It is true that is the first time MatPat move it in video, but I knew that it can be move. I’m surprised that so many people didn’t know that, unless they just don’t use RUclips on computers.
When Mat was looking at the video dates, he missed an error if this is supposed to be our world. the date 2/29/1990 would make that year a leap year. Feb 29th. But looking back 1990 wasn't a leap year! Probably means nothing, but maybe worth noting!
@@dandanthedandan7558 If there was, are they both accurate leap year? As in is it every four year, despite that they're both non-leap year in "our world." If so, then that pushed the fact that it's most likely not a typo...
I work on vhs tapes, the wave effect around 29:00 is because vhs tapes use magnetic tape to play and record video, so the electro magnetic field from the backrooms disturbed the vhs tape inside of her vhs camera. This also is why her voice is distorted when she calls out for help in front of the couch.
I thought the hole got bigger because the tape measure is conductive. It's like a thin strip of spring metal. So it amplified the low proximity magnetic distortion field.
Additional note: The driver of the car gets out, goes into the room presumably 5 years earlier and succumbs to his injuries, and when found footage 2 lady wanders in, there's a bacteria-mold-vine-whatever monster in what is theoretically the only place he could have ended up. seems to me like this confirms the previous theory of the monsters' origins
definitely what i thought, i also think that when people die, at some point the back rooms transforms them in these monsters along with their memories (hence the picture).
@@GusCraft460 Not sure, maybe something happened on the driver's side? Or possibly the passenger door was flung open, and the person exited their car through the driver's seat and closed it subconsciously.
I know it might seem silly, but my first instinct, if I fell through the floor, and then found very tall chairs, would be to take one of the chairs and try to climb up and phase back out through the ceiling. There's no reason to believe the rift is gone now, so it's good to at least try, right? It seemed almost like game design- you need to get back up, here's something to help you!
30:50 Also notice how all the stuff falls at the same time as she does. Bad example but: it kind of reminds me of when you throw things into the end portal in Minecraft. The things don't "render" until you, the character, see it. So, maybe the portal to the Backrooms was open for a while on earth time, but it was less than a second in the Backrooms. Kinda like Narnia... Just a thought
The song playing in the background of the "Home" video 55:45. Is an instrumental version of "Time Passages" by Al Stewart. Fitting, because the song talks about returning home and the memories surrounding. Its a very sentimental tune! Have no Idea if it has any lore implications, but just as a stylistic choice, it's very clever and in my opinion, well thought out! Props to Kane!
When mat was looking at the globe, he didn’t realize that the whole image was rotated, if you turn it right side up, you can clearly see Florida and most of South America
Ash is an omni-present ethereal being, she is all and none. She voices you, me, even Mat. They have conquered this earth. It is foolish to think they do _not_ voice anything.
I'm starting to think that the random objects, like the road signs and chairs, aren't being "created" by the monsters or a computer simulation. The no-clip zones stay in the same place, right? And when a person loses something they replace it. Road sign disappears? Must be those rascal teens again, we'll just put up another one. Dining room chair gone? Someone might've need it to reach something somewhere else in the house, I'll just move this other chair to take its place.
There's also some distortion to alot of the objects, the chair and table set were stretched vertically, and the road signs were reversed. There might be afew other examples but that's all I could find.
"How do you discover a small square like this is just a portal to somewhere else?" Well, see, some of us are graceful enough that we drop things in front of ourselves constantly for no reason, Matt. AKA, if it were me, I'd probably have lost my phone to the backrooms by dropping it in that specific square...
I have the special power of finding any corner or out of place object by running into or tripping over it. So I could easily see that happening. Could be something like those wood chips got spilled across the floor and she noticed a clean/empty spot, so she investigated.
Just a name to watch out for, Ivan Beck. Kane in an interview stated that he is the Protagonist and the Antagonist of the series yet we havn't even seen him yet. Kane also said that there isn't really a Bad person or thing in the series and poeple should stop thinking that The bacteria is the bad guy. And the last thing i wanted to say is that in the interview he said that he had the series figured out before he evan started to make it.
Going with the theory that objects in the backrooms can get turned into monsters, it would be cool if the tripod the girl dropped in with turned into the monster that chases Kane in the first ever backrooms upload as Found Footage is dated a year after the events of Found Footage #2
I think it’s more likely that the tripod monster came from the motion detected video shortly after we see some sore of creature come into frame during that video the recording cuts. So it’s possible whatever we saw would have been more likely to interacted with the camera and tripod of that video. Another strong point that would lead me to believe that the tripod monster is not from the tripod we see dropped in this video is that the tripod monster from found footage 1 seems to be in the same location that the motion detected video takes place whereas found footage 2 seems to take place somewhere completely different
my parents used to work for a DoE so they were laughing when i showed them the series. also they said the parts with the DoE symbol in the corner looked realistic, and i find that really interesting
Hot take: James (car driver) is the Entity. He talks about how "the house was taken by the sea" "cast down to the seabed with all the forgotten things" possibly implying that the sea bed (a huge empty space of unkown depths) is the backrooms themselves, as weve seen the tripod and cricketballs also being phased through to a place where they wouldnt be noticed if they went missing... Also, going back to the Entity, he states "I remember, fleeting shells sinking ever slowly, folding downwards into themselves" could be refrenceing after he left the car wreckage, he died in that room and his cells literly break down slowly, decomposition style, but he was aware of it as "nothing remained except the eternal ghost" his soul, was caught "forever tearing along the seams of the sky" so maybe (instead of just the horizon) the living earth and maybe heaven? or the space between "reality" and what the backrooms are. So James dies, is aware of his body decomposing, then the cells left produce something new (the whiteboards talk about cells) and the entity, with the soul of James, is rebuilding itself. The entity doesnt wake up untill its disturbed. Also in the first found footage, as thats dated after FF2, hes more mobile mobile/vocal, and you can even hear it asking for help. "And you ask yourself, could there ever be anything greater than this?"... "THEY HAVE ALWAYS BEEN HERE" Implying before Async, before the Entity, theres something much older, or something in control. If you look closely, the small gap she escapes through to get into that last dead end room, just before the green cracks appear, the gap becomes wider, hence the intentional angle hugging the left wall... Thats my take on it. Gotta say, KP has truely turned the backrooms and liminal space into something truely amazing, his channel is one of the few i have "dinged that bell" for!
This is what I was thinking too! Thank you for saying it better than I ever could! Also maybe the other corpse would have become another entity but they found and removed the body before it could become one?
@@jessicakramer4643 , this is actually a good point. In a Kane pixels interview by wendigoon, Kane pixels says that the protagonist AND antagonist is Ivan beck. I wonder if it was his car that ended up in the backrooms? Maybe?
@@Rispy well by the time we got to James he was being forced by time restraints to wrap it up fairly quickly so he couldn’t get all his thoughts in order.
@@you_won Well the clouds were in vertical lines, but since most pictures of earth are taken with the north pole at the top and the south pole at the bottom the clouds normally are horizontal lines. Matpad did notice that, but he did not notice at all that the shadow cast by the ball itself was on the bottom, which obviously means that the picture is taken 90° rotated from the "normal" perspective where if you photograph the shadow between day and night the shadow will be either on the left or the right and not the bottom of the picture.
@@freizeitphase1878 I noticed the perspective just from the coastline. That coast runs North to South on our Earth, which would be vertically with normal perspective but is running horizontally instead.
FunFact: even if you had an infinite space that doesn't mean your storage costs would shrink infinitely, you would just not have an upper limit or costs associated with scarcity but as you fill it transport costs and organizational costs would still rise at the normal rate.
@@discipleofdeath2517 There would still be certain costs associated with transport with multiple entrances both outside of them and inside as well and potentially in the case of the backrooms that could mean using the backrooms as a "quick travel" like the nether in Minecraft or that those storage areas are infinitely far apart and have no overlay. We really haven't seen enough to know how exactly it functions. If you could choose where in that infinite space doors open to, from and when, like a storage ring in eastern based fantasy then yes there would be no cost expansion but so far we haven't seen proof of that.
Would like to point out that MatPat's theory on the backrooms being a static structure is out the window, as we can see the wall shift to the right just before the green energy starts to overtake the room at the end.
Matt, you'll notice in the picture of the earth that the bottom of it seems less curved than the top, to me it seems like it was just a picture of the earth turned 90 degrees, and it's taken off center, hence the flatter bottom curve. If I were to guess this looks like the Atlantic ocean, specifically between south America and the left lobe of africa
100% agree, the underside on that photo looks like the day/night terminator Vsauce has a fun video about how earth looks from space, and why photos from different distances look so different
That's what I inferred as well, also bc the edge of where the sun hits the surface is on the south of the pic instead of left or right of the pic (east or west) so it's not that the earth has been turned, it's just that the pic has been turned 90 degrees
I share Ash's genuine disbelief at 12:40 when Mat moves the entire closed captions box. I've been alive since RUclips started and never once thought you could move the CC box around lol.
I have two things: One, the chairs look like someone who had never seen one tried to recreate it from a 2D image and had no idea of dimensions, especially if there was no background to give a size reference. When the video slowly walks around the chairs, there’s a point where it looks like a 3/4 angle pic from a catalogue or something similar. Two, the picture on the wall is the cover of Woman’s Home Companion Sept 1916 - it depicts a woman in a fox hunting riding habit. Not sure if it has any import, but there you have it :)
In pitfalls if you skip to the part where the Async employee falls in and enters the house, it has the same type of thing happening it's like a attempted depiction of the real world
@@SaulLingTheKingOfTheJungle i knew i'd seen it before - or at least something similar - and the image was very 40's to 50's. I knew the outfit was a riding habit of some kind, so i googled the history of riding habits and found this particular style is specifically for fox hunting (the color on the shoulders). I then looked for images of "1940's women in fox hunting". The magazine cover came up under this search.....way, way, way, way down the list, but there LOL It took about an hour of research :) I actually saw it twice before I realized it was the correct pic because they modified it a bit for the game :p
Before the green light, I noticed the walls moved and it reminded me of the Maze Runner, in that the maze is constantly re-shaping itself. Also pool rooms make sense as fungai need damp places to flourish.
The green lighting that appeared around the girl seems to be in the same pattern as the vines surrounding the monster in the first room. I believe that instead of eating her, the monster “reproduced” by turning her into one. The green lightning traps her and stays and blackens like the other room.
That's EXACTLY what I thought when I first saw it. The green light somehow grows or transforms into that fungus/vine structure. I'm personally thinking that she was somehow transformed into the same creature, in the same state she first saw it. In that sort of "resting" position.
Might it be that the monster was originally the person from the crash, and that the green light is more like an entity of the backrooms itself, taking control of the individuals that gets lost and turning them into monsters?
@@JonathanAmdam I suspect this is probably true as well. The person survived the crash, wandered for some time, and then was transformed into the monster we see in the video. The girl/protagonist of the video likely suffered the same fate.
The impression I got, from the "home" footage, was something like: one of the first people to move into the "Residential Backrooms", and the tape is just, like... a souvenir to remind them what the outside world is like (especially in case they start a family and have a child in the Backrooms who had never known "the real world"-- kind of like the underground bunker at the end of Downsizing), and so the photo we see, with the keyboard, and The Painting in the background, is, like... "Our First Night In The New Place", or something like that. I could be way off, of course; that's just the first place my mind went. tl;dr Happy music and happy footage to remind Brave New Residents of their old life, in case they get homesick after moving to the Backrooms.
For me, it makes me think the driver of the car was the origin of the Bacteria...and these bits of its real home as a human were created in the backrooms from what lingers of its human memory.
I think its the home of the girl recording. U can see a lot of the elements from the home vid in the backrooms. My assumption is its replicating the outside of the localised null zone
Ooo that’s interesting that maybe the painting was already in the backrooms in the home video! I was thinking they were two separate paintings, one in the real world and one in the backrooms, that were in some way connected. That’s also a really interesting interpretation of that video as well!
Pfffft- HahAhA me and Ash went: “you can MOVE IT!?” At the EXACT same time, that was incredible. I never knew you could move the subtitles, thats so useful
I think the girl probably found the hole because it’s like tripping over nothing. You do a double take and look back at where you trip only to see there’s nothing there, so she was probably just someone who decided to look down and see why.
Noticing all the concepts for the use of the Backrooms by A-SYNC, makes me think they were trying to "code" the backrooms to have a lot of these features: road signs for transit, furniture for residential, warehouses, and endless offices. I think in creating it though, there was a possible glitch, which is why everything appears tainted or slightly off. Maybe because alternate dimensions follow different laws of science and are not compatible or a faulty AI from the 90's? Lot's to consider from this.
If A-Sync was developing showrooms to present to the Government representative to continue their funding, it would make sense how those "assets" ended up in the Backrooms. And if the Backrooms themselves are a glitchy computer program, then in its procedural generation it could be inserting those assets repeatedly as though they were part of the original program. We haven't seen A-Sync try that level of manipulation of the Backrooms, they've only ever tried manipulating the physical layout through walls and the tether line. Which is why it seems as though the space itself is the one gaining these assets and doing weird things to them.
Hey MatPat if you haven't done so already, I recommend you listen to the interview Kane did with the channel Wendigang. He said some very interesting things and gave some possible lore hints.
Hay, dident see you comment till I made mine, but I would definitely agree that mat should listen to that interview for insight into the creator’s mindset and for hints
if you look at 05:47 you can see that the Wendigoon video abt the mandela catalogue has bern clicked on, so someoneon GT Live is at least aware of the wendigang. Would be rad to see Mat work wedigoons theory intro bis owen, as its way more plausible
The one where the lady is testing that hole and has it taped off, i think she most likely had dropped something and then noticed it, then used things to test out its radius, before she started to film it, and when she put the tape measure in it it was a sustained presence being sucked in, it so it responded and grew to stop that sustained pressense. kind of like kirby stretching his mouth to inhale more, the real question is what happened after she fell in, is the hole still there or did it seal its self over, maybe the backrooms its self is sentient, and the door async made had tethered it the earths world, and thats why theres various holes that keep happing letting people noclip in.
I think thats the very reason why she was using wood chips she was testing how big it was thats why you could see some remaining wood chips on the edges
I thought the hole got bigger because the tape measure is conductive. It's like a thin strip of spring metal. So it amplified the low proximity magnetic distortion field.
Theory on these: The back rooms can change based on the occupants will, to some degree. The original entity had a longing for familiar surroundings. Hence the home. But memory is faulty and the house isn't complete or truncated. The explorers just accept what the back rooms are and so don't change it... normally. The woman, desperately wanting out, made the section she was in dissolve. The camera man, wanting a way back faced with a drop in front of him. He gets caught but the camera escapes. The glowing lights are parts reforming. Usually not seen as the change may effect people.
And the ‘missing’ employee was most likely wanting the familiarity of A-Sync-those who could bring him home-and came across one of their built rooms. That’s and interesting theory. If the green was her being let out, and the FF1 guy just missing shy of his camera being sent back without him were some of the people most desperate to get back ‘home’ because of the immediate perceived danger posed by the entity-which explains why it didn’t happen to everyone, such as the body the researchers found.
Huh interesting and I know this from somewhere. I thought the green lights had the same pattern as the entity's "growth" and therefore theorised that she transformed.
That green glow that surrounded the girl reminds me of the mold/vines found in the room with the picture, I feel like the backrooms captured her and converted her into one of the vine monsters.
It seems like a really random thing to note, but in one of the first videos Matpat did on the backrooms, there is a scene where you're looking through the door that goes into the backrooms and there's an out of place red ghost image that he couldn't figure out what it was. He commented that it looked somewhat like an upside-down mushroom cloud. That "mushroom cloud" is actually the sunset at the end of the home_27647 . mov video. I don't know if it means anything important, but it's there. I'm also absolutely shocked that Matt didn't lose his mind just before the found footage girl was swallowed up by the green glow. The passage she squeezed through to get into that dead end was very narrow. When she turns the camera in her panic at the end you can see the narrow entrance ACTIVELY WIDENING. This is the first time we have seen the walls change their configuration. The walls have had a constant shape up to this point which was why the scientists could explore and map out the shape of the backrooms, this is the first example of it ever changing shape.
When that girl found that room with all the fungus thing in it and the painting she woke up or alerted the fungus monsters which looks very similar to the one in found footage 1 which makes me believe that after she got caught by that green thing the monster couldn’t find her so it started to Rome around until a year later the guy in found footage 1 encounter it and got chased by it
That’s really smart!!! What if it wasn’t trying to hurt her, but because it’s a scary monster looking thing- obviously that doesn’t talk early on, as seen in found footage 2- it just chases after her. Maybe it’s goal was help/ warn her about not traveling in the backrooms, because of what happened to him (James, turning into the entity) I mean, we do see the body in autopsy report, but that doesn’t look like James’ body at all, so we can infer that it’s Kane, or someone else who fell in.
No offense but there's multiple ones, a really tall and lanky one in pitfalls, a semi-tall one with no arm in ff#1 and a pretty short and slow one in ff#2 that has a weird diagonal stripe texture if you look close enough. Also ff#1 roars and screams, ff#2 Moans loudly ( I think but I muted most of the entity chase because the roars haunt me at night) and pitfalls entity can mimic voices. Also time gets messed up in the backrooms, the dates in the desc. Could be when they were found or time got altered. I think they're all different people who got infected by the bacteria. Edit: there's also another short one that leans over weird and looks like a tripod that catches Kane at the end of ff#1
18:58 while MatPat is talking he missed a flash. I paused at this moment and took a screenshot. I went to photos and flipped the image. There are words. It appears to say “D To Deceive The Fede” I assume it means to deceive the federal government but I’m not 100% of the rest because it was cut off. You should see for yourself.
I think it means to deceive the federal government. Async wants the government to let them continue their operations and to continue funding them. So they have to lie or deceive the government.
I saw a post about that on another video that made sense. ASYNC was government funded, and we’ve seen text in autopsy that they lost that funding. So I assume it is something about deceiving the federal government.
If you look closely you can see the start of other letters at the edge suggesting this is cut from the middle of a phrase... I also think the O could be a D. "Loved to deceive the federal government" ? "Had to deceive the federal bureau of investigation" ? (we do get that FBI warning at the beginning...)
My interpretation is that the "no-clip" effect became so powerful that it started sucking in everybody. Humans tried to stop it but ultimately failed, so everyone eventually became part of the backrooms, and thus "ghosts" no-clipping through realities forever. It feels like a stark warning about messing around with powerful forces that we barely comprehend.
10:20 He doesn't have to explain it so complicated because it's clear earth is rotated about 90° because the shadow (of night) is at the bottom and not right or left.
If it was a bacteria to start and is now seeming more plant like, does that suggest that it is evolving? Foreshadowing it may soon become human or animal-like. The backroooms as a whole seem to rely on growth and expanding so a monster inside also growing would make sense. Edit: Guy's I understand it may not be the same creature I was simply adding on to what Matpat said.
The backrooms are recreating places from the pictures, that's why everything is strange and distorted. If you look at the chairs from only one angle they can look normal but it doesn't understand what they are. The same with the house.
i think the weirdly shaped and placed furniture in the backrooms is very dreamlike. as a kid i would always have weird dreams of liminal spaces and sort of warped objects and overly familiar lighting that seems normal and relatable but also chaotic and unsettling
One theory was that whoever noclips into the backrooms bring some memories with them that are manifested in the backrooms, Also, the green pulsing is theorised to be the backroom generating a new area
I think out of all the videos in the series presentation is my favorite. Mostly because if you take away any knowledge of the Backrooms and the monsters then it makes perfect sense that people would wish to colonize and map out this space for trade and other things. Also it implies Async may have some idea of how to determine where a threshold will appear when opened as well they would need to know that to create transportation lines. Also it introduced an idea a lot of people overlook which is that it seems thresholds cannot be closed once opened. If you notice they close a shutter at night over the threshold rather than close the portal. This to me says they cannot close is for one reason or another and that even if the project shuts down the damage may be permanent.
I agree! Ash is definitely my fave to theorycraft with MatPat. They bring an interesting perspective and levity that balances MatPat’s analytical review.
30:50 Maybe when this girl started to slowly putting the tape into the backrooms entrance and not just throw it in she somehow "choked" that wormhole. In this scenario entrance just sucked everything around to clear itself. (srr for any misspellings (English isn't my first language))
It is possible thats down to the metal. Lets see, the first no clip we saw is close to a large amount of metal, and using a vhs camera that uses magnetic forces to record. Next one we see is a car, which is made of metal and also uses magnetic forces in its function. And in ff to we again have a vhs camera and metal, this time less bust directly stuck into the area.
42:39 I think what he was trying to convey with that was that in some places within the back rooms the walls are non-tangible. Like you may be able to no clip into secret areas or somewhere else if you can find the spots but without the aid of a light they are basically imperceptible. Idk just my guess.
something i just want to mention in case you didnt see it (wasnt that clear from your reaction), but to me it seems that the face in the sky (57:41) isnt really in the sky, it appears to be on the lens of the camera since it moves with the camera and doesnt stay static in its place of the sky. no idea tho what that could mean
I'm thinking that it's the result of copying over a home movie with another home movie. It would explain why there's some flashes of different images or artifacts from the original movie bleeding through the overwriting movie. I also wonder if the Backrooms are somehow reading the tapes (they could've been in the car when it crashed?) and is trying to build what it thinks is the world from what it can find on the tape. That or it's being pulled from the memories of the driver (James) of the car that crashed.
May just be me but at the end of the "I remember" video I heard "It will always end here." Instead of "you will always end here." I think both have very different connotations of where that can go. If it's the first one, (it will always end here) it seems that no matter what anyone does at this point no one will be able to stop whatever the back rooms is doing. Everything will eventually come back to the backrooms, the backrooms will always be our end. But if it's the latter,(you will always end here) then I think that might lead more towards those that are responsible for everything in the backrooms will never be able to leave it. They will always be drawn to the backrooms and the consequences that come with it.
As a Massachusettes native, I would love to inform Mat that Friendly's is still very much open and going, they just had to shut down specific places because of competitions in certain areas. But the resteraunts are still going, still msotly packed, and the ice cream is still delicious!
Same (well I'm not from Massachusettes but still), I was so confused when MatPat was like "That dates it, back when Friendly's was a thing" because I was like "uh, there's still Friendly's locations around, I've literally eaten at them."
MatPat's theory on it taking place in an alternate earth just inspired a theory. What if the people who created the backrooms are indeed from an alternate Earth, but the fact that they're attempting to create space out of nothing is breaching into our own. Hence the time effects and whatnot. The space they create overlaps our own. They may have made it but people from our Earth can also fall into it.
You're right Mat, the image of the Earth has been rotated roughly 90 degrees clockwise from what it should be. The odd continent you were pointing at was the Atlantic edge of Africa, the main continent in the image under the clouds on the left is South America, and above that you can even see Florida sticking out in the opening between some clouds. As for the new found-footage, I tend to think maybe that green glow, whatever it was, may have saved her from the monster.. Or sent her somewhere else..
Pretty sure people you and Mat are just over thinking that one. Like some other people have mentioned, it's most likely literally just an image of the Earth that has been rotated 90 degrees. You can see the glare of the sun where "North" would be based on the image alone which suggests that it's probably just a rotated image since the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. On top of that, as you said, Africa and South America are in the same general vicinity of where they would be in a non-rotated image. We also know that it's most likely a rather normal looking Earth if the US looks exactly like it does in our own universe. IE, if you tilt the image 90 degrees, it would literally just be the same as our Earth.
@@Plazmasoldier Nothing really "over thinking" about it.. Rotating or mirroring an unusual photograph of earth is a common and simple effect to suggest a story takes place in a strange or alternate world. Or it could just be a lousy image, who knows. Just to clarify tho, it appears that the image is from the perspective of a satellite, somewhere above the Atlantic ocean, just off the coast of South America, and definitely rotated, probably not a full 90 degrees tho, maybe more like 45.
The first thing I thought of with the baseball was that maybe there are some electromagnetic waves with such a frequency that they can pass in between the atoms of the ground. So when the baseball drops there, those waves make it resonate with them so it can drop “in between the atoms” as well.
I think the green light is either the company opening the “door” and this changes the back rooms each time and affects whoever is in it. We know the mold infects people and perhaps that makes them more susceptible to changing into these monsters. Although the girl wasn’t coughing and seeming sick the room she goes into with the creature looks like it also has cracks and that greenish glow that the room at the end has.
I think there should be a consideration that when Async turned on their machine, they may have "created" the backrooms, but with that last video combined with some of the other components it feels like other realities were destroyed. Pieces, parts, and leftovers scattered amongst the backrooms and the memories of the living decomposed into the mycelium threads crawling along the walls and under the yellow wallpaper. The "Monster" being the fruiting body of the ever spreading fungus attempting to replicate the motions of the dead organisms it's comprised of. (and if I remember correctly, some bacteria and fungi do bioluminate)
The person from the car accident could be "The Siren" that the person shooting the footage runs from. Its clear that the green flares not only expand and change the dimensions of the backrooms, but are also responsible for mutating the victims into those "Siren"s. This feels like a different version of what the Upside Down is in "Stranger Things", but instead of exactly mirroring the real world, its more random. Also, did you notice that the wood chips were not present on the backrooms floor when the person Noclipped through the hole? Makes me wonder if passing through the noclip portal teleports the person to random locations. The only way Async was able to make temporary constructions inside the backrooms was because they found a way to keep the portal open for an indefinite amount of time. I still don't understand the significance of women in this story, especially the painting, if that is intentional.
@@crimsonghoul8983 I'd rather just call it bacteria, that is the official name for it after all I also guess that the reason a person has the videotape of that girl is that, not only does she backroom makes things or objects pass through, but also throw them back out.
@@isthatbraised When the complex throws back out anything into the real world, the time is always different. We have seen two instances of this. First, the camera in the Found Footage 1, and the Async employee in The Presentation.
@@crimsonghoul8983 I wonder how the heck did that camera survived the fall and not just explode on impact, the one I had way back in the day for sure would have been trash after that fall
Something I noticed, and idk if this is intentional or not, but it seemed as if the backrooms was responding to the girl and was giving her what she asked for. When she asked for stairs, it gave her a single step leading to a ramp. When she kept saying nothing made sense, it would give her distorted objects and rooms like the table and chairs. Then when she asks if anyone is there, it leads her to the bacteria monster. Just something I noticed that seemed interesting
One thing I noticed was that when we were in her garage, our point of view was her camera. Once she went through the portal, even though her camera fell too, our point of view is her vision. Note that the 'camera' moves when she gets up, but the camera is still on the ground. And as she explores, the camera moves like her eyes and head would, not someone holding a camera. She is not one of the professional explorers wearing camera rigs.
I'm pretty sure that's just a liberty that directors take when filming a found footage film. Realistically if you were running with a handheld camera, the footage would just be a complete blurr and wouldn't make any sense.
That’s a good point, could be just a story mechanic but we’ve seen him also make short videos where people are holding cameras and we’re watching it from the cameras point of view. Maybe something darker is going on. Like she’s already being watched by Asink, meaning her camera is totally non-in void. we also have to keep in mind that this is found footage. Meaning somebody recovered it or was watching from a distance the whole time. She’s probably another unfortunate lab rat.
@@shapeisium You are correct. I re-watched, and we don't actually see her stand up. The video clips from lying on the floor to standing, with no in-between. And on a closer look, the camera is not on the tripod when she looks at it. My brain filled in details that weren't actually there. :)
For those wondering, Kane Pixels confirmed that Async didn't create the backrooms, they only tapped into it. We can assume that the Backrooms evolved as humanities technology evolved. I theorize that the world the Backrooms is set in isn't a simulation, but tends to act like one, and Async tapping into the interdimensional space that is the Backrooms has sort of glitched reality, causing the null zones. This could be because, since the portal opened a gateway from Earth to the Backrooms, the gateway has sprouted to different parts of the Earth. That's just my take on it Update: some small things I noticed: firstly, the guy in Missing Persons is clearly sitting next to holes that are connected to the pitfalls. I don't know why I haven't seen more people mention it, maybe this was obvious to other people, but I just noticed it lol. Also, going back to Found Footage #1, there was a moment when he looked at an endless pit connected to what looked like a facility. I think this is Kane's way of connecting one level of the backrooms to another, as you could see the jump from the pool rooms to level 0 in Found Footage #2. Thats about it
@mcbuttmaster42 That's a misconception based on how most games or other animations will present getting from level to level. It isn't an elevator, or an obvious exit. The levels have always had connection points in the original Wikipedia. The term "level" isn't used as stage but more as floors in a building would be called levels. Levels in the backrooms even have sub-levels. The areas Kane has presented in his videos so far are real levels in the backrooms wiki. Correct me if I'm somehow wrong though
I think I see where you’re confused. You know the backrooms isn’t owned by Kane right? Those levels other creators make videos about like level fun are from the original backrooms wikipedia which have been around since 2018. Kane has only popularized the idea of the backrooms this year because of inspiration. Async and some ideas like the pitfalls are his original canon, but he clearly is going for the level system the original creepypasta does, because the poolrooms and red neighborhood are from the wikipedia. They aren’t fan made levels, they are from the original backrooms that Kane based his series on, and thats all there is to it. Also the bacteria from level 0/the level with the yellow wallpaper you see most is just his design of a howler, thats already known. It would be helpful to do a little research on what the backrooms is because it really seems like you think Kane Pixels invented the backrooms
Also yeah the wiki does call them levels, the wiki has a whole level section, example, level 0 level fun level ! and so on, yes those are in the wiki. Levels are just what we call the areas, so yes you’re right when you say they’re just different looking areas. I just call them levels because thats what everyone calls them, wiki or not. This would have to be some misunderstanding with how certain creators or game developers make levels look with an elevator or stupid door system, so in a way we’re just both right
I wonder if Async discovered the Backrooms had a conscious and then like an AI art generator they fed it all sorts of stock images/footage of houses so that it would reproduce in a way Asnyc wanted. That would explain why there are random real world items around and why they are all off.
1:06:03 this is the same dude who went through the door in the video with the pitfalls. Remember the green room and his absolute awe that he couldn't describe it. And here the guy says "could there be anything greater than this"
Has Matpat ever covered the arg “happy meat farms” before? I’d love to see what he thinks of it since it also has a website to explore as well as a few vids on youtube.
When the lady marks the 'no-clip' spot, it reminds me of "The Poltergeist" scene where the mother marks the area, the ghost interacts with the family, before she shows the Dad how it drags their Daughter across the floor, making light of the haunting. Wonder if that was the inspiration for the start of the Car video?
I have to watch these in parts, I’ve got some odd fear of open spaces specifically when they’re behind me. Thinking of the back rooms and seeing footage the way I see my own life makes it more surreal for me. Like, the way it’s all presented is like how I think. And when you just know the wide open unknown behind you and you don’t know what could be there because you can’t see it. Gives me chills. If I watched these one after the other in that first person platform would actually give me a panic attack, hence the necessity to watch in parts. Great videos though! You always make short form content a blast to watch
I think so too. My interpretation/guess- the person who crashed in the car wandered around bleeding and came across an empty room. They decided to stay there for safety or because they couldn’t keep exploring due to their injuries. The painting was in the car and they hung it up because it was something familiar they could get comfort from. Then at some point they died, the moldy stuff grew and they turned into that entity.
@@Chicagocanine Sorry to break your theory, Kane Pixels has said in an interview that there is no real Bad Guy - That goes for the Mold stuff too, and the Entity, Corp. etc. Edit: He also did say that 'Ivan Beck' is both Protagonist and Antagonist.
I have a theory about the "I remember" video. What if the guy speaking (possibly James) was talking about his own (possible) death and what happens to those who die in the backrooms? In the video when he states that he had a manor, what if instead of it being a literal manor, it's more metaphorical and he's referring to himself as the manor? Later, when he states "But when the skies turned dark. The house was taken by the sea", what if that refers to him dying in the the backrooms after he no-clipped? (The sea being the backrooms) and him saying that the skies turned dark refers to when he died. Next, when he says "A pillar truncated" He could be referring back to how his life was cut short because of a bacteria monster and him saying "Cast down to the seabed with all the other forgotten things" means that he died a missing person. Forgotten = missing in the case. "Fleeting shells sinking ever slowly" might refer to the others who fell into the backrooms, but that's kind of a stretch. "Folding downwards into themselves" is still stumping me though, so is "Forever tearing along the seams of the sky". However, him saying "Until nothing remains except the eternal ghost" could talk about how those who die in the backrooms become the bacteria monsters (as stated by an existing theory that people who die in the backrooms become bacteria monsters) making their souls eternal and unable to pass on. And finally when he says "And you ask yourself... could there ever be anything greater than this?" it could mean that he's aware of the researchers at A-Sync (as shown by the guy in the hazmat suit) and blaming them for his fate due to the fact that they are the ones who opened the portal making it possible to no-clip in the first place. Also, side note. Him saying I remember could mean that he remembers dying because he eventually became a bacteria monster after dying and his soul still remains thereby allowing him to remember. I'm just spitballing here, this is just what first comes to mind for me. Hope you have a great rest of your day :D
I lowkey love the actress in the second found footage because she really is just saying what everyone is thinking and it’s great. She almost reminds me of Ash in terms of vibe.
The glowing cracks in the walls could be what it looks like in the back rooms when someone forces open a door like Async did. Maybe someone is firing up a second threshold, or even the original one. Perhaps after funding got cut Async went broke and the threshold was shut down sometime in the early 90s, only for whoever later bought that facility to try firing it up again in 95.
At 12:54 in Found Footage 2, just before the room starts glowing green and everything, it looks like the wall moves, making the gap he came through slightly bigger
You can see it clearly between 50:39 and 50:41 in this video, especially at 0.5x speed. So much so that a corner with light around it seems to appear where the camera didn't have an angle on it before.
I realized that this backrooms is different from what we know. Originally, to get in the backrooms, the atoms of your body dont align with the floor beneathe you by the tiniest chance, no-clipping your body to the backrooms. But in the second found footage video, there seems to be “areas” around the world that act as like a portal to the backrooms. All you have to do to get to the backrooms would be to find these specific “areas” and you can easily no-clip through them without a worry. The objects she drops to the square all no-clip through first try.
Which is interesting considering that car that no-clipped. There was a car driving there beforehand unaffected-that either just didn’t no-clip or it wasn’t a no-clip spot yet. And that car will not be the last car to pass that spot. So the question raised is what’s going on there?
@@hunter_hiebert In the past videos, didn't each of those disappearances coincide with testing of the backrooms and dates and times that A-Sync was actively opening portals? It might not be any deeper than that. it wasn't a No Clip spot yet. And then the veil began to destabilize the more it was opened. We see this happen with the girl/woman in what appears to be her basement. Its when she leaves an item stuck 'noclipping' into the floor, mildly vibrating, that she manages to, in classic phsysics style collisions simulations in videos games breaking after being stuck inside one another for too long, she ripped open that little tear into something far, far bigger. As if keeping it open was creating some sort of collision or feedback loop until eventual destabilization of the waves hard enough that she just... falls through. Interesting either way.
I think in the “I remember” video the person talking is using a metaphor. Also I think that the backrooms is a place of forgotten things, so when someone noclips in the backrooms those people are not forgotten and are unbalancing the ecosystem. Just my theory.
Such an engaging series that Kane has created. I am invested in the story line and love the way he has built this universe. Thank you for giving us this amazing content Kane. And thank YOU Matt for reacting to this glorious series.
At 8:30 when you looked at the earth image, you can see the earth image was turned horizontally because the shadow at the bottom is oriented incorrecty.
The backrooms really makes me think of the minectaft Farlands, where is old versions of Minecraft, if you walked far enough, the terrain would begin to distort in unnatural ways.
I will say… since the first video of The Backrooms, I always assumed that the monster was a tripod. So for me, the fact that the tripod went through made me assume I was right lol
50:20 given they were talking about flowers, and the lily being the funeral flower, I thought I'd point out that aloe is a healing plant! Most people would know it as being used to treat sunburn, but you can use it's juice for helping with all kinds of abrasions. Idk if the plants are truly important, but I think it's a *really* interesting choice to have a 'death' and a 'life' plant on either side of the TV
23:31 my humble theory is that, while the hazmat guy from "Informational Video" separates from the main group (the other 3 guys that were exploring with him), some sort of interference messed with the backrooms (or it could also be the constantly changing nature of the backrooms) causing hazmat guy not to teleport to another location, but to "fast-forward" or pass through time, after what looked like TV interference in the camera of the hazmat suit, the place and hallway that hazmat guy came from in "Informational Video" doesn't change, we can see that the guy moved forward in time a few months, proving that time inside the backrooms works similarly, but ocassionally will have these type of "glitches" (which plays along with the video-gamey nature of the backrooms) that disturb the natural flow of time.
And the fact that he took OFF thehazmat suit is crazy like he is risking everything by doing that simple action (I would suggest you watch the latest backrooms video )
To be fair to Ash, the first time I saw MatPat move the closed captions in one of these GTNotLives I had a similar reaction.
It is true that is the first time MatPat move it in video, but I knew that it can be move.
I’m surprised that so many people didn’t know that, unless they just don’t use RUclips on computers.
same i definitely found out because of Mat and one of these videos
I am shocked
You check apeirophobia got updste
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I might've missed that then
When Mat was looking at the video dates, he missed an error if this is supposed to be our world. the date 2/29/1990 would make that year a leap year. Feb 29th.
But looking back 1990 wasn't a leap year! Probably means nothing, but maybe worth noting!
He mentioned it in a video.
I think that's part of the lore.
@@electralumen165 he did?
I think there was another point where a non-leap year have Feb 29
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If there was, are they both accurate leap year? As in is it every four year, despite that they're both non-leap year in "our world."
If so, then that pushed the fact that it's most likely not a typo...
I can’t believe that Async discovered inter-dimensional travel but hasn’t come close to flatscreen TVs yet.
fallout do that teleportation stuff too with 1950-ish somewhat futuristic tech
Some things take time my friend
Lmao
I think it’s called retro futurism
Of course its all fake
I work on vhs tapes, the wave effect around 29:00 is because vhs tapes use magnetic tape to play and record video, so the electro magnetic field from the backrooms disturbed the vhs tape inside of her vhs camera. This also is why her voice is distorted when she calls out for help in front of the couch.
I thought the hole got bigger because the tape measure is conductive. It's like a thin strip of spring metal. So it amplified the low proximity magnetic distortion field.
Additional note: The driver of the car gets out, goes into the room presumably 5 years earlier and succumbs to his injuries, and when found footage 2 lady wanders in, there's a bacteria-mold-vine-whatever monster in what is theoretically the only place he could have ended up. seems to me like this confirms the previous theory of the monsters' origins
I didn't think of that, but you're definitely right!
The monster could have dragged him there 🧍♂️🧍♂️
definitely what i thought, i also think that when people die, at some point the back rooms transforms them in these monsters along with their memories (hence the picture).
Why is the passenger side door open but not the driver side door?
@@GusCraft460 Not sure, maybe something happened on the driver's side? Or possibly the passenger door was flung open, and the person exited their car through the driver's seat and closed it subconsciously.
At 40:03, when she asks, "Is anybody here?" you can hear a whisper say, "Yes."
Ewuhhhh
Ah yes, wonderful! Nightmare fuel! Thank you for that.
Holy WTF, that's soo fucking scary
Oh yeah, I hear it now
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The amount of people who just learned that you can move the subtitle bar has to be insane lol
Thanks Matt for educating us in every video
I thought people were like me and learned by moving it on accident, but then most people AREN'T me and don't NEED subtitles to start with....
If he has stats on the CC turning on, that minute is a HUGE spike lol
I'm one of them too
I don’t ever put CC on so I guess that’s why I never knew that.. 😅😅 totally blew my mind! Lol
yeah that was the revelation of the decade for me lol
Mattypatty’s reaction to “YOU CAN MOVE IT” is absolutely amazing, the slight eye gaze of “sorry what” to the penny dropping sheer hilarity !
I too did not know you could move the sub titles at all. my response was much the same lol
My life has been a lie
NO CAUSE I HAD THE SAME REACTION
i had the same reaction to the captions moving "YOU CAN MOVE IT???" and then matpat answering that. gold.
I know it might seem silly, but my first instinct, if I fell through the floor, and then found very tall chairs, would be to take one of the chairs and try to climb up and phase back out through the ceiling. There's no reason to believe the rift is gone now, so it's good to at least try, right?
It seemed almost like game design- you need to get back up, here's something to help you!
Or you could throw throw the baseballs at the ceiling to see if the rift was still open.
@@nekosandmatcha3359 A great idea too! Would also help to determine where the rift is, if it still exists.
@@nekosandmatcha3359 they cant still exist, because if that one car in the highway fell through the floor, then why didnt other cars?
@@totallynotclickbait6114 They might close from the real world but not close from the backrooms. Just a thought.
@@speedpoke no cus in found footage 2 the girl dropped in multiple items before she fell in
30:50
Also notice how all the stuff falls at the same time as she does. Bad example but: it kind of reminds me of when you throw things into the end portal in Minecraft. The things don't "render" until you, the character, see it. So, maybe the portal to the Backrooms was open for a while on earth time, but it was less than a second in the Backrooms. Kinda like Narnia... Just a thought
I think it’s just because all that stuff fell in with her when the portal widened
@@PixlPlayer She did already throw one ball in there which wasnt on the ground when she fell. And the all the other baseballs are in a net.
Is possible
The song playing in the background of the "Home" video 55:45. Is an instrumental version of "Time Passages" by Al Stewart. Fitting, because the song talks about returning home and the memories surrounding. Its a very sentimental tune! Have no Idea if it has any lore implications, but just as a stylistic choice, it's very clever and in my opinion, well thought out! Props to Kane!
The more I watch The Backrooms footage, the more I'm convinced that the game, The Stanley Parable, takes place within the backrooms
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@@omegadragons321 dear god
When mat was looking at the globe, he didn’t realize that the whole image was rotated, if you turn it right side up, you can clearly see Florida and most of South America
...So, my continet's in trouble?
@@nickelisblind you can clip anywhere
This is like 5th time where I thought the character speaking was Ash. Im fully convinced Ash voices everything they play on this channel.
that’s what i’ve been thinking! it sounds so much like them
Ash is an omni-present ethereal being, she is all and none. She voices you, me, even Mat. They have conquered this earth. It is foolish to think they do _not_ voice anything.
I'm starting to think that the random objects, like the road signs and chairs, aren't being "created" by the monsters or a computer simulation. The no-clip zones stay in the same place, right? And when a person loses something they replace it. Road sign disappears? Must be those rascal teens again, we'll just put up another one. Dining room chair gone? Someone might've need it to reach something somewhere else in the house, I'll just move this other chair to take its place.
Makes sense
And hows that the replacements arent no-cliping?
There's also some distortion to alot of the objects, the chair and table set were stretched vertically, and the road signs were reversed. There might be afew other examples but that's all I could find.
@@juliane.mfarias9285 ????
@@OTZDarv why aren't the Replacements immediately being Backroomed?
"How do you discover a small square like this is just a portal to somewhere else?"
Well, see, some of us are graceful enough that we drop things in front of ourselves constantly for no reason, Matt. AKA, if it were me, I'd probably have lost my phone to the backrooms by dropping it in that specific square...
I’d probably drop it 73 times in row trying to make it to that square alone :(
she could be sweeping it up, or she has the hobby of woodworking in there is sawdust everywhere.
I have the special power of finding any corner or out of place object by running into or tripping over it. So I could easily see that happening.
Could be something like those wood chips got spilled across the floor and she noticed a clean/empty spot, so she investigated.
Goodbye to the baby
Just a name to watch out for, Ivan Beck. Kane in an interview stated that he is the Protagonist and the Antagonist of the series yet we havn't even seen him yet. Kane also said that there isn't really a Bad person or thing in the series and poeple should stop thinking that The bacteria is the bad guy. And the last thing i wanted to say is that in the interview he said that he had the series figured out before he evan started to make it.
that's awesome!
Nah its kinda implied he was the guy the team from pitfalls come back to in the following vid
@@junyutan2172 makes sense if that is him, as that dude mysteriously trips during the chase and then it cuts to him running away, perfectly fine
didn’t he say not to think async are the bad guys? i didn’t watch the interview but the thing you said about the bacteria is weird.
@@Kkbleeblob we haven’t seen the bacteria hurt anyone yet it has just ran at people he could want a hug we don’t know
Going with the theory that objects in the backrooms can get turned into monsters, it would be cool if the tripod the girl dropped in with turned into the monster that chases Kane in the first ever backrooms upload as Found Footage is dated a year after the events of Found Footage #2
I think it’s more likely that the tripod monster came from the motion detected video shortly after we see some sore of creature come into frame during that video the recording cuts. So it’s possible whatever we saw would have been more likely to interacted with the camera and tripod of that video. Another strong point that would lead me to believe that the tripod monster is not from the tripod we see dropped in this video is that the tripod monster from found footage 1 seems to be in the same location that the motion detected video takes place whereas found footage 2 seems to take place somewhere completely different
my parents used to work for a DoE so they were laughing when i showed them the series. also they said the parts with the DoE symbol in the corner looked realistic, and i find that really interesting
Hot take: James (car driver) is the Entity. He talks about how "the house was taken by the sea" "cast down to the seabed with all the forgotten things" possibly implying that the sea bed (a huge empty space of unkown depths) is the backrooms themselves, as weve seen the tripod and cricketballs also being phased through to a place where they wouldnt be noticed if they went missing... Also, going back to the Entity, he states "I remember, fleeting shells sinking ever slowly, folding downwards into themselves" could be refrenceing after he left the car wreckage, he died in that room and his cells literly break down slowly, decomposition style, but he was aware of it as "nothing remained except the eternal ghost" his soul, was caught "forever tearing along the seams of the sky" so maybe (instead of just the horizon) the living earth and maybe heaven? or the space between "reality" and what the backrooms are. So James dies, is aware of his body decomposing, then the cells left produce something new (the whiteboards talk about cells) and the entity, with the soul of James, is rebuilding itself. The entity doesnt wake up untill its disturbed. Also in the first found footage, as thats dated after FF2, hes more mobile mobile/vocal, and you can even hear it asking for help.
"And you ask yourself, could there ever be anything greater than this?"... "THEY HAVE ALWAYS BEEN HERE"
Implying before Async, before the Entity, theres something much older, or something in control. If you look closely, the small gap she escapes through to get into that last dead end room, just before the green cracks appear, the gap becomes wider, hence the intentional angle hugging the left wall...
Thats my take on it. Gotta say, KP has truely turned the backrooms and liminal space into something truely amazing, his channel is one of the few i have "dinged that bell" for!
This is what I was thinking too! Thank you for saying it better than I ever could!
Also maybe the other corpse would have become another entity but they found and removed the body before it could become one?
And the back rooms are recreating / materializing their memories but distorted or scattered throughout.
@@jessicakramer4643 , this is actually a good point. In a Kane pixels interview by wendigoon, Kane pixels says that the protagonist AND antagonist is Ivan beck. I wonder if it was his car that ended up in the backrooms? Maybe?
I was thinking the same thing about james being the entity after crashing there. Suprised matpat didnt say anything about that
@@Rispy well by the time we got to James he was being forced by time restraints to wrap it up fairly quickly so he couldn’t get all his thoughts in order.
Matpat was so worried about the cloud patterns he didn't even notice the Earth's shadow
What's the problem with the cloud?
@@you_won Well the clouds were in vertical lines, but since most pictures of earth are taken with the north pole at the top and the south pole at the bottom the clouds normally are horizontal lines. Matpad did notice that, but he did not notice at all that the shadow cast by the ball itself was on the bottom, which obviously means that the picture is taken 90° rotated from the "normal" perspective where if you photograph the shadow between day and night the shadow will be either on the left or the right and not the bottom of the picture.
Seriously, MatPat, if the weather travels vertically, the Earth would look completely different and there wouldn't be north & south poles.😆
@@freizeitphase1878 I noticed the perspective just from the coastline. That coast runs North to South on our Earth, which would be vertically with normal perspective but is running horizontally instead.
Does anyone else think Matt is absolutely KILLING it in that shade of blue. Looks really good on him, honestly want that jacket myself lol
It's like a cyan bubblegum-ish color
FunFact: even if you had an infinite space that doesn't mean your storage costs would shrink infinitely, you would just not have an upper limit or costs associated with scarcity but as you fill it transport costs and organizational costs would still rise at the normal rate.
Unless they open more entrances in certain areas, but you know that could be a bad idea how opening just the first one has gone
@@discipleofdeath2517 There would still be certain costs associated with transport with multiple entrances both outside of them and inside as well and potentially in the case of the backrooms that could mean using the backrooms as a "quick travel" like the nether in Minecraft or that those storage areas are infinitely far apart and have no overlay. We really haven't seen enough to know how exactly it functions.
If you could choose where in that infinite space doors open to, from and when, like a storage ring in eastern based fantasy then yes there would be no cost expansion but so far we haven't seen proof of that.
Would like to point out that MatPat's theory on the backrooms being a static structure is out the window, as we can see the wall shift to the right just before the green energy starts to overtake the room at the end.
Matt, you'll notice in the picture of the earth that the bottom of it seems less curved than the top, to me it seems like it was just a picture of the earth turned 90 degrees, and it's taken off center, hence the flatter bottom curve. If I were to guess this looks like the Atlantic ocean, specifically between south America and the left lobe of africa
100% agree, the underside on that photo looks like the day/night terminator
Vsauce has a fun video about how earth looks from space, and why photos from different distances look so different
That's what I inferred as well, also bc the edge of where the sun hits the surface is on the south of the pic instead of left or right of the pic (east or west) so it's not that the earth has been turned, it's just that the pic has been turned 90 degrees
i can see the outline of north and south america, you're right
thats what i thought as well
Agreed. That was my first thought when I saw that image of the Earth.
I share Ash's genuine disbelief at 12:40 when Mat moves the entire closed captions box. I've been alive since RUclips started and never once thought you could move the CC box around lol.
9:10 the fact that Matpat gets so defensive about the "Pictures of Jennifer Aniston" thing makes him sound so sus
I have two things:
One, the chairs look like someone who had never seen one tried to recreate it from a 2D image and had no idea of dimensions, especially if there was no background to give a size reference. When the video slowly walks around the chairs, there’s a point where it looks like a 3/4 angle pic from a catalogue or something similar.
Two, the picture on the wall is the cover of Woman’s Home Companion Sept 1916 - it depicts a woman in a fox hunting riding habit. Not sure if it has any import, but there you have it :)
Yo how did you find the picture? Just curious
Same question as crodoi.
Is it famous ?
They remind me of the furniture from Little Nightmares
In pitfalls if you skip to the part where the Async employee falls in and enters the house, it has the same type of thing happening it's like a attempted depiction of the real world
@@SaulLingTheKingOfTheJungle i knew i'd seen it before - or at least something similar - and the image was very 40's to 50's. I knew the outfit was a riding habit of some kind, so i googled the history of riding habits and found this particular style is specifically for fox hunting (the color on the shoulders). I then looked for images of "1940's women in fox hunting". The magazine cover came up under this search.....way, way, way, way down the list, but there LOL It took about an hour of research :) I actually saw it twice before I realized it was the correct pic because they modified it a bit for the game :p
Before the green light, I noticed the walls moved and it reminded me of the Maze Runner, in that the maze is constantly re-shaping itself. Also pool rooms make sense as fungai need damp places to flourish.
The green lighting that appeared around the girl seems to be in the same pattern as the vines surrounding the monster in the first room. I believe that instead of eating her, the monster “reproduced” by turning her into one. The green lightning traps her and stays and blackens like the other room.
That's EXACTLY what I thought when I first saw it.
The green light somehow grows or transforms into that fungus/vine structure. I'm personally thinking that she was somehow transformed into the same creature, in the same state she first saw it. In that sort of "resting" position.
Same thought.
Might it be that the monster was originally the person from the crash, and that the green light is more like an entity of the backrooms itself, taking control of the individuals that gets lost and turning them into monsters?
@@JonathanAmdam I suspect this is probably true as well. The person survived the crash, wandered for some time, and then was transformed into the monster we see in the video. The girl/protagonist of the video likely suffered the same fate.
also the monster/crash victim sounds like its saying help
The impression I got, from the "home" footage, was something like:
one of the first people to move into the "Residential Backrooms", and the tape is just, like... a souvenir to remind them what the outside world is like (especially in case they start a family and have a child in the Backrooms who had never known "the real world"-- kind of like the underground bunker at the end of Downsizing), and so the photo we see, with the keyboard, and The Painting in the background, is, like... "Our First Night In The New Place", or something like that.
I could be way off, of course; that's just the first place my mind went.
tl;dr Happy music and happy footage to remind Brave New Residents of their old life, in case they get homesick after moving to the Backrooms.
For me, it makes me think the driver of the car was the origin of the Bacteria...and these bits of its real home as a human were created in the backrooms from what lingers of its human memory.
I think its the home of the girl recording. U can see a lot of the elements from the home vid in the backrooms. My assumption is its replicating the outside of the localised null zone
Ooo that’s interesting that maybe the painting was already in the backrooms in the home video! I was thinking they were two separate paintings, one in the real world and one in the backrooms, that were in some way connected. That’s also a really interesting interpretation of that video as well!
oh hi Tess
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Pfffft- HahAhA me and Ash went: “you can MOVE IT!?” At the EXACT same time, that was incredible. I never knew you could move the subtitles, thats so useful
LEGIT!! SAAAAAAME!!! Ash = voice of the people.
Am I one of the few who do know?
Wait… YOU CAN MOVE SUBTITLES?!
MatPat's done it before in Mandela Catalogue videos.
@@Zack_Zander I already knew, but I suspected Ash wouldn’t have. Exactly the reaction I thought would happen.
I think the girl probably found the hole because it’s like tripping over nothing. You do a double take and look back at where you trip only to see there’s nothing there, so she was probably just someone who decided to look down and see why.
Noticing all the concepts for the use of the Backrooms by A-SYNC, makes me think they were trying to "code" the backrooms to have a lot of these features: road signs for transit, furniture for residential, warehouses, and endless offices. I think in creating it though, there was a possible glitch, which is why everything appears tainted or slightly off. Maybe because alternate dimensions follow different laws of science and are not compatible or a faulty AI from the 90's? Lot's to consider from this.
If A-Sync was developing showrooms to present to the Government representative to continue their funding, it would make sense how those "assets" ended up in the Backrooms. And if the Backrooms themselves are a glitchy computer program, then in its procedural generation it could be inserting those assets repeatedly as though they were part of the original program. We haven't seen A-Sync try that level of manipulation of the Backrooms, they've only ever tried manipulating the physical layout through walls and the tether line. Which is why it seems as though the space itself is the one gaining these assets and doing weird things to them.
Hey MatPat if you haven't done so already, I recommend you listen to the interview Kane did with the channel Wendigang. He said some very interesting things and gave some possible lore hints.
Hay, dident see you comment till I made mine, but I would definitely agree that mat should listen to that interview for insight into the creator’s mindset and for hints
@@sawyernewton2861 Great minds think alike I guess.
I posted the same thing on Reddit, but it got lost in the chaos.
if you look at 05:47 you can see that the Wendigoon video abt the mandela catalogue has bern clicked on, so someoneon GT Live is at least aware of the wendigang.
Would be rad to see Mat work wedigoons theory intro bis owen, as its way more plausible
The one where the lady is testing that hole and has it taped off, i think she most likely had dropped something and then noticed it, then used things to test out its radius, before she started to film it, and when she put the tape measure in it it was a sustained presence being sucked in, it so it responded and grew to stop that sustained pressense. kind of like kirby stretching his mouth to inhale more, the real question is what happened after she fell in, is the hole still there or did it seal its self over, maybe the backrooms its self is sentient, and the door async made had tethered it the earths world, and thats why theres various holes that keep happing letting people noclip in.
I think thats the very reason why she was using wood chips she was testing how big it was thats why you could see some remaining wood chips on the edges
Yes. She probably used wood chips to see the boundary of the hole.
I thought the hole got bigger because the tape measure is conductive. It's like a thin strip of spring metal. So it amplified the low proximity magnetic distortion field.
@@full95one OH DANG FULL!
DO YOU MIND IF I PUT YOUR IDEA NOT NESTED? I think it should be more visible, full credit to you would be given!
@@theoryquery I went ahead and reposted the comment so it's not nested. Share the idea with credit I suppose if you want.
Theory on these:
The back rooms can change based on the occupants will, to some degree. The original entity had a longing for familiar surroundings. Hence the home. But memory is faulty and the house isn't complete or truncated.
The explorers just accept what the back rooms are and so don't change it... normally.
The woman, desperately wanting out, made the section she was in dissolve.
The camera man, wanting a way back faced with a drop in front of him. He gets caught but the camera escapes.
The glowing lights are parts reforming. Usually not seen as the change may effect people.
And the ‘missing’ employee was most likely wanting the familiarity of A-Sync-those who could bring him home-and came across one of their built rooms. That’s and interesting theory.
If the green was her being let out, and the FF1 guy just missing shy of his camera being sent back without him were some of the people most desperate to get back ‘home’ because of the immediate perceived danger posed by the entity-which explains why it didn’t happen to everyone, such as the body the researchers found.
Huh interesting and I know this from somewhere. I thought the green lights had the same pattern as the entity's "growth" and therefore theorised that she transformed.
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It does, but she didn't seem to want to change, just escape. So not a bad idea, but it just doesn't cover everything very well.
That green glow that surrounded the girl reminds me of the mold/vines found in the room with the picture, I feel like the backrooms captured her and converted her into one of the vine monsters.
It seems like a really random thing to note, but in one of the first videos Matpat did on the backrooms, there is a scene where you're looking through the door that goes into the backrooms and there's an out of place red ghost image that he couldn't figure out what it was. He commented that it looked somewhat like an upside-down mushroom cloud. That "mushroom cloud" is actually the sunset at the end of the home_27647 . mov video. I don't know if it means anything important, but it's there.
I'm also absolutely shocked that Matt didn't lose his mind just before the found footage girl was swallowed up by the green glow. The passage she squeezed through to get into that dead end was very narrow. When she turns the camera in her panic at the end you can see the narrow entrance ACTIVELY WIDENING. This is the first time we have seen the walls change their configuration. The walls have had a constant shape up to this point which was why the scientists could explore and map out the shape of the backrooms, this is the first example of it ever changing shape.
When that girl found that room with all the fungus thing in it and the painting she woke up or alerted the fungus monsters which looks very similar to the one in found footage 1 which makes me believe that after she got caught by that green thing the monster couldn’t find her so it started to Rome around until a year later the guy in found footage 1 encounter it and got chased by it
That’s really smart!!! What if it wasn’t trying to hurt her, but because it’s a scary monster looking thing- obviously that doesn’t talk early on, as seen in found footage 2- it just chases after her.
Maybe it’s goal was help/ warn her about not traveling in the backrooms, because of what happened to him (James, turning into the entity)
I mean, we do see the body in autopsy report, but that doesn’t look like James’ body at all, so we can infer that it’s Kane, or someone else who fell in.
No offense but there's multiple ones, a really tall and lanky one in pitfalls, a semi-tall one with no arm in ff#1 and a pretty short and slow one in ff#2 that has a weird diagonal stripe texture if you look close enough. Also ff#1 roars and screams, ff#2 Moans loudly ( I think but I muted most of the entity chase because the roars haunt me at night) and pitfalls entity can mimic voices. Also time gets messed up in the backrooms, the dates in the desc. Could be when they were found or time got altered. I think they're all different people who got infected by the bacteria.
Edit: there's also another short one that leans over weird and looks like a tripod that catches Kane at the end of ff#1
I think you mean roam as in the action, not Rome as in the country lol
18:58 while MatPat is talking he missed a flash. I paused at this moment and took a screenshot. I went to photos and flipped the image. There are words. It appears to say “D To Deceive The Fede” I assume it means to deceive the federal government but I’m not 100% of the rest because it was cut off. You should see for yourself.
I think it means to deceive the federal government. Async wants the government to let them continue their operations and to continue funding them. So they have to lie or deceive the government.
I saw a post about that on another video that made sense. ASYNC was government funded, and we’ve seen text in autopsy that they lost that funding. So I assume it is something about deceiving the federal government.
If you look closely you can see the start of other letters at the edge suggesting this is cut from the middle of a phrase... I also think the O could be a D.
"Loved to deceive the federal government" ?
"Had to deceive the federal bureau of investigation" ? (we do get that FBI warning at the beginning...)
I slowed it down it's actually 18:58 And it's very fast. If you're not looking at the screen intensely
Saw that myself, clearly the words are cut off on both ends, but I agree that it probably means to deceive the federal government.
My interpretation is that the "no-clip" effect became so powerful that it started sucking in everybody. Humans tried to stop it but ultimately failed, so everyone eventually became part of the backrooms, and thus "ghosts" no-clipping through realities forever. It feels like a stark warning about messing around with powerful forces that we barely comprehend.
Right ending, wrong series. This is how something else GTLive is covering ends
I was just as mindblown as Ash when Matt moved the Closed Caption bar. My life was also forever changed.
Seeing the green break through the walls screams a “breaking of the code” to me
10:20
He doesn't have to explain it so complicated because it's clear earth is rotated about 90° because the shadow (of night) is at the bottom and not right or left.
If it was a bacteria to start and is now seeming more plant like, does that suggest that it is evolving? Foreshadowing it may soon become human or animal-like. The backroooms as a whole seem to rely on growth and expanding so a monster inside also growing would make sense.
Edit: Guy's I understand it may not be the same creature I was simply adding on to what Matpat said.
Evolution doesn't go bacteria > plant > animal
That was not the same creature.
It's using the dead human bodies to make those monsters
But the backrooms have time in a odd way
the first monster, the bacteria, as it's called, is in an upload later on the timeline. It's likely a different creature entirely.
The backrooms are recreating places from the pictures, that's why everything is strange and distorted. If you look at the chairs from only one angle they can look normal but it doesn't understand what they are. The same with the house.
that kind of makes sense.
Kinda like an AI generated image? But in 3D?
i think the weirdly shaped and placed furniture in the backrooms is very dreamlike. as a kid i would always have weird dreams of liminal spaces and sort of warped objects and overly familiar lighting that seems normal and relatable but also chaotic and unsettling
One theory was that whoever noclips into the backrooms bring some memories with them that are manifested in the backrooms, Also, the green pulsing is theorised to be the backroom generating a new area
12:42 I was just as shocked as Ash! You can move subtitles on PC? I havn't had a laptop in years, so I never knew?
I've been using desktop for forever and even I didn't know that.
I know it for a long time and I don't want to touch it, better just turn subtitles off (it doesn't want to stick to bottom after you touch it)
@@NineKunGTH You just gotta put it at the very far bottom of the screen.
On top of Kane’s new videos, Wendigang has an amazing interview with Kane Pixels that I strongly recommend listening to. Kane mentions some stuff 👀👀
I adore the running joke about the women and backrooms collab
I think out of all the videos in the series presentation is my favorite. Mostly because if you take away any knowledge of the Backrooms and the monsters then it makes perfect sense that people would wish to colonize and map out this space for trade and other things. Also it implies Async may have some idea of how to determine where a threshold will appear when opened as well they would need to know that to create transportation lines.
Also it introduced an idea a lot of people overlook which is that it seems thresholds cannot be closed once opened. If you notice they close a shutter at night over the threshold rather than close the portal. This to me says they cannot close is for one reason or another and that even if the project shuts down the damage may be permanent.
Reminds me of the mystery flesh pit park
Gotta say, I’m enjoying the addition of Ash. She really changes the atmosphere of the usual GTLive.
I agree! Ash is definitely my fave to theorycraft with MatPat. They bring an interesting perspective and levity that balances MatPat’s analytical review.
30:50 Maybe when this girl started to slowly putting the tape into the backrooms entrance and not just throw it in she somehow "choked" that wormhole. In this scenario entrance just sucked everything around to clear itself. (srr for any misspellings (English isn't my first language))
It is possible thats down to the metal. Lets see, the first no clip we saw is close to a large amount of metal, and using a vhs camera that uses magnetic forces to record. Next one we see is a car, which is made of metal and also uses magnetic forces in its function. And in ff to we again have a vhs camera and metal, this time less bust directly stuck into the area.
@@theexchipmunk i like this idea a lot, like the magnetic tape in the cameras and the engine in the car drew the wormholes closer
42:39 I think what he was trying to convey with that was that in some places within the back rooms the walls are non-tangible. Like you may be able to no clip into secret areas or somewhere else if you can find the spots but without the aid of a light they are basically imperceptible. Idk just my guess.
Oooohhhh, like those no-something areas that async talked about?
something i just want to mention in case you didnt see it (wasnt that clear from your reaction), but to me it seems that the face in the sky (57:41) isnt really in the sky, it appears to be on the lens of the camera since it moves with the camera and doesnt stay static in its place of the sky. no idea tho what that could mean
I'm thinking that it's the result of copying over a home movie with another home movie. It would explain why there's some flashes of different images or artifacts from the original movie bleeding through the overwriting movie. I also wonder if the Backrooms are somehow reading the tapes (they could've been in the car when it crashed?) and is trying to build what it thinks is the world from what it can find on the tape. That or it's being pulled from the memories of the driver (James) of the car that crashed.
the left side of the face does stay static though. Seems to me like there's almost two faces. One static and one dynamic.
Who else is too scared to watch the actual backrooms videos so instead decides to watch matpat to lighten the mood
EDIT:thx for the likes
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OMG YOU SUMMED UP MY LIFE
May just be me but at the end of the "I remember" video I heard "It will always end here." Instead of "you will always end here." I think both have very different connotations of where that can go. If it's the first one, (it will always end here) it seems that no matter what anyone does at this point no one will be able to stop whatever the back rooms is doing. Everything will eventually come back to the backrooms, the backrooms will always be our end. But if it's the latter,(you will always end here) then I think that might lead more towards those that are responsible for everything in the backrooms will never be able to leave it. They will always be drawn to the backrooms and the consequences that come with it.
As a Massachusettes native, I would love to inform Mat that Friendly's is still very much open and going, they just had to shut down specific places because of competitions in certain areas. But the resteraunts are still going, still msotly packed, and the ice cream is still delicious!
the icecream is also still sold in stores
Same (well I'm not from Massachusettes but still), I was so confused when MatPat was like "That dates it, back when Friendly's was a thing" because I was like "uh, there's still Friendly's locations around, I've literally eaten at them."
MatPat's theory on it taking place in an alternate earth just inspired a theory. What if the people who created the backrooms are indeed from an alternate Earth, but the fact that they're attempting to create space out of nothing is breaching into our own. Hence the time effects and whatnot. The space they create overlaps our own. They may have made it but people from our Earth can also fall into it.
You're right Mat, the image of the Earth has been rotated roughly 90 degrees clockwise from what it should be. The odd continent you were pointing at was the Atlantic edge of Africa, the main continent in the image under the clouds on the left is South America, and above that you can even see Florida sticking out in the opening between some clouds.
As for the new found-footage, I tend to think maybe that green glow, whatever it was, may have saved her from the monster.. Or sent her somewhere else..
you can see the shadow of the earth on the bottom, it's just a rotated camera, the earth is normal it's just the camera
Pretty sure people you and Mat are just over thinking that one. Like some other people have mentioned, it's most likely literally just an image of the Earth that has been rotated 90 degrees. You can see the glare of the sun where "North" would be based on the image alone which suggests that it's probably just a rotated image since the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. On top of that, as you said, Africa and South America are in the same general vicinity of where they would be in a non-rotated image. We also know that it's most likely a rather normal looking Earth if the US looks exactly like it does in our own universe. IE, if you tilt the image 90 degrees, it would literally just be the same as our Earth.
@@Plazmasoldier Nothing really "over thinking" about it.. Rotating or mirroring an unusual photograph of earth is a common and simple effect to suggest a story takes place in a strange or alternate world. Or it could just be a lousy image, who knows.
Just to clarify tho, it appears that the image is from the perspective of a satellite, somewhere above the Atlantic ocean, just off the coast of South America, and definitely rotated, probably not a full 90 degrees tho, maybe more like 45.
The first thing I thought of with the baseball was that maybe there are some electromagnetic waves with such a frequency that they can pass in between the atoms of the ground. So when the baseball drops there, those waves make it resonate with them so it can drop “in between the atoms” as well.
I think the green light is either the company opening the “door” and this changes the back rooms each time and affects whoever is in it. We know the mold infects people and perhaps that makes them more susceptible to changing into these monsters. Although the girl wasn’t coughing and seeming sick the room she goes into with the creature looks like it also has cracks and that greenish glow that the room at the end has.
I think there should be a consideration that when Async turned on their machine, they may have "created" the backrooms, but with that last video combined with some of the other components it feels like other realities were destroyed. Pieces, parts, and leftovers scattered amongst the backrooms and the memories of the living decomposed into the mycelium threads crawling along the walls and under the yellow wallpaper. The "Monster" being the fruiting body of the ever spreading fungus attempting to replicate the motions of the dead organisms it's comprised of. (and if I remember correctly, some bacteria and fungi do bioluminate)
The person from the car accident could be "The Siren" that the person shooting the footage runs from. Its clear that the green flares not only expand and change the dimensions of the backrooms, but are also responsible for mutating the victims into those "Siren"s. This feels like a different version of what the Upside Down is in "Stranger Things", but instead of exactly mirroring the real world, its more random.
Also, did you notice that the wood chips were not present on the backrooms floor when the person Noclipped through the hole? Makes me wonder if passing through the noclip portal teleports the person to random locations. The only way Async was able to make temporary constructions inside the backrooms was because they found a way to keep the portal open for an indefinite amount of time. I still don't understand the significance of women in this story, especially the painting, if that is intentional.
Are you calling them sirens because they look like Sirenhead?
@@isthatbraised More than that, its their shrieks...their distorted cry for help.
@@crimsonghoul8983 I'd rather just call it bacteria, that is the official name for it after all
I also guess that the reason a person has the videotape of that girl is that, not only does she backroom makes things or objects pass through, but also throw them back out.
@@isthatbraised When the complex throws back out anything into the real world, the time is always different. We have seen two instances of this. First, the camera in the Found Footage 1, and the Async employee in The Presentation.
@@crimsonghoul8983 I wonder how the heck did that camera survived the fall and not just explode on impact, the one I had way back in the day for sure would have been trash after that fall
Something I noticed, and idk if this is intentional or not, but it seemed as if the backrooms was responding to the girl and was giving her what she asked for. When she asked for stairs, it gave her a single step leading to a ramp. When she kept saying nothing made sense, it would give her distorted objects and rooms like the table and chairs. Then when she asks if anyone is there, it leads her to the bacteria monster. Just something I noticed that seemed interesting
This makes me wonder. Can you climb back out where you came from with a ladder or other tall things? Like that tall chairs?
I love watching MatPat’s way of demystifying the backrooms! Could you make a playlist with all the videos, it would be so much easier to watch hhahh
These longer videos are so much fun to watch. Mat being as big of a fan as us and getting excited over cool effects, lore, and the world is awesome.
One thing I noticed was that when we were in her garage, our point of view was her camera. Once she went through the portal, even though her camera fell too, our point of view is her vision. Note that the 'camera' moves when she gets up, but the camera is still on the ground. And as she explores, the camera moves like her eyes and head would, not someone holding a camera. She is not one of the professional explorers wearing camera rigs.
I'm pretty sure that's just a liberty that directors take when filming a found footage film. Realistically if you were running with a handheld camera, the footage would just be a complete blurr and wouldn't make any sense.
That’s a good point, could be just a story mechanic but we’ve seen him also make short videos where people are holding cameras and we’re watching it from the cameras point of view. Maybe something darker is going on. Like she’s already being watched by Asink, meaning her camera is totally non-in void. we also have to keep in mind that this is found footage. Meaning somebody recovered it or was watching from a distance the whole time. She’s probably another unfortunate lab rat.
@@shapeisium You are correct. I re-watched, and we don't actually see her stand up. The video clips from lying on the floor to standing, with no in-between. And on a closer look, the camera is not on the tripod when she looks at it. My brain filled in details that weren't actually there. :)
For those wondering, Kane Pixels confirmed that Async didn't create the backrooms, they only tapped into it. We can assume that the Backrooms evolved as humanities technology evolved. I theorize that the world the Backrooms is set in isn't a simulation, but tends to act like one, and Async tapping into the interdimensional space that is the Backrooms has sort of glitched reality, causing the null zones. This could be because, since the portal opened a gateway from Earth to the Backrooms, the gateway has sprouted to different parts of the Earth. That's just my take on it
Update: some small things I noticed: firstly, the guy in Missing Persons is clearly sitting next to holes that are connected to the pitfalls. I don't know why I haven't seen more people mention it, maybe this was obvious to other people, but I just noticed it lol. Also, going back to Found Footage #1, there was a moment when he looked at an endless pit connected to what looked like a facility. I think this is Kane's way of connecting one level of the backrooms to another, as you could see the jump from the pool rooms to level 0 in Found Footage #2. Thats about it
It could be that by using strong electromagnetic waves, the barrier that separates the backrooms and our world weakened, causing holes in the barrier
@mcbuttmaster42 That's a misconception based on how most games or other animations will present getting from level to level. It isn't an elevator, or an obvious exit. The levels have always had connection points in the original Wikipedia. The term "level" isn't used as stage but more as floors in a building would be called levels. Levels in the backrooms even have sub-levels. The areas Kane has presented in his videos so far are real levels in the backrooms wiki. Correct me if I'm somehow wrong though
I think I see where you’re confused. You know the backrooms isn’t owned by Kane right? Those levels other creators make videos about like level fun are from the original backrooms wikipedia which have been around since 2018. Kane has only popularized the idea of the backrooms this year because of inspiration. Async and some ideas like the pitfalls are his original canon, but he clearly is going for the level system the original creepypasta does, because the poolrooms and red neighborhood are from the wikipedia. They aren’t fan made levels, they are from the original backrooms that Kane based his series on, and thats all there is to it. Also the bacteria from level 0/the level with the yellow wallpaper you see most is just his design of a howler, thats already known.
It would be helpful to do a little research on what the backrooms is because it really seems like you think Kane Pixels invented the backrooms
Also yeah the wiki does call them levels, the wiki has a whole level section, example, level 0 level fun level ! and so on, yes those are in the wiki. Levels are just what we call the areas, so yes you’re right when you say they’re just different looking areas. I just call them levels because thats what everyone calls them, wiki or not. This would have to be some misunderstanding with how certain creators or game developers make levels look with an elevator or stupid door system, so in a way we’re just both right
yeah I get that, read my other response, that covers what misunderstanding I think is truly going on here
I wonder if Async discovered the Backrooms had a conscious and then like an AI art generator they fed it all sorts of stock images/footage of houses so that it would reproduce in a way Asnyc wanted. That would explain why there are random real world items around and why they are all off.
1:06:03 this is the same dude who went through the door in the video with the pitfalls. Remember the green room and his absolute awe that he couldn't describe it. And here the guy says "could there be anything greater than this"
Has Matpat ever covered the arg “happy meat farms” before? I’d love to see what he thinks of it since it also has a website to explore as well as a few vids on youtube.
Have you also heard of Alex Bale's SpongeBob theories? There's an entire other part of that same ARG playing out there too.
No I haven’t heard of that one but I’ll check it out, thank you! :)
Never heard of it what is it about? (Without spilling the beans of the more important things in the story as courtesy to other users)
@@treetrio6029 its about monsters manipulating youtubers into creating high view content they hate for some reason.
@@treetrio6029 really intriguing arg about freaky experiments on living subjects (including humans)
When the lady marks the 'no-clip' spot, it reminds me of "The Poltergeist" scene where the mother marks the area, the ghost interacts with the family, before she shows the Dad how it drags their Daughter across the floor, making light of the haunting. Wonder if that was the inspiration for the start of the Car video?
Oooh, that would be a cool easter egg wouldn’t it?
@@KatmodoDragon kinda like The Mandela Catalogues, were directly inspired by Jim Henson, for the Pipe Cleaner face,floating in space.
@@jjcandelabra6164 yeah!!!! it's such a cool thing.
I have to watch these in parts, I’ve got some odd fear of open spaces specifically when they’re behind me. Thinking of the back rooms and seeing footage the way I see my own life makes it more surreal for me. Like, the way it’s all presented is like how I think. And when you just know the wide open unknown behind you and you don’t know what could be there because you can’t see it. Gives me chills. If I watched these one after the other in that first person platform would actually give me a panic attack, hence the necessity to watch in parts. Great videos though! You always make short form content a blast to watch
When Mat moved the captions, I too went "You can move it?!?!" At the same time as Ash.
You are not alone Ash lmao
Only Mat would spend 10 minutes discussing cloud patterns because of one photo not related to the backrooms 🤣🤣 never change MatPat! ❤️😂
How ash reacted reminded me of the one whether dude who didn't know his bored was a touch screen and almost all his coworkers turned into kids😂
i’m guessing the entities come from the people that die in the backrooms and that is why it was right near the car and protecting the house
I also think that's what happened at the end with the glowing stuff on the wall
I think so too.
My interpretation/guess- the person who crashed in the car wandered around bleeding and came across an empty room. They decided to stay there for safety or because they couldn’t keep exploring due to their injuries. The painting was in the car and they hung it up because it was something familiar they could get comfort from. Then at some point they died, the moldy stuff grew and they turned into that entity.
@@Chicagocanine Sorry to break your theory, Kane Pixels has said in an interview that there is no real Bad Guy - That goes for the Mold stuff too, and the Entity, Corp. etc.
Edit: He also did say that 'Ivan Beck' is both Protagonist and Antagonist.
@@VegaVermilionVODS They didn't say anything about a bad guy though?
@@VegaVermilionVODS doesn’t stop the creature to be overtaken dead bodies.
I have a theory about the "I remember" video. What if the guy speaking (possibly James) was talking about his own (possible) death and what happens to those who die in the backrooms?
In the video when he states that he had a manor, what if instead of it being a literal manor, it's more metaphorical and he's referring to himself as the manor? Later, when he states "But when the skies turned dark. The house was taken by the sea", what if that refers to him dying in the the backrooms after he no-clipped? (The sea being the backrooms) and him saying that the skies turned dark refers to when he died.
Next, when he says "A pillar truncated" He could be referring back to how his life was cut short because of a bacteria monster and him saying "Cast down to the seabed with all the other forgotten things" means that he died a missing person. Forgotten = missing in the case.
"Fleeting shells sinking ever slowly" might refer to the others who fell into the backrooms, but that's kind of a stretch.
"Folding downwards into themselves" is still stumping me though, so is "Forever tearing along the seams of the sky".
However, him saying "Until nothing remains except the eternal ghost" could talk about how those who die in the backrooms become the bacteria monsters (as stated by an existing theory that people who die in the backrooms become bacteria monsters) making their souls eternal and unable to pass on.
And finally when he says "And you ask yourself... could there ever be anything greater than this?" it could mean that he's aware of the researchers at A-Sync (as shown by the guy in the hazmat suit) and blaming them for his fate due to the fact that they are the ones who opened the portal making it possible to no-clip in the first place. Also, side note. Him saying I remember could mean that he remembers dying because he eventually became a bacteria monster after dying and his soul still remains thereby allowing him to remember.
I'm just spitballing here, this is just what first comes to mind for me.
Hope you have a great rest of your day :D
Good idea. I took tearing across the seams of the sky as the back rooms making new holes that people keep no clipping through
I lowkey love the actress in the second found footage because she really is just saying what everyone is thinking and it’s great. She almost reminds me of Ash in terms of vibe.
The glowing cracks in the walls could be what it looks like in the back rooms when someone forces open a door like Async did. Maybe someone is firing up a second threshold, or even the original one. Perhaps after funding got cut Async went broke and the threshold was shut down sometime in the early 90s, only for whoever later bought that facility to try firing it up again in 95.
13:00 as a 31 yr old i never knew that and i am so happy i wasn't the only one shocked by this. Thank you Ash!
At 12:54 in Found Footage 2, just before the room starts glowing green and everything, it looks like the wall moves, making the gap he came through slightly bigger
You can see it clearly between 50:39 and 50:41 in this video, especially at 0.5x speed. So much so that a corner with light around it seems to appear where the camera didn't have an angle on it before.
I realized that this backrooms is different from what we know. Originally, to get in the backrooms, the atoms of your body dont align with the floor beneathe you by the tiniest chance, no-clipping your body to the backrooms. But in the second found footage video, there seems to be “areas” around the world that act as like a portal to the backrooms. All you have to do to get to the backrooms would be to find these specific “areas” and you can easily no-clip through them without a worry. The objects she drops to the square all no-clip through first try.
Which is interesting considering that car that no-clipped. There was a car driving there beforehand unaffected-that either just didn’t no-clip or it wasn’t a no-clip spot yet. And that car will not be the last car to pass that spot. So the question raised is what’s going on there?
@@hunter_hiebert maybe there are different types of no-clip spots
@@bryanwithamask That would explain what’s up with the car if so.
@@hunter_hiebert In the past videos, didn't each of those disappearances coincide with testing of the backrooms and dates and times that A-Sync was actively opening portals? It might not be any deeper than that. it wasn't a No Clip spot yet. And then the veil began to destabilize the more it was opened. We see this happen with the girl/woman in what appears to be her basement. Its when she leaves an item stuck 'noclipping' into the floor, mildly vibrating, that she manages to, in classic phsysics style collisions simulations in videos games breaking after being stuck inside one another for too long, she ripped open that little tear into something far, far bigger. As if keeping it open was creating some sort of collision or feedback loop until eventual destabilization of the waves hard enough that she just... falls through. Interesting either way.
I think in the “I remember” video the person talking is using a metaphor. Also I think that the backrooms is a place of forgotten things, so when someone noclips in the backrooms those people are not forgotten and are unbalancing the ecosystem. Just my theory.
Also, the room you could see through the keyhole, looks like the “museum” level in his first video!
That might have been the shortest witty banter on GTLive, and it was even about the subject of the video too!
Wish they were all like this.
Such an engaging series that Kane has created. I am invested in the story line and love the way he has built this universe. Thank you for giving us this amazing content Kane. And thank YOU Matt for reacting to this glorious series.
Ash being amazed of the CC being movable is the highlight for me. 🤣
Maybe the furniture and odd items are just no-clipped items but got distorted in the process like the road signs being backwards and the giant chairs
Ash's genuine excitement and surprise when she finds out you can move the captions is so cute. XD
At 8:30 when you looked at the earth image, you can see the earth image was turned horizontally because the shadow at the bottom is oriented incorrecty.
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The backrooms really makes me think of the minectaft Farlands, where is old versions of Minecraft, if you walked far enough, the terrain would begin to distort in unnatural ways.
I will say… since the first video of The Backrooms, I always assumed that the monster was a tripod. So for me, the fact that the tripod went through made me assume I was right lol
50:20 given they were talking about flowers, and the lily being the funeral flower, I thought I'd point out that aloe is a healing plant! Most people would know it as being used to treat sunburn, but you can use it's juice for helping with all kinds of abrasions. Idk if the plants are truly important, but I think it's a *really* interesting choice to have a 'death' and a 'life' plant on either side of the TV
23:31 my humble theory is that, while the hazmat guy from "Informational Video" separates from the main group (the other 3 guys that were exploring with him), some sort of interference messed with the backrooms (or it could also be the constantly changing nature of the backrooms) causing hazmat guy not to teleport to another location, but to "fast-forward" or pass through time, after what looked like TV interference in the camera of the hazmat suit, the place and hallway that hazmat guy came from in "Informational Video" doesn't change, we can see that the guy moved forward in time a few months, proving that time inside the backrooms works similarly, but ocassionally will have these type of "glitches" (which plays along with the video-gamey nature of the backrooms) that disturb the natural flow of time.
And the fact that he took OFF thehazmat suit is crazy like he is risking everything by doing that simple action
(I would suggest you watch the latest backrooms video )