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7F7F7F   Welcome to the Backrooms Wiki. We hope you enjoy your stay. 7F7F7F 

The Origins
L  ong ago, on the worst place known to man—the 4chan /x/ board—an anonymous user posted an eerie but intriguing image of a liminal office space. When asked what it was, someone else replied with a throwaway paragraph about "The Backrooms". It eventually became popular, and people continually added on to the concept.

A subreddit called r/Backrooms was created for the subject, but only gained minimal traction. That small amount, however, was enough to form a community. Soon after, from the turmoil of attention this subreddit was gaining, a mysterious user only known by the name of Cicicicity decided to create a Wiki regarding the Backrooms, making a new site at backrooms.fandom.com, and so the Backrooms Wiki, which would become the source of much joy, heartbreak, and rage, was created on June 2, 2019. As it seems, Cicicity quickly abandoned their founding position and left the Wiki, never to be seen or heard from again, but not before giving administrator rights to Chaosraider98.

The Anarchy Era (July 2019 ~ April 2021)
Soon, the Backrooms concept blew up in popularity: people created and cross-posted levels, entities, and objects; upcoming authors came and went; and vandalizers had their fun. The aforementioned Chaosraider98 was somewhat active for a time, but not nearly enough to handle the stream of users, and he, too, would soon become inactive.

With the admins gone and no moderation in sight, people soon began spamming, posting horrible pages, and vandalizing everything they could get their hands on. With the creation of the Partygoers, early content creators would begin to put Partygoer references and "=)" on a substantial portion of the pages. AndrewW99 eventually made a new Wiki on a different website to provide people with an organized Wiki, free of the chaos, but he would soon resort to drastic measures of advertisement, spamming its link across the Wiki. Some deemed it unrecoverable due to the stark lack of any content control; very few wanted to adopt the Wiki due to the massive workload and moderating responsibilities that would come with its ownership, and those who tried were denied.

Forunately, when a Wiki falls into chaos and nobody is eligible to adopt it, Fandom Staff are obligated to intervene; thus, Fandom Council member Moviesign showed up in April of 2021, instituted rules, and began blocking vandalizers. Due to his hard work, the Age of Anarchy partially subsided, but there were still miles of garbage to dig through.

The Cleanup Era (July 2021 ~ December 2021)
Amongst Moviesign's many reforms was the temporary appointment of content and thread moderator—PuppyBork, Egglord1, and RetroCaterpillar—to help run the Wiki. Although some are no longer on the Wiki's team (and one of them, The partygoer, was eventually blocked forever), others such as OGominho, Thatguy5043, and Sylas later had their promotions made permanent, and would eventually form the core of the Wiki's moderation team. One of the newly-elected moderators, Egglord1, distinguished himself enough to become the administrator of the Wiki. Around this time, the moderation team began the long and grueling task of cleaning up a Wiki that had been freely trashed and vandalized for the better part of two years. Although the first major attempt at a Wiki-wide cleanup (led by OGominho) failed due to a lack of support, PuppyBork spearheaded a successful second attack on the pile of debris. Around this time, then-moderator Sky3 would be responsible for the quick rise of Wikitext usage across all pages, increasing their style significantly from basic plaintext; this would come to be known as the Wikitext Revolution. With Egglord1 in control, Moviesign was finally able to rest.

Soon, however, a horrible foe appeared: Coolcolapple, colloquially known as "King of the Nine-Year-Olds". He wreaked havoc on the Wiki, threatening users, spamming and harassing people in the discussion forums, and evading everything the moderators could throw at him by changing his IP address and creating uncountable numbers of alternate accounts. Eventually, his reign of terror ended, but the turbulence he had created continued for some time.

The Age of Peace (January 2022 ~ June 2022)
The cleanup and inevitable infighting continued, and the Wiki continued to decline (along with the concept of the Backrooms as a whole) until a new person entered the scene. This was the legendary Kane Pixels, who singlehandedly saved the Backrooms with his videos. Although they were unrelated to the Fandom or the Wikidot, he breathed new life into the Backrooms, and, along with the dying-down of the infighting, helped to create a new golden age for the concept of the Backrooms.

Helping the new Age of Peace was the second great wave of promotions, conducted by Egglord1. From a period lasting from January to October, new moderators joined the Wiki, such as MoonlightSerenity, Ganchimi, Mctoran, and and Gorped. Among the new moderators was SetaCraft, who soon began striking fear in the hearts of spammers, vandalizers, and 9-year-olds worldwide through his extraordinary use of "Housekeeping".

Although this did give the Backrooms and the Wiki a new breath, this also inevitably attracted a lot of children to the Wiki as a result of widespread popularity. The worst offenders would get blocked from the Wiki, accelerated by the promotion of the popular OGominho to administrator status. Eventually, the Wiki calmed down as the hype surrounding Kane Pixels' videos diminished. This did not fully stop the wave of children, but it was majorly reduced, continuing the Age of Peace. By May, the Wiki continued as usual, and no notable events occurred.

Turbulence (June 2022 ~ October 2022)
This peace would be short-lived, however, as by late June, turmoil began to rise. Things began to get heated, and drama crept out of its cave. By July, the drama would reach its peak due to then-moderator CrimsonFenrir7 being exposed and blocked for serious behavior issues. Then-moderator DoctorIGP would be blocked soon after for defending their actions, and would eventually be joined by TheObbyxx. July of 2022 is colloquially known as the "Month of Fear" due to all of the drama and havoc the month had to offer.

Drama would keep haunting the Wiki and its community until around late August, wherein the storm of incidents died down, and everything was generally normal again for the Wiki.

As philosopher Karl Marx (the creator of communism) once said, "History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce." In October, then-moderator Medeea, who shamed the aforementioned CrimsonFenrir7 for their actions, got banned for doing very similar things. (If I had a nickel for every Backrooms Wiki mod which was demoted over ████ material, I'd have two nickels, which isn't much, but it's disturbing that it happened twice.)

Although the community was sure that the drama had ended after these events, more of it soon reared its ugly head again in the forms of other users, who, while not as relentless as the aforementioned Coolcolapple, caused chaos nonetheless. These were TamanegiSensei1, Rjbear2010, Just A Peashooter On the Internet, and Javacreep3r4 (who was permanently banned from Fandom for being underage in Feburary of 2023), among others. Although their effects were limited through blocks and the eventual removal of the Discussions section entirely on September 6th, they still managed to cause a fair bit of chaos. During this time, ParallaxAstro's older sibling vandalized a page on Parallax's account, almost earning him a 3-month ban. Fortunately, he was only blocked for 2 weeks. Meanwhile, Javacreep3r4 moved to other Wikis, spreading his anti-Egglord1 message. He made claims about his being a totalitarian, and how the Wiki was too strict. He spread this dogma across multiple Wikis, before eventually becoming globally blocked. The Discussions section came back with the new AbuseFilter feature from Fandom, which also put a stop to spam and inappropriate posts, and the Wiki remained mostly peaceful, with the occasional block, drama, and angry rant at a moderator.

Present Day
Minor arguments would emerge in December of 2022 after moderator Mctoran renamed the popular Level 9223372036854775807 (also known as Level 64-Bit Integer) to "An Endless Ending", sparking many questions, debates, and renaming of pages. In this chain of events, Level !, another widely-popular page, became the Wiki's primary topic of discussion after a few moderators wanted to change its title to no longer use a symbol; fortunately, it died down after a compromise was reached. To add on to the already chaotic month, various popular pages would be deleted outright on December 17th, such as Smilers and Partygoers. Some celebrated; others decried the moderators for their actions. The Discussions section was temporarily a mess, but eventually stabilized. Around this time, user Scutoid enjoyed a quick rise to notability with his advanced knowledge of CSS code, revamping many outdated features of the wiki with sleek, modern features, such as the Main Page.

Life went on. CorporalCardiolog came back from a 3-month ban, and his return was well-received by the general public. Life slowly returned to normal as the discussions quieted down. ..

Until Mctoran was globally blocked for deleting a page, with his deletion reason being "Kill yourself". This was done in response to a user creating a page with the content being "RIP CrimsonFenrir7" (the user did not know what Crimson had done). As many users stated, this marked the end of the Mickey-T Clubhouse. After he returned, he dealt with his anger by deleting some pages.

A new discovery came as new evidence regarding Cicicicity was found. A user claiming to be him said that he deleted his old account due to a mental health crisis. While it is unknown if he really is Cicicicity, current evidence suggests he is. The account can be found here.

Towards the end of January, a great purge began. Initially started by PexyWasTaken and ALwaysWand3ringg finding random short pages and putting up deletion templates, it became a massive attack on the Wiki's shortest pages, thanks to the assistance of Mctoran and SetaCraft. Over half (around 1700!) of the Wiki's pages were deleted. Later, a new rule making it illegal to create levels above 1000 until the entirety of Cluster I (Levels 0-999) were filled was created, sparking another purge and the movement of many 1000+ levels to Cluster I. Pexy and SherlsF were then promoted to become Wiki moderators. Inactive moderators Infinite Explorer, Irony, and Michigan were demoted soon after.

On February 6, 2023, the shocking announcement came that Kane Pixels (who is only 17) would be directing a movie about the Backrooms. Unfortunately, some drama was caused when some users started saying that he would plagiarize levels, get this Wiki taken down for being a "copy", and cause 9-year-olds to flood the Fandom. Fortunately, someone responded by saying that Fandom pages are protected by the CC-BY-SA, and that the 9-year-olds would all be banned.

But it seemed that drama was not the Wiki's prime concern.

Following the great purge, the Wiki went from 2,500 pages to a mere 800. Pages dropped dead in groups of tens and hundreds. Not even considering the second Level ! name change (now named to Level 111). Deletions, restorations, and moves happened; all creating minor & major arguments in real time.

After that, Rjbear2010 was blocked for 3 months for harassing people with his alternate account. He would later make an apology, but it's not yet clear if people forgive him, or will let him go and hold a grudge.

Java soon returned from his global block, and discussions were fine at first. But when Java said something on a different Wiki, plenty of posts filled the discussions. It was a somewhat chaotic time for the Wiki, as it did cause ruckus here and there, as well as multiple angered users.

MoonlightSerenity, one of the Wiki's moderators, then moved Level 111 to her sandbox, to rework it and eventually reupload it. It's unknown when this rewrite will be finished.

A user known by as WAEF announced they had to go through a brain surgery to remove a tumor, but with a slim chance of living after. Initially, the public wished for the best luck of WAEF, and were saddened by the news. Despite that, a user known as Crafter shared his doubt about the news; this caused some other users to become skeptical, resulting in a drama outbreak. Despite efforts by some users and WAEF himself to clear up the misunderstandings, some users just wouldn't budge. Sadly, things got even worse from there, as around a week and a half later, WAEF's brother announced that WAEF unfortunately didn't make it, which saw the shock of the public. The same users who were skeptical of the news joined the scene, causing a relatively larger drama outbreak. To this day, occasional minor controversy surrounding the legitimacy of the story occurs.

On a slightly better note, Moonlight's rewrite of Level 111 never started. Instead, one of the admins of the Backrooms Wikidot known as PrinceBun007 rewrote the level, turning it into a tale. Shortly thereafter, a new entity created by KosefSturre named Sanguine Festivus was announced to the public, being the replacement of Partygoers. Followed the release of both of these pages was the replacement for Level Fun, now known as Level 338, written by Samir. These new creations received generally mixed opinions by the public, although surprisingly, did not cause any drama.

Only a few days later, a well-known user known as Irl-basill got blocked by the abuse filter due to the (unknowingly) use of an unacceptable word. This sparked some controversy on the Wiki, with many users being saddened the news, but with some users celebrating the moment. Basill himself would eventually get globally blocked by Fandom as a whole.

On March 31st, 2023, a few events occurred; PexyWasTaken posted a teaser for the Level 399 rewrite, stating it would be released on the 2nd of April, seeing a positive response from the community. As preparation for April Fool's Day, the site logo was changed to a poorly drawn version, which was a magnificent sight to behold. Unfortunately, it quickly spiraled down when Basill announced about considering ending himself within one week, resulting to the dismay of the public. Let's hope that Basill fully reconsiders before doing it, and seeks for the help they need.

One day later saw the return of chaos due to April Fool's Day; pages were being modified to fit the theme left and right; many spam joke pages were created, with the excuse of it being once again, April 1st. In addition, Partygoers and Level Fun were temporarily restored, along with its low effort sub-pages created in the past. The discussions also saw many satirical posts; one of these posts revealing Gorped's true name to be "Barnaby Marmaduke Aloysius Benjy Cobweb Dartagnan Egbert Felix Gaspar Humbert Ignatius Jayden Kasper Leroy Maximilian Neddy Obiajulu Pepin Quilliam Rosencrantz Sexton Teddy Upwood Vivatma Wayland Xylon Yardley Zachary Usansky". . . that's quite a mouthful.

Once April Fools was over, PexyWasTaken then proceeded to delete every remaining April Fools page. In total, around 40 pages were deleted. And as they promised, they also released the Level 399 rewrite, which got a lot of hype when created. In addition, it also merged other levels such as Level 699 and The Promised Land into it, and a new Level 699 taking the former one's place. The April Fools template, however, was not deleted until April 5th.

A week later or so, PexyWasTaken would be "temporarily" promoted to administrator (with the promotion officially made permanent on May 3rd), with many congratulating Pexy for achieving administration status. It's unknown if Pexy will become a permanent administrator, but the community seems to support the idea.

Life would go on, although minor arguments regarding the Level ! rewrite would briefly arise and eventually die down. In addition, a couple posts were made about the hoax of Java and Octavia raiding multiple Wikis, including the Backrooms Wiki. Fortunately, this never happened.

On April 31st, dark mode would ultimately change to a much darker color. The community was divided on whether they liked it or not, as some claimed it was "soothing to the eyes," while others said it was too matte and didn't stick out. This eventually led to PexyWasTaken making a poll asking if there should be a toggle. Most of the voters agreed. The fate of the Wiki lies uncertain, as it always has. Will peace remain established, or will bouts of drama coalesce into something worse. . . ? We'll have to see.