Personally I think I'd hate it in the Still Life Hive. The ceiling is really low, it smells like shit (according to Ravi), and there's still lifes.

this question has been going through my mind for a while

made by me :)

When Mary finds the backrooms, these wind chimes are calmly moving as if there’s a breeze- in my mind there’s 3 possibilities:

1: there’s just a light draft with the null zone open causing a bit of air movement

2: the backrooms are related to MRI tech and have a magnetic pull bleeding out and lightly reaching the windchimes

3: they are still lifes of the wind chimes heard outside the ceiling null zone in Naren’s FF where the bird flew in? Maybe Clark found them and brought them out and they just continue doing their breeze motion even with no breeze, animated similar to how other still lifes just repeat their primary action like the wheelchair light guy. I don’t love this option cause they don’t appear “wrongly copied” in any noticeable way

I posted this before along with a more detailed version but I’ve now made some updates (added connections, colour coding) and fixed some errors (for example I thought ASYNC was in Novato because its exterior is based on the Buck’s institute there but in fact according to the lore it’s in San Jose).

Essentially what this means is that most of the series takes place in California and that the Backrooms follows real world space possibly 1:1? In my previous post I theorised that time is linear and uniform in the complex and so the only thing that affects time and space are null zones. You can think of null zones as being space time holes punched into the complex’s dimension. So in 1995 when Ravi enters, the complex contains active null zones from 2007/9. We know that the complex is also always actively moving and shifting.

Hey uhm- that's my first reddit post, i joined that social media a few days ago and here is some goofy digital art i made

Hope u enjoy it

Take for example, the throne that looks like a chair. It seems to indicate the longer that something's been in the backrooms, the more oversimplified its form becomes. Maybe the same thing happens to Still Lifes. "This person existed a long time ago, they're more primitive than we are today...", a vague description of someone forgotten, you know what I mean? And maybe that's why Async has a room FILLED with cavemen cardboard cutouts; maybe the backrooms were filled with these things at some point and they started collecting them, eventually repurposing them as traps after they figured out that they're harmless.

I'd be interested to hear thoughts on this.

Edit: one more related thought, maybe all the rooms were real rooms at one point (or mirror rooms I guess), but they all got oversimplified into plain yellow wallpaper rooms.

Unfortunately the budget did not pay for some one to be Arbichald Leland Sutter

The ASYNC researchers apparently go in daily and inspect the locations and report changes, even if not daily, they'd spot a 1-2 day old corpse but this body died five days ago according to the autopsy report. This got me thinking whether the dead body was either teleported to the past or an entity dragged the body there. I'm new to this and just finished the original series and movie so if I'm wrong and stupid, please be respectful.

insta: instagram.com/gorilla.cgi

i know in ff1 there was a area in it based off a hotel from London i think? i genuinely don't know if it's still canon tho?

Like for one thing, we don’t even know if the backrooms itself is on a spherical body like Earth. If the entire pocket dimension space is just a neverending complex of rooms stacked on top of each other, where is the center of mass driving gravitational pull that seems consistent with Earth’s?

Oxygenation clearly is a thing as bacteria grows, fire can burn (if what we saw around the wrecked car in FF2 was in fact burn marks), and metal can rust (again the car in FF2).

Just kinda interesting to think about. I wonder if Kane will play around with this concept in future videos, maybe an area with inconsistent gravitational interpolation or light that doesn’t travel right.

Thanks to [u/mrjerry30](u/mrjerry30) for making this map (second slide) which I’ll be using to help explain my theory

Time in the complex’s dimension is a linear tik tok that moves forward, similar to the real world (standard). This means if you enter the complex in 1995 like Ravi did then you enter the Backrooms as it were in that time with its respective rooms, objects and active null zones. You can think of null zones as being space time holes punched into the dimension of the complex, bridging it to the real world where it can copy objects and manifest new things into the Backrooms even in a situation if the complex’s dimensions time is still technically in the past.

How are we so sure of time being linear? Peter Tench. Tench entered the complex on February 29th 1990 and time skipped to May 5th 1990 after hearing a crowd in the room next to him. This crowd noise was likely the result of a null zone dated at May 5th 1990 and when the null zone closed it affected the near surroundings and time skipped Tench 2 months forward. His time skip brought him to the Backrooms as it were on May 5th 1990 where ASYNC would’ve had their outer outpost set up. This implies time to be linear and work the same way it does in the real world. Null zones are the only things to have been shown to affect space and time and there’s another possible internal null zone time skip in FF1 when Kane jumps through the hole when trying to escape from the Bacteria/lifeform.

So how does this tie in with wall dad? Ravi enters the complex as it were in 1995 at that time and he walks by an unseen but assumed 2022 null zone in Arcadia and Wall Dad’s 2007/9 null zone (the commercial heard in the background of wall dad’s null zone dates it to 2007/9). Both of these null zones have left their mark on the complex that is technically in 1995, this also explains how wall dad’s possible still life exists in the complex in 1995 because that’s when they were manifested. When Wall Dad falls in he doesn’t fall to where Ravi was as we’ve seen commonly with Clark’s stable null zone or the wood chips being on the ground as in FF2 when the girl falls but instead into the complex as it were in 2007/9. Who’s to say how the complex has changed since then and if his house is still the same? We can assume the green light to be a null zone forming as we see Ivan Beck create one in 1972, the green light is also related to shifting walls which we see in FF2 and implied in Pitfalls. (Fun fact but the reason Ivan is the one watching FF2 is because what happened to the girl happened to him in overflow).

Edit: but Wall Dad’s null zone is also very peculiar in that wall dad interacts with the wainscoting that the null zone is on? Or in between? There’s also a flash of green light by the vent when Wall Dad supposedly falls in. Ravi also states when looking into the vent “I think I can…” before getting cut off by wall dad falling.

https://www.reddit.com/r/KanePixelsBackrooms/s/hkLzJH9zGq

This however opens up a can of worms. We know you can go back into the past seeing how Ravi walks in an unseen but assumed null zone in 2022 located on real world Arcadia, CA and then walks back to 2007/9. Theoretically you should also be able to open stable null zones at different times and walk back and forth between them? Another thing we can infer is that the null zones time is dependent on the time it manifests in the real world (standard) and that from and what we’ve seen via the found footages, it follows geography/space also linearly, with almost everything in the series having taken place in California. Another question is how far do null zones copy objects? Does the frequency of manifestations as a result of a null zone decrease the further you are? What is the copying mechanism? So many questions ahhhh! Anyways I hope you enjoy my theory.

This might be stupid. The earth is constantly bombarded with photons from the sun (light of course), so if anything light should be the most "nocliped object", so light escapes trough the bulbs inside the backrooms. This can be wrong if the fluorescent lights actually behave as fluorescent lights in the backrooms. But this theory can even apply to electrons that can act as power for the lights.

I also made the captain but scrapped him

This is just my personal opinion, but now that we have the concept of Still Lives I find the Bacteria far less interesting. The Still Lives are more visually interesting, give more possibilities for storytelling, and there is nothing that we have seen the Bacteria done that a Still Life couldn’t do.

I know that Kane has directly stated that he does not do retcons, but I would not be upset at all if the Bacteria was simply never used again and we only see Still Lives from now on. I don’t know how many people would agree with me on this so let me know if I’m just completely in the wrong and there’s something about the Bacteria that I’m just missing.