The Backrooms as Permissive IP | Weeknotes #442

Piss-yellow noon.Carpet damp with old breath.A hallway repeats itself.The exit forgets you. The Backrooms as Permissive IP Experience.Computer – Van Neistat On The Blog Start Select Reset 📑 Photo 365 The Ministry Of My Own Labour Terminal Access Dipping the Stacks Reading Music Remember Kids:The Backrooms as Permissive IPA lot has been written about the commercial success of Backrooms in the last week: a movie by a 20-year-old director, shot when he was 19, which has become A24’s highest-grossing opening film. I criticise the cultural platform logic of equating financial success with artistic merit in Slop Machines (It’s nearly finished I promise), but it’s obvious why Backrooms success has become a mirror to Disney’s latest attempt to frack the last of the nostalgium out of the Star Wars franchise.I think what’s more interesting is Backrooms as a cultural and media phenomenon. Over the last few years, my work on worlds, world-building, and online culture means I have opinions from…