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The 2018 cougar attack that killed people near Seattle could have been prevented by JUST PUNCHING IT IN THE NOSE. Ver archivo adjunto 9154621
One of the most amazing things I've read online. Bro is the final boss of Cougars.
Won't playing dead just get you mauled anyway? And no. You aren't playing punch-out with a big cat. It's either gonna run away, or it'll maul you as you shit and piss your pants.
Years before Backrooms burst into theaters with its $118 million global box office debut, it was the focal point of fan debate, creativity and discussion on Reddit.
The tech platform is built around “subreddits,” communities focused on specific topics, from the broad (r/sports, r/movies, etc.) to the hyper-niche. One of those communities was r/backrooms, which was formed after a post on the image board 4Chan sparked the idea for the fantastical and dreary world.
“It started back in 2019, and it was where people were coming together to really take this simple concept into all these discussions and the lore-building that happened in there,” says Jim Squires, chief marketing officer of Reddit, tells The Hollywood Reporter.
Kane Parsons, then using the pseudonym Kane Pixels, took the concept and ran with it, creating a Backrooms video series on YouTube, leading to the feature from A24.
“Reddit has helped build communities on different topics, and that includes internet phenomena. The bigger the community, the bigger the opportunity to create something worthwhile,” says a moderator on the r/movies subreddit who agreed to speak to THR on the condition that he be identified by his username, SanderSo47. “Users not only witness the concepts, but they also help contribute with new ideas. There’s a lot of material to explore. It’s just about finding the right talent. Going back to r/movies, we had a lot of updates for the project in the past three years, and it all led to high engagement from our users: Every trailer, every poster, every interview, it all built awareness and more curiosity. It’s no surprise that this, along with Obsession, has been one of the best titles we’ve had in the subreddit for discussion.”
As Hollywood appears poised to pivot to digitally native creatives like Parsons and Obsession director Curry Barker, Reddit is emerging as a focus point (alongside obvious suspects like YouTube and TikTok) for agents and execs seeking the Next Big Thing. Indeed, one agency veteran says that assistants at their agency have identified “a bunch” of subreddits and short stories that they think could lead to compelling ideas.
The platform, which was founded in 2005 and now counts the Newhouse family as its largest individual investor, has become a place to gauge fandoms and increasingly where studios, writers and directors can even uncover new IP and talent. “It’s almost a real-time IP incubator of sorts, with moderators and communities that are cultivating these spaces where stories and fandoms can grow organically,” says Squires.
That includes Backrooms, where a community helped create a world, but also subreddits dedicated to short stories, or the popular r/nosleep, where people write and read original horror. One of those stories on Reddit is being developed as a feature film produced by and starring Sydney Sweeney called I Pretended to Be a Missing Girl.
“I think of Reddit as the most powerful focus group that’s ever existed. So that’s both for discovering ideas you may not have thought of but also for testing ideas and interacting with the communities to understand how things are being received and what’s happening,” says Squires. “Ultimately, if [a studio or producer has] an idea and they want to develop it, like the Sydney Sweeney idea, that’s for them to ultimately reach out to the moderators and the right people on the platform to do that, and they do those deals directly, but we will help facilitate when needed.”
And entertainment content is increasingly taking up more and more of the time spent by users on the platform. Reddit says that such content on the platform captured 240 billion views over the past year, while research it conducted with Samba indicated that marketing campaigns from entertainment companies contributed to an 18 percent incremental lift in viewership on the content in question.
Squires says the authenticity of those efforts matters. “We really foster and encourage brands or movie studios or directors to use the tools — organically as well as the paid marketing tools — to drive scale and to get in front of those audiences,” he says. “I always advise brands, do exclusive AMAs [ask me anything Q&As] that people might be interested in — that always fosters and brings true fans out.”
Parsons, for example, did an AMA on r/movies about Backrooms that attracted more than 1,400 comments — a full-circle moment for a creative releasing IP that is very much of the internet.
“The future is always uncertain, but the one hope is that it can look at this place not as a place for discussion for movies but as a place where there can be future talent, where their efforts pay off, which can lead to big opportunities,” SanderSo47 says. “They see what’s popular, and they want some of that. What Parsons built with his short films led to a lot of communities taking notice. He displayed a level of originality and creativity, and that was welcome in all these circles.”
and this kind of thing is why journalists are long overdue for being replaced by AI - a very brief google will tell you it originated on 4chan's /x/ board
at least their editor made the effort to ensure everything was spelt properly
and this kind of thing is why journalists are long overdue for being replaced by AI - a very brief google will tell you it originated on 4chan's /x/ board
at least their editor made the effort to ensure everything was spelt properly
Things are so fucked right now. I google a simple medical question, the first result is a fucking reddit post that I have to expand to even see, and then it's not even the actual post it's the gigantic laundry list of rules from the janny.
and this kind of thing is why journalists are long overdue for being replaced by AI - a very brief google will tell you it originated on 4chan's /x/ board
at least their editor made the effort to ensure everything was spelt properly
To play Devil's Advocate, and I genuinely cannot believe that I am about to run defense for some shitty MSM bumrag, but I highly doubt that the writers of that movie nor anyone involved in that production were /x/ schitzos and probably really did learn about the backrooms from Reddit.
To play Devil's Advocate, and I genuinely cannot believe that I am about to run defense for some shitty MSM bumrag, but I highly doubt that the writers of that movie nor anyone involved in that production were /x/ schitzos and probably really did learn about the backrooms from Reddit.
They don't even have to go to reddit. The highest viewed backrooms video on youtube is like 100 million. You actually have mental illness if you think the people creating that movie are infiltrating 4chan discords or something. All of that stuff is normie central.
The normies are getting lost at the backrooms while true chads are having fun at the Shape Store...
The backrooms kinda got coopted by kids and basically transformed into "SCP 2.0", with hundreds of OCs and levels and wathever shit people came up with to fuck it more. The original concept was just a familiar, comfy but lonely place that didn't seem to 'fit' into reality - the 4chan threads were chill as fuck. All the bullcrap added after certainly came from reddit, those retards shit up anything they touch - and they're fucking proud of doing it.
I bought an older Sony camera and was browsing around different forums to see what other people thought about the camera and I somehow ended up on Reddit thread about the camera and holy fuck Reddit people are retarded. This guy came in saying how slightly newer camera that was 3 times as expensive way better. And he somehow didn't understand that the performance for the price was the main talking point and other retards were agreeing with him.
Has Reddit just devolved into contrarianism and "erm more newer and expensiver thing better than older thing" without understanding any of the guys points. It's like the purposefully don't understand what the argument is to win.
Has Reddit just devolved into contrarianism and "erm more newer and expensiver thing better than older thing" without understanding any of the guys points. It's like the purposefully don't understand what the argument is to win.
Things are so fucked right now. I google a simple medical question, the first result is a fucking reddit post that I have to expand to even see, and then it's not even the actual post it's the gigantic laundry list of rules from the janny.
The normies are getting lost at the backrooms while true chads are having fun at the Shape Store...
The backrooms kinda got coopted by kids and basically transformed into "SCP 2.0", with hundreds of OCs and levels and wathever shit people came up with to fuck it more. The original concept was just a familiar, comfy but lonely place that didn't seem to 'fit' into reality - the 4chan threads were chill as fuck. All the bullcrap added after certainly came from reddit, those retards shit up anything they touch - and they're fucking proud of doing it.
I can't even express how frustrating it is that the concept of liminal spaces has somehow turned into monster horror when it's supposed to represent isolation and wonder. It's surreal, but not enough to be weird. It's like an environment was generated with some of the built-in limitations removed. It's something mundane that you're familiar with, but presented in a way that makes you see it for the first time.
It's okay for some aspect of that to make you anxious, but being terrified of it is on the same level as being afraid of the dark in your own home. Only a hack seriously tries to run with "but what if there really IS something hiding in the dark!?"
Comparing it to SCP is apt, though. I remember mentioning SCP to a friend and he was like "oh is that that creepypasta site?"
I almost wrote a long seethepost, but these people only ever learn at the barrel of a gun. They NEED to be home invaded by Tyrone and the '92 crew. I've seen this mentality my whole life.
Philadelphia subreddit reminds me a bit of the South Africa subreddit lmao.
I bought an older Sony camera and was browsing around different forums to see what other people thought about the camera and I somehow ended up on Reddit thread about the camera and holy fuck Reddit people are retarded. This guy came in saying how slightly newer camera that was 3 times as expensive way better. And he somehow didn't understand that the performance for the price was the main talking point and other retards were agreeing with him.
Has Reddit just devolved into contrarianism and "erm more newer and expensiver thing better than older thing" without understanding any of the guys points. It's like the purposefully don't understand what the argument is to win.
There's a lot consumerism built into the Redditor.
I had a similar experience recently where I tried to find help for some budget (Chinese) audio equipment I bought off Amazon. All the search results led to Reddit. All of which were useless blabbering and recommendations for other devices or "works fine for me." It seems like the idea that people might want to discuss the subject of a post is lost on them.
I expect it's extra annoying for camera related stuff because that stuff is pricey, so you naturally want to get good bang for your buck and learn the nuances of the equipment. It's been said many times, but Reddit killing the special interest forums has been crap for the wider internet at large.
The Shape Store is the anti-backrooms. No autistic wiki fodder, tumblr kid OC’s or neatly catalogued levels or entities. Only shapes and pristine theatrics, man.
The backrooms kinda got coopted by kids and basically transformed into "SCP 2.0", with hundreds of OCs and levels and wathever shit people came up with to fuck it more. The original concept was just a familiar, comfy but lonely place that didn't seem to 'fit' into reality - the 4chan threads were chill as fuck. All the bullcrap added after certainly came from reddit, those retards shit up anything they touch - and they're fucking proud of doing it.
It’s a tale as old as Web 2.0: 4chan spawns something new, fresh and creative, then Redditors and tumblr kids co-opt it and make it lame and gay. Then trannies take it over.
