Imagine your son telling you he loves and appreciates you and your initial reaction is “This is a simulation that wasn’t my son!!!”

@escapedscienceexperiement9824

8 ай бұрын

"He went back to being the goofy kid that I love" really sells it 💀

@yotetoob

8 ай бұрын

That's some kind of pathology. Father of the year

@doctabaldhead

8 ай бұрын

Genuinely heartbreaking mindset.

@andrewkelley9405

8 ай бұрын

Who let that man be a father 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

@G.reviewz

8 ай бұрын

This person has had their brain rotted by reddit what do you expect

a majority of the anti piracy screens are completely fake but i still love them

@TheZackofSpades

8 ай бұрын

It feels “analog horror”-adjacent to me…it’s nonsense but you want to imagine how it would’ve felt if you did see it legitimately

@phyllojoe5346

8 ай бұрын

Anti piracy screens go hand in hand with icebergs and sm64 horror, I love it all

The Matrix theory Reddit posts made me so sad, like it's an interesting theory but not when it prevents you from seeing your kids as human beings who are capable of genuine reflection, imagination, and gratitude

@Brubser_Jr_Reloaded

8 ай бұрын

I don't think it's a good world view to adopt seriously. It's a fun idea, but if you applied it to your life/reality that could really warp your values and make you depressed, or uncaring. I remember hearing people were threatening suicide on the simulation subreddit so some people do believe in this stuff.

@Pystoria

8 ай бұрын

@@Brubser_Jr_Reloaded I agree completely. It's like any other unfalsifiable worldview, but it also falls into its own traps (like how many simulations deep are we, there are examples of time dilation and other things that show the laws of reality are not 20/20, Occam's Razor, why can we even consider we might be in a simulation, etc.)

@dusk4974

8 ай бұрын

Yeah. That dude's son experiencing comprehension of a good dad is a huge sign of growth and this fucker decided it meant he's living in a simulation and his son is now a learning child but a line of code. That man should never have access to his son again. That kid has likely heard horrifying stories of abusive parents and wanted to make sure his Daddy know how good he is, how nice he is, and how the kid is glad his dad is a good parent.

@fbmb1337

8 ай бұрын

This and that whole NPC theory (when its taken at face value and not as a meme) are ok, mayebe even neat thought experiments and concepts but kinda dangerous in the mind of the wrong person. It could probably lead to 'main character syndrome' at best, or complete dehumanization of everyone but yourself at worst.

@Nekoszowa

8 ай бұрын

I bet it's the same kind of people who believe that children "don't understand" anything

The stuff around the eight-minute mark really just makes me feel like people don't understand children. I vividly remember being a child and having a lot of understanding and like adult knowledge that adults just didn't think I knew, and I felt like I wasn't allowed to talk about around adults because they would think I was like a bad kid, and I would only talk about stuff that I thought was mature or on My level with my friends so that my parents didn't think that I was a bad kid who was more mature than I was supposed to be. I think that explains a lot of the whole kids being weird phenomena but whenever it comes to kids saying that like oh I liked it whenever I was a grown-up they are probably pretending or talking about like dreams or things they've seen on TV. Kids have weird imaginations.

@Nekoszowa

8 ай бұрын

It's just the thinking that "children don't understand anything" becoming for some reason more and more popular. And the same people who don't teach their kids to for example not tug on the cat's tail because the child "won't understand" reasoning behind it. Just adults being bad parents, that's all.

@melonlad3684

8 ай бұрын

Is this why neurodivergent kids are seen as weird? Because we don’t pick up on those kinds of cues so we tend to not hold back a lot. Y’know what I’m hearing it since I’m reading my own words.

@Jhud69

8 ай бұрын

I think at some point adults just completely forget being children, I don't know, maybe it's generational trauma or something, but it always surprises me just how much people just don't understand children or refuse to understand them. Even people supposed to be professionals like school counselors, teachers, child psychologists - they often just don't see children as people with complex thoughts, even in a very young age. It's just sad.

@mysiann

8 ай бұрын

Came here to say thissssssss. But you worded it better. Haha yes.

*Child:* "I love you, Daddy!" *Brain-rotted Matrix Believer:* "No, you don't. You're just an NPC trying to manipulate me for your own selfish goals." *Child:* 😢

@husky0098

2 күн бұрын

Most sane redditor

I think the reason why the Hat Man is such a common hallucination is due to so much media portraying shady/dangerous figures with a hat and a trench coat. I swear I've seen this type of character in so many cartoons as well as seeing something similar in a picture of a sign warning to look out for shady characters.

@n2legos

8 ай бұрын

Hell the inspiration for Freddy Krueger was a shady drunk guy in a coat and hat that Wes Craven saw walking down the street one night. Another example is the Creeper from Jeepers Creepers

@jiejiii

8 ай бұрын

You ever get so tired you start seeing spiders

@lordofducks3430

8 ай бұрын

That's about my theory for it, but I think just that isn't enough. I believe that the fact that many people at least have heard of him, they expect to see him (yk at the times people say they should expect to) and therefor, they do; sorta like how after watching a horror movie you start to see creepy things where there shouldn't be, just because your mind subconsciously learns that a shadow in the corner must be a demon.

@kiamichisonger1263

7 ай бұрын

@@jiejiii hell yeah, and hear people talk

@cadencase5216

6 ай бұрын

@@jiejiiiRoaches too...🫣

Everyone is an NPC in everyone else's game. That doesn't mean you're the only playable character.

Personally I think the Backrooms is trying too hard to be the next SCP foundation, overbloating and gameifying what should be a simple premise of existential horror.

@luxuscarnage4828

8 ай бұрын

I get what you're saying but I'm also excited to see the creativity behind some of the new levels. As an Anarchistic writer and artist, something simple being turned into a community effort is rather interesting and somewhat beautiful.

@Jhud69

8 ай бұрын

Yeah sadly people blew the Backrooms out of proportions. The idea of ending up where you're not supposed to be and something seeming like is lurking for you there but nothing really coming is much scarier than what it become.

@beansfebreeze

8 ай бұрын

Yeaaaaaah it went from "an extremely mysterious little crack in reality" to "welcome to Floor 30^⅘ Omega where the FloorScuttlers live and the Hydraulic TonySoda doesn't dare follow"

@ethanhawksley9097

8 ай бұрын

You’re looking at the wrong wiki(s). I write for a Backrooms wiki but we try to keep it more aligned with the original view and prioritize quality over quantity. We’re no small thing either, as we’re recognized by the other two major wikis as being a major wiki ourselves. It’s called Liminal Archives.

@aydenbelcourt6035

8 ай бұрын

Backrooms was never that interesting to me.

The Matrix isn't just Simulation Theory, it's Plato's Cave. We have been worried about the nature of our reality for likely as long as human though has existed.

@coyoteartist

7 ай бұрын

Oh lord, not that damn cave. That was the bane of my existence in Junior High because I had a weird reading teacher who brought up philosophy.i'd rather be in the Paris that only exists as a dream in someone else's mind, then be in such a hopeless nihilistic state as that damn cave. Mind you, I formed this opinion in 6th grade and may have willing on occasion ignored further nuance that Plato might have intended one to see. Not that you can see anything but shadows and unless you're a Bunraku practitioner, or something like that, shadows tend to be not very nuanced.

@eclat4641

6 ай бұрын

Exactly

You know what's a disturbing rabbit hole? The ultimate fate of the universe. Just thinking about the end of time, all the stars and atoms, even the black holes, dead, surrounded by absolute nothingness. Heck, just about anything about the future of space and time.

@adrianpaul1985

8 ай бұрын

Well we won't have to worry about that now would we?

"Similarities in my weekly schedule ? THE MATRIX IS ATTACKING" lmao

That depressed Luigi image always makes me feel a bit down

@Mauripsu

8 ай бұрын

To me it's nostalgic, it's the game over screen from the Luigi's Mansion beta. I was really into it as a kid for whatever reason, and it takes me back

@FunkyTheMainMonkey

8 ай бұрын

It'll be okay. Stay strong. Never give up. 😁❤️

@Rami-el

8 ай бұрын

Nah luigi look like he off a big perc💀💀

Welp guess I’ll watch this while it’s night time and have an absolutely wrecked sleep schedule

@misseselise3864

8 ай бұрын

healthy sleep schedules are for losers anyways

@thatdrunkplaugedr8710

8 ай бұрын

@@misseselise3864 True

@fawfulbenivictor5556

8 ай бұрын

Here, here!

@Agropio

8 ай бұрын

That's the only proper way to watch Sacrow.

I remember about a year before the "original" backrooms 4chan post I came across a backrooms creepypasta and none of my friends believed me that it wasn't a new thing but I still so clearly remember hearing a story about a man tripping as he walked up the stairs to his university building and no clipping through the floor into the backrooms at least a year before the post usually sighted as the start of backrooms

@videorelaxant2780

8 ай бұрын

Can you post a link or description of where you found it

@starkillerisbetterthanturt4191

8 ай бұрын

@@videorelaxant2780 If it was 4chan it's probably 404'd by now

@jiejiii

8 ай бұрын

Do you remember anything about it, the name, author, or forum?

@thesecretshade

8 ай бұрын

I believe it. Often stories are told and don't get much attention. Then someone else tells them again and suddenly it grabs everyone's attention when it blows up.

@Stroggoii

7 ай бұрын

Yeah I remember noclip stories in /x/ about "teleporting" to infinite abandoned factories and parks before the yellow room.

Simulation Theory: Reality can be simulated using math, the construct humanity invented in order to simulate reality, therefore reality must be a mathematical simulation. In much the same way we can conclude that because trees can be simulated in a chalk drawing, all trees must be made of chalk.

@Ben_19M

8 ай бұрын

nuh uh

@Ben_19M

8 ай бұрын

math is how we understand the world, not how it works

@alexthepunk84

8 ай бұрын

The simulation theory has no scientific value, it is only a theory and a belief for some. Quite interesting, like many other theories/believes, but it's as valid as last-thursdayism.

@alexthepunk84

8 ай бұрын

@@luxj.9451 your explanation is based on the fact that we're living in a simulation, something you can't prove. Also, you're also presuming that if we were in a simulation, it would be with a code that we could understand and that we would be able to manipulate it, as instances of classes or of objects inside the simulation. There's nothing scientific about your explanation. It's all speculation ("no clip through reality", "immortality"...) that rests on speculation. Your comparison with oil is a comparison fallacy. Oil is something part of our world and is something we can observe directly, if I was confident that oil didn't exist, you could just show me the liquid. Whereas the "simulation" would be the whole world so entirely different thing. Finally, this theory stems from the fact "tOdAy CoMpUtErS pOwErFuL, sO wE liVe In SiMuLaTiOn". First, this means that you could build a computer able to not only contain the data, but also simulate not only everything that we know but everything that we don't AND everything that we don't know we don't know, which is, again a HUGE presumption. Also, it's possible that the computer is in a whole other technology, outside from our universe. So we don't know. I agree with you, "if we find the code of reality" (Matrix is a nice movie btw), we coukd change some stuff, the same way that if I find Poseidon's trident I can manipulate oceans and seas :)

@locxlsxdsxck5171

5 ай бұрын

Math is stupid and reality is stupid y'all, reject em

The back rooms wiki is where writers who couldn’t cut it as SCP writers go. 😂

My "backrooms feeling" from when I was a kid was when my younger brother used to have evening swimming classes at a different school, and me and my mom would sit and watch for a while before picking him up. I'd usually get bored and just go off for an aimless walk around the school's hallways. And because it was evening they were completely empty and silent except for the sound of my own footsteps on the carpets. And I used to actively bask in the eerie, exposed but cosy feeling I'd get from these explorations.

Sacrow is one of the few KZreadrs that greatly benefit from being quality over quantity. Ive been watching him for about 8 months now, and everytime I listen to his videos I always get myself very intrigued in the subject and think about it for a few days afterwards. Thank you Sacrow for making my days a little better by uploading whenever you do

@bunnyb9326

6 ай бұрын

@IXIRaygun I agree- just discovered his channel but he def keeps you intrigued. I go off and start researching some myself and find myself thinking about it for days.

God I hate the fake anti-piracy screen trend. There are games that have ACTUAL anti-piracy screens, but now they're totally impossible to find because people keep making fake ones.

When you mentioned "Anti-Piracy Screen" I already knew that I had to talk about this : The Mario Party DS Anti-Piracy screen is actually the name of a series by KZreadr name Joey Perleoni, and he had a finale where *(spoiler alert)* there's an "unused" boss in the game that becomes in real life and bullies the pirate to death. 10/10 conclusion.

12:07 Yes, I agree. We’ve definitely been seeing a lot more Main Character Syndrome as of late…. he said, knowingly.

Mandela Affects “alternate universe” things GENUINELY annoy me so much. Like the “e” in the Google logo being slanted IS NOT A MANDELA AFFECT 😭 it’s such a small detail that you wouldn’t notice so you’d assume it’s the same as all the other letters so when someone tells you that it isn’t you swear it isn’t BUT IT IS

@kursatemekse9737

7 ай бұрын

It’s really annoying how every fucking thing has to have a deep meaning

@Stroggoii

7 ай бұрын

It's particularly ridiculous because a cursory investigation on it reveals human memory is extremely fickle and suggestionable. We don't actually remember anything, we have a very messy system of data recollection that we need to recontextualize on the spot every time we try to "remember". You don't know how your room looks like without the context that it is your room and you could have it described truthfuly and not realize it's your room until you're given context ques that make you think of your room.

Those Reddit stories were so cringe 💀

A man in a fedora going around haunting people in their dreams or during sleep paralysis. Freddy Krueger, is that you?

i personally think the hat man seems very nice. bro just shows up to check on u and leaves. cool guy.

@scrunkore

8 ай бұрын

he's just making sure you're okay :)

My mom and her sisters saw the hatman when they were kids, she told me this story when I was a kid and when I learned abt it on the internet I was shocked

@user-gp7ek5ze5w

8 ай бұрын

Same

THANK YOU for giving a spoiler alert, even 30 years later! That's very courteous of you! ☺

Son: hey dad, i just want to say that i love you Dad: WHO THE FUCK IS THIS CHILD?!? OMG ITS THE MATRIX

I feel like that r/glitchinthematrix stuff would be creepy to me if I were in middle school but all the posts there just read like stories over actual testimonies. They read like people that were really into visual novels decided to spook people on the internet by putting their “real” stories online

A new Sacrow video right as I wake up? The day could not start better😁

Looking for a video to sleep to when I saw you uploaded, came in clutch.

HYPEEEEEE🔥🔥🔥🔥 Thank you for another great video ♥️

I always think about how when we first wake up from a dream we have the feeling we’re still in and we are Remembering it and then within seconds it drifts away and you might remember some small part, unless you make a conscious effort to remember it and write it down. It sort of reminds me of when these kids have these experiences of remembering past lives. Like our dreams first thing in the morning they get glimpses and memories, feelings of a former life. Idk it’s just something I have thought about. Great video!

Already my fave series on the channel! :)

Backrooms writers be like: This about the most trope filled least original and outright dumb piece of horror media, drop it.

@ethanhawksley9097

8 ай бұрын

Liminal Archives, look it up. We prioritize quality over quantity

48:00 The DKC 3 anti piracy video SCARED ME so badly and I can’t sleep when I saw Kiddie Kong’s and Donkey Kong’s faces and it started to give me nightmares when they are STARING RIGHT TO ME. There is another video called “DKC scary error glitch” and this FREAKED ME OUT even MORE. Cranky Kong’s face looks more creepier. If kids see this on their game, they won’t be sleeping anymore and they might think if this is real. In my opinion, the DKC anti piracy video that I’m taking about is becoming an analog horror.

I’ve been really into stuff like the Matrix Theory and the Multiverse ever since I started having lucid dreams about other universes. I think it’s safe to say what I’ve “experienced” in those dreams have shaped a lotta my personal and philosophical beliefs. Nothing and everything is real at the same time, but even in the endless infinity that is the Omniverse, your choices and lives matter. Under normal circumstances, you only get to experience one universe and one timeline per lifetime, so try to make it count.

Omg one minute after it was posted I'm so happy

Yeah that NPC theory is screwed up. How convenient that the people that apparently seem to treat that idea seriously always never consider themselves the NPC

Tron was a movie that comes before the Matrix movies that had a virtual world with NPCs. It does appear to be something that contributed to the Matrix ovies concepts.

Good coverage on these rabbit holes, even tho I sorta dislike what the communities have turned them into. Compared when the rabbit hole first started. I liked how you covered their humble beginnings and the lore the rabbit hole has obtained for now. Awesome vid 🔥🔥

Hatman is one of my favorites entity/cryptids since he is so interesting and well I had personal experiences with him as a kid, as well my parents (especially my mom), and my little sister, but unlike my parents and sister it wasn't malicious in nature towards me. He did touched my arm and shoulder trying to get my attention but as a kid I shrugged his hand off as I wanted to sleep and told the hatman off saying "let me sleep dummy, I don't care." and I never seen him again but apparently he was evil natured with my mom and sister and often terrorized them, more so my mom by whsipering to them, gripping them tightly, and just made them afraid. My mom says he is a demon that brings evil/bad energy or absorbs bad energy from people as he followed my mom through her life and she had a very abusive homelife. She even said she seen him during the day and near my siblings and my rooms, watching us sleep.

Why does the kid running my simulation insist on my hemorrhoids flaring up??

Typical Reddit moment "My kid said something nice to me, but I know this is proof of the Matrix". Hope he doesn't find out you think he isn't real.

The dad coping with his son telling him the nicest thing ever and summing it up as a glitch in what reality “is supposed to be like” actively broke my heart a bit Imagine that kid somehow stumbling on that and finding out his dad initially didn’t believe him when he said those nice things

My favorite anti-piracy measure in a game is Arkham Asylum disabling gliding, and also making a random ledge in the game un-grapple-able.

About the nihilism one, when I play a game like Skyrim or baldurs gate and quick save over and over to reset my choices over the course of a couple days, I begin to catch myself about to do or say really dumb or dangerous things irl just to see what happens and then I remember that I can’t reload my save and feel like I dodged a bullet

Hate it when people compare the backrooms to SCPs. The backrooms are incoherent and rambling. Just random rooms and random entities, quality control is shite so many pointless or just plain stupid levels

@osmiumGE

8 ай бұрын

Yeah but so is modern SCP since all the good writers are rapidly moving to RPC and the site is run by crazy people with a god complex.

@DelanoSeven7

8 ай бұрын

@@osmiumGE Isn't RPC that one SCP copy made by politic-obsessed snowflakes ?

Bioshock 1 seemed to have anti piracy method attached to it aswell. In Arcadia, when you got to an office where there was a safe and you inserted code, instead of getting key to open a door to new area and restore plantlife, the safe of instead of empty meaning you couldnt progress the game any longer.

Not the hat man per se but I've seen a shadow person vanish into shadows after clawing the bedroom door with its nails. It wasn't sleep paralysis because I was able to move during all that and other people in the house also heard the sound of nails hitting the door (it was really loud). Those things creep me out.

I could listen to you talk about anti piracy screens all day!

Regarding simulation theory, I sometimes think about it and imagine that if we're ever capable of fully grasping reality, to the extent that there are no more theories left to prove, it will be the end of us. We'll collectively go insane as the curious species we are with nothing left to discover. That or we'll ignore the truth which is an insanity many of us are already well acquainted with.

I actually managed to accidentally trigger the softlock on OoT with a GameShark in the 90s, when I was a kid. I'm not sure which code caused it bc I had multiple codes activated. It was the first time something like that happened to me in a game.

I feel like tiktoks answer for everything is le quirky childhood "trauma" and the so called trauma is like getting yelled at once or something stupid.

That was a good story I didn’t know A lot of these so this is new

Seeing some good ol' Halo ce gameplay at the beginning cheered me up a little

I love the DS2 majula background music haha

The hat man is just a hallucination people see when they take way too much Benadryl, which is a deliriant

Bro, can you please hurry up with Volume 3, my gf and I just got down watching Vol 1 & 2.

Anti piracy and glitch screen used to scare the ever living shit out of me to the point I’d cry and run from the screen.

Simulation theory has been around for much longer, it was just called Intelligent Design.

Okay that DK face is true nightmare fuel.

NO GOD DAMN WAY!!! When i was about 6 or 7 i remember seeing at around midnight a man with a trenchcoat and fedora leaning in my doorway. He looked kind of like the Ah-Ha take on me video, very sketch-like. I remember him smoking a cigarette too but it just might have been me misremembering the "sketchlike fuzz" that surrounded them. I didnt feel scared though, it was pretty cool and kind of comforting? The way i described him to my mom she said it sounded like her dad who was a sailor back in the 40s and 50s (who smoked a lot) we just assumed grandpa was saying hi :) i had no idea this was a wider phenomena.

I had nightmares about liminal spaces before i even knew this was a thing on the Internet...i think theres a short scene in "a cure for wellness" that sparked it.

Nice video, by the way, what racing game is that at 1:28?

The Majula theme never gets old

Back rooms reminds me of dark souls in the sense of a lonely forgotten world

The matrix theory goes to the 70's interview with a French interview with sci-fi writer phil dick.

I’m intrigued as I believe I have several past lives in which I was a few different kinds of fox and I sometimes have vivid memories of them before remembering I’m not living like that anymore

Hmmm, more spooky stuff

One night, I was awake, and the whole house was awake, and I was playing with toys in my hallway. I looked up at one point and saw the hat man just standing there. Weird to know so many people had seen him

the Hat Man is an iconic hypnagogic hallucination

Why do I watch these kinds of videos at night? 😂

Hat man has the aesthetic of Fallouts Mysterious Stranger.... Ooooh aaahhh

54:25 Mirror's Edge forced the pirates to walk the plank. HA

Oh we just jumping right in….nice ❤

The simulation theory is very easy to disprove, hence its unpopular in Philosophical circles

I love ur vids man

The Dark Souls 2 using is creepin me out

How do we know that for the matrix theory that it is a computer running it the chances of two civilizations creating the same type of electronics is a chance so low that it is implausible.

Why is it that when I saw the backrooms, my thought was, "oh God, what am I supposed to do the first time I have to poop"? 😳😳

@kursatemekse9737

7 ай бұрын

Just poop on the floor, it’s not like anyone is there to scold you

@Juliett-we7tc

7 ай бұрын

@kursatemekse9737 good point 🤣🤣

Idk, the Hat Man just sounds like a curious, well mannered, dapper gentleman

son: thank you dad for taking care of us dad: oh my god you're not my son

The Mario anti piracy screens make me have a deep feeling that the game itself and the characters think that everything is better off without Mario. Even when the player got an anti piracy screen on a Mario game.

Idk what the hat man is, but it's 100% real. I was walking home from my ex gfs house, and saw him standing in the trailer park next to my house, starting into my yard. Standing head and shoulders above the SUV next to him. He caught my attention out of the corner of my eye as I was walking by because of how insanely tall he was. I started at him for solid 20-30 seconds, backlit by the streetlamp. Wide brimmed hat wearing an ankle length coat. A 3D humanoid shadow. I've never seen a person that tall before or since. I rushed home as soon as the thought occurred to me just how quickly and easily anything that big could trear me apart. After getting inside I looked through a side window to find he was long gone. I've told this story dozens of times, but figured I'd share it here while I'm binging your content. Good stuff btw 👌

Quantum Immortality is also linked to an unhealthy fear of death where people find links between dreams and real life so a dream where you get shot and you become paranoid any day that'll happen to you.

Me and the Hatman vibin to that Xavier Wulf instrumental 🫠🤠🎶

What game is that time stamp 52:48 ? It doesn't appear to be King's quest?

I’m now a huge fan of anti piracy screens…I want more

Bro died at his neighbors house and had to respawn at his last checkpoint

Absolutely none of that is out of character for a kid to do or say...

See if imma be honest, if the hatman is something else, hes probably Death, think about it most people see him in things that is close to dying or feel like they are. He could be just the collector or the one that brings your soul to the after life

ds2 music goes hard

Okay I give in, this world is a simulation of what would happen if we let slip that this was a simulation

I think it’s interesting that the Hat Man shares a lot with the norse god Oden. A wanderer with a wide brimmed hat and a long cloak, or trench coat for the Hat Man. Seeing as how they both sporadically appear to humans, I like to think that the Hat Man is just Odin with a modern wardrobe

@Smthn_Wicked

8 ай бұрын

Odin makes sure you don't sleep ASMR

Hat man is also something you can see when robotripping

in my mirrors i clearly can see "the fat man" 😂

1:30 what game is that in the background

huh didn’t know blameitonjorge had a second channel

40:10, the most reasonable confrontation from Nintendo