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Heyya I think the "dont move" is written by someone turning into the bacteria I think it wants to spread its self and is encouraging others or that person to sit down and accept it, in the 2nd one they find that corpse that starved or just sat down maybe it was him? (Pls gimme a shout out if you use this comment in the next vid eh? Lol)
So my thought on the two-peters theory: I do get where it comes from, but imo the simpler explanation is that Peter got time jumped, showed up in the control room, and learned that Async faked his death. Then, either of his own volition or more likely forced by Async, he retreated back into the Backrooms and Async tried to sweep it all under the rug. Because if a guy who was supposedly dead suddenly shows up alive again, people are going to start asking *a lot* of questions from Async, and they're trying to keep the Backrooms project under wraps. I don't think we have a case of an imposter, I think we have a case of a cover up.
Makes sense, they already had to fake his death due to the nature of his disappearance. They probably had no idea what to do so they took his suit, his camera, and threw him out there.
@@georgieboat I would argue that it's not a case of them not knowing what to do, but rather they refuse to backtrack on the cover story of Peter being dead, since Peter showing up in the control room very much alive really throws a wrench in their story. So to keep their story intact they took his equipment and shoved him back into the Backrooms, like a messed up form of exile. After all if Peter is out of sight, then he's out of mind, right?
It's exactly this. If they are going to use this as some sort of infinite commercial storage unit then these null zone situations would fuck everything up (not to mention higher ups would probably be in a bunch of legal trouble as well). With the new upload, I started to feel at the beginning they were trying to hunt "the monster" but by the end it definitely felt like they were down there to hunt Peter. This whole series has been genius so far.
I do love that Kane is sparing in his use of the monsters. They only show up every now and then, but it never makes the Backrooms any less dangerous, it's a labyrinth with who knows what in it, and the monsters are just one part of that
Exactly. This isn't a story about monsters living inside this strange place. It is almost like a small side story and just one element of everything going on which makes it so genius.
100% agree. The buildup of the atmosphere and the weird world it inhabits is far more interesting than any specific monster. That's what I love about this series :D
So many writers lean into the "blood is scary" angle that they forget that the human mind is ten times more terrifying than anything you could put to film. It's why General RAAM isn't scary, but a jacket on a chair in a dark room is.
I just wanted to say thanks, Nick. I have pretty bad anxiety and often struggle horror media, even though I really love it, so having someone there with me to "hold my hand," in a way, is really nice. Thanks a million ❤
TRUE, Mandela Catalogue pt.4 had me shaking while I watched it, couldn't wait for a review video from NightMind, Nexpo or Wendigoon, barely made it through.
But what Night Mind didn't realize... is that he himself was reflected in the disruptions in time and space, allowing Kane to prove his storytelling abilities before Night Mind had a chance to upload... blowing his mind.
I do love that the scene which had the most tension and was the scariest didn't actually involve a monster or any reality breaking from the backrooms, but a situation provided due to previous cause and effect of the backrooms and the actions of the company. Suddenly being grabbed, and being held at a gunpoint by a distressed and individual on-edge is scary as fuck. Especially since the said guy has no reason to trust anything you are saying to him as you work for the company which faked his death and possibly left him in the backrooms to die? The only thing which had an element of stupidity was Mark calling for the A-team and aggravating the circumstance which lead to him getting shot. But then again, he was just jumped and he is irrational at the moment.
it absolutely was a moment of stupidity, but he was immediately punished for it within the story. i dont think its fair to judge the writing as a whole if thats what you meant
I argue, it's NOT a moment of stupidity. Mark is the one with the gun right? He probably had standing orders to SHOOT Peter on sight! Forcibly closing their loose end of he showed up.
28:10 : Marvin: "Peter?" Mark: "...oh ####..." Mark is absolutely aware that a: Peter exists b: Marvin worked with Peter c: Peter's death was faked and A-Sync left him to die I don't see it as stupidity to make the call for the A-Team, I see it as a 'if Peter makes it out, the entirety of A-Sync is doomed' moment, that letting Peter keep control of the situation would lead to a fate worse than death.
@@Etherealscorpions Mark did have a tone of recognition and saw the opportunity to silence any loose ends (Peter) distanced itself, while Marvin was being the voice of reason and tried to solve the mystery of Peter's "death." And things just escalated quickly. *Phew*
I think Peter is not split into 2 but he was abandoned back to the backrooms and async hid the details about him coming back after they discovered him in presentation, as for his hazmat he probably took it off and used it as some sort of bed the only mystery is how he is not experiencing malnutrition and dehydration it's been 2 weeks since he got back
was thinking the same thing. I'm also wondering if my pet theory of people lost in the back rooms becoming the bacteria creatures might be true: when Peter jumps into frame his entire body is black, seemed to be naked. this could have been to keep te reveal hidden a little longer as it's a blink and you'll miss it moment but... maybe?
Kane definitely flexed his creative muscles with the "Reunion" episode. He showed he has this series planned out and I can't wait for his next upload. I'm also glad he created his own world and lore and didn't use the goofy monsters and stupid levels from the Backrooms wiki.
Right. Here's a wild theory. Ok? What if the corpse the Async team discovers during their initial ventures into the Backrooms, was Peter? We've already seen him jump forwards in time. What if he went back in time too?
That's actually what I thought before we got to the clip of him setting off the alarm. Since the video with him getting seperated from the group showed him finding the bacteria (or, what looks like the bacteria) and then coughing more as the video goes on. Since the backrooms already has time jumps happening within it, I thought the body they found was totally Peter and he was just gone from their memory as soon as the little glitch happened where he left.
I like that Nick admitted that he couldn't clean up the audio because it was outside of what he knew how to do. A lot of people would just say there was nothing there because they couldn't do it. But Nick is basically saying 'I couldn't do it but maybe you guys can.' Also love that the Backrooms did something that Nick called out before even releasing the video. That was amazing. Alright Backrooms. You've got a great set up and you're going to strong. Let's see you stick the landing of the ending.
One off. There are way to many takes on the backrooms. I predicted an scp kind off scenario for the backrooms community in its birth and im sure its at that state by now. Kane is a better artist overall, i can get behind that argument 😂
I agree wholeheartedly. This kid has a serious future in the film making industry if he wants it IMO. His work is simply brilliant & is the best web series I've ever seen anywhere not just on YT.
Good thing you were able to check Reunion. I was worried that you hadn't had time to check it before finishing the video. I agree, it does bring more to the table while also giving us new questions.
One thing that I really enjoy from reunion is Kane's attention to detail. When Peter fires the gun it echos like crazy and that's because they're in a small tiled complex allowing the sound to bounce off the walls, if it were in the carpeted area it would not have the same effect.
I had never considered the idea of the backrooms being a giant digestive tract. And that got me thinking, what if the backrooms are a part of something like an Eldritch God, and humans perceive them like rooms because the human mind simply cannot comprehend what it's seeing, so it sees what we see as the backrooms.
Ha! Here I was thinking, "Shit, worst timing. Uploading this just as a new, major, episode drops!" but this mad lad manages to somehow throw in the new covering this new entry AND get the video out in the same day. Oh, and we've had a hint that something was off about Pete's disappearance from day one. February 29th 1990 is a day that can't exist in our universe, it wasn't a leap year. Also the threshold "bunker" wasn't finished being built yet when he first disappeared. Yeah, Kane has been planning this out. Oh and a random fact just to drill in how meticulous his level of detail is. So in First Contact there's a brief flash were this bit of seeming gibberish pop's up dNch/dy=8000 (mirrored in the footage to look 0008= blah blah blah... which well... you'll see why that's important in a moment). You might think it's some random part of a UA-cam link but this, this right here is the theoretical particle density you'd need to achieve a simulation of the big bang. In the real world ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) was set up to reach that level but was only able to reach about half or so (still really impressive). Well in First Contact this was shown in context of things that needed to be improved for the 6th test and had three red FAILUREs under the equation. This means in the somewhere between the 3rd and 5th test the reached a particle density of 8,000 and it wasn't enough! This means the 6th test needed a density greater then what was needed to simulate a friggin' big bang! Kinda buts the earthquake that was generated by this into context don't it. So yeah, this kid just drops something you either need to be a physics major or a major science fan boy to get casually as a clue!
@@A_Black_Sheep94 I mean the Los Alamos scientists who develop the fission bomb thought there was a significant chance of it igniting the atmosphere and consuming the world in a global firestorm and scientist also thought there was a fear that there was a chance that when CERN was fired up it would create strange matter which would of ended reality as we know it in a several light year radius soooo... You'd be surprised how many times science casually does things that can end the world and every star system surrounding it...
wendigoon did an extensive interview with kane about where the story is going and you have shed some new light on this mystery as well. i think a collaboration of wendigoon and nick nocturne as an investigative duo would excel this series to even greater heights! keep up the amazing work mr. nocturne!!
I like how in the presentation video, when it shows the storage volume graph and the a-space box grows to fill the screen, it ends up looking just like a wall corner in the backrooms.
Regarding the marine lab: I think the implication is that this lab was built to be the front for A Sync's compound, since we see light from the backrooms spilling over the branded mug from an opening mechanical shutter reminiscent of the one installed at the compound's entrance.
14:45 it should be noted that the commerical that is recorded is from many years after that episode aired, essentially saying that the commercial jumped back in time to when the person recorded that episode, not just that it's shown out of order.
I kinda have the theory that every bacteria creature Async employees had encountered so far arent just creatures, but the same people that went missing and "died" in the backrooms. Why i think that? because the video of the girl slipping into the backrooms and then finding one of them hibernating gave me the idea that this creatures never were "locals" of this complex, they were created from the semi rotten corpses of people that died inside the backrooms, the sentiance they have comes from each of this victims, they arent just mindless creatures this are the victims that turned into this fungi monstrousities, because the fungi somehow is using the conciousness of the person that died there. So in a way the bacteria are literal "ghosts"
@@ic0nic707 He said it in a pinned message on his Discord in either the Backrooms - Theories or Backrooms - Discussion channel. He just posted the link to the Discord in his community tab just recently, so you can quickly join and see.
I’ll be honest, I love the whole series, and the found footage short movies are excellent, but “I Remember” is far and away my favourite. The vibe of the whole video is phenomenal, the way everything builds to “could there ever be anything greater than this”, it’s just… chef’s kiss, fantastic, I love it oodles
I've been regularly refreshing my subscription feed today hoping someone would make a video about this because I am OBSESSED. I could be wrong, but I don't think we're dealing with a doppelganger here. I think when Peter tripped the alarm, they sent in some people to talk to him and try to figure out what happened and what to do. But when they told him they'd already faked his death because he'd been gone so long (and they figured he was actually dead by then anyway), he freaked out and ran back into the Complex to escape, thinking they were going to kill him. (Maybe correctly...) It's also been 17 days (in universe) since presentation, so how he's survived in there (and stayed healthy enough to overpower Mark and steal his gun) for that long is a mystery in itself. Maybe he found a source of food and water somehow? Or maybe he's gone forward in time again. Maybe he even figured out how to do it deliberately to avoid being found and captured. I don't know. I have so many questions I can't possibly ask them all.
We all assume that the time jumps are forward in time, but what if the guy they found eaten by the bacteria with no hazmat suit in the second video is actually Peter? Weeks after being lost, sick from the Backrooms air. Just a thought.
Something else of note you seem to have missed, 1990 wasn't a leap year, so the Feb 29 date for Informational Video seems to imply some alternate timeline/parallel dimension shenanigans.
The mold using the motion detector as some form of Lidar is actually fascinating as a possibility; it's not as though things evolving don't tend to co-opt their environment into a part of themselves so, like, some fungal limbs attaching themselves to a motion-detector and driving themselves toward things that set it off wouldn't be that unusual at least for the sort of accelerated evolution that iteration tessellation like what happens in the Backrooms would cause.
It makes sense for the backrooms to be a reflection of our reality in a way. The question then becomes, is it a reflection of reality from the point the gateway was opened, or has it always been a reflection? What I mean is, has this dimension always had this "modern" look because it exists outside of time in a way, or does it always reflect our world, and it looked more primitive in the past, with say oil lamps as light sources and more rustic environments? If A-Sync had opened the portal in a more rural setting, like if their facility was located in the middle of nowhere, would the backrooms reflect that more instead?
I'm thinking that the Backrooms are a reflection of liminal things that mostly aren't even worth remembering in the first place. Do you really remember the last time you walked through an airport, a hospital, an office building, a doctor's office with the same oppressively bland design? We remember we've been there, but not much about the place itself. It's like a collective unconscious of things we've labeled unimportant and subconsciously banished.
@@cr4shmycar118 Yeah, that was my thought too. It's a further elaboration on the original idea of liminal spaces, as places that you can almost-but-not-quite remember. Which are probably just almagamations of many different similar places that you've visited or seen, none of which had enough distinct features to stand out in your memory.
my theory currently is the backrooms act as a space between Universes. This is why there are two Peters, one is an A-Sync emplyee the other a normal guy, but because the A-Sync Peter got missing his copy eventually ended up in the Backrooms too via a null-zone
@@marioreyes7971 in my opinion it feels less like scp and more like the dumb lore behind slenderman and sirenhead. Most of this has to do with the fact kids are the main people making up the story, and since those kids main inspiration is stuff like five nights at Freddy's, it makes sense why there's so much bad writing.
Channels like this are MUCH better at explaining a horror series than Game Theory or Film Theory are. This and the previous episode are well-narrated in a tone that creates a good atmosphere and enhances the mood, there's no annoying child-like demeanor that MatPat or Markiplier are known for, and everything is right to the point with no unnecessary fluff. From one Nick to another, well done :)
A few things--the car that crashed in FF2 is not the same one that noclipped on the highway. That "sunset" is not a sunset at all. It's footage of the first nuclear bomb being detonated. A-Sync is not evil---not to mention many of them have never even been trained with weapons or combat. There are no clones or alternate universes or anything. There is one Peter. A key thing to remember is that the Complex was never created--merely discovered. One thing Kane's said that keeps haunting me is that "we have already seen the ending."
Kane is awsome. He is creating a series more compelling than just about anything I've ever seen, from Hollywood or TV. Absolutely awsome to be able to witness this unfold.
I gotta say, these videos are basically the only reason I can enjoy unfiction projects. As much as I love the general vibe from such projects, I scare a bit too easy for most horror projects. These videos introduce me to projects I can actually enjoy, and then I get to come listen to how another person interpreted it too!
Being nowhere near smart enough to follow the plot or figure any of this out on my own, I am ever so grateful for these discussions. You've really clarified The Backrooms for me. Many, many thanks!
The way you incorporated the ad into this episode is nothing short of genius, Nick. I love that even 6+ years in you continue to remind everyone why you're a top tier creator on this platform
20:33 to me, this one reminded me of Jacob Geller's video on Control, Anatomy, and haunted houses. The quote is from Anatomy or Haunting of Hill Manor which is also mentioned in that video along with House of Leaves. It seems to me that Kane Pixels is drawing inspiration from the legacy of the haunted house.
Yes! I'm so excited, I love all your videos, but Backrooms has been like one of my biggest obsessions these last few months so I'm so happy you made another one!
Hey Night Mind! I’ve been a huge fan of yours for a while and I love your videos. You’ve helped me through a lot of my rough patches in life. Thank you for everything
Its amazing how many ppl are trying to do the same thing as kane but fail miserably....he really is a genius at what he does and I don't think it can be copied.
Man listening to this while on the way to school makes me just a tad bit paranoid that I'll no-clip, although i know it's fiction I can't help but believe it when it feels so... Realistic? I guess that would be the correct description.
The commercial IS indicating A-Sync using the portal and the time disruption it causes. The commercial and the show that are on the TV were broadcasted YEARS apart in reality so it is showing a literal time jump.
I'm surprised you didn't mention that "MGMT - Kids" can be heard during Pitfalls when the radio loses signal and distorts, which doesn't make sense as that song came out 17 years after the footage was recorded.
When I cross-reference the worldbuilding of different media, it only makes sense to compare the liminal plane to the deep sea. No walls, comparatively barren, the lifeforms you do find there feed off scavengings from the surface world, etc.
Loving the amount of polish on this one. I think everything in the Rooms has distorted copies, including the camera robot which spawned the mechanical beings. Theyre feeding it every time they bring something new
One of the best parts to NM’s videos are the opening. I missed the usual opening with the NM logo on a computer in an office, i hope it returns in the next one. At least the rain storm sound effect remained. Thanks as always for great content coverage!
I still have a few basic questions. Did the backrooms exist before Async opened the door or were they created at that time and a consequence of their creation, had now always existed? (basically, did the point of the experiment succeeding and opening the portal not only create the backrooms but also affect time both forward and backward and causing the backrooms to have existed both in the past and future. Remember, there ARE significant time anomalies there.) Where is the power coming from for the lights? Do the florescent bulbs ever burn out? Where is all the moisture coming from? Did Async cause a fundamental weakening of our reality by manipulating a permeant opening to the backrooms?
Detail I’ve not seen anybody talk about, the hallway in presentation in the A-Sync building you can see in the original found footage, the infinity hallway with the gap. It’s the same hallway. It’s my theory that the backrooms is built off the memories of people. The painting in the one room? It’s the exact room and painting seen in the Home Movie. But it’s off, all the main details are missing except the painting, something someone might more easily remember. This makes sense in the whole idea of the backrooms. It’s a liminal space, it all looks familiar but slightly off. That’s why it’s creepy you can feel like you might have been there but you know you haven’t. That’s my theory and I’m sure it’s bigger but yeah.
"Everyone thinks I'm fucking dead." Who else would Peter have bumped into that thinks that he's dead? Hypothesis: this is the same Peter as the one in Presentation but the event we the audience assumed to have happened in the narrative never did: that they let the Peter back in. This ties into the unlisted video as that was when instructions were given to leave him inside the Back Rooms and then we wandered off until this point in the series.
I dont remember if I said this on his previous video And no I don't think this is actually a collaboration But my head cannon is that the person living in the backrooms is alan tutorials, he brought his blue chairs with him on upright and one fallen down and that's why we haven't seen anything from him since his escape
Yippee a new nightmind video uploaded almost exactly at midnight. I sure to hope I don't scream cry and piss myself to sleep out of fear I'm sure that absolutely will not happen at all :)
Huge fan Night Mind!!! I just find it funny that like 12ish hours before you posted this, Kane drops his latest video lol!!! Can’t wait for part 3 cause this is getting crazy!!!
I don't know why but I didn't receive a notification for this upload Nick. I did get one for Kane's upload & watched it last week when it dropped but not form your channel. I just thought I'd let you know. I think this kid is a genius personally & Backrooms is my favorite web series ever.
I am SO FUCKING GLAD I took your advice and watched Reunion before the end. Renewed my fascination with this narrative and made me so fucking psyched for the future of the series
26:35 I'm pretty sure what we're seeing isn't what was in the doorway on the other side of the pitfall room. The way it's phrased is that the team is exploring 14D WHILE the bridge is being built to the doorway in the pitfall room.
3:36 Maybe I'm being an old fart here but... I kinda dislike when real disasters are used in fictional media in this way. Especially if the people involved in those tragedies might still be alive. I felt similarly with petscop (even though that was later explained and the creator decided that even if he didn't intend it to be a literal reference, using so many of the real names and events directly was a bad move.) The people involved in Loma Prieta aren't characters for a spooky story. They were victims of a disaster. It's a shame because both petscop and this are awesome! This is a great series! And I get the appeal of convenient, free-use media. For some I see how this would add to the immersion. But... I dunno, it just rubs me up the wrong way. Then again, isn't this what we do? make stories out of our tragedies>
I think Kane's creation will always be associated with me finally a job and getting to be with my family again. As have your reviews of his work nightmind. Thank you for helping me get thru being away from my family for 8 months.
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Heyya I think the "dont move" is written by someone turning into the bacteria I think it wants to spread its self and is encouraging others or that person to sit down and accept it, in the 2nd one they find that corpse that starved or just sat down maybe it was him? (Pls gimme a shout out if you use this comment in the next vid eh? Lol)
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So my thought on the two-peters theory: I do get where it comes from, but imo the simpler explanation is that Peter got time jumped, showed up in the control room, and learned that Async faked his death. Then, either of his own volition or more likely forced by Async, he retreated back into the Backrooms and Async tried to sweep it all under the rug. Because if a guy who was supposedly dead suddenly shows up alive again, people are going to start asking *a lot* of questions from Async, and they're trying to keep the Backrooms project under wraps. I don't think we have a case of an imposter, I think we have a case of a cover up.
holy shit! that makes so much more sense! I think you're on to something.
Makes sense, they already had to fake his death due to the nature of his disappearance. They probably had no idea what to do so they took his suit, his camera, and threw him out there.
@@georgieboat I would argue that it's not a case of them not knowing what to do, but rather they refuse to backtrack on the cover story of Peter being dead, since Peter showing up in the control room very much alive really throws a wrench in their story. So to keep their story intact they took his equipment and shoved him back into the Backrooms, like a messed up form of exile. After all if Peter is out of sight, then he's out of mind, right?
It's exactly this. If they are going to use this as some sort of infinite commercial storage unit then these null zone situations would fuck everything up (not to mention higher ups would probably be in a bunch of legal trouble as well). With the new upload, I started to feel at the beginning they were trying to hunt "the monster" but by the end it definitely felt like they were down there to hunt Peter. This whole series has been genius so far.
I like this theory a lot.
I do love that Kane is sparing in his use of the monsters. They only show up every now and then, but it never makes the Backrooms any less dangerous, it's a labyrinth with who knows what in it, and the monsters are just one part of that
Exactly. This isn't a story about monsters living inside this strange place. It is almost like a small side story and just one element of everything going on which makes it so genius.
100% agree. The buildup of the atmosphere and the weird world it inhabits is far more interesting than any specific monster. That's what I love about this series :D
The Backrooms itself is the monster.
So many writers lean into the "blood is scary" angle that they forget that the human mind is ten times more terrifying than anything you could put to film.
It's why General RAAM isn't scary, but a jacket on a chair in a dark room is.
@@waverlyking6045 Almost like its own entity, yep.
I just wanted to say thanks, Nick. I have pretty bad anxiety and often struggle horror media, even though I really love it, so having someone there with me to "hold my hand," in a way, is really nice. Thanks a million ❤
Same. Forever grateful for Nick for guiding us anxious folks through the horror storytelling mazes 🥰
TRUE, Mandela Catalogue pt.4 had me shaking while I watched it, couldn't wait for a review video from NightMind, Nexpo or Wendigoon, barely made it through.
Me too! I watch MatPat because his analytical approach makes things way less scary with analog horror media
As someone on the internet once said,
"Everytime he speaks after a section of footage feels like I've reached a checkpoint"
Yes exactly this.
But what Night Mind didn't realize... is that he himself was reflected in the disruptions in time and space, allowing Kane to prove his storytelling abilities before Night Mind had a chance to upload... blowing his mind.
why do i hear this in the narrator voice from the Stanley parable
@@letmejumpinthisbit Goddamnit, now I'm cursed with that too.
I do love that the scene which had the most tension and was the scariest didn't actually involve a monster or any reality breaking from the backrooms, but a situation provided due to previous cause and effect of the backrooms and the actions of the company.
Suddenly being grabbed, and being held at a gunpoint by a distressed and individual on-edge is scary as fuck. Especially since the said guy has no reason to trust anything you are saying to him as you work for the company which faked his death and possibly left him in the backrooms to die? The only thing which had an element of stupidity was Mark calling for the A-team and aggravating the circumstance which lead to him getting shot. But then again, he was just jumped and he is irrational at the moment.
it absolutely was a moment of stupidity, but he was immediately punished for it within the story. i dont think its fair to judge the writing as a whole if thats what you meant
I argue, it's NOT a moment of stupidity. Mark is the one with the gun right? He probably had standing orders to SHOOT Peter on sight! Forcibly closing their loose end of he showed up.
Yeah, that moment was the first one that really got panic reaction out of me, and it had nothing to do with bacteria monsters or broken reality.
28:10 :
Marvin: "Peter?"
Mark: "...oh ####..."
Mark is absolutely aware that
a: Peter exists
b: Marvin worked with Peter
c: Peter's death was faked and A-Sync left him to die
I don't see it as stupidity to make the call for the A-Team, I see it as a 'if Peter makes it out, the entirety of A-Sync is doomed' moment, that letting Peter keep control of the situation would lead to a fate worse than death.
@@Etherealscorpions Mark did have a tone of recognition and saw the opportunity to silence any loose ends (Peter) distanced itself, while Marvin was being the voice of reason and tried to solve the mystery of Peter's "death." And things just escalated quickly. *Phew*
I think Peter is not split into 2 but he was abandoned back to the backrooms and async hid the details about him coming back after they discovered him in presentation, as for his hazmat he probably took it off and used it as some sort of bed the only mystery is how he is not experiencing malnutrition and dehydration it's been 2 weeks since he got back
Yup--admittedly, I was so sleep deprived adding info on the new upload that I didn't account for that possibility.
was thinking the same thing. I'm also wondering if my pet theory of people lost in the back rooms becoming the bacteria creatures might be true: when Peter jumps into frame his entire body is black, seemed to be naked. this could have been to keep te reveal hidden a little longer as it's a blink and you'll miss it moment but... maybe?
If the Backrooms are mirrored, and based on the variety of places we've seen, there could very well be mirrored food and water
Broooo imagine the only thing that can kill you in the backrooms is the bacteria
@@cawsomeaolin Or yourself.
Kane definitely flexed his creative muscles with the "Reunion" episode. He showed he has this series planned out and I can't wait for his next upload. I'm also glad he created his own world and lore and didn't use the goofy monsters and stupid levels from the Backrooms wiki.
Right. Here's a wild theory. Ok?
What if the corpse the Async team discovers during their initial ventures into the Backrooms, was Peter? We've already seen him jump forwards in time. What if he went back in time too?
That's actually what I thought before we got to the clip of him setting off the alarm. Since the video with him getting seperated from the group showed him finding the bacteria (or, what looks like the bacteria) and then coughing more as the video goes on. Since the backrooms already has time jumps happening within it, I thought the body they found was totally Peter and he was just gone from their memory as soon as the little glitch happened where he left.
I like that Nick admitted that he couldn't clean up the audio because it was outside of what he knew how to do. A lot of people would just say there was nothing there because they couldn't do it. But Nick is basically saying 'I couldn't do it but maybe you guys can.' Also love that the Backrooms did something that Nick called out before even releasing the video. That was amazing. Alright Backrooms. You've got a great set up and you're going to strong. Let's see you stick the landing of the ending.
Kane always shows that his backrooms series is the best out of all the ones on UA-cam
One off. There are way to many takes on the backrooms. I predicted an scp kind off scenario for the backrooms community in its birth and im sure its at that state by now. Kane is a better artist overall, i can get behind that argument 😂
The one with the clussy is a close second
*ahem* Lost in the Hyperverse, you're welcome.
@Yourfriendlyneighborhoodsimp a lesson of advice : dont follow anyone, dont die for no one :)
I agree wholeheartedly. This kid has a serious future in the film making industry if he wants it IMO. His work is simply brilliant & is the best web series I've ever seen anywhere not just on YT.
Good thing you were able to check Reunion. I was worried that you hadn't had time to check it before finishing the video. I agree, it does bring more to the table while also giving us new questions.
One of the smartest editing cuts I’ve seen. Mirroring the jump in time of the Spanish ad to his own ad 15:05. Brilliant
One thing that I really enjoy from reunion is Kane's attention to detail. When Peter fires the gun it echos like crazy and that's because they're in a small tiled complex allowing the sound to bounce off the walls, if it were in the carpeted area it would not have the same effect.
I had never considered the idea of the backrooms being a giant digestive tract. And that got me thinking, what if the backrooms are a part of something like an Eldritch God, and humans perceive them like rooms because the human mind simply cannot comprehend what it's seeing, so it sees what we see as the backrooms.
Im honestly jealous of Kane Pixels, i wish i had the hardware, the skill, the budget and the actors to do something akin to this at his age.
Ha! Here I was thinking, "Shit, worst timing. Uploading this just as a new, major, episode drops!" but this mad lad manages to somehow throw in the new covering this new entry AND get the video out in the same day.
Oh, and we've had a hint that something was off about Pete's disappearance from day one. February 29th 1990 is a day that can't exist in our universe, it wasn't a leap year. Also the threshold "bunker" wasn't finished being built yet when he first disappeared. Yeah, Kane has been planning this out.
Oh and a random fact just to drill in how meticulous his level of detail is. So in First Contact there's a brief flash were this bit of seeming gibberish pop's up dNch/dy=8000 (mirrored in the footage to look 0008= blah blah blah... which well... you'll see why that's important in a moment). You might think it's some random part of a UA-cam link but this, this right here is the theoretical particle density you'd need to achieve a simulation of the big bang. In the real world ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) was set up to reach that level but was only able to reach about half or so (still really impressive). Well in First Contact this was shown in context of things that needed to be improved for the 6th test and had three red FAILUREs under the equation. This means in the somewhere between the 3rd and 5th test the reached a particle density of 8,000 and it wasn't enough! This means the 6th test needed a density greater then what was needed to simulate a friggin' big bang! Kinda buts the earthquake that was generated by this into context don't it. So yeah, this kid just drops something you either need to be a physics major or a major science fan boy to get casually as a clue!
Seems like creating a big bang irl is a really bad idea but ok
@@A_Black_Sheep94 I mean the Los Alamos scientists who develop the fission bomb thought there was a significant chance of it igniting the atmosphere and consuming the world in a global firestorm and scientist also thought there was a fear that there was a chance that when CERN was fired up it would create strange matter which would of ended reality as we know it in a several light year radius soooo... You'd be surprised how many times science casually does things that can end the world and every star system surrounding it...
@@A_Black_Sheep94 _Simulate_ a Big Bang. That's mildly different
@@VelociraptorsOfSkyrim it's like doing a bit of fusion reaction is simulating how the sun works.
@@yargolocus4853 basically, yeah. Same process, but on a much smaller scale.
I was literally just thinking about when you were going to provide an update. Awesome. This series has continued very strongly.
Oh goodness I didn't think I'd ever be this early to a Night Mind video. What a lovely late night treat.
wendigoon did an extensive interview with kane about where the story is going and you have shed some new light on this mystery as well. i think a collaboration of wendigoon and nick nocturne as an investigative duo would excel this series to even greater heights! keep up the amazing work mr. nocturne!!
Having the ad pop in out of nowhere, just as you were talking about an ad popping in out of nowhere was a nice touch. 10/10
I like how in the presentation video, when it shows the storage volume graph and the a-space box grows to fill the screen, it ends up looking just like a wall corner in the backrooms.
OK the way you transitioned to that ad just like in the hidden video was really smooth, props to you Nick.
Regarding the marine lab: I think the implication is that this lab was built to be the front for A Sync's compound, since we see light from the backrooms spilling over the branded mug from an opening mechanical shutter reminiscent of the one installed at the compound's entrance.
"where are you putting all this stuff"
'uhhh.... underwater. in the ocean. deep down, where nobody has ever been.'
Makes sense to me, yeah.
It's weird to not be rewatching old videos. SO glad to see an update to the Backrooms!
14:45 it should be noted that the commerical that is recorded is from many years after that episode aired, essentially saying that the commercial jumped back in time to when the person recorded that episode, not just that it's shown out of order.
I kinda have the theory that every bacteria creature Async employees had encountered so far arent just creatures, but the same people that went missing and "died" in the backrooms.
Why i think that? because the video of the girl slipping into the backrooms and then finding one of them hibernating gave me the idea that this creatures never were "locals" of this complex, they were created from the semi rotten corpses of people that died inside the backrooms, the sentiance they have comes from each of this victims, they arent just mindless creatures this are the victims that turned into this fungi monstrousities, because the fungi somehow is using the conciousness of the person that died there.
So in a way the bacteria are literal "ghosts"
Damn. Kane deconfirmed this theory a while ago
Nah
@@Slipperyslab Could you elaborate on that, or give a source? I’m really curious.
@@ic0nic707 He said it in a pinned message on his Discord in either the Backrooms - Theories or Backrooms - Discussion channel. He just posted the link to the Discord in his community tab just recently, so you can quickly join and see.
@@Slipperyslab Unfortunately don’t have discord, but thanks for that.
I’ll be honest, I love the whole series, and the found footage short movies are excellent, but “I Remember” is far and away my favourite. The vibe of the whole video is phenomenal, the way everything builds to “could there ever be anything greater than this”, it’s just… chef’s kiss, fantastic, I love it oodles
I've been regularly refreshing my subscription feed today hoping someone would make a video about this because I am OBSESSED.
I could be wrong, but I don't think we're dealing with a doppelganger here. I think when Peter tripped the alarm, they sent in some people to talk to him and try to figure out what happened and what to do. But when they told him they'd already faked his death because he'd been gone so long (and they figured he was actually dead by then anyway), he freaked out and ran back into the Complex to escape, thinking they were going to kill him. (Maybe correctly...)
It's also been 17 days (in universe) since presentation, so how he's survived in there (and stayed healthy enough to overpower Mark and steal his gun) for that long is a mystery in itself. Maybe he found a source of food and water somehow? Or maybe he's gone forward in time again. Maybe he even figured out how to do it deliberately to avoid being found and captured. I don't know. I have so many questions I can't possibly ask them all.
We all assume that the time jumps are forward in time, but what if the guy they found eaten by the bacteria with no hazmat suit in the second video is actually Peter? Weeks after being lost, sick from the Backrooms air. Just a thought.
Something else of note you seem to have missed, 1990 wasn't a leap year, so the Feb 29 date for Informational Video seems to imply some alternate timeline/parallel dimension shenanigans.
The mold using the motion detector as some form of Lidar is actually fascinating as a possibility; it's not as though things evolving don't tend to co-opt their environment into a part of themselves so, like, some fungal limbs attaching themselves to a motion-detector and driving themselves toward things that set it off wouldn't be that unusual at least for the sort of accelerated evolution that iteration tessellation like what happens in the Backrooms would cause.
Oh boy spooky video before bedtime 🌙 😴
Saaame
I'm literally going to fall asleep watching this video
Not scary at all, very calming
Grimmmssss♡
It makes sense for the backrooms to be a reflection of our reality in a way. The question then becomes, is it a reflection of reality from the point the gateway was opened, or has it always been a reflection? What I mean is, has this dimension always had this "modern" look because it exists outside of time in a way, or does it always reflect our world, and it looked more primitive in the past, with say oil lamps as light sources and more rustic environments? If A-Sync had opened the portal in a more rural setting, like if their facility was located in the middle of nowhere, would the backrooms reflect that more instead?
I'm thinking that the Backrooms are a reflection of liminal things that mostly aren't even worth remembering in the first place. Do you really remember the last time you walked through an airport, a hospital, an office building, a doctor's office with the same oppressively bland design? We remember we've been there, but not much about the place itself. It's like a collective unconscious of things we've labeled unimportant and subconsciously banished.
@@cr4shmycar118 Yeah, that was my thought too. It's a further elaboration on the original idea of liminal spaces, as places that you can almost-but-not-quite remember. Which are probably just almagamations of many different similar places that you've visited or seen, none of which had enough distinct features to stand out in your memory.
my theory currently is the backrooms act as a space between Universes. This is why there are two Peters, one is an A-Sync emplyee the other a normal guy, but because the A-Sync Peter got missing his copy eventually ended up in the Backrooms too via a null-zone
My question: How does Peter in the Backrooms know what happened outside the Backrooms? He seems very clear that he knows they set him up. How?
He's probably knows that's what they would do to cover their asses
I love how Kaine understands the backrooms more than every other backroom creator out there.
Every other creator had turned the backrooms into SCP with all these "entities" and "levels".
@marioreyes7971 I agree with you dude.
@@marioreyes7971 in my opinion it feels less like scp and more like the dumb lore behind slenderman and sirenhead.
Most of this has to do with the fact kids are the main people making up the story, and since those kids main inspiration is stuff like five nights at Freddy's, it makes sense why there's so much bad writing.
@@thegreatgoobert5847 nah it feels like scp but like early on before it got serious. or the scp-j side.
Channels like this are MUCH better at explaining a horror series than Game Theory or Film Theory are. This and the previous episode are well-narrated in a tone that creates a good atmosphere and enhances the mood, there's no annoying child-like demeanor that MatPat or Markiplier are known for, and everything is right to the point with no unnecessary fluff. From one Nick to another, well done :)
A few things--the car that crashed in FF2 is not the same one that noclipped on the highway.
That "sunset" is not a sunset at all. It's footage of the first nuclear bomb being detonated.
A-Sync is not evil---not to mention many of them have never even been trained with weapons or combat.
There are no clones or alternate universes or anything. There is one Peter.
A key thing to remember is that the Complex was never created--merely discovered.
One thing Kane's said that keeps haunting me is that "we have already seen the ending."
The backrooms are by definition another universe.
A-Sync is criminally negligent. Whether that's evil is up to interpretation, but it's a fact.
@@z-beeblebrox I only specify it here because the creator of the series has gone on-record stating that A-Sync is not evil.
Kane is awsome. He is creating a series more compelling than just about anything I've ever seen, from Hollywood or TV. Absolutely awsome to be able to witness this unfold.
16:38 I'm not even mad. That was very apt considering where you were in the discussion.
I gotta say, these videos are basically the only reason I can enjoy unfiction projects. As much as I love the general vibe from such projects, I scare a bit too easy for most horror projects. These videos introduce me to projects I can actually enjoy, and then I get to come listen to how another person interpreted it too!
Being nowhere near smart enough to follow the plot or figure any of this out on my own, I am ever so grateful for these discussions. You've really clarified The Backrooms for me. Many, many thanks!
The way you incorporated the ad into this episode is nothing short of genius, Nick. I love that even 6+ years in you continue to remind everyone why you're a top tier creator on this platform
11:27 "I had a form once..." Absolutely bone chilling shit right there
Impeccable timing as always Nick
20:33 to me, this one reminded me of Jacob Geller's video on Control, Anatomy, and haunted houses. The quote is from Anatomy or Haunting of Hill Manor which is also mentioned in that video along with House of Leaves. It seems to me that Kane Pixels is drawing inspiration from the legacy of the haunted house.
Yes! I'm so excited, I love all your videos, but Backrooms has been like one of my biggest obsessions these last few months so I'm so happy you made another one!
Hey Night Mind! I’ve been a huge fan of yours for a while and I love your videos. You’ve helped me through a lot of my rough patches in life. Thank you for everything
Thank you! I'm glad to have been of any help. ::3
Meowth needs HUGS
Just noticed the time stamp at 7:17 is an impossible date. 2/29/90 was not a leap year
He just dropped another episode today. It was dope. Oak ridge national laboratory is real. It's where the Manhattan project took place
Its amazing how many ppl are trying to do the same thing as kane but fail miserably....he really is a genius at what he does and I don't think it can be copied.
Kane seems to have a knack to upload just as someone makes a video about him.
...isn't it strange that out-of-suit Peter knows that they faked his death? How could he have known about that?
I think he just assumed that’s what they’d do to cover it all up
@@AmazingThor and be correct, down to the place and method?
Man listening to this while on the way to school makes me just a tad bit paranoid that I'll no-clip, although i know it's fiction I can't help but believe it when it feels so... Realistic? I guess that would be the correct description.
I just realized while watching this that Kane set one of the videos on 2/29/1990, a day that never actually happened.
I was JUST rewatching your monument mythos videos, this is a pleasant surprise.
god i got so damn lucky with this, literally finished catching up this morning
The commercial IS indicating A-Sync using the portal and the time disruption it causes. The commercial and the show that are on the TV were broadcasted YEARS apart in reality so it is showing a literal time jump.
Just pointing out the first time we are introduced to null zones it is labeled “null zone 4”. Missing 3 others from our pov. No idea if it matters
I'm surprised you didn't mention that "MGMT - Kids" can be heard during Pitfalls when the radio loses signal and distorts, which doesn't make sense as that song came out 17 years after the footage was recorded.
When I cross-reference the worldbuilding of different media, it only makes sense to compare the liminal plane to the deep sea. No walls, comparatively barren, the lifeforms you do find there feed off scavengings from the surface world, etc.
At 8:28, you can see all three researchers pass by. One is obstructed by the one in the forefront. There is no loss of a team member.
Loving the amount of polish on this one. I think everything in the Rooms has distorted copies, including the camera robot which spawned the mechanical beings. Theyre feeding it every time they bring something new
Love the series so much, the experiment side of the story is just so *chefs kiss*
man mad horrors are so fun
One of the best parts to NM’s videos are the opening. I missed the usual opening with the NM logo on a computer in an office, i hope it returns in the next one. At least the rain storm sound effect remained. Thanks as always for great content coverage!
it's so satisfying listening to Night Mind while it's actually raining irl.
I still have a few basic questions.
Did the backrooms exist before Async opened the door or were they created at that time and a consequence of their creation, had now always existed? (basically, did the point of the experiment succeeding and opening the portal not only create the backrooms but also affect time both forward and backward and causing the backrooms to have existed both in the past and future. Remember, there ARE significant time anomalies there.)
Where is the power coming from for the lights? Do the florescent bulbs ever burn out?
Where is all the moisture coming from?
Did Async cause a fundamental weakening of our reality by manipulating a permeant opening to the backrooms?
I always enjoy your reminder to watch the source material. I went through and binged them all!
Thank you for helping me sleep at night by talking so gently about things that should keep me up at night :)
Detail I’ve not seen anybody talk about, the hallway in presentation in the A-Sync building you can see in the original found footage, the infinity hallway with the gap. It’s the same hallway.
It’s my theory that the backrooms is built off the memories of people. The painting in the one room? It’s the exact room and painting seen in the Home Movie. But it’s off, all the main details are missing except the painting, something someone might more easily remember.
This makes sense in the whole idea of the backrooms. It’s a liminal space, it all looks familiar but slightly off. That’s why it’s creepy you can feel like you might have been there but you know you haven’t. That’s my theory and I’m sure it’s bigger but yeah.
"Everyone thinks I'm fucking dead." Who else would Peter have bumped into that thinks that he's dead?
Hypothesis: this is the same Peter as the one in Presentation but the event we the audience assumed to have happened in the narrative never did: that they let the Peter back in. This ties into the unlisted video as that was when instructions were given to leave him inside the Back Rooms and then we wandered off until this point in the series.
I dont remember if I said this on his previous video
And no I don't think this is actually a collaboration
But my head cannon is that the person living in the backrooms is alan tutorials, he brought his blue chairs with him on upright and one fallen down and that's why we haven't seen anything from him since his escape
Always a good day when you see NM upload
Always a good day when you see an upload about the back rooms
Right on the heels of the latest Kane upload; very timely!
Yippee a new nightmind video uploaded almost exactly at midnight. I sure to hope I don't scream cry and piss myself to sleep out of fear I'm sure that absolutely will not happen at all :)
Huge fan Night Mind!!! I just find it funny that like 12ish hours before you posted this, Kane drops his latest video lol!!! Can’t wait for part 3 cause this is getting crazy!!!
Thank you for reminding me of this wonderful series! I really did need to do some catching up lol
I don't know why but I didn't receive a notification for this upload Nick. I did get one for Kane's upload & watched it last week when it dropped but not form your channel. I just thought I'd let you know. I think this kid is a genius personally & Backrooms is my favorite web series ever.
OH FUCK YES!
I was hoping you are nexpo would cover this more
I am SO FUCKING GLAD I took your advice and watched Reunion before the end. Renewed my fascination with this narrative and made me so fucking psyched for the future of the series
I NEVER WANT THIS SERIES TO END
26:35 I'm pretty sure what we're seeing isn't what was in the doorway on the other side of the pitfall room. The way it's phrased is that the team is exploring 14D WHILE the bridge is being built to the doorway in the pitfall room.
So the Backrooms = the Warp from 40K lol
I wonder, are these fungibacteria byproducts of Gork and Mork, or Grampy Nurgle's muckin' about?
"I had a form once." Well, that is a disturbing thought.
Glad you updated, your thoughts and clearing things up made this wayyyy more interesting.
*waiting for the normal Night Mind office space to show up*
*Ends up in the Backrooms*
My reaction: Aw not again...How do I always end up here?
Hahaha, gotta love that timing. :D
Thank you, Gary!
I LOVE RAY CONS I LOVE IT WHEN TIME ANOMALIES REPLAY THE RAY CON ADS!!!
My favorite 4 eyed demon cat is back with more from one of my favorite horror series!
"I had a form once." Anyone ever see the G.I. Joe cartoon movie from the 80s? "I wassss onccccce a mannnnssssss".
Oooh I've never been so early! This is such a nice treat.
Oh my gosh, finally lol. Can't wait to see your interpretations of the newer videos
I mean idk
@@someoneparanoid ram
I love how exited he sounds when the new video dropped
thanks for filling in the timeline, I understand it much better now
We return once again to the Mandrill Maze... Or, more accurately, the Webway.
...that sponsor transition, tho.
3:36 Maybe I'm being an old fart here but... I kinda dislike when real disasters are used in fictional media in this way. Especially if the people involved in those tragedies might still be alive. I felt similarly with petscop (even though that was later explained and the creator decided that even if he didn't intend it to be a literal reference, using so many of the real names and events directly was a bad move.) The people involved in Loma Prieta aren't characters for a spooky story. They were victims of a disaster.
It's a shame because both petscop and this are awesome! This is a great series! And I get the appeal of convenient, free-use media. For some I see how this would add to the immersion. But... I dunno, it just rubs me up the wrong way.
Then again, isn't this what we do? make stories out of our tragedies>
been ill and Going Through It so i some spooky shit in calming dulcet tones is just what i needed 🖤🖤
the fact that this all was done by just one guy is mindblowing
Potential movie creator
@@leociresi4292 yeah, legit inspiration
I haven't been following The Backrooms before this, but it seems like a cross between House of Leaves and Annihilation, which appeals to me a lot.
I think Kane's creation will always be associated with me finally a job and getting to be with my family again. As have your reviews of his work nightmind. Thank you for helping me get thru being away from my family for 8 months.
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