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.
June 9, 2026 — 5:57 pm
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