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I didn't know about the old meme, but the image made me immediately think of The Stanley Parable. Not surprising since TSP is probably a descendant of the meme.
But the copy-pasta for the image builds on those influences, not the other way around.
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The original URL of the photo was actually found on Twitter, where it had been posted in 2011. Wayback Machine was used only for the final confirmation. It's curious that this is not mentioned in the article, but I suppose it ruins the narrative. I read about the whole thing last week at 404media, via waxy blog, which is a much more comprehensive article: https://archive.is/sj846
That is actually kinda fascinating given that it's directly in opposition to this blog post. I wonder who's telling the truth?
How did people hunting for the origin of this image discover the random niche website preserved by the Internet Archive that this image happened to come from?
Gotta love the found footage videos' photorealism and camera effects too. One of the reasons why a "retro" motif is commonly seen in these videos is to make it more convincing. What found footage video do you assume to be most convincing? And how do you think photorealistic found footage videos will be made in the future?
I think the retro look will probably stay as I feel it's part of the aesthetic. But maybe in the future we'll have backrooms-style videos of the current times, and then I imagine the retro/vintage aesthetic will go away.
Gotta love the found footage videos' photorealism and camera effects too. One of the reasons why a "retro" motif is commonly seen in these videos is to make it more convincing. What found footage video do you assume to be most convincing? And how do you think photorealistic found footage videos will be made in the future?
Adding those imperfections to the video in post allows your brain to fill in the blanks and make it look more realistic. If it were a 4K video the CGI would be a lot more noticeable. I think the retro look will probably stay as I feel it's part of the aesthetic. But maybe in the future we'll have backrooms-style videos of the current times, and then I imagine the retro/vintage aesthetic will go away.
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Stanley Parable outdates Backrooms by like 8 years. But they’re all basically about liminal spaces.
Most of my dreams take place in similar places. Often though they are falling apart — like leaking ceilings, etc. Always they are labyrinthian, almost always it is night time (although the frequent windowlessness of the places would not make that obvious). They are often populated though — maybe college-age students, sometimes more like a mall. I've always been fascinated by the place of my dreams. I have asked aroun…
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My guess is because the image didn’t exist in other archives and it’s a very obscure site so why would someone have seen that? More probable they stumbled on something random like this in the wild or on Internet Archive?
Why would someone have been looking at an very obscure site on the Internet Archive? Why is that more likely than looking at it on the web?
See you all in the backrooms