Subscribe! Glad you all enjoy the video! A few things have been pointed out to me since it came out, 1: The name “John Doe” is a placeholder name and isn’t actually the name of the person found dead in the backrooms, i didn’t realise this at first as the placeholder name “John Doe” is only used in the united states, and 2: DOE stands for Department Of Energy and isn’t related to the name John Doe in any way. If there’s anything else i got wrong or missed please let me know!

Anyone else trying to learn all the backrooms lore after the movie trailer 😅

This is like watching a History Channel documentary but without ASYNC personnel or eyewitness interviews.

John Doe isn’t necessarily the name of the person found dead in the Complex.  It’s a general name given to dead folks with no identification.  Female variant being: Jane Doe.

In the first video, right before the camera falls, we see a silhouette fly back into the monster, meaning the cameraman was actually taken by the monster, and the sad part is, the camera probably wasnt on earth, just a different level.

It's almost as if the entity had captured the sounds of its former victims and was mimicing them to lure Marvin to it. Scary stuff.

at 49:34 it isn't a "strange green light" but it is the "night vision mode" on plenty of camcorders at the time where it turns the footage to infrared to see clearer in dark places. You can see her titling the camera to find the button to do so

Theory that Marv while in the house hearing someone yell "Hello, can anyone hear me?" was himself.
If Space and Time are broken he is hearing himself as if the monster never came. The voice is very similar to one we've heard before, but it wasn't either of the kids.
The voice we hear sounds older.

Kane started the series when he was 15 which in itself is insane to think about. This quality from being self-taught. Also he's working on a full-blown movie with a legit film studio about this series.

I have 2 theories.
1: i think ivan beck was a young man when he accidentally no clipped into the back rooms and somehow escaped it. Then got a job at async and presented his story and the idea to use the backrooms for advantage to them. I think he is also the one who is speaking in the video '' i remember''.
2: i think the bacteria is an attempt of backrooms to mimick living things. It is in human shape probably because maybe only humans have no clipped into the back rooms as of right now

That ending recording you used of the computer singing "Daisy" was what inspired Kubrick to use the same song near the end of "2001: A Space Odyssey" as sung by HAL. It gets me every time...

ok i have my own theory. that rather than a-sync causing the california earthquake at 5:04pm the earthquake actually interfered with a-syncs test. opening the backrooms. i believe this because in first contact the man speaking appeared to be confused and frightened by the backrooms opening. i feel like is you where working on something for 6 years you would not be surprised by what comes out of it.

It could be argued that ASYNC discovered/created a rudimentary form of time travel...

The level of arrogance exhibited by Async is astounding. I'm reminded of Ian Malcolm's (Jeff Goldblum) quote from Jurassic Park;

"Don’t you see the danger, John (Ivan), in what you’re doing here? Genetic force (interdimensional travel in this case) is the most awesome power the planet’s ever seen, but you wield it like a kid that found his dad’s gun. I’ll tell you the problem with the scientific power that you’re using here... It didn’t require any discipline to attain it. You read what others have done and you took the next step. You didn’t earn the knowledge for yourself, so therefore you don’t take any responsibility for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could, and before you even knew what you had, you patented it, packaged it, and slapped it on a plastic lunch box, and now you're selling it! You wanna sell it! Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they COULD, they didn’t stop to think if they SHOULD."

Just think about the fact that BEFORE ANYONE HAD EVER (willingly) STEPPED A FOOT INTO THE BACKROOMS, Ivan Beck was already pitching it as an answer for expanding population and business. And even AFTER their first few expeditions, realizing there is definitely something strange and dangerous going on, they created "the presentation".

And even AFTER capturing videographic evidence of entities in The Complex (from the motion sensor cameras and from the footage from when Marvin fell into "The Pitfalls"), their answer was to build walls around the containment gate (a legitimately good idea, but still laughably insufficient), and to build a walkway over The Pitfalls, trapping whatever lies below to 'The Underhalls' (which is just a way of not dealing with what lies beneath, rather than actually addressing the issue, not that they necessarily could have).

They were intent on going full-steam ahead into a reality they had no idea about, and that they hadn't spent the proper time exploring... Their safety protocols and standards just weren't anywhere close to what they should have been, and the whole project came across as rushed, as they just didn't give The Complex the necessary time and respect it deserved before trying to claim it in the name of scientific arrogance, capitalism, and the United States...

And I am almost CERTAIN, something catastrophic happened to Async, or at least the actual building where the threshold for the Low-Proximity Magnetic Distortion System was.

I feel like this for 3 main reasons.
1. If this is supposedly based in reality/our world, where is Async TODAY? Why aren't there Low-Proximity Magnetic Distortion System Gates ALL OVER THE PLACE?
It's weird and very telling that the technology isn't being used (by the general public at least), and that there's no PHYSICAL EVIDENCE that it, or Async ever existed.

2. We have seen entire buildings/structures absorbed or recreated in The Complex. And based on stuff like how the drum kit from Ravi's basement was recreated in the backrooms (from Found Footage #3) we can surmise that if an "unregulated" entry point between our reality and The Backrooms exists, anything on the other side of the threshold could get absorbed into The Complex.

Speaking of Ravi's found footage, it's impossible to ignore the era-specific aesthetic differences between his entry point into The Backrooms, and how it's mostly been presented prior.

Previously, the architecture and general aesthetic had been decidedly mid-to-late 70's/early 80's, which makes sense as that's when all of this started... While the area Ravi falls into looks more like the mid-to-late 90's, and there is a more 'institutional' feel to the initial areas Ravi found himself in, and it's far more abstract than purely liminal.


And Ravi finds a "functional" communication device that looks like it was ORIGINALLY designed to allow folks from OUR REALITY to communicate with those in The Complex (not the other way around, which is why no one was on the other end when Ravi 'radioed out'), and it's in a nonsensically designed backrooms area, meaning that is almost certainly not the original location where that device was constructed.

And we KNOW Async hadn't delved that deeply into The Complex (because they would have laid something to create a trail back to the threshold, and it was just too aesthetically different and modern from the areas we saw Async access), nor had they figured out how to plug into The Complex's power source... So there is just no way that was ORIGINALLY constructed in The Complex.

And I'm reminded of The Silent Hill movie, where at the end Rose and 'Sharron' (ugh! Why not Cheryl?) "make it out" of Silent Hill, only for the film to reveal they are still in the "other reality".

And even more than that, Async's fate feels a lot like the end of the game The Complex: Expedition (which was WHOLLY inspired by Kane's Backroom videos), where the protagonist works as a Backrooms expeditionist/researcher for a company called Magwave, who no-clips deeper into The Complex. (Spoilers) And while he is eventually able to find his way back to the threshold, the "dimensional barrier" between The Complex and our reality was gone (which was present at the beginning of the game), and everyone in the Magwave building is gone...

3. Async kind of sucks at their job. The entire story is essentially about how this organization keeps messing up and how unexpected things keep happening.

I mean, IT WAS A SOLAR STORM that caused the initial overload that gave enough power to create a "stable" threshold to begin with. So what happens if there is a critical mechanical or power failure that destabilizes the threshold containment gate? What do they do if The Complex breeches the gate and expands into the building?

They're consistently shown they are unprepared/under-prepared to deal with volatility of the Complex... And that's just for something as simple as walking around in the general vicinity of the threshold.

So when you consider the technology, and you consider the erratic and unpredictable nature of The Backrooms, and thier lack of understanding, and you consider that Async is but a ghost that would have gone entirely unremembered by time if not for the unearthed footage and data, is it unreasonable to think the original Low-Proximity Magnetic Distortion System Gate may have failed (or even been sabotaged) leading to the demise of Async, followed by a big governmental cover-up?

I don't know... But WHATEVER happened to Async wasn't good.

Criminally underrated video
You deserve millions of views for how high quality it is :D

i think the bacteria is the backrooms trying to recreate humans

The levels, wiki are the different world than kane's backrooms

Kane's story is not related to the wiki, it's his own original concept

Kane said Async isn’t evil, More just like a standard company that has some secrets here and there