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I read it, but I’m no wiser. This made zero sense to me.

crooked-v 2y ago
It's increasingly recursive, usually low-quality fanfiction of the original one-off post describing the Backrooms as a setting as a spooky endless office interior with undetailed monsters in it.
- corimaith 2y ago
  Kinda similar to the SCP where a novel concept is caught by the mainstream and then done to death.
  - RHSeeger 2y ago
    There are some pretty wonderful SCP stories. I'm a fan of the anti-meme stories, infinite Ikea, and a few others.
Fnoord 2y ago
Same, it made zero sense to me. In an age of housing and energy crisis we have huge buildings with lights on for no reason whatsoever? I can't fathom that. So it has to be fiction, and then I think of MUDs, Mystic Quest, WoW, and Elvira. Scary can be part of end of repetition. Also, repetition in gaming is a means to deal with lack of [other] content. In non-fiction that sound you hear in an empty building is probably some homeless person, a prisoner, sex slave, or all three: you ended up in a SM basement. The probability of that is near zero, so shrug it off as fiction. The beauty of fiction is: if you don't like it, if you don't get it, if it gives you inspiration to something competely different -- you are free to do so. Whereas with non-fiction, reality and facts (or laws) may haunt you into oblivion. E.g. paralysis on judgment day.
nkrisc 2y ago
Ditto. What am I supposed to make of this: > This time, I found a level called The Crystal Fields (Level 894). It consists of 300,000 square miles of waving emerald grass dotted by modern windmills, with blue crystal growths spawning throughout. It’s a place of calm, barring the threat of Krystalrs. What are Krystalrs? Giant crystal spiders that burrow underground and cause hallucinations. Also an orb named Jason lives here. Are the bland writings of 12 year olds noteworthy now? It’s a wiki of bad fiction? As far as I can there’s there’s not even a story. Is it supposed to be scary? And now there’s a movie?
- pimlottc 2y ago
  That it’s bad is indeed the authors point: > A common axiom about horror movies is that they become less scary when you see the monster, when it stops lurking and becomes a presence on the screen. This is so far beyond that. The Backrooms Wiki not only shows us the monster, but cages it and transports it to a medical campus where you, the reader, are invited to participate in its dissection, as well as a week-long symposium detailing its anatomy. With footnotes from the writer detailing its creation. It’s an absurd degree of telling, not showing.
  - whythre 2y ago
    If something is purposefully bad in order to prove some ironic meta narrative point, it’s just bad.

It's increasingly recursive, usually low-quality fanfiction of the original one-off post describing the Backrooms as a setting as a spooky endless office interior with undetailed monsters in it.

corimaith 2y ago
Kinda similar to the SCP where a novel concept is caught by the mainstream and then done to death.
- RHSeeger 2y ago
  There are some pretty wonderful SCP stories. I'm a fan of the anti-meme stories, infinite Ikea, and a few others.

Fnoord 2y ago

Same, it made zero sense to me. In an age of housing and energy crisis we have huge buildings with lights on for no reason whatsoever? I can't fathom that. So it has to be fiction, and then I think of MUDs, Mystic Quest, WoW, and Elvira. Scary can be part of end of repetition. Also, repetition in gaming is a means to deal with lack of [other] content. In non-fiction that sound you hear in an empty building is probably some homeless person, a prisoner, sex slave, or all three: you ended up in a SM basement. The probability of that is near zero, so shrug it off as fiction. The beauty of fiction is: if you don't like it, if you don't get it, if it gives you inspiration to something competely different -- you are free to do so. Whereas with non-fiction, reality and facts (or laws) may haunt you into oblivion. E.g. paralysis on judgment day.

nkrisc 2y ago

Ditto. What am I supposed to make of this: > This time, I found a level called The Crystal Fields (Level 894). It consists of 300,000 square miles of waving emerald grass dotted by modern windmills, with blue crystal growths spawning throughout. It’s a place of calm, barring the threat of Krystalrs. What are Krystalrs? Giant crystal spiders that burrow underground and cause hallucinations. Also an orb named Jason lives here. Are the bland writings of 12 year olds noteworthy now? It’s a wiki of bad fiction? As far as I can there’s there’s not even a story. Is it supposed to be scary? And now there’s a movie?

pimlottc 2y ago
That it’s bad is indeed the authors point: > A common axiom about horror movies is that they become less scary when you see the monster, when it stops lurking and becomes a presence on the screen. This is so far beyond that. The Backrooms Wiki not only shows us the monster, but cages it and transports it to a medical campus where you, the reader, are invited to participate in its dissection, as well as a week-long symposium detailing its anatomy. With footnotes from the writer detailing its creation. It’s an absurd degree of telling, not showing.
- whythre 2y ago
  If something is purposefully bad in order to prove some ironic meta narrative point, it’s just bad.