The backrooms is a big thing to teens right now. The imagery is something they all love referencing. Someone actually found where the original images came from
Here is the twitter post that found it
The front of the building looks ordinary
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Subliminal Space is something you should be creeped out by because it denotes a highly artificial space that is not being maintained, or has been otherwise abandoned. It generates a feeling of imminent danger, as if everyone else ran for their lives from an unseen danger, that you are now facing alone.
It's that weird feeling like have you ever been in a cubicle office building that is busy as hell, all noise, had to take something to another floor and then to have the same environment but empty, almost abandoned. That uncomfortable feeling that you shouldn't be there.
It's why in urban exploration or abandoned places, properties with the power STILL RUNNING and no graffiti or scavenging marks are a lot more creepy than those showing more decay, like there is something there stopping people tampering with it.
I'm sure that seeing the "prison" in all it's bare glory is cathartic to the trans-soul.
I have to agree with the Rat for once that this isn't a good example of liminal space. It's just old, yellow, and oddly slanted. If they took a nice new picture and redid the wallpaper it would be a good ad for cheap office space.
But tens of thousands of zoomers disagree so what do I know. 🤷♂️
They don't agree they just want to be part of the Current Thing. Social media doesn't control their brains, social media is their brain.
It's just like Nickelback hatred. Nickelback is fine, but the internet tells you to hate them so you do.
Yeah, just the picture sure, but that's why the backrooms have that appearance, but unnecessarily large. I think the yellow color just adds a "sickly" flavor to the scene.
But empty office space doesn't creep me out. I guess I've been on too many setup/cleanup/construction crews.
All I see is a clean space with potential.
Now, if it were a narrow hallway with flickering yellowing lights and lots of Scooby Doo doors, as per an old, abandoned mental asylum, yeah, sure.
It's not really enough for it to just be an empty office space. I think the unnerving thing about an office space is the inorganic repetition that makes it very easy to get lost in. But that also connects with the sense of abandonment and scale.
Liminal space is a gay buzzword for tards