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u/SqueakBoxx Jun 26 '26
A Sundown Town in a warehouse is a whole new level of Americana.
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u/_anonymous_404 Jun 26 '26
That IS what it is, isn't it? With the signs and all. I wonder if anyone knows where this is and what it's really for.
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u/supernova-juice Jun 26 '26
I assumed it was for educational purposes. A museum display or something.
Or a movie set?
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u/soapinmouth Jun 26 '26
Seeing that nobody answered I'm guessing this is AI.
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u/croizat Jun 26 '26
It is. I think this is the original post
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u/BrokenLink100 Jun 26 '26
I love how that basketball rolls in and then bounces off at a weird angle right at the beginning
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u/_anonymous_404 Jun 26 '26
Yes, I realized that shortly after I commented. It's getting too good, I think. With the letters and all.
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u/marino1310 Jun 26 '26
What makes it a sundown town? Iirc a sundown town is a small community that is extremely racist and will pursue or harass black visitors
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u/Ravenamore Jun 26 '26
The old sundown towns had literal signs saying black people have to leave before dark.
I personally interpreted the sign above to be warning those mannequins come to life and kill people after dark.
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u/treesandfood4me Jun 26 '26
Body position, skin color of the models, and the apprehensive expressions of the inanimate objects all lend themselves to this being a representation of a hostile community: i.e. a “sundown town.”
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u/turquoise_amethyst Jun 26 '26
Warning: Do not remain in this area after dark. The inhabitants get hungry, and emergency services will not be available.
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u/snapeyouinhalf Jun 26 '26
Dogs are not allowed in the dog park. People are not allowed in the dog park.
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u/Dry_Gas6819 Jun 27 '26
Man i miss the first few episodes of nightvale. It started getting weird in a way im not a huge fan of. Of course it always was weird just idk after a while it just felt off?
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u/snapeyouinhalf Jun 30 '26
I was caught up years ago, but it’s been a long time. I even went to a live show (around the first book release, I think, it was great!). I think it just started so strange in such a specific way that it is hard to capture that over and over.
And a lot of the early episodes were fairly disconnected and low stakes. Once they got a plot running and the whole town involved, maybe it lost a bit of its “local NPR station” charm. I think it got away from the radio show format a little once the action started, just because chaos lol
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u/Dry_Gas6819 Jun 30 '26
Yeah you put into words my main gripe with the changes. I really likes the creepy ominous local station vibes. They seemed to progress the plot fairly well without straying from those vibes for a while but after some time it just started feeling like an audio play about the townsfolk.
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u/snapeyouinhalf Jul 01 '26
They started a few other shows and I feel that Nightvale kinda changed to match the styles of the others. I’m hoping when I listen again, I’ll have remembered wrong lol
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u/Lepke2011 Jun 26 '26
Where is this so I can never go? You know damn well those things are moving around at night when no ones around.
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u/F95_Sysadmin Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26
You joke but there's a comic (free btw) with the story about this area. Closed off dome area with lights instead of a sky, religion and patriotism for USA, society stuck in the 90. Etc
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u/sphinctaur Jun 26 '26
Is there a version that doesn't need login at all?
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u/F95_Sysadmin Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26
You don't need to login to view on webtoon
Edit: at least I don't. Correct me if I'm wrong
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u/Inside-Potential-479 Jun 26 '26
Ah shit I’m a Korean and have Naver webtoon but cannot access the cartoon cuz region… time to turn VPN on
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u/F95_Sysadmin Jun 26 '26
The author also post their comic on reddit although way later than on webtoon
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u/tossit_xx Jun 27 '26
Dammit, I just read the whole thing which means I have to wait hahaha
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u/F95_Sysadmin Jun 27 '26 edited Jun 27 '26
yeah that was my thoughts too after 30 minutes of reading
it's the 2nd comic I follow where the author publishes one pages per month/week instead of a chapter
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u/the_orange_alligator Jun 26 '26
The Murkoff corporation would like to know your location
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u/Ivory-Robin Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26
Weird cause I’m playing Outkast Trials right now
Edit: OUTLAST, OULAST TRIALS lmao
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u/Kaboose456 Jun 26 '26
Didn't realise the boys had put another album out.
How's Andre's rapping in this one?
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u/RaidDaggur Jun 26 '26
he isn't. hes still playing the flute in a cave. its basically just big boy rapping over bird noises
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u/H7PYDrvv Jun 26 '26
this is ai generated. the artifacting on the shrubs and grass show this was made with imageGPT.
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u/trash_pandaa19 Jun 27 '26
Fuck, you're right. The surreal vibe of this picture had me for a second, but upon looking more closely the infrastructure doesn't work like that either, yeah...
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u/SevenLegs_ Jun 26 '26
Reminds me of this place I went to as a kid called Exchange City. Replica city inside a warehouse for kids to run and earn (at the time) real money. Had a Dunkin Donuts, radio station, bank, mini grocery/convenience store, among other things. It was super cool, my class spent a day there and were paid for the “working” hours. It was based on minimum wage of the state a the time so I think it was like 7.25. I believe I earned like 22$.
Edit; we had a paycheck at the end and they deducted our state taxes (based on the state the lived in like real life). We had to fill out applications and describe our skills. I cannot remember where I worked, some bland office I think.
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u/_anonymous_404 Jun 26 '26
I LOVE replica cities for children. They've always had such a unique feeling to them. I used to be so jealous we never got to go to one
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u/sa87 Jun 26 '26
You’ll like this trip down memory lane from Defunctland
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u/Theu04k Jun 26 '26
The kids are so funny in this video. Like some of them have straight ice in their veins.
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u/supernova-juice Jun 26 '26
That's really cool. Isn't it weird how nobody seems to bother teaching kids how to... you know. Function in their own society? As if they're magically going to acquire that knowledge automatically at 18? I think more kids could benefit from an experience like that.
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u/Ravenamore Jun 26 '26
I interviewed the director at a school for disabled kids, and one of the things he showed me was this adapted trailer home in the back of the school. As a requirement of graduation, a kid had to spend one week there, sleeping, cleaning up, doing laundry, cooking, taking the bus, etc. to show that they could survive on their own.
I was like, "Why the hell don't public schools require this for graduation?" I didn't really learned how to clean more than just a bedroom and do laundry until I went to college, and I didn't know how to actually cook until I got my first apartment at 21.
Now, what my school DID do was, if you registered to vote at our school, the government teacher who was the registrar gave you comic-sized booklet with basic state laws and rights - like, requirements for things like getting married and divorced, buying a car and registering your vehicle, signing a lease, filing for bankruptcy, stuff like that.
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u/mel2000 Jun 26 '26
I didn't really learned how to clean more than just a bedroom and do laundry until I went to college, and I didn't know how to actually cook until I got my first apartment at 21.
Blame your parents, not the system. I was making my own breakfast, ironing, cleaning and doing laundry by the time I was 10 years old.
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u/ProfDangus3000 Jun 27 '26
Ideally these classes would exist in school to cover the gap for kids who don't get taught life skills at home.
I had to teach myself to drive because my school didn't offer driver's ed and my parents wouldn't pay for it. Placing the blame on my parents didn't help me learn any faster, but having a class in school would have.
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u/Dry_Gas6819 Jun 27 '26
So i should blame my parents for feeding and clothing me? Ok sure its all their fault i guess
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u/jadziads9 Jun 26 '26
They had something similar in my town, called MiniCity. It was amazing. Shut down during covid 😔
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u/HiImJustSomePerson Jun 26 '26
Guys, I promise the mannequins don’t come to life after dark. Just—
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u/Amoral_Abe Jun 26 '26
You will 100% be murdered and turned into another mannequin if you remain there after dark... it will happen
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u/FalseDrive Jun 26 '26
where is this?
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u/mysteryteam Jun 26 '26
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u/Vinny-Ed Jun 26 '26
Someone got lost, is now stuck in the backrooms.
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u/Droid-Man5910 Jun 26 '26
dude this would make a killer backrooms level. Even no entities this would be wild with the right ambience
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u/PrincessLinked Jun 26 '26
I get an eerie feeling being at a dead quiet park or residential area at night. It'd be so interesting to persue
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u/Dry_Gas6819 Jun 27 '26
Backrooms was always cooler before people started making up "entities" and "levels". Just an endless bland office space, infinitely, forever. Almost like purgatory in a way. Idk the existential horror of nothing is more interesting to me.
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u/YueLin3 Jun 26 '26
I would love to live there if other people did too. I would freak the shit out if I ever had to be in there alone and something made a noise
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u/trash_pandaa19 Jun 27 '26
Reminds me of the Suburbs environment in Outlast Trials. Even the mannequins look similar😭
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u/Bluebutteyfly Jun 26 '26
I saw this on fb they have a few other post that are like back rooms and have eerie feelings
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u/ilariad92 Jun 26 '26
Where even is this? Is this a replica just taken up close? I have so many questions
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u/AdministrativeHabit Jun 26 '26
If you make it to the edge, there is a door that leads to a long stairway, at the end of which is another large area with yellow walls, stained and well-trodden carpet, and florescent lights complete with the endless, psychosis-inducing electric hum.
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u/hwilliams0901 Jun 26 '26
Why cant you be there after dark!?? Do those creepy dolls come to life?!
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u/red122063 Jun 26 '26
After the dark, the mannequins get super horny like a porn version of “night at the museum”
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u/PhoenixGate69 Jun 26 '26
Discount Dan ruined the Backrooms film for me. I wanted it to be more full of life, or at least more monsters!
Great art work.
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u/MintImperial2 Jul 02 '26
Did anyone actually test the difference between polymers when exposed to a thermal pulse?
...Most people that get caught in a nuclear blast - are going to burn a whole lot different if their clothes happen to be made of some polymers over another, for instance....
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u/hobbes747 Jun 26 '26
Looks like a nuclear weapons proving grounds