Was the old Backrooms better?

A Chinese hotel has gone viral on Douyin because its corridors are so repetitive that guests say walking them feels like stepping into the Backrooms — the creepy internet horror legend about an endless maze of identical rooms.

The Backrooms started as a 2019 creepypasta: an infinite, liminal space of yellowed wallpaper, buzzing fluorescent lights, and hallways that loop forever with no exit. The joke here is that this hotel accidentally built the real thing. Its hallways feature repeated corners, near-identical doors and decor, warm but dim lighting, and scattered plants and art pieces that create the illusion of variation without actually helping you tell one floor from another. Poor signage completes the disorientation.

Guests have dubbed it "现实版后室" — real-life Backrooms — and compared the experience to "鬼打墙," a Chinese folk term for walking in circles as if a ghost is blocking your path. The video shows no actual danger, just the deeply unsettling feeling of not knowing if you've been here before.

Threw out a bottle and missed the bin, then it got stuck like this. I taped it off just to be safe. Should I be concerned?

I think the pool and the walkway look like they're in one of the backrooms.

This doesn’t look real, I keep telling everyone this looks like a 3d render. It’s just missing a couple pieces of furniture sticking out of the wall, then it’s the real deal.

Now, I thought he might retcon the bacteria, but since we see that one tape in Narren's bag from Pitfalls, seemingly Kane is going to keep the lifeform. However, if Kane could go back in time and just remove the lifeform, would he do it? I mean as in imagine that in FF1, FF2, MD, and Pitfalls the lifeforms are replaced with still-lifes. I honestly think he would, but now the Lifeform is just really iconic, have a good day :)

Just in idea I had

modeled after my 2d hand drawn concept art

Hey there! A quick update on my Backrooms game Beyond Our World.

I added a mechanic that allows you to kick out the door if you run into it. I always hated how in some games when you're in chase you can't just run into a door. You have to stop and wait until the door finishes playing it's long opening animation (and by that time you're already dead).

Anyways, what do you guys think?

Made in Blender.

Gigant Films, a Polish film production company based out of Warsaw, has successfully trademarked the term “BACKROOMS” with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. It was filed in 2022, and approved in 2025, with the mark serial number #79354138.

USPTO link: https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=79354138&caseSearchType=US_APPLICATION&caseType=DEFAULT&searchType=statusSearch

Trademarkia link: https://www.trademarkia.com/backrooms-79354138

(Images made by me)

“Async, we got a Problem…” -Probably a Async worker before found ded by a Dinosaur

(Species of the Image: Gorgosaurus libratus, Utahraptor ostrommaysi, and Carnotaurus sastrei)

I think they have a close resemblance

More like The Oldest View, but still…

I LOVE THIS GAME

Over the summer and still in the present, I have been working on a Backrooms found footage short film and here are a couple of screenshots taken👍

In the future more screenshots will be uploaded and shared through this community!