Film Theory: The Backrooms is DEADLIER Than We Thought (Found Footage #3)

[@MozartTheGOAT]

Rumour says the Backrooms are now where MatPat lives, having become the very monster he once theorized about

[@SliceyMcHackHack]

MatPats Backrooms is just FNAF

[@flynx304]

Ayo Mozart! When's your new album coming

[@Sonic-x2g7r]

Because matpat LIVES IN THE BACKROOMS

[@rhoward295]

😂😂😂

[@cupcakefunnyface1393]

You either die a theorist or you live long enough to become the theory😔

[@patrickschott265]

So this is where they’ve been hiding Matpat…

[@jammiedodger515]

XD yesss

[@shadowolf611]

@DontReadMyBio333 no

[@s-kay-t]

​@DontReadMyBio333 fantastic, I've always wanted to die suddenly

[@erickhurlburt4462]

​@DontReadMyBio333 GET OUT

[@potatopatch4563]

Hah yeah

[@taramizell5193]

For the confusing time stamp; there's a theory irl about ghosts that actually lines up with the description of what's happening. In an area with a lot of grief (say, a backroom that has had multiple people die/go missing) becomes a thin spot in the veil of time. Because of that you can interact with the past- and the video of the man in the home feels like the interaction of ghosts with the living. So, the backrooms could literally be the physical embodiment of time- explaining the extra assets and even the overlapping of all of the timelines. BUT THATS JUST A THEORY Edit: y'all please stop liking this my notifications are dying

[@EpsilonMono]

AA FILM THEORY

[@saggymaxwiz]

@@EpsilonMono Thank for watching!

[@MysticalShroom-e6p]

​@@saggymaxwizthank 😂😂 the only thing I could think of was that GTLive of a fnaf fan game, Bonnie was missing his face and MatPat found it while sweeping in the kitchen (or doing some other menial task) and all Bonnie says is "Thank" MatPat had a good laugh, Steph had a good laugh, Steph even turned to MatPat, put her hand on his shoulder, looked him in his eyes and just goes "Matthew..... Thank"

[@damiondraws8538]

I think this idea is very plausible. All the grief could allow the wall to be weakened, allowing people to talk through them. And who knows, maybe the dad becomes the thing talking to his sons prior that ate the bowl of food on the table. He could have gotten no clipped through time to the past, found his own house (which would be terrifying once he realizes where he is), then talks to his boys without letting them break down the wall like he did. Then, while scavenging, he gets hurt, shambles to his home, and no clips out as he’s dying, leaving only a boot. Only for the main character to show up and unknowingly start the cycle again.

[@ZamaPG]

@@MysticalShroom-e6pDSAF?

[@fmzaidi2001]

Kane just dropped more Async content where Async tries to conduct a study on the tiles and lighting in the backrooms

[@叶盛杰-d8p]

5:52 I NEVER NOTICED THAT😭 makes it so much worse knowing he was so close to an exit but can do nothing

[@Wet_Fungus]

Robbie should have been the one to break down the wall

[@justinalicea1590]

​@@Wet_Fungus That might not have worked. It's entirely possible that it is a one way transport. And given how the man disappears, it is entirely possible that, while the walls may be thin enough between realities to talk, the actual road connection between the two don't align.

[@Wet_Fungus]

@@justinalicea1590 true, but worst case Robbie would just transported somewhere else and not have another man killed

[@justinalicea1590]

@@Wet_Fungus Perhaps, but as the man says, his side of the wall is already somewhat apart. Whereas our pov side would require maximum effort that couldn't be given with a chair.

[@reyariass]

Oooo maybe that’s how Async found the footage!

[@GlitterGunk]

not trying to sound like a geek but if the backrooms is full of things from the past and future, would that mean the bacteria monsters could be an animal in the real world sometime in the distant future

[@Potterhead1111]

I like that idea

[@Potterhead1111]

Or something from the distant past

[@GlitterGunk]

@@Potterhead1111 yeah

[@swirlymaximumgaming3033]

It's a Dino yay

[@animatedmoomoo4080]

how is this sounding like a geek

[@xenoneo]

I think the "still life" monster, the voice talking to the man's kids, and all signs of a previous inhabitant are ALL THE MAN living in that house. When he got pulled into the backrooms, he went back in time, tried to communicate with his children and ultimately transformed into a monster.

[@QwertyTheF1rst]

oh my god, I went and typed an entire essay in a comment explaining this and you did it so much better. Also I never thought about the man trying to communicate to his kids in the backrooms, that’s why the dad mentioned that this same thing happened before…

[@foxxify1]

How would he have found his own house?

[@earthplanet403]

Yes thought that too!

[@TheRedRaven_]

This is a good theory but what do you think the stick monster is though and how does that fit in?

[@Zombiesrule21]

There is also a foot on the ground inside that house, and the monster is missing a foot so I think this as well

[@mellowanimations7237]

4:21 I'd like to point out that none of the Found Footage videos (at least that I've noticed) include the A-Sync foundation beyond indirect references. I don't know, but I assume this is to keep the found footages seperate from the A-Sync videos, as they are a numbered (#) series of videos, while none of the others contain this prequal-sequal-esque labeling.

[@miomip]

At 12:25, my brain freaked out and tried to catch my phone from falling because of how good the effect worked when looking at it from the side. Nice video.

[@spacefalcon6900]

Alright, here's my take on this, If anyone's intrested, I love the idea of The backrooms smashing together Time and making time fold on itself, It makes absolute sense, That's why I feel like The "Still life" is actually The Dad we see!!, I think what had happened was that he Tried to open the wall to let Ravi out, but The backrooms Sucked him in or Basically He no-cliped inside, We see a shoe dislodged into the flooring of the exact same house, Maybe it was his, indicating that Maybe he lost his foot or was injured Trying to Not go into the backrooms, I say this because the "Still life" walks and runs with a limp, so the dad entered the backrooms, He roamed around, He found the bacteria monster, it Took control of The dad and Eventually the dad became "The still life" So its like a looping paradox where everytime The Still life Scares Ravi into running Then ravi encounters the House, He calls for the dad and history repeats itself, Also Some fans theorize that the body found by the hazmats was Ravi, I think in the Earlier found footages, i don't remember which but It makes sense because of The backrooms time folding Capabilities, Ravi starved To death and was founded by the bacteria or the still life who Tried to take control of ravi but Because he was already dead They just ended up infecting Ravi and moving on.

[@ToaDrakua]

I could see perhaps the dad character getting sucked in and losing his shoe in the process, but him getting possessed by the bacteria monster just skirts a little too close to zombie territory. It could perhaps be that he just got really messed up when he accidentally brute forced his way in, and he became distorted and confused, unable to comprehend what he has become.

[@toonasag]

That's a good idea!

[@BonW]

​@@ToaDrakua We saw a corpse a while ago that was being riddled with fungi from overly long exposure. So I personally believe The Still Life is what that corpse in Missing Persons was in the process of becoming

[@ToaDrakua]

@@BonW A Last of Us fungal zombie?

[@xyloiscool]

yeah idk how he didnt see that. there was the exact same theory on the original video and the video literally freezed when the monster showed himself. it was clearly important and I'm also flabbergasted why he didn't talk about the footage freezing on the frame for like 5 seconds.

[@TeslaOsiris]

The “modern looking synth keyboard” is a Roland Juno 60 manufactured in 1982-1984. Just letting you know

[@brycedaroni]

Not to nitpick, but I'm pretty sure that that is a Roland Juno 6, not a 60. 12:29 you can see here that there is only a single digit number. But timeframe-wise, the Juno 6 released in May of 1982, shortly followed by the Juno 60 in September of the same year.

[@its-morris]

Not the same model, but I actually have a Roland Juno myself! They're amazing keyboards... hence why Daft Punk used them (fun fact)

[@gogauze]

​@@its-morris which is one of the reasons I don't think some of the dating techniques are super valid. Sure, you can say that some toy, piece of electronics, etc... was manufactured at some date. But, all that really gives you is an earliest possible date, since so many older things are still in use 50 years later, or have been reproduced/knocked-off to a degree that it's indistinguishable from the original at a glance. Audio equipment, in particular, is one of those tech types that endures. And, all of that is already on the heels of another big assumption: that there is a normal flow of cause & effect in this world.

[@Pikachublaze]

The backrooms isn't real Or is it (Insert Vsauce theme)

[@novaborealis5924]

Heeeeyyy Vsauce here, w h e r e are your fingers?

[@Pikachublaze]

On my hands or are they

[@Potterhead1111]

😮

[@novaborealis5924]

@@Pikachublaze No, they're on this cool neckless I bought from a dude in a dark alley between a butcher shop and a library.

[@daisyjoy242]

Hey, Vsauce here, I’m inside your home

[@Woolong742]

The backrooms feels like the cache of the universe. Textures, models, sounds and the like seen there don't make any sense because they were never supposed to be experienced that way. These people have accidentally clipped into an area of the universe used for asset storage and their brains are trying to render it into a sensible reality, but are met with a nonsensical mess instead. The entities experienced there can also be explained in this way: corrupted NPC actors defaulting to their base code of survival, or active creatures like animals and people falling in, eventually being fragmented across the cache, and becoming a shadow of their former selves. Just mindless figments of who they once were, frozen in time, lashing out at anything they can reach. This also works from a timeline perspective, as well. If the Backrooms really is just a universal cache, then time as Earth experiences it literally doesn't exist there. Whenever an asset is requested for a given time period, it's pulled from that same storage area we call the Backrooms, and then processed for the period it's being loaded into. As such, someone clipping into the Backrooms from any point in Earth's timeline experiences the same 'Backrooms' while within it, as anyone from any other point in time would. It's even possible to clip around in Backrooms-time, while within the Backrooms. This happens to Peter Tench(9:06) when he is instantly warped to a different point in time from the other researchers, and likely happens again to both Ravi and the father he speaks to at the end of Found Footage #3. When Ravi enters the house and speaks with the father, the man agrees to break open the wall so Ravi can escape. This seems to be the inadvertent trigger for the mystery event that results in the father either outright dying or falling into the Backrooms himself. In fact, if time truly is of no consequence in the Backrooms, Ravi may be the direct cause of the family house even being where he finds it in the first place, because cause-and-effect is of no consequence in a place where time as we experience it is functionally nonexistent. This also means there's a chance that the Still Life that chases Ravi could have been the father he would go on to doom later on in the video. As for how any of this is happening at all? To explain that we can turn to mankind's current preferred method of simulating impossible realities: video games. When you're playing a video game you're never supposed to be able to directly interact with the background processes that render it, but with some clever abuses of mechanics it's possible to do that. And, depending on how broken the exploit one uses to accomplish this, it's even possible to hijack memory addresses and force the hardware to run arbitrary code that it was never intended to. It's also possible to cause unintended side-effects ranging from memory leaks to software crashes to outright hardware damage if these exploits are misused. ASYNC, in their infinite wisdom, appear to have violated universal laws to reach a place never intended to be reached, and these unintended interactions between the cache and the universe appear to be increasing at an alarming rate. They may be guilty of more than just some unintended deaths and accidentally unleashing a nightmare scenario of Eldritch horrors escaping into reality. They appear to have caused a cascading memory leak that may very well end in the catastrophic failure of the entire universe as we know it.

[@chasm671]

I think you've hit the nail on the head for what Kane is going for in this series. It fits in perfectly with the original concept of the Backrooms from the 4chan post (you "noclip" into them), which I imagine he is trying to stay faithful to while expanding on it with his own story about Async's folly and the reverse osmosis of the Backrooms into reality. It might also answer the question of whether the poor souls who fall into the Backrooms would eventually starve or die of thirst: no, unfortunately for them they wouldn't, because whatever facsimile of "time" there just doesn't work that way. They're trapped there until something kills them or they become warped into a "something" themselves.

[@Tomdog83]

16:40 I automatically thought the guy and his house fell into the Bacrpoms, scream and sounds of a lot of falling debris.

[@nolanjdon3514]

I think it would make more sense that it is a parallel dimension that is connected to ours via electromagnetism. As we created electronics, they causes people and objects to slip into it.

[@Readous]

This is a much cooler and scarier theory

[@timechanger6679]

Yeah I prefer that idea to the simulation one, I also prefer to subscribe to the theory that someone escaped out of the Backrooms and caused the mess in Ravi’s house, not a monster

[@animagkrasver9872]

I agree that backrooms are acting like a simillar algorithm that AI does, generating stuff but not understanding it so it ends up weird, but it's not literally a computer simulation

[@Isiel42]

@@animagkrasver9872 I can't help but wonder if higher dimensions are involved somehow. Like maybe this place would make total sense if you had 4 dimensional eyes and it was never intended for our world.

[@mon_nobi]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that "a door to a parallel dimension has been opened, the door is widening, and we don't know how to close it" was and has always been the prevailing story/theories for Kane's backrooms series, so I don't know when or why film theory started pushing some sort of computer simulation theory which has never really seemed to be the case in this series. I hate when theory channels keep pushing a theory that makes little to no sense.

[@Hinatazuki]

19:06 one of the most common voice acting advice tips I get is “record in a closet” so might not be the most uncommon out of place thing depending on who lives there

[@disqualify.]

also, mat on gtlive said that Ravi is probably a videographer

[@Oscar4u69]

if I'm not mistaken, i remember matpatt mentioning that he used to record some audio in his closet

[@HybiscusBunny]

Film theory idea: Are the tricks in the movie Now You See Me possible?

[@wyntirr]

this is a good one

[@DJMKFULLER]

I think i've seen a video like that already.

[@djlopez7976]

Yes.

[@adelaflores2027]

I believe Vanity Fair has a video of a magician talking about films like The Prestige and such and I believe they do cover some scenes from NYSM.

[@dosh9467]

good idea

[@Spreece154]

4:35 YO ITS ME IN THE BACK GROUND

[@felidae47]

NO WAY IM THERE TOO

[@ShaidSmith]

Man I'm down under

[@dominicesau4762]

BRO ME TOO

[@ElijahMitchel]

Im not there :(

[@VRt0yb0nnie]

IM THERE

[@biblioholic7139]

If the backrooms is an asset storage for the simulation I don't see why every moment in the timeline of the simulation would not have access to the same backrooms, explaining how Raavi is from the 90s in the simulation and can hear someone from the late aughts simulation time when in the backrooms. If that's how it works, the backrooms could theoretically be used to time travel in the simulation like the episode of Doctor Who with Madame de Pompadour.

[@Mahdiyar-v5l]

20:50 MATPAT

[@Yakqwerty]

MATPAT RETURN CONFIRMED????!!??? 1136??

[@billy-lanhthach5671]

Just hearing him theorizing took me back, gosh, time is moving so fast 😭

[@Kieranultimateplay]

it gave me and ad instead

[@matthewboire6843]

Our king

[@FlameyClockspeed]

I like how MatPat is kinda just a recurring favourite

[@Beujeer]

That Arnold Schwarzenegger jumpscare was WILD 😂

[@chicabear]

I think my favourite thing is all the comments complaining they got jumpscared. At least it was universal

[@mon_nobi]

@@chicabear I think the only people who got jump scared by that are the people who were watching it via GTLive, otherwise, there's no reason for anyone to actually have been jump scared by protag slowly walking by a poster.

[@chicabear]

@@mon_nobi no there's comments on the original video and posts on the subreddit talking about it, it was not just gtlive viewers. As someone who does not like horror but finds the story interesting I'm scared by the smallest of things in this series, I'm sure I'm not the only one like this.

[@graydenday3760]

Was so excited to see a new Kane Pixels video the other night. Watched it right before bed. The ending monologue hit hard.

[@Isak-d8i]

a 2022 poster in the 1990s sounds like a backrooms thing to do time doesnt matter

[@aliamelloch7181]

It’s so interesting that Wisconsin seems to be a haven of weird/creepy, from the Slenderman killings, to the killer that inspired Texas chainsaw massacre, to now the backrooms…there must be something in our water! Maybe that’s why we drink so much beer instead😂🤔🤔

[@anonymous-db6gp]

Or maybe y'all are just always drunk from said beer.

[@RabbiB0Y]

It's really boring out here we gotta find entertainment somehow

[@grimmason7377]

Or cheese

[@netherwarrior6113]

As Grimmason said, its all the cheese you guys have

[@Kyosumari]

"They've got the CHEESE MADNESS!"

[@Kalaggu2020]

The more I watch film theory, the more I realize that Lee was MADE to run it. It's gotten to the point where, even loving games more than video media and loving Tom as much as Mat, I enjoy watching film theory over game theory and I find myself OMEGA excited to see every new vid that comes out. Lee, you are a legend, love you bud

[@Unfortunately_Mickey]

I absolutely feel the same about Tom and don't like Lee as much 😂

[@Kalaggu2020]

@@Unfortunately_Mickey I love Lee's voice for this type of content, I really do. And the british accent gives a breath of fresh air for game theory, love both!

[@FonixVR_]

15:59 That is clearly just a path around the hospital building. You can see it goes into what would be assumed the front door. If it was a slide I would assume it would look more like the cartoon slides shown in clipart.

[@Anklejbiter]

I'm sorry that a bot stole your comment and ended up more popular. youtube is so broken.

[@marekcox-owsley1605]

Bit of some lore to help: in the actual backrooms wiki, there is a group who got an object that can remake the floors. This caused floor 0 to be replaced and some rooms being messed up.

[@RSOA-001]

19:20 Well I certainly didn't expect this theory to suddenly become Prop Hunt related

[@final_jim]

Bonkers theory and I really don't think I'm right, but what if the backrooms are a metaphor for A.I.? Like, a simulation trying to make something so close to life and almost succeeding but it doesn't feel just right to an uncanny level? It even takes many things that shouldn't be together, like the items from different time periods and everything and it forcefully mixes them together to create this horrifying mess. Feel like an artist like Kane would understand how scary and terrible A.I. usage is in the art world.

[@Thealixermixer]

that actually makes sense

[@jordanwallen6067]

I like ur thinking but the back rooms have been a thing before ai stuff took off a few years ago. The back rooms was an exploration of liminor spaces.

[@final_jim]

@@jordanwallen6067 Can't argue with you there. The similarities I draw must be purely coincidental or me thinking too hard about it.

[@VerbDoesStuff]

@@final_jimOR, he’s retconned this meaning into it realizing it’s relevant

[@final_jim]

@@VerbDoesStuff I mean he could have just started making something out of pure passion but later realising he can share a message with it? It's possible!

[@alextheeditor1278]

Lets go! More backrooms videos!

[@djlopez7976]

Yay!

[@utraspeed16]

Yay

[@ChaoticSiIence]

Yay

[@osmosisjones4912]

I thought the Retches were zombies

[@djlopez7976]

@@osmosisjones4912 you broke the chain :(

[@samurexatlas7373]

14:36 Perhaps a replicate? The bacteria trying to remake itself as a human?

[@DedgyVanced]

so something like Alternates in the mandela catalogue?

[@samurexatlas7373]

@@DedgyVanced A bit?

[@igot7problemsbutyougotnojams]

It's the dad

[@TinyTim367]

The ai running the backrooms can make horrifying monsters that can destroy us all in seconds but not a four legged chair from Ikea. Beautiful.

[@thereallycoolguy7742]

The monster You're talking about at 14:46 could be a faceling. Because we really haven't seen the monster's face yet so it could be a faceling and it could also fit into your theory because facelings are basically humans but off

[@NoImHeavenly]

I'm in complete confusion that every KZbinrs I watch EXACTLY uploads this hour

[@minecraftgirl8733]

Maybe it’s not exactly at this hour for them? Different time zones and such.

[@Ivan8]

Probably because most people worldwide are awake at it, so the videos would get the most views

[@itsnoob200]

Us timezone

[@redheartstudios8973]

Highest point of internet traffic on any given day. Those initial views are where the ad rev is, it only makes sense to upload when those would be highest

[@TeslaOsiris]

SEO…search engine optimization

[@miavolt3165]

8:01 I remember a previous Backrooms theory explained that it can also house things that would possibly end up in the future. A few vids back there was an interview that didn’t actually take place until years later, yet it was being played on a tv or radio in the backrooms. So, not only are items that never saw the light of day kept in that liminal hellhole, but so are items that might be used in the future!

[@Desaithsoul]

That would make sense and as for how it ended up in the facility, a searcher could have found it and brought it back to investigate it.

[@christianemazzola5863]

I mean it’s assets for reality so it would make sense

[@jaggerguth4391]

6:06 Oh, I see. So basically these entities has the same mindset of those M. Night Shyamalan aliens that are weak to water and having trouble with pantry doors.

[@jesternotheranimatoranimations]

17:59 There's also a song by Kane Parsons called Ghost. It's in Backrooms (Original Score), Vol.2

[@attilahurkecz6845]

Wait a minute, was 11:07 a Dr. Who reference???

[@dragonoi8123]

At 9:00 when they mention dates you said 2002 instead of 2022 in case you didn’t notice

[@10C45E]

I like that a lot of the areas found in this found footage are callbacks to levels originally written in the wikis, such as level 11 - 'The Infinite City'

[@thenextgeneration4303]

I personally think that the backroom is just a area to where Time doesn't really matter. I'm pretty sure everything that goes on. There has already happened. So when someone goes there, they're watching the past. The monsters used to be humans at some point in time until something or someone turn them into those things.

[@stevenyee1055]

Or like some kind of "new folder" that was added into the simulation but that folder conflicts with pre exisisting data, which include time. This caused data corruption of save and load files on humans, objects, ect. that happen to end up in there. This glitched singularity grows exponentially and it has encroached on stability of matrix operating system.

[@thecianinator]

6:55 "It looks like a 90s camcorder" -shows HD camera with FULL HD written on the side-

[@bidluff]

Also 50x zoom

[@Jamiethecomic]

19:57 - The part of the electro interference... gives off the same vibes as The Slender Man... possibly connected to the Backrooms?

[@avispygaming7498]

18:15 watching this at 3 am is not a good idea

[@_Pebblenoises]

i learned that the hard way 💀

[@kiskillilla223]

Watching this in bed, trying to fall asleep in the dark, wasn't a good idea either. Gotta stay awake with the lights on, watching kitten videos all night now.

[@Frostubee]

For real this mf NEEDED to remember us how a ghost looks in case we forgot…

[@WaaDoku]

That's when it gets interesting

[@edwardtdm123]

15:40 Ahhh, the nostalgia this rug brings. 💚

[@matthewboire6843]

It’s the rug

[@Zeke2p9]

I came into this video thinking "What could possibly make the backrooms more deadly?" and having the barrier of the backrooms and reality weaken definitely fits the bill.

[@RealStormySkull]

12:00 Personally I’d rather think that since the equipment comes from different times, that would mean that different people over different times found this place and divided (individually) to add to the divides already existing and try to make or create a portal or smthing to escape the backrooms. Once they failed and died, a new person would find this and get the same idea. And the loop continues…

[@cardinalcar]

The attention to detail both in Kanes videos, as well as this one, is very impressive

[@alextheeditor1278]

Just in time for spooky month!

[@BradyYarbrough-r2s]

IT A SPOOKY MONTH

[@randompersonidk3497]

*dances*

[@Kulkogo]

Petition to make a backrooms game where everyone can contribute with their own levels

[@Axolotl446]

Fancy's, "Escape the Backrooms" $10 on steam and still early access.

[@krio1267]

I'd make the "Tamago Rooms" which is based off the Japanese meme "ヒカキンテレビ卵"

[@AlastorFan5900]

not a game, but the backrooms wiki is sorta that, with 100s of levels people added.

[@gavenorellana3989]

I feel like the still life might be something from the original from the original backrooms media where someone loses their sanity and become a monster them selves it also might not be considering Kane has kept original for a pretty long time

[@fishboneinks481]

The back rooms are in Wisconsin!? I’m in Wisconsin! 😮

[@saggymaxwiz]

18:03 Are any of those images real, or are they ai or drawn?

[@nonsense-me]

Those images are real

[@manhalaskar4410]

Finally I have been waiting for this

[@Vereses]

if that’s true, a shaping shifting chair creature has gotta be one of the most weird concepts kane has come up with

[@charlieryan323]

Gotta love how a bot comment copying yours got more traction :/

[@Vereses]

@@charlieryan323 i didn’t even notice till you commented. geez youtube has to sort this stuff out

[@charlieryan323]

@Vereses Yeah, the majority are new accounts. You can see a suspect profile picture, and they end the comment with emojis; probably to avoid a duplicate comment filter

[@ChrisW101]

10:07 Notice how all the discreptencies are from AFTER the first presumed time? The assents just aren't being used yet, nothing more.

[@culan_SCP]

4:15 hes not dead, the camera ran out of battery…

[@GobbyTheScottishGoblin]

If that new creature is more humanoid than the last two, what if the reason for these entities being hostile is so that they can get human corpses for the backrooms itself to study to mimic humans even better? Better yet, what if the backrooms is trying to become a new reality reminiscent of our own?

[@lolglolblol]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Kane himself refute the simulation theory ages ago?

[@CookieMage27]

If putting a chair in a closet isn’t natural then why am I siting in my cozy corner chair in what is 100% a large closet🤨🤨🤨

[@penguiniothechocolatepengu4673]

YES! I've been waiting for this, Mat's reaction was so good and I couldn't wait for this!

[@felidae47]

10:40 huh, two nickels.

[@freddiefishton]

not a lot but weird it’s happened twice

[@kosuken]

3:55 my theory: every place in the backrooms has a real-life counterpart, and that wall was connecting both worlds. sound was leaking through the man that tried to break the wall noclipped too, falling through and under the wall i havent watched the rest of the video, but i did go watch the backrooms one and came to the same theory if thats what the film theorists conclude about this part, please dont clown on me

[@catnights]

So kinda like stranger things

[@RobloxDude1789]

9:00 its 2022 not 2002

[@cooldude-qz1gf]

Yup i sure we all noticed this slip

[@JOELINTHEWORLD909]

Same

[@gracelovely3838]

At least the picture was right, and he said 2022 all the other times

[@Mycatsveaissocute]

I think it was april 1995, but the tv signal and poster was from the "future"

[@VoidL6636]

14:06 reminds me of wall dwellers from pressure. Also game theory should do a vid on pressure

[@Yonki-mm6nt]

0:25 say that again..

[@big_boy921]

I like that....

[@ologoto3584]

0:24 there i said it

[@GeoQueenNavia]

I kept replaying this part

[@The_Avr]

He said the n word 💀

[@big_boy921]

@@The_Avr no really🙁

[@L337M4573RK]

If time and space run differently in The Backrooms than in the real world, then different time periods could seemingly intersect in different locations. It's also possible that The Backrooms are a pocket dimension of reality (or vice-versa), or that The Backrooms are part of the interdimensional void that existed before the universe was created (thus time and space don't follow the same rules as in our current universe). Food for thought...

[@poppisicle1020]

Backrooms lore goes crazy tbh

[@trulycommando]

Objects and items could be clipping into the backrooms from every time, 2024, 2050, 1940s, etc. Which makes sense.

[@TamTroll]

can't say i'm a fan of the "backrooms is a simulation / AI generated" idea. it's just too convoluted, boring, and implies something bigger is behind / created the backrooms, which isn't at all interesting to me. Personally i see it more like the old Minecraft Farlands. it's just the edge of our reality where the rules and logic start to fall apart. it's not putting desks in front of doors to brick walls because some artificial intelligence put it there, it's doing that because that's just it's natural state, it's the area where the laws of physics and reality start to fray at the seams, right at the edge of existence and nonexistence. It just feels simpler to me, like it's not "created" it just "is", which to me at least is a lot more interesting then "oh it was made by an artificial intelligence who doesn't know what it's doing, and since artificial intelligence are artificial, that implies something created that artificial intelligence" loop which shifts the mystery from "what is the backrooms" to "what is the entity that created the thing responsible to the backrooms". i fell like it's not too impossible that someone could gather all that radio equipment and put it together as a person trapped in the backrooms. keep in mind that the "creature" that attacked Ravi in this video wasn't the bacteria monster, it was more humanoid. As far as i'm concerned, that's just a person who has been trapped in the backrooms so long they went crazy. it could easily be them that built that radio tower, especially since they were hanging around nearby, and have a whole collection of speakers not too far away that they were visibly fiddling with.

[@finixmoon127]

I don't think Lee's theory is implying that an AI is running the Backrooms, he's just using that as a reference point, to me it sounds more like the Backrooms themselves are a sentient entity that just exists as its own thing.

[@TamTroll]

@@finixmoon127 both he and matpat say "AI" regularly, like it's something intentionally creating all this, so i can only assume that. as far as I'm concerned nothing "Created" the backrooms, it just *is*

[@finixmoon127]

@@TamTroll Yes, they think that something IS intentionally creating all of this, and that it’s the Backrooms themselves. They’ve never introduced the idea of a potential creator, because it’s quite obvious that Kane isn’t going in that direction.

[@TamTroll]

@@finixmoon127 they repeatedly bring up AI creating the backrooms. i don't think they're asking "what created the AI" yet, but AI is by nature artificial, it's kind of implied to have a creator out there somewhere. just don't the AI theory period, it's just boring and makes no sense.

[@Isiel42]

I wonder if it's more like our 3 dimensional world is being spliced into a 4 dimensional space because of the experiments. It doesn't make sense to us because we are not built to navigate or comprehend higher dimensions and neither is anything that's brought into it. Granted it might not *literally* be a 4 dimensional space, I just think we're dealing with a space that fundamentally works in a strange and bizarre way that we don't understand, rather than something sentient that doesn't understand *us* and is trying to group these things on purpose. I'm definitely with you though. It being a simulation wouldn't be very exciting for me either.

[@LovesTheSpam]

Him: "The Backrooms would be found in Wisconsin" Me, from Wisconsin: Hes not wrong

[@TheNightAngels95]

This is starting to remind me more and more of how generative AI works. Gathering assets and mashing them together into something matching a model of what it wants. Even the still life creature looks kind of like an early AI art person.

[@EditorHeart]

*Early To See Film Theory It's In Safe Hands*

[@adrielgil-f2o]

yhea

[@Gavinkhan777]

Same

[@Wintergatanaddict]

oil up

[@Gavinkhan777]

@@Wintergatanaddict WOAH

[@TheBox1025]

Oil up

[@aidenlegobatman]

2:44 that oddly looks like the Stupendium. May be the facial hair.

[@HYP3R_2]

Stuart pendium before the toy incident

[@QuickTurtleKL]

So I paused this video... And instantly saw your comment, then had to do a double take

[@ninjagogetta]

backrooms looks like the result of asking an early ai generator to make an office, city and neighborhoods but it doesnt look right

[@stevenyee1055]

A what if we are in a hyper simulated reality of the matrix that humans are not suppose to be in. Because of our intervention, any human going in become corrupted data error where the save and load state conflict. The longer you are inside, the more the body glitches out and become one of the backroom entities.

[@whovian132]

I love how this whole thing kinda started as a metaphor for how working in an office job forever can lead to a (literal) dead end. :)

[@BCCrooky]

What if it isn't time travel in the backrooms but a null timescape. It exists at all points from after it was first opened. So, like the quantum realm time travel in endgame, you could enter the backrooms in 1990 and encounter someone of something from 2015

[@nukeboy-lk3tr]

14:45 the monster here is speculated to be who the protagonist was talking to at the end of the found footage. When the person in the house tried to help Ravi, he noclipped in and was actually in the backrooms before Ravi was. He then slowly became a monster infected by the bacteria, which is why is looks like a human. This is a bootstrap paradox: remember that time is messed up in the backrooms.

[@FreyR_Kunn]

I heavily doubt so. Kane has confirmed the monster isn't a zombie of any type and he actively dislikes the oversaturation of Zombies in media.

[@wyterabitt2149]

@@FreyR_Kunn They didn't mention zombie.

[@LittleDanny9899]

@@FreyR_Kunn I mean just cause it was a Human would not mean it turns into a Zombie Vampires, werewolves, some of the fish people from lovecraftian storys etc all were Humans. Zombie just tends to be one of the most commonly seen Transformations nowadays but its easy to make up a new one. (And yes he mentioned the word infectet but well I wouldnt call the Lifeform Fellow a Zombie)

[@enidmcwade-yy3mq]

All I could think at 6:16 was BOING

[@blakequerio]

9:06 “or in 2002.”

[@Fark-e5h]

I LOVE how they can communicate to people out of the rooms

[@NobodyGamingEntertainment]

Here is my two cents on the Backrooms so far. As you pointed out, Radio waves seem to play a big part in the Backrooms, so I have a theory that the backrooms has different channels like a radio has. Here me out, If you have a radio, you can tune into a single channel, but if you move the dial, you can mix channels together and even change them. What if the backrooms are like that, what if changing a frequency in the Backrooms changes the settings of things, for example, doing time jumps or even mixing times. Also the Backrooms kind of remind me of the SPC Ikea building, where it is connected to different alternate timelines of earth, so what if the Backrooms are actually One multi-timeline anchor and the frequencies heard are what signify what and when you see and interact with things? What I mean it, what if what you experience is only one Channel of the Backrooms, what if the backrooms has multiple channels, so for example the Main character in Found Footage 3 was in one channel of the Backrooms while the disembodied voice was in another completely different Channel of the Backrooms but their channels were literally semi overlapping, so they could at least communicate but have no physical interactions. Also seems like the Backrooms also act like a Mirror dimension, like it sees things in Mirrors and recreates them. If I get the time I would like to write out a better to understand theory than what I wrote here.

[@The_journey_001]

I’d rather die in the real world by a backrooms monster then dying in the backrooms from a real world monster

[@Bunny_Bill]

If the Backrooms all turns out to be a big satirical allegory on AI that would be the best ending I could ask for

[@Max.K00]

Film Theory Idea: The Batman analog horror by oblivion, the story is very compelling and confusing and is one of the best analog horrors I’ve seen ever but he’s stopped making them dude to hate so if we could get an episode it would be great 👍

[@Thaumh]

And then you get Fan Films that are technically not canon but still totally accurate to the genre. One of my faves is the guy who found a large hole under the roots of a large old tree in the woods somewhere. Inside was a dark concrete corridor, which lead to a well lit carpeted and wood paneled stairwell down that made several quarter turns as it went, which eventually lead to the back room of an empty store in a mall. The store was lit, but the only furniture was the cashier's counter. The roll gate was closed. The lights out in the mall's main hall were all off, but the Muzak was playing and the fountain could be heard running.

[@imadrummer6494]

17:57 alternate idea, that dad fell into the backrooms, and also fell in into the past. He got stuck in the floor, tore his foot off, which is seen in the house he no-cliped in, and tried to find a way out. He attempted to make radio towers to contact people failed, eventually he made his way back to his house, and tried to talk to his kids. He probably went insane at some point and gave up at some point. Now our protagonist falls into the backrooms himself, that humanoid “creature” we see is the dad, you can even see how he is missing a foot. So this dad in a sense is stuck in a time loop, he falls into the backrooms and the past because of the protagonist, tries to get out and talk to his kids he fails, eventually our protagonist himself falls in and runs into the dad who had gone insane, the protagonist finds a house where he meets the dad, he then causes the dad to fall into the backrooms and past repeating the cycle.

[@Zaxlfang]

Sorry, I just got an analog horror style ad at the very start of this video about "The tuesday tapes" or something like that. I WANNA KNOW MORE ABOUT THAT PLEASE, SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN I WAS NOT MENTALLY PREPARED FOR WHAT I HAVE JUST WITNESSED I'M NOT EVEN AMERICAN PLZ SEND HELP! Edit: I googled it and it's a bunch of weird music? But also some audio records that I'm too lazy to sift through. Idk if this is an ARG or not but whatever it is I'm confused.

[@--.UNKNOWN.--]

Idk if anyone else mentioned this, but maybe Ravi wasn't able to see the guy because they were from different times/timelines. The Backrooms (in Kane's universe) obviously messes with time, either sending people back or forward. Maybe Ravi and the other guy were in the same place, at the same time, but years apart. That would explain why there's a commercial from 2007-2009 playing in the background when Ravi is not from that time.

[@lunar9342]

Y'all are gonna go wild when you realize the new video from today shows us the lighting was made almost a full year after the backrooms were opened, being acknowledged by, but unspoken on in some sort of meeting.

[@kitrikyt]

All of this "the backrooms try to mimic the real world, but it's not quite right" like with skyscrapers that extend to the top and bottom, office spaces with no equipment... (Mentioned in 15:20) Really reminds me of how AI works, it does not really understand what it's doing (at least for now), but tries to mimic the correct answer. You see this / saw this often with AI video and picture generation.

[@VahnCruz]

The man in the wall's whole house clipped into the backrooms, into the past with him inside. He breaks into his wall. You can hear him screaming about what he sees, the green light spreading through the inside of his house. So he starts running and is clipped. Everyone else that clips falls lands from falling, the boot is fused into the floor in a running position. The man now in the past, and missing part of his foot leaves to look around. He comes back and is able to talk to his boys, through the wall. He is the very person he mentions to the main character. Also, if you look at the monster it appears to be missing part of it's right foot.

[@VahnCruz]

Might even make more sense if the man and his house were copied into the backrooms. Loading and chopping his foot was a copying error. Then if he does later become the monster, the name "still life" makes a lot of sense.

[@MoonLightxxSunny]

backrooms theory is back

[@christopherrodriguez3540]

I got a theory, the person or "thing" that looked like a human at 14:42 was a guy who died earlier in the series I don't know who but it was a guy who died and was covered in dark goo, it could be the same guy, please see this

[@TIVIS014]

Thank you so much for shouting out the reddit! Still looking forward to the gravity falls part 2 vid

[@Arbel115]

20:30 Why did he say that so fast was lee in a hurry😅

[@ADastra1939]

No Film Theory. The Backrooms is NOT a simulation😭🙏

[@HappyAxolotl24]

Yeah, the more I watch, the less and less it makes sense

[@ZOMBiFOX13]

Agreed

[@casuallycloaked]

He's not saying it is, he's saying that it's like our world is a simulation and the backrooms is unused content

[@averageyoutubehandle497]

@@casuallycloaked what... thats not a new theory then, this has been thought of like 50 times already. theres a whole canon for that on wikidot.

[@Isiel42]

I feel like Kane himself debunked this theory at some point.

[@VoidL6636]

17:15 The file size of the backrooms is getting too big. needs an external hard drive

[@generalxabierosa2636]

So what you're basically saying is, people basically pull a digital circus gummy goo, and pop into the dev room?