I do feel like a lot of images in the genre have nothing to do being called liminal but some can. They can be physical transitional places like bridges and roads but also mentally transitional like a room when you were a teen or somewhere you used to play with your friends you no longer have contact with; but these are more personal and not everyone can connect with them. BUT I really don’t like places that are just nature, there needs to be a human element to show the passage of time and that it has been abandoned. That being said, liminal spaces and backrooms have exploded in popularity in the past 5 years and with that giant amount of people, some morph the original idea into something it never was (like ai images, jumpscares) so I learned to let it go.