Pixels videos have been credited with launching a wave of new Backrooms content and bringing the trend into the mainstream. Some video games room-inspired independents have already been released, as well as no shortage of short stories in the style creepypasta who imagine horror plots in endless yellow spaces. Related memes abound and the phrase that accompanies them is often the same: “You wake up in this place and an entity is following you. What are you doing?”. The imagination of the contents and the mystery According to the original photo, the Backrooms remain a true horror legend. A constantly updated file on the web kept track of users’ searches to find out where the original location was, as the photo on the 4chan forum dates back to before the boom in generative artificial intelligence.
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Find the original photo of the Backrooms
It turned out that the meme originates from a photo taken in a hobby shop of Oshkosh, in the state of Wisconsin in the United States. The mysterious photo that launched the phenomenon depicts the interior of a HobbyTown merchandise franchise store in 2003. The image that has become fashionable in digital culture is a simple series of rooms, with yellow carpeting, off-white wallpaper and yellow fluorescent lighting, which was right at the back of the store. They were found by a group of users Discord who had been on the trail of the photo that introduced the horror meme for some time. By tracing the name of the original file posted on 4chan, the investigators were able to trace the initial camera and then the location.
It thus turns out that theand Backrooms depicted in the original photo belong to a location located on Oregon Street in Oshkosh, whose back rooms were later transformed into a track for remote-controlled cars. HobbyTown manager Shawn Black estimates that at least two dozen people have visited the store just to see the space since the discovery. “I expected more visitors than we had because we received calls saying we would be inundated with people wanting to visit the store,” Black said. “If I’m honest, I find it fascinating that a photo taken over 20 years ago has attracted so much interest” he added.
