Do people actually find an empty office floor to be terrifying?I always thought you guys were just memeing and ironically pretending
>>220878900I don't get it either. What's so scary about an empty building?
You had to be a child in the 90s to truly understand.
Why do you pretend not to understand things?
>>220878900Liminal spaces or whatever they’re called are fucking stupid>Omg it’s an after hours empty hotel lobby aaaaaaargh I’m going insaaane
so supposedly zoomers grew up in a period where there was a lot of abandoned malls and places that gave them an eerie feeling.Like they should be places with people there but due to the economic decline of malls and office spaces they are empty.
>>220878963You're describing Millennials. Zoomers weren't allowed to go places unsupervised as children. Zoomers just watched videos of abandoned places on youtube.
>>220878900eh if it keeps going and going and you get lost and there's a spoopy monster running around I might yawn a little less
>>220879002no, malls were full of people back then zoomie
silent hill for zoomers
>>220879017I'm glad you understand part of it. Someone born in 1988 would've experienced malls at their peak and their decline. They got to wonder around in these spaces unsupervised as children, and then witnessed the old 80's and 90's facades get replaced with modern, soulless slop, and observe outlets and malls decline in popularity into their 20s.
>>220878900The focus is always on the emptiness itself or mysterious creatures that supposedly are there but wouldn't the bigger issue be the lack of water and food? It would be like walking around a room temperature desert.
>>220879002no retard, we millennials went to the malls that are now abandoned Theres a mall near me that was still active up until 2013 and i have memories of it like it was yesterday going there with friends as a late teen/adult. I found out zoomers were exploring it after it was abandoned like it was an ancient tomb, trying to literally find "the back rooms"Purely a zoomer phenomenon
>>220879112No, you retard, we millennials who were children in the 90s experienced malls, dentists offices, and offices and playplaces in general at their most nostalgic. It's WE who have these core memories that we can compare to the decline of such places and society. You are a weird faggot and haven no idea what you're saying. Liminal spaces are a tourist attraction for zoomers. Millennials understand them at our core. Shut your fucking mouth, poser.
>>220879073my biggest fear would be not getting any cell signal on my phone so I can’t browse 4chan
>>220879153this would be my biggest fear too. for i could not talk to you, my internet friend.
>>220879143you are fucking retarded, Millennials experienced these places, zoomers did not thats the point you insufferably low iq half wit
>>220879229You dumb fuck. Millennials experienced these places as children, as in they were literal children in the 90s, as in they did not reach puberty until 2000/2001. We were young enough to form core memories in these places that looked out of time, from another era, and then watch them disappear. We watched the fashion leap from one era to another, and all the facades of communal gathering places. We watched them lose their charm and their human traffic. Places we knew as children became liminal in stages. Zoomers only know secondhand that they were once populated. Having actual lived memories while you were in a child's body in 90s and then watched it get erased by time is how these spaces become poignantly liminal. Like I said, for zoomers it's a tourist attraction. Millennials are the keepers of this phenomenon at its most pure. Gen Z found it as a concept. Gen Y experienced it as a memory/memes/edits. Get fucked on, bitch. I'll break your face. Stupid worthless cunt.
>>220879305Retard, im a millenial and i experienced these places as not only a kid but a teen and young adult.You are severely intellectually disabled and are not seeing the point is not millennials but the perspective of zoomers who missed this era.
>>220879329If you reached puberty before the 2000s, then I really don't care about your opinion. Core Millennials are what matter in this argument. What you're not getting is that for zoomers it's merely a concept they can ponder like finding a relic of a bygone era. For a core millennial, it's so much more than that.
>>220879363you have to be dropped on your head or something you are clearly not intelligent.
>>220879395You must have eaten a lot of lead paint chips as a child.
>>220878900I don't know man, office work seems highly traumatizing and dehumanizing according to some Hollywood movies.
>>220878900>>220878923Zoomers genuinely fear being alone so they need to drown themselves in everyone else's lives nonstop so the idea of a big boring building with fluorescent lights and no bullshit to indulge in is terrifying to them.
>>220878900I actually like the concept, but hate how OTT people go trying to make it scary.If you remove the weird-ass monsters then the Backrooms is just a long, comfy walk through an office complex.
a good interpretation is hopeless existential dread with scale.But people feel compelled to add le scary monsters to everything, which then degrades the concept to a backdrop instead of the subject
>>220879696how else would they sell the movie to a casual audience?
>>220879728They could advertise on 4chan
>>220879728you could>imply an entity with cosmic horror >have other people/things trapped inside which may or may not be nefarious >imply/create a destination which may or may not be real and always works towards it
>>220878923You're an unarmed woman/european (liberal) with no guns.
>>220879744that's honestly probably the best way>>220879750these are all good ideas but you're granting a lot to the average audience in the context of the backrooms
>itt uncs having a petty argument over shit nobody cares about.
>>220878900>>220878923I had agoraphobia as a kid, and my nightmares would be like this, but with the distance between things expanding
Yeah, it is. Shits unnerving. I helped clear out an old business I used to be a part of, but I'd already gotten a new job so I could only do it on the weekend. Swear to God I heard my old supervisor call out my name from one of the other rooms. My car was the only one in the parking lot. Noped the fuck out of there. I know it was just my mind playing tricks on me, but I knew there was no way I was going to make any progress at that point.
