What Exactly Is Viral Online Creepypasta The Backrooms?

The Backrooms began as a 4Chan creepypasta about a yellow liminal maze and quickly spread across Reddit and YouTube.

Kane Parsons turned the concept into popular found-footage shorts that helped define the Backrooms as a modern horror myth.

Parsons later brought The Backrooms to A24, where the film opened with a strong box office debut.

The rise of Backrooms shows how an internet meme can grow into a mainstream horror franchise through online fandom.