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語源

From backrooms. Coined by an anonymous poster on the 4chan /x/ board on May 12th, 2019 (see quotation below).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈbækˌɹuːms/, /ˈbækˌɹʊms/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈbækˌɹums/

固有名詞

the Backrooms

1. (Internet slang) An online urban legend or creepypasta of a seemingly endless maze of empty hallways, often described as being inhabited by monsters or having multiple levels or floors.
   • 2019 May 12, 4chan‎, /x/, archived from the original on 12 January 2024:

     If you're not careful and you noclip out of reality in the wrong areas, you'll end up in the Backrooms, where it's nothing but the stink of old moist carpet, the madness of mono-yellow, the endless background 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 hear something wandering around nearby, because it sure as hell has heard you

   • 2022 March 29, Andrew Lloyd, “The Backrooms: How a Creepy Office Photo Became an Internet Bogeyman”, in VICE‎, archived from the original on 7 May 2023:

     Threads are filled with talk of new levels that could sit above, below or beside the Backrooms, including pitch black tunnels and an abandoned hotel.

派生語

参考

• Appendix:Liminal spaces

参照

• “The Backrooms”, in Know Your Meme, website first launched 2007