>2002: guy photographs room during renovations at Wisconsin furniture store
>2019: anon on 4chan’s /x/ (Paranormal) board asks for cursed images that feel “off”
>anon digs up 17-year-old photo of the yellow room and posts it
>another anon writes the original noclip copypasta
>internet goes insane
>Backrooms wiki, levels, entities, endless lore
>2022: 16yo Kane Pixels makes a Backrooms short in Blender
>it goes viral
>starts making more found-footage shorts
>millions of views
>A24 gives him $10M to make feature film
>2026: movie makes $390M worldwide

all from one eerie photo of a yellow room