thinking about how the backrooms went from a post on 4chan, a site pretty much dedicated to misogynist radicalization, to a big screen story about male loneliness.
Clark started as a regular guy, but he literally turned into a monster by the end. the same type of cycles we see in the alt right pipeline map onto the cycles of hurt and hurting that Clark experiences in his decline. he falls deeper and deeper into a fascinating maze as it slowly morphs into something that only twistedly resembles the original. he's following the American dream. It's a false promise that slowly corrupts him and turns him into an agent of his own destruction. He is already a ways into his decline by the start of the movie.















