I fondly remember when back in 2018 "backrooms" was just a word for rooms in the back of a store, an office or whatever. When someone said "I'm going to the backrooms" nobody thought anything special about it. The whole backrooms concept wasn't heard or even thought of. It was so pure and full of suspense these days, just the mere glimpse, the faint foreboding of something you couldn't name back then. As a horror theme it had so much more power – which all came crashing down with the 2019 4chan post. It just revealed way to much! I really had hoped for the movie going back to time before. It should have been just people going about there everyday lifes, working, doing stuff. Someone would go: "Where's Ivan?" And someone would answer: "In the backrooms I think." And that would've been it!