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The Horror of Liminal Spaces

What "Backrooms" Says About Our Loneliness

Mar 25, 2025
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Why would a grimy maze of empty office rooms fascinate millions of people, and what does that say about us? We’ve all seen the memes or maybe played the Backrooms video game late at night, wandering those endless yellow corridors with fluorescent lights buzzing overhead. It’s a bizarre cultural phenomenon: an internet-born horror story about nothingness…

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