The Backrooms invites interlopers to explore its endless passageways. In the years since an iconic photo of an under-renovation hobby store showed up in a 4chan thread, it has set the minds of internet users aflame. Various theories, stories, videos, games, and memes have been made about the creepypasta, applying additional layers of lore to the original piss-colored hallway to nowhere. It has evolved from an extra-dimensional space that traps any poor soul who “no-clips” through its walls to an exquisite-corpse labyrinth filled with infinite levels and minotaurs, the latter of which range from a giant stick-figured humanoid to a PNG image of Barack Obama. The Backrooms have become a staple of liminal-space fandom, a captivating internet folk-horror story, and the starting point for a teenage creator who would end up as one of the biggest horror directors of the