MiiaBestLamia said in forum #444873:
Hello.
Per title - should backrooms_(2026_film) imply backrooms_(creepypasta)? I feel like the creepypasta is the "base" universe, which the movie is inspired by.
Maybe there should be a generic backrooms copyright, which one can use to search all backrooms related media - games, movies, just general fanart. Currently there's 3 tags - the movie, the creepypasta, and a third, sparsely populated backrooms_escape.
There's also poolrooms, which, in my opinion, could go under the general backrooms tag, or just get mentioned in its wiki.
As the "base" universe of the creepypasta are we considering the creepypasta as just the original 4chan post or the expanded lore from the wikidot and fandom wikis. Because it's such a divisive topic with different fanbases for the various interpretations. As far as I know the splits would be like this:
- Backrooms (Creepypasta) - the main tag and general depiction of the backrooms, based on the original 4chan post. This would probably also encompass one-off adaptations or parodies of the concept, like the American Horror Story episode based on the Backrooms.
- a potential Backrooms (wikis) tag for lore, levels, and entities from the wikis (like Smilers and Partygoers). I don't know much about these 2 version of backrooms, just that a lot of people tend to conflate the wikidot and fandom as one thing so idk how much is different between the two or if they should each have their own tag. This is where things get tricky since they're community writing projects like SCP Foundation.
- things get even trickier when you try to apply games since many of them vaguely follow the wiki lore in the same way there are many SCP games.
- a parent tag for Kane Pixels' Backrooms - provided we get more art of elements from Kane's series that aren't in or exclusive to the movie (characters like Marvin Leigh and Ivan Beck, general ASYNC art, the Bacteria monster and FF3's version of the Still Life.) Kane's lore is explicitly separate from the wikis and doesn't feature any of the wiki entities or the level system.
- separate tags for other unique adaptations such as The Mirage Project
Backrooms Escape is iffy - this seems to be some cheap mobile game or maybe a Roblox game but I can't find anything on a game with this specific title. It's not the popular Escape The Backrooms game, which is based on the wiki levels. The only posts under this tag are a couple of deleted off-topic screenshots.
As for Poolrooms, it is already mentioned in the wiki but I don't know if it should be implicated. It was a completely separate art project called Dream Pool, started by Jared Pike in 2020 and unrelated to the backrooms. Pieces from the project went viral as liminal spaces and were co-opted by the wiki communities to serve as the environments for pool themed levels.
