Enchiridion

POV: you accidentally became obsessed with paleontology.

[Enchiridion @enchiridionapp]

I can confidently say the majority agree Prehistoric Kingdom is a meaningful scientific tool.

Love when video games and science come together,

And from within paleoart emerges in all its splendor and poise!

[🦖 Dino Kia 🦖; 🏳️‍🌈 Surviving Oak Street @YutyTyrant]

Prehistoric Kingdom is paleoart

[Enchiridion @enchiridionapp]

Backrooms will make $250 million plus in the Box Office. Maybe $500 million (reach)?

Today is May 28, 2026.

Mark my words.

So proud of Kane Parsons, A24, and the team.

This inspires a generation of young YouTube filmmakers. Thank you.

[Enchiridion @enchiridionapp]

@cmkosemen Clear example of negativity bias.

Maybe our ancestors could use negativity bias to avoid tough situations.

But the rules have changed.

Thinking in that way is actually dangerous.

You're stressing over fictional problems in a world that is "stable" in the broad sense.

[Enchiridion @enchiridionapp]

Kane Parsons is gifted.

Learning Blender off of YouTube tutorials is hard.

As 3D artists, many times we don't have tools to learn what we don't know. Plus, difficulty.

Kane survived the hard mode of 3D all while exceeding expectations with soulful storytelling.

Inspiration.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A 16-year-old in California taught himself free animation software in his bedroom and made a 9-minute YouTube video. Four years later, A24 built him a maze the size of half a football field and gave him two Oscar nominees to direct.

Backrooms opens in theaters tomorrow. Director Kane Parsons was born in 2005, the same year YouTube launched. He picked up a free program called Blender on his own, uploaded "The Backrooms (Found Footage)" in January 2022, and got 16,500 views in the first week. By the end of that month, the video had over 15 million views.

It all started with a single post on 4chan, an anonymous internet forum, back in May 2019. Someone asked for disquieting images that felt "off." Another anonymous user replied with a grainy photo of an empty room with sickly yellow walls and harsh fluorescent lighting. A third user added the caption: if you're not careful, you can "noclip out of reality" (a video game term for falling through walls) and end up trapped in an endless maze of yellow rooms that smell of damp carpet. For five years nobody could figure out where the photo was taken.

In May 2024, four people on Discord cracked the mystery using a tool called the Wayback Machine, which stores old versions of websites. It came from a 2002 renovation at 807 Oregon Street in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. That exact building had been a furniture store called Rohner's Home Furnishings for most of the 20th century.

From the A24 website: "A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom." Parsons traced the lore right back to where the photo came from.

He designed every set in Blender first, then his team physically built the whole maze, all 30,000 square feet of corridors in Vancouver, Canada. They tested 50 shades of yellow before picking the right one, and crew members got lost inside their own set. Filming wrapped in August 2025 under the codename Effigy.

Producers include James Wan (the Saw and Conjuring franchises), Shawn Levy (Stranger Things), and Osgood Perkins (Longlegs). Cast as the leads: Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave) and Renate Reinsve (Sentimental Value). Parsons also co-wrote the music. At 20, he just became A24's youngest director ever.

Backrooms opened at 92% on Rotten Tomatoes. Some critics are already calling it the Blair Witch Project for the internet-horror generation.

[Enchiridion @enchiridionapp]

@NatSciChannel @TomHoltzPaleo Sometimes when it's acquired and it gets into private hands, access & studying the fossil becomes harder for scientists.

And at that point "capitalism" becomes a tool that stifles scientific progress.

I hope this specimen can be studied if it hasn't been already.

[Enchiridion @enchiridionapp]

@FilmUpdates @PredatorX786144 Looks like a stereotypical grey alien.

But with those tiny human-like ears, it's basically a large-headed human with big, dark eyes.

This creates the uncanny valley effect, as it looks strangely human but not so much.

@Trey_Explainer Scientifically Plausible Aliens

[Enchiridion @enchiridionapp]

@CollectorPaleo Interesting this actually happened. Where can I read up more on this?

[Enchiridion @enchiridionapp]

@DiscussingFilm @PredatorX786144 Heavily inspired by Skinwalkers at the Pentagon and Lue Elizondo.

When will we get insane evidence that is completely undeniable apart from just people saying that it's true over and over without any conclusive evidence?

To win the public over you need to give them that.

[Enchiridion @enchiridionapp]

@FilmUpdates Definitely will happen if fans catch on to the story and it blows up on social media. At that point it's obviously going to go viral and everyone will see the movie.

It's already getting a lot of press so far, which is good news for the movie, it will NOT flop.

[Enchiridion @enchiridionapp]

@weardjupiter I actually predict the movie will make $250 million or more at the box office which sounds crazy,

But there's a probability because the Blair Witch Project made numbers like that before, at $248 million.

They are similar movies and Kane has vision, fans + A24's massive budget.

[Enchiridion @enchiridionapp]

Kane Parsons is also a talented musician and FL Studio producer (84k listeners). His music is deeply sentimental, sharp and metallic at times, but simple enough to sound like the emotional undertones of C418's Aria Math, Fire & Light by Actress, or the Fight Club movie score.

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

At 20 years old, Kane Parsons may become the youngest filmmaker to have a film #1 at the box office in its opening weekend.

‘BACKROOMS’ is tracking for a $40M-$50M opening.

[Enchiridion @enchiridionapp]

@Pocho22059768 Kane seems to have grown up in a time when desktop computer video games were prevalent and really booming and especially in his creative imagination.

The thematic influence is actually quite clear when you think about it.

Backrooms has a Valve-esque corporation feel to it.

[Enchiridion @enchiridionapp]

@ThejurassicW The release of the script has created every possible point of controversy.

It is actually surprising.

You can see business intentions conflict with artistic and creative vision and how Jurassic World fails to grapple with this.

[Enchiridion @enchiridionapp]

This was the case because they had different audience testing that gave them feedback and,

What happened was there was a crowd that reacted positively to Duncan surviving.

Then they ended up switching it at the last moment in the final movie.

IMO fake reactions.

[Paolo @WedgeDAntilles]

So I hate this movie more - we somehow got a better/worse version

[Enchiridion @enchiridionapp]

Don't know if this is a case of business complexity taking over or bad management or what but I still have empathy for them.

Grappling with making one of the greatest movies of all time (JP) and failing to replicate its success over and over w/ financial pressure is something.

[🦖 Dino Kia 🦖; 🏳️‍🌈 Surviving Oak Street @YutyTyrant]

The longer this goes on, the more deep my hatered for Universal becomes...

[Enchiridion @enchiridionapp]

@ItchyTasty_ 3D print?

[Enchiridion @enchiridionapp]

@lifeisbreezy He definitely is a savant, a gifted artist.

You just can't even wrap your head around the degree of detail that the Backrooms universe has and his incredible understanding of storytelling at such an early age.

When it's a skill that mostly takes filmmakers decades to master.

[Enchiridion @enchiridionapp]

@Brand0nsm181274 Curious that you noticed this.

I feel like I liken this to the uncanny belly effect where like something just feels off and you instantly notice it.

And maybe all the other aspects of the movie were right. Maybe not, but this one in particular stands out.

Good noticing.

[Enchiridion @enchiridionapp]

The Papuans of New Guinea carry the most Denisovan DNA.

Ancient species passed down immune genes to certain groups, and which is meaningful for diversity.

Some ancestors left bones. Others left instructions still in our blood.

[Enchiridion @enchiridionapp]

Jake Chudnow produced the popular songs that @tweetsauce uses for his videos.

If you take a listen, you'll be surprised to find so many bangers. And songs that "can make you smarter". They remind me of a scientist solving a complex problem.

So hype. Give him a listen!