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The Backrooms
The Backrooms is a place accessed from someone no-clipping out of reality from the wrong areas.
Background
It is an area with nothing but the stink of old moist carpet and mono-yellow with a looping background noise of fluorescent lights at maximum hum-buzz, being approximately six hundred million square miles of randomly segmented empty rooms to be trapped in.
Geography
General Description: The Backrooms is a seemingly endless expanse of randomly segmented, empty rooms. It is characterized by the stench of old moist carpet and the constant, maddening background noise of fluorescent lights at maximum hum-buzz.
Visual Appearance: The environment consists of empty rooms with mono-yellow, slightly patterned wallpaper and a dingy, moist-looking carpet. The ceiling is white with rectangular fluorescent light panels providing the illumination.
Size: The area is described as being approximately six hundred million square miles of randomly segmented empty rooms to be trapped in.
Inhabitants: It is never truly specified if there's inhabitants, just a warning if one hears something while in the backrooms as they definitely heard them.
General Information
Name: The Backrooms[1]
Origin: The Backrooms
Overall Origin: 4chan Post
First Appearance: 4chan Post
Company: N/A
Creator: 4chan Anon
Gender: N/A
Sexuality: N/A
Pronouns: It
Age: Unknown
Homeworld: Outside Reality[1]
Address: Outside Reality[1]
Story Role: Mysterious Location, Unknown Location
Classification: Area Outside of Reality[1]
Species: N/A
State of Being: Regular
Physiology: Unknown Physiology
In-Universe Creator: Unknown
Size: 600,000,000 square miles[1]
Weight: Unknown
Environment: Endless hallways of moist carpets and mono-yellow with flouresecnet lights that hum[1]
Status: Active
Alignment: N/A
Threat Level: Street Threat (It is not only an area accidentally fallen into through entering reality in the wrong areas, but also may have an entity wandering around[1])
Codex Statistics
Cardinality: Finite
Dimensionality: 3-D
Range: Planetary (It is six hundred million square miles[1] which is larger than the Planet Earth)
Intelligence: Unknown Intelligence (There is no truth in it being sentient, only the possibility of an entity wandering around)
Knowledge: Unknown level
Effects
- Madness Manipulation (Due to the constant looping rooms and same look with an endless humming sound, one would eventually go mad wandering around it[1])
Notable Features
- Inhabitants: Potentially an entity[1]
- Areas: Looping endless hallways for six hundred million square miles[1]
- Objects: Florescent lights[1]
Other
Issues: There is no known way to escape in the original post and may have threat of an entity wandering around[1].
Note
- This profile is based off the original 4chan post of The Backrooms, this did not have things such as levels, entities, or any overarching lore such as civilizations or objects such as "almond water".
Trivia
- The Backrooms became one of the most popular internet horror locations due to the creation of this post, creating dozens of different intereretations and stories, with one even becoming an actual mainstream movie made by Kane Pixels.
- The post that likely got the Backrooms to its level of popularity was Kane Pixels original Backrooms found footage video[2].
Gallery
Misconceptions
This section will discuss things used in future Backrooms products that technically go against the original intention or wasn't told in the original post.
The Backrooms Is Infinite In Size
While later renditions may have the idea that the backrooms is an infinite sized realm, it had a completely defined size in the original post[1].
Levels
The Backrooms has levels in other interpretations but the original post never once alluded to the idea of there being other levels, the main area seen in the post was the one directly called "The Backrooms" with no "level" in the name[1].
Entities
Entities are very common in other interpretations of The Backrooms, however, the original story only alluded to the idea of there being someone there, never confirming it[1].
Almond Water
Almond Water is a pretty popular object in other Backrooms interpretations, but it was never an idea in the original post, in fact, the original post said there was nothing but the moist carpet and mono-yellow endless halls[1], basically saying there were absolutely no resources.
References
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 Anonymous Original 4chan Post of The Backrooms 05/14/19(Tue)20:29:30 No.2267 "The Backrooms
If you're not careful and you noclip out of reality in the wrong areas, you'll end up in the Backrooms, where it's nothing but the stink of old moist carpet, the madness of mono-yellow, the endless background noise of fluorescent lights at maximum hum-buzz, and approximately six hundred million square miles of randomly segmented empty rooms to be trapped in
God save you if you hear something wandering around nearby, because it sure as hell has heard you" - ↑ Kane Pixels The Backrooms (Found Footage)
