Who decided that liminal spaces were scary?

>"OooOOoooHHhh! An empty hallway!"

They're comfy, possibly a 'tad' eerie. Nothing more.

I know what you mean but this is certainly not always the case. CS Lewis wrote of the forest between worlds and Tolkien talked of the halls of waiting. They are more perceived as quiet, thoughtful places. Sometimes peaceful, sometimes sad.

>>40746330 (OP)
The dumbasses put monsters in them for that reason.

>>40746330 (OP)
Liminality is a spectrum, or something.

>>40746330 (OP)
>Who decided that liminal spaces were scary?
zoomtards

why? I dunno, they are too stupid or something

>>40746330 (OP)
the Labyrinth, a buffer zone intended to remain empty. pixar's monsters inc seems to have several messages in it - kidnapping & exploitation of minors, beastly demons feeding on both fear and comedy, THE DOOR THING. i feel the door stuff in monsters inc ties in with the labyrinth / backrooms. doors are portals, and boundaries. ever blank out when you cross a door threshhold? you entered a new loading zone.
i could never finish reading House of Leaves, but there's gotta be something buried in there too. rooms bigger on the inside than on the outside (tardis, a word that is now known as an acronym from a fantasy show about dimension hopping or smth).
the backroom's scribbly stick figure beast is the minotaur, a big scary robot (s) whose job it is to ensure people stay tf out of the designated STAY OUT buffer zones.

>>40746330 (OP)
Nice

>>40746330 (OP)
>kids that chat to much in discord, twitter and associate real life with internet life
>inside a place when they get no attention/community
quite obvious desu

>>40746330 (OP)
Surely it's not supposed to be scary. Most of them are really comforting

>>40746330 (OP)
What began as am intriguing stillness, slowly turned into a slow suffocation. quiet and unhurried, it began to feel like being buried alive. Every corner another scrape at the dirt, an endless inwardly folding claustrophobia...

>>40746330 (OP)
desu i understand why seeing things out of their usual context can provoke a reaction (like a commercial establishment when it's closed to the public) and I think in the terms of hotel hallways, empty airports they are unfamiliar territory that divide other unfamiliar territory, but at least the parts they seperate aren't just transitory. just my 2 cents. honestly i wish it hadn't taken off as a zoomer meme cus i was developing an art project about it have always been interested in the stuff people now call liminal spaces

>>40746330 (OP)
sometime around 2000 it became the norm to raise your children as shut ins in the US when it used to be the norm to shove them out the door after breakfast and them to not come home until nightfall. makes sense kids raised spending their entire lives inside staring at glowing screens with their families constantly present would manifest an empty, unfamiliar building as some sort of primal fear.

media revenue is driven by attention and fear gets attention so you have an entire generation of suburbanite moms thinking letting their kids play outside in their sleepy suburb as like thrusting them into the most violent and decrepit corner of Detroit and that somehow spending the entire day on algorithm driven slop feeds is safer despite what it has done to late millenials and zoomers what with all the retarded political radicalization and trooning out and obsession with aesthetics and general mental illness. they might have even learned to talk to girls if they got a chance to interact with them outside in peer groups without helicopter chaperones.

>>40746330 (OP)
Imagine you suddenly are in an infinite office with possible creatures who have adapted to that environment. You would go crazy in short time.