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Are the backrooms a collective subconscious fear of public spaces, malls, and big box companies closing and people’s inability to easily obtain goods and services? (hexbear.net)

submitted 4 days ago by zongor@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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One commonality between the spaces that exist in the back rooms are ones that emulate doctors offices, malls, corridors, pools, playgrounds, etc. all of these are either public or pseudo public spaces (like big box stores). Also there is a nostalgic quality to them, they all exist in a “built in the past” sort of context.

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[–] context@hexbear.net 4 points 4 days ago

The Backrooms are a fictional location originating from a 2019 4chan thread. One of the best known examples of the liminal space aesthetic, the Backrooms are usually portrayed as an impossibly large extradimensional expanse of empty rooms, accessed by exiting ("no-clipping out of") reality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Backrooms