Tag: Creepypasta

The Backrooms

Photo of an empty room with dividing walls and yellow wallpaper giving it a liminal feel

The Backrooms is a creepypasta concept of glitching into some sort of liminal space outside of space and time. The inspiration was most likely the liminal space aesthetic that had been gaining popularity around that time. The original post came from 4chan’s /x/ post by an anonymous user who posted this image along with a small creepypasta. Due to the anonymous nature of it, there is really no person who can be credited with creating the Backrooms so the concept is public domain.

As for this picture, last year the owner of Hobbtown USA in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Bob Mazza held a fundraiser for repairs of the location and one of the promises was releasing some old photos he had, including the iconic one which was found on archives of his website from 2003 when they were doing renovations.

He released them into the public domain and posted all his pictures of the location from back then onto the Internet Archive, you can find all the images here

So you can use the images and concept however you like.

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Mazza Oshkosh

femme appearing person with green-grey hair, heterochromic eyes that look faded, one pink, one purple a green coat with fur around the neck wearing normal jeans and sneakers, light brown complexion and two earings in one ear with a stud through the top of their ear. they are smiling and have their hands in the pockets of their coat

Mazza Oshkosh is an inhabitant of the Backrooms and has lived there for a long time, having set up a marketplace for people who appear there. In lieu of money they accept favors in exchange for goods.

Their voice is different from what one would expect them to sound like and they seem to be able to influence people once they make a deal with them, a sort of way to guarantee that the favor is actually done.

They either refuse to leave the Backrooms or can’t, that’s up to interpretation. As is a lot of things but that’s the general idea behind them. They generally use they/them pronouns and are nonbinary.

Mazza Oshkosh first appeared in the Jenny Everywhere Day ’24 story Jenny: Out of the Backrooms by me.

Notes

  • The name comes from Bob Mazza, owner of the HobbyTown USA location where the original Backrooms photo comes from. Said location is located in Oshkosh, Wisconsin which is where their last name comes from.
  • Image was drawn by igioogo for a commission for Sasha Henriksen and as commercial rights was included was released into the public domain.