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This meme consists of text on top of a popular reaction image. The top text reads "Me looking at my friend after watching the backrooms movie and the exit is just gone". The image below features the uncanny, deeply disappointed facial expression of the adult protagonist from the animated film *The Polar Express* staring at a partially visible friend. The joke plays on the popular internet creepypasta concept of the Backrooms, an endless liminal space with no exit, to mock the poor quality of the Backrooms movie adaptation: the viewer is frustrated with their friend for picking a bad movie that felt like an inescapable waste of time, matching the original title of the post stating they will no longer let this friend choose movies for group outings.
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Me looking at my friend after watching the backrooms movie and the exit is just gone

Overview

This meme consists of text on top of a popular reaction image. The top text reads "Me looking at my friend after watching the backrooms movie and the exit is just gone". The image below features the uncanny, deeply disappointed facial expression of the adult protagonist from the animated film The Polar Express staring at a partially visible friend. The joke plays on the popular internet creepypasta concept of the Backrooms, an endless liminal space with no exit, to mock the poor quality of the Backrooms movie adaptation: the viewer is frustrated with their friend for picking a bad movie that felt like an inescapable waste of time, matching the original title of the post stating they will no longer let this friend choose movies for group outings.

Origin notes

This meme was sourced via RSS from the Reddit r/Meme subreddit. It repurposes a widely circulated reaction screenshot from the 2004 animated film The Polar Express, which has been a popular meme template for expressing disappointment or unimpressed judgment for years, paired with new text referencing the popular Backrooms internet horror franchise and low-quality film adaptations of online media.

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