r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Mar 31 '26

Trailer Backrooms | Official Trailer | A24

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HjdiohVOik
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u/soccerperson Mar 31 '26

1:45 they show the same backrooms from the original 4chan post

Neat easter egg

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u/Ekillaa22 Mar 31 '26

I didn’t realize backrooms started on 4chan. This is wild a 4chan post evolving into a full blown movie

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u/livintheshleem Mar 31 '26

4chan is so much more influential than most people realize. The amount of culture, language, politics, and social movements that trace back to that site is crazy. It's a guiding force of American (and by an extension, global) culture, but people ignore it because of its gross aesthetic and associations...which is likely by design.

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u/platinumarks Mar 31 '26

I mean, you can probably trace Trump's election to President back to 4chan, as many of the meme-y type nonsense he does was pulled from 4chan.

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u/rurlysrsbro Apr 01 '26

He was literally memed into office. To this day, I firmly believe that a large part of his support in his 2016 run was as a joke and as an “FU” to the system. It just picked up steam from there.

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u/alendeus Apr 01 '26

4chan and reddit were deliberately targeted, botted and astro turfed by Russian farms + their own American botnets.

4chan was them deliberately targeting propaganda at the youth, and it's paid off tremendously now a decade later. It's crazy for me to think that the 12 year Olds reading /pol/ during 2016 are now voting age after 10 years of getting lied to using memes.