The Backrooms (+ Wiki) - Level 80085: The Kiwi Farms

[Valstrax]

Similarly to with SCP, it only took one image on 4chan to make the internet go wild. Feel free to post about stuff you like and dislike about the Backrooms and etc.

 

[Exigent Circumcisions]

Just looks like a crappy old building that's sitting empty. Not sure what the big deal is.

 

[Testacles Maximus]

It looks like my house minus the meat hooks and bloodstains.

 

[Win98SE]

Anyone who has heard about this has probably seen the above video. If you haven't give it a watch. I was surprised to learn it was created by a high school student who was just fucking around with Blender/some VFX software in their free time. I think the entire thing is CGI, with some real elements edited in. Extremely well done IMO.

 

[Testacles Maximus]

Anyone who has heard about this has probably seen the above video. If you haven't give it a watch. I was surprised to learn it was created by a high school student who was just fucking around with Blender/some VFX software in their free time. I think the entire thing is CGI, with some real elements edited in. Extremely well done IMO.

I fucking love this. Is all the content this quality? It reminds me of the early days of Marble Hornets.

 

[Seventh Star]

I fucking love this. Is all the content this quality? It reminds me of the early days of Marble Hornets.

Reminds me of TribeTwelve in quality. Without Rosner being a pedo jew.

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

Much like SCP and Slenderman before it, a cool core concept surrounded by an impenetrable shield of autism.


The video series posted above is pretty good though.

 

[Testacles Maximus]

a pedo jew.

I’m somehow both surprised and not surprised to learn this.

 

[Kiwi On The Go]

The idea got stale pretty fast to me, tbh. Obviously there's only so much you can do with something that's meant to feel empty, but a lot of the games and videos I've seen don't really do anything new with the concept.
The community is oversaturated with redditors and tiktards treating liminal spaces like it's super deep and high IQ shit too, but I can respect the people who put genuine effort and creativity into backrooms content, like the video posted a few replies back.

 

[Testacles Maximus]

The community is oversaturated with redditors and tiktards treating liminal spaces like it's super deep and high IQ shit

What people don’t understand is that backrooms is a nihilist.

Much like SCP and Slenderman before it, a cool core concept surrounded by an impenetrable shield of autism.

There’s a big difference in how easy it is to navigate the autism between those two properties. With Slenderman shit you know which projects are worth a damn or not, and how long they stay good. With SCP I just gave up entirely.

 

[Breadbassket]

The "backrooms" as a concept is the gateway to the wonder that is liminal space photography

 

[Toolbox]

It's just another offspring of the obsession zoomers have with tying anything and everything into gaming, and it is getting painful at this point. Well, that point was actually several years ago, but it has somehow continued to get worse.

 

[Exigent Circumcisions]

It's just another offspring of the obsession zoomers have with tying anything and everything into gaming, and it is getting painful at this point. Well, that point was actually several years ago, but it has somehow continued to get worse.

Also being "creeped out" by completely prosaic things like being alone in an empty space. Oh wow imagine if you weren't surrounded by people to offload some of the burden of uncertainty off onto? Spooooooky. You may have to navigate the area on your own! What if your phone died? Shit keeps me up at night.

I work with a zoomer who's always faffing on about creepypastas and I just laugh because he's afraid of shit that doesn't even register to me on a day-to-day basis.

 

[DuranceVile]

That Backrooms video is sweet. That kid's got a good career in front of him. Amazing effects. I'd never heard of the rest of it before that and just concluded it was low effort creepypasta.

Reminds me of TribeTwelve in quality.

I really only remember TribeTwelve for the surprisingly good special effects and "Noah" screaming at bushes while stabbing them. I was not terribly surprised to learn he was sliding into young fans' dms.

Is Marble Hornets the only one of the "big three" that got a half-decent conclusion? TribeTwelve is likely dead forever. EverymanHybrid majorly lost steam with the seven trials. After that I got the impression Jeff didn't really plan out much and it faffed around for several years before that... very strange conclusion.

Also being "creeped out" by completely prosaic things like being alone in an empty space. Oh wow imagine if you weren't surrounded by people to offload some of the burden of uncertainty off onto? Spooooooky. You may have to navigate the area on your own! What if your phone died? Shit keeps me up at night.

I work with a zoomer who's always faffing on about creepypastas and I just laugh because he's afraid of shit that doesn't even register to me on a day-to-day basis.

Reminds me of TVTropes nightmare fuel pages. Nothing but tropers trying to one up each other by being terrified of the most inane things.

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

That Backrooms video is sweet. That kid's got a good career in front of him. Amazing effects. I'd never heard of the rest of it before that and just concluded it was low effort creepypasta.


I really only remember TribeTwelve for the surprisingly good special effects and "Noah" screaming at bushes while stabbing them. I was not terribly surprised to learn he was sliding into young fans' dms.

Is Marble Hornets the only one of the "big three" that got a half-decent conclusion? TribeTwelve is likely dead forever. EverymanHybrid majorly lost steam with the seven trials. After that I got the impression Jeff didn't really plan out much and it faffed around for several years before that... very strange conclusion.

Reminds me of TVTropes nightmare fuel pages. Nothing but tropers trying to one up each other by being terrified of the most inane things.

Weird thing is, I really feel like TribeTwelve was the only big Slenderman series that was actually ABOUT Slenderman. By the end, EMH was about HABIT and Slenderman was pretty much forgotten. Same with Marble Hornets which ended up mostly being about Alex. Unfortunate that Noah (or whatever his real name was, I forget) turned out to be a degenerate child groomer, because I really think he had the best series.

 

[Testacles Maximus]

Is Marble Hornets the only one of the "big three" that got a half-decent conclusion?

EDIT: decided to spoiler this because it wound up being long and off-topic.

Spoiler

The very end of Marble Hornets was a condensed version of why Marble Hornets stopped being the best slenderman series. The characters stopped asking questions and getting scared and more just resigned themselves to this being their life now. I personally didn’t find the conclusion all that satisfying and think killing off Jay was a mistake.

Everymanhybrid wasn’t as creepy because the characters were just a little too brave which deflated some of the tension, but it had kind of a sweet ending that at least sent off the characters themselves right.

TribeTwelve started off as a ripoff of Marble Hornets (with admittedly great editing) that just sort of died on the vine as time went on and had an unlikeable protagonist.

I don’t know much about mlanderson or darkharvest besides the crossover stuff with everymanhybrid and have no idea how those projects ended, or if they even did.

tl;dr it’s apparently very difficult to end a slenderman series no matter how strongly it starts off.

Oddly enough, the original idea for MH’s conclusion, where Jay can’t get away from the Operator even when driving away in his car then vanishes off the face of the earth probably would have been the best possible ending.

 

[Seventh Star]

Is Marble Hornets the only one of the "big three" that got a half-decent conclusion? TribeTwelve is likely dead forever. EverymanHybrid majorly lost steam with the seven trials. After that I got the impression Jeff didn't really plan out much and it faffed around for several years before that... very strange conclusion.

You can find TribeTwelve's conclusion leaked online. Even if Adam wasn't a nonce, it's extremely boring. The gist of it was something about Noah discovering four different signs, of which Severance was one of, to utilize to craft weapons to fight Slenderman along with some of his pals.

It suffers the same autism every content creator suffers from: too much huffing their own farts and trying to create "lore" for the sake of it. The best lore is a product of interactions between characters and other characters or concepts. Which is why, going back on-topic, Backrooms is so refreshing. I recommend this guy for an up and coming channel who does amazing shit with it.

On a side note, Milo's actor trooned out and people made fun of him for it. How ironic that he portrays a repressed autistic neet who killed himself and after death named himself Mr. Scars.

Weird thing is, I really feel like TribeTwelve was the only big Slenderman series that was actually ABOUT Slenderman. By the end, EMH was about HABIT and Slenderman was pretty much forgotten. Same with Marble Hornets which ended up mostly being about Alex. Unfortunate that Noah (or whatever his real name was, I forget) turned out to be a degenerate child groomer, because I really think he had the best series.

Well, yes, but also no. It was mostly about The Collective outside of the inconclusive boardwalk saga and the first few parts of the series. MH is just boring, and EMH is such a conceptual mess scattered in so many places that you had to be in to really get what is going on, because a decade later its impossible for me to get into it. TT is probably the best one out of all of them.

Oh also, the TT/EMH/mlanderson collab has been written off as non-canon. Pussies.

TribeTwelve started off as a ripoff of Marble Hornets (with admittedly great editing) that just sort of died on the vine as time went on and had an unlikeable protagonist.

The best part of TT was how much of a piece of shit Noah was apart from The Collective and the editing.

 

[Testacles Maximus]

and EMH is such a conceptual mess scattered in so many places that you had to be in to really get what is going on, because a decade later its impossible for me to get into it.

I will give EMH props for being the most ARG out of all of them. It doesn’t flow so good as a straight narrative, but I’ve heard from people that actually played it that it was a lot of fun to be involved with.

 

[DuranceVile]

I will give EMH props for being the most ARG out of all of them. It doesn’t flow so good as a straight narrative, but I’ve heard from people that actually played it that it was a lot of fun to be involved with.

Yeah I got to experience it live. The ARG elements were pretty fun while the story was still going. Stuff like the livestream (which was a novel thing back then) where people showed up with purple tape over their mouths or bodies being dragged and the guys "not noticing" was fun. The EMH cast was definitely the most likable of the three big shows and it was a lot of fun being a part of the developing story.

Like I said before, things went south with the Seven Trials of Habit. The actual content pretty much stopped. The guys got voted out of the trials pretty quickly, and IIRC they encouraged getting themselves voted off. So that whole "arc" was a bunch of random dudes doing random things Jeff thought up every couple months. I think the real explanation for it was one of them moved away for a while, but even after that I felt like it wasn't the same anymore. I don't really think Jeff planned out an ending.

Spoiler: EMH ending spoilers

Jeff dying, Evan turning into the edgiest version of the Joker ever, and Vince being a secret asshole didn't sit well with me. I don't really feel like Slenderman and the Rake ended up having a point. It seemed like Habit took over the whole plot once he fully possessed Evan. And if, like me, you viewed him as only slightly above Jeff the Killer as far as 2edgy OCs go, that sucks.

The ending basically being "Well guys, you failed like you've failed every other iteration. Better luck next time!" left me feeling like I'd wasted 10+ years of investment.

 

[Milwaukee Macho Man]

Five Nights at Freddies has absolutely ruined Zoomers sense of horror between empty rooms, the one with the wood crawlies, the guy who just stretches faces out and the literal FNAF but with bunnies rip off.

That being said, I heard that a single 16 year old is animating all this backrooms shit so that's kind of impressive I guess. Or maybe it isn't. I don't fuck with CGI.