOUR BIRTHDAY.
Wendigoon: A sync isn't an evil military organization that wants to take over the world. Mat Pat: A sync is an evil military organization that definitely wants to take over the world.
@@panzerboi7091 mat pat is notoriously stupid with his conspiracies for the sake of childrens content. The fact Mat pat is even being brought up is laughable at best.
99% of matpat's theory videos are wild, unfounded conjecture. it's uninformative, dull and cringe af. so yeah, wendigoon and matpat aren't even comparable. it's like comparing a wedge of cheese to a car.
@@hypan0vaULTRADefinitely matpat is the TH-camr you watch as a kid that gets you into these ideas and eventually you graduate to watching Wendi and never go back lol
I get paranoia extremely easily and anytime I watch something slightly eerie or scary it keeps me up at night. Nonetheless, I am a masochist when it comes to this shit and I love it so much. You are the ONLY creator I have found that I trust when telling me about creepy stuff because you don’t try to make it seem like it’s actually real life and I should be careful. You tell an incredible convincing story, but at the end of the day it is just a story. So thank you for that and I can’t wait to watch your movie :) I hope you see this just so you know that you are truly having an impact of someone’s life. Thank you.
Honestly same! I get so freaked out over the creepy/occult but somehow wendigoon makes it palatable and his audience feel safe. I think it’s because we can catch on to his excitement over the content being discussed. He’s an incredible content creator and I’m glad that his platform has grown as much it has.
I used to be the same way ( I still am in some types of horror). The more and more I watch this kind of stuff, the more I start getting kinda "numb" to it all. I've heard of many of benefits with watching creepy/horror stuff. Smaller stuff like weight loss (which isn't a problem with me), but also major stuff like overcoming social fears and turning on parts of the brains "flight or fight" side and "awareness" which we certainly don't get enough of as our ancestors did. There has to be some benefit to that as well.
i’ve also seen a really unique theory about the monsters in the backrooms. the first one we see (i think is named the howler?) is actually a person who shaped and formed into a monster through a disease or time and adaptation in the back rooms. they don’t mean to be so aggressive or intimidating but they come off that way. there’s a slowed down clip of the “howls” that the monster lets out and someone captioned them and it was basically the howler screaming for help and begging somebody not to leave. then there’s the theory that howlers are manipulative and can audiotorily mimic their victims/past victims.
My theory is that the life forms are more or less the backroom's attempt at making life. The backroom seems to try and mimic our world through observation. Much like how a child will use Lego to make things that resemble real life buildings and whatnot, but doesn't understand how or why buildings are madethe way they are. In the videos the life forms scream and run at people, sometimes pushing them. This is exactly what people do when they see the life forms, so the backroom thinks this is normal human behavior and mimics it. It could be possible to somewhat tame the life forms by acting in a civil manner to them, though I personally would not risk it. I do not count the game since that is like SCP: Crap Edition.
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Honestly the most unnerving thing about the Backrooms is that no matter who you are, where you are, or what you are doing, good/bad person - you could just hit your elbow funny and slide sideways through a street lamp and end up in office space purgatory
Yeah it's very Junji Ito in that way. Where yeah the thing that's happening is scary, but the really terrifying thing is how unfair and random it is
That is a really good and creepy way of describing it!
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Office is apparently the best place to end up tbf
@@a_donut This! I really feel like all the monsters and almond water and survivor groups are really taking away from the horror of the unfair isolation.
It's an obersaturation I believe was the downfall of both Slenderman and Sirenhead, good alone, horrible when everyone tried to jump on it and make it their own, the curse of the modern folktale.
Imagine being a detective and getting assigned the investigation into the increase in missing persons, only to find zero evidence or perceivable connections between them and your bosses just think you're terrible at your job lmao
Lol that would suck. I'd like to imagine the missing people are from national forests since most of them bodies aren't even recovered. So in that sense the detective could be like yo it's not my fault I can't find them in a vast range of nature. 😂😂
Damn that’s be amazing to watch, a washed up drunk noir detective in the 90s
@@Wetknees Imagine a show where the detective goes on this hunt as a drunk wash-up but is forced through withdrawal once he eventually no-clips into the back rooms himself
@@dylancohen3111 alcohol is one of the few drugs where the withdrawal can kill or permanently disable you. That would be funny "wahh I'm so sad I wanna drink my drunky juice or ima gonna suck me"
And then the detective falls into the backrooms himself
When Wendigoon began talking about how scary it is to have someone driving a car 70mph normally and then blink and appear into the backrooms while still going 70, little did he know that that was going to be referenced in a video Kane was releasing THE SAME DAY
Unless he did know already lol
I thought the same thing, how perfect was that 😅
The backrooms using synchronicity to let everyone know that it’s a real place and also that cars are real.
@@artOVtrolling that would be some God tier trolling
@@artOVtrolling no way cars are real
The fact that he was 17 when he made all of this with this MUCH DETAIL still breaks my brain 😭
Right?? I’m surprised this comment isn’t higher up, dude’s basically a kid.
Can't imagine to see how he grow up and come up leading an entire genre of horror film, also can't wait to see what he's gonna do with A24
And his name… was Ari Aster Jr
It's objectively impressive but should be used as an example that age is not the biggest factor in quality work built on passions, rather than an all too common conclusion of "these younger people are doing better stuff than me" and internalizing that to mean it's over for you. I'm only 19 which is pretty comparable in the long run to the age of a lot of the up and comers and it's even gotten to me before, but it's that thinking that promotes the kind of irrational doubt that prevents people from moving anywhere good and disregards that we all have different lives and brains that should be incomparable in some ways, or the difference at least needs to be appreciated
@0xMrix0 he actually made it when he was 15, he's now 17
What I think I love the most about Wendigoon is that despite nearly two Million subscribers, he still makes videos that feel personal. When I put on Wendigoon it feels like he's sitting in the room with you and chatting. The passion for the topics is infectious. Thank you Wendigoon. You do great work.
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who thinks this XD
couldnt agree more, his scripts are easy to follow, and he always sounds so genuine/passionate, and i personally love hawaiian shirts too, hes great
It’s the Jenna Marbles effect- he is super authentic
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"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us"
~ Gandalf
i keep thinking he's still at 50k subs... i looked at his subs after seeing how many views this has and im flabbergasted. Im so proud of him, and im glad he's finally gotten the recognition he deserves.
Scary theory: the creature in found footage could only mimic garbled speech patterns because it only came into contact with the 2yo that went missing whereas the creature in pitfalls had come into contact with a teen/adult as evidenced by the shoes in the house.
That's a pretty awful concept
(awful scary not awful bad)
Jesus Christ-
Oh that’s… thats fucking sickening
Now I’m just waiting to have one where it comes into contact with an old man. So it sounds gentle but is hard of hearing
@@stubbystudios9811yes, come closer I can’t hear you 😮
Now that I understand what the backrooms are, you don't even need the creatures/monster(s). The concept of slipping into an empty world where it's just rooms and hallways that seem like the real world, but they're obviously off or very wrong and illogical is extremely scary. Just wandering in this place that makes no sense and possibly never getting out as you're starving and thirsty is a nightmare
Welcome to the DMV Dimension
@@calexander7495 man the Backrooms aren't nearly as scary as the DMV so it's not really comparable.
Or worse- you get thirsty and hungry but never die. So you're destined to roam the backrooms forever, eventually losing your sanity and becoming one of the 'lifeforms' yourself
Not only starving and thirsty, but also being slowly infected by mutated bacteria. The Complex really is a charming place.
@@D-Skotes The DMV is a liminal space. A complex simultaneously built for humans and antithetical to their existence.
The corporations in these online horror stories (backrooms, Mystery Flesh Pit, etc.), really reminds me of that line that Dr. Malcolm says in “Jurassic Park”: “You were so caught in up in whether or not you could, that you didn’t stop to think if you *should* .”
O_O yeah
the idea of a 2 year old being lost in the backrooms is just..... OBSCENELY horrifying to me. imagine how scared and confused that poor baby was
For a 2 yo it would be like being lost anywhere else
@@bioemiliano Yeah, but literally zero people, and probably a visit by a Lifeform.
@@bioemiliano except mommy and daddy wont find him. That kid will be waiting for help that will never come. Trapped forever in an infinite, uncaring, emotionless maze.
Terrifying to even contemplate.
You know what will be even worse? Seeing what Lifeform that baby might become. This small, screeching thing running after you; either because it's scared and wants help or because it's hunting you.
The fact that Kane did the interview, being purposefully vague, knowing a few days later he'd release found footage #2 is amazing
reminds me on fortnite cause of the way they always say that and then it isnt like what how is that even, its just so cool how EPIC GAMES can really do thing like that and i wish i really could but, sadly i cant and it is really, and i just want it to be like this, like really dude wth this thing is not that its just over there is better like, come on man you know it is to but u always act like it isnt so stop playing these games and exept the truth, herobrine IS REAL and he IS coming for YOUR DIAMONDS so start running cause he will kill anything in his way really seriously this isnt a joke, look behind you its there the masked man, Dream.... is that you.... the man behind the mask..... "I wear a mask with a smile for hours at a time." OMG IT REALLY IS YOU DREAM wait you have weird face ...... wut..... its like troll face, u most bee trying to troll me, sigh , dream please stop trying to troll me i really dont know why you are doing this man, i love your videos and stuff and i hit the like and subscribe button, so please dream, just *sigh* stop following me around my house and telling me to " take of my skin" cause i need it to feel stuff and stuff and im not a teddy bear filled with stuffing like stuffing from thanksgiving i dont know why stuffing is even that popular its kinda gross, im so glad they didnt add stuffing to fortnite, on that note, DC recentlly made a movie around the fortnite character the foundation wich is really cool cause i love fortnite i just wish i knew how they put the foundation in real life in the new movie black adam, by the way make sure to like and subscribe plus buy lots of ZOA ENERGY cause that is fortnite foundations favorite drink!!!
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Kane should win some kind of award for his expert use of Blender alone. The environments look so real. Even the sway of the camera looks like it's a real person holding an old Sony camcorder. I don't even think the people are real; I'm pretty sure they're CGI as well. Someone give this kid a trophy! Please!
He made some attack on titan stuff back when the manga ended that is fantastic. All the characters are cgi.
Wait, what? The "live actors" we see are also CGI?
@@issacsantana6419 probably, that’d be easier for a 17-year old graphics wizard, than hiring lots of actors and combing art/media’s
@@issacsantana6419 yeah he’s like some type of penis actor or something? From bulgaria!! They all specialize in all that penis acting type of method acting and are all experts at things like this pretty much lol it’s all wild and amazing
@dilik mli okay, but Kane explicitly confirmed that’s not the case, so it’s not applicable to the story that is happening.
Still can't believe the original image's location was found. Out of all the big internet mysteries, I honestly figured that a single photo of a cleared office space would be the hardest to locate, and yet we still did it.
At least there's carpet in the hallway.
You’re really becoming one of the top tier TH-cam creators and it’s truly a spectacle to watch
He always has been top tier imo but the growth of his content and following is always crazy to see especially with how little time it’s been
Becoming? My man has always been top tier
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Ya minus RAID SHADOWLEGENDS I understand the need for money but why compromise your integrity that badly
these bots istg, you're right though!
I love Kane's version. Instead of the typical military finding this world, it's this company that just wanted to help humanity but instead opened a portal to our own nightmares.
An infinite office space is definitely a true nightmare.
I think that if we could make a society in the backrooms, it would be an interesting psychology study.
I wanted it to be cosmic horror type
They bit off more than they could chew, which I feel makes it more relatable. We've all had that experience where we say yes to something, only to realize later "Oh shoot, I did not expect it to be like this"
More relatable than military men shoot metal sqwiggly monster in funny yellow rooms
@@prufrock1977I think I that's why I like the first video so much, is that it lingered on the space itself for most of the time where the 'monster' shows up in the end. I feel like an endless maze of a reaccuring thing is more terrifying.
I just wanted to say: My favorite thing about this series: It's *CLEAR* and *CONCISE.* Kane had one simple concept and built a series around it. It doesn't feel unwieldly or unclear. It knows what it sets out to do, and does it. Not to mention, it has the best production values of any indie TH-cam horror I've seen.
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That’s because the concept of the back rooms existed way before Kane made this. He did a great job expanding the universe but unfortunately people are forgetting the og back rooms
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@@prostark8445 yea i dont like the idea of countries in the backrooms forming up and the 1 morbillion levels
i haven't heard of og backrooms can you direct me somewhere where i can learn more about it?
aha, I see you're from the dimension where it's spelled "unwieldly" also. do you ever feel homesick for a place that by all accounts never existed?
I think socks are especially susceptible to falling into the backrooms because they will be tumbling in the dryer and then just vanish.
I bought a pair of socks 4-5 years ago and I found the second sock last year
I think the most terrifying take for the time jump in found footage is that there was no time jump. The backrooms are just so massive that the camera had been falling for five years.
but the camera batteries
@@Justin-gj8kk it's built different
@@Justin-gj8kk Magic
My idea is time is 2x faster in the back rooms
@@02tank the battery would still need to run for like 2.5 years then
The Backrooms is, technically, one of if not THE most visually ambitious horror projects on the platform. I can never tell what's real and what's CG.
Fuck TH-cam for not doing anything against these bots
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@@corz299 It’s a bot. It’s an L bot
Just when you think it's real it starts looking cg and when you think it's cg it starts looking real
@@pepperachu exactly! It blurs this brilliant line.
I love how seriously you take these stories. It's like you're a historian explaining things that have actually happened.
Me too! It's really relaxing.
Same that’s why he’s my favorite horror content creator
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@@solmoman but the darkwebnet is scary, my mom told me to not go there 😱
@Bella I saw a mudcrab the other day.. nasty little bastards
I am a mariner in Alaska. I was working down in the engine room and my phone lost connection. I sat for a little bit and just kept working. Eventually I figured I would see what was going on with my phone. I pull my phone out of my pocket and the screen automatically turns on when I lift it. The first thing I see is the time. Less than a second later I get connection back and the video continues without me doing anything and the first words are "The real horror begins at 3:53 am". Guess what time I was being shown on my lock screen when that audio cut in. I promptly shit my coveralls.
Right here. This is the funniest comment on the video.
thats funny
O o f .
I read the words in your comment in sync with his words in the video purely by chance, shit was creepy
I’m guessing 9am after the morning coffee set in?
I think its funny that Wendigoon actively noted how crazy it would be to be driving 70mph down a highway and just blink into the complex and kane posts a new episode showing the aftermath of THAT EXACT THING within 24 hours of THIS VERY SAME VIDEO
lmao gotta check that out
Apparently the driver got out and made it to a residential area and tried to nurse their wounds. Enough time passed for them to get desperately hungry, and they started eating the mold...
You keep driving but the highway is empty, leads nowhere and the sky has a creepy yellow tone.
@@nzt1423 Well, no, not exactly. More like, by the time you realize you are no longer on your way to work, you are crashing into the first wall in front of you at 70 mph because you haven't even had time to register wtf is going on or get your foot on the brake.
in found footage 2, I believe the car was the same from the video which it no clipped into the backrooms
33:41 Microbiologist here, bacillus is a very fast growing bacteria, it’s also a known spore former which could lead to the cough if the spores are being inhaled.
It would be interesting if something about the flow of time just caused bacillus that was already in humans to start even more rapid reproduction. Its common enough that most people have some of it in their system or on their skin even if they are not suffering a disease unless I am mistaken.
@@whitelabratArgument could be that, as a result of the isolation, the bacteria doesn't have any competition against other organisms. Therefore it completely thrives and devastates any organic material it comes into contact with.
@FaithRox hmm I wouldn't be too sure since competition is what drives advancement.
Maybe that’s the internal struggles it seems to have, it seems distressed even before seeing the people with cameras
Wendigoon is such a “I DONT NEED SLEEP, I NEED ANSWERS” kind of guy and I love it cause I’m the same way 😂
Horrible: he arrives with a machete in a school because a teacher allegedly beat his child -th-cam.com/video/S_NPpzuxWzY/w-d-xo.html
Omg so edgy
It helps that since he does so much research he gives us the answers and then we can get sleep😂
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Even now when a new video dropped after he made his 1:30h video
Side comment: my hyperfixation as a kid was earthquakes and volcanoes, and I absolutely loved the detail of Async causing the 1989 San Francisco earthquake. That was so cool
As a person who struggles with horror these "explanation" type videos help me a lot. Hearing the voice in the background and knowing that Wendigoon will return to the screen comforts me
I know the horror TH-camrs tell me to watch the original but I'm too chicken so I just watch the explanations instead.
@@AlexLJ55 That's a damn mood...
Especially when he says something along the lines of “you’ve been brave” I’m always like “yeah I am brave! For sure not brave enough to watch the original content though”
I also like how he explains what happened in the video instead of showing us so I'm still intrigued to watch the originals. In a way, its like a original content creator friendly approach to it.
Haha! Same. I’ve never watched the Walton Files, but watched a couple explanation vids
I’m so down for any story that replaces the “evil corporation” trope with a “scientists pursuing science for its own end regardless of the consequences” like this or Jurassic Park, we don’t get enough of those
Doesn't it just become a different flavor of evil though, in the sense of the "ends justify the means". Its the banality of evil, such as the people in charge of Jurassic Park were doing sketchy and unethical cloning of animals with little oversight on a remote island.
@@richpryor9650 Oh yeah of course, I think it’s just a more interesting form of evil because it’s one that a lot of people tend to view as more excusable so it’s cool to see it portrayed in its full terror
>for its own end regardless of the consequences
That is evil though, truly.
@@nickbooze9766 It is evil, I just think it’s more interesting of an evil
Yeah but you can't propagandize the masses against the monetary system which granted them unprecedented luxury, so good luck. There's a reason all "popular" media sucks, it's not just a decade of coincidences
The pair of floating legs in Motion Detected makes me think that we’re not seeing an “entity”, but instead a regular person who is partially no-clipping into the Backrooms. They probably don’t even realize it and have no clue how close they came to entering a yellow hellscape. Also; the sounds of a crowd that the A-sync researcher heard in the Informational Video could have been the sounds of a real crowd in the real world. Maybe there was a no-clip point near to an actual crowd, and the sound of talking actually made it through the no-clip zone into the Backrooms. I think that’s a pretty cool concept. Also, considering the distortion of time in the complex, who knows WHEN those voices were originating from. It could have been any time period.
What if that feeling you get right before you fall asleep where it feels like you're falling is you partially no-clipping into the backrooms and that's what happened in Motion Detected? Also, i really like your idea of audio no-clipping in as well
@@Futher_Mucker well I'm not sleeping tonight
@@Futher_Mucker Pure nightmare fuel. Das gud shit.
@@Futher_Mucker can’t wait to no-clip tonight
I like your theory. It seems very likely that audio would be able to no-clip as well. I can definitely see that the legs are probably a result of no-clipping too. My theory runs along Wendigoon’s theory in that The Complex is trying to replicate humanity or human society but can’t quite do it right so the creature was trying to replicate a human but couldn’t accurately do so, which could be why the legs were floating, they could’ve formed at its shoulder or something. It probably doesn’t have an accurate idea of human anatomy yet.
People always give the entities flack, but if you were chilling in your giant corridor house and an unknown humanoid just appeared out of nowhere, you would be pretty violent too.
Do you mean flack? Giving the creature slack would be treating them less critically/harshly.
@@bostonholland3704 Oh sorry typo
@bostonholland3704
Flack / flack means criticism or insult.
For Example:
"Don't give me flack just for doing my job!"
Flack was the correct word to use here
@@rexana_rexana yes I know, the original comment wasn’t flack, but slack.
@bostonholland3704 BRO I Just got it, the comment said slack ORIGINALLY and you were correcting them!!! My bad!
I absolutely demand a sequel examining the new content.
I second this. So much more has come to light, including what happened to the missing highway car!
yes
Yeeeeesss hopefully he's working on an update like he did with the Mandela Catalog
YAAS
Very curious about Skibidi Bop in the backrooms
The scariest episode for me, which ironically also happens to be the most relaxing, was Presentation. The concept of using a pocket dimension as a means of mass storage is a cool idea thats been done before in scifi, but the attempt to use an expansive and winding space for ordinary people to live and work is absolutely terrifying.
And the fact that it could happen in real life is also terrifying
Today was released a new episode, Found footage #2... not the type of terrifying you described but its peak horror. In my opinion his best episode yet...
@higgs bonbon I believe he meant that companies would exploit an extradimensional space to expand human housing instead of just using the space for storage and industry.
The fact they know its dangerous but continue, they've *seen* the monster, the mold and the timey wimey fucky wucky. It scares me.
Your comment reminds me of Mystery Flesh Pit National Park
That sponsorship tho. I was about to skip it and stopped dead at “you know what’s not neat? Your wife leaving you.” Best sponsor segment I’ve seen
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I’d like it it’s at 400 exactly
Literally. I was like, “You know what wendigoon? Get that bag.”
This man and the Aidens make some of the best sponsor ad thingies I’ve ever seen
LOL same 😂
As much as I love the trope, the subversion of the "evil corporation exploiting supernatural resource" is _so good._ Async isn't an Anodyne or UAC, they found a pocket dimension and genuinely thought "we can help so many people with this!" It's like discovering plutonium and thinking "now we can heat our cabins without fire!"
how do you do the italic text
@@17_sold _ before and after the text. It messes up if you do it like this _though_, gotta put it after the comma and such.
@@Estra_Estra thank you so much
"holy shit dave, think what we can do with this!"
:20 minutes later:
"NOOOOOOOOOO"
What is anodyne?
I feel like this is one of the best instances of eldritch horror I've ever seen, because it's one of the few that are subtle enough to actually drive someone insane, rather than just terrify them into a heart attack like a galaxy-sized monster would. Something as simple and "mundane" as realizing your room has more walls than it's supposed to or spotting someone in a crowd for a split second, whose face is upside down. That's the type of shit that slowly chips away at people's sanity, while they try to make sense of it.
omg fr imagine counting the walls in your room and being like “why are there 5 walls in my rectangle room” and counting again and it fixing itself. stuff like that freaks me out sm
The series feels really heavily inspired by House of Leaves, which is basically THE book centering this genre of horror. It’s exhausting to read and super dense and confusing but very worth it, highly recommend
@@alicethemad1613 thank u for the rec!
@@alicethemad1613 Awesome! I'll check it out. Thanks for the recommendation.
Exactly
This is the definition of “quiet he’s explaining the backrooms lore”
How much cheese?
worst channel on utuber
"this is the definition of..." is usually used as a meme, not a way to speak facts. That's like saying 'this is the definition of forest fire" to a video of firefighters trying to put out a forest fire.
I've watched your videos
how does this have 1k likes but five comments lol
Fun tidbit: the body found on Feb. 3rd, 1990/the one examined in Autopsy Report, has a striking resemblance to Nicholas Bolton, one of the people on the posters in Missing Persons. I’m sure if you checked the date he was last seen, there would be some weird time stuff going on 👀
Lol. Suddenly blinking and then you’re driving a car 70 mph through the back rooms is an amazing concept and I love it. Hilarious and horrifying
Multi-room Drifting
@@synexiasaturnds727yearsago7next level tokyo drift
@@platypusparasol9825please start a petition to make this the successor of fast and furious
imagine getting chased by one of the creatures, turning around, and seeing it get absolutely creamed by a car heading 70 mph out of nowhere
I'm just imagining you clip with your car and land on someone who was running to escape a creature and then 3 seconds later you hit the creature and just keep driving to get away from the scene lol
I'm sorry, but the mental image of a Backrooms video being abruptly cut short by the Lifeform getting absolutely *bodied* by a vehicle actually brought me to tears. That has to be the funniest concept I have been presented in a loooong time.
I want to imagine it's like a group of the guys in suits running from one and the one recording turns around to see a station wagon just SLAM into the side of the monster. They all stop cause they're like "what the _fuck_ " and some poor soccer mom like staggers out of the car, uninjured but visibly shaken, and that's it that's the video.
Well, Found Footage #2 exists, so pop on over and find out for yourself. =)
If an entity of a surreal other world gets isekai'd does it do a flip and reincarnate as a human on Earth? 🤔
@@SwirlyPinwheel It would go absolutely crazy since nothing about our world would make sense to it… 😂
And to think that this grand creature was defeated by a _Honda Civic!_ *David Attenborough voice*.
Its unsettling that the creature screams un-distorted are things like "no don't go" and "help come back"
The idea that they're just lost back rooms victims who've been there for so long, been deprived of social interaction for so long, that they are BEGGING AND PLEADING is soul crushingly terrifying to me.
Those lifeforms don't seem to be screaming and growling in anger, they seem to be screaming for help.
Maybe the thing that makes them cough is turning them into these creatures who can't really control themselves but are desperately attempting to hold onto their remaining semblance of humanity.
This further makes sense with 'The Yellow Wallpaper' where the idea is becoming the monster you are trying not to become.
Maybe the more a person panics and tries to leave the backrooms, the deeper and more entwined into it they become.
The first one just needed a dump. If you listen carefully the "screams" are it asking the guy if he had any toilet paper.
If the backrooms are some entity's idea of what human structures are supposed to be, wouldn't it make sense if the creatures inside are the same entity's idea of what humans themselves are supposed to be?
That’s why it imitates screams for help, that’s the only human noise it knows.
@@liammcdermott1175 There are also reports of sobbing and weeping, which makes it even more unsettling.
Like how human personalities would look like monsters if we were to see them, or something along those lines from Junigan Psychology
As creepy as these things are, this makes perfect sense!
500+ iq
I like the Idea that the complex is basically a massive living thing, and the monsters are it's attempt to make an immune system by copping the things invading it.
4-dimensional Mystery Flesh Pit. I like that idea
I'm not sure about that. I still think the Bacteria are just the leftovers of humans who die in the backrooms.
It is a really cool idea but personally I don't think that's what kane is planning for it
I prefer thinking that the complex is a bacteria
Yeah... I disagree because that scenario has already been presented in Mystery Flesh Pit
My favorite theory I've seen about the lifeforms is that the fungus grew on the motion detection cameras and turned them into that. It explains the wire mechanical look of them as well as being able to mimic humans speech due to the camras recording it and also the writing on the wall saying "Don't move stay still" since they are motion detection camras.
I was about to comment this. It is one of the most popular theories, I was surprised he didn't acknowledge it.
I kinda agree however Kanes newer video show that the bacteria or fungus/mold thing is also growing off of human bodies, just like the first video
@@boy_with_sleeveless_jacket
Mold feeds off organic material, so it makes sense that the creatures will appear near corpses
Great theory!!
what the fuck
It always scared me that the description of how one got stuck in the backrooms sounds almost exactly like when I have a seizure, a bad fall in juuuust the right way. I haven't had one in a few years, but it still gives me the creeps if I think too hard about it
now that you say it, yeah i really see it! i have epilepsy, and the other day i had a series of three seizures spaced out by about a half hour or so each. Being perfectly conscious at work, then in a dreamlike state on the floor, then in A&E, then finally fully aware in a hospital bed. felt like i was teleporting, barely conscious despite being able to talk and answer another person. It’s almost beyond description and that really aligns with the vibe of the back rooms
@@mikeystenning1760 and the way sometimes your (well, mine) language center is a bit messy after a seizure doesn't help either. Honestly it wouldn't be a bad concept for a scary movie if done right, sort of like Alice in Wonderland gone very, very wrong
I love the story The Yellow Wallpaper! The author Charolette Perkins Gilman was actually prescribed something known as “the rest cure” which basically meant she was confined to her home with little to no outside interaction and no activity such as reading or writing but it encouraged getting fresh air and sunlight. The story is about a woman who had been prescribed this “cure” by her husband who is a physician and they are staying in an old mansion and she is in a room that she absolutely hates due to the yellow colored wallpaper. She has been told that she is severely anxious and she appears to have a sort of postpartum depression because she mentions how she is afraid of being alone with her child. By the end of the story we can see her slow decent into madness as she begins so see an image of a woman trying to escape from the wallpaper and she thinks that her husband has been trying to get her out as well. It’s a great short story and I highly recommend reading it.
Yes, it IS horrifying . You never are sure if the husband is evil, or if he really IS trying to help her.
I read it in 11th grade English class
isn't that because of walls were actually covered in poison? I remember a video about a book and some paint that were affected the mind of people, women in particular
@@Gotten1888 from today’s perspective it could be because of more knowledge of things like asbestos and lead paint but at the time was written it wasn’t known. the author talked about how the rest cure drove her mad bc of the lack of autonomy people were left with. so in theory it could be a type of poison but in my interpretation it’s psychosis.
descent*
To add to the time-skipping, the company name “A-SYNC” could be short for *asynchronous* meaning “not existing or occurring at the same time”
im glad im not the only one who noticed!!
@@tammywillmott7592 I literally had an "a-ha" moment, mouth dropping open, stunned silence about half-way through the vid hahaha
Wait I literally noticed that but I thought he mentioned that lol
i thought that was obvious lol
Lol I'm not sure what else it could be.
i love how kane has handled the Backrooms and turned it into something truly interesting and terrifying. after seeing the wikification of the Backrooms and all the internet talk about it's levels and monsters, it's refreshing to see a version of the story that abandons complexity and monsters and embraces the surreal, unnerving horror of the Backrooms itself.
He still uses some of the “extended” lore, but what makes his take the best is that he brings back the mystery of the back rooms. The wikis made it seem like we knew everything there was to know, with civilizations, trading routes, basically turning it into fallout.
glad I'm not the only one who feels this way about the backrooms. the more we know, the less scary it is.
@@braxinIV that was what the backrooms was made for in the first place. to be a surreal, terrifying mystery. I really think that’s what made kane popular. He brought us back to the good old days, like many movies unsuccessfully do
my favorite theory on the entity is that it's the spore-infected motion camera #3, which A: breaks and is never seen again B: is why the wall paint says not to move--it's a motion detecting camera, it can't see you if you don't move
But then it could also be a T-Rex
@@chasm671 nah nah a trex can easily see you but a Jurassic park T rex that’s a whole nother animal
the crazy thing about this whole series is that literally EVERYTHING is cg. the entire thing is a motiontracked render. the vhs style video quality both adds to the atmosphere and hides a lot of the imperfections in the cg
well, what about the live action footage?
@@davidbanan. i meant the backrooms footage from the first found footage video. idk why i said series i havent even seen the rest of it yet
@@gray4675 I completely agree with you I had no idea that was all special effects! It was so good as I was watching these clips Wendigoon put together the whole time I was like WHERE DOES KANE FIND THESE BIG EMPTY INDUSTRIAL SPACES TO FILM IN?!!?!! LMAO legit his special effects are a lot better than most of what Hollywood puts out now. I'm very impressed he's clearly very talented
@@WhitneyDahlin it just shows what creativity and time can do. You can see the passion in his work
When I first started watching Kane’s Backrooms videos I didn’t realize it was all cg until the second or third one I watched. And then I still couldn’t decide for sure bc they just look so dang good!
can we talk about the fact that kane pixels is SEVENTEEN YEARS OLD???? the talent is beyond impressive to say the least
I like to think that if I'd been born two decades later I could have done something like this.
I'd probably have made something that caused a face-imploding level of cringe instead, but a guy can dream.
He's got a bright future!
He is actually 10, but he doesn't want anyone else to know.
Yes! And he's got such a long life ahead of him and you can see how his content improves with each and every upload. It's so exciting that we get to be a part of his journey and seeing the future content he creates. I can't imagine how amazing it'll be in the future if he's already making extremely high quality content now!
When I first read your comment I thought you said seventy lol and then I heard Kane's voice and was like what?
The thing about the lifeforms from the Backrooms that I noticed is that, even when they're not moving much and the camera holds relatively steady on them, their bodies kind of morph and alter. It looks like what a 4+-dimensional being would look like if it was intersecting into three dimensions - as it naturally moves, little bits of it slide in and out of our reality. I feel like this has to be an intentional design.
Also, I think the blue chairs might be a little reference to Alantutorial.
Fourth dimensional bacteria… that’s awesome
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@Meat Caynon 🅥 Ive just been watching your videos for the past hour! So talented :) I love the way that you take something 'normal' like the guy giving his friend a car and just twist it and make it completely body horror.
Yes, thats what I thought too! Alantutorial is great and so is Wham city comedy. I'd love to meet Alan Resnik so much.
@@Persephone01 that's a bot..
I really love the fact that Kane included the video of the US testing of the nuclear bomb as a comparison to when they open the backrooms and are researching it. “Oppenheimer” the movie has a final scene (spoilers I know) where Einstein and Oppenheimer are talking about the 1% chance this bomb goes off and destroys the world, and Oppenheimer remarks, “I think we already have.” He KNEW there was no going back from the nuclear bomb once it’s been made, and that’s why I love how A-Sync is a similar concept. They were afraid because they quite literally were witnessing their “end of the world” as they knew it to be.
The major studio A24 picked up Kane just recently to make a major motion picture out of his backrooms videos..kid has a bright future ahead of him.
@@Anonymous-xu2qkthey just won an oscar for best film… lol
@@Anonymous-xu2qk what are you on about? whenever the name a24 pops up it's at least 80-90% guaranteed to be a good film
that’s incredible!! i can’t wait to see what they create!
I'm super hype for this movie
Yikes :/
Something that always struck me in Pitfalls was “That’s not a person.” “What isn’t?” “That is not a fucking person!”
There’s no reason to explain; the fear in his voice clearly tells that the thing calling out for help was not recognizable like a radio or a speaker, yet it was “not a person.”
By far the scariest thing about the backrooms to me is just how big it is. The fact that it dwarfs our entire planet, is absolutely horrifying. If you wound up stuck inside them, no one could ever find you, just due to the monstrous size of the labyrinth.
and all these other “levels” of the bacnrooms
you would enjoy reading “house of leaves”
The backrooms are so big that not only do they dwarf our planet, they dwarf the ENTIRE orbit of jupiter, and its only around 200 million miles smaller than Saturn's orbit. Hell the backrooms are so big that they can be measured in Astromical Units rather than miles or kilometers. And thats only level 0
@@CalipsoCountach it should be measured in units squared (not just one dimension; it’s a 2D floor area)
You could maybe Track people through their heat radiation, but this is assuming the entities are cold and the measuerent has its fixed ranges
just as Async is looking into the backrooms and running experiments and trying to make sense of it, its like the backrooms are looking into our world and trying to make sense of it, but in a way that isn't natural or apparent to humanity.
the room with the axe, barn, leafy wallpaper, and wheel barrows is probably whatever resulted in the creation of the backroom attempting to generate outside environments. but for some reason not being able to do so, only being able to make associated objects and interiors resembling it.
Someone made a theory that the memories you have make the backrooms or at least the area you no clip into
It still managed to create a street outdoors in "Pitfalls"
Was it really outdoors though? or just a big room with fake stars on the ceiling?
@@ninyaninjabrifsanovichthes45 maybe that area wasn’t generated by the complex and instead made by the company for their housing project. It just got teleported back in time.
@@ninyaninjabrifsanovichthes45 I was thinking the barn was a test while the street was the real deal, the complex learning and adapting
Kane’s creativity is unreal. The way he pieced everything together just takes so much skill and finesse.
and he's 17!
@@kneo12 yep! just shows you how ahead of the curve he is at such a young age
The thought of the space of the backrooms being either infinite or uncomprohensenmbly large and people noclipping into it and never meeting each other because the chance is just too small in this gigantic space is just cosmic.
did you just… cosmic… comedic… bruh 😭
@@chocolate_maned_wolf 🫴?
so like being stuck in a worse version of no man's sky
Your run on sentence is tremendously more horrifying
@@game-enjoyer13 forgive me if I'm wrong but I don't think it's a run on. It's one complete statement, it's just using large adjectives.
Dude ur so cool. My best mate put me on your videos after I started watching other horrortubers like Nexpo. Your personality is honest, to the point but entertaining and friendly. You put in a ton of work and it’s incredibly impressive. Keep up the great work dude. A future long-time sub here!
When the CG is so good you start second guessing if the other people are actually even actors or also just CG, there's some crazy skill on display.
wait it's cg?? I genuinely thought it qas actors 😭
@@lav4738 no kane made it all in programs like blender with crazy texturing 😭 that guy is fucking talented
@@skzanarchist nah fr he iss
i know right, it looks so real
I think the most horrifying part of the original backrooms is that there is literally no hope for you. There's no organization that has access to it using a portal, there's no other levels you can jump to that are safer, you're literally just dead on arrival, forgotten by the world in a place no one even knows about
Nah just quit and reload ur save and ur good
True....I think the Backroom starts to lose it's magic once there's too many lores formed behind it with monsters, organizations etc. I think it works best on it's simplicity. I still remembered when the first time I watched Solar Sands covered the video about Liminal Spaces. The images shown were still some of the pics that unsettles me to this day.
@@freddice8156 Agreed! I think it's cool that some people like all the Backrooms lore, but for me, when you get too far into "This is level 84, and it is a giant motel that is exactly 696,420 square miles. Entities include facelings, fingerlings, hounds, and snarfers. Each motel room has a refrigerator that can be stocked with exactly 7 bottles of almond water. Exiting this level can only be done by jumping on the correct spot of certain beds, etc." type stuff, all the mystery and intrigue is gone.
@@freddice8156 Humans like to compartmentalize ambiguous and difficult to explain things. The "lore" that has built up reads more like a D&D system or a videogame dungeon. Too easily explained. Too easily dismissed. Too easily categorized. I vastly prefer Kane's interpretation. An infinite, procedurally generated maze dimension of confining, semi-recognizable things and places.
@@freddice8156 Yes! I always found the backrooms much freakier when there was no monster. I frankly think the reason people started talking about a monster in the backrooms is to in a sense make it less scary. Being trapped in an unknown place WITH a monster in it is a concept that is much more familiar to people. As opposed to a place that just goes on endlessly, with no change, and no life besides you. But that doesn't make good lore, but it's much better at striking dread into people.
So its been 7 months and we have a collection of new videos from Kane.... you should ABSOLUTELY do a part two that covers all the new ones. PLEASE? PLEASE.
Still waiting 🥲
No.
1 year ago 1.73 million subs now at 3.68 million. Your growth is substantial but it is deserved as is shown by the care and the passion you put into each video. Thank you
One thing that he did not mention:
In the video “Pitfalls”, there’s Blue Chairs among the equipments on the floor on the decrepit room. This references Alantutorial, whose web series consistently features a blue chair as a way to communicate emotions metaphorically.
He said that he wasn’t talking about the wild fandom side of the back rooms just this back rooms they have different lore it was probably just a nod to the other side of the fanbase
@@Fallen-gryphon
It is more of an Easter egg reference.
OOOOH I NEVER THOUGHT OF THAT
How did I know instantly the moment I saw blue chair
You have quickly become my favorite creator. You make my whole day whenever you post, especially horror like this. Thank you, and stay awesome ❤️
@just i c e i will not thank you, my computer is now running at temperatures above the sun and my mouse is moving without consent
@@parmesan1723 thats on you bro like seriously you actually clicked a link from youtube that isn't from the og creator
@@parmesan1723 what does the link go to?
@@derpyplatypus1172 potato wedges recipe
Mmm! Potato wedges &@@parmesan1723!
Hey Wendigoon, some more evidence of the time skips is in pitfalls, when he’s walking through the hallway to where he finds the backpack, the microphone glitches and you can hear the song “kids” by MGMT play over the microphone. However the song was released in 2007 and this takes place in 1990
I believe there’s also an audio recording regarding Fidel Castro and Cuba making amends with the US. This took place in 2015
Also, in the same general area (in the room with the chair) you can hear some audio in the background what is from an interview in the 2000's when the US had just normalized relations with Cuba and the reporter is asking if Castro would visit the President.
If you watch the music video for that song it starts with the mark Twain quote about turning into a monster if you spend time with them, kinda supports the people turning into monsters theory
Horrible: he arrives with a machete in a school because a teacher allegedly beat his child -th-cam.com/video/S_NPpzuxWzY/w-d-xo.html
@Red Crystal my theory is the back rooms can bypass the constraints of space and time and Warp them in different places. This explains the random 2000s radio playing
You and Caddicarus are the only people on this earth that can make me sit through a Raid Shadow Legends ad and not immediately skip it, because it's so fucking funny
i hope wendigoon continues this series! i love hearing his two cents on what could be happening within this series! so hopefully we get a video about volume 2 of the backrooms
Just want to point out that A-Sync is also short for "asynchronous," which means not simultaneous or concurrent in time. It can also refer to a type of digital communication where signals are transmitted without being passed through a central clock or mainframe.
As a programmer, that word strikes fear deep in my soul.
I don’t see your point
@@flesh7330 Just that it could be an easter egg and a hint as to what exactly is happening with the time skips we're seeing so far.
Horrible: he arrives with a machete in a school because a teacher allegedly beat his child -th-cam.com/video/S_NPpzuxWzY/w-d-xo.html
There's something so dystopian and cynical about discovering a new dimension that breaks all laws of physics, completely changing all understanding of reality and being like "yeah, let's put McDonald's in there"
Almost as bad as putting it in the throat of an underground monster lmao
yeah been this world some decades, and i have read so much fiction that has became reality that yeah, at this point i think that this will be possible in 2055
Bags of holding have to be developed at some point!
Welcome to capitalism.
But also it's kind of natural to seek a way of how this thing can practically benefit humanity apart from studying the science of it.
Everybody is scared of AI but at this point it's very helpful and we find actual use out of what AI creates.
in my opinion the backrooms was far more scary and original before a million levels were added and entities were added. the true horror of the backrooms was the face that you were alone and had no escape. there were always hints of there being SOMETHING in the backrooms with you, but the fact that nobody knew what it looked like or if it was even really there was far scarier
So true
Like,I watched a lot of videos explaining Backrooms levels and so many of them are just like "to enter-do this,this and that,but we do not recommend to go there".And I'm like what the heck happened to the idea that you can fall into this place RANDOMLY?
To me,Backrooms now are more like a travel guide or some sort of a theme park that you can attend in case you have nothing better to do.
Somewhere deep inside I hope that after some time of this bs some criteria will be created for Backrooms and most of the levels would be just re-written or deleted along with all the elements of comfort like almond water,wi-fi and people.
as with most things, tiktok ruined it trying to elaborate the lore
i think that the KNOWLEDGE of millions of levels makes the backrooms scarier, but as soon as people started to make the rooms, then it got way less scary. one of the scariest parts of the backrooms is how little you know about the backrooms.
@@peppernytsia This is why many people don't consider anything past the first 9 levels (or even level 0) as canon.
Exactly. Same thing happened with SCP
Idk about you guys, but I think there is more evidence to indicate that the random objects throughout the Complex are things from our reality no-clipping into that reality (cars transporting randomly, a dumpster, chairs, even an entire farmhouse being glitched into the rooms.) I dont think the rooms are a creation that some other entity makes to replicate humanity, like Wendigoon says.
Even so, lots of theories to go around with so much mystery and ambiguity in a series like this! Thanks for the video!
These spaces remind me of a place I visited many times as a kid. My dad was a computer system analyst with Blue Cross Blue Shield. I'd sometimes go in with him at night. Sometimes I'd play games on a multimillion dollar IBM mainframe, but when I got bored with that, I'd grab his RFID badge and go exploring. It gave me access to every part of the building. It was a sprawling 4 story complex of large rooms, corridors, and locked doorways for which I had the key. Some rooms were just cubicals for a couple hundred feet in every direction, filled with the whir of hundreds of computers, sporadically lit by overhead florescent light. Some rooms had rows of terminals to the mainframe. A few rooms were storage with rows and rows and rows of racks for 12 inch data tapes for the mainframe. Some rooms were just empty for no obvious reason. Ominous mechanical and electrical noises occasionally echoed from some distant point. All of this space, and stuff, and absolutely nobody around.... Acres of it, stacked on top of each other. Once I was unnerved deeply enough by it, I was forced to wander in a certain direction until I found the perimeter of the building, then take corridors along the perimeter that led back to the rear foyer, and then head back into the center of it, unlocking RFID locks with the card until I found my was back into the mainframe room with it isles and isles of cabinets. And somewhere in there my dad would be parked at a mini-computer doing some kind of work. These spaces are so much like that building at night.
Plot twist: You were actually in the Backrooms all along
What I like about Kane’s backrooms is that (to our knowledge) there isnt any other groups than A-Sync and any unlucky civilians. The Backrooms Wiki hyper-explained everything and made the idea more into a video game than cosmic/existential horror.
There is no trade routes, no almond waters to drink, no moss to eat. Just you, an endless maze, and many deadly lifeforms. If the lifeforms dont kill you, exhaustion, sickness, hunger, or dehydration will
I like it this way. The wiki tries to make it seem as though there is a chance of escape if you're skilled enough, and it kinda ruins the helplessness of the story Kane is trying to tell. And I like to consider Kane's story as canon.
It ruins the mystery & intrigue on top of seeming like its written by tumblrinas. Kane's work is canon; everything else is fanfic
It’s even a lot more terrifying without the lifeforms
is that moss eating thing a deltarune reference
@@Afrologist to be fair, everything is fanmade. the backrooms is all just one massive fan project, other than the original post on 4chan.
Here’s my take on the barn room - it’s an earlier version of the back rooms that would have made sense to a person from that time period. I feel like the back rooms exist outside of time, so people from all time periods would be stumbling in, and would find something that made sense to them. It fits with the almost human but not quite feel of the ‘modern’ back rooms.
Oh for sure! Also explains that there's no light and lower ceiling (iirc)
@@Pastabong That might be what kane is going for.
Well we know people disappearing on our side of space-time only started happening after ASync opened the backrooms, so if your theory is true, who opened the backrooms before and what closed it? Maybe we'll get answers in the future of the series.
Thats actually a good point. Thats why the street is uncanny but still familiar.
Its also why the 'observation room' is familiar to the researcher because its modelling itself on their experiences?
@@EliteVeyron835 Ever hear of John Dee? There were several people in the 16th & 17th centuries who dabbled in the occult, which was the drunk uncle of modern science. Who knows if in their investigations they somehow disturbed the balance?
Reminds me of walking alone through a big city multi level parking garage at 3 a.m. i thought I was being followed. I had myself so wired that I had my pocketknife open in my right hand and my car keys in my left. It was beyond creepy. Nothing happened. I just scared myself silly.
Paranoia is a hell if a drug
I've been watching Kanes backrooms for a while, had no idea that it was all CG, up until now I was baffled as to how a teenager had access to these grandiose sets with almost no budget. This kid is going to do amazing things
Its blender with cgi
average backrooms stan thinking garbage CGI made by any 18-year-old in blender is real. Cope.
@@Instanence are u talking to me?
@@Instanence obvious bait
@@Instanence needlessly talking shit in the comments on a TH-cam video? And I thought my life was sad, you poor thing ☹️
I really appreciate the restraint that Kane Pixels exhibits throughout the creation. So many people go so overboard so fast and want to essentially just make YET ANOTHER SCP roster. The ironic thing is the more the internet adds to the backrooms, the less scary and mysterious it becomes.
The Wiki definitely went too far long ago, to the point its structured more like a scp videogame than a luminal space hell. There is literal supplies that randomly “spawn in” for people traveling.
@@clan741 So it fits perfectly with the concept of the Backrooms and "no-clipping"?
@@mobiusone6994 not really
Yep, I agree. I think Kane did an excellent job with the weird creatures, but I have to wonder if the scariest possible thing is there being ... nothing and nobody else there. Just empty, infinite rooms.
@@yannickgrignon2473 facts
Ok I know ppl just keep saying what a genius Kane is. But it’s more than that. Not only are his CGI skills insane, and his storytelling ability nuanced and subtle and yet horrifically plausible…he also made one of the best soundtracks on the platform. At 17yo. I mean, he’s a PRODIGY of horror.
If that was my kid, I'd be proud as hell
Exactly! It’s rare that a Jack of all trades is *that* good at literally all of them. I’m really looking forward to whatever Kane makes throughout his career.
Dude these kids are coming out with insanely impressive stuff. Like the Mandela catalogue isn't Alex a teenager, too?? Awesome. So grateful these talented people are among us, we are lucky.
The more normal the backrooms try to look, the more unsettling they become. I love it
Uncanny valley moment
"The Yellow Wallpaper" creeped me out as a kid. We had to read it in school. Here I am all of 40 and still chilled by it. One of my greatest fears is going insane. This story is of one going insane through the eyes of the "victim". There is SO much going on in the background that is obvious and or alluded to that you never find out if it is real or not because your going insane with the woman. Most will probably laugh at it or think it lame or whatever, I loved it.
same, i had to read that freshman year of highschool and, while not particularly affected by it, its always stuck with me as one of those really good and effective short stories!
Why was "victim" put in quotes? She most definitely was the victim of her own husband. The Yellow Wallpaper is the first known instance of feminist literature, showing how women's voices were being silenced by men who think they know what's best for a woman.
I love the concept.
I know I'm going to be pretentious about it, but the story is more than just "a woman going insane." It deals with the narrator going insane, but, taking it further, she is going insane by the people who have kept her in the room. The husband, negligent of his wife's condition, and the doctor, saying it is all hysterics, play a key role is making sure the woman doesn't get the help she needs. She literally begging for help but no one, especially the men who have the authority to help, wants to deal with her mental instability. I feel it's kind of wrong to say that the woman "becomes the monster she was afraid of" because she was held hostage in the room. Of course you're gonna go insane!
I once in a while think about her rubbing her shoulder against the wall for hours on end
To be honest I think it would be scary/funny if kane's footage was the only thing that aliens ever found of humanity or our existence. They'd probably think we opened a pocket dimension and just never came back ..or think we are maybe trapped.
Flex dominance!
i saw a similar concept that went something like: What if humanity went extinct and the only thing aliens could find from us was the scp wiki?
Also interesting that the entrance goes into lockdown when the researcher says "hello", I assume that this is a safety measure for any entities as the entities have been observed to say "hello" a lot, copying the confused and lost people they come across. The word "hello" is said so much I feel like it's a symbol or something.
Why would you assume it would be the word "hello" and not general noise that activated it? We have a sample size of one and its so much more logical to think that the threshold station shuts down when it hears noises
Saddest thing about the backrooms TRU ORIGIN (Level 0) is that the original post says that it smells like almonds, and someone thats doodoo at horror somehow came to the conclusion that almond is a miracle thingy and didnt know that almonds smell like cyanide.
30:33 I’ve got a theory. Its probably ‘the backrooms’ for an older time period. The industrial tools turn to an axe and wheelbarrow. The 80s wallpaper becomes 1800’s decorative pieces. Brutalist windows turn tudor. Maybe this is meant to imply that the backrooms, in one state or another, have existed for far longer than previously assumed. Thats also probably why it was dark. No fluorescent lights, you probably only had lanterns and candles to light the way
I also guess the glitchy texture is that same wallpaper, but as if it was harshly cut down the side of the pattern.
I love this idea, and it could be used to explain the different 'levels' of the backrooms; sometimes you're walking through a past iteration, maybe even going into spaces of the future as well.
Well its been said somewhere the arrow of Time in the Backrooms is warped & distorted. So possibly theres a backroom that look like the mythical dark maze that had prisoners run around while a giant humanoid bull like creature chased them.
@@changsangma1915The Labyrinth of Minos is a part of the Backrooms? Hell yeah
Love this !
i love this idea
Kane's interpretation of the backrooms is like 90 times better than anyone else's, it's so cool and feels like a natural evolution of the initial concept instead of bootleg SCP content
It’s like Kane Pixels BR is Heath Ledgers Joker & most others are Jared Leto💀 crazy just for the sake of it lmao
frag 2's also is great but kane's has a nice touch of reality to it.
@Kehath there is a difference between the backrooms and liminal spaces bruh
@Kehath there's a massive difference between liminal spaces and the backrooms, while you are right about liminal spaces you are wrong in assuming they are the same
I also think it's really funny how you assume I haven't seen anyone else's takes on the idea, readings from the countless bland, cookie-cutter wikis make up like 75% of the other backrooms content on TH-cam, it's frankly hard to miss
Horrible: he arrives with a machete in a school because a teacher allegedly beat his child -th-cam.com/video/S_NPpzuxWzY/w-d-xo.html
It’s interesting how in some countries there are similar ideas
For example, in Russia there’s a thing called “Samosbor” which can be roughly translated as self-construction
And it’s about an endless array of Russian houses from Kruschevs era with people living in it and there are monsters and overall sense of depression and hopelessness is one of the main things going for Samosbor
OMG that's so interesting! I didn't know that thank you for sharing! How long has this legend been around?
Samosbor is an amazing creation and fandom. The amount of different stories in that universe ranging from scary to funny is really cool
Oh, so you mean russia overall?
@@gamewizardthesecond as a Russian, can confirm, Samosbor happens sometimes and black goo with the smell of meat comes from walls
Finland has a similar idea of "slipping into another world" with Metsänpeitto (Forest's Cover), where people or animals walking in a forest can suddenly step into a gap between realities and vanish into an alternate, endless version of the forest, kind of a fey realm.
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First time I’ve ever willingly watched a raid sponsorship, well played Wendigoon. Well played
wendigoon can do the impossible in making a raid ad watchable
Yeah, is his relationship ok? It didn't sound ok
@meetyourmaykr did you watch the sponsership?
@@aguyontheinternet8436 Karen left for the kids it pretty sad
@@aguyontheinternet8436 i can't tell if you're joking
The Backrooms reminds me of AI image generators... a computer program that's trying to mimic human ideas but sometimes creates things that fall into the uncanny valley.
The repeating but shifting features gave me that vibe. AI always looks to me like it's trying to play Exquisite Corpse with itself and gets caught in a feedback loop.
I kind of had the same idea as this but I extended it to the creatures in the complex, cause it doesn't look like an animal, it stands on 2 legs and has "limbs" and maybe even a head (I can't really tell). So either the creatures are people that got mutated by the disease or they were created by whatever created the complex
He talks about just that in the video lol
The backrooms always freaked me out cuz when I was little I used to have these weird dreams of the exact same environment of the backrooms. When the backrooms actually officially became a thing I had a bit of an existential crisis over it lol
Dude they feel far too familiar, like liminal stuff feels familiar whatever but like I can smell that shit I’ve been putting off watching this video almost a year now out of fear 😅
Same here. I felt like I was watching something I’ve seen before. Unlocked a memory for sure.
I had this but with bathrooms and locker rooms, it was a real nightmare when the Backrooms became a thin! 😅
I had a nightmare before the back rooms existed.. it was my apartment complex but with furniture and broken items everywhere. I was like 8 at the time now I’m 16. But, as I wondered the complex. This huge 10 foot creature with two sickles for hands makes a nasty gurgling noise before swiping at my head. I woke up and was crying and felt sick afterwards.
I have had several dreams with backrooms-type areas in them. They’re not even always nightmares, sometimes just a brief moment in a drab, dimly-lit corridor. I think that’s why this concept is so terrifying and brilliant. So many of us have been to the backrooms in our dreams. It gives them a kind of reality. This video exploring the concept is also brilliant.
you need to make a part two!! please this is so good
If we will ever have youtube-awards Wendigoon should be the guy who opens envelope on which horror series wins. Thank you for your work.
he’s gonna have to duel with the shogun
I imagine there is a giant warehouse section full of the things we lost and never found again, like a lego that fell and seemed to vanish, or a sewing needle, it all ends up in a warehouse in the backrooms
All of our lost socks can be found in the backrooms, haha!
Oh shit I could find my dad in there-
@@bubonic019 😩😩😭😭
There’s a section of the back rooms that’s exactly like the ending scene of Indiana Jones and the Lost Ark
i hope they're enjoying my blue whiteboard marker which rolled off of my desk, and when i bent over to pick it up immediately after, it was nowhere to be found. it has been a year and it never turned up lmao.
Kane is a modern magician. His ability to create a convincing storyline, experience, etc. leveraging after effects and blender at 17 is astonishing. Kane, keep it up. I cannot wait to see what you are creating in the future. What a great breakdown of this series. Wendigoon, I’m loving the mutual respect and admiration in the interview, as well as both of you not getting too distracted during the virtual high-fives. Great stuff.
HE’S 17????
@@waverlyaltis7171 I believe he was actually 16 when he made the first backroom video! Insanely skilled work.
53:30-53:44 "Imagine youre just driving down the highway, and then you blink and now you fell through the floor, and youre still driving the same car, going 70 miles an hour through the backrooms"
"Imagine if i was watching this trying to take notes, and then The Lifeform just gets dumptrucked by a Honda Civic, i think id just shut the laptop and be done with it."
"McDonald's... *THROW IT IN THE POCKET DIMENSION"
We need that in an Out of Context video
ALSO! Wendigoon, i hate to scare people with science like this, but, FALLING THROUGH THE GROUND IS REAL!
Seriously, on EXTREMELY RARE OCCASIONS, molecules will sometimes miss a certain place theyre supposed to be in, causing objects on top of them to fall through, THAT INCLUDES THE GROUND.
In fact, it is SO rare, that JUST to do this ON PURPOSE, would take you roughly take you 600 THOUSAND YEARS.
ANOTHER fun fact: You are roughly between 3-13% more likely to die ON YOUR BIRTHDAY.
Wendigoon: A sync isn't an evil military organization that wants to take over the world.
Mat Pat: A sync is an evil military organization that definitely wants to take over the world.
MattPat is a i***t; I quit watching his stuff years ago because he dabbles in conspiracy theory constantly for the sake of views and money, yawn...🥱
As if Mat pat's opinion holds any weight?
@@panzerboi7091 mat pat is notoriously stupid with his conspiracies for the sake of childrens content. The fact Mat pat is even being brought up is laughable at best.
99% of matpat's theory videos are wild, unfounded conjecture. it's uninformative, dull and cringe af.
so yeah, wendigoon and matpat aren't even comparable. it's like comparing a wedge of cheese to a car.
@@hypan0vaULTRADefinitely matpat is the TH-camr you watch as a kid that gets you into these ideas and eventually you graduate to watching Wendi and never go back lol
I get paranoia extremely easily and anytime I watch something slightly eerie or scary it keeps me up at night. Nonetheless, I am a masochist when it comes to this shit and I love it so much. You are the ONLY creator I have found that I trust when telling me about creepy stuff because you don’t try to make it seem like it’s actually real life and I should be careful. You tell an incredible convincing story, but at the end of the day it is just a story.
So thank you for that and I can’t wait to watch your movie :)
I hope you see this just so you know that you are truly having an impact of someone’s life. Thank you.
Honestly same! I get so freaked out over the creepy/occult but somehow wendigoon makes it palatable and his audience feel safe. I think it’s because we can catch on to his excitement over the content being discussed. He’s an incredible content creator and I’m glad that his platform has grown as much it has.
Omg yes this articulates how I feel 100%
I used to be the same way ( I still am in some types of horror). The more and more I watch this kind of stuff, the more I start getting kinda "numb" to it all.
I've heard of many of benefits with watching creepy/horror stuff. Smaller stuff like weight loss (which isn't a problem with me), but also major stuff like overcoming social fears and turning on parts of the brains "flight or fight" side and "awareness" which we certainly don't get enough of as our ancestors did.
There has to be some benefit to that as well.
You getting paranoia extremely easily reminds me of when I first watched the first few episodes of the Mandela Catalogue
@@mergat2970 oh yeah that one was ROUGH. Still fun to watch tho
i’ve also seen a really unique theory about the monsters in the backrooms. the first one we see (i think is named the howler?) is actually a person who shaped and formed into a monster through a disease or time and adaptation in the back rooms. they don’t mean to be so aggressive or intimidating but they come off that way. there’s a slowed down clip of the “howls” that the monster lets out and someone captioned them and it was basically the howler screaming for help and begging somebody not to leave.
then there’s the theory that howlers are manipulative and can audiotorily mimic their victims/past victims.
First paragraph :D
Second paragraph D:
That is a pretty neat idea though!!
It's called bacteria, not a howler.
My theory is that the life forms are more or less the backroom's attempt at making life. The backroom seems to try and mimic our world through observation. Much like how a child will use Lego to make things that resemble real life buildings and whatnot, but doesn't understand how or why buildings are madethe way they are. In the videos the life forms scream and run at people, sometimes pushing them. This is exactly what people do when they see the life forms, so the backroom thinks this is normal human behavior and mimics it. It could be possible to somewhat tame the life forms by acting in a civil manner to them, though I personally would not risk it. I do not count the game since that is like SCP: Crap Edition.
So like wendigoly like? 😂
Or the creator read/saw annihilation and thought the bear scene was creepy.