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2 things I find interesting about this upon first skim: 1. The assumption that liminal spaces like the Backrooms are corporate, or even specifically office spaces. 2. That the emergence of this anonymised and crowdsourced genre is fuelled specifically by an American corporate anxiety.

Emily C. Hughes@emilyhughes.bsky.social

also a shoutout to @shirachess.bsky.social's excellent essay about Backrooms and the Institutional Gothic, which you should read!! thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/backrooms-an...

thereader.mitpress.mit.edu‘Backrooms’ and the Rise of the Institutional GothicA new spin on an old genre replaces flesh-and-blood monsters with the mundanity of modern bureaucracy.

basbleu(té)

@basbleu.bsky.social

Somewhat difficult to not think of this. "Knowledge of the city faded until 1963, when it was rediscovered after a resident of the area, while renovating his home, knocked through a basement wall and found a mysterious room behind it.", en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derinku...