The Backrooms (Found Footage) meme stems from a legendary 2019 4chan unsettling images thread, which described an infinite maze of yellow-carpeted office rooms known as Level 0. The meme evolved significantly in early 2022 when creator Kane Pixels released a hyper-realistic Found Footage video on YouTube, establishing the modern visual aesthetic of the entity-filled maze. Today, the template is used to convey a sense of existential dread, the eerie nature of liminal spaces, or the feeling of accidentally entering a forbidden zone. It typically features captions about noclipping out of reality or getting lost in familiar but wrong environments, serving as a staple of modern internet horror culture.