{"id":7914,"date":"2023-02-02T10:25:41","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T17:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=7914"},"modified":"2023-07-30T18:18:28","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T01:18:28","slug":"backrooms-and-the-horror-of-liminal-spaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=7914","title":{"rendered":"Backrooms and the Horror of Liminal Spaces"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u201cIf you\u2019re not careful and you noclip out of reality in the wrong areas, you\u2019ll end up in the Backrooms, where it\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

God save you if you hear something wandering around nearby because it sure as hell has heard you\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n

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The Backrooms is an urban legend and June 10, 2019 creepypasta<\/a> which originated in a 4chan thread about unsettling images. It’s one of the first examples of liminal spaces \u2014 an aesthetic that creates unique feelings of eeriness, nostalgia, and apprehension when presented with such places outside of their designed context. They often involve pictures of familiar places that usually are busy – but are empty in the photo. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Super Eyepatch Wolf does a great little documentary on the phenomenon<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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