Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/The Backrooms

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 31 May 2026 at 15:47:04 (UTC)

Reason: This one is a bit of a reach, I know, but hear me out. This is the canonical photo that seeded the idea of the Backrooms, a notable internet creepypasta that is getting a movie adaptation next week. The photo's complete lack of conventional aesthetic appeal is core to the concept of the Backrooms, which are imagined to be endless spaces of mismatched yellow wallpaper, beige carpet and fluorescent light. The image is low-resolution, but that reflects both the photo's origins (taken with a natively digital camera at this resolution in 2002) and the media it influenced (such as Kane Parsons' web series adaptation, forerunner of the movie, which has a VHS filter applied to the videos). Once the source was identified, the photo's owner was considerate enough to give it a Creative Commons license.
Articles in which this image appears: The Backrooms, Liminal space (aesthetic), creepypasta, several others
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Interiors
Creator: Bill Magritz

Support as nominator – Moonreach (talk) 15:47, 21 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Support An iconic image from contemporary popular culture. JJARichardson (talk) 19:26, 21 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Assuming the licensing is solid, this meets all the criteria. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 14:44, 23 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Support —Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 02:45, 24 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Support Realmaxxver (talk) 12:10, 24 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Support Northern-Virginia-Photographer (talk) 14:10, 26 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Support absolutely incredible and iconic image which created the Backrooms Wcamp9 (talk) 01:35, 1 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:HobbyTown USA Oshkosh interior under construction 2002 (The Backrooms).jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 01:46, 1 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]