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Jun 8
WATCHING ‘FIXATED ON THINGS BEING SLIGHTLY OFF’ EXPLORATION OF THE ZOOMER PSYCHE ‘BACKROOMS’ (2026) WITH A LATINA WOMAN

Had seen a lot of hype for Backrooms online that made me curious to see it. Asked Latina friend if she wanted to go too

Asked her, “have you heard of the backrooms before?”

She hadn’t

“Do you know what a ‘liminal space’ is?”

She didn’t know. Translated it for her. She still didn’t know

“Do you know what 4chan is?”

She didn’t know

“It’s a famous internet forum”

“I see”

“Well… this concept of the backrooms started when a 4chan user posted a picture of an empty furniture store in Wisconsin. Lots of people found it spooky and it spiralled from there and became a big meme”

“Ok”

“There was a teenage YouTuber called Kane Parsons who made lots of videos about it and as a ‘wot if we made a zoomer into a film director’ gimmick a film studio gave him $10 million to make a movie about it. He’s one of the first zoomers to direct a major film”

Her eyes were glazing over as I explained this

First half of movie is exposition. Drags a little. Plot is Chiwetel Ejiofor gave up his dream of being an architect for his nagging bitch wife and then she divorced him anyway so now he sells furniture nobody buys. He has therapy sessions where he speaks dialogue that sounds like it’s from a Mr. Beast video because Parsons is an autistic zoomer who doesn’t know how to write proper human emotion yet. One day he discovers the BACKROOMS (2026) in his basement. He goes to his therapist and says “oi there’s a liminal space in me basement” and she say “you are mentally ill”. In a fit of seethe he heads off on an expedition into the Backrooms where he gets chased by creatures that all look like 2022-era generative AI prompt outputs and enjoy leaning slightly out from behind a wall in the distance. Don’t know if early AI allusion was deliberate or not but the movie really pushes the ‘everything is slight off’ motif. Zoomers find things being ‘slightly off’ spooky

Actually, felt like a lot of the concepts were a bit ‘sort of thing that makes you go woahhh in your first year philosophy class’ ‘-with zoomer characteristics’ concepts. Don’t want to sound zoomerphobic I’m not a zoomerphobe but there is a lot of very zoomerish dialogue like “oi wot if you were describing a dog to a bloke who had never seen a dog before and then he had to draw that dog from your description wouldn’t he draw it ‘slightly off’ don’t ya reckon oi wot if there was a dog that was ‘slightly off’ spooky stuff mate”. Or, “fuckkk everytime I go in this room the furniture is arranged in a slightly different way than I remember”. In that way would say what makes this especially zoomer rather than millennial is a millennial fixation would be something like “dude, wot if the world wasn’t real and we were in the matrix” or “dude, wot if you could rate everyone you met on an app and your rating determined your socioeconomic status”. Zoomer fixation is more things being ‘slightly-off’, ‘mis-rismembered’, ‘uncanny valley’, ‘liminal spaces’ etc. Also there’s often a horror element

Ghost of Wittgenstein really looms large over this movie then. Don’t want to give impression I disliked BACKROOMS (2026). Last 45 minutes where they don’t have to do character exposition anymore and can get properly into the ‘oooh liminal spaces oooh’ concept is fun. The main reason I am being so catty about it is because I think I could make a better movie than Kane Parsons if I got given $10 million

“What was that place they kept going to? Was it a dream?”

“What?”

“The offices they were in”

“The Backrooms?”

“Yes”

“No it wasn’t a dream”

“Can you explain what it was?”

“It was a sort of… mirror or substrate dimension that reflects the real world, but it does it in a ‘slightly off’ way. Everything in the backrooms is a ‘slightly off’ version of real life”

“I thought it was a dream”

“How did you get that from what you saw onscreen?”

“I just assumed it was a dream”

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Has been noted how ‘liminal spaces’ have evolved aesthetically over time. The sterile and slightly off BACKROOMS (2026) are a very aesthetically zoomer ‘liminal space’. Movie also has lots of VHS camera shots. Use of flickering VHS aesthetics for added spookiness feels zoomer too
If you watch interviews with Kane Parsons he is a very classic stonefaced zoomer who maybe takes himself a little too seriously. Has lots of zoomer fixations like ‘lorebloat’, ‘AI slop’ and ‘emptiness and yearning for authenticity’ etc that ensure the film is authentically zoomer Image
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Jun 7
Nothing Europeans love more than sneering at Americans so if you are an American politician like Vance who wants to critique immigration policy the only way to get them to listen is to trick them by leaning so into your Americanness they find it endearing and let their guard down Image
This works along same principle as ‘Orientalism-maxing’ where if you lean into your (good) eccentricities more people find you more endearing and tolerable. Could call it ‘Occidentalism-maxxing’ in the case of Americans. Vance must dress up as Davy Crochet on visits to Europe
Benjamin Franklin very 130IQ+Anglo-ishly deployed this technique while on diplomatic duties in France. Spent half the time larping as raccoon-pelt wearing frontiersman. The effete French loved it, couldn’t get enough of him. Ben got to shag a lot of women with it too Image
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Jun 7
Sad how much our liminal infinite subspaces beneath reality have declined in recent years - we used to have impossibly-sized libraries or glimpses of the divine. Imagine remaking Dante’s Inferno today except because it’s for zoomers he traverses the backrooms instead of purgatory Image
If you ever try to read The Divine Comedy typically you will to have refer to the index of names at the back of the book because there are lot of obscure early Renaissance Italian figures Dante throws in that you’re not going to know unless you really really like Late Medieval to Renaissance Italian history. Classical figures like Homer, Plato, Brutus etc you will know to be sure but you get to the Italians and it’s Farinata degli Uberti, Cavalcante de’ Cavalcanti, Venedico Caccianemico etc. etc. Who? This is obviously what 20 year old zoomer director of BACKROOMS (2026) Kane Parsons was directly referencing when he said that he was sick and tired of ‘lorebloat’ and ‘having to know all the lore’ before being able to enjoy a piece of media. If there’s one thing zoomers really hate it’s ‘lore’ - hence the decline of our liminal spacesImage
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Jun 7
‘Bodega’ appears to be word used only in New York to describe a type of store that is called everywhere else something like ‘convenience store’. Amazing New York exceptionalism - esp. since it romanticises corner stores that are often surprisingly shabby vs equivalents elsewhere Image
Which ramp is found in which city? Deduce the answers based on each ramp’s respective ‘strange beauty’ and leave them below
Few times I have been in New York and have gone inside a ‘bodega’ always found them a little tatty - which is strange given how wealthy the city is. British ‘bossman’-run ‘paki shop’ equivalents not much better. Personally I am a chain convenience store supremacist. Prefer countries where the ‘mom and pops’ get bought out by big conglomerates. Superior customer experience

SEE: 7/11, Żabka, Circle K, Carrefour ExpressImage
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Jun 5
Pulling silly faces is an incredibly powerful technique in political debates. The sillier the faces you pull the less you have to refute your opponent’s arguments. If you ever have to debate someone just pull silly faces whenever they are speaking and you will win easily Image
If you were in a political debate and your opponent kept making these faces whenever you spoke which face would cause you to ‘crash out’ the most?
Not even a joke. Very OP technique Image
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Jun 5
How much more ‘Brazil’ can Brazil get? Where is the ceiling for ‘Brazilian-ness’? If Brazil continues on its current trajectory we might start reaching levels of ‘Brazilification’ like nobody has ever seen before Image
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