In The Backrooms, Samantha Culp expertly portrays the strange fandom that has developed around one of the creepiest images ever posted online. Both dread and great ingenuity were generated by the terrifying sight, whose source is still unknown. Through creating artwork, books, and video games, enthusiasts spread the memetic horror to new audiences. As lore nerds progressively took over this fanbase and replaced everything spooky and misty about The Backrooms with a wiki full of explanations, bestiaries, and rules, the “unheimlich” grew more and more “heimlich,” to use Culp’s phrase.
Then the response began. The original premise of The Backrooms was the idea of isolation and the thought of gradually going insane from seeing the same walls, rooms, and halls every day without change, according to a Reddit discussion titled “You guys ruined the Backrooms” dated July 2021. Other posts with similar sentiments include this one: “… The idea of the back rooms was initially really interesting and eerie, but 12-year-olds decided to make it less terrifying by putting monsters and trash inside of it. The creepypasta schlock of jump scares and low effort has replaced the slow burn eeriness.
The Backrooms was then transformed into the high-production value film that Hollywood frequently produces. It is also attracting a sizable audience by a young director by the name of Kane Pixels. Without the author of The Backrooms, a copyright owner with whom to conduct business, this skill might not have blossomed there. (In its place, this is what would have happened.)
The Backrooms story
The work of Kane Pixels “demonstrates the potential of the Backrooms’ underlying mythos to embrace new stories. And possibly even absorb them back into its genuine strangeness,” according to Culp.
The Backrooms‘ evolution from a mysterious existential nightmare to a digital tomb mimics a tendency found in most fandoms. It is part of the fandom lifecycle. The Backrooms’ canons created and expanded in accordance with fandom politics. Because it lacked a creator, which may have made it more abrupt, pronounced, and chaotic. They enlarge, harden, and ultimately disintegrate. We are now seeing it rise from the ashes before Hollywood. Besides, the general public even recognized there was a fire because to Kane Pixels’ films.