

"Survivors" of the Backrooms claim that the only way to escape the level is to remain calm, stating that "Only when the backrooms have become your home can you depart." It is described as being reached when one simply wanders around Level 1 for a long enough period of time, and featuring a much higher temperature than other levels. This level appears as long service tunnels with pipes lining the walls. It is one of the darkest levels, containing more industrial-like architecture. Level 2: The third level of the Backrooms, according to the three-level interpretation.In contrast to Level 0, the fluorescent lights begin to flicker more frequently, occasionally shutting down completely – "This is when the beings come out". The level appears to be a dark, dingy warehouse with low-lying fog and puddles of water which randomly appear. It is darker than Level 0 and features a more industrial architecture, with mechanical-like sounds being heard through the place. Level 1: A level reached when one chooses not to enter a noclip zone and instead wanders around Level 0 for days.Another feature of this level is a "noclip zone", which can bring wanderers back to Earth's dimension, return them to the starting point of Level 0, or to another level with different hostile organisms. One of the entities created by users for this level are "hounds", described as disfigured and manic humanoid beings. Level 0: This is the level depicted in the original Backrooms photo, featuring all of the creepypasta's most well-known characteristics – moldy carpet, yellow walls, and buzzing fluorescent lights.The creepypasta has also been associated with the concept of kenopsia, first coined in The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: "the eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that's usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet".



Although a number of locations have been proposed, it is possible that the image is a procedurally generated digital composition. The location of the original Backrooms photo is unknown. Comparing the location to the level design of the Resident Evil franchise, Kaitlyn Kubrick of Somag News called the Backrooms "the terrifying creepypasta of cursed dreams". Patston commented on the use of the term "noclip", interpreting it as "glitches in which the walls of reality are torn down", such as the existence of doppelgängers. Some have stated they had seen that image somewhere before in the opinion of Manning Patston from Happy Mag, these comments were "existential, hollow, and terrified". Many memes were created and shared across social media, further popularizing the creepypasta. Īfter the 4chan post gained fame, several Internet users wrote horror stories relating to The Backrooms. Another anonymous user commented on the photo with the first story about the Backrooms, claiming that one enters the Backrooms when they " noclip out of reality in the wrong areas", which is a video game-related term originating from Doom for when a player passes through a physical boundary that would otherwise block their way. The Backrooms originated from a thread posted on the /x/ board of 4chan on, where an anonymous user asked for others to "post disquieting images that just feel 'off'." There, the first photo depicting the Backrooms was uploaded, presenting a slightly tilted image of a yellow-colored hallway. Since its original creation, The Backrooms has been expanded into various other forms of media and Internet culture, including video games, collaborative fiction wikis, and YouTube videos.
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The Backrooms drew comparisons to various other horror trends and media, including the photography of liminal spaces, the SCP Foundation collaborative fiction project, and the six-hour-long album series Everywhere at the End of Time. The original version came from a two-paragraph 4chan comment on a post asking for "unsettling images", where an anonymous user invented a story based on one of the photos. Internet users have expanded upon this concept by creating different "levels" of the Backrooms and "entities" which inhabit them. It is characterized by the smell of wet carpet, walls with a monochromatic tone of yellow, and buzzing fluorescent lights. The Backrooms is an urban legend and creepypasta describing an endless maze of randomly generated office rooms and other environments.
