I like the infiniteness of the wiki canon but think the priority should be on the liminal feel of it. I like some entities that fit the theme but not a lot of the ridiculous ones
I have a kind my own cannon which combine multiple cannons. The idea is simple, instead of levels the backrooms are actually divide into circles, like dante's inferno. But nobody know where it ends or where it's is the center. And each level would be a ring, which the level 0 in the most inner circle.
Chaos theory everything exists the backrooms is infinite and unstable you can walk forever and not run into a single entity or get unlucky and get all the entities
Wikidot and fandom cannon, liminal archives Also yes. Backrooms with Many maps with their unike characteristics, different Skies or Skyboxes if there are some, or different vibes that those Maps give to you. For example, electrical station Looks like some underground dreamscape underneath the earth called noxtimore or liminal spaces from stranger things. Level 94 looks like Peppa pig's world, yet This Map is horrific version of Peppa pig's planet. I like the traditional ones.
To me the rooms can be different and the occasional monster is fine, but there is no outdoors in the backrooms however there can be rooms that are built to look like an outdoor scene.
I like the wiki canon (or Quantum stable & more kinda, if you prefer)
But I'm also a purist maybe ? I respect everything people have done but just the original level without entities was amazing enough. But we have more at leastÂ
And yeah I like the kane version, it's like a different version of a story we know, he is really talented, but I prefer the original created by and for the internetÂ
My favorite was the period of time when canon 2 was shifting to canon 3 but wasn't quite in its final form.
I liked the general idea of "nothing is quite confirmed, but based on reports from different adventurers this is the general data we could gather, and here is the less occuring data to keep in mind".
Specific entities existed, but they had that urban legend vibe to them. Smilers exist, sure, and they tend to stay in the dark, and they usually don't move when you keep your cool, but then there are few reports of them attacking completely at random, so were these reports fake? Did the person do something wrong by an accident? Or do we simply not understand how they actually work?
I really liked how early fandom wiki (and the one before current fandom) didnt try to be bunch of scientific documents, but rather an improvised database made by random people who are trying to figure out how stuff works here. It is better than nothing, but its also clearly not enough.
Same applies to levels.
I also liked how entities were treated more like weird liminal animals or alien creatures rather than fantasy creatures or some apocalyptic threats.
But out of these, its 2>3>kane>og.
OG isn't bad, its a cool concept, but you cant really do much with it. Also, lack of entities is boring as hell, backrooms themselfes are scary only before you end up in them, you would get bored after few hours of nothing happening if you actually were to noclip here, you need something lurking in the shadows to keep the sense of unease, the whole concept of liminal space revolves around the subconscious thought that "I expect something to be here, but since nothing is here, there has to be something Im missing". That is what *actually* creates the sense of unease.
Kane is too much of an "scientific organisation explores and documents the backrooms" for my liking. The videos themselfes are great, the story is interesting, its just the world building that is not very captivating to me.
3 is better in that aspect because despite the scientific approach to the database, its still made by random people who clearly were not qualified for this job and had to adapt after randomly ending up on the backrooms.
2 is just a fun set of Urban legends, there is nothing wrong with it except for the fact that it feels slightly limited.
My own personal headcanon is that everyones different interpretations are ALL canon, and are just different levels or iterations of levels. I feel like it just adds to the incomprehensible endlessness of the whole place. I love the idea that it cant possily be compiled or understood because there are just an infinite number of iterations to this thing. Its beautiful.
It is because you prefer that each environment is infinite>!(which is perfectly fine, endless exploration is satisfying in a way)!<, or that the original "level" is too crowded with Sub-Layers?
Consider adding Liminal Archives, Backrooms Wikidot, and those chaotic anarchists down at the fandom wikis.. I have a massive distain towards those type of folk
I joined the original Backrooms fandom back in 2019 when it was a little baby... *but I love the expansive lore that the community has given it,* especially in the last year. It reminds me of the SCP fandom and I would not be surprised to find out if there's a huge overlap between fandoms!
I like the Kane Pixel idea because is more serious and professional idea than the idea of the 10000000000000 levels and I see it as a twist on the original idea.
my canon is the quantum stable one , kinda as i also consider canon a big part of the entities and levels , just the good ones like the end or level ! but in my canon there are no big groups like meg , the majority of time you will be alone with the ocasional entity encounter , the chances of finding another human are low , but not zero and if you enter in a group to the backrooms there will be a chance of encountering with them ,a low one and also the food and water will be scarcer . Thats my canon
You can enjoy what you wanna and it's all good!
But I feel kane's Backrooms achieve many things that the SCP format cannot, like having intriguing plot points, somewhat believable science fiction, and a truly fascinating environment only needing one type of Monster to keep you on your toes.
Plus it's also just really cool and well-made in my opinion :D
I donât think itâs a good idea to give Kane complete Autonomy of whatâs canon but if anyone has earned it itâs him. Unless Iâm misunderstanding and itâs just saying the levels arenât linear and have ways through the floor and ceiling which I would believe to be true beyond Kane.
Of course, I was just sharing my thought process of which of these canons to go with. Like I donât want to give this one creator full control of whatâs canon by subscribing only to his head canon. I would be down however with subscribing to the notion the only real information on the backrooms are the totally real found footage videos, all the posts of level descriptions are then of course just people lying on the internet
I like all of them, they all have their unique ideas, but I personally like the âPuristâ one because it is the only one aside from maybe Kane Pixels that sticks to the original theme.
Honestly, The Backrooms Wiki is my favourite, it has so many different items, including Almond Water, Neon Water, Liquid Pain and so much more, and Main Levels tend to have Sub-Levels that come with them too, for example level 0.2, The Remodelled Mess, and there are so many possibilities for Levels to have different items as you continue getting deeper, in conclusion, The Backrooms Wiki has the best Backrooms content.
The Kane Pixels Canon makes the most sense to me. It's just one giant room with different sections generated randomly as you indulge deeper and deeper.
I guess either Traditionalist or the Kane Pixels one.
Purist is great. It's scary for the same reason why having 669 levels and 420 entities with detailed description is not scary. The fear of the unknown. The problem with Purist is that it's just becomes boring after a while obviously.
I like the fact that people tried to expand on the levels and entities and such, but once there's too many of them, and you have very detailed description about them, it just becomes less scary. Also having so many entities takes away the isolation feeling or whatever.
I have the same problem with the game called Escape the Backrooms. It looks good, but it's only scary until you realize that the levels are small af and entities come at you like every 2 mins and you know the counterplay for all of them.
Liminal spaces stop being interesting when some rando ass unscary monster is running at you all the time.
I like the Kane Pixels one cause it gives you almost exacly the feeling I'm looking for. You dont know where you are, you don't know how long you'll be there, you don't know where you should go and you don't know what's around the corner. And the random stuff he put in there that is just off is brilliant. Like the unsettlingly high chairs, a random car, etc. Everything is the same so it's unsettling when you find something that is off.
Yea, Kane's canon gives off the same vibes as the purist canon, but you can expand on it since there are different areas (so there are infinite "levels").
I'm pretty sure he covered the Wikidot (so more levels than 3). He moved on from wikidot due to toxicity or smth i can't remember. The vids are still on his channel just sort by oldest.
you forgot about the wikidot canon
and Liminal Archives... đ
yes that technically counts as another canon but i havenât looked into it do you know any videos about this wiki ?
[This video covers Levels 1-12](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1_aX30BNmU). There's also [Level 13](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWScsl1FTaI) & [Level 14](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxIZRAipl5k).
And the fandom
I like the infiniteness of the wiki canon but think the priority should be on the liminal feel of it. I like some entities that fit the theme but not a lot of the ridiculous ones
Me with my own canon
What is your canon? đ¤
100 or so levels made from the most popular levels across all wikis.
Based
I have a kind my own cannon which combine multiple cannons. The idea is simple, instead of levels the backrooms are actually divide into circles, like dante's inferno. But nobody know where it ends or where it's is the center. And each level would be a ring, which the level 0 in the most inner circle.
Very interesting! Nice parallel between the Backrooms and Hell, since if you think about it, they are similar.
Old wikidot in like 2020-2021
Theory: all versions of the backrooms exist, and you get sent to one at random
http://backrooms-wiki.wikidot.com/middlesorts
Chaos theory everything exists the backrooms is infinite and unstable you can walk forever and not run into a single entity or get unlucky and get all the entities
Kane pixel def handled the idea of backrooms entityâs the best. Made them present but not appearing every 2 seconds
While that is true. This does not respond to the question (it's about *levels*, not entities)
Agreed, I love seeing his idea of the backrooms monster.
Wikidot and fandom cannon, liminal archives Also yes. Backrooms with Many maps with their unike characteristics, different Skies or Skyboxes if there are some, or different vibes that those Maps give to you. For example, electrical station Looks like some underground dreamscape underneath the earth called noxtimore or liminal spaces from stranger things. Level 94 looks like Peppa pig's world, yet This Map is horrific version of Peppa pig's planet. I like the traditional ones.
you forgot wikidot canon which is what im in
My cannon is: ALL LEVELS OF THE BACKROOMS EXIST! ALL OF IT IS CANNON TO THE BACKROOMS!
Cherry pick from purist, traditional, and have kane, depends on the story told within video
To me the rooms can be different and the occasional monster is fine, but there is no outdoors in the backrooms however there can be rooms that are built to look like an outdoor scene.
The classic level 0
I like the wiki canon (or Quantum stable & more kinda, if you prefer) But I'm also a purist maybe ? I respect everything people have done but just the original level without entities was amazing enough. But we have more at leastÂ
And yeah I like the kane version, it's like a different version of a story we know, he is really talented, but I prefer the original created by and for the internetÂ
My favorite was the period of time when canon 2 was shifting to canon 3 but wasn't quite in its final form. I liked the general idea of "nothing is quite confirmed, but based on reports from different adventurers this is the general data we could gather, and here is the less occuring data to keep in mind". Specific entities existed, but they had that urban legend vibe to them. Smilers exist, sure, and they tend to stay in the dark, and they usually don't move when you keep your cool, but then there are few reports of them attacking completely at random, so were these reports fake? Did the person do something wrong by an accident? Or do we simply not understand how they actually work? I really liked how early fandom wiki (and the one before current fandom) didnt try to be bunch of scientific documents, but rather an improvised database made by random people who are trying to figure out how stuff works here. It is better than nothing, but its also clearly not enough. Same applies to levels. I also liked how entities were treated more like weird liminal animals or alien creatures rather than fantasy creatures or some apocalyptic threats. But out of these, its 2>3>kane>og. OG isn't bad, its a cool concept, but you cant really do much with it. Also, lack of entities is boring as hell, backrooms themselfes are scary only before you end up in them, you would get bored after few hours of nothing happening if you actually were to noclip here, you need something lurking in the shadows to keep the sense of unease, the whole concept of liminal space revolves around the subconscious thought that "I expect something to be here, but since nothing is here, there has to be something Im missing". That is what *actually* creates the sense of unease. Kane is too much of an "scientific organisation explores and documents the backrooms" for my liking. The videos themselfes are great, the story is interesting, its just the world building that is not very captivating to me. 3 is better in that aspect because despite the scientific approach to the database, its still made by random people who clearly were not qualified for this job and had to adapt after randomly ending up on the backrooms. 2 is just a fun set of Urban legends, there is nothing wrong with it except for the fact that it feels slightly limited.
Nice pfp, person of culture I see
I would respond with the "huzzah, a man of quality meme." If images were Allowed
kane for sure
I am against canonizing that which is most effective in its appeal if uncategorized and unexplained.
Wikidot
My own personal headcanon is that everyones different interpretations are ALL canon, and are just different levels or iterations of levels. I feel like it just adds to the incomprehensible endlessness of the whole place. I love the idea that it cant possily be compiled or understood because there are just an infinite number of iterations to this thing. Its beautiful.
Wikidot canon
Anything that doesn't involve finding Barney the dinosaur in the backrooms
Kane pixels
It's so good.
I really dislike the Kane pixels canon, I like the wiki dot canon so much more.
It is because you prefer that each environment is infinite>!(which is perfectly fine, endless exploration is satisfying in a way)!<, or that the original "level" is too crowded with Sub-Layers?
The one with the most shit
Kane Pixels up till Pitfalls. Just endless yellow halls.
I think the cannon with 0 1 and 2, and also the main 9 But the wikidot cannon has some good quality early in it, also your forgot the Liminal Archives
Fandom
I see the Wiki as the cannon
which one?
Wikidot cannon in the times when wretches were still called insanities.
Insanities my beloved (or around the inception of the Quantum Stable canon)
Consider adding Liminal Archives, Backrooms Wikidot, and those chaotic anarchists down at the fandom wikis.. I have a massive distain towards those type of folk
kane
Yes
I joined the original Backrooms fandom back in 2019 when it was a little baby... *but I love the expansive lore that the community has given it,* especially in the last year. It reminds me of the SCP fandom and I would not be surprised to find out if there's a huge overlap between fandoms!
Poolrooms Canon. No entities (except for maybe a microorganism in the water), true liminality, and a neat aesthetic.
Sublimity my beloved
My one.
I like the Kane Pixel idea because is more serious and professional idea than the idea of the 10000000000000 levels and I see it as a twist on the original idea.
Agreed
all of them
Wikidot
I'm a man of infinite levels.
every single thing is real canon
The Thing on Level 7.
A mix of Wikidot and Fandom without the ridiculous entities and useless levels.
my canon is the quantum stable one , kinda as i also consider canon a big part of the entities and levels , just the good ones like the end or level ! but in my canon there are no big groups like meg , the majority of time you will be alone with the ocasional entity encounter , the chances of finding another human are low , but not zero and if you enter in a group to the backrooms there will be a chance of encountering with them ,a low one and also the food and water will be scarcer . Thats my canon
Anything but Kane pixels canon. I would say the Wikidot one for sure.
You can enjoy what you wanna and it's all good! But I feel kane's Backrooms achieve many things that the SCP format cannot, like having intriguing plot points, somewhat believable science fiction, and a truly fascinating environment only needing one type of Monster to keep you on your toes. Plus it's also just really cool and well-made in my opinion :D
Yes, I get this point. Personnally, I feel like the narrative point makes it less believable, it's presented as fictionnal.
Tbh the Kane's cannon is better for me because I have higher chances of survival in his backroom than the original one (I'd go crazy)
It's hard to find people with that opinion on this sub lol Also hi fellow Kane enjoyer đ
I donât think itâs a good idea to give Kane complete Autonomy of whatâs canon but if anyone has earned it itâs him. Unless Iâm misunderstanding and itâs just saying the levels arenât linear and have ways through the floor and ceiling which I would believe to be true beyond Kane.
Kane only controls what's canon ***in his universe***. People can still follow other canons or modify existing ones.
Of course, I was just sharing my thought process of which of these canons to go with. Like I donât want to give this one creator full control of whatâs canon by subscribing only to his head canon. I would be down however with subscribing to the notion the only real information on the backrooms are the totally real found footage videos, all the posts of level descriptions are then of course just people lying on the internet
None of these.
Then what is your prefered/own canon?
You may have forgotten to include the Maximum Freestyle Canon. In that canon, you are already in the backrooms.
Can't whait for Pataphysics in the backrooms
Purist
what about game toons backrooms cannon (if there is Enny)
We pretend that doesn't exist
i think that what runed the backrooms
Might be a hot take but I enjoy the Liminal Archives canon
Personally for me, Traditionalist Canon. The OG Purest is good too.
Reading the stuff on the traditional canon slide is bone chilling.
Lost In The Hyperverse canon
purist
Team Kane Pixels cannon
The purist canon.
I like all of them, they all have their unique ideas, but I personally like the âPuristâ one because it is the only one aside from maybe Kane Pixels that sticks to the original theme.
Honestly, The Backrooms Wiki is my favourite, it has so many different items, including Almond Water, Neon Water, Liquid Pain and so much more, and Main Levels tend to have Sub-Levels that come with them too, for example level 0.2, The Remodelled Mess, and there are so many possibilities for Levels to have different items as you continue getting deeper, in conclusion, The Backrooms Wiki has the best Backrooms content.
The poolrooms are also cool. The YouTube videos are surreal and relaxing to watch
The Kane Pixels Canon makes the most sense to me. It's just one giant room with different sections generated randomly as you indulge deeper and deeper.
You forgot about the Fandom Wiki canon, which is my favorite at the moment. I like the first 12 levels best, but there's some gems on the Fandom Wiki.
The fandom wiki is just âthe brainrot canonâ
I guess either Traditionalist or the Kane Pixels one. Purist is great. It's scary for the same reason why having 669 levels and 420 entities with detailed description is not scary. The fear of the unknown. The problem with Purist is that it's just becomes boring after a while obviously. I like the fact that people tried to expand on the levels and entities and such, but once there's too many of them, and you have very detailed description about them, it just becomes less scary. Also having so many entities takes away the isolation feeling or whatever. I have the same problem with the game called Escape the Backrooms. It looks good, but it's only scary until you realize that the levels are small af and entities come at you like every 2 mins and you know the counterplay for all of them. Liminal spaces stop being interesting when some rando ass unscary monster is running at you all the time. I like the Kane Pixels one cause it gives you almost exacly the feeling I'm looking for. You dont know where you are, you don't know how long you'll be there, you don't know where you should go and you don't know what's around the corner. And the random stuff he put in there that is just off is brilliant. Like the unsettlingly high chairs, a random car, etc. Everything is the same so it's unsettling when you find something that is off.
Yea, Kane's canon gives off the same vibes as the purist canon, but you can expand on it since there are different areas (so there are infinite "levels").
3 but with poolrooms and exit
The traditional cannon. It's where I first got interested - partially due to O'Lord Ferrante and his first little series. I miss it.
I'm pretty sure he covered the Wikidot (so more levels than 3). He moved on from wikidot due to toxicity or smth i can't remember. The vids are still on his channel just sort by oldest.
Quantum
Cuz I love lights out
fr
purist; backrooms is way scarier
purist canon + wikidot
I'm a purist cannon enjoyer with a little bit of poolrooms sprinkled here and there
Personally, my favorite is the main 9 with a few various other levels and sublevels from different wikis
I like the councept of backrooms from 2022
I 'm a fandom canon
I like the wikidot