Film Theory: Does This Backrooms Fan Theory Solve EVERYTHING?

[@totallynotsal]

As a native Egyptian who has lived in Egypt my whole life, nothing about the backrooms ever struck me as "This is about Ancient Egypt for sure!" There are some connections but honestly it just seems like a coincidence or some sort of homage for a reason or another. Anyway, I really enjoyed this theory, I love how MatPat looks at theories besides his, very cool to see :)

[@randomthingsxd9030]

kv31 though

[@totallynotsal]

@@randomthingsxd9030 Yes! When I saw that I did think that there might be a connection, but after no further connections I assumed it was just a coincidence, because there was just no more concrete evidence.

[@RealBradMiller]

Nope, you are a paid misinfo agent! Tell us your secrets -and- or we'll burn your house down. Jk, have a good day.

[@somedudewatchingyoutube9163]

Local Egyptian debunks backrooms Egypt Theory, Gets killed by the fandom.

[@totallynotsal]

@@somedudewatchingyoutube9163 Oh no, should I lock my doors? 💀

[@unknownvariable9239]

Just imagine you no-clip into the Backrooms and then you see MatPat holding a notebook aggressively writing stuff down as he stares at a wall

[@gameilike8982]

The replies are in their own backroom now

[@ricardoberrios6137]

At that point I know that he has lost his sanity

[@gameyfirebro9645]

@QUEEN ELIZABETH IS BURNING IN НЕLL LMAO 😂 man the bots were faaaast.

[@St3lla-MaR1s]

@@gameilike8982 wow this new type of bot was fast

[@MoonWasTaken2]

Thats..... accurate. Probaly happened already but got out lol

[@diem1095]

I think there needs to be a theories episode where its just mat looking straight into the camera, deadpan delivery, saying the most OUTLANDISH THEORIES (like those theories that are a 'lets throw a dart at a wall and see if it sticks' kind of theories), and explain NONE of them. It would be a short video, but it would be 3 minutes of a continuious stream of rediculiousness.

[@cedartheyeah.justyeah.3967]

YES

[@HANKSANDY69420]

Tericho made a troll theory for Poppy Playtime once lol

[@cedartheyeah.justyeah.3967]

@@HANKSANDY69420 Who's Tericho?

[@cedartheyeah.justyeah.3967]

@@joshroehl6098 STOP

[@HANKSANDY69420]

@@cedartheyeah.justyeah.3967 look him up

[@Chrischi3TutorialLPs]

MatPat: *Explains egyptian mythology 101* Me, who read the Kane Chronicles: Interesting

[@jenniferkorf4767]

Rick Riordan, is in the backrooms confirmed?! :0

[@Chrischi3TutorialLPs]

@@jenniferkorf4767 Even worse yet, this particular version is made by Kane Pixels. Coincidence? I think so.

[@Forbillion]

Dope a fellow fan

[@aceeneedstherapyy]

bro, Kane Chronicles is just...yes

[@christianfreed8005]

I like Egyptian mythology more than Greek mythology

[@AdvSpringBonnie]

Imagine putting all this hard work into a theory, hoping MatPat sees it, and then he makes a video on why it's wrong.

[@lukapuka8320]

@im calling saul you're not calling saul if you are one of those people who are like "Finally it's here"

[@DJSlimeball]

That's how it goes somehow, he doesn't have an obligation to say your theory is correct when it isn't. Sorry about the bots.

[@jinxlover321]

@@lukapuka8320 called it

[@MasterMoonClap]

that would be badass ngl

[@mousepat9256]

@Queen Elizabeth 🅥 Queen Elizabeth? How are you here? You died like 6 hours ago.

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

I swear some of these fan theories are so well thought out, I wouldn’t be surprised if Kane Pixels himself borrowed some ideas for use

[@vergilsonofsparda2994]

Sorry for all the bots man

[@Emmett_Br0wn]

honestly it could be what's happening! lol p.s. I feel bad for you-

[@Willimann]

13 answers, all (almost) bots. jesus christ youtube, fix your platform

[@Just_Some_Gal]

oh cool, it's you again!

[@Mandela....]

Who tf gave you checkmark?

[@Ap0llo5]

My theory for the Backrooms being “inspired” by Egyptian mythology is that Kane chose those letters, knowing theorists will make the connections of the Backrooms to the tombs, just to throw people off of what is actually happening.

[@craftyplayz8150]

I’d just take it as the backrooms are slightly influenced Egyptian mythology, but nothing past slight theming. Nothing really past “ayo, that looks/sounds cool, might use this for a bit of finishing theming or something later”.

[@normalchannel2185]

OOOOOR, KV are just his initials(or someone who is his friend/family) and 31 is the age he thought of the backrooms/discovered them(or 13)

[@stultusmcgee9099]

I think that’s way too specific and far fetched of an idea

[@I_love_CreamPuffs]

I was thinking the same thing when I started watching the video

[@eloisethekitkat5223]

@@normalchannel2185 kane is 17

[@terribleeditor4556]

Today I learned that tombs can be raided for body parts along with actual gold and jewelry, and I'm a little nervous to imagine the kind of people who would actually buy a mummified body part.

[@pineapplefox3673]

If you really want to be horrified, people used to not only buy mummies, but eat them too!

[@terribleeditor4556]

@@pineapplefox3673 I need you to say sike right now.

[@pineapplefox3673]

@Terrible Editor I'm so sorry, if you want more info look up victorian mummy unwrapping parties

[@terribleeditor4556]

@@pineapplefox3673 They had unwrapping parties!? That makes it worse! But honestly I shouldn't be surprised, people can be weird.

[@pineapplefox3673]

@@terribleeditor4556 yea, definitely not humanity's brightest moment 😅

[@lordsiomai]

Kane's Backrooms has such a incredibly high level of detail that anyone who tries solve it inevitably falls in this endless maze of different theories and connections and coincidences, kind of like, well... the Backrooms lol. Maybe that's the point Kane was trying to make? Maybe the nature and purpose backrooms was never really meant to be understood by us humans. Thus, anyone who tries solve it 'noclips' into this rabbit hole of endless information.

[@mrdoggo63]

my dad has work and one of the books for his work had the A symbol for async

[@haventhebeast6050]

It's really fun starting from one single image

[@haventhebeast6050]

I can't wait to see how far we go down this rabbit hole

[@lordsiomai]

@@haventhebeast6050 ikr. it's mind boggling how a single image can spawn all of... this

[@mrdoggo63]

@@haventhebeast6050 Lol i am not even joking

[@j4yd32]

Imagine matpat actually getting stuck in the backrooms and years later he would be documented as an entity acting like a paranoid human that over analyzes EVERYTHING and will tell you LONG complex theories until you go insane and become just like him. Edit:thank you all, this is my first popular comment Ps: I reported ALL the bots

[@annoyinggaster]

@Thank me later 🅥 maybe switch accounts first?

[@Tastee_slugg]

he definitely will get stuck, somehow survive all entities (documenting them in the meanwhile) and then documenting all rooms, just years later we find out he's somehow escaped and describes basically a lot of things to us-

[@musicheaven1679]

The botsss

[@ThatIdiotNamedKiyo]

He is one already

[@RpgBlasterRpg]

Or the backrooms could be the outer layer of reality

[@Kaia_da_fox]

I love how matpat doesn't *JUST* focus on *HIS* theories and actually goes into the fandom to check out some more different ideas.

[@Flaris]

True. Be amazing if he did this sort of thing for other theories he was absolutely wrong over. But nice every now and then to have him note other prominent theories. Obviously he tends to only do that with theories he can feel confident in saying are wrong so his hold up. But more than what he could get away with doing.

[@victorrivera135]

Its respectful ight

[@HellsThorns]

I Feel Like 26% Of The Population Does Not Sleep

[@Roz4628]

And then tears them down with arguements that could apply to alot of his theories.

[@foundedcolt2645]

It’s a genius way of ensuring new content stays available

[@elle7938]

To me the back rooms are kind of like a modern retelling of Theseus and the Minotaur. A winding infinite maze that no one has survived or been able to crack as well as a monster lurking the unending halls. As well as People getting sacrificed to the mysterious corridors annually.

[@morganbeck402]

I never thought of it like that, but you're so right. Clever.

[@holdensaia5962]

Maybe that could be a little bit of inspiration from lane pixels or just a fun parallel

[@forcemind1483]

well it was for sure an isnpiration for the 4chan post, that created this theory, or the other people telling their own interpretations, based on the 4chan post, but I beileve that kane didn't take much from it, seeing where the story went and how he written the lore

[@Themonstersunderthesurface]

You’re most likely right about that Theseus traveling from a far distant land to end up in another place just a slay another beast from another place with like you said the unwinding and mysterious halls, guiding people towards certain death

[@deesnyder23]

In science class, I was told humans search for patterns. We are *wired to see those patters so well we find them in places where they don't exsist. I've always thought about theorists when thinking about this. And I'm glad MatPat can recognize this.

[@low-keylyesmith3048]

When you hop into the GT subreddit, that becomes clear in a hurry. There's a huge ammount of people desperately wanting for connections, either begging for a theory video to be done or drawing these loose connections themselves.

[@davemccombs]

@@low-keylyesmith3048 Yeah. None of any of the content on any of his channels amount to much other than psychologically causing an "itch" in the average child's mind that their favorite weird little game/movie/concept is actually deeeeEeeeeEEEeeeEEEp and SseeeeeCCCccrreeeEEEtttt

[@Spino-hx2mr]

@@davemccombs I'd say quite a bit of his Content is Based on SOMETHING that's there, just he likes he theorize about things that aren't there. It's interesting and fun!

[@rationxlity]

pattern recognition is all you needed to say

[@samanthatorres6749]

I am too.

[@Skywarp2099]

A quick correction Matt: Apophenia is the term used to describe the phenomena of finding patterns in useless data, in a generalized way. Pareidolia only pertains to the 'visual' element of this behavior, where as Apophenia takes into consideration visual, auditory, and other critical thinking methods that lead an individual to their conclusions. Thank you for all of the videos you, Steph, and (most importantly) the crew create for us. Keep up the great work. Wish you all the best.

[@meganmclendon5063]

Thanks for the correction! I didn't know that. Also whats up with the other 2 😂😂 weirdo's

[@trudnepolskieimie3729]

actually 🤓☝

[@Skywarp2099]

@@meganmclendon5063 Bots that trigger on highly rated comments with malicious websites, links, etc. Report them like I did so we can help keep the community safe. :)

[@st_Belo]

🤓

[@fallis07]

To be fair he wasn't talking about auditory and other things, he was very specifically talking about the visual side of it.

[@Arrowkeys]

Kane actually responded to one of your theories in an interview he did. Just search up "kane pixels interview Wendigang" and you'll find it. If I remember correctly he says that his backrooms and lore behind it isn't a game simulation. I gotta admit though that your theories on that were pretty believable.

[@I_love_CreamPuffs]

Really? I wonder what's the true lore burried deep in the sand

[@defaultdan7923]

that’s pretty interesting considering most of the backrooms lore is deeply rooted in video game esque ideas. even level ! has food that replenishes what is essentially an invisible stamina bar, and there’s the whole “level” naming scheme and the no clipping thing. i wonder how this series will play out.

[@DrDingsGaster]

^ Exactly, it's not a game or simulation. And I don't quite believe the Egypt theme either.

[@Wonderwasnttaken]

@@defaultdan7923 thats whymost people say the backrooms are ruined today, everything is over explained and they made it from this cool concept to just this well, "level game" and/or some levels are just stupid

[@WAUTOR]

@@DrDingsGaster tbh i believe the game simulation theory more than the Egyptian theory

[@rogamer7399]

The thing that no one has actually tried is trying to break through the walls.

[@Yikes_Doodles]

actually thats an amazing thing to point out, what would happen if we just- grabbed the axe and started breaking? what if we just ended up in another room though?

[@night0legend]

nor do they try to loot, they just wander

[@artdeco777]

@@Yikes_Doodles if we ended up in a different room I'm sure there would be some kind of pattern connecting the rooms in the first place, I mean what would make us go into that one SPECIFIC room after breaking the wall yk

[@meemtiem1273]

What are in the walls/what are they made of?

[@captainzoll3303]

I wondered that too, whether the walls were actually timber studs with mouldy plaster or if they were some completely solid, indestructible "stuff", but in one of the videos, there is a hole broken in the floor, and you can see bits of concrete and broken rebar. sure, you can't see frayed carpet or suspended ceiling panels as one would expect, but i'd put that more down to a CG limitation than a deliberate statement. but on the flipside, there is also a car that teleported through and smashed into a wall in what looked to be a pretty hard impact, yet the wall was undamaged.

[@loganjeter7682]

While we’re on ancient mythologies, the backrooms have always reminded me a lot of the labyrinth from Greek mythology. An ever changing almost alive place known to be next to impossible to not get endlessly lost in. I could even see where the bacteria monster could be a parallel to the Minotaur .

[@siriuslymentalthatone2528]

So that would mean the backrooms were BUILT to contain the bacteria monster. So who built it and what is their connection to the monster?

[@GrimmDemon]

You might be on to something, my friend, that the backrooms are like the labyrinth. Considering, so far, we haven't seen the bacteria monster able to leave the backrooms and that whenever someone goes in there, that isn't a part of A Sync, always get lost and never can find the way back to where they no-clipped in. Like Siriuslymentalhatone said, does that mean the backrooms were built and if so, why did these people (or whatever they are), I'm assuming, create the bacteria monster or have a connection with it in the first place?

[@I_love_CreamPuffs]

@@siriuslymentalthatone2528 matpat made a thoery that the bacteria monster was actually a normal bacteria but got stuck and came into the backrooms when it was opened, so I doubt the bacteria monster was a bacteria monster in the beggining and the backrooms was made to lock it in, but it's your choice to believe it or not

[@sarahhartle4286]

Ancient Egyptian myth also relates the journey to the Field of Reeds to a kind of set of challenges, so I can see where the Backrooms are a set of dangerous challenges that maybe we just haven’t seen the back end (or payoff) of?

[@Anonymous-ks1pn]

except the labyrynth wasnt always changing that was a detail made up for percy jackson

[@sirlogan4786]

*Theory:* The developers implemented many strange coincidences to desensitize people and keep them inside the simulation without questioning anything.

[@The31ator]

Can we stop the bot replies..

[@nachgeben]

@@The31ator Report all of them.

[@xiaohavercade]

I reported the bots

[@CrispyMilkk]

@@kingmankingboy8743 That’s not a valid theory, try again later

[@thekansasthinker364]

Anyone else remember when the back rooms were literally just that, Endless yellow rooms with nothing in them? Don’t get me wrong I absolutely love what they’ve done with it and building all this lore; it’s just nice to remember the simple beginnings lol

[@That_Random_British_Dude]

Yeah, there's just too many entities nowadays

[@bowmin1]

@@That_Random_British_Dude Most entities exist for the sole objective of eating human flesh. Theres rarely anything complex to them, and if there are an complexities they are usually silly gimmicks.

[@mobiusone6994]

@@bowmin1 Reminds me of SCP in that way

[@Sinistar123]

I do, it's why I hate the wiki fan community, they became way too obsessed with adding entities and ended up making the Backrooms very generic. I appreciate that while Kane adds the entity(ies) they aren't overbearing and usually only come in towards the end of the videos, and as far as we can tell there's only one type so far. Also there are channels like Matt Studios that make pure OG Backrooms stuff that's just exploration.

[@Sivanot]

@@Sinistar123 How about the Wikidot? The basic Wiki is very low quality and basically anyone can throw whatever garbage onto it they want, the wikidot has more moderation and wuality control.

[@marsphoenix1359]

Personally, I don't think the Egyptian link has as much to do with the lore as it has to do with the *inspiration* of the lore.

[@EditDeath]

Just a small suggestion for anyone wanting to keep following this theory: look for feather imagery. A significant part of ancient Egyptian afterlife lore is the idea of weighing a person's sins against a feather, with paradise reserved for those whose sins don't exceed its weight. Similarly, look for scales. Without one or both of these elements, I gotta side with Matpat

[@PeterEmrys]

same, without any of the elements that distinguish the Duat from other "otherworldly" settings, like anything about the heart weighing, or sun imagery for the journey of Ra, or a snake for Apophis, there just isn't enough for the theory to stand up.

[@nachgeben]

Feather imagery is only important for certain ancient gods. The "feathers" you see often are actually reeds. Plants found on the edge of the Nile.

[@viktoria_pikovsky]

I would add up another element to it- the monster named Ammit. It has the head of a crocodile, front body of a lion, and a back body of a hippo, and it eats the souls of those who's heart (oh, and btw the heart of the person was weighted against the feather, not purely their sins) outweighed the feather of truth. Ammit was an essential part of the judgment ritual, as it was the punishment for all the sinners in the form of eating them right then and there for all their sins.

[@PeterEmrys]

@@nachgeben Not in this context, in the weighing of the heart the heart is weighed against the feather of ma'at, the Egyptian concept/goddess of truth, justice, and order

[@Azravald]

I feel like an important point about the doors was missed. MatPat pointed out the "false" in false doors in Egyptian tombs and dismissed the connection to the Async door due to its functionality. But I think there's a good point to be made when you take into account the purpose of false doors. Yes these doors aren't real or functional, but the intent is that they are actual doors between worlds, allowing access from one to the other. And I don't know about you but that sounds to me like a perfect match for the door into the backrooms at the Async facility.

[@universalpower419]

Okay, sure, but what does that mean? Because a door between worlds is a pretty common thing in media and mythos, lt doesn't mean that is connected to Egyptian tombs.

[@thesupervisor4515]

And everyone is slipping over the logo... It's a fricking pyramid!

[@destroyerofturtles5024]

@@thesupervisor4515 I never even thought about that.

[@DuneArmado]

@@thesupervisor4515 It's a triangle. you could connect it to the illuminati just as easily from that alone.

[@MonsterPumpkin]

@@thesupervisor4515 The logo is a stylized A like the A in Titanfall lol

[@Vivigreeny25]

0:59 I think one of my favorite things about Team Theorist’s editing is the fact that we get things like that. The window isn’t even open. This shouldn’t be so funny to me yet it is.

[@Vivigreeny25]

Can y’all not

[@fangier0]

Bruh, there are so many bots above me

[@siriuslymentalthatone2528]

It bounced back why is that so funny

[@Soda_Fizzy]

@@siriuslymentalthatone2528 because comedy

[@Plazmasoldier]

They even put in a little extra effort and added a light thud sound effect

[@NutjobGTO]

I absolutely want to hear the Backrooms/Blues Clues theory

[@bleakautomaton4808]

Honestly, the idea of the Backrooms being a combination of a limbo and a modern take on a tomb (with intentionally confusing layout to try to trap/discourage robbers) sounds more interesting. And the corporation's Stargate-like (minus as much ornamentation) doorway would be something. Someone no-clipping into them like falling through sands into a dangerous lost tomb. I see some appeal in it past all the need for details with numbered sites and doors looking the same....

[@_Fizel_]

The Labyrinth from Cretan/Greek mythos was my first thought. Confusing layout with a monster inside.

[@mattarificwolflink9280]

@Jack Wrath still don’t trust

[@bleakautomaton4808]

@@_Fizel_ That's also pretty cool

[@Roxxie_Raggs]

My thoughts: The evidence looks like they work however I doubt this is what the creator had in mind. Just because there are similarities, doesn't mean there is a connection. It's like fnaf games and the fan games, just because they play the same doesn't mean the story is the same.

[@Maddie-sn7yt]

@Queen Elizabeth 🅥 rest in peace my lady

[@breather8758]

The source must be silenced.

[@communadog7874]

But is it really here?

[@physics_hacker]

Even if this is the case and it's entirely wrong, I feel like a backrooms interpretation that DOES include stuff like this would be really cool.

[@myleswelnetz6700]

That is not guaranteed. He said this was a FAN theory.

[@TheAdvertisement]

12:00 I would argue that the false door carvings were supposed to be portals to guide to the afterlife, while in Kane's work it's an actual portal to the Backrooms.

[@colekiesler6218]

MatPat: Tries to solve the missing puzzle piece of the Backrooms. Also MatPat: “Lots of Google badges are the biggest internet mystery.”

[@satoshikang]

@Brook Riston who asked

[@AltarsOfApostasy]

@@satoshikang your mom

[@Lufinsmemezone]

Yes

[@AltarsOfApostasy]

@Manaj hold on what-

[@Lufinsmemezone]

@Manaj Who came to you and asked for this?

[@PeterEmrys]

As a person who studies ancient Egypt, KV31 immediately caught my attention as a Valley of the Kings tomb, but when I checked and found that it was just a random mostly empty tomb, I just chalked it up to coincidence and moved on. Nothing so far has rung any "This is definitely drawing on ancient Egypt" bells for me. If Kane Pixels had intended the Backrooms to be the Duat, I would have expected some of the more uniquely Egyptian stuff, like some form of judgement to reference the weighing of the heart, or sun or boat imagery to connect it to the nightly journey of Ra, or a snake to represent Apophis.

[@recitationtohear]

Link to the clip to the backroom *kzbin.info/www/bejne/o3TJipxta5hnqLc*

[@BallisticSoul6]

As someone who also studies ancient Egypt (as a hobby mind you, I’m no professional), I have to agree with this take

[@kaleidico]

profile pic checks out

[@nautica8745]

Btw, Wendigoon interviewed Kane himself a couple weeks ago, definitely worth the watch for sorting out theory-crafting.

[@purplex_purple7717]

Definitely is. I told everyone

[@kosmic_overlord]

love me some Wendigoon

[@cheilibond6940]

If Matt made a "Backrooms is Secretly a Sequel to Blue's Clues" theory, I think I'd probably believe it tbh

[@ZenIsPan]

Ong

[@joshrivet4011]

I'm wondering if Kane's last name starts with a V and he used his own initials as the designation. It wouldn't be at all surprising if this was his 31st project or 31st attempt at seeing the Backrooms come to fruition.

[@connorcornwall1404]

His name is Kane Parsons

[@jadebeason7552]

@@connorcornwall1404 Maybe his middle name then

[@connorcornwall1404]

@@jadebeason7552 you're overanalyzing tbh,his name is really just Kane Parsons

[@haventhebeast6050]

Is the backrooms real

[@chubbydinosaur9148]

@@connorcornwall1404 I love how assuming that it's his middle name is "overanalysing". I say K stands for his name and V for his crush's name and 31 is their ages combined. His crush died in a tragic car crash and this is his way of honouring them. There junior, THAT'S overanalysing. Have a bitter day.

[@toons8056]

Don’t know why, but I like Mat Pats history lessons

[@toons8056]

@doliio volay lol yea

[@spicegrill]

M..

[@yaelokre_enthusiest]

@@toons8056 ?

[@EddieandDebbie]

@@toons8056 what?

[@EddieandDebbie]

@@spicegrill???

[@cloudfinraptor]

Theories like this also show the prosecutor's fallacy. Where you have and ending you want to get to, and take evidence that correlates to prove causation. But then again most theories would be thrown away if we didn't tie together loose ends. I think Egypt may have been an inspiration, but not the root of the design, or the central location.

[@thedarkblade3866]

Don't click the links

[@Racid_Woo]

I was thinking that yea

[@chelseadanico877]

Very interesting, awesome and inspiring analysis of the Egyptian Backrooms theory, I really loved and enjoyed it. Great job and well done, I got a ton of inspiration for the old west/arctic wilderness, and liminal found footage horror series Mysteriarch Mythos I’m working on writing. I love getting inspiration from the Backrooms and Backrooms theories, it’s so interesting and inspiring.

[@Ezrys]

So hear me out, I doubt the backrooms were always "modern" like if someone from the 1400's were to accidently no clip into the backrooms would there be florescent lights and wallpaper or would it be stone walls with torches, did the backrooms evolve as we did, or in 4500 will they still be yellow wallpaper and florescent lights rather than whatever future stuff we have, like imagine you're living everyday life as a roman then all of the sudden fall into this place with weird walls and magic lights, plus this furry flooring that is usually just a small rug opposed to the whole floor.

[@xantishayde-walker4593]

This sounds like the same idea that in previous times we imagined great and powerful, natural forces as Gods and Divine beings and now we have tales of Aliens or Extradimensional Beings to replace them. I was thinking the same thing while thinking about the Backrooms. I think it might be a modern take on something like the world of the Fey or Faries. That's just the thing that makes the most sense to me, except the idea of being led in by a Will o' The Wisp or any such corollary is missing. It might just be how in ancient stories the powers were personified and had some kind of personality that, even if said personality couldn't be understood, at least the moods of it could be recognized as human or human like. Aliens on the other hand are inscrutable to most who have said to encounter them. In this it's taken on another form and incorporated Gamer logic into it, with no "guide" or abductor involved at all, you just take a wrong step and boom, you just no-clipped into a developer area of the map. Have fun with the creatures roaming the halls. I mean, the thing that makes more sense than the Field of Reeds of Ancient Egyptian myths is, as someone else has stated, the Labyrinth of Minos with the Minotaur as the deadly creature prowling it's halls, ready to rend apart any who are unfortunate enough to find themselves there. I'm pretty sure you didn't just randomly pop in there. I'm positive that the King of Minos put criminals and traitors in there to be ripped apart by the abomination. There's more but I won't bore anybody who doesn't want the details. Suffice it to say, the only parallel I can draw from it is that a Kings' wrath (which may have been arbitrary and unfair) has been replaced with just random chance. No Kings, Gods or other powers, just random chance. I think it comes from many peoples' estrangement from religion in general and is relatable to modern people, especially gamers, who have experienced this in their favorite (or most hated) game and probably think it's a cool, modern "fairy tale" or urban legend, creepy pasta, etc. So, in short, I think that yes, it's just a modern take on the tales of old in which people, for some unknown and unexplainable reason, have found themselves in a familiar yet eerie and hostile world in which there is most likely no coming back from. Whether it's the Labyrinth, the Lands of the Fey or the Backrooms, it's basically the same idea with a different coat of paint.

[@rolandomontana1389]

Its a mixture of everything in time, past and present all mixed in, cavemen have been found, dead tho, but one thing is you won't find future things just past and present and maybe future not more than a few years.

[@connorcornwall1404]

This can be proven from one of the soundtrack Kane made in his second channel titled "Long Time Ago" featuring a painting of an old civilization, slowly shifting into an Asnyc Researcher then the threshold as it continue to play

[@ckl9390]

On a similar note, is "The Backrooms" even the same for all or any given human today? The dilapidated and haphazardly organised office aesthetic is by far not universal as a standard of mundanity among humans alive today. Not even in North America, Europe, or East Asia would it be consistent. The more common "office building" or "institutional building" (like a government building or school) I'm familiar with would be a combination of brick, stone masonry, and cast concrete, with wood panelled partition walls and largely exposed wood or steel support beams depending on when it was made or how large the initial project of addition was. Even then, I rarely am in office buildings so they would not be "mundane" for me. So then, would different regions of the Backrooms be different according to their corresponding geographies or vary by the human who gets caught up in them? Also, if the walls of this entire structure is made of gyprock (like a "typical" modern office building), then why hasn't anyone just punched and kicked their way through in a straight line until the get out another side?

[@key0777]

Bro, you're in too deep. It's just a bunch of cgi videos trying to be scary.

[@knee980]

I find the backrooms so interesting because of how it represents the human condition in our modern, mundane, urbanized world. It’s a dream-like manifestation of the loneliness we feel in a “rational” society that values efficiency and reason over passion and creativity. The endless halls of yellow wallpaper and fluorescent lights reminiscent of an ordinary office building. The Backrooms are a prison not unlike the prison that an office building is or a school is or a hospital or any institution in the western world. It’s a prison that we have created to constrain individuality. Maybe the monster represents authority, it mimicking a human like the way authorities pretend they are helping you, like how they have justified your 9-5 workday or school day as being rational and necessary and for the benefit of all. But in reality they are bacteria, parasites that are always watching, enforcing, driving the paranoia, keeping you running endlessly through the yellow labyrinth of a rational society with no escape.

[@savageraccoon787]

Ahhh god, you took too many English classes

[@CalvinNoire]

English majors be like:

[@TheWolfboy180]

i dunno if that’s a good theory but i do agree that the rich are parasites

[@knee980]

@@TheWolfboy180 yea less of a theory more me over analyzing the backrooms’ metaphorical implications lol

[@finpin2622]

I definitely read it very similarly, but to me the bacteria creatures feel a lot more like they're our fellow man, just twisted beyond recognition. It's kind of the idea that we're all alone in this corporate hellscape thing and anyone/anything else we encounter, we can't even read it as human. We can't communicate with each other. Even people that travel in groups can get torn apart in the blink of an eye. Really goes heavy on the themes of isolation! (Fellow English nerd here to appreciate you)

[@chaincat33]

Something that these kinds of communities do, they can't separate inspiration from allegory. It's entirely possible that the backrooms were inspired by egyptian tombs... And that's it. The backrooms aren't necessarily some allegory for egyptian tomb raiding and pharoahs' curses or whatever. They're creepy but cool underground tombs with cool naming schemes and interesting architectural designs. The Backrooms clearly wants to be its own thing. If it draws on inspiration from real life, that doesn't make them one in the same, just masked through layers of allegory and storytelling, it just means that art imitates life.

[@pairjax8065]

Ok, hi. I made the original comment about the King's Valley connection. I LITEARLLY said it was meant to be an artistic choice Kane Pixels made to show the parallel, not LITERALLY say it's an egyption tomb. I can't believe he made a whole video on a comment I made in passing LOL

[@titusdobrin7567]

@@pairjax8065 you know sometimes you can have two different people, with the same idea. :/

[@OrderedEntropy]

The backrooms simply draw upon the uncanny valley, the side of it that has things you can recognize but not understand, (opposite to uncanny things we understand but appear to be senseless or out of place) The term backrooms is from 2017 i believe (4chan) but the actual sharing of empty forgotten places like offices, factories and such were shared around the internet under the universal term uncanny as early as at least 2003 (had my first (private use) pc in 2001 then my first with internet in 2003) and uncanny scenes have always been an obsession to many humans I used to find backroom* (uncanny places) as well as what we now collectively classify as cursed or blursed images on all kinds of forums and irc's back in the day. Used to find most when checking archives (it used to be normal for people to have some directory open for people to peek in) some still exist to this day but they arent as interesting as the early 2000s. What people seem to have lost grasp to these days, is that the meaning to a word almost always predates the word coined to it, a word is coined when enough people recognize a specific understanding.

[@young__blacksmith]

Hey, it’s just theory

[@spudermoth]

What I particularly dislike about this video is that this exact same logic can and IS constantly applied to almost EVERY one of matpats theories by people who actually know about these games and shows. The ONLY reason why he made this was to validate his own theory. You know how many stretches matpat makes? A LOT. Every theory is gonna have stretches. That's why "it's just a theory" right? Notice how that's the one quote matpat purposely shys away from. Get people to believe you're some mastermind and you get those clicks and views.

[@anderssjostrom765]

I got a theory. About no-clipping. You have said in many other videos regarding the backrooms That the world is a simulation broken when Async got acess to the backrooms. Well, what if the no-clip into the backrooms thing is that the world/simulation has as a anti-virus program or something like that who teleports you to the backrooms and not into an endless void beneath the intire world. Thats proably why you can see there is a split second of darkness before a no-clipping occurs in a Kane pixels video. Its a programmed safe-lock that prevents you from glitching the simulation out too much and harming it. So you get teleported to the backrooms instead of the real world so you can't break the world/simulation too much and potetially crashing it... But hey! It's just a Theory, A backrooms theory! Thanks for reading my comment!

[@CallMeKes]

I still think the "bacteria" monster reminds me a lot of the creatures in The Music Machine. And I'd love to hear what MatPat thinks about that game as a whole let alone whether there could be any connection. I doubt he would agree but it will always be a partial head canon for me.

[@Exclusive1011111111]

Music machine or……. MUUUUSSSSIIICCCC MAN!!!

[@CallMeKes]

@@Exclusive1011111111 The Music Machine is pretty dark, actually.

[@CallMeKes]

@GigglesDoesStuff It's a game. A brief but good one. A little odd but if you can get past that it's quite rewarding.

[@zeliardforty-two4692]

The only connection between the back rooms and any sort of afterlife is some sort of modern version of purgatory. An empty place where lost souls wander endlessly. Combine that with scientists using computers from the 1980s to create a “pocket” in reality and you end up with hallways that seem to go on forever!

[@plutoplexus8656]

Facts

[@thegammagamer3776]

Here's my theory: The backrooms isn't actually another dimension. I think it exists directly parallel to our own reality. The KV-31 project saw researchers using magnetic distortion to manipulate reality. What ACTUALLY seems to have happened is different. I believe a hole was torn to a vacant space. A space BETWEEN realities. A place that had no form, an empty void. Notice that I say HAD no form. The thing about holes is that things tend to fall into them. The very moment the first threshold was torn open reality came flooding into a previously empty space. What we see is a vacuum filled so fast that things weren't given time to settle. After all if you open the airlock on a wooden chair it's not likely to hold it's shape. And so too is it within the backrooms. So you have an unstable reality that's just been born. What happens next? Well it's a hole. What happens when you continue interacting with an already torn hole? You guessed it! It tears open even wider than before. Just as objects warp when entering the backrooms, so do living things. Humans have a lot of parts. So does a car. You know something so small that warping it slightly changes the whole structure? Bacteria, viruses, and mold. The people who enter have so many parts that as a whole being slightly changed or warped through time has little effect. As for those small things brought with them? Not so much. For some the bacteria/mold on their person could mutate eating away at them until they're a mummified mess. Others may just bring a little too much pollen in with them. Ever find it odd that A-Sync has it's employees wear full on hazmat suits into the backrooms? Well I think you should. There is zero reason to expect diseases or hazardous discovered reality. Unless what you're worried about is what you're bringing in with you... Lastly the girl. The one from found footage #2. At the end the lights we see are rather reminiscent of the effects used when the first door was being opened. I think what's happening here is a new door being opened. A alternate universe A-Sync is opening THEIR first door. Or perhaps time is bending here and this IS the first door being opened? Who knows.

[@cSPACEaSPACEt]

good theory

[@glowpro2532]

How long did you spend writing this?

[@thegammagamer3776]

@@glowpro2532 Too long.

[@wesleybucher944]

Bro why’d you write this like a poem

[@grismatics]

@@wesleybucher944 i think it makes it much easier to read tbh.

[@Poyo3380]

The person who is editing these videos is really good at it!

[@wittyreviewer]

I'm reminded of that Star Trek TNG episode where Picard and the crew notice some odd discrepencies, with even Data acting strangely. It turns out they'd come across an alien race that didn't appreciate visitors, but they agreed to let the crew go on the condition they wipe their memories of the encounter and anything that could lead back to the aliens. After they end up finding them again, the aliens consider destroying them until Picard explains that humans love mysteries, and the first time around they'd made the mistake of leaving too many things that the crew would immediately suspect as being unusual, meaning they'd feel compelled to find out why.

[@neonbunnies9596]

9:50 Ancient Egypt lasted for an incredibly long time. Remember, there were Ancient Egyptian archaeologists uncovering secrets left almost a thousands years ago

[@thewolves9732]

Ah so many bots

[@Nyx_Fey_]

@Wolfe Take it as an opportunity to stop, and smell the report button.

[@BraveShowBoys]

@The TacoCat …. Let me get this straight… theres a full video…. Explaining what this video Of matpat explaining why a different theory is likely wrong?? Who wrote these bots? Straight some of the dumbest stuff ive ever seen. At least make them seem intelligent

[@alexandrucurtusan7152]

I once heard of a theory that says that the properties of the backrooms change every few years, for example in the 90s the backrooms have properties like the lore of kane pixels and in the 2000 can have the properties of the wiki the liminal archives

[@danielestrada3390]

its prolly cuz the backrooms is a different distorted space, different parallel universes interacting with each other. And personally, I'd say that if you tear a distort space, you'd also be distorting time since time and space are interlocked(my vocab isnt advanced enough to explain it properly) Parallel universes are infinite, anything is possible, multiple parallel universes interacting with each other is bound to create new, distorted realities because biology and physics on parallel universes may not be the same as each other

[@plushiez_show8827]

The wiki is not canon in kane pixels universe

[@lirima-hirumi]

2020 will be the SCP archives, good luck with the lizard

[@Hollowed0ut]

I think thats less of a "theory" and more of just a headcanon lmao

[@Arash_Leopard]

@@lirima-hirumi christ this won't be a good idea. if he adapts his hearing to 100x we will be heard no matter how silent we are

[@T0ast3r_Strud3l]

@The Film Theorists. I found something that you may want to put on a new backrooms theory if you make one. The God particle, the particle of smashing atoms together and almost creating a new dimension for us to see through, on Kanes other channel; Notkanepixels he has a video titled: God Particle, Maybe it links up to opening the backrooms and creating that new dimension. Just thought you may want to check that out! Have nice day!

[@nadtheamazing3865]

I love how fans and Matpat spend so much time researching into things like this

[@vergilsonofsparda2994]

@here is the full clip potato vid after bots JUST EXIST 📈📈📈📈📈📈📈📈

[@umpteenthreason9627]

"Evolution, can you give me pattern-seeking brain?" "To avoid predators?" "Yeeees." *Actually finds connections in things to explain the unexplained like a boss* THEORY TIME

[@siriusk1453]

or you know, amogus

[@chillycharizard5985]

"What's here is circumstantial at best" is probably the most hysterical line to be uttered when we consider who is saying it

[@SeraphimCramer]

As a lover of mythology, I was really excited by the premise of this theory & to see how it was all a modern reinterpretation of Egyptian myths... until you said "that's all the evidence for this theory," & I was just like "really? That's it?"

[@christianfreed8005]

Same

[@Phillip_Duck]

Steve and blue can jump in and out of paintings, just like when people noclip into the backrooms and their cameras come back out somehow. The backrooms is a blue's clues sequel Let's find more evidence, who's with me?!

[@meganmclendon5063]

Oh my God 😂😂😂

[@nightsky2722]

I’m in!

[@Phillip_Duck]

@@nightsky2722 wow, for real? Cool cool

[@genesisyugioh9405]

I think Game Theory perfectly encapsulates a counter argument for kids being "dumb and lazy" or "refusing to learn". I have no interest in the Backrooms myself. I preferred when it was just a liminal space that vaguely implied there might be a monster. However, I have watched every one of these videos out of curiosity. Why? Because it's presented in an interesting manner. You're not blabbering about something over stock footage of a desert or something. You're presenting ideas over footage that is both relevant and interesting to see. Make learning fun and people will be more apt to retain it than someone giving a lecture and being like "k write a 1000 word essay on what I justbsaid I need it by tomorrow but won't grade it for a month k bye"

[@cadentan9083]

Someone got a bad grade on their essay

[@genesisyugioh9405]

@@cadentan9083 I graduated years ago dude lol. I just think presenting information in a fun way is better, that's all

[@redboy8985]

@@genesisyugioh9405 you are right man I watch almost all of the videos even tho I havent watched a movie in like 3 years. Its interesting.

[@rnadomlol]

Rip the queen, may she Rest In Peace. I’m devastated

[@Charmanderkid-o5r]

Ok ima call Brit (short for: stereotypical British person)☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️

[@hyperbolicparaboloid154]

The backrooms are inside Kirby's stomach. I will stand by this theory until the day I die and no one can convince me otherwise.

[@SleepingPepper]

The detail you're supposed to take away from this, as far as I can tell is that Async is acting in a very scientific and objective manor. Much like Egyptologists. They're not an evil corporation, they just see the limitless potential of the space they've accessed and are trying to learn more. The worst thing they have done is securing funding to learn more about the complex despite finding a body in there less than a week earlier. That's just science colliding with business!

[@9a_23_tyrantqiu7]

No they're greedy. If they are honest and want to see the potential space, in the video presentation, they should've mentioned the monsters in the backrooms instead of ignoring them entirely.

[@SleepingPepper]

@@9a_23_tyrantqiu7 That seems like a great way to ensure your project doesn't get more funding.

[@9a_23_tyrantqiu7]

@@SleepingPepper but its better than ending up losing the government contract entirely, unlike what they did in presentation.

[@SleepingPepper]

@@9a_23_tyrantqiu7 They did not lose their contract. Kane Pixels said MatPat was completely wrong about that in his interview with Wendigoon.

[@9a_23_tyrantqiu7]

@@SleepingPepper hmm i see... But in a split second in presentation it did say "to deceive the fede-" Could it be the federal government?

[@FranciscoMoreno-xo6ed]

After so many years... this is the original MatPat that I've missed for so long. This is the best theory I've seen in YEARS. GJ Matthew.

[@LoafofSourdough]

@Soinas Doyi Do you mean your father when he left for the milk? 🥛

[@Apexassassin141]

I think the backrooms are more related to the labyrinth from Greek myth: endless turns and hallways, async use a rope to find their way back line thesus did, and the bacteria monter could be backrooms version of the minotaur.

[@Mr_Reaps25]

And the labyrinth is much more well known, so this idea is actually quite good for one

[@marykateharmon]

You could also try to tie the missing people into the sacrifices to the minotaur that were within the legend. Sacrifices of science that sought to go beyond the bounds of what they should in their hubris.

[@laurenbee6340]

I actually thought that too.

[@nocontext9635]

The bacteria is the remnants of minotaur after thousands of captivity idk

[@farhalafridi8028]

Since the back rooms might be set in a different reality, it’s possible to link another popular horror story fandom thing, SCP, to ASYNC. For example, in this reality, SCP took the form of ASYNC and instead of containing SCPs like the way we know, they contain them in a place where they literally can’t escape. Each level of the back rooms is a containment cell for each SCP, or multiple SCPs can be stored in one level. The random stuff like the signs in the house and the rope, could also be SCPs since we know that there are SCPs that look seemingly normal but have something behind them ( for example the pill bottle that can cure any disease ) People nocliping into the back rooms is a mistake made by ASYNC, however they don’t really care as they know they have to do whatever it takes to defend earth against SCPs

[@h.m.tolympic4669]

The backrooms may be similar to that one SCP. You know the milk cartons with the missing children who disappeared when they fell into shadows? People from all over the world and everywhere in the history and future of the world could all be jammed into one space, which may be why nobody seems to notice so many people disappearing.

[@obsidiandave7566]

Personal theory: I think the backrooms is the minotaurs labyrinth from Greek mythology. Just because it fits so perfectly with the native story. I think the backrooms are leaking into reality due to how in Greek mythology the labyrinth was a huge super structure of endless hall ways and corners with seemingly no exit thus no entrance which is why you will need to open the door to the labyrinth but I assume if the door is open for to long the door expands and makes gaps in reality that objects can no-clip through. The bacteria is the minotaur due to how if people back in those days could see the bacteria they will make a guess of what they are looking at which is a man with a bulls head. And lastly to fit with mats theory, what if the creator of the labyrinth didn't build it but rather program it? Let me know what u think about this. If mat sees this I so Wana see your opinion about this.

[@maybeiamepic2263]

You think this about the Kane Pixels series or the original backrooms? And are you saying the 2 are the same or that Kane’s direction is inspired by the labyrinth?

[@davidhong1934]

I've always seen the Backrooms as the result of an algorithm that duplicates rooms. Specifically: - input a model of a given room - generate a random number representing the total number of rooms to create - create an empty linked list - fill linked list with, each ssigned an arbitrary number of attributes and connections, with the connections dependant on the total number of rooms For the most part, the algorithm peforms as intended. However, it was also only intended for the original yellow wallpaper room, which was the simplest possible definition of a room. It was not intended to handle things like props or furniture. I think that's what went wrong with the chairs. The algorithm took in an object and tried to treat it as a "room". No matter how much it stretched and pulled, the chair wouldn't become a room. Eventually, it threw an error and moved on.

[@wilbyylarrensburg9306]

@@maybeiamepic2263 the one we are talking about here is Kane pixels one. So ig Kane pixels?🤷‍♀️

[@GamerGod_99]

It could also be a metaphor about A-sync being like Icarus, flying too close to the sun

[@maybeiamepic2263]

@@GamerGod_99 that’s an interesting connection

[@elifresh2605]

Here’s a theory I found on TikTok. It talks about, “Why are there no bodies in the backrooms?” He simply talks about the floor being wet, and damp. The theory goes on to say that the carpet quote on quote “consumes” the bodies/victims when dead. Kinda got me thinking and would love to see you make a video of it Mat.

[@novadit1935]

Its most likely that the entities the backrooms consume the bodies instead of the entities.

[@_shenanigans_8337]

I think the point is that the backrooms is supposed to be huge so the bodies are there but it’s rare to come across them cuz it’s just a giant labyrinth that has no end

[@universalpower419]

Isn't it supossed to be an infinite space? If it is, then that's Your explanation, it's just higly uncommon.

[@LineOfThy]

@@universalpower419 it's not infinite, but it's big.

[@wackypenguin94]

I just had a theory that the backrooms were literally the backrooms of reality, just extra storage you were never supposed to see, like those areas in games that you can only see by glitching, and that the no clipping happens due to the 2 realties overlapping, and the monsters were just people mutated due to cosmic radiation, and the reason new rooms are being added or change is due to our world doing the same, like a software update, but in real life, but after seeing so many theories, I'm honestly impressed by how creative the community is

[@thefogitself]

this theory is what the backrooms basically were before kane pixels came along

[@QuantumConundrum]

Subtly different from a video game reality, this keeps the reality in a non-video-game context, and adds extra layers to it.

[@LineOfThy]

yeah that's mat pats current theory

[@drexcitement9579]

If there’s one thing I love about these channels it’s that the editor puts chapter in so that if you want you can skip the sponsor section

[@SakhotGamer]

A wobbly jenga stack is THE most accurate statement to represent the theories on this channel. They hold up at least, just barely.

[@futureblade6099]

Eh, it's all in good fun

[@autisticbluesloth5244]

that is basically every theory really...

[@dr.consumerock6798]

ay that top reply needs to shut up forever Someone get the rope and chair.

[@LineOfThy]

the analogy better represents how seemingly undeniable explanations are built on flimsy evidence, and proving that one piece wrong topples the entire theory.

[@wakawakatakeover]

I mean, when it comes to theories like this Backrooms=Ancient Egypt the thing that I always think is, "So what?" It's all good and well if these parallels exist, but in terms of storytelling, if that's the start and end of it, why does it matter? So there are parallels. What does that say about the story that the creator is trying to say? What does it say about the setting? Is this foreshadowing? Can we gain more insight into the nature of what's going on through this connection? What can we learn from this? So if I came across this theory on my own, I probably wouldn't think much of it either. Because other than a surface level connection, what else is there to this? It's cool and fun and neat and all. But if there's no more deeper meaning or insight we can gain from it, I don't put much stock in it. You know. What's the point and all. It's also why the vast majority of "The main character is dead!" or "This series is a drug trip!" theories don't appeal to me. There's nothing else behind the "So what?" other than sheer edge. And I don't find being edgy for the sake of being edgy to be very interesting nor enlightening. Now if this Backrooms was paralleling specific Egyptian myths or practices that could tell us more about the origins of the Backrooms, how, and why they exist, and to bring a greater meaning or something to find in all of this... Now THAT would be much better!

[@strangerscience3659]

I relate ti the points u made I was also trying to see why the theory was so popular since it has not weight to it, sure u know that it has supposedly Egyptian origins but it didn't help uncover the story finding the setting or links to where its set doesn't help to find the meaning of the story its just a cool factoid

[@Joshuamiller19570]

A theorist after my own heart. Stay frosty my dude o/

[@Mike-fh4fl]

Its unintentionally funny that all the points MatPat brings up here applies almost perfectly to his Ness is Sans video

[@myboneshurt1908]

i feel like he was definitely thinking of it when he talked abt how much he loves stretching for evidence 💀

[@savageratentertainment]

yeah i was gonna say personally for someone who says things are far fetched CERTAINLY does the same thing with mario, sonic and most video games and movies......so he's not one to talk here...If it weren't thanks to that redditer I bet he'd be making his own theory on it just for the fact of KV13 cause just because it's a bit different doesn't mean the whole idea couldn't be inspired by it. He's acting like the backrooms are real things, and they're not, inspiration HAD to come somewhere. Every inspiration comes from somewhere. And the backrooms being like a tomb of itself with twisting cooridoors just like a tomb is said to have to confuse intruders and even traps and "monsters" in myth my question is, why CAN'T it be inspired to be like that? because HE said so? because to him it's too far fetched as he makes Sans is Ness, Mario is a phyco (i mean he might be lol) but for every stretched out theory, and his latest one of FNAF mind you saying Golden freddy never existed even though Scott MADE IT CLEAR that the books even if they have some puzzle pieces to the game it's not correlated 100% either so the whole "book about how an indie dev creator is forced to make a game and is hypnotized by a disc" Doesn't 100% fit well into the theory of the Games being just that yes there's FNAF VR but how does that explain Security Breach? not only that in FNAF VR no one was pushed to be apart of the developing team, the only messed up one was Jeremy because of Glitch trap, There are no hints besides "by a mad man who made indie games" with a picture of scott it felt like more like a self own then saying "nah none of this actually happened." And how would a person know, legit, of a family name of Aftons and that still connecting to Security breach? that the afton family in a sense with a horrible version of spring trap how could someone of a dev make pretend characters, only for them to be true? so for someone who claims this is too far landish likes to say things don't exist anymore because of a book that isn't 100% connected to the main game series....

[@mlinxl9090]

@@savageratentertainment but the books are connected to fnaf and they pararel each other a lot

[@scarxnnivs]

@@savageratentertainment I don't really see why MatPat can't put out a video explaining why he believes a theory may be wrong. Theories that were later proven incorrect have existed all throughout history, the first theory regarding elements believed water to be the the main component of everything, and nowadays we know water isn't even an element. You're also ignoring the fact that he has publicly said he doesn't believe all the theories he makes, and even said he dislikes the "Golden Freddy doesn't exist" one, that he's just putting it out there for discussion. I don't get why everyone gets to criticize and berate him when he gets theories wrong, yet when he disproves a theory, everyone starts defending said theory. FNAF is also a terrible example. Everyone in the fandom has stretched anything elastic in it because otherwise it's impossible to make a cohesive theory out of it. In fact, of all people, he has the most right to talk about theories stretched too far, because he has been in that position multiple times, and his situation is even worse because he has actually been harassed over it, something that the people whose theory he's disproving won't (or hopefully will not) ever experience. Theories are made to reason something, and anyone is welcomed to disprove them if they can, even the biggest lunatics out there.

[@handtomouth4690]

​@@scarxnnivsthank god a reasonable person does exist. I hate the idea that because MatPat has made mistakes that he's not allowed to point out other's mistakes.

[@Nowheres_Channel]

Thanks for teaching me more about Ancient Egypt then my actual history class.

[@tylapederson3968]

I just moved into collage, and the basement level of our dorms is a hang out space, but the layout of the building is so weird and wonky my roommates and I joke it's another level of the backrooms.

[@dandywaysofliving]

Take footage please, if possible make it spooky

[@planetearth2249]

Imagine if this ends up not being a joke

[@tylapederson3968]

@@planetearth2249 they're both videogame design majors, it's entirely possible lmao

[@planetearth2249]

@@tylapederson3968 LOL

[@youmukonpaku3168]

College basements - often a labyrinth of buildings conjoined below grade and linked further by steam tunnels for a central heating plant - are very much backrooms spaces in general.

[@kevinperson2630]

DUDE, CONGRATS! I’m a very early fan and I’ve always tuned into your theories and bought some of your merch, my favorite theories are the Wall-E ones as that movie is close to my heart. You deserve to be sponsored by GOOGLE!!!

[@joewilson3393]

13:25 That was Steven King's whole story telling method too. The things in his stories are regular things that are scary. Cujo is a story about a dog. The Mist is a foggy day. Maximum Overdrive is a story about semi trucks and appliances. Carrie is the story of an unpopular girl who gets picked on. Regular, mundane parts of life.

[@Athenasblaze]

7:30 now you can know which bathrooms to avoid. Clever Mattpatt

[@JoyFerret]

Some other connections I can think of: - The A-Sync logo looks like a pyramid - Just like how KV31 designates one specific tomb, it could also be the designation for one specific entrance to the backrooms. - Tombs are more common than we think. They could be anywhere, like that guy's backyard. And there could be many more tombs that haven't been discovered. Just like entrances to the backrooms, they can appear anywhere and there is no real way to know where they are, or when they will appear. People accidentaly stumble into them. - And also, just like how desecrating a tomb would get you cursed, perhaps the backrooms cursed our reality when A-Sync started with KV31, hence why a lot of people started disappearing into it and why they seem to die of the mold infection when they spend too much time in it.

[@UnanimousDelivers]

MatPat is at his best when he's doing the opposite of highly gymnastic stretches, when he's being a proponent of critical thinking, of skepticism, of putting reason before the need to feel blown away by connections.

[@GoatAmv]

This blended with another internet fave, Analog Horror, and many creatives have made shorts and lore for these Backrooms, but the young filmmaker Kane Parsons has turned it into a terrifying and fascinating webseries. It all started on January 6 with the upload of the nine-minute found-footage short film The Backrooms.

[@dennismichelsen4936]

Really just bots?

[@gmg6863]

@@dennismichelsen4936 yes comrade, yes, tha ai outnumberes us 7:1, we löst da war :)

[@angrypelmeshka5928]

This level of Humor got me confused for a minute.

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​@Queen Elizabeth 🅥 R.I.P

[@gmg6863]

@@angrypelmeshka5928 :)

[@-Niffy-]

I can’t believe u got sponsored by GOOGLE that is so awesome

[@Just_Some_Gal]

Being early doesn't mean everything, just watching Matpat's video means something!

[@clars.l]

I love having your videos on the backgrounds! They're amazing!

[@ilvanasgobero8096]

Backgrounds?

[@maxine0047]

As soon as you said that all the bots started replying

[@vergilsonofsparda2994]

@don't be surprised yes but the thing is youre a bot too. I do know it is useless to answer your bots but i still do

[@daisyjoy242]

@@ilvanasgobero8096 backyard?

[@madisonmartinez5928]

So, I sort of thought the connection between the backrooms and Egypt was that the Egyptians believed that you were only truly dead once everyone who is still alive forgets you existed, and there's this one theory I heard that the backrooms are where forgotten things go. Also, archeologists putting up a metal gate so that looters wouldn't steal anything, and Async wanting an enclosed space around their portal so that it would be more secure is just standard protocol.

[@Slimpicken]

I liked that theory. Forgotten things fall in.

[@universalpower419]

@@Slimpicken But there are people that fall in and clearly are not forgotten.

[@Slimpicken]

@@universalpower419 it can be more then 1 reason. Sure there is legit dimensional warping but you can also get in by being forgotten. Vague memorys from humanity that form with no order.

[@coolw1zard]

Can we just talk about how he actually made a proper backrooms blueclues thumbnail for an incredibly short gag

[@robhacklblumstein]

Considering how niche some of Kane's references have been, I think it's possible he chose that tomb's name specifically, maybe because it had a secret, deeper level. But it would still be just an easter egg, not something that shakes up the canon.

[@tess2241]

as terrifying as the backrooms are now, i found them much scarier when no one knew what they were, and it was just a scarily real combination of fans ideas.

[@Slimpicken]

Random uncanny. Keeps you on your toes

[@danielbueno8474]

It has always been like this, sadly. Adding lore to something usually takes away the scariness of it. The first Kane Pixels backrooms video was creepy and fascinating because it was centered around a real human, with human reactions (like saying "this isn't real, this isn't real" whenever he found something absurd) and mannerisms (like the camera movement). It gave us an accurate perspective of a person lost inside an insane place. Now we have humans in hazmat suits with high technologic equipment exploring said insane place. It hardly feels eerie anymore, and being eerie was the backrooms whole thing. Adding lore is great for storytelling, but terrible for uncanniness. It literally means ending the mystery.

[@h3llboyyy407]

@@danielbueno8474 humans are curious we are bound to get rid of most of our fears at some point the more we explore.

[@danielbueno8474]

​@@h3llboyyy407 Uh, okay, but that kinda defeats the whole point if you're making horror stuff...

[@universalpower419]

@@danielbueno8474 Since when "horror stuff" has rules?

[@fimbulvetr16]

At this point, I'm starting to wonder if the backrooms truly exist, and it terrifies me.

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Whaaa t bad bot bad

[@dutchyaoi]

Bro only bots

[@MrRatburnJr]

It doesnt lol

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Why r there so many bots

[@lonewolfcello9814]

There's actually videos where people have "found the backrooms" on Google maps and stuff lolll

[@dethpandable7834]

Kane just does such a great job with their content.

[@theentergamersdiscontinued9962]

This is perfect. The Queen just died but you're here to cheer me up. Thanks MatPat. ❤

[@lonelypotato5352]

Impossible

[@DiabeticGremlin07]

Matpats great

[@pupil3953]

@@lonelypotato5352 this is actually true, the "queen" that died was actually a genetically identical clone of the real queen, which is hiding in the attic of the buckingham palace

[@theentergamersdiscontinued9962]

@@pupil3953 ha

[@fernandofzj48]

When I think about the Backrooms and It’s relationship to Egypt, I just feel like it was more or less symbolism than anything. I feel like Kane just wanted to add a bit of symbolism to make it feel ✨special✨ and have it to relate to the name of the project more, but that’s just my take on it.

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Bro why is there 3 bots here

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Where did the other go?

[@markghanemium7237]

As an Egyptian interested in the history of his ancient Egyptian history, I was amazed by the title, but in the end it just weirdly fits with one another. But I enjoyed nonetheless

[@TheDarkSide69420]

Last year in 2022 I went to Egypt, and I tell you inside the compartments it is HOT and HUMID. Not as exiting as you would expect but I still loved it.

[@DURANDAL1007]

I remember something from 2020 about the backrooms being related to some ancient society or something that trapped a creature in a backrooms like reality. That kinda reminds me of this.

[@thefatbob3710]

Prob a scp

[@avi_mation]

@@thefatbob3710 lol probably

[@backonja7255]

I think I wanna view this entire theory, more as a neat symbolic parallel, rather then something that majorly changes the story... Having these cool parallels to already kinda similar concepts is just something fun for fans to spot... Example: In "The Matrix" (1999), number of Neo's room is 101, a reference to Room 101, from infamous book "1984" that, like Matrix, is about a man against an unfair despotic system that uses lies and deception as it's main weapon. Even the soul purpose of the said room in the novel is to subject prisoners to their worst fear, and brainwash them into submission, topic that's playing major rule in "The Matrix". That Easter egg doesn't prove that these two stories take place in same universe or anything like that. It's just a nice detail creators put in to either honer their inspirations, or further establish theme of the movie,...I think same is happening here.

[@plushiez_show8827]

did you just connect the backrooms to 1984

[@Zero-zt2uh]

I think there is a good amount of parallels in various mythologies and the backrooms, but I think it's because people like the stories. Plus it makes theories just so much more fun when you can connect reality to fiction!

[@null6857]

I think it’s meant to be a joke with the name comparing the Backrooms to a tomb but this is just what I think

[@honeydew600]

15:10 honestly the cloud looks like dobby

[@kingdomdamagged733]

13:47 I have a side theory. Do you think MatPat actually planned to make a video like that thumbail at one point?

[@zanertheslayer2407]

If he did I would be shocked! Because I love Blue’s Clues and I’m really wanting MatPat to do a theory about it!

[@Iserele]

you know you're big on the internet when you get sponsored by frickin' GOOGLE!

[@Rivalic]

I have a film theory for ya MatPat. Can we talk about how Bubble Buddy from SpongeBob is not so innocent as he seems? He gets rid of Scooter, letting him ride with the tide of blue lagoon. Yet at the end of the episode everyone is totally kosher with the idea of him actucally being alive and not just a figment of Spongebob's imagination. Does Bubble Buddy regret this act or is he using SpongeBob as a cover to covertly off Bikini Bottoms residences?

[@bloodstarvedbeast3675]

Yess the buddle buddy episode is so great, very sinister though with the witch hunt for bubble buddy and the fish guy that gets left to die 😂 it’s kinda disturbing tbh but nobody ever noticed bc SpongeBob is just a goofy hilarious show

[@emilytabisz2366]

I like this idea, I never trusted bubble buddy.

[@peachguava]

U aren't kidding He's as sus as they come...

[@peachguava]

If we don't get bubble buddy 😤

[@madalsmommy]

YES! This is fantastic! I want to see how this plays out

[@knifeduck678]

Grass is a plant with narrow leaves growing from the base. A common kind of grass is used to cover the ground in a lawn and other places. Grass gets water from the roots in the ground. Grasses are monocotyledon, herbaceous plants. The grasses include the "grass", of the family Poaceae (also called Gramineae). Also sometimes it is used to include the sedges (Cyperaceae) and the rushes (Juncaceae). These three families are not closely related but belong to different clades in the order Poales. They are similar adaptations to a common life-style. The true grasses include cereals, bamboo and the grasses of lawns (turf) and grassland. Uses for graminoids include food (as grain, sprouted grain, shoots or rhizomes), drink (beer, whisky), pasture for livestock, thatching thatch, paper, fuel, clothing, insulation, construction, sports turf, basket weaving and many others. Many grasses are short, but some grasses, like bamboo can grow very tall. Plants from the grass family can grow in many places, even if they are very cold or very dry. Several other plants that look similar but are not members of the grass family are also sometimes called grass; these include rushes, reeds, papyrus, and water chestnut. Grasses are an important food for many animals, like deer, buffalo, cattle, mice, grasshoppers, caterpillars, and many other grazers. Unlike other plants, grasses grow from the bottom, so when animals eat grass they usually do not destroy the part that grows. Without grass, dirt can wash away into rivers (erosion). Graminoids include some of the most versatile plant life-forms. They became widespread toward the end of the Cretaceous. Fossilized dinosaur dung (coprolites) have been found containing grass phytoliths (silica stones inside grass leaves). Grasses have adapted to conditions in lush rain forests, dry deserts, cold mountains and even intertidal habitats, and are now the most widespread plant type. Grass is a valuable source of food and energy for many animals. Lawn grass is often planted on sports fields and in the area around a building. Sometimes chemicals and water is used to help lawns to grow. People have used grasses for a long time. People eat parts of grasses. Corn, wheat, barley, oats, rice and millet are cereals, common grains whose seeds are used for food and to make alcohol such as beer. Sugar comes from sugar cane, which is also a plant in the grass family. People have grown grasses as food for farm animals for about 4,000 years. People use bamboo to build houses, fences, furniture and other things. Grass plants can also be used as fuel, to cover roofs, and to weave baskets. In English, the word "grass" appears in several phrases. For example: "The grass is always greener on the other side" means "people are never happy with what they have and want something else." "Don't let the grass grow under your feet" means "Do something". "A snake in the grass" is about a person that will not be honest and will trick others. Grass is sometimes used as a slang term for cannabis (also called pot, weed, or marijuana) Now go touch some grass

[@tiannagraham5210]

grass doesn’t even seem like a real word anymore lol

[@rleriche5044]

Dude I dont know what you're talking about but realise that people havent got time to read your essay.

[@LineOfThy]

got roasted

[@emilyscratchcat7103]

Ok, may I just say, I genuinely would like to see you try and make a theory trying to connect the backrooms to blue's clues, purely because I think it would make a very silly experience, both for the watchers and writers. XD /gen /pos

[@zu_jeans]

as someone who lives near Egypt, i can say with 100% confidence that Egypt is indeed the backrooms

[@iamvoidnoodle]

Matpat is pretty much invincible in the back rooms because it seems like he would run around chasing the monsters which would scare them