G.M.

Writer. 👩🏻‍💻 + ✍🏼

[✶ @echoesofworld]

Kumamoto, Japan

[ida @saintgumi]

i went for lunch at a hidden jazz cafe in kurashiki and had the best keema curry ever

[Ms.K @mskmalibu]

You have to wear your clothes and use your perfumes and eat that delicious food and dance to the music and talk to that person and live your life

[Carla Mouriño @CarlaMourinho]

He ido a tomar café al lugar más bonito del mundo? Es posible. Está a las afueras de Kyoto, en el río Kibune.

[✧˖ @colditioner]

“Happiness isn’t something you wait around for. It’s something you create yourself… Happiness comes only through effort… No, just be happy. You’ll try won’t you?”

[Portal do Medo @portalmedoo]

Esses são os filmes de terror mais aclamado de 2026

[The Cinéprism @TheCineprism]

🎬 Backrooms (2026)

One of the internet's greatest success stories.

In May 2019, an anonymous user on 4chan posted a grainy photo of an empty room. Sickly yellow walls, harsh fluorescent lighting, damp carpet, and an overwhelming sense that something was deeply wrong. Someone added a caption claiming that if you're not careful, you can "noclip out of reality" and end up trapped in an endless maze of identical rooms known as the Backrooms.

Nobody knew where the photo was taken. For five years, the image spread across forums, Reddit, YouTube, and social media, evolving from a creepy image into one of the internet's most fascinating pieces of modern folklore.

Then, in May 2024, four users on Discord finally traced the image using the Wayback Machine. The photograph originated from a 2002 renovation photo taken inside a former furniture store at 807 Oregon Street in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. But by then, the truth hardly mattered. The myth had already become bigger than its origin.

The Backrooms entered a completely new phase in January 2022 when a 16-year-old filmmaker named Kane Parsons uploaded a nine-minute short film called The Backrooms (Found Footage). Having taught himself Blender and VFX techniques, Parsons transformed a niche internet creepypasta into something cinematic and terrifyingly believable. The video exploded in popularity and quickly became one of the defining horror projects of YouTube's generation.

Hollywood took notice.

Just a few years later, A24 greenlit a feature film adaptation and handed the project to Parsons himself. Operating under the codename Effigy, the production built a massive 30,000-square-foot Backrooms maze in Vancouver. The crew reportedly tested dozens of shades of yellow to recreate the unsettling atmosphere that made the original image so iconic, while the scale of the set became a story in itself.

Born in 2005, the same year YouTube launched Kane Parsons became A24's youngest director ever. At only 20 years old, he achieved something almost unimaginable: turning an internet urban legend into a major theatrical event.

The story of Backrooms is remarkable not because of where it started, but because of what it became. An anonymous image posted on a forum evolved into a collaborative online myth, inspired millions of viewers, launched the career of a young filmmaker, and eventually became a global horror phenomenon.

Few pieces of internet culture have made the journey from obscure message board post to mainstream cinema. The Backrooms did.

All because of a single photograph and a simple idea that tapped into a universal fear, the feeling of being lost in a place that looks familiar, yet somehow feels completely wrong.

[G.M. @applbitter]

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[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

In case you forgot, we live on a planet where lightning turns sand into glass, dolphins give each other names, the ocean glows in the dark, and rain has a scent before it falls. You stand here with a beating heart, a steady moon above, and a world quietly, absurdly beautiful.

[No filter Skin @NoFilterSkin]

One thing nobody tells you about adulthood is how fun it is to become your own person. One day you randomly start liking jazz, olive green, expensive dark chocolate, documentaries about volcanoes, weird lamps, sparkling water, books about loneliness in Tokyo, silver jewelry and quiet cafés. Your personality keeps unfolding forever if you let it.

[Dr. Julie Gurner @drgurner]

Sign of someone who loves their craft:

Being obsessed with details no one else ever sees.

[𝒶𝓃𝑔𝑒𝓁 @glirttery]

obsessed with dark wood furniture

[𝓔𝓿𝓪𝓷 @Baltlol]

if I woke up to a pony playing a keyboard after surgery I would assume I passed away

[Lena @viewsoflena]

I hate to report that an anti-inflammatory diet, weight training and daily walks really does heal most things and exponentially increases your sexy.

[safi @safispoken]

just finished reading a breath of life by clarice lispector and oh okay

[G.M. @applbitter]

@LouisPisano 😳😳

[G.M. @applbitter]

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[Carnivore Aurelius ©🥩 ☀️🦙 @AlpacaAurelius]

you need to be delusionally optimistic

negative thinking poisons your brain and leads to congitive decline

whereas positive thinking, and gaslighting yourself into thinking everything is amazing, ACTUALLY makes your life amazing too.

you must be a silly goose