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myrmepropagandistAaaand now I know how I'll waste the rest of my vacation time. There is a "Backrooms" themed "Industrial Skyblock" type of minecraft modpack. It's NOT a monster fest. It's very strange. <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/minecraft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#minecraft</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/modded" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#modded</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/backrooms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#backrooms</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZTlzvYgMNc" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZTlzvYgMNc</a>

Giacomo Bencistà<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/meme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#meme</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/backrooms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#backrooms</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/humour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#humour</a>

Andrew Lewis WorkshopWhen you're pushing the boundaries of what's possible, you really need to learn how to duck and cover. <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4338520093/experimental-research-area-funny-metal" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4338520093/experimental-research-area-funny-metal</a><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#research</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/phd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#phd</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#academia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/experimental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#experimental</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/scp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#scp</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/backrooms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#backrooms</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gaming</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/workshop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#workshop</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/engineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#engineering</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/laboratory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#laboratory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/lab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lab</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/danger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#danger</a>

Sidoine B.Sortie d'un exceptionnel WebDeepFantasia ! Ses deux invités, ALT236 et Feldup, font de cet épisode une monumentale masterclass sur le sujet des BackRooms. Un boulot énorme de <a href="https://mamot.fr/@blast_info" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@blast_info</a> A voir absolument :nko_sunglasses: <a href="https://youtu.be/Zw762qyrcLI" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">youtu.be/Zw762qyrcLI</a> <a href="https://video.blast-info.fr/w/hHEUfRHiiJ1VSv6xMCkwNb" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">video.blast-info.fr/w/hHEUfRHiiJ1VSv6xMCkwNb</a> Cc: <a href="https://mamot.fr/@denissalem" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@denissalem</a> <a href="https://peculiar.florist/tags/alt236" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#alt236</a> <a href="https://peculiar.florist/tags/Feldup" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Feldup</a> <a href="https://peculiar.florist/tags/backrooms" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#backrooms</a> <a href="https://peculiar.florist/tags/WebDeepFantasia" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WebDeepFantasia</a>

trash panda qcnice architectural things happening on some of the lesser known <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/backrooms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#backrooms</a> channels recently<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUDtYnyTlaw" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUDtYnyTlaw</a>

Jason Pettus :blobnom:<a href="https://social.lol/@steven" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@steven</a> <a href="https://social.lol/@petebrown" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@petebrown</a> Here in my opinion is one of the scarier <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Backrooms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Backrooms</a> videos. I don't think it's a coincidence that it plays out almost exactly like the original "The Blair Witch Project."<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhHJ4poD2tg" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhHJ4poD2tg</a>

Jason Pettus :blobnom:<a href="https://social.lol/@steven" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@steven</a> <a href="https://social.lol/@petebrown" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@petebrown</a> Here's the original text-based wiki where the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Backrooms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Backrooms</a> mythos was first created. If you don't know, a creepypasta is when someone comes up with a germ of an idea ("a tall slender man has started appearing outside people's windows at night"), then hundreds of others contribute details ("he's called Slenderman!"), the ones most liked becoming the ones most repeated, and thus "canon." It's a fascinating subculture, particularly loved by teen boys.<a href="https://backrooms.fandom.com/wiki/Backrooms_Wiki" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://backrooms.fandom.com/wiki/Backrooms_Wiki</a>

Jason Pettus :blobnom:<a href="https://social.lol/@petebrown" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@petebrown</a> Ha, I saw that too! <a href="https://saturation.social/@clive" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@clive</a> always puts together the best links!On a related note, I'm now contemplating actually learning Blender, because after watching something like 200 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Backrooms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Backrooms</a> videos in the last month, I have all these ideas now for how to make them MUCH scarier.

Giacomo BencistàViromalous Backrooms survival guide <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Backrooms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Backrooms</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/weird" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#weird</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/backroom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#backroom</a> Via: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/backrooms/comments/1lt0t38/here_is_a_short_survival_guide_i_made_using_some/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.reddit.com/r/backrooms/comments/1lt0t38/here_is_a_short_survival_guide_i_made_using_some/</a>

Jason Pettus :blobnom:Saw this at my neighborhood Target today, and all I could think was, "I've been watching way too many <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Backrooms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Backrooms</a> videos"

Jason Pettus :blobnom:Pac-Man in the style of a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Backrooms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Backrooms</a> "AI gone insane" horror short <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is4I9ryaKEs" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is4I9ryaKEs</a>

Jason Pettus :blobnom:Nice -- a new art book examines American locations in real life that look like the "hallucinating AI horror" series <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Backrooms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Backrooms</a>.<a href="https://www.lensculture.com/articles/orejarena-and-stein-american-glitch" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.lensculture.com/articles/orejarena-and-stein-american-glitch</a>

Jason Pettus :blobnom:SOMEONE HELP MEI CANNOT STOP WATCHING <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BACKROOMS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BACKROOMS</a> VIDEOSMY BROTHER MADE FUN OF ME WHEN I TOLD HIM"THAT SHIT'S THREE YEARS OLD, PETTUS!!!!"I CANNOT HEEELLLP IIIIITTT⛧ s̵͔͚̥̟̙͂͛ô̷̤̐̽̈́̚m̷̥̩͈͗e̸͔̻͗͛͌̓̈́o̶̗̟̺͍͚̿͑n̷̠̎͂̈́e̴̫͋̉͌ ̶̢͔͓̂̀ͅḣ̵̢̢͙̯ê̵̼l̴̲͍̠̹̃̏p̷̨̨̛͆̈́̐͜͝ͅ ̶͖̙́m̶̢̜̝̭̣͛̓ĕ̶̜͇̺̳̀̔ę̶̮̮̱͎̃̈è̴͕̟̞͎̪͑̕ę̶͖̈́e̸͚̮͊ͅê̵̪̺̯̓̑e̶͖͑͂̃ė̷̜̜͑͝ ψ<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS5AjC5R5ic" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS5AjC5R5ic</a>

Jason Pettus :blobnom:Yep, I'm back to obsessively watching <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Backrooms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Backrooms</a> videos tonight! (See previous posts on my profile page for a whole lot more.) This particular video makes me realize how indebted these horror shorts are to the original "Blair Witch Project," in that 99% of the running time is devoted just to establishing a creepy vibe, then with something truly horrific only in the last 60 seconds to send you on your way legitimately terrified.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhHJ4poD2tg" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhHJ4poD2tg</a>

Jason Pettus :blobnom:Okay, last thought about Kane Parson's horror series <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Backrooms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Backrooms</a>, that I think why they've touched such a nerve (he's a bored teen who's nonetheless gotten 200 million views) is that they express our collective dread over AI right now, how it kind of gets reality right by being based on bits of reality, but puts the bits together so nonsensically that it creates existential repulsion. This video especially feels like if we were living inside a faulty AI bot.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acdYs9tPLko" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acdYs9tPLko</a>

Jason Pettus :blobnom:I take back what I said earlier (see previous posts for more), about how Kane Parson's <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Backrooms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Backrooms</a> horror videos are "kind of" inspired by Mark Danielewski's Generation-X experimental classic "House of Leaves;" this video is basically a shot-for-shot ripoff of the novel, but with his own creepypasta spin on it all. (Don't feel bad for Danielewski; after all, he himself was just ripping off "Poltergeist.")<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA5PxGHqpTo" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA5PxGHqpTo</a>

Jason Pettus :blobnom:Still deep into my rabbit hole today of the collective horror mythos known as <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Backrooms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Backrooms</a> (see previous posts for more). What makes the videos so effective by the first person to make them, teen filmmaker Kane Parsons, is that he steals heavily from Mark Danielewski's experimental classic "House of Leaves" as far as setting a vibe, but then adds an edge that is sometimes legitimately terrifying. Here's the best one yet I've seen at his channel when it comes to all that.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XwlWXtpaCM" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XwlWXtpaCM</a>

Jason Pettus :blobnom:3/ What really strikes me about <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Backrooms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Backrooms</a> is how dankmemes-like it is, a subreddit I'm obsessed with as a 56-year-old because I know how much I would've loved it at 17. Creators of Backrooms content play off each other's ideas, no one person owning or defining the horror mythos but rather each person adding whatever details they want, the most clever ones repeated more and more until they become "canon." That's a fascinating way to make art and tell stories. /END<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am_zqorXHSM" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am_zqorXHSM</a>

Jason Pettus :blobnom:Deep into my rabbit hole dive into <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Backrooms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Backrooms</a> (see previous posts for more). A really fascinating part of it is that it's "creepypasta," or a collective non-copyrighted horror mythos not created or owned by any one person; there are hundreds of people adding to the story, through a written wiki and tons of YouTube vids, a marketplace of ideas where each person plays off whatever details from others they like the most, so that the best ideas become the "canon." (cont)<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-1nKkw0mjo" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-1nKkw0mjo</a>

Jason Pettus :blobnom:I've fallen DEEPLY down the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Backrooms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Backrooms</a> rabbit hole today, a collective non-copyrighted horror mythos based around the idea of a portal into an otherworldly infinite universe of "liminal spaces" (dead malls, abandoned offices, empty hotel corridors), home to wandering malevolent creatures. One thing that really strikes me is how much it's a Gen-Z reflection of dread over abandoned '90s spaces from their childhoods, mashed up with "House of Leaves" and "Annihilation."<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIFhglHn3W0" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIFhglHn3W0</a>

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