The Truth About THE BACKROOMS ft. @kanepixels

Getting to know the mind that created the creepiest thing the internet has seen in a moment...

🎙THE PODCAST

🧨HUGE thank you to KANE

🧨HUGE thank you to SHAYNE

🗯MORE EPISODES…

🎥Crew
▸ Executive Producer - Anthony Padilla
▸ Executive Producer - Alessandra Catanese
▸ Director of Production - Amanda Barnes
▸ Channel Director/Creative Director - Mike Criscimagna
▸ Producer/Director - Nicole Nourmal
▸ Associate Producer - Joshua Dozier
▸ Director of Photography - Matthew Faulkner
▸ Camera Operator - Macy Armstrong
▸ Social Media - Kim Wilborn
▸ Social Media Intern - Mailyn Stiffler
▸ Post Manager - Luke Baker
▸ Editor - Patrick Horba
▸ Sound Mixing - Lila Rowel
▸ Sound Editor - Gareth Hird
▸ DIT - Beni Kimuene
▸ Ops Production Coordinator - Oliver Wehlander
▸ Production Intern - Jianna Venturina
▸ Senior Manager, Channel & Strategy - Lizzy Jones
▸ Channel Operations Coordinator - Audrey Carganilla

🎵Theme Music Composer - Matt Good AKA The King of Emo

📢BE ON THE SHOW

0:00 INTRO
1:07 WHAT IS THE BACKROOMS?
3:20 KANE PIXELS IS SICK OF BEING KNOWN ONLY AS THE 'BACKROOMS GUY'
3:48 THE BACKROOMS IS FOR KIDS AND IS JUST A TREND
6:42 HE FEELS PRESSURED TO KEEP MAKING BACKROOMS CONTENT
8:50 THEORY CRAFTING BY FANS KEEPS THE BACKROOMS POPULAR
9:34 HE'S ANNOYED BY ALL THE BACKROOMS MEMES
10:11 THE REAL HORROR OF THE BACKROOMS IS THE UNKNOWN
11:42 MATPAT HAS FIGURED OUT THE LORE OF THE BACKROOMS
13:51 THE BACKROOMS REFLECTS HIS STRUGGLE WITH MENTAL HEALTH
15:36 HE COULD UPLOAD MORE/TAKE A BREAK BUT REFUSES TO WORK WITH A TEAM
16:47 HIS YOUTUBE UPLOADS ARE LIMITED DUE TO STUDIO CONTRACTS
17:43 KANE PIXELS IS SICK OF PEOPLE FOCUSING ON HIS AGE
18:40 THE ASYNC IS BASED ON REAL GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS
19:52 THE BACKROOMS IS INFLUENCED BY FOUND FOOTAGE HORROR FILMS
23:29 ONCE THE FILM RELEASES, FAN PROJECTS WILL BE TAKEN DOWN
24:26 IT'S HARD TO EXPLAIN THE FULL BACKROOMS UNIVERSE TO THE STUDIOS
25:40 KANE WILL COMPOSE MUSIC FOR THE FILM
26:23 THERE ARE NO TOILETS IN THE BACKROOMS
28:19 ALL THE TOILET PAPER IN THE BACKROOMS IS 1 PLY
30:57 BLOOPERS

Music Used:
ES_Center of Attention - Autohacker
ES_Quadrants - Ookean
ES_No Gravity No Certainty - Experia
ES_Infinite Cylinder - Prozody

[miragedown]

Anthony you look a little different. Can't quite put my finger on it.

[SailHatinSoap]

0:29 "From soup to table" is a terrifying scale of measurement

[washingmachine]

"all the toilet paper in the backrooms is 1 ply" Truly the most important topics to discuss, thank you blonde anthony

[sidp]

It is pretty awesome that the Smosh gang has taken over this channel. I love it.

[NormalMap]

the backrooms' terror goes two ways. the fear of the alone, and the fear that you're not alone. I feel the latter is more scary.

[SnackityWackity]

Loving this Anita Topp interviewer. Please bring them back

[etienneporras]

17:36 It would be incredibly stupid of A24 to purposefully limit your Backrooms YouTube series as it is the very thing maintaining audience interest. It takes time to make a full feature and if that meant 3 whole years of ZERO new content, the interest would dry up long before it ever would hit theatres. Good on A24 for realizing that.

[kiwi]

it’s makes me so relieved to know that he has everything planned out. makes the mystery so much more rewarding to unpack in the future. (LOOKING AT YOU FNAF)

[stracciatella]

I love two things about this video:
- Shayne adding another signature item to his wardrobe, and
- the mental image I made of Kane at 10-11 years old, holding a round table type of debate with his classmates about something like Pokemon but SUPER SERIOUS

[TheTHEPARTYROCKER]

Love how well spoken he is! I will absolutely be supporting everything he creates. He has such passion and skill and an eye for film. Much respect.
The Oldest View series is one of my favourite things on the internet. This man deserves the praise and I’m so glad YouTube can give people like him a platform for his art.

[vishalvenkat]

Kane is literally if The Chosen moved out of his mom's house and got a job.

[cyanscholar]

I'm not familiar with the series or the theories around it, so I might be miles off on this theory, but the way that the creator talks about the nature of The Backrooms makes me think that its space is a lot like the Newtonian theory of an apple in a box for infinity. The theory goes, if you put an apple in an unbreakable box for all of infinity, it will eventually take every possible form including the original apple. I think that the backrooms could serve as a spatially infinite alternative to that concept. If you travel far enough, instead of waiting long enough, you could find anything. Including a mall, a dog on a table, food, water, 1 ply toilet paper, 1, 000 ply toilet paper, a cutout of a caveman, etcetera.

[cryptidan]

i love that kane makes you answer your own questions with additional lines of questioning lmao. such an uneasy interaction. great video!

[mozzieBT]

kanes explanation of like his fear of death because of the thought of not existing is so real

[flaeime]

26:44 him saying that the food in the backrooms is rotted could imply that there was a time when they werent rotten

[etienneporras]

31:49 No, I am CONVINCED he said "When *did* they die? What Year?" He's assuming they've been dead and the media we're seeing is their digital footprint left behind.

[funparkinc]

Quintessential jaded Gen-X'er here who has been a horror fan since I was five year-old, into "liminal spaces" before I knew it was even a thing, before 4chan and Youtube even existed. Not unlike the character who noclips into the Backrooms in "Backrooms Found Footage" I happened upon that video and the rest of Kane's online content just this past week, and found it to be the most interesting, refreshing, engaging, and exciting new work in a long, long time. "The Oldest View" is brilliant on many layers, I loved "The Backrooms", am psyched for the feature, and look forward to checking out anything else Kane creates in the future. I'm a fan!

[V.i.c.o.d.y.n]

"How close to soup is a table?" I don't know Kane, why is a raven like a writing desk?

[Altmetalpunk]

I love that just by how he talks you can tell how thoughtful he is and it shows in his work.

[RedactedN]

11:59 I'm in the theorist community for Kanes Backrooms series and we all collectively die inside when we see Film Theory's Backrooms videos lol.