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Not really on topic for rec.arts.latest.arctic.ice.measurements,
but some may be interested anyway.
I'm a fan of classic animation, something which Youtube
seems intermittently aware of, and a few weeks ago it
pitched me the video "Sylvester the Cat in the Backrooms".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guZe65EGVZk
The thumbnail was intriguing because it looked like
someone had taken classic Looney Tunes animation and
put in new backgrounds. Indeed, when I watched it,
most (but not all) of the classic animation was from
"The Last Hungry Cat", a toon wherein Sylvester comes
to believe he has finally caught, and eaten, Tweety.
Wracked with guilt, he is tormented by an Alfred
Hitchcockesque narrator (the short is in part a
parody of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents") who suggests
various, ineffective, coping strategies. Finally,
unable to sleep, chain-smoking and chugging black
coffee, Sylvester decides the only thing to do is to
turn himself in & confess.
What sets the video apart from the original shorts is that it takes
place in some sort of a purgatory into which Sylvester finds himself
thrust: An endless, empty, creepy sterile labyrinth of florescent
lit corridors that go nowhere with the only sound an enervating 60
cycle hum.
Clearly the setting was the point of the video, and
clearly the viewer was supposed to know something about
it, which I did not, so I googled "The Backrooms", which
led me to a Wikipedia page and the explanation:
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.
Internet users have expanded on the concept of the Backrooms,
introducing concepts such as "levels" and hostile creatures
that inhabit the space. In early 2022, American YouTuber
Kane Parsons started a series of Backrooms short films on
YouTube, which went viral. The videos have been credited
with igniting a surge in Backrooms content and taking the
concept into the mainstream. Parsons is slated to direct a
film adaptation of his series produced by A24.
On 27/09/2025 03:25, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
Not really on topic for rec.arts.latest.arctic.ice.measurements,
but some may be interested anyway.
I'm a fan of classic animation, something which Youtube
seems intermittently aware of, and a few weeks ago it
pitched me the video "Sylvester the Cat in the Backrooms".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guZe65EGVZk
The thumbnail was intriguing because it looked like
someone had taken classic Looney Tunes animation and
put in new backgrounds. Indeed, when I watched it,
most (but not all) of the classic animation was from
"The Last Hungry Cat", a toon wherein Sylvester comes
to believe he has finally caught, and eaten, Tweety.
Wracked with guilt, he is tormented by an Alfred
Hitchcockesque narrator (the short is in part a
parody of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents") who suggests
various, ineffective, coping strategies. Finally,
unable to sleep, chain-smoking and chugging black
coffee, Sylvester decides the only thing to do is to
turn himself in & confess.
What sets the video apart from the original shorts is that it takes
place in some sort of a purgatory into which Sylvester finds himself
thrust: An endless, empty, creepy sterile labyrinth of florescent
lit corridors that go nowhere with the only sound an enervating 60
cycle hum.
Clearly the setting was the point of the video, and
clearly the viewer was supposed to know something about
it, which I did not, so I googled "The Backrooms", which
led me to a Wikipedia page and the explanation:
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.
Internet users have expanded on the concept of the Backrooms,
introducing concepts such as "levels" and hostile creatures
that inhabit the space. In early 2022, American YouTuber
Kane Parsons started a series of Backrooms short films on
YouTube, which went viral. The videos have been credited
with igniting a surge in Backrooms content and taking the
concept into the mainstream. Parsons is slated to direct a
film adaptation of his series produced by A24.
"Florescent" sounds nice, there's an ecology.
Though presumably somebody comes from an agency
to water the plants, and you may not want to
meet that somebody.
Doctor Who visited what turned out to be
an enormous hotel in outer space, labyrinthine...
with a resident minotaur. I say resident, it
mostly wandered around the corridors.
Don't wander around the corridors.
Someone may have seen a movie with
similar motifs.
J. G. Ballard's _Report on an Unidentified
Space Station_ describes a vast space of
airport-style walkways and lounges where
astronauts get lost. I think eventually it
seems to be larger than the rest of the universe.
I interpret it as a description of insanity,
perhaps the author's.
Not really on topic for rec.arts.latest.arctic.ice.measurements,
but some may be interested anyway.
I'm a fan of classic animation, something which Youtube
seems intermittently aware of, and a few weeks ago it
pitched me the video "Sylvester the Cat in the Backrooms".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guZe65EGVZk
The thumbnail was intriguing because it looked like
someone had taken classic Looney Tunes animation and
put in new backgrounds. Indeed, when I watched it,
most (but not all) of the classic animation was from
"The Last Hungry Cat", a toon wherein Sylvester comes
to believe he has finally caught, and eaten, Tweety.
Wracked with guilt, he is tormented by an Alfred
Hitchcockesque narrator (the short is in part a
parody of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents") who suggests
various, ineffective, coping strategies. Finally,
unable to sleep, chain-smoking and chugging black
coffee, Sylvester decides the only thing to do is to
turn himself in & confess.
What sets the video apart from the original shorts is that it takes
place in some sort of a purgatory into which Sylvester finds himself
thrust: An endless, empty, creepy sterile labyrinth of florescent
lit corridors that go nowhere with the only sound an enervating 60
cycle hum.
Clearly the setting was the point of the video, and
clearly the viewer was supposed to know something about
it, which I did not, so I googled "The Backrooms", which
led me to a Wikipedia page and the explanation:
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.
Internet users have expanded on the concept of the Backrooms,
introducing concepts such as "levels" and hostile creatures
that inhabit the space. In early 2022, American YouTuber
Kane Parsons started a series of Backrooms short films on
YouTube, which went viral. The videos have been credited
with igniting a surge in Backrooms content and taking the
concept into the mainstream. Parsons is slated to direct a
film adaptation of his series produced by A24.
...
...
Between 2011 and 2018, a photograph of a large, carpeted
room with fluorescent lights and dividing walls circulated
on various message boards, and on May 12, 2019, an anonymous
user started a thread on /x/, 4chan's paranormal-themed
board, asking users to "post disquieting images that just
feel 'off,'" accompanying the thread with the photograph.
Another user replied to this post, giving the image its
name and supplying the first description of the Backrooms:
If you're not careful and you noclip out of reality
in the wrong areas, you'll end up in the Backrooms,
where it's nothing but the stink of old moist carpet,
the madness of mono-yellow, the endless background
noise of fluorescent lights at maximum hum-buzz,
and approximately six hundred million square miles
of randomly segmented empty rooms to be trapped in
God save you if you hear something wandering around nearby,
because it sure as hell has heard you
rCorCeAnonymous, 4chan (May 13, 2019)[1]
OK, so I looked up Parsons videos, starting with "The Backrooms
(Found Footage)"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4dGpz6cnHo
and continuing with
Backrooms - Informational Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIFhglHn3W0
Backrooms - Motion Detected
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FDotUHfpWk
Backrooms - Report
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywVxpZ4XUBM
Backrooms - Presentation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITuGdHxHi0A
Backrooms - Lighting & Tile Survey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSWUEmJDglw
Backrooms - Static Dead End
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbPaWvqAEq4
Backrooms - Prototype
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_UN1dsZ9Vg
Backrooms - First Contact
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXdIDjzy6KY
Backrooms - Missing Persons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py6c5NaHeB8
Backrooms - Reunion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye6YpxFE9jk
Backrooms - Pitfalls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XwlWXtpaCM
Backrooms - I Remember
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-H59GkA-I4
Backrooms - Found Footage #2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA5PxGHqpTo
Backrooms - Damage Control
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6klSI8GlXI
Backrooms - Overflow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TYopkSmKyA
Backrooms - The Third Test
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TYopkSmKyA
Backrooms - Autopsy Report
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AN6j7JYc1g
This is by no means all of the videos, and I skipped over
several long ones (on the order of 40 minutes), which I just
did not have the time or energy to get into.
However a coherent story emerges, told somewhat obliquely,
of a 1990s government contracting company, working with,
and to some extent leading on, the DOE with the ostensible
rationale of solving all the country's storage problems, and
following a plan with more Wile E level tenacity than sense.
There are continuing characters, ongoing plot threads, and an overall
sense of dread. The aesthetic is rather low-fi, consisting of 1990s
VHS/NTSC video from low-bidder cameras, which both works in-universe
and, I'm sure, saves on effects.
As I said, I have not watched all the videos yet, so I don't
know if it all comes to a climax and a satisfying conclusion,
but I have quite enjoyed what I have seen.
Be aware as well, that many other people are doing Backrooms
videos as well, and these (apart from the Sylvester video)
I have not seen, and cannot comment on.
Anyway, if that sounds down your alley -- Enjoy!
(Though I don't recommend visiting!)
In article <10b8fc7$1l1cn$1@dont-email.me>,
Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@gmail.com> wrote:
On 27/09/2025 03:25, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
Not really on topic for rec.arts.latest.arctic.ice.measurements,
but some may be interested anyway.
I'm a fan of classic animation, something which Youtube
seems intermittently aware of, and a few weeks ago it
pitched me the video "Sylvester the Cat in the Backrooms".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guZe65EGVZk
The thumbnail was intriguing because it looked like
someone had taken classic Looney Tunes animation and
put in new backgrounds. Indeed, when I watched it,
most (but not all) of the classic animation was from
"The Last Hungry Cat", a toon wherein Sylvester comes
to believe he has finally caught, and eaten, Tweety.
Wracked with guilt, he is tormented by an Alfred
Hitchcockesque narrator (the short is in part a
parody of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents") who suggests
various, ineffective, coping strategies. Finally,
unable to sleep, chain-smoking and chugging black
coffee, Sylvester decides the only thing to do is to
turn himself in & confess.
What sets the video apart from the original shorts is that it takes
place in some sort of a purgatory into which Sylvester finds himself
thrust: An endless, empty, creepy sterile labyrinth of florescent
lit corridors that go nowhere with the only sound an enervating 60
cycle hum.
Clearly the setting was the point of the video, and
clearly the viewer was supposed to know something about
it, which I did not, so I googled "The Backrooms", which
led me to a Wikipedia page and the explanation:
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.
Internet users have expanded on the concept of the Backrooms,
introducing concepts such as "levels" and hostile creatures
that inhabit the space. In early 2022, American YouTuber
Kane Parsons started a series of Backrooms short films on
YouTube, which went viral. The videos have been credited
with igniting a surge in Backrooms content and taking the
concept into the mainstream. Parsons is slated to direct a
film adaptation of his series produced by A24.
"Florescent" sounds nice, there's an ecology.
Though presumably somebody comes from an agency
to water the plants, and you may not want to
meet that somebody.
You know, I corrected that from flourescent because
well, it hasn't got "flour" in it, does it?
And I did correct it to a real word...
Doctor Who visited what turned out to be
an enormous hotel in outer space, labyrinthine...
with a resident minotaur. I say resident, it
mostly wandered around the corridors.
Don't wander around the corridors.
Someone may have seen a movie with
similar motifs.
Telzy found something similar, thought it was a "lion".
J. G. Ballard's _Report on an Unidentified
Space Station_ describes a vast space of
airport-style walkways and lounges where
astronauts get lost. I think eventually it
seems to be larger than the rest of the universe.
I interpret it as a description of insanity,
perhaps the author's.
I am also reminded of Sleator's _House Of Stairs_ though I can't
rememeber if the construct was endless, just that I hated the book.
On 9/26/2025 10:25 PM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:You are correct and you should repost to one or more of the animation groups if it stars Sylvester A. Cat or has Tweety E. Bird as victim.
Not really on topic for rec.arts.latest.arctic.ice.measurements,
but some may be interested anyway.