Liminal Space Iceberg EXPLAINED

I'm Poi, and this is the Liminal Space Iceberg Explained video.
I love Liminal Spaces so much. They are so nostalgic, scary, comforting, unsettling, and just beautiful! Liminal spaces remind me of the Backrooms and I love the Backrooms!! I found an iceberg that goes into this, so I decided to explain the iceberg explained. I hope you guys enjoy!
"A liminal space is the time between the 'what was' and the 'next.' It is a place of transition, waiting, and not knowing. Liminal space is where all transformation takes place, if we learn to wait and let it form us." - r/LiminalSpace
"The aesthetic known as a Liminal Space is a location which is a transition between two other locations, or states of being. Typically these are abandoned, and oftentimes empty - a mall at 4am or a school hallway during summer, for example. This makes it feel frozen and slightly unsettling, but also familiar to our minds." - Aesthetics Wiki
This iceberg talks about stuff like abandoned buildings, aesthetics, schools at night, and liminal spaces. It's disturbing, unsettling, and creepy, nostalgic, and comforting
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[@onyxlynxypoo]

Release Spiders? Spiderr Reference? Drain Gang

[@acshuley]

Wow...

[@Wiz0rd]

ok.

[@sfxieaspen]

I work at School as a jantor i can tell you how creepy it can be especially when you have to check the buliding over the weekend when no one is there

[@flawed1]

“ If you’re watching this video, you’re probably Gen Z”” My 41 year old self over here feeling attacked 🤣

[@TransmissionEpicts]

Almost same! 😛 All the liminal space/poolrooms/backrooms stuff is universal though, it's more that Gen Z have turned into crystalised artforms and created a community around it, which is awesome.

[@mi.04.ya.01]

Something I heard a while ago was that a large part of the liminal space vibe was that there has to be no defining factors in a space. ie if you're looking at an example of a grocery store, when inspecting the image closer there are no large brands or indicators of there being anything commercial. It causes the brain to recognise that this is a space you've been in, but because there are no defining factors it leaves an empty feeling of the unknown which then creates the unsettling feeling. I wouldn't be surprised if it's were similar to uncanny valley.

[@1.4M-ry8zx]

Ur kinda right

[@creamofthecrop6743]

Uncanny nostalgia maybe?

[@nanuqo2006]

No Players Online isn't just the one image, it's a whole game. A short one, but it's very effective in its horror.

[@JohnnySpectron]

Expert Backrooms explorer here, sick videos bruh! Imma give you some newer realistic backrooms liminal body cam game recommendations that I've played! The complex expedition, the backrooms lost tape, the exit 8, dream logic, hoiwa hub, subliminal demo, dreamcore and backrooms rec. (these are all on steam)

[@Leosdeception]

W

[@seanecus33]

I have been waiting a year for subliminal I’m so exited for it

[@aeriebae88]

Thank you for sharing.

[@BrightNb-qp7sh]

how are you a expert backrooms explorer💀

[@JohnnySpectron]

@@BrightNb-qp7sh shiiih man ive beaten like 15 or 20 of these new backrooms liminal bodycam type games with ease and im just really into the lore of backrooms and stuff there needs to be a real life backrooms somewhere that would be sick

[@aliassgirl]

The pure cognitive dissonance I get when it comes to liminal spaces is magnificent. I always look at these images and experience such a wide array of emotions and thoughts in such a short time. It’s disturbing, fascinating, and terrifying; the thought that these simple images, this simple array of red, green, and blue pixels, is capable of making me feel so many things. Great video, poi.

[@onyxxxyno]

"Let's be real, if you're watching this video, you're probably Gen Z" Me, Gen X: "Now look, here, you whippersnapper..."

[@lindanimated]

I'm a millennial, but honestly hearing that line made me feel kinda good about myself, as in, I guess I like stuff that gen Z likes. In other words, I'm not too old yet! :D

[@SALAAAAAMIII]

dude i'm really sorry, but the raspy-ness of the voice would not let me get through the video. i'm sure it's a freaking masterpiece though, like all your beautiful content, and i appreciate a lot the editing effort. keep up the good work

[@asuka_the_void_witch]

vocal fry hater smh

[@SALAAAAAMIII]

@@asuka_the_void_witch I mean we've all heard him speak in other videos, and comparing this one to those I just find this voice kinda forced ngl, I'm glad that other people find it amusing and entertaining, it's just a personal feeling 🤷

[@Michiiru]

@@asuka_the_void_witch Yeah vocal fry is awful to listen to as is but it gives me a physical sense of discomfort. Luckily the narration goes back to normal after about 15 mins.

[@clowntooth1269]

He's sick in this video

[@WEIRDpoi]

im always sick bruh@@clowntooth1269

[@Pooky1991]

I have always been fascinated by liminal spaces because they remind me of dreams I've had on top of the nostalgia feel some of them have. I also love the eeriness. They play with "Nothing is Scarier", with how ambient and lonely they are. It's why I prefer The Backrooms stories when there are no monsters or if there are monsters they aren't the kind that chase.

[@OmniOtaku]

Well we have done it. We have hit: “I just googled it and apparently Border’s is some Barnes and Noble-type bookstore or something.” Kids today don’t know what Border’s was…my whole head just went gray…

[@Mystery_Cipher707]

I’ve always hated Puffer Tests

[@penguinsrockrgr8yt216]

Tf you mean kane pixels misunderstood the backrooms the “monster” only has like 3 minutes of screen time in the series the backrooms wiki was making up entities for months prior to kane pixels releasing the backrooms found footage video

[@lunarAureola]

yeah literally, if anything the modern take on the backrooms (all those dumb levels or silly entities and organisations just making colonies inside of the backrooms or some other horseshit) is the ultimate misunderstanding on what the backrooms are, because im sorry but the fact the backrooms turned into the shitty and unoriginal version of SCP and the thing where you can hop between different levels like its just some dumb video game made the backrooms lose its spark of authenticity and the liminality as a whole, "oh if you twerk your bussy at level S3X69 the entity "the Skibidi Rizzler" will appear and eat your peepee! then you need to run and find the red door that read "GYATT" and it will take you to the level 60065, and remember you need to drink the almond water to stay safe !!!1!"

[@Poizin77]

Some liminal spaces ive seen irl or places ive seen that look like liminal spaces (some have stories): - Abandoned ToysRus - Abandoned Shopko - Empty school halls (after school) - Places that look similar to the backrooms but aren't the backrooms - A place that feels like a liminal space is just being home alone and looking around at how empty my house is is just cool - My dads parents house basement looks like a liminal space - In my parents car at like 9 pm while the sun is setting sitting in the window looking at the sun setting Infront of a dairy queen (ik its very specific but It felt like a dream like it didnt feel real but it was and it was cool) I can add more stories and places if you want me to

[@Pooky1991]

I went to the Sears at the mall where I live when it was closing down and the empty shelves and open space was jarring to look at even with people in the store. It made me immediately think of The Backrooms.

[@j.ss.e]

23:22 I thought people forgot about the Stanley parable ! It’s such a good game , and the narrators funny sometimes

[@sammieegoldwand]

A store near my house just closed so any time i go past it i'll take pictures through the window to get that liminal space vibe. Also when I was in middle school when I did the play the school would be so weird feeling when we had play rehearsals at night, even though i wasnt the only person there it still felt like a liminal space Edit: The "Places youve seen in your dreams" video is how i was introduced to liminal spaces

[@reapergirl2529]

I think the whole argument of monsters in the backrooms kinda defeats the purpose of the backrooms. The whole point of the backrooms is that its for the person exploring it, for some thats a video game esk world with levels filled with monsters and for others its an ever expansive world of nothingness for some its traumatic childhood memories. I think trying to gatekeep what the backrooms should and shouldn't be ruins the point, it should be whatever you want it to be

[@SadSquishyBoy42]

You’re 17?! Wild to see a KZbinr my age with videos this professional

[@mach1317]

Missed opportunity to say “but at night they get a bit quirky” when talking about fnaf 😂😂

[@blu3049]

saying shawty in the videos is very much so aesthetic

[@tsunsharks]

I can agree with the late-night movie theater images. But, adding the scent of molded carpet and such makes it feel like I'm in a horror movie. Which is how I felt after I left the Barbie movie! Our movie theater smells like mold near the soda machines, and it's AWFUL. But it's cool, because I saw the barbie movie and it was great :)

[@Pyraliis]

Love this sm ^^ your voice is amazing. FINALLY SOMEONE MENTIONS THE SHINING, its the og liminal space

[@cetinkarakulak]

finally !!! thx a lot man, it had been so long

[@ms.pirate]

"If you are not careful and no clip out of reality in the wrong areas, you'll end up in the backrooms, where its nothing but the stink of old moist carpet, the madness of mono-yellow, the endless noise of fluorescent lights at maximum hum-buzz, and approximately six hundred million square miles of randomly segmented empty rooms to be trapped in. *God save you if you heard something wandering around nearby, because it sure as hell has heard you."* The original post of the backrooms. I have too correct you that there is a monster in the original backrooms. No I'm not talking about the copy SCP version of the backrooms people are into now. I'm talking about the original backrooms post. No there isn't silly looking monsters, but there is an monster that isnt silly looking. Not talking about people or animals, I mean an scary looking monster. Yes, I copied word from word of the original backrooms post. if you want you can look up the post for yourself.

[@thesillygooseisloose]

The video you showed as the compilation you saw was one of the first compilations that I saw too and also the song used in the video is fire. One of my favorites

[@blondshadow9451]

I work for a school district and our campuses are liminal as FUCK during the summer. such cool vibes during that time.

[@hanginman2715]

I work at a school as a janitor. And oh my God seeing them put schools at night as one of the first things on the iceberg is just too real man. I swear the school itself has a voice and you can hear her sing. It's weirdly beautiful, but honestly the fact that I don't know what that sound is what freaks me out so bad.

[@tygra2886]

2:46 That "traffic lights, when there are no cars around" reminded me of footage taken in pripyat, in may 1986, just days after the Chornobyl disaster happened and well, city wasn't in ruin and (at least some) electricity was working and in this footage, there were traffic lights, that were still changing for a cars and people, even though few days prior, the pripyat became basically a ghost town.

[@kryvyi_juan]

I see what you did there (spelled Chornobyl with "O" instead of "E",so you're either Ukrainian or respect such things as a correct pronunciation of city names for which I wanna say thanks🥹💜)

[@tygra2886]

@@kryvyi_juan The latter :) I'm not ukrainian, i'm from poland, But i respect the correct pronunciation BTW. Funfact: This isn't the case in english, but in polish, since the Russian Invasion, many people have returned to saying "W ukrainie" (in ukraine) instead of commonly used before "na ukrainie" ("on" ukraine) - basically, "na" in that context is used to describe commonly (but not always - there are exceptions, like "na słowacji" ("on" slovakia) or "na węgrzech" ("on" hungary) Places that are... idk... kinda a part/land of some other country, like voivodeship, for example, we say that "we were on vacation "on" masuria" or "on" lower silesia" etc. So basically, if polish people use "in" ukraine instead of "on", basically this means, that they consider Ukraine as an independent country, not just a "land" or part of something else.

[@kryvyi_juan]

@tygra2886 I got what you mean,it's pretty much the same in Ukrainian) Thank you again🫶🏻

[@PoffupaimaVT]

yooo how did i miss this upload. love this poi you're feeding my dream/weird/liminal drug ive been craving

[@RexyRonin]

Love your videos Poi! Keep em coming! Love the sound of your voice.

[@AntiAzovIndividual]

I don’t, how could anyone?

[@AntiAzovIndividual]

I can’t take it anymore I have to leave this video I can’t take it anymore, just talk normal, is that too much to ask? I’d rather hear some AI robot voice than this

[@Eternully]

@@AntiAzovIndividual I'm not gonna lie, I agree. I don't understand why it sounds like he's trying to pull the whole "sleepy voice" thing. Maybe this is just the way he sounds and in that case, I might be an asshole, but it sounds quite forced to me which prevents me from really enjoying the video, unfortunately.

[@argu000]

@@AntiAzovIndividualyeah completely agree with you ://

[@ringa1770]

@@Eternullyi thought it was just me lmao.

[@83moonchild]

Just found your channel today cant wait to get through all of your weirdness lol looks great so far already subscribed and even set notifications for all videos which I hardly do I only have around 6 channels with all vids switched on the other 150+ are none at all but really liking the look of ur topics and obscurity so giving it a chance, impressed so far. To the point, no bs, simple but well summarised explanations and intelligent research you sound like you actually understand your narrative and are not just reading wiki word for word to us throughout and actually name any quotes or references which is refreshing as there's so many channels consisting of an entire wiki page being read like a kid when they had to read out loud in class and were so bored they developed an hypnotic repetitive speech pattern with no expression or awareness of what they've even just read they're so deep in the subconscious automatic behaviour mode, like if they were old enough they'd end up driving themselves home too without even recalling leaving school let alone driving lol we all know we do it too lol Anyway really enjoying the channel, thanks! ❤

[@spyheadquartersinternational]

I love your videos!

[@Leosdeception]

One of my earliest memories was my birthday and my great great grandpa and it happened at a playroom like the ones you’d see in McDonald’s just a big one kinda like ready set play . Hold up it gets deep, part of that story never actually happened, I was talking to my mom and little brother about our oldest memories when I was like 16 and I told said story and my moms face was confused the whole time, she then says you never met your great great grandpa he died a year before you were born. Creepiest shit ever! I strictly and only remember him holding me and me running around him in circles !!

[@Jergosta]

Anemoiapolis, my fav game

[@mischievoussheldon6952]

Idk if this is weird bro but I love your voice I could fall asleep to your videos or just feel calm and content for hours listening to you I also just love the videos okay that’s all thanks for the content bro!!!

[@Guro-Blue-kun]

Great video! I hope I won't sound too harsh, but the visual and description in your videos would really win if instead of some random gameplays, you would show more pictures of what you're talking about, when you're talking about it. Even just one still picture kept on screen if you don't find more, because it really take a toll on the experience when you distract us like that with unrelated visual... Anyway, thanks for the great uploads! I've been loving the 'Psychological Horror Icebergs'! -Even tho I already saw all those movies haha...- Keep up the good work! 💙

[@eden.nd.]

The Gatwick Premier Inn is a budget hotel at a London airport

[@katzenkiyoshi]

Does anyone remember that little device that came with the iSpy books? It made a certain noise or sound over certain objects, and I remember placing it over empty space, and though it was so eerie and interesting. The last time I ever owned one of these books was when I was four. Never found them again. But really, was that little “pen” device a real thing, or am I just remembering wrong?

[@katzenkiyoshi]

I remember now, found it online. It was the leapfrog tag with the iSpy books

[@nachgeben]

"If you're watching this video, you're probably Gen Z." Weird, other Gen Z youtubers claim liminal spaces is just a millennial thing. lmfao

[@asteroidrules]

I guess that's the line between nostalgia and anemoia, a lot of liminal spaces predate gen Z.

[@drswag0076]

isn't the frontrooms our current reality? as in where we are standing right here and right now?

[@The_Copper_Element_Itself]

Yeah. The frontrooms is just the name given by "backrooms inhabitants" to the real universe, at least from the wiki perspective. Since at this point there are 3 big interpreations of the backrooms, all with different vibes and terms. The wiki backrooms, the kane pixels backrooms, and the original 4chan interpretation

[@fuzzymelon1261]

a big liminal space is bedrooms that have been moved out of. my ex was the youngest of 4 and all his siblings had moved out. their empty rooms were so spooky looking

[@georgetanner9381]

The creature in the thumbnail looks like an edited drawing that I did some time ago, I don't know but it did remind me of it

[@BlaineX84]

poi back with another banger! Now shhhh let me watch

[@cardiocain2122]

Middle school skinny white

[@Floofies]

I like this video a lot! But I want to clarify something around 23:12 when you said that the images 'take that concept and turn it into liminal spaces', I don't know if you meant someone took that concept and turned it into an image, or if you meant that the images just look liminal, but these are things you actually see on an eye test :D (I don't know if you have seen it before as well, like if you have contact lenses which I think the same procedure happens) - sincerely, person with glasses

[@WEIRDpoi]

IM SO STUPID OMG. THATS ACTUALLY MY FAULT LMAO

[@Floofies]

It's alright don't worry! It was just a simple mistake, those happen lol@@WEIRDpoi

[@cygnus1129]

I didnt click because of the title, I clicked because of the *CREEPY ASS THUMBNAIL*

[@SilverAmamiya]

I love poi's liminal videos

[@Br0kenMask]

your voice makes my head hurt very vibraty and mumbly.

[@comicsamsthegreat]

I haven’t finished the video yet but I wanna mention that control and Max Payne have some of my favourite depictions of liminal spaces

[@penguin-IDK]

Olivia my beloved

[@SlenderEnderGuy]

56:51 is from a bizarre tv show for kids who are like 3 years old called Boohbah (and yes that's what it's called). It's a sensory cluster fuck, but apparently it becomes creepy as hell if you play a episode slowed down on KZbin. I've tried it and I can confirm it becomes really uncanny when it's slowed down.

[@alexhalbur6631]

You mentioned Gen Z mainly loves this stuff I absolutely love the nostalgic feelings this gives me I am 34

[@1.4M-ry8zx]

damn thanks for making my day dude

[@gin1967]

i know people piss on his vocal fry but i like it. it gives him personality and it makes me feel like im on ft with a friend maybe

[@captaintaggart6523]

Have any of you ever been to Kelvedon Hatch? It's a cold war bunker that you're allowed to visit and it's super liminal looking. They sometimes play old radio transmissions, which adds to the creepiness.

[@MiraHiThere]

i actually live there, if you’re speaking about england, it’s called the secret nuclear bunker, and if there were to be a nuclear war, funny enough the king and a lot of the royal family would end up in that bunker, pretty weird to think about. i haven’t been in the bunker but it’s still active like there’s zombie apocalypse experiences, a nuclear run race where it’s like obstacle courses in the mud.

[@gunnasintern]

doing a push up every time bro says nostalgia/nostalgic would make for a great workout routine

[@SpookedDragonmare]

To me , airports early in the morning seen so eerie with people barely there.

[@beacondude5000]

6:18 That picture makes me think of MW2, especially the missions in Washington DC with the orange sky and the color bars on the TV

[@tulpamedia]

My favorite kind of liminal spaces are the ones with the perfect skies, wide open fields, and dreamy suburbia. Something about seeing perfect day and perfect grass makes me feel some kind of way for some reason. Also, at 21:55 do you mean that the image itself is overexposed lighting wise? Or do you mean like it's passed around the internet too much? Because the image is nowhere near overexposed lighting wise. This image is actually remarkably well exposed. Both the whites and the blacks are perfectly just out of being blown out.

[@B19Wing]

I worked a closing shift in the back of a grocery store It was creeeeepy how almost no one was there

[@VtheHAPPYLURKER]

I know what Ingles is! (Overpriced...) Lovely video on liminal spaces.

[@WEIRDpoi]

i used to work there

[@JordanWisdom-px4ev]

So… I love liminal spaces too for the same reason, giving you a sense of nonstalgic memories and disturbing places… it makes me happy but so so so sad…

[@jadedlanguage]

in the nicest way possible my dude,u need to start drinking some water before you record 😭 it was a bit grating but after 13:18 u went back to normal but dude U NEED TO STAY HYDRATED WTF WAS HAPPENING edit: YOURE FUCKING SICK 😭😭 THAT MAKES MORE SENSE

[@finnlet404]

what is the first song. i tried finding it but im so lazy pls help.

[@lovelysakurapetalsyt]

We know Broogs watches you, let's see what he thinks about this iceberg analysis

[@HauntedHoard]

NEW POI DROPPED BABE

[@danielreynolds6498]

I enter a freaky liminal world every night … you see I walk my dogs at night ..and ever since they changed all the street lights to these dim foggy lightbulbs …it creates strange liminal spaces everywhere …at first it was very unsettling ..and quite strange …but now I really enjoy it … I go quite late so there is never anybody around … and I spot more and more every night … these street lights don’t seem to light up anything else … just liminal spaces

[@gengarrhea]

i'm still on the toilet dude..

[@plunk9275]

Theres this one map on blades and sourcery, its a remake of wii sports resort but the colors are duller. Its super huge for some reason, like you feel small. And everythings super flat, used to be covered in life now bleak and meloncholic

[@computerblue84]

42:30 Even the Kraftwerk song Neon Lights is pretty liminal. I feel like it’s the song that would be faintly droning in the background out the crackly speakers in these areas forever and ever

[@Waffledog_]

Ok but did part 2 ever happen?

[@fun1k]

What is the game the footage is from?

[@Sapphire_Aerith2213]

The pile of balls one is from a British show called Boohbah. I watched it as a kid and I still watch it to this day. I mean… I’m 19! Do I care? Absolutely freaking not.

[@KoopalingMayhem]

bro you sound like those roblox tiktoks like the “voice reveal” that sound like corpse husband like bro talk normally holy 7/25/2005

[@CASA-dy4vs]

I have a gmod map somewhere that looked normal when I downloaded it but when I went in… yeah safe to say I didn’t want any beef with that map

[@blunttalksmedia]

OMG poi dropped!

[@My-dog-named-dog]

What is the game in the background

[@SpreadingthewordoftheLord]

i watch these till the end cs theye good asl

[@Mystery_Cipher707]

Have you heard of the game Subliminal? It’s coming out in early 2024 for PC, PS4, PS5, and I believe Xbox. Check out the trailer and gameplay trailer-the game looks GORGEOUS

[@omegaflowey9932]

26:36 Still iconic 😂😂

[@SicMetalMaggot4life]

@5:21 This area is the irl recreation of NERV HQ from the very psychological 1995 anime Neon Genesis Evangelion. I believe this is specifically a recreation from a theme park, which is odd given a lot of the fucked up stuff that happens in that franchise. The environments in that series can be quite liminal, to say the least. The anime itself delves into a lot of dark themes of social and emotional isolation, so it's fitting imo.

[@chaihuahua]

im from nc and i was so surprised someone actually knows what ingles is LMAO

[@Steph-T-45]

hearing the mention of ingles was great i thought no other soul knew about it lmao

[@nightryn3151]

i am NOT following the instagram. get on with the video

[@Snaykola]

What's the name of the game in the background?

[@Thestr8noodle]

Anemoiapolis

[@leczo-hk1hj]

tf2 2fort is a liminal space. 2 big forts in the middle of nowhere one looking like a barn and other like abandoned factory . anyway. all tf2 maps when there are no players feel very liminal.(tf2 is a source game like garry's mod)

[@hobeone1192]

Looks at space, its liminal, its liie we are all alone on this planet in an endless void..

[@Wawa_cat123]

i play slope so much on my IT classes lol

[@deathlord9329]

I somehow thought the thumbnail was real life black zetsu from naruto

[@mabeylane7163]

The vocal fry really started becoming more noticeable when he said "the Beatles are hella overrated." I'm not even a massive Beatles fan but calling them overrated just tells me you don't know anything about music history.

[@izeyahmarkham5243]

40 seconds, the shortest intro ever

[@DropOwata]

Video Idea: Omega Mart Iceberg.

[@pepperminttea4658]

My favorite mall store is either Hot topic or FYE 👍

[@prerex7217]

Lets goo more liminal space videos!

[@vomit_girly]

Name of the game in the background?

[@WEIRDpoi]

My name jeff

[@UnstableReactor]

Lose the shawty stuff lol Your narration when you're using more illustrative and vivid language is very informative and engaging and it genuinely took me out of it whenever you said shawty and also drew attention to it. You do a very nice job of bringing a personal angle to your read on these with anecdotal and personal bits you add, you don't need any faux-quirky catchphrase lol. Keep up the good work, hope this comment finds you well.

[@asuka_the_void_witch]

shawty's like a melody in my head

[@nullspace_xxii.]

that’s how i knew he’s a gen z creator

[@cannibalisticgirls]

smooch to liminal spaces

[@Local_guy_named_Kurtis]

5:16 don't go saying the Beatles song are overrated because it not the type of song you like

[@captaintaggart6523]

mean!

[@saharsky6794]

that shawty thing is really annoying tbh

[@um1t4r0]

i think bro likes liminal spaces

[@Kaleb99j]

Slope: for when you don't want to pay attention in English class