Unseen Horror: A Minecraft Map Based on a Viral Internet Phenomenon
The Backrooms is a terrible internet meme describing an infinite eldritch locale, and a player in Minecraft has recreated it in the survival sandbox.
Minecraft Steve in The Backrooms' yellow corridors backrooms game
An eerily evocative Minecraft creation, "The Backrooms," is based on the famed horror story that describes a horrifying succession of infinite empty rooms. The armory of block-based materials in Mojang's survival sandbox game have been exploited to replicate various actual and imaginary settings. A user may have just created Sofi Stadium for Super Bowl LVI in Minecraft, but the game can also be used to create far more frightening situations.
The Backrooms is a fictional story that originated on 4chan and has a large maze of rooms with no clear exits. The original source of the creepypasta was a single photograph of the eponymous chamber, which in turn sparked several pieces of terrifying fiction based on the premise of unwittingly entering a supernatural zone. The Backrooms has inspired a lot of found-footage horror movies that have made their way to YouTube, where strange and often terrible events occur. The Backrooms seem to have entered the increasing canon of horrific concepts popularized by the internet, among the likes of the timeless Minecraft-inspired creepypasta Herobrine and the ubiquitous Slenderman.
Reddit user Novel-Ad9052 created The Backrooms in Minecraft as a tribute to the viral internet joke. The amazing structure is according to the standard description of the horrifying site, with carpeted floors and yellow walls extending through an infinite sequence of linked chambers. Novel-Ad9052 recreated the look of The Backrooms with the help of a custom texture pack, and the developer plans to update the structure in the future. Once Novel-Ad9052 has finished the build, it will be made accessible for download. Those who want to investigate this creepypasta are sure to find some horrifying surprises.
Minecraft is a great method to bring terrifying online memes to life because to its vast array of tools and materials. However, as proved by one player's reproduction of the Disaster Girl meme in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, the concept may work in other games as well. In the famous photo, a little girl is seen grinning knowingly into the camera as a home flames wildly in the backdrop. The Animal Crossing take on Disaster Girl captures the humor and unease of the original picture well.
In recent years, The Backrooms has joined the ranks of other chilling internet legends like Slenderman and Candle Cove. Novel-Ad9052 is working on bringing the terrifying atmosphere of "The Backrooms" to Minecraft by creating the setting's endless halls and corridors. Some malevolent occupants may also make their way into the block-based Backrooms as the project develops further.
