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The Backrooms Became a Place Without Existing
Tourism researchers describe the participatory online myth as digital legend-tripping: people collectively visit, map and extend an impossible destination.
Summary
Tourism researchers describe the participatory online myth as digital legend-tripping: people collectively visit, map and extend an impossible destination.
An analysis in Annals of Tourism Research treats the Backrooms as a form of para-terrestrial or digital dark tourism. Instead of traveling to a physical haunted site, participants create stories, images, maps and games that make an invented liminal world feel visitable and collectively maintained. This is an interpretive tourism study, not evidence that the fictional place exists or a measurement of platform traffic.
Why it matters
Tourism researchers describe the participatory online myth as digital legend-tripping: people collectively visit, map and extend an impossible destination.
Limits and context
- This is an interpretive tourism study, not evidence that the fictional place exists or a measurement of platform traffic.
Key claims
Tourism researchers describe the participatory online myth as digital legend-tripping: people collectively visit, map and extend an impossible destination.
Qualification: This is an interpretive tourism study, not evidence that the fictional place exists or a measurement of platform traffic.
Evidence: source-2026-07-26-016
Sources
- ScienceDaily: The Backrooms as digital legend-trippingScienceDaily · secondary reporting
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