The Internet Archive just sent me this
It’s the photo that started the series of online creepypastas in 2019 that turned into the recent movie Backrooms in 2026 that’s doing all kinds of excellent at the box office. According to the email, the photo was actually of a 2003 renovation of a former furniture store in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
I do hope this kind of thing is the future of film. Stupid Hollwood – refuses to make films people want to see.
I think I was peripherally aware of backrooms at the time, being a terminally online kindofa mustelid. The image is supposed to represent a creepy and endless interdimensional space. You wander through and nothing ever happens, except it sometimes does. Or corner-of-the-eye hallucinations.
I feel like it was a simulation at one point, but I may be confusing it with the Stanley Parable. But the Stanley Parable came out eight years before, so no. Similar feel, though.
Posted: June 9th, 2026 under personal.
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Comment from ExpressoBold Pureblood
Time: June 9, 2026, 8:37 pm
The internet is all ablaze with migrant hi-jinks from Belfast… proving, once again, that a shovel has more than one application in this modern, tech-heavy world.
Karmelo Anthony guilty: Murder in the First.
Comment from QuasiModo
Time: June 9, 2026, 10:47 pm
Very satisfying to see Hollywood have their butts handed to them by a 20 year old YouTuber 👍 Obsession was the other movie that hit big and cost nothing.
Comment from The Neon Madman
Time: June 10, 2026, 3:26 am
I saw a story about this location (and the movie) on local news tonight. I happen to live about 20 miles from it.
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: June 10, 2026, 4:32 pm
Yes. It is not smart to piss off the Irish.
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