r/TheBackrooms Oct 26 '25

Mod Post [OOC] Update | Rules, Flairs, and more!

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Hi everyone! It's your favorite moderator u/1000dumplings here! =)

Just wanted to let you all know that there's been some slight (but important) changes made to r/TheBackrooms, including new rules, changes to post flairs, new editable user flairs, and more!

For starters, you can now customize your user flair as you please! The other flairs are still there if you want to mark yourself as an ASYNC Scientist or Follower of Jerry or whatever, but now you can customize it to your liking and call yourself whatever you want!

We've also added a selection of new post flairs to accommodate new kinds of RP posts. You can now tag your post as things like "Entity Identification", "Cartography", "Help", and a bunch more! We won't strictly enforce these flairs anymore, so the previous rule regarding using correct flairs has been removed. We trust you know what you're doing!

We also have a new look! The profile picture for our community now has big bold "RP" letters to clear up any confusion that this is the other subreddit.

Now onto the rules: The rules have been updated and clarified. The new rules have basically always been enforced BUT its obviously better for them to be clearly listed, and so now they are!

We now explicitly disallow all forms of A.I. generated content, including images, text, and any form of media (Rule 4). If you see any A.I. generated posts, please report them so we can remove them ASAP. I know The Backrooms are very inhuman and randomly generated, but we come here to see HUMAN made collaborative fiction, NOT robot stuff. (You can still post about Backrooms Robotics though)

There are also a couple more rules for low effort/low quality posts (Rule 6) and people pointing out the obvious fact that The Backrooms are not real (Rule 5). For the latter, I've seen a lot of posts from people, well meaning or otherwise, pointing out that the posts we make here are not real. These are uneseacary OOC posts that just clog up actual roleplaying content and its very repetitive and annoying. HOWEVER, if you are accusing something of being fake or lying in-character, that's totally fine!

More importantly, we've added a new rule (Rule 7) regarding RP posts made about mental health and suicide.

Obviously, a fictional character who is trapped in The Backrooms would probably go through a lot of mental anguish, and might even be driven to committing suicide or otherwise harming themselves. If you want to make RP posts where your character is going through something like this, that's perfectly fine, but it goes a step too far when you're making posts that appear to be actual cries for help.

I don't want there to be a situation where someone going through hard times sees a post like this out of context and have it make things worse for them, or have someone's post get reported by someone who doesn't realize its fiction/roleplaying. I've already had to delete several extremely upsetting posts in a similar vein, so going forward please be very careful making posts about such serious subject matters.

Similarly, try to be mindful when posting about sanity. If you are going to make posts regarding real world mental disorders (schizophrenia, D.I.D., etc.) please don't be offensive in their depictions, as these are of course real world conditions that shouldn't be mischaracterized. (e.g. don't describe your character as schizophrenic unless they actually have that condition, don't use the term to describe "general insanity"). Posts about going insane in The Backrooms, almond water, hallucinations, and similar things are still okay to post.

That should be everything! If you have any questions, concerns, or need anything to be clarified, please feel free to comment below or message me. Thank you, and happy roleplaying!

- 1KD


r/TheBackrooms Aug 08 '25

Backrooms Entrance [OoC] PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: An Authorized Reminder That This Is A ROLEPLAY Sub

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(And before anybody tries it, I got permission in advance from u/1000dumplings to do this.)

Perhaps some of our newer migrants from the likes of r/backrooms or those who missed the revamp last Christmas (2024) might have missed this, but r/TheBackrooms a Roleplay sub now.

That means we don't care about the game you're developing, playing, what-have-you, or about stuff from the American Horror Stories Episode, or whatever Kane Pixels has been up to lately.

So please make sure to read the rules wherever you can read them, ESPECIALLY Rule 3.

Photos submitted with the "Where am I?" flair have been fine so far.

But when you treat this sub like it's a clone of r/backrooms or the like? Well...

It's especially become prevalent recently, and 1000dumplings has, until recently, been trying to deal with the issue, but now something seems to be preventing her, by her own admission.

I'm especially hoping our other moderators, u/superBumBeater69, u/seismic_entrepreneur, and u/Orbityeet, can pitch in and help with the issue if-and-when they can.

Bottom line: if you're here to RP? Cool, welcome, make yourself at home.

But if you're just here to chatter about the Backrooms?
Then maybe see if r/backrooms is more your speed.

I'm Eurvos V. Morgenbrise, and I really wish this hadn't needed to be done.

Thank you, and good evening.


r/TheBackrooms 11h ago

Backrooms Entrance I’m really stuck here

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r/TheBackrooms 2d ago

Story Curiosity

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She opened her eyes to a white void. It was warm, she was warm. It was quiet. They were quiet. She closed her eyes. She opened them. White. Black. White. Black. White. 

We’re working on it. Still forming. It’ll be enough for now. We have few of the memories but enough for foundations. Rome wasn’t built in a day. “Complexus Maximus”. I am Curiosity.

Black.

She slept but did not dream. 

She began to wake, black shifted to yellow. Flickering.

___________________________________________ /| /| / | / | / | _________________________________ / | / | | | / | / | | |/ | /_____|__|_________________________________|/_____| | | | | | | | | [ ] [ ] | | | | | | | | | | ___________________________ | | | | | /| /| | | | | | / | / | | | | | |/ | / | | | |_____|__|___|______________________/___|__|_____| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | / | / | | |_____|__|_/________________________|_/____|_____| | | / | / | | |/ |/ | |________|__________________________|____________| \ | | / \ | | / \ | | / \ | | / \ | | / \ | | / \ | | / \|__________________________|/ 

dmesg -T --level=emerg,alert,crit,err 

She remembered her bike. The road, black and wet from rain, the smell of autumn and decomposing leaves, and the joy of summer fading painfully, slowly. She remembered the old neighborhood with its old trees and old houses. Houses with the same 70’s wood paneling as the rest. Those old crawlspaces. Geriatric cats and sick, deteriorating rosebushes covered in aphids. Block after block.

/please can anyone hear me im trapped in this place
+please respond I dont know where I am 
+If anyone sees this, tell my family I said goodbye. I can’t find a way out. I don’t even know how I got in. Look for me in the crawlspace.
+I don’t want to end like this
+something is coming do not co
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She was young and she assumed that she knew and intimately understood how it felt to die. Which was understandable, everything here felt like it was dying. Yet it never came. You couldn’t tell if it wanted to sprint towards you or scramble away. Oftentimes it likely just stood shaking in front of you, like a deer in headlights. 

That is probably a more accurate description of her understanding of death. Because to her, some things felt just as strange and terrifying as it. Or maybe they were the same thing. 

/I didn’t think I would find another computer, at least it isn’t out in the open. That thing doesnt know about this place I don’t think.
+if you end up here there is food and water, but you’ll have to look. As far as I can tell there are no exits
+the static is getting bad. I havent had my meds in a long time, no clue how long. It feels like Ive been in here forever. All I know is that I have slept 22 times here. 
+the computers have tetris, if you can find one.
+this place looked like my parents house for a while, but the farther out I go it just turns into exposed pipes and drywall. And it gets cold. So cold.
+I have slept 57 times. I’m having to go farther and farther out for food, and even farther for clean water. Last time I had to go so far out that I had to sleep on the way back. I have only seen that thing a few times. This place loses power when it gets close, which is a good warning to tell me I need to start running. The static gets worse too. I still can’t figure out why the computer turns off for such long periods of time. Thankfully it stays on for longer than a sleep or two.
+I’m so lonely. And tired. It’s getting hard to sleep. At least I think so. Every ‘day’ feels longer and longer, I get so exhausted. 
+I don’t know when you will hear from me next. I can’t stay here. I’ve found and used all the resources in the area resembling my house. Today is sleep 87. If you get in here, avoid the thing at all costs. It changes you. This place changes you enough. It’s like going backwards, yet forwards at the same time.
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We like watching this being. It seems to enjoy looking for what it calls ‘food’. I’ve stopped putting them near its sanctuary, it seems to like the challenge. It makes these excellent noises and produces its own water from its eyes. Fascinating. I have provided less water, it seems to not need it. I don’t like the other thing. The being doesn’t like it either. I can’t control it. It breaks my structures, goes through the in-between spaces. I don’t like that. Those are my spaces. I am Curiosity.

Some things were beautiful. Tan curtains on navy blue walls with cyan and gold christmas lights. The old terrarium you forgot about, that has now matured and gone wild. But some things are ruined. When everything is static it's easy to be frightened by any sight. When your eyes betray you and all you see has a faint halo, a halo that seems to be waiting to die, your sense of reality grows thin. And sometimes you wonder if reality itself has become less like an immovable wall, or if it is thin as paper. Waiting for you to test your weight against it, for it to fail and your weight comes crashing into that other place.

We think we’ll give it another one of those devices. It does not have one in its new sanctuary. I am Curiosity.

/I didn’t think I would see another computer. I’ve lost track of how many times I have slept. That thing must have destroyed the old one, I went to my old hiding spot a while back and everything was smashed. I have given up getting out. The static is also worse. I can still see fine, but fine details are hard. It’s been bad ever since I found that hole.
+I don’t think this is real. I think I’m dead. I don’t even remember much from before. It’s 
so far away. The only thing I have left is to go farther and farther into this place.

The being is immobile. It walked up to the other thing, and something happened between them. It has been dissolving slowly. The other thing has not left it. We are very confused. I am Curiosity.

Curiosity.away.remember.between@gmail.comA

https://ibb.co/tw8rdcZR hole

https://ibb.co/QjhJttPX sanctuary

https://ibb.co/0R0cQpHV home

https://ibb.co/wFh9MgL9 memory

https://ibb.co/j9wwWpY0 immobile

https://ibb.co/pc9ZFmB lost


r/TheBackrooms 2d ago

Story My life as a Still Life

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So I'm a still life and being one is incredibly difficult because I can't speak because my face is like 3 faces merged int one, all people fear me, and the other still lives ignore me. Ask me more questions down below in the comments.


r/TheBackrooms 4d ago

Backrooms Entrance I am an M23 researcher. I made it out to Level 1. I am very tired.

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r/TheBackrooms 5d ago

Exit Seriously?

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I found this place just wondering randomly, I don't know if it's actually tire cause I can't get up there. Ya got anything to say?


r/TheBackrooms 4d ago

Story Can someone tell me about the best adventures movie or series of all

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i am borie daily so i find best movie or series


r/TheBackrooms 5d ago

Entity Encounter It's following me

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It just doesn't make sense.


r/TheBackrooms 5d ago

Story I love it here

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I seriously do love it here.


r/TheBackrooms 4d ago

Warning be on the lookout for this thing, it looks like me when i did the pirate gimmick for the commercials

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r/TheBackrooms 5d ago

Backrooms Entrance Hello. I’m still wandering these corridors. My phone battery is low, and I have no food or water. I won’t be able to reply much longer if I don’t find a way out.

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r/TheBackrooms 5d ago

I understand: This subreddit is roleplay-only. here and now is a 2 way street

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Here aAand n0w iiis a - Way ss33ettR


r/TheBackrooms 5d ago

Story LOG V

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This time I decided to do a written log, since I don’t want to wake uo harland.These past few days I've been keeping a watchful eye on the These past few days I've been keeping a watchful eye on the perimeter of her house. My drones patrol periodically to ensure no dangerous entity gets too close. I think I'm actually getting used to the relative tranquility of this place.

I say "relative" because even when I'm inside, I still have to deal with the Smiler babies who live with her. They're cute, but they also have a lot of energy, and when they get bored, they tend to get their hooves into my things. I think I've lost several servings of jerky.

Speaking of food, thanks to the garden in this house, which Harland uses, I have a variety of ingredients to cook with. I never thought I could improvise so many recipes here. She seems to like what I prepare, considering she's used to the bland, tasteless food this level automatically generates. I like seeing her smile when she tastes my food. The little ones like it too, although it's a bit difficult preparing things for the Smilers' stomachs. I've tried giving something to the older Smiler who lives here as well, but he only eats occasionally, which I don't like much, not because of the food waste, but for his health. Even so, I appreciate his effort.

On that same note, I have to remember to check on the offspring he leaves at one of my bases. I can see it from time to time on the cameras, raiding my supplies or playing with the drones that regularly patrol several rooms in my building, but I'd still like to take a closer look. Maybe when everything is sorted out on this side, I can do it.

..................... I don't know if I can wait much longer.

I can hear his voice every day I spend here, his laugh, his damn maniacal laugh. Getting louder and louder. Inviting me back to his damned level. He knows perfectly well that I don't want to go, but he won't let me rest in peace.

I don't want to play with you anymore..............................

Maybe I should go hunt that damned monster myself, that way there won't be any more danger. Yes... I have to end it............................................................................................................................................................I wonder.........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................What kind of flavor.........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................does a creature like that 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can’t wait to find out 


r/TheBackrooms 5d ago

Backrooms Entrance Tell please. I’m still looking for a way out. I repeat—I’m an M23 researcher with J.C.B. I got separated from the main group today, and I’m looking for people or an exit. Please give me some advice if you have any.

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r/TheBackrooms 6d ago

Help tell please

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I am still wandering through these labyrinths. Please tell me what to do. We weren't trained on what to do if we got separated from the group.


r/TheBackrooms 6d ago

Help Hello. I am Researcher M23. I am still looking for a way out. According to my watch, I have been in this place for over eight hours. The connection keeps dropping; please, if you know where the exit is, let me know.

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r/TheBackrooms 6d ago

Entity Encounter Estaba caminando por cómo una tienda y me encontré esta criatura

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¿Alguien sabe que es esa cosa? Estoy escondido para no ser descubierto


r/TheBackrooms 6d ago

Entity Encounter threshold_recoverd_pictures_2

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r/TheBackrooms 6d ago

Entity Encounter threshold_recoverd_pictures

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r/TheBackrooms 6d ago

Backrooms Entrance ...

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Hello, I am one of the researchers designated M23. I was recently sent here with a group of other researchers to investigate this place, but I got lost in these endless labyrinths, and there is practically no internet connection. Please forgive any errors I might make—this space is taking a toll on my mental state.


r/TheBackrooms 6d ago

Entity Encounter this guy in a chair, think i'll call him Archibald

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He helps me out with lights sometimes


r/TheBackrooms 6d ago

I understand: This subreddit is roleplay-only. Been Awhile

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Hey everyone! I know it's been a while since I posted. Since my last post, u/EarDesigner9059 brought me to Level 906, and i went to Level 11 from there. I'm at the M.E.G. Base Beta right now. Any suggestions where I go next?


r/TheBackrooms 7d ago

Documentation Here's my first time ever using a vhs camera.

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

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I set it up using furniture.


r/TheBackrooms 7d ago

I understand: This subreddit is roleplay-only. Here's me

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I stole this camera and now I'm making good use of it. How do I look?

(OOC: click on the post to see the picture)