News Summary

• Kane Parsons' "Backrooms" is poised to be the biggest box office surprise of the summer.
• But where did this movie originate?
• What is it based on?
• The history of this internet sensation is bizarre, but it's also part of a larger trend.
• What became known as "The Backrooms" traces its roots to a thread on 4chan in 2019.
• The devotion to building out the lore of and obsessing over the collective, non-linear tale was so feverish that people spent years trying to find the actual, original image that started it all.