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  "path": "/133812-digital-nostalgia-backrooms/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-06-02T13:50:38.000Z",
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  "tags": [
    "Filmmaking",
    "Backrooms",
    "Chiwetel Ejiofor",
    "Colette Shade",
    "creepypasta",
    "digital nostalgia",
    "Kane Parsons",
    "L. P. Hartley",
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  "textContent": "Like the internet lore for which it is named, Backrooms (2026) encapsulates a paradox of embodiment and time. Kane Parsons’s feature film—an adaptation of his cult YouTube series of the same title—has its origins in a photograph of a former furniture store undergoing renovations in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, taken in 2003 and uploaded to 4chan in 2019. This unlikely source became the starting point for a diffuse, Lovecraftian latticework of anonymous mythmaking and creepypasta, whose locus eventually migrated to Reddit, where it split into separate communities of originalists and revisionists. Their prolific output is a striking example of hypermodern digital creativity predicated on […]\n\nSource",
  "title": "Point of No Return: Digital Nostalgia in Backrooms"
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