”Backrooms” is a science-fiction horror web-series, starting on January 7, 2022. It revolves around the fictional Async Research Institute studying, exploring, and utilizing the dimension called the Backrooms.
”Backrooms” is a science-fiction horror web-series, starting on January 7, 2022. It revolves around the fictional Async Research Institute studying, exploring, and utilizing the dimension called the Backrooms.
Parsons started working on “The Backrooms (Found Footage)” in late 2021; being inspired by an image of the [[The Backrooms|Backrooms creepypasta]] saved to his computer. Later releasing on January 7, 2022 on YouTube, Parsons intended the short film to be a single entry and didn’t expect it to accumulate many views. The video started to gain popularity a few days later, gaining around 67 million views as of the summer of 2025. Prior the upload, Parsons had an unfinished and unrelated story he had developed some time ago. He initially connected ideas and themes with the short film, but he didn’t think the video and the idea would be too popular. But with the newly founded popularity, Parsons reconsidered the story idea and would finalized the story in January of that year.<ref name=”:0″ />
Parsons started working on “The Backrooms (Found Footage)” in late 2021; being inspired by an image of the [[The Backrooms|Backrooms creepypasta]] saved to his computer. Later releasing on January 7, 2022 on YouTube, Parsons intended the short film to be a single entry and didn’t expect it to accumulate many views. The video started to gain popularity a few days later, gaining around 67 million views as of the summer of 2025. Prior the upload, Parsons had an unfinished and unrelated story he had developed some time ago. He initially connected ideas and themes with the short film, but he didn’t think the video and the idea would be too popular. But with the newly founded popularity, Parsons reconsidered the story idea and would finalized the story in January of that year.<ref name=”:0″ />
=== ”The Oldest View” ===
=== ”The Oldest View” ===
British-born American YouTuber and filmmaker (born 2005)
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 Parsons in 2023 |
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| Born | (2005-06-18) June 18, 2005 |
| Nationality | American |
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| Also known as | Kane Pixels |
| Years active | 2015–present |
| Genre | Film |
| Subscribers | 2.73 million (September 2025) |
| Views | 283 million (September 2025) |
| Contents are in | English |
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Last updated: September 2025 |
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Kane Parsons (born June 18, 2005), known online as Kane Pixels, is a British-American[a] YouTuber, filmmaker, VFX artist and musician known for his web series Backrooms based on the online fiction of the same name.
At 16, Parsons published The Backrooms (Found Footage), which would go viral and be expanded into a series of shorts. Parsons directed a film adaptation of the series. The film was first announced to be in development at A24 in February 2023, and was filmed in the summer of 2025.[1][2][3]
Kane Parsons was born on June 18, 2005. His interest in 3D visuals started with LittleBigPlanet. He would work on environments and lighting in the engine. Parsons got Adobe After Effects around winter 2017. Around a few months later, He wanted to do a video set in the universe of Little Nightmares, compelling Parsons to learn After Effects. He watched tutorials whenever he had questions for any project, expanding his knowledge as time moved on. In February 2020, Parsons downloaded Blender. He would start to learn Blender as time passed. Prior to that, he worked on Element 3D, being apart of After Effects. Blender helped him and gave him what he felt as creative freedom. Parsons felt that 2020 was the best year for his skill growth.[4]
Backrooms is a science-fiction horror web-series, starting on January 7, 2022. It revolves around the fictional Async Research Institute studying, exploring, and utilizing the dimension called the Backrooms.
Parsons started working on “The Backrooms (Found Footage)” in late 2021; being inspired by an image of the Backrooms creepypasta saved to his computer. Later releasing on January 7, 2022 on YouTube, Parsons intended the short film to be a single entry and didn’t expect it to accumulate many views. The video started to gain popularity a few days later, gaining around 67 million views as of the summer of 2025. Prior the upload, Parsons had an unfinished and unrelated story he had developed some time ago. He initially connected ideas and themes with the short film, but he didn’t think the video and the idea would be too popular. But with the newly founded popularity, Parsons reconsidered the story idea and would finalized and integrated the story in January of that year.[4]
The Oldest View is a horror web-series, starting on March 18, 2023. The First Section revolves around a content creator, Wyatt, discovering a staircase leading into a underground mall.
Prior to production, Parsons encountered an image of a rolling giant, based on Julien Reverchon, and saved it to his computer. When he rediscovered the photo, he would make an archive of the rolling giant with his friends. Parsons would originally test the ideas and themes of The Oldest View in a Backrooms Blender animation test, but would decide against it and make it into its own web-series.
- Project 209 (2020)
- Attack on Titan (Historical Footage) (2021)
- Backrooms (2022)
- The Oldest View (2023)
- People Still Live Here (2025)
- Sandwich (2017)
- Corpus Schizophrenic – A Portal 2 Short Film (2019)
- Late for School (2019)
- It’s Nicer Here (2020)
- I Remember (2022)
- Monkey Car Crash Go Boom (One day film challenge) (2023)
- Awake (2020)
- Backrooms (Original Score), Vol. 1 (2022)
- Backrooms (Original Score), Vol. 2 (2023)
- The Oldest View (Original Score), Vol. 3 (2023)
- Daemon (2023)
- It’s All Happening (2023)
- Highway 101 (2024)
- Out of Sync (Side 1) (2024)
- Out of Sync (Side 2) (2024)
- Backrooms (Original Score), Vol. 3 (2024)
- Daemon (Vol. 2) (2024)
- I Can’t Wait to Use the Internet (2025)
- Everything (2021)
- Halogen (2022)
- Sailing (2023)
- DS Lite (2024)
- Glory to Lockheed Martin (2024)
- The Hacker Known as 4Chan (2024)
- I Love My Job (2024)
- Privacy Commodity (2025)
- ^ Although he currently resides in Northern California, Parsons has previously mentioned in a YouTube live Q&A that he is British-born. Friends of him have mentioned that he was raised in the United Kingdom before relocating to the United States.
- ^ Grobar, Matt (February 6, 2023). “‘The Backrooms’ Horror Film Based On Viral Shorts By 17-Year-Old Kane Parsons In Works At A24, Atomic Monster, Chernin & 21 Laps”. Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on July 30, 2025. Retrieved February 6, 2023.
- ^ D’Alessandro, Anthony (July 10, 2025). “Mark Duplass, Finn Bennett, Lukita Maxwell & Avan Jogia Join A24 & Chernin Entertainment Sci-Fi Horror Pic ‘The Backrooms’“. Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on July 30, 2025. Retrieved July 10, 2025.
- ^ Grobar, Matt (June 11, 2025). “Renate Reinsve Joins Chiwetel Ejiofor In A24 Sci-Fi Horror Pic ‘The Backrooms’“. Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on July 30, 2025. Retrieved June 11, 2025.
- ^ a b Wendigang (August 20, 2022). An Interview with the Backrooms Mastermind – Kane Pixels. Retrieved September 17, 2025 – via YouTube.
- ^ Rubin, Rebecca (June 11, 2025). “A24 Sets Horror Movie ‘The Backrooms’ From 19-Year-Old Kane Parsons, Youngest Director in Studio’s History”. Variety. Retrieved September 16, 2025.
