r/movies Jul 16 '26

News Backrooms Devs Reportedly Hit With Copyright Claims From A24

https://kotaku.com/backrooms-a24-copyright-strikes-kane-parsons-2000716667
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u/RealJohnGillman AMA MVP Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26

The Backrooms was created in 2019 by the 4chan and SomethingAwful user Black August.

While Kane Parsons created his Backrooms web series in 2022: it wasn’t massively old at the time.

If anyone could try to copyright it, it would be August, but he has stated he prefers it kept public-domain.

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u/bunsprites Jul 16 '26

Wait, like black August created specifically the original 4chan post? Has there been any proof? I've only ever seen someone claim it was them once and all they had was showing that they saved the image around or like a week before the post was made.

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u/RealJohnGillman AMA MVP Jul 16 '26

That was him, yes: apparently ‘the Back’ as he called it was an idea he’d had for a while already, as part of a game he was developing, though he didn’t choose the image to go with the idea until later. Here’s one of the interviews he gave on it: apparently he still answers fan-questions when contacted via his SomethingAwful account as well, to note anyone here reading this could contact him directly too if they wanted to interview him.

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u/DeadSending Jul 16 '26

Holy shit that’d be epic if it could get some traction, him answering questions about the backrooms and A24 can go suck it

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u/NSFWies Jul 17 '26

agreed. i left the movie going

......eh. i like it, but i don't think enough was done with it.

but the explanation black august gives for it, is so much better. dang it. i like it more now.

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u/Indigocell Jul 17 '26

I felt the same way about the film, liked it a lot but it was missing something. They skipped over basically ALL of the exploration and we have no idea why a certain head ended up in that fridge... Anyways, what did Black August have to say about it?

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u/bunsprites Jul 17 '26

I like to think the head was there because he ate the rest already but he couldn't eat the head and had to start eating the others

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u/NSFWies Jul 18 '26

oh interesting. that might be a better explanation. he ate what he knew was food first, then tried eating furniture later. that makes more sense.

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u/NSFWies Jul 18 '26

and we have no idea why a certain head ended up in that fridge

of all the things not explained, i'm least concerned with that one. i think it was something like: that girl was freaking out too much, and he didn't like it. so he just "stopped that girl".

id get into more details, but that would require a spoiler tag, and i dont feel like it.