The Backrooms Photo Origins (Search Update)

[@ihearttoast8162]

I've made progress that is fairly significant and I just want to let you know. I did some measurements of the original photo, basing it off of the outlet in the image which is 2.75 inches wide assuming it is like 99% of all other outlets. So then using that I found that the front left wall, with what we can see at least is 57.75 inches wide. Something very fascinating which narrows down the location is that the height from the floor to the ceiling is *_exactly_* 100 inches. This is very important because that means they used the imperial system during construction and planning of the building, and since the U.S is practically the only country that uses the imperial system that narrows down the search to within the U.S, which may be very big but it is progress. I also got more precise measurements and recreated an accurate blueprint of what we can see from the image. Edit: Images showing the measurements in the replies below.

[@smithys_exploration]

LEGEND

[@ihearttoast8162]

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[@ihearttoast8162]

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[@ihearttoast8162]

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[@backflipmann]

Okay that's some serious research right there!

[@winglessfairy564]

Dudeeee imagine being the legend that made up the original story for the Backrooms image. I’m so jealous

[@PeixeDeEstoque]

And the worst thing is that nobody will know it was you who did it. Because it was simply anonymous lol

[@XEMP999]

@@PeixeDeEstoque But another bad thing, if you tried to prove that you were the anonymous, theres simply no way, unless you had the camera with the picture in it.

[@MysticXX]

@@XEMP999 i was the one who took the picture and nobody fucking believes me…

[@funkeymonkey86]

@@MysticXX lmaoo

[@teamok1025]

@@MysticXX u need to send proof via recording yourself going to the place where you took the photo. that should work edit: u can remove the audio

[@keltek77]

The original photo definitely looks like an empty furniture/mattress store. That would explain the different wallpapers and random wall sections. It's to mimic different rooms in a house, and that explains the wall in the center of the photo not going all the way the the ceiling, because it doesn't need to. Also, the moulding/trim on the lower part of the walls is to protect the wall from being scratched by the metal of the mattress frames. Just my theory, but it makes the most sense to me. Happy hunting!

[@mrlevinielsen]

Yeah I thought it was literal backrooms to an ikea and that’s how it got it name tbh

[@thecianinator]

Damn, that's a really good theory

[@could_possiblybe_thane07echo]

Omg that makes so much sense

[@charlotte5129]

I genuinely believe that at this point, the only way we’re ever gonna find this photos origin is if the original uploader comes forward. I also think the reason reverse image searching hasn’t worked is because real estate photos aren’t usually kept on the internet for very long. I’ve been reverse image searching this photo and other variants of it for years now and I’ve never been able to find any leads. I do believe this photo has been on the internet before 2018. However, the oldest upload of the photo (as far as we know) came from 4chan. The issue with this is that the uploader was completely anonymous so we don’t really have a way of contacting them… I do hope this mystery is eventually solved, however when looking at other photos people have been trying to find the origins of, (Jeff the killer, etc) I genuinely think this search could go on for years and years.

[@rlstevzz]

i feel that the backrooms image will be easier because it is a building and not a person, which makes it bigger and easier to find

[@Atmarsde]

​@@rlstevzz but there is a possibility taht this building doesn't exist any more

[@hunterglass1840]

I was a professional lecturer for over 20 years. This is no doubt an old conference center, likely connected to a hotel. One give away is the rubber bumper guards about 8 inches off the floor so that service carts don’t damage the walls. The cheap industrial carpet and large spaces. The drop callings and fluorescent lights are common.

[@Death-Sickle]

Davenport Grand hotel

[@hunterglass1840]

@@Death-Sickle nice job DS, I knew someone sharp would figure it out. I will look it up, thanks.

[@xlunarxx1913]

it ain’t that..

[@VirtualCarbon]

A New Discovery Has Been Made, Here is the Updated Video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gZ7Od3hnrtxpfq8

[@juul4541]

wow you’re active as hell, respect

[@teamok1025]

pin this comment upvoting

[@ChadDidNothingWrong]

A 640x480 image means it likely was taken with an early digital camera around 1999 to 2002-ish. If it is more recent, that resolution becomes more and more arbitrary to have chosen. Otherwise, if not then it was likely downloaded from the camera and re-saved at a time when 640x480 was a normal size to choose for your image due to space constraints or even screen resolution constraints. The owner's monitor was likely set to 1024x768 or less if he chose to save it as a 640x480 image for this reason. Determining if it was scanned in from film or fully digital would help. Also how much is it compressed? Can you determine the type of compression? That would all help date it.

[@thecianinator]

The signal noise, overly yellow white balance, and resolution/aspect ratio all lead me to believe that this image came from a digital video camera from the turn of the millennium. They often had snapshot functions that saved stills to a memory card. I left a more detailed comment about this and the most recent video.

[@Rodrigopingoi]

you were right :)

[@brmawe]

Ahh back when the backrooms was... different, more eerie. I love all the new levels and lore it's getting now but og backrooms hit different.

[@the_mariocrafter]

Yes I agree.

[@mrshockisme]

Ikr like when it was only like 3 levels instead of the millions

[@pinkbeast4371]

@@mrshockisme They ruined the backrooms

[@carreraman8364]

@@pinkbeast4371 no the levels make it feel crazier

[@mrshockisme]

@@pinkbeast4371 I don’t think they ruined it I just think it was more interesting when we knew less about it but now we have like 5 page essays on 1 level

[@marblehornetsru]

Hi. I know it may sound suspicious (you know what I mean), but somewhere about year ago I've stumbled upon reddit post where people were arguing about origin of the photo. I couldn't link it right now, sadly (I'll try to find it again in nearest time). So, one of the users said that this photo was found in some compilation of "liminal" or other "strange" pictures, you know, on one of photohostings. This compilation was dated somewhere in 2009. I don't say that I've only SEEN someone to claim about all this (date of photo etc.), but that there also was a link to this compilation with this photo. I will try to find this thing once again. My greatest apologizes if I won't be able to find this, or if this will happen to be something else (like not this photo, you know).

[@GabrielsEpicLifeofGoals]

Do you remember the subreddit?

[@marblehornetsru]

Plus I've just found something that made me have several more flashbacks from about a year ago. About a year ago by scrolling down google images when was trying to do a search with this photo I've stopped on one photo which was ALMOST EXACTLY this "original" photo but it had a very-very slightly wider angle (there were a bit more details, nothing really important but photo just had wider angle) and better quality overall. This one is not exactly what I've seen that day, because it only has more normalized tilt angle and different color correction (which makes this photo look more natural, yeah). Plus yeah it has better quality but not like the one I found year ago. This one looks like it was just stretched from 640x480 to something bigger. Will keep searching. Take a look at what I'm talking about now: www.reddit.com/r/backrooms/comments/t2dny3/original_backrooms_photo/

[@marblehornetsru]

What the hell? Why won't youtube save my answer for you dude.

[@marblehornetsru]

@@GabrielsEpicLifeofGoals idk why but everytime i try to answer you with links i found youtube is removing it.

[@GabrielsEpicLifeofGoals]

@@marblehornetsru try replying to the original comment, and space every letter in the link.

[@chrismckiwi]

I lookt on the power plug of the phote these are Comon in Mexiko,USA,and Canada.The Wallpaper called:"Morris Wallpapers Owen Jones"

[@nf7283]

If you can somehow image search using "the wayback machine", an internet archive, you could reverse image search before the original post was made in 2018/19 and find the origin of the photo, you wouldn't even need the internet archive to do this, just a way to search before 2019 so your feed doesn't get filled with more recent posts from 2019 onwards

[@GabrielsEpicLifeofGoals]

Maybe in realestate websites?

[@GabrielsEpicLifeofGoals]

I'm starting to think the only way we're gonna find this is to go to every US real estate website and release a crawler that checks for architectural matches... EDIT: I just realized the 22/April/2018 photo was NOT the original. The image name on 4chan is 1524371231850.jpg, but in the archive, the file name displayed on top of the post is named 1523164430760.jpg . 4chan seems to use an incremental counter for naming images, and the real file name seems to be an older 4chan post that was later downloaded... I estimate the date to be 7/April/2018 - 8/April/2018.

[@glitchingbee]

It could also be a photo of a school room. Some schools have hanging ceilings like that

[@tehangrybird345]

It’s definitely most likely taken in the US as it uses US outlets. However due to the camera quality the photo could of been taken a long time ago and wherever it was taken could of possibly changed. It might be from a mixed used building as that style is common with those buildings.

[@mamiquieremequetrefe]

In the image you can see the type of plug it is wearing. There is a page to see the types of plugs standardized by country. The one shown in the image is used in North America, Central America, part of South America (Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Peru), the Philippines, and Japan. I thought that might help ps: the comment was made by a user called suprimagmius in a video in Spanish

[@matty6598]

Yes! I didnt think you'd continue this! I am the 40th liker now :D

[@Speed-TV]

Could you try to find the unedited smile dog image? (Not the red one/true form, the original one with the husky)

[@oumartogo3029]

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[@sofia_g23]

This will remain an internet mystery.

[@crashdacar209]

where did you find the real estate pic

[@seymoorepoone9512]

So, you don’t know where the original photograph was taken or where it was posted. Got it.

[@officialgeeno]

I'm gonna make a sound bit for when you say "Among Us" at 1:27

[@VirtualCarbon]

💀

[@rebeleksde7642]

Is there a discord for people who want to try and find the origin? if not you should make one so people avoid going down the same rabbit holes that lead to nothing.

[@bryanmedeiros9368]

ill make one real quick

[@regoli28]

something to know is that you can see a north-American wall plug which basically means that we know the image was taken in north America. This then removes 83.5% of all possible land mass since north America is 16.5% of all landmass on earth.

[@WapTek123]

as of 2022/10/25 backrooms Level 0 Lobby photo was taken using a post Y2K camera made before 2008 & the majority of the cameras were all on the market in 2002 so the most likely year it was taken is 2002 , its 10 years old . the only thing in the image that could be "new" was the partially trimmed new old stock 1985 era carpet being installed that day . by the NEMA 1975 outlet, the location "can be" north & or central America & the north part of south America so this is "mostly Canada, Mexico USA, or a "possession" of the USA like Puerto Rico, Samoa, Guam, the Mariana or Virgin Islands or ,, a former possession like japan BUT the most localized (& LONG shot) clue was a "similar" stencil or wall paper 1998 pattern in a house in South Eastern Pennsylvania

[@danyvaduva9124]

before someone says what im about to say is a joke. im not kidding when i say this. in 2017 i had a dream in which i couldn't wake up. it seemed alot like the backrooms but the yellow walls were more of a orange color. i dont quite remember what happened but i Do Remember that there was no exit. the last thing i remember is seeing a black figure and then waking up with tears in my eyes..

[@ImaPizzaK]

it's always the Dream omg I dreamed

[@danyvaduva9124]

@@ImaPizzaK im serious.

[@ImaPizzaK]

@@danyvaduva9124 ok

[@FrequencyFilthy]

@@ImaPizzaK omg bro ur soo funnyyyyy

[@ImaPizzaK]

@@FrequencyFilthy wow thanks I designed that comment to be funny and to make you laugh

[@universo-ix3jx]

Have you looked into the "way back machine"? You said it would be much easier if you searched back then, well, this will make all the results that appear, be from that time

[@technical8863]

@rainbolt we need you to find where this picture was taken

[@shrekshrek]

Tell him on instragam

[@kwentongpotchero6750]

Damn ,this very mysterious

[@mrlevinielsen]

The google earth thing is actually terrifying lmao

[@hudstir]

i think its in new york.

[@thedeadman101]

I wish we could find the person who took the original photo and ask him or her were they took the photo.

[@justadragonnamemarcus1751]

Pretty sure the original place is repainted or abandoned or even destroyed by now

[@obsidflow]

What’s the intro music?

[@RyxioonYT]

Imagine being the one who found the origin of the backrooms original photo ... keep up bro !

[@iko_ry8827]

Didn't the person who first posted the photo took the photo it self or knows where the photo was taken or made? If the person is still alive (probably), can't someone ask where it was took? (if the person didn't make the photo we are probably never gonna find the answers to the question.)

[@45hAsh]

why not use the way back machine to find the original image? 🤨

[@therealwisemysticaltree]

and how is way back machine gonna help us?

[@Willowfrompiggybook2]

It kind of gives me the creeps because no one knows where the image is taken

[@heartbeatbeat6071]

Thanks for sharing the progress of the comunity!

[@the_mariocrafter]

1:26 AMONG US!!!

[@morbidforfun]

Hey man I sent you a pretty important dm on Instagram. I don’t know if you’re active on that account but it’s the account that you linked on your about section

[@DarkR8N]

i watched ur video very nice

[@Ethan_Studio_Productions]

it's spongebob squarepants episode bc of a wall maze like the back rooms

[@Den69699]

Keep going and keep us update 💪

[@lukthelukiamluk]

I once found the backrooms on google earth in antarctica

[@kkeyy_y]

it was probably taken in the 8th floor of farley post office

[@sammytimgaming2947]

Wait you did a reverse search? With the camera resolution, and similar images on google?

[@sammytimgaming2947]

The backrooms feels like, an office space.

[@sammytimgaming2947]

The weird-feeling mystical experience on the internet, existed since 2010. Or experienced around the early 2000s, to anyone who has ever had intimate feelings before.

[@RyansRockin]

I commented on one of your videos I think, maybe another video. Somebody replied to me and said that on discord a friend of his sent him an older photo of a 4chan post dating back to 2012 with the Backrooms Photo. Hope this helps.

[@Toasts]

Send the link

[@RyansRockin]

Well I dont have it sadly but look at his newest video, he found the 2012 post! Sorta.

[@estek02]

y'all check the original post's picture's metadata

[@Mateim5]

Conclusion: Things are not fake, their just made in japan.

[@EasyCheese901]

What if it’s not real and just a room someone made in a video game mapmaking software

[@vicentedelgarothe3rd852]

Level 188 was taken in a holiday inn express in London England

[@offical.blockbear.entertai8721]

1:26 kinda sus

[@allen8634]

5:10 this is where the video took place it looks like

[@Hello86257]

The og was made in photoshop

[@RundownSD]

No it wasn’t. I’m tired of people saying this when they don’t even know.

[@augie1272]

Where did the original I ate a cat comment come from

[@A_very_tinly_can]

6:47 that just straight up looks like roblox

[@allen8634]

I'm gonna go to Saka Japan and figure this out myself

[@decayingsilver]

The backrooms pic was taken in the frontrooms, my day is ruined

[@idkwhattonamethis4417]

Honestly I think that image is just an illusion but im not sure, its gotta be in a building in USA or an illusion

[@TheFortySevenTimes]

1:27 ඞ

[@ZIONOMANIA]

GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEADGET OUT OF MY HEADGET OUT OF MY HEADGET OUT OF MY HEADGET OUT OF MY HEAD

[@VirtualCarbon]

bruh

[@TheFortySevenTimes]

@@ZIONOMANIA relatable.

[@TheFortySevenTimes]

@@VirtualCarbon LOL 💀

[@TheOfficialGlitter]

I feel like it could be a psych ward

[@ultron712]

1:27 📕📮

[@collinscoolness8072]

1:27

[@Marcy53Volkswagen]

easy just use wayback machine

[@samfanshier]

Dude it’s just a empty office

[@Bosiatrees]

crazy to think that this could be a real place made unironicly like damm

[@thecianinator]

It's a normal photo of a room with no furniture in it, like where do you think this image came from in the first place

[@Cola2013_1]

@@thecianinator prob sears in the 90s or old abandoned painthouse

[@gman116lop]

🔙

[@David45000]

the waffle house has found it's new host

[@undersc0r]

we found it 807 Oregon St, Oshkosh, WI 54902

[@loserxylophone3986]

i don't know why i just feel like the photo would be taken in Chicago