: What are backrooms? Why are people scared of them?
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They are the place you go when you noclip out of reality, in other words they can only be accessed through a bug in real life. Also they are inhabited by all sorts of creepy creatures, that’s why they are so scary.
It’s a genre of online, semi-collaborative short fiction whereby the writers use a shared universe to write stories – often to a strict standard of formatting – which are then communally voted up or down. Popularity drives the evolution of the emergent canons, and these often spread into mainstream media through memes.
A key example here would be the near-mainstream SCP Foundation, originally inspired by early horror copy pasta and now an International platform for creative writing. This has begun to formally leak out into game franchises such as Alan Wake, Quantum Break and Control, as well as YouTubers that animate stories and introduce them to a wider audience.
As for the Backrooms, it is a newer platform – using the same Wikidot technology as SCP and others in the genre – that established a fresh setting and continues themes of the uncanny, exploration, the absurd, horror, psychology and shitposting.
As a former nightclub bouncer I can tell you the back room or back stair case is a place with no cameras where you get taken if you have done something particularly awful. I won’t go into too much detail but let’s just say you’ll be out numbered 4 to 1 and will be needing a trip to the hospital afterwards
Picture going down a hallway and as you turn right you realize that it looks like where you just were, go back and try to go the other direction and things will look exactly the same wherever you go no matter how far. Now imagine an unknown creature chasing you through these seemingly endless hallways.
The idea of the backrooms is easier to understand when put in a video game. If you imagine a video game where you are in a building, there will be doors you can’t open, areas you can’t access, there seems to be something behind this wall but there is no way to access it. The thought of what lies behind this wall is the foundation of the backrooms. Once you “clip” (basically means pass through) this wall of reality you enter an endless dimension behind the wall.
If you are familiar with the backrooms you should know this video:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4dGpz6cnHo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4dGpz6cnHo)
What makes it scary is the unsettling feeling of being alone and at the same time the possibility that you are not alone. Even if there was no monster, the implication that something could be there is enough to make people feel scared.
The feeling of loneliness, the feeling of being pursued, the feeling of an unsettling sense of deja vu that becomes too real. Top it off with a creature that isn’t human, the fear of death and uncertainty.
Perhaps there is an exit somewhere, nothing is ever truly endless right? What if there is more than 1 monster? What if its right around this corner? Does it hear me? or maybe it can see me? What happens when the lights turn off? What was that sound? Thats fear.
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