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Limits - as ordinary empty rooms have become a mass phobia and a whole culture on the Internet
Empty corridors are not a reason for fear, right? Thousands of users who come up with terrible plots and cripipasts about deserted spaces will argue with you.
Imagine: you suddenly find yourself in a large empty window with an old carpet with a musty smell, faded with dirty yellow walls and a bright cold light from the rows of fluorescent lamps. It seems that there used to be an office, but now there is no one, and of the sounds there is only an annoying rumble of lamps.
But this is not a problem, because you can get out of the room, right? You go out and get into the same room, and from it to another. You are not nervous yet, but calmly looking for a way out - in the next room, and one more. A slight excitement appears - after all, it cannot be so that there is no way out of the building?
Continue to walk around the rooms, the tension is growing, the same rooms will disorient, the walls are crushed, silence too-and now it seems that you hear something other than silence. You turn around - is there anyone behind? How much time has passed? Is there a way out here? Now you probably panic, not understanding where you are and how to get out.
It seems to be a weak plot for the horror: empty rooms, carpet and yellow walls - what is terrible here? But the Internet made this an object of mass phobia. Around the idea of line spaces or Babrums (from English BackRoom - utility room) a subculture has been built with its communities, cripipastes and games.
What is Babrums or line spaces
Babrums are not only yellow rooms, but generally any deserted and confusing gloomy spaces. Someone can scare the long dark corridors of hotels with many turns, others are a huge empty underground parking, a warehouse or a closed shopping center.
The main condition: the person who finds himself there becomes uneasy, and he wants to find a way out as soon as possible and escape-because of the fear of the unknown. “Lical spaces are the places in which there should be people, and they are not there. Have you ever been to school after lessons? Or lingered at the institute? When you left the office, and everywhere there is silence, muffled light and such an incomprehensible sense of fear, they say, and where is it all? ”, Explained TJ, the Rain -Minor's administrator“ look more often ”about Baucums John Kashchenko.
The noticed photo and mystical cryptipasta - where the fear of limit spaces began
The history of mass phobia of empty spaces began in 2018. In the dump “damned photos” on 4Chan an anonymous user published a picture of the premises, presumably the 1980 hotel, with yellow walls, beige carpet and office lamps.
Then the photograph did not attract special attention, but a year later, a branch of paranormal phenomena was created on the forum, inviting users to share anxiety images. There, a photo with a yellow room again appeared along with a mystical short cryptip.
If you are careless and fall out of reality, you will find yourself in a trap of utility rooms, where there is nothing but the smell of old raw carpet, the madness of yellow wallpaper, endless background noise of fluorescent lamps and 600 million square miles randomly combined empty rooms. God forbid you to hear something wandering around, because this is “something” already certainly knows about you.
Cryptipaste user 4Chan
Later, cripipasta with a photograph reappeared on 4chan, and then on Reddte on Twitter. After the publications on 4Chan in May 2019, the BEKRUMS request in Google became sharply popular. Around the cripipasts there were many speculations. Maybe millions of people who are missing every year find themselves in Bescrams and cannot get out of a huge closed space? Perhaps they cannot be saved because of the terrible mysterious essence of the author mentions?
People’s interest in all mystical and inexplicable led to the appearance of a whole community with thematic sites, public and suction on forums with their mythology.
Bekrums grew up in a whole universe with his own rules, logic and mythology - and with terrible entities
There is no danger in real limits, but the anxious feeling that occurs in them is poured into bright gloomy fantasies. Pustious rooms and corridors are filled with a product of the most terrible dreams - ghostly black creatures, evil children without faces or running "multi -doors" and zombies.
The Beskrams universe has its own logic and rules that build games and cripipastes of Russian and foreign users. There are several theories of how the mythical world has originated. The theory of clashes says that the “backstage” appeared at the junction of the real universe with parallel, and Bekrums is a kind of neutral space between them. Others suggest that the premises created governments to test quantum tunneling or teleportation.
According to Kauer's theory, the illusory Babrums accidentally created those who believe in the other world, roughly speaking, the power of thought. “Blurry” can be a dream, a purge for dead or virtual simulation, according to Babrums forum. In the basics of "Burders" they write that getting into the world by chance, but inside it you can move around the levels, knowing where the inputs and exits are located.
“Blurry” consists of many levels of complexity: the first nine - canonical and do not change. Another 200 levels have already been completely formulated, and another 700 have not yet been described. All of them are based on different human phobias, so, reading cripipasts and representing what is happening, it can become uneasy. For almost every level, the participants came up with “entities”, inhabiting premises - from harmless and useful to frightening and deadly.
On thematic sites, those who want to get into the game in the "backstage" are advised to get used to it that they will have to stay in the "parallel world" forever. They offer to take a first -aid kit, watches with them (although the time there flows according to its own rules), snacks, warm clothes and sleeping bags, a lamp, so -bunkers and knee pads, and night vision glasses. Although this does not guarantee that the participant will survive.
With a zero “educational” level, participants begin their way in Babrums - these are the same labyrinths from yellow rooms with a crushing hum of flashing lamps. It is stable and safe, but there is no “entities” in it, it is said to the fan site. It is impossible to navigate at the level - going straight, you can be at the starting point, and returning back, get into completely different rooms. Having often see hallucinations that have come to the zero level, go crazy and die of dehydration and hunger, the authors write.
The next level looks like an empty warehouse or parking with corridors, elevators and stairs. The premises are shrouded in thick fog of unknown origin, forming puddles from condensate on a concrete floor.
Sometimes at this level boxes with food, medicines and clothes appear, and on the walls - disappearing drawings. The description says that at the first level, travelers may encounter three “entities”: “ faceless ”, “ hounds ” and “ leatherly ”. The first are harmless adults and dangerous children “without faces” who want to either simply scare, or torture or kill participants with sharp objects. “Hounds” are hostile aggressive creatures similar to people, but moving on four limbs. They may attack, but are afraid of direct visual contact. In the world of "backstage" "leatherette" eat people, and then remove the skin from them and wear for disguise - but only if hungry.
At the first and some other levels, “avantosts” are located with research groups ( B.I.G. ), and even small settlements survivors with infrastructure and storage of food. Members of the group in the universe help beginners who have fallen in the "backstage".
At the second level, the conditions are more complicated in multi -kilometer office corridors: often unbearably hot rooms, heavy noise and many dangerous entities. “ Stolen ” - aggressive organisms, affected by a white fungus, and striving to convey it further. It is very dangerous called “ smiling ” - entities without a body, but with a luminous face. They react to loud sounds and sudden movements, so that you need to retreat from them slowly and quietly. “ Multicurines ” are in wait for wanderers in narrow tunnels - they move quickly, catch victims with the longest limbs and eat them. And “ miserable ”, like zombies, are looking for food and bite wanderers, turning them into similar to themselves.
At the third level of “Burders” there are many different supplies, for example, “ almond water ”, capable of healing wounds, or crystals of exploding “ Ognesoli ”, which is repulsed to entities. But travelers are also in wait for many dangers, including explosions of operating manufacturing machines.
The fourth is one of the relatively safe levels. The next level at which the wanderers plunge is a “ terrifying hotel ”. At first glance, it is not dangerous: pure beautiful rooms, forced by furniture of the early 20th century, and jazz plays quietly from the vinyl player in the rooms. But travelers often hear strange noises, sometimes meet entities and feel touch, being in the rooms alone.
One of the most rare levels of danger in the "backstage" is the fifth. Everything that posed a threat at all past stages is united in this level - the number, bloodthirstiness and the danger of entities. People rarely go to similar levels, since according to existing articles, we will compare the campaign on them with the signing of the death sentence.
Alexander Vetkin
One of the most dangerous levels, travelers call the sixth - in its corridors complete darkness, and not a single lantern can illuminate it. There are no entities in it, but because of the darkness and infinity of corridors, people develop paranoia, depersonalization and hallucinations.
The seventh level is divided into two halls: one room caught in furniture and ice water on the floor, the other is an open space with the ocean. A large essence dwells in the waters that eat wanderers. You can meet the “Avvanpost”, built on the water, with 4-9 inhabitants-they pray on the monster. They say that they are all dangerous and have mental abnormalities.
A lot of dangers and entities are in wait for travelers at the eighth level - in dark caves. Those who have fallen into the pool with a black substance to the bottom are drawn by many hands. In addition to those entities that live at previous levels, there are many others. The black silhouettes of “ transporters ” soaring above the ground quickly fly up to people and grab onto the shoulders - after that the wanderers either die or throw them into the void, where they disappear. Big entities are “ disputes ” hypnotize victims and lure to themselves.
All these scenarios were invented by users, so nothing prevents them from entering their scenario - this is done by the creators of cripipast . Some create whole “reports” about staying in the “backstage” consisting of a series of cripipast.
It was about 12:15 when I entered the clinic of Johnson County. [...] When I entered, I was seized with an irresistible feeling of deja vu. The hum of flickering fluorescent lamps, white tile floor, a bladed beige paint on the walls. I sat down to fill out the forms before receiving. Leaning back, I noticed something strange-my head did not hit the wall, it seemed that she was plunging into her. I looked at the wall - my head did not make a single hole or dent.
I touched the wall and my fingers passed through it. I staggered back in shock: "What was it?" Suddenly I lost my balance, stumbled and fell right through the wall face down on a dirty carpet. Having risen, I realized that I was in a completely different room, or rather, in a room of several rooms connected by passes. The walls are covered with wallpaper with rough brown pattern. It smelled unbearably raw carpet.
I turned and tried again to put my hand through the wall, but nothing came of it. “Okay, what the hell?” I muttered. There were no windows or doors, nothing on the walls - except for disgusting wallpaper, of course - everything was completely empty. At this moment, the only thing that occurred to me was fear and the repeating thought "I need to leave." I ran around the rooms, desperately trying to find a way out, but to no avail. There was no way out.
In the distance I heard steps, but not a person - at least a normal person. A growl was heard, like an angry animal. I ran as fast as I could, from what the hell was approaching me. I did not want to have anything in common with this.
I fled, it seemed forever, but all the time I returned to the same room in which I started. At least she looked like the same room - not that I could distinguish them.
I sat down, defeated. A sense of fear filled my body, I began to cry. I was going to die here. I'm still here. I didn't leave. I accepted my fate.
I spend the last one and a half hours, running away from some god of a forgotten monster. He was bright yellow and held a balloon. He had this damn smile, as if she was cut out on his flesh. I saw this damned thing grabbed my partner and disappeared into the wall with him. My partner was someone from B.I.G. They had a job to update their database and save newcomers in the "backstage". I tried to follow this and ended up in the entertainment room. I did not have the courage to watch how they changed him - he slowly became higher and yellowed in front of his eyes. Transforming, he began to laugh, like a fucking maniac. He printed something on some tablet, until his fingers fell off and turned into lumps.
One cripipasta has become the basis for videos with millions of views and game plots
They publish cripipasts mainly on sites , Reddite in VKontakte. In the suck on Bauchams in Reddite there are 118 thousand people, 318 thousand oflimitsal spaces , and in VKontakte - more than two thousand. Users send photos of frightening places in which they ended up - and ask to help get out. Often such posts are accompanied by the question "What level is it?"
Many authors of mystical YouTube channels spoke about the line spaces. Some represent Babrums as existing parallel universes, others explain why such horror scenarios in games are so frightening, or show Russian backses.
In Tiktok, they also drew attention to the popular horror scenarium-Babrums scored about 200 million views. Users publish animated terrible entities running around the limits of limits, and the found rooms similar to Babrums. Often, the videos are accompanied by slowly, eerie music, causing a sense of anxiety.
Video @Lights.are.Off
Video @all.hail.lord.inosuke
Video @desireegollihugh
Video @feverdream09
Video @xplorewithsonny
Having studied the levels, groups and entities, one can also create your own “backstage”. The administrators “inspect more often” took this - they organized a role -playing game like a desktop Dungeons & Dragons . To participate, users need to create their own profiles by prescribing the characteristics of the characters, their inventory, background and how they got into the "backstage". The game will be held in a chat in VKontakte, when all players will create their “worlds”.
The failure from reality in memory remained blurry and did not even seem real. Waking up at the zero level, the girl fell into a stupor. The head did not think, because of which it was difficult to perceive what was happening. The pain in the temples provoked a prolonged buzz of lamps. After a couple of hours, everything began to return to normal, the first adequate thoughts began to flicker in my head. A flurry of questions fell in a quiet whisper: “Where am I? Who am I? I was kidnapped? ” Finally gathering her thoughts, the girl moved forward along the corridors in search of a way out of this place.
questionnaire in the role -playing game "Inspect Often" user Polina
Previously, one of the administrators “inspect more often” was the “builder” on the server about Bekrums in Minecraft. Now the server is closed due to the employment of the admin.
To transfer the plot of “Blocked” to the virtual universe is allowed by fashion in games with the open world - those in which you can go beyond the cards and build your own, ignore game tasks and have complete freedom of action. In addition to Minecraft, you can build your world of "backstage" in Garry's Mod, there are also mods for Counter Strike.
Subtracts in Bescrams are allowed by several Indie Horriers about the universe-“ Enter the Backrooms ”, “ The BackRooms Game Free Edition ”, “ The BackRooms Simulator ”, “ Lost in the BackRooms ”. Basically, these are simulators of the first levels of “backstage”, in which you can wander through the endless yellow rooms and dark corridors.
The phenomenon of the popularity of Beskrams, as in the case of the rest of the horror surgery-in the operation of people's fears. The fear of close closed spaces without windows or vice versa - huge open areas and empty factory premises with giant supports, are familiar to many people. The deserted buildings that we are used to seeing filled with fussing people are also scared. Тишина и неизвестность добавляют страха — и вот нам уже будто слышатся странные звуки и кажется, будто из-за угла что-то выбежит.
Придумывание же сюжетов для «закулисья» для многих — обычное развлечение, а для других — способ практиковаться в писательстве, рассказали администраторы «Осматривайся почаще»: «Для нас важна возможность потренироваться в написании, например, книг. Администратор Александр — начинающий писатель и видит этот мир как пространство для развития своих навыков».
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