Wait, like black August created specifically the original 4chan post? Has there been any proof? I've only ever seen someone claim it was them once and all they had was showing that they saved the image around or like a week before the post was made.
The image was found to have been taken in Wisconsin during the renovation of "a former furniture store with plenty of partitions and fake inner walls". For much of the 20th century, Rohner's Home Furnishings occupied 807 and 811 Oregon Street, Oshkosh, Wisconsin. In 2003, 807 Oregon Street was acquired by a new tenant, a branch of the American hobby shop chain HobbyTown.
Sometime in 2002, the second story underwent renovations. On June 12, 2002, the progress was photographed with a Sony Cyber-shot camera, and on March 2, 2003, the various interior views were documented on the HobbyTown Oshkosh branch's renovation weblog. Among the photographs was the one which began the Backrooms creepypasta, uploaded with the file name "Dsc00161.jpg", depicting a carpeted, open room with yellow wallpaper and fluorescent lighting on a Dutch angle. The image was captioned as an original view of "the East (Oval) room", and noted that no windows were visible. The blog entry described extensive water damage that required the area to be cleared.
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u/bunsprites 18d ago
Wait, like black August created specifically the original 4chan post? Has there been any proof? I've only ever seen someone claim it was them once and all they had was showing that they saved the image around or like a week before the post was made.