If you want a download of every liminal image i have and even more aesthetic images check out this twitter post, it has a link to the google drive: twitter.com/pongondonute/status/1583146487764033536?s=20&t=48GGEmZxVgD2B02B45Ttfw
I live in UK and most places don't seem liminal no matter where you would be. I went on vacation to america and everything felt so surreal and odd. It triggered alot of liminal space feelings because of how larger and spacous everything is.
Interesting… I would think it may have to do with the US still being a relatively young country, so much of the architecture isn’t very old compared to many European buildings which were made to last for ages that are often beautiful and have a classic feel nice matter their age. Our stuff deteriorates or we take on styles that go out of fashion very quickly and become outdated, making them feel wrong and eerie out of context. Honestly a lot of these remind me of old creepy country churches, day cares, my mom’s workplace, doctors offices, storage buildings etc. So many of these liminal images bring me back to weird memories of my childhood and my uncomfortable dreams of the past which adds a strange element to it.
Liminal spaces is *the* best aesthetic I've ever seen, and without exaggeration. I swear it's like somebody screenshotted a part of my dream, or a deep obscure, distant memory in my head. I love it. And im glad youre giving it attention, your videos are entertaining on this stuff and the sound/music match the images perfectly
The creepiest, yet most calming ones are the ones that look like a pool ,but with stairs or doorways to go through. Also, liminal spaces can make us both uncomfortable and super comfortable. For someone who is more introverted, I feel like the fact that nobody is there comforts them. And for extroverts, I feel like because nobody's there they feel uneasy, as if something could get them, because they are not in a group. They don't have someone who could protect them. It could be both. I don't even know what the ambiverts are thinking when they watch this.
I kind of describe myself as an ambivert? I dunno, tho, maybe more of an introvert. But honestly, i just have the description of an extrovert when i look at these.
@@aguywhohasonlyjonhiskeyboard Fun Fact: You're never alone. No, i'm not trying to be scary. You are literally never alone. There are about 7.7 billion people in the world. There is always a person on the world, meaning you are never alone (unless humans become endangered and you're the only one left, then you're alone. but honestky the chances of that are probably near impossible.)
For me, this is the best explanation/analysis on liminal spaces out there, because it manages to break down and explain both the physical and mental/emotional elements that make up all parts of the aesthetic as a whole very clearly, and also succeeds in explaining that the liminal spaces aesthetic is one of those things that just hits a bit differently for everyone.
I love liminal spaces. I got so addicted that now I feel derealization and sometimes feel like if I'm fake. Also, sometimes I really wish I could be in those places.
I remember as a kid when I’d used to walk to my friend’s house in the early morning hours before school, before the sun had come up and it was still really dark outside. I lived in a smaller town and no one was outside at that time (usually), so it was always so quiet. And most of the houses and small streets I’d walk by were dark with only a small orangey colored street light on the corner. I used to get the most surreal feelings at those times. Now when I watch your video, I realize I walked and lived in a liminal space. It always felt different at night compared to the day, sometimes creepy, but always so peaceful. I still have dreams to this day of that small town and my old house…
i love the audio design for this, and learning something more about this part of the internet is really interesting. I haven't really done any research to liminal spaces so it's nice to see it put into a small 12 minute video. It's really cool to see you making videos about topics you clearly like, keep it up!!
Hey Polygon, as an expert on psychology of nostalgia, I'm, really glad you made this video explaining liminals spaces. I'd make one myself but I'm too lazy
I love your use of sound design!! It adds so much on how the image feels, like the kind of nostalgic dreamlike sounds that plays with some images making it feel uneasy yet comforting, like you can spend some time by youself enjoying the lack of other life or the emptiness of a never ending hallway with only the buzzing of fluorescent lights to comfort you (seriously the addition of the fluorescent light buzz was so cool!) great video :D
3:16 dude I’ve never seen that picture before but that’s probably the one that feels most familiar to me. I’ve been to a hotel before that had a couch of that same shape and similar color, extremely similar wall and carpets and it even had that window with the blinds, and the kitchen behind that half wall (which was also in that hotel room) had similar cabinets and countertops. The table in the center, there was something like that, the TV, there was a similar, old fashioned TV on a stand that looked extremely similar. I know I haven’t been there but holy crap that gives me the chills.
The liminal pools are my favorite kind, because it has that abandoned/unused aesthetic like maybe some type of incident happened or maybe it was just left there to write and it got flooded for all of those years, giving you wonder about how it got flooded in the first place and how the water can be green, brown, or light blue deep or shallow it has endless of style you can use it for and it would still be the same type of liminal space
7:20 This one reminds me of a story I heard of a girl and her family stuck in a bunker because of toxic waste outside. I'm pretty sure they could go outside because they were high enough so that it couldn't reach them, like on a high hill. Nobody went outside though, and they all needed someone to go outside to get things, and all but the girl were weak, but the girl, fearful, stayed in her spot instaid. One by one, her family members died. She was all alone, and decided to finnaly go outside. She ended up fine and could breathe. She could've saved them. She then died because she jumped off the hill into the waste. Am I the only one who remembers or have heard of this story?
The best liminal space experience I had IRL was when I went to an airport just as it was opening it 4 AM but I also hadn't gotten any sleep. Seeing a pretty much empty airport with some most stores closed with lights off and being tired made it a little unsettling. Amazing experience.
Even before I heard about liminal spaces, I remember sometimes feeling a weird comfort for these kind of transitional places and places taken out of their context. Complex underground structures like basements of large buildings, subway stations, maintenance tunnels etc. in particular have a special adventurous and mysterious feeling to them. I think that is why there are so many games set in maze-like underground tunnels/dungeons. And places like schools at night always had this interesting and eerie feeling to them, I often noticed that before the term liminal space was known, I remember in particular spending the whole night in my universities computer room to work on my projects and having this feeling when walking through the dark and empty hallways at night with no one around. Here are some more things that can have liminal feelings: -Rooms without windows. I noticed that in one of the computer rooms in our university in the middle of the building with no windows as well, it gives a weird feeling of being shut off from the outside world. The same feeling underground places give you, like you are completely separated from day and night. -Outdoor elements inside buildings. When things like large trees, grass, landscapes with plants, ponds, house fronts, walls, roofs etc. that are normally supposed to be outdoors are inside buildings, especially if it is inside smaller cozy rooms meant for living there. -Vehicles taken out of context. This can be a boat on land far away from any water, a plane in the forest, a car inside a small room (rooms where people live) or a bus, truck or train car that has its interior built into a house for living, especially if the original seats are still there but people use it as a living house.
10:41 this photo and this photo 10:45 are extremely nostalgic to me! The first one reminds me of my preschool days and visits to this church my aunt went. I’d frequently play with the kids there. The second one is whimsically nostalgic. A hazy memory. Reminds me of the days before any of my preschool days. The days where I’d lounge around with my Pappie on a hot summer day with a fan, eating sausage and bacon, playing Leapfrog games on a box TV in my room. The days where my Pap would drive me up to my dad’s to stay in which my dad would play Kiss songs nonstop; especially “Shandi” because he named me after it :D and the days when I’d be in our living room watching TV before bed.. probably some time in the late 2000s. My god.. I miss it so much. It also reminds of when I’d be taken to my other Grandpa’s house (he was my grandma’s ex) with my Pap and Gram to sit as they fixed things over there. I’d just chill in the living room and it looked just like that image! And y’know what? I bet the house in that image smells just like cigar smoke just as that house did.
I think sometimes the reason that sudden disappearance of life in public spaces is scary is because your brain tries to put together a reason as to why life has suddenly vanished, but it can't so it starts imagining all sorts of things and it further drives your fear and panic, mainly with the fear of unknown.
One dream I’ve had recently was that I found myself in a grocery store with my grandmother (and several other people). The grocery store seemed normal at first, until I noticed that a sports store was attached to it, and I checked out the hockey jerseys that were there. Since this store in my dreams broke the rules of reality, it’d be considered a liminal space.
The mysterious and lonely ones freak me out THE most, as we are pack animals and would rather be with others than alone. We also would rather make the fear known than fear the unknown
I love liminal spaces, the calm, meditative state they provide while I try to figure myself out, they are quite therapeutic to me, actually, especially when they appear in my dreams. It’s sad that the meaning is being clouded by people who don’t understand it.
I appreciate the fact that you address just how hard it is to define liminal spaces/images. To me, they feel one of two ways. One you touched on, which is stuck. Stuck between what was and what will be, stuck in a perpetual present. You pass through that present when you pass through the space, but sticking around makes you feel stuck yourself. An deeply unsettling feeling, but one that passes once you leave. The other feeling is one I called shared memory. It can be summed up with the phrase "this memory belongs to everyone." Some liminal spaces (and most of my favorites) can elicit memories that most people can relate to. A secional couch in a downstairs living room, pointed towards a tube tv playing spongebob. A school library after dark. A now empty blockbuster building. These spaces drip with surreal familiarity that so many people can recall, even if they've never been there before, especially if that space represents a transitional period of time. That sense of "I know this place, but Ive never been here" elicits such a unique feeling of longing, but sometimes a paradoxical dread that makes you want to get away or stop looking, but at the same time makes you stay put. One of my all time favorite liminal images hits this sharee memory and longing dread incredibly hard. Its a meadow surrounded by tree covered hills on a dark, overcast day. The image quality is low, af if taken on an early 2000s picture phone. Every time I look at it, I feel an intense desire to go there, but a simultanious inexplicable dread
Not even joking, this video has become one of my comfort videos and I've watched it several times now. The way you explain things, the sound design, the visuals: top teir.
I insanely love how Poly makes a damn scientific works about the internet culture for someone who knows it badly or doesn't know at all (I'm this kind of people, hehe, thanks for liminal spaces and weirdcore videos). I feel insanely nostalgic, just like watching some kind of message in class from that guy who waste a lot of time to do it, putting all their soul to the work, feeling awful that there's not much who can see this masterpiece because of everyone just thinking and doing their own stuff. Very good job, so bad I can't do much but press the like button. Can't wait for the vaporwave music stuff or something like this.
ok but 8:59 is a vibe fr... Just gazing out the window at the blue sky and clouds, feeling the warm sun on your face. It's like an eternal summers day. Very calming.
I love your take on liminal spaces. It's always a bit frustrating when ppl constantly describe them as transitional.. bc a lot of liminal spaces aren't.. how is an empty Chuck E. Cheese transitional?
Liminal literally means "pertaining to a threshold". Not "altered reality". Not "creepy" or "eerie". Just that, transitional. A lot of things are mistakenly described as "liminal" because people just don't get it.
If we all gather every single liminal space image ever, we could create some sort of "Liminal-Earth" Just imagine a whole planet, but no there are no people, no animals, no creatures, just you, your slowly decaying conscience, and your loneliness
Liminal space i know, my house in the night, being a night owl im in there a lot, the sound of fans, nobody appears to be there, it gives a very liminal feeling
If a liminal space classifies as "the in-between of things" then does that mean that New Polynomers City is a liminal space? Because it's the one thing between me and mental sanity
10:45 has to be one of my favorite liminal images of all time! and I often wonder where it’s from. Just that nostalgic, haunting golden-green glaze over everything.. that ancient looking bejeweled twinkling Christmas tree.. and those ghostly hazey lights.. especially the blue light coming from the tv. It looks.. whimsical, nostalgic, melancholic, definitely-from-another-era.. but which era?.. it looks so familiar but not at the same time; a common description for liminal images but dang does this photo take the cake for the best descriptor of that. Reminds me of my Papap’s house.. that looked somewhat like that. It smelled like the cigars he smoked, and I bet that room smells the same way. Maybe with a dash of floral perfume? Maybe also with a slight wood-like outdoors smell. But it wouldn’t be fresh.. it would be cramped, closed in, and musty. The room being it’s own reality following it’s own set of rules outside of our own reality. Like.. this room really fits the description of an thing lost to time and space.. shoved to the side in some kinda place where an alternate reality version of us died eons ago. Just pure nothingness.. in a universe filled with only black holes that dispelled an unimaginable amount of years ago.. and yet.. this just.. exists somewhere in it all Yeah I’m rambling.. y’know what I mean tho, right? lol It looks so dead but alive at the same time, stuck in a memory of some kind.. replaying itself over and over again for eternity.
Super Mario 64 and other primitive 3D games give off a liminal feeling You've played them as a kid but as technology gets better those old games feel desolate and lonely.
I know this comment does not have enough money for what you deserve for explaining those images and phenomenons in magnificent ways. I'm going to say words in this message/comment and I have more words to say but I dont have them in my head right now. Idk if i cannot edit my comment later if possible I don't know how donation comments work. Anyways.. My friend you deserve the entire world and more for explaining those pictures in such a sweet harmonic video it was so lovely to view and watch and as soon as you got into the third little section in your video I immediately subscribed I was taken with awe by how simple you made these things seem to people. I can just send this video in my friends and me not knowing how to describe a liminal space, now they can finally understand it clearly and they can understand my cravings because of your excellence. You are truly a magnificent human being and you deserve more than 5 fucking dollars my stupid ass is broke thru google pay or i would give you more and more and more ❤❤❤❤ Thank you from the bottom to the top of my head toes heart feet and soul you are actually wonderful and I litterally cant thank you enough You truly made me feel emotion like no other Video ever could here on UA-cam. You put the audio with pictures you put sounds I know and love in the creepy things and wonderful blissful nostalgic things and for that my friend you deserve 1000 million trillion stars not just 5 Liminal spaces are my life, if i go back on google maps back to 2009 oh the wonder and excitement i get from seeing those wonderful coloresque grainy vr type photos oh its so lovely I'm not kidding if somebody asked me if I would rather live in this real world or be trapped in the backrooms, i would say the backrooms without a beat. Yes my family and friends would maybe miss me and maybe just fall out but i dont care. I love the thought of the danger, the nostalgia, the freedom. Soak in the digital windows xp oxygen. Gander at the endless hallways leading to nowhere and nowhere and nowhere. Imagine if there was something chasing you Like a life or death tag oooh yummy Anyway my point is your video is great and i am now your #1 fan and supporter and i just saw at the end of the video that you have a weirdcore analysis so ima check that shit out w glee next. Thank you kind person, i forgot your name but youre fucking awesome :)
Do more Timeline stuff btw that's really fun to listen to I know these video's take a lot of time but I hope you do one of these soon thanks and have a nice day
I love the way you explain these aesthetics. I'm tryna make my own weirdcore/liminal art and these videos rly help me understand how to make my art feel uncanny
You should definitely do more of these videos. Sometimes during class on my break time, I would watch these on the Chromebook and these videos have been my favorite ever since, especially the Weirdcore/Dreamcore ones where you sound design them. The music you use is PERFECT and the voice is good as well. Pls make more, as a person who made Weirdcore edits and also even made GMod Liminal Space maps, I love these videos, you did really awesome on these. :)
This is exactly what I'm looking for in a video this vibe the pictures u use the over analyzing the weird internet anesthetics I just love it and i keep watching the series on repeat at night plz do more
I find it so crazy that the Pool ones are a thing. I so vividly remember a nightmare I had at least 20 years ago that looked so much like them. I think it was triggered by looking through the grates of the wave machine when swimming
i love these types of videos, as i love these types of images you literally got me into weirdcore from the last video and i already like liminal so i cant wait for this
One of my favorite liminal space areas is the Masked Mutant's lair from the Goosebumps TV series. I recently rewatched it and, god, I wish it wasn't on Netflix, I'd have screenshot the crap out of it.
i feel like liminal spaces are areas that are very open with little or none hiding spots creating that uncomfortable feel and the fact no one is there supports the feeling that the fact if someone did appear would horrify you because there is no where to hide
Instead of making those discord server videos as your main content, i'd love having these kind of explanation type videos, especially on other aesthetics like traumacore. I love your editing style and it really fits for this kind of content, keep up the good work!
I am making that shift right now, i felt a little stuck with discord videos and they were hard to really grow with. I will be doing videos on niche topics i like more often now because its much more fun :)
The backrooms, you talked only about level 0, but there's alot more. Some of those liminal spaces you have shown are indeed backrooms levels, like level 188 and level 130. Although I think this video is mostly correct and works good to informate people about liminal spaces.
6:28 I don't think you truly understand how happy I was to see this picture in this video. I remember coming across it a couple months ago when trying to find info about that "The end is near" library. It made me feel more nostalgic than any other liminal space photo i've seen before. Even though I know it's a library, for whatever reason it reminded me of a jewelry store I went to many years ago. Loved the video, and especially that part. :)
Thank you! I have been wondering why i kept having an eerie yet non horror feeling everytime i see pictures like these. Especially the pool ones. Chills🥶
7:20 my immediate interpretation was a stairway into something and then I realized the numbers 087 are assigned to the stairwell SCP (SCP 087) that seemingly has no end and with creatures living inside it. I don't know if this is on purpose or a complete accident but it's a neat little something to notice
I don’t know why, but in all of your videos, (not just this one) I always feel a sense of nostalgia watching them. I don’t know why you cause this feeling, but you do, and i like this videos.
this video explains pretty well why being at a place like a school at night feels so liminal. basically everyone has been to school in the day time, when it's bright outside and full of people. so when you go there in the evening, maybe for some special event, and it's dark and empty, that breaks your expectations completely, making it feel liminal. this video is great.
I discovered you through your Weirdcore video and came across this one. This is the best explanation of liminality I've come across! I subbed. Can't wait for your other liminal and aesthetic videos!
I just found your channel and i absolutely hooked, please do more! Theres are other cores aesthetic as well or even the topic of 'uncanny' itself, would love to listen to you talk about them!
Honestly I’ve been in an empty inside pool once and my god is it uncomfortable A place that’s filled with happiness and exited ness and has so many movements suddenly is empty and silent it’s weird If you go under the water it feels like something is with you Like something is with you and you’re just in a different universe and some pictures are so accurate that it’s scary but he explained it PERFECTLY the anxiety and loneliness it’s person gg dude gg
i know this is off topic but 11:28 is SPLATOON MUSICCC!!! btw i really like how you explained the liminal spaces i been trying to look for this kind of videos !!! tysm new subscriber C:
True story. I was 9 years old. My mother worked in a medium sized office building during the day and would come home at around dinnertime every night. She came home a little later than usual but no more than a couple minutes later she realized she forgot her case back at the building. Luckily just her boss was still in the building at the time and said it was OK to come and get it when she called. I was completely restless so my mom brought me along to die down my rush. So once we got in building my curiosity got the best of me and I started to wander down the halls while she went to get her case. No sight of people rushing around, no sounds of phone calls and typing, no lights behind any doors...Just the office ceiling lights and me were the only things active. Every step made me more and more nervous but I kept going because I wanted to see more. My little footsteps and my breath were the only noises cutting through the thick silence. I would pause sometimes and hold my breath because I thought I heard someone thing that wasn't me or my mom all the way down this hall. It would be so quiet...so quiet that my brain would make up noises to fill in the void, but that only made me more jumpy. I heard a tiny thud from the ceiling and that was enough to send 9 year old me over the edge. I started bawling and ran back to the front doors as fast as I could. By the time I got to the doors my throat and eyes burned. Thankfully my mom had gotten her case and asked why I was crying. I only pointed down the hall and sniffled. She sighed and took my hand and we got outta there. She was able to calm me down when we got home and let me sleep in her room for the night. It was one of the most terrifying things I had ever gone through...My fear was not that I was alone, but that I WASN'T alone...
If you want a download of every liminal image i have and even more aesthetic images check out this twitter post, it has a link to the google drive: twitter.com/pongondonute/status/1583146487764033536?s=20&t=48GGEmZxVgD2B02B45Ttfw
Ik I already responded on twitter, but thanks for the download! These will help with some ideas I have :D
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this series of explaining and analysing weird internet aesthetics/ image archetypes is really great, would love to see more
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if you've ever just gone a day without sleeping then went outside, you know exactly how liminal that feels
Of course, because dawn is between days. So, it is, by definition, liminal.
That is so true!
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I live in UK and most places don't seem liminal no matter where you would be. I went on vacation to america and everything felt so surreal and odd. It triggered alot of liminal space feelings because of how larger and spacous everything is.
I don't know, my local library in Reading feels quite liminal and unnerving, like it's been stuck in the early 2000s.
Interesting… I would think it may have to do with the US still being a relatively young country, so much of the architecture isn’t very old compared to many European buildings which were made to last for ages that are often beautiful and have a classic feel nice matter their age. Our stuff deteriorates or we take on styles that go out of fashion very quickly and become outdated, making them feel wrong and eerie out of context. Honestly a lot of these remind me of old creepy country churches, day cares, my mom’s workplace, doctors offices, storage buildings etc. So many of these liminal images bring me back to weird memories of my childhood and my uncomfortable dreams of the past which adds a strange element to it.
liminal spaces have always amazed me in an unexplainable way
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Liminal spaces is *the* best aesthetic I've ever seen, and without exaggeration. I swear it's like somebody screenshotted a part of my dream, or a deep obscure, distant memory in my head. I love it. And im glad youre giving it attention, your videos are entertaining on this stuff and the sound/music match the images perfectly
Numer too
I feel the same way, it brings out a feeling I've always chased and tried to hold on to and could never explain.
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i can’t empathize this enough. i love liminal spaces. it’s my favorite and i never get tired of them. i love the music and sounds. 🤍
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The creepiest, yet most calming ones are the ones that look like a pool ,but with stairs or doorways to go through.
Also, liminal spaces can make us both uncomfortable and super comfortable. For someone who is more introverted, I feel like the fact that nobody is there comforts them. And for extroverts, I feel like because nobody's there they feel uneasy, as if something could get them, because they are not in a group. They don't have someone who could protect them. It could be both. I don't even know what the ambiverts are thinking when they watch this.
I kind of describe myself as an ambivert? I dunno, tho, maybe more of an introvert. But honestly, i just have the description of an extrovert when i look at these.
I feel uneasy looking at the no people pictures because it feels like I’m not alone
@@aguywhohasonlyjonhiskeyboard that's what I'm saying it's like you feel empty but you know something's watching you. Waiting to strike.
@@aguywhohasonlyjonhiskeyboard Fun Fact: You're never alone. No, i'm not trying to be scary. You are literally never alone. There are about 7.7 billion people in the world. There is always a person on the world, meaning you are never alone (unless humans become endangered and you're the only one left, then you're alone. but honestky the chances of that are probably near impossible.)
@@SplatDatMat I'm an ambivert I think. I lean more extrovert though
7:05 been there it's a myrtle beach hotel in South Carolina. The reason the windows are blacked out is because it's the bedroom windows.
For me, this is the best explanation/analysis on liminal spaces out there, because it manages to break down and explain both the physical and mental/emotional elements that make up all parts of the aesthetic as a whole very clearly, and also succeeds in explaining that the liminal spaces aesthetic is one of those things that just hits a bit differently for everyone.
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I used to be horrified of liminal spaces but now they seem more interesting and less eerie, but still feel like something’s off.
I love liminal spaces. I got so addicted that now I feel derealization and sometimes feel like if I'm fake. Also, sometimes I really wish I could be in those places.
I remember as a kid when I’d used to walk to my friend’s house in the early morning hours before school, before the sun had come up and it was still really dark outside. I lived in a smaller town and no one was outside at that time (usually), so it was always so quiet. And most of the houses and small streets I’d walk by were dark with only a small orangey colored street light on the corner.
I used to get the most surreal feelings at those times. Now when I watch your video, I realize I walked and lived in a liminal space. It always felt different at night compared to the day, sometimes creepy, but always so peaceful. I still have dreams to this day of that small town and my old house…
Liminal spaces are old buildings that built old memories that will be never forgotten
I'm really enjoying this series about weird internet aesthetics, It's entertaining and imformative. Keep up the good work pongo donute
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i love the audio design for this, and learning something more about this part of the internet is really interesting. I haven't really done any research to liminal spaces so it's nice to see it put into a small 12 minute video.
It's really cool to see you making videos about topics you clearly like, keep it up!!
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Hey Polygon, as an expert on psychology of nostalgia, I'm, really glad you made this video explaining liminals spaces. I'd make one myself but I'm too lazy
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I love your use of sound design!! It adds so much on how the image feels, like the kind of nostalgic dreamlike sounds that plays with some images making it feel uneasy yet comforting, like you can spend some time by youself enjoying the lack of other life or the emptiness of a never ending hallway with only the buzzing of fluorescent lights to comfort you (seriously the addition of the fluorescent light buzz was so cool!) great video :D
Thank yoj so much :)
I agree, you're really good at it. Were you going to upload another compilation like you did for the Weirdcore images?
@@PolygonDonut yeah, thank yoj for the video.
i love polygon donut's videos on weirdcore/dreamcore images. his voice just fits so much?
thank you!! :)
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3:16 dude I’ve never seen that picture before but that’s probably the one that feels most familiar to me. I’ve been to a hotel before that had a couch of that same shape and similar color, extremely similar wall and carpets and it even had that window with the blinds, and the kitchen behind that half wall (which was also in that hotel room) had similar cabinets and countertops. The table in the center, there was something like that, the TV, there was a similar, old fashioned TV on a stand that looked extremely similar. I know I haven’t been there but holy crap that gives me the chills.
for me it looks like one of the roblox flicker maps
i dont know man i just think it does
thats what liminal spaces do
Wait I think I’ve been there too was this in hawaii?
@@joshrainwater2822 no, Vermont
7:52 this.
if i had at least one person with me to keep me company, I would be content in this place forever.
The liminal pools are my favorite kind, because it has that abandoned/unused aesthetic like maybe some type of incident happened or maybe it was just left there to write and it got flooded for all of those years, giving you wonder about how it got flooded in the first place and how the water can be green, brown, or light blue deep or shallow it has endless of style you can use it for and it would still be the same type of liminal space
Ayo polygon, just wanted to say your videos an editing keep getting better and better! Honestly I love this so much! :)
Thank you :)))
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This one reminds me of a story I heard of a girl and her family stuck in a bunker because of toxic waste outside.
I'm pretty sure they could go outside because they were high enough so that it couldn't reach them, like on a high hill.
Nobody went outside though, and they all needed someone to go outside to get things, and all but the girl were weak, but the girl, fearful, stayed in her spot instaid.
One by one, her family members died. She was all alone, and decided to finnaly go outside.
She ended up fine and could breathe. She could've saved them.
She then died because she jumped off the hill into the waste.
Am I the only one who remembers or have heard of this story?
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@@beepboopbop6439 dont worry im confused too
That’s messed up honestly
I think I have... a memory is resonating...!
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The best liminal space experience I had IRL was when I went to an airport just as it was opening it 4 AM but I also hadn't gotten any sleep. Seeing a pretty much empty airport with some most stores closed with lights off and being tired made it a little unsettling. Amazing experience.
What scares me is that there is nothing living in these spaces, so there is no reason to be scared, but we still get scared
Have you played the liminal spaces horror game? It feels so well developed. the game is called Anemoiapolis.
Yes im waiting for the full release!!!
hearing an earthbound intro is a great intro to liminal spaces
Even before I heard about liminal spaces, I remember sometimes feeling a weird comfort for these kind of transitional places and places taken out of their context. Complex underground structures like basements of large buildings, subway stations, maintenance tunnels etc. in particular have a special adventurous and mysterious feeling to them. I think that is why there are so many games set in maze-like underground tunnels/dungeons.
And places like schools at night always had this interesting and eerie feeling to them, I often noticed that before the term liminal space was known, I remember in particular spending the whole night in my universities computer room to work on my projects and having this feeling when walking through the dark and empty hallways at night with no one around.
Here are some more things that can have liminal feelings:
-Rooms without windows. I noticed that in one of the computer rooms in our university in the middle of the building with no windows as well, it gives a weird feeling of being shut off from the outside world. The same feeling underground places give you, like you are completely separated from day and night.
-Outdoor elements inside buildings. When things like large trees, grass, landscapes with plants, ponds, house fronts, walls, roofs etc. that are normally supposed to be outdoors are inside buildings, especially if it is inside smaller cozy rooms meant for living there.
-Vehicles taken out of context. This can be a boat on land far away from any water, a plane in the forest, a car inside a small room (rooms where people live) or a bus, truck or train car that has its interior built into a house for living, especially if the original seats are still there but people use it as a living house.
6:24 glad to see some memes still incorporated into these vids!
If schools Used this guy for learning education would be perfect.
YO THANKS POLYGON FOR THE HEART
he young though gotta wait 10 years pognon:(
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I think this is the best explanation of what a liminal space is on the internet
10:41 this photo and this photo 10:45 are extremely nostalgic to me! The first one reminds me of my preschool days and visits to this church my aunt went. I’d frequently play with the kids there.
The second one is whimsically nostalgic. A hazy memory. Reminds me of the days before any of my preschool days. The days where I’d lounge around with my Pappie on a hot summer day with a fan, eating sausage and bacon, playing Leapfrog games on a box TV in my room. The days where my Pap would drive me up to my dad’s to stay in which my dad would play Kiss songs nonstop; especially “Shandi” because he named me after it :D and the days when I’d be in our living room watching TV before bed.. probably some time in the late 2000s. My god.. I miss it so much.
It also reminds of when I’d be taken to my other Grandpa’s house (he was my grandma’s ex) with my Pap and Gram to sit as they fixed things over there. I’d just chill in the living room and it looked just like that image! And y’know what? I bet the house in that image smells just like cigar smoke just as that house did.
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I freaked out when I saw this image
I remember dreaming about this EXACT pool when I was around 4 years old
Omg pog
i love liminal spaces and its cool that you talk about them
10:07 keyboard cat :)
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I think sometimes the reason that sudden disappearance of life in public spaces is scary is because your brain tries to put together a reason as to why life has suddenly vanished, but it can't so it starts imagining all sorts of things and it further drives your fear and panic, mainly with the fear of unknown.
10:00 proves Minecraft's superflat world is a liminal space.
Yes
One dream I’ve had recently was that I found myself in a grocery store with my grandmother (and several other people). The grocery store seemed normal at first, until I noticed that a sports store was attached to it, and I checked out the hockey jerseys that were there.
Since this store in my dreams broke the rules of reality, it’d be considered a liminal space.
The mysterious and lonely ones freak me out THE most, as we are pack animals and would rather be with others than alone. We also would rather make the fear known than fear the unknown
I love liminal spaces, the calm, meditative state they provide while I try to figure myself out, they are quite therapeutic to me, actually, especially when they appear in my dreams. It’s sad that the meaning is being clouded by people who don’t understand it.
I appreciate the fact that you address just how hard it is to define liminal spaces/images. To me, they feel one of two ways. One you touched on, which is stuck. Stuck between what was and what will be, stuck in a perpetual present. You pass through that present when you pass through the space, but sticking around makes you feel stuck yourself. An deeply unsettling feeling, but one that passes once you leave.
The other feeling is one I called shared memory. It can be summed up with the phrase "this memory belongs to everyone." Some liminal spaces (and most of my favorites) can elicit memories that most people can relate to. A secional couch in a downstairs living room, pointed towards a tube tv playing spongebob. A school library after dark. A now empty blockbuster building. These spaces drip with surreal familiarity that so many people can recall, even if they've never been there before, especially if that space represents a transitional period of time. That sense of "I know this place, but Ive never been here" elicits such a unique feeling of longing, but sometimes a paradoxical dread that makes you want to get away or stop looking, but at the same time makes you stay put.
One of my all time favorite liminal images hits this sharee memory and longing dread incredibly hard. Its a meadow surrounded by tree covered hills on a dark, overcast day. The image quality is low, af if taken on an early 2000s picture phone. Every time I look at it, I feel an intense desire to go there, but a simultanious inexplicable dread
If I'm correct I know where 9:17 is at and have actually been there, it's some sort of aircraft museum.
Isn’t that the Detroit Air zoo? I’ve been there multiple times and I vividly remember this
Im pretty sure it is
Not even joking, this video has become one of my comfort videos and I've watched it several times now. The way you explain things, the sound design, the visuals: top teir.
I insanely love how Poly makes a damn scientific works about the internet culture for someone who knows it badly or doesn't know at all (I'm this kind of people, hehe, thanks for liminal spaces and weirdcore videos). I feel insanely nostalgic, just like watching some kind of message in class from that guy who waste a lot of time to do it, putting all their soul to the work, feeling awful that there's not much who can see this masterpiece because of everyone just thinking and doing their own stuff. Very good job, so bad I can't do much but press the like button. Can't wait for the vaporwave music stuff or something like this.
Thank you!! :)
5:48 IS a real place that you can book a night to and also yes, there is a exit it’s to the left and right.
Yeah i know, but in the image it looks very liminal because of its framing
@@PolygonDonut true.
ok but 8:59 is a vibe fr...
Just gazing out the window at the blue sky and clouds, feeling the warm sun on your face. It's like an eternal summers day. Very calming.
I love your take on liminal spaces. It's always a bit frustrating when ppl constantly describe them as transitional.. bc a lot of liminal spaces aren't.. how is an empty Chuck E. Cheese transitional?
Liminal literally means "pertaining to a threshold". Not "altered reality". Not "creepy" or "eerie". Just that, transitional. A lot of things are mistakenly described as "liminal" because people just don't get it.
Indeed “the pixilated textures of an old game you grew up with” 11:15
Minecraft
@@ender5312 nah I thought it was roblox
If we all gather every single liminal space image ever, we could create some sort of "Liminal-Earth"
Just imagine a whole planet, but no there are no people, no animals, no creatures, just you, your slowly decaying conscience, and your loneliness
Liminal planet
@@PolygonDonut ah yes my favorite playstation classic
Liminal Big Planet
Liminal space i know, my house in the night, being a night owl im in there a lot, the sound of fans, nobody appears to be there, it gives a very liminal feeling
6:52 be like: AYO WHAT IN DA HELL IS PIKACHU DOING IN THERE!?
If a liminal space classifies as "the in-between of things" then does that mean that New Polynomers City is a liminal space?
Because it's the one thing between me and mental sanity
11:30 I spat out my drink, the splatoon 2 music hits diffrent!
10:45 has to be one of my favorite liminal images of all time! and I often wonder where it’s from.
Just that nostalgic, haunting golden-green glaze over everything.. that ancient looking bejeweled twinkling Christmas tree.. and those ghostly hazey lights.. especially the blue light coming from the tv. It looks.. whimsical, nostalgic, melancholic, definitely-from-another-era.. but which era?..
it looks so familiar but not at the same time; a common description for liminal images but dang does this photo take the cake for the best descriptor of that.
Reminds me of my Papap’s house.. that looked somewhat like that. It smelled like the cigars he smoked, and I bet that room smells the same way. Maybe with a dash of floral perfume? Maybe also with a slight wood-like outdoors smell. But it wouldn’t be fresh.. it would be cramped, closed in, and musty.
The room being it’s own reality following it’s own set of rules outside of our own reality.
Like.. this room really fits the description of an thing lost to time and space.. shoved to the side in some kinda place where an alternate reality version of us died eons ago. Just pure nothingness.. in a universe filled with only black holes that dispelled an unimaginable amount of years ago.. and yet.. this just.. exists somewhere in it all
Yeah I’m rambling.. y’know what I mean tho, right? lol
It looks so dead but alive at the same time, stuck in a memory of some kind.. replaying itself over and over again for eternity.
Super Mario 64 and other primitive 3D games give off a liminal feeling
You've played them as a kid but as technology gets better those old games feel desolate and lonely.
I know this comment does not have enough money for what you deserve for explaining those images and phenomenons in magnificent ways.
I'm going to say words in this message/comment and I have more words to say but I dont have them in my head right now. Idk if i cannot edit my comment later if possible I don't know how donation comments work.
Anyways..
My friend you deserve the entire world and more for explaining those pictures in such a sweet harmonic video it was so lovely to view and watch and as soon as you got into the third little section in your video I immediately subscribed I was taken with awe by how simple you made these things seem to people. I can just send this video in my friends and me not knowing how to describe a liminal space, now they can finally understand it clearly and they can understand my cravings because of your excellence.
You are truly a magnificent human being and you deserve more than 5 fucking dollars my stupid ass is broke thru google pay or i would give you more and more and more ❤❤❤❤
Thank you from the bottom to the top of my head toes heart feet and soul you are actually wonderful and I litterally cant thank you enough
You truly made me feel emotion like no other Video ever could here on UA-cam. You put the audio with pictures you put sounds I know and love in the creepy things and wonderful blissful nostalgic things and for that my friend you deserve 1000 million trillion stars not just 5
Liminal spaces are my life, if i go back on google maps back to 2009 oh the wonder and excitement i get from seeing those wonderful coloresque grainy vr type photos oh its so lovely
I'm not kidding if somebody asked me if I would rather live in this real world or be trapped in the backrooms, i would say the backrooms without a beat. Yes my family and friends would maybe miss me and maybe just fall out but i dont care. I love the thought of the danger, the nostalgia, the freedom. Soak in the digital windows xp oxygen.
Gander at the endless hallways leading to nowhere and nowhere and nowhere. Imagine if there was something chasing you
Like a life or death tag oooh yummy
Anyway my point is your video is great and i am now your #1 fan and supporter and i just saw at the end of the video that you have a weirdcore analysis so ima check that shit out w glee next.
Thank you kind person, i forgot your name but youre fucking awesome :)
I hope you like my measly 5$ lol thank you for bringing me such joy ❤❤
Do more Timeline stuff btw that's really fun to listen to I know these video's take a lot of time but I hope you do one of these soon thanks and have a nice day
9:06 ah hell naw they spilled latex in my liminal spacr
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@@PolygonDonut amogusss?
@@thsolodoesstuff3038 stop posting about that
@@sh4tirah 🧌
Scuse me “LATEX?”
I love the way you explain these aesthetics. I'm tryna make my own weirdcore/liminal art and these videos rly help me understand how to make my art feel uncanny
You're popping off with the documentary type videos these are SOOO entertaining and cool! Awesome sound design as always!
5:55 So... This image is used for one of the levels of backrooms. You can exit it by going into the window where you spawned, other are hostile.
"WHO LET THE DOGS OUT- "(hellhounds preceeds to kill them)
@@edwardclark6731 NOOOOOOOOO
@@edwardclark6731 I let the dogs out >:)
@@yourcomputerhasdied :(
@@yourcomputerhasdied Well put them back
You should definitely do more of these videos. Sometimes during class on my break time, I would watch these on the Chromebook and these videos have been my favorite ever since, especially the Weirdcore/Dreamcore ones where you sound design them. The music you use is PERFECT and the voice is good as well. Pls make more, as a person who made Weirdcore edits and also even made GMod Liminal Space maps, I love these videos, you did really awesome on these. :)
This is exactly what I'm looking for in a video this vibe the pictures u use the over analyzing the weird internet anesthetics I just love it and i keep watching the series on repeat at night plz do more
i love how you explain weirdcore and liminal spaces oml please do more content like this bc id definitely watch them all
I find it so crazy that the Pool ones are a thing. I so vividly remember a nightmare I had at least 20 years ago that looked so much like them.
I think it was triggered by looking through the grates of the wave machine when swimming
i love these types of videos, as i love these types of images
you literally got me into weirdcore from the last video and i already like liminal so i cant wait for this
One of my favorite liminal space areas is the Masked Mutant's lair from the Goosebumps TV series.
I recently rewatched it and, god, I wish it wasn't on Netflix, I'd have screenshot the crap out of it.
i feel like liminal spaces are areas that are very open with little or none hiding spots creating that uncomfortable feel and the fact no one is there supports the feeling that the fact if someone did appear would horrify you because there is no where to hide
Instead of making those discord server videos as your main content, i'd love having these kind of explanation type videos, especially on other aesthetics like traumacore. I love your editing style and it really fits for this kind of content, keep up the good work!
I am making that shift right now, i felt a little stuck with discord videos and they were hard to really grow with. I will be doing videos on niche topics i like more often now because its much more fun :)
@@PolygonDonut pog
The backrooms, you talked only about level 0, but there's alot more. Some of those liminal spaces you have shown are indeed backrooms levels, like level 188 and level 130. Although I think this video is mostly correct and works good to informate people about liminal spaces.
6:28 I don't think you truly understand how happy I was to see this picture in this video.
I remember coming across it a couple months ago when trying to find info about that "The end is near" library.
It made me feel more nostalgic than any other liminal space photo i've seen before.
Even though I know it's a library, for whatever reason it reminded me of a jewelry store I went to many years ago.
Loved the video, and especially that part. :)
Thank you! I have been wondering why i kept having an eerie yet non horror feeling everytime i see pictures like these. Especially the pool ones. Chills🥶
I suggested this :D
*Thanks for making this video pongon!*
Finally someone made a video on these amazing images. I looooooove these types of videos like this and the weirdcore one! hope you make more of these
ive been searching the true meaning for liminal spaces and by far u have been the one to deliver
Just watched this, very good editing and voice acting
Pongon never gave us up!
7:20 my immediate interpretation was a stairway into something and then I realized the numbers 087 are assigned to the stairwell SCP (SCP 087) that seemingly has no end and with creatures living inside it. I don't know if this is on purpose or a complete accident but it's a neat little something to notice
5:23: Is that Mario 64 music I hear?
I don’t know why, but in all of your videos, (not just this one) I always feel a sense of nostalgia watching them. I don’t know why you cause this feeling, but you do, and i like this videos.
That was so good, I've never seen this topic be explained well until now
This is a really great analysis of liminal spaces, especially the atypical ones.
8:33 it's just me and the boys building in minecraft
this video explains pretty well why being at a place like a school at night feels so liminal. basically everyone has been to school in the day time, when it's bright outside and full of people. so when you go there in the evening, maybe for some special event, and it's dark and empty, that breaks your expectations completely, making it feel liminal. this video is great.
I discovered you through your Weirdcore video and came across this one. This is the best explanation of liminality I've come across! I subbed. Can't wait for your other liminal and aesthetic videos!
Thank you!!!
interesting video, i am both freaked out and interested by liminal spaces
5:00 The among us music was used here for a liminal space.
Among us 📮📮📮📮📮📮📮😳😳😳😳 Sus
Amoogus
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Loved this video and the funny but also respectful way you explained this concept, subscribed
I just found your channel and i absolutely hooked, please do more! Theres are other cores aesthetic as well or even the topic of 'uncanny' itself, would love to listen to you talk about them!
Honestly I’ve been in an empty inside pool once and my god is it uncomfortable
A place that’s filled with happiness and exited ness and has so many movements suddenly is empty and silent it’s weird
If you go under the water it feels like something is with you
Like something is with you and you’re just in a different universe and some pictures are so accurate that it’s scary but he explained it PERFECTLY the anxiety and loneliness it’s person gg dude gg
Yeah empty pools are so creepy
I'm beginning to think that "reality" is Polygon Donut's favourite word
WA
i think this is the best explanation of what a liminal space is that ive seen on youtube
i know this is off topic but 11:28 is SPLATOON MUSICCC!!! btw i really like how you explained the liminal spaces i been trying to look for this kind of videos !!! tysm new subscriber C:
i absolutely love your energy and style, really cool video dude!!!
Thank u so muhcc
@@PolygonDonut yankee wit da missin bwim 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺
7:13 I’m pretty sure I was once there or in a place smiliar to it and I remember how uneasy I felt
Absolutely love the music in this video, it's incredible
The art of liminal photography is sureal.
0:15, saw this in a dream, there was also a radio outside brodcasting signals. that's it.
Just wanna say, this is a great video and I love your editing.
THANKS
True story. I was 9 years old. My mother worked in a medium sized office building during the day and would come home at around dinnertime every night. She came home a little later than usual but no more than a couple minutes later she realized she forgot her case back at the building. Luckily just her boss was still in the building at the time and said it was OK to come and get it when she called. I was completely restless so my mom brought me along to die down my rush.
So once we got in building my curiosity got the best of me and I started to wander down the halls while she went to get her case. No sight of people rushing around, no sounds of phone calls and typing, no lights behind any doors...Just the office ceiling lights and me were the only things active. Every step made me more and more nervous but I kept going because I wanted to see more. My little footsteps and my breath were the only noises cutting through the thick silence. I would pause sometimes and hold my breath because I thought I heard someone thing that wasn't me or my mom all the way down this hall. It would be so quiet...so quiet that my brain would make up noises to fill in the void, but that only made me more jumpy.
I heard a tiny thud from the ceiling and that was enough to send 9 year old me over the edge. I started bawling and ran back to the front doors as fast as I could. By the time I got to the doors my throat and eyes burned. Thankfully my mom had gotten her case and asked why I was crying. I only pointed down the hall and sniffled. She sighed and took my hand and we got outta there. She was able to calm me down when we got home and let me sleep in her room for the night. It was one of the most terrifying things I had ever gone through...My fear was not that I was alone, but that I WASN'T alone...
i love this so much that i have watched it around 5 times already, i could watch this all day