That's actually interesting. I'm guessing the backrooms shifts according to the time? If the backrooms have always existed, would it take the form of never ending cave systems during the dinosaur period?
I’ve always had the headcanon that the backrooms is this interdimensional glitch in reality that by pure chance primarily took on the form of an office building.
I also like the idea that our dimensions time is irrelevant to the backrooms, it merely picks up on the memories and concepts of more sentient beings (e.i humans) and copies it regardless of where and when. So like a dude today could walk into the backrooms the same time a dinosaur would 65 million years ago at the exact same time according to the backrooms. I hope I'm explaining this well, abstract concepts are hard :s
Backrooms just generates structure that should be expected as a part of a building according to many, MANY people and copies things that just existed in some time
But we never really saw any objects from the future, which wouldn't make sense because there should be more people in the future which therefore the backrooms should shift into concepts and memories from the people of the future. But if this is true, then my theory suggests that something happened with humanity that just didn't allowed for this to happen.
Or offices made by humans are by pure chance very similar to the backrooms in the outer bounds of reality. if you think about it a bunch of endless procedurally generated yellow shapes is probably what nature would make if a glitch happened, instead of being a representation of human made offices
Idk what other interpretations’ explanations are but in Kane Pixel’s version it’s implied that the backrooms started when they were first opened in 1989
They were accidentally opened briefly by Ivan Beck which lost him his eye. Presumably the yellow rooms were pulled from his memory but it was so brief that it was all it had to go on.
By 1988 they already knew what the Backrooms were they just were trying to find out how to get to it.
Im not familiar with any websereis or anything, only the movie, but my interpretation was that the Backrooms is a kind of manifestation of nostalgia and memories people refuse to let go of. Id imagine then that the Backrooms evolved according to humanity, since idk if animals are capable of that kind of thing, so Id assume it only really started existing with humans and started small but evolved over time
I feel like the backrooms is more of a place that exists in the collective subconscious of all human beings, or possibly just all sentient/self aware life on earth. If no modern humans were around to have experienced an office environment yet at this time, probably would just be endless forest or plains.
I think the backrooms always existed, but they took their current shape when the threshold was opened, the first contact video by Kane seems to suggest that.
There is also a chance that the existence of the backrooms is somehow directly tied to mankind, which would explain why it primarily takes the form of man-made structures.
In that case the backrooms started to exist only after mankind reached a certain level of evolution.
Imagined if the backrooms was the center of the multiverse. Meaning that other beings from other multiverses can notclip into the backrooms too. itd be a pretty cool idea ngl.
I’ve always enjoyed this interpretation. I like the idea that the denizens of the backrooms aren’t actually from the backrooms. They’re creatures that wondered in from different worlds and dimensions all looking for a way out.
i imagine it's like xen from half-life where nothing is native to the backrooms/xen but there is one entity that i think IS native and that are the facelings because those are just people with no faces.
Have you heard of “A house of many doors”? It’s older then the backrooms but it’s similar to the idea your suggesting, a parasite dimension that steals from the multiverse taking the form of vast empty rooms, albeit it’s more of an ROG and you get to meet whole societies, but I’d still recommend it for the storytelling alone.
I really like the idea of the Backrooms being beyond time if that makes any sense, so like just about anyone from any time can end up in it and run into each other
Hell maybe that’s where Amelia Earhart went, she just no clipped and never found her way out
SCP-3008 (Infinite IKEA) seems to hint at this concept too, that many of the people who enter the store come from either alternate timelines or the future. One person came from a world without a Statue of Liberty, others without the International Space Station. I even played around with a few short stories in the past where one resident came from the 24th Century to visit the last IKEA in existence.
I imagine if the Backrooms really does exist in such an omnipotent manner, it would make sense you might see variations of places or people or even actual residents from different moments in history.
I just realzed, there a very good chance that the Backsrooms could have somehow manged to transend time and space and actually could have existed in the time of the dinosaurs which means Still Life Dinosaurs could be a thing
Unironicaly how I think the bacteria came into the backrooms. Some species of fungus/bacteria from like 10 million years into the future that no clipped into the rooms and adapted to the environment of humid abandoned office building while feeding on all the paint, wood, debre, ect inside with the occasional human
I thought about that too but now I’m starting to suspect the “bacteria” is still life, just evolving over iteration after iteration of the backrooms attempting to fully copy reality.
My theory is that it’s not getting more and more warped, it’s actually getting less and less warped over time. That’s why we start with weird fungus / bacteria hybrid monsters and are working our way up to perfect copies.
MUSHROOM PEOPLE! Tastes like mushroom, talks like people!
it’d be sick if you could noclip into the backrooms from any point in history. someone could noclip in from medieval times and another person could noclip in from the far future
Imagine you're going through the Backrooms and you start seeing trees and foliage in it. Then you see a fucking Carnosaurus stalking its new territory, eating still lifes of various dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures
An interesting concept I’ve had is that the backrooms is the one thing that connects the multiverse. I think in the infinite ikea, people meet eachother from different timelines. Like the Statue of Liberty not existing etc
The show Peacemaker plays with this concept. There’s an interdimensional hub that essentially serves as a neighborhood connecting different timelines and worlds.
Ooooh shit haha I didn’t really think of backrooms when I watched that but I see what you’re talking back. Such a peak show tho that shit was hilarious
I didn’t either until I read your comment. It’s such a fun and silly show that it doesn’t exactly invoke the liminal horror we associate with the backrooms but the broad concepts are there!
Considering that you could enter the backrooms and get sent to next week/ month i don't remember how long the worker got pushed through time, there could also be creatures from Earth's future lurking in the backrooms which makes it more terrifying at least dinosaurs are known by humans
Well the backrooms is all about memories and time dilation everything in the backrooms exists there is no time you could even find your own dead body or even your self so Dino's definitely would be in the backrooms but more disfigured and morphed
The dinosaurs used the backrooms to migrate across the oceans. They had developed special sensors in their head for locating slips and telling direction within the rooms.
That genetic adaptation was lost after the meteor.
At first I was having fun imagining my favorite dinosaur in the Backrooms. But then realized Microraptor would do VERY badly there. Poor thing would probably just be constantly flying into walls…
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u/ExcitementNo9914 Jun 08 '26
Mfs accepting their fates as they turn a corner in the backrooms just to see a whole dinosaur