Liminal space
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Liminal space is an internet aesthetic centered on depictions of built environments, especially places associated with passage or temporary use. In such imagery, the absence of people, activity, or co
An empty hotel hallway, a common subject of liminal-space imagery
A corridor at Disney's Contemporary Resort, an example of a space associated with passage
An empty classroom, shown without its expected occupants
The photograph used in the original Backrooms thread
Dead mall
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A dead mall, also known as a ghost mall or zombie mall, is a shopping mall that has low consumer traffic or is deteriorating in some manner.
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…looked at online communities including r/liminalspaces and r/weirdcore. Severance creator Dan Erickson cited the Backrooms among the series' influences. Dead mall Non-place…
Interior of the second floor of Century III Mall from JCPenney in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States, taken on April 13, 2019 – nearly two months after it closed. It was the world's third-largest shopping mall at the time of its opening, and would later become the world's largest abandoned mall before its demolition.
A "dead" wing of the Shanghai Summit Shopping City in Shanghai, China in 2007
The City View Center is a dead plaza in Garfield Heights, Ohio.
Between early 2013 and November 2017, the Bargate Centre in Southampton, England, was empty.