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>2002: guy photographs room during renovations at Wisconsin furniture store

>2019: anon on 4chan’s /x/ (Paranormal) board asks for cursed images that feel “off”

>anon digs up 17-year-old photo of the yellow room and posts it

>another anon writes the original noclip copypasta

>internet goes insane

>Backrooms wiki, levels, entities, endless lore

>2022: 16yo Kane Pixels makes a Backrooms short in Blender

>it goes viral

>starts making more found-footage shorts

>millions of views

>A24 gives him $10M to make feature film

>2026: movie makes $390M worldwide

all from one eerie photo of a yellow room