The Backrooms
Sign in to saveThe Backrooms are a fictional location originating from a 2019 4chan thread. One of the best known examples of the liminal space aesthetic, the Backrooms are usually portrayed as an impossibly large extradimensional expanse of empty rooms, accessed by exiting reality.
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Key facts
- Based on
- 4chan creepypasta
- Adapted by
- Backrooms , internet users
- Genre
- Analog horror , creepypasta
- Type
- Alternate dimension , liminal space
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- literary work
- Distribution format
- digital distribution
- Image
- HobbyTown USA Oshkosh interior under construction 2002 (The Backrooms).jpg
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- Commons category
- The Backrooms
- IPA transcription
- ðə.ˈbækɹumz
- inception
- 2019-05-00
- social media followers
- 265925
- title
- Bedtime
- form of creative work
- short story
- publication date
- 2019-05-12
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Encyclopedic overview
The Backrooms are a fictional location invented in a 2019 thread on the imageboard website 4chan. The Backrooms are usually portrayed as an impossibly large extradimensional complex of empty rooms, accessed by exiting reality. They are one of the best known examples of the liminal space aesthetic.
Internet users have expanded on the concept of the Backrooms, introducing concepts such as "levels", layers of the Backrooms that are interconnected; and "entities", hostile creatures that inhabit the space. In early 2022, American YouTuber Kane Parsons published the first installment of a series of Backrooms short films on YouTube, ultimately amounting to a web series of 24 episodes, with more potentially planned. The viral videos have been credited with igniting a surge in Backrooms content and taking the concept into the mainstream. Parsons directed a film adaptation of his series produced by A24, which was released in May 2026.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “The Backrooms” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.