Into the Backrooms: Behind an Internet Mystery 

i hope he sells souvenirs; profit for him, novelty for visitors

@@CompanionCubehe will

I think it’s a good thing because it probably brings more business and visitors

Someone quoted that the owner was warned there would be tourism, but up until now that haven’t gotten as much as they expected. It’s a hobby town, so I’m sure he’s accustomed to geeks and nerds who gasm over historical details for their favorite planes, trains, or RC cars.

Turns out he’s embracing it, in future, he said he’ll make posters with “The Home Of The Backrooms” and eventually start selling stuff

it was posted to 4chan - it's an occupational hazard. If you post it on 4chan, don't expect to get credit

Yeah. Images like Jeff the killer have been posted numerous times on many websites without crediting the original creator. Thats just the internet for you

that goes to show no matter how popular something you created, the credits will always be taken by someone

the movie is made by Kane Parsons so yeah its based on his videos aka his works, not the backrooms itself

eh. i hope not. thats how stories used to work with humans.

if this is kane pixels bullshit again, yeah, its gringe, his stuff is pretty childish and obnoxious to be fair and there is so many better videos creations about the backrooms, but hey, its a big fandom, its messy, there is no unproblematic fandom

@@alias7goldenletters I have no clue how his stuff is childish or obnoxious (considering that there's more childish and obnoxious stuff I've seen come the backrooms) but your comment seems unnecessarily rude about it

It’s my hometown. I’ve driven by this building countless times

Oddly enough I have a feeling this was a good twist of fate for his business having unknowingly opened shop in a recent piece of pop culture history. More so than if he had opened another kind of business.

Nah, he didn't open shop in a piece of pop culture history, he made that piece of pop culture history possible by deciding to renovate the place.

yeah that’s the part everyone keeps missing lol. its pretty obvious it’s water damage and mold now

We don’t know who did the post. It could have been one of the guys involved in the IRL renovation for all we know

@@Nick_J_ maybe, but based on what we know it was a random person.

Maybe you just have to have been born before a certain year, but it's extremely common to have experienced places like that. They all have a certain feel to them, including the smell, and old fluorescent light fixtures all make the same buzzing sound. The reason the creepypasta worked in the first place was because it drew on these experiences that pretty much everyone (born before minimalist/industrial decor came in vogue) shared.

Yes! This. This is the best way for them to go about it. People will drive there and pay for tickets, I guarantee it!

What about like a separate track themed around the Backrooms? That would be pretty cool

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Hah, this’ll age well. You’ll see why.

@@evanleonard2038 Do you know something we dont?

that will be gone once they go LED. ):

wow, nobody bothered to replace the ballasts in those lights for so long!, the sound actually comes from the ballasts, not the fluorescent tubes themselves, and it gets louder as the ballasts get older and weaker. the sound will soon disappear forever when the ballasts are changed out for electronic ones that squeal instead. or if all of the existing parabolic (louvered) fluorescent troffer lights are ripped out and replaced with LED flat panel troffer lights. witch also have electronic ballasts in them (known as an LED driver block) witch also squeal. it would be cool to obtain one of the old magnetic ballasts with that good old maximum hum buzz, let alone a whole fluorescent troffer fixture!

The blueprints could be lost at this point, if they were ever stored; also the Twitter post wasn't the first person to find the location.

Never mind on the first part: they were found!

Me too

The original Backrooms were actually white? That's pretty interesting :)

@@void_official404 not necessarily white. Google "backrooms color corrected"

Bob is convinced that looking directly into the room, just behind where we sat him for the interview, is the place where the picture was taken.

I guess the windows couldn't be seen because they were covered back then.

@@octaviocao9295 that is what Bob says indeed

​@@robsussman340The orientation of the ceiling light does not match taking the picture in the direction of the wall with the windows. It must be towards one of the side walls.

@@stalefurset9444 I was told that he totally changed out the ceiling, including the lights, which may account for it.

the fluorescent troffer lights are still there, and they still have there original noisy magnetic ballasts in them. rip them out for LED's (good quality non integrated LED tube troffers, not edgelit flatpanel fail flop troffers), sell the fluorescent troffers of to lighting enthusiasts/collectors for a pretty penny (the fixtures are more valuable as collectors items than as E-waste scrap. especially since they have this backstory behind them) and there you go, all gone. the last thing you would need to do is erase as much of the backrooms history from the building as possible. (including the grid ceiling)

ok so?? still really stupid to go there just for the backrooms i feel bad for the owner cuz he is only getting backrooms fans and not actual customers.

@@mrverse99 plaster the place with signs saying "this is not the backrooms" andor "backrooms enthusiasts are strictly banned from the premises". make life vary hard for the fanatics until you build a bad reputation towards them, thus stopping the influx. as for the troffers, it's a bit like throwing bread to the pigeons. anyways, the stupid R.N wants my to shut down my laptop and go to bed now. i'm gonna wait till she's gone and then sneak out and traverse the liminal hellscape I AM currently trapped in LOL!!!

YUCK! all they need to do is change out the ballasts. if they are gonna slap up some LED's, they have to be good quality non integrated beasts. they better not put in some of those tacky LED flat panel troffers that go brown in the middle. i think LED troffers going brown in the middle is about as bad as yellow wallpaper.