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wasted my money on the ticket

This meme is shot from the perspective of a person sitting in an empty movie theater. The theater screen displays imagery of the Backrooms, a famous internet liminal space creepypasta that depicts endless, empty, monotonous pale yellow rooms with no narrative content. Sarcastic review text is overlaid at the bottom of the screen reading 'bad movie didn't understand a thing 0/10'. The joke relies on the fact that the Backrooms has no plot, so a film consisting only of Backrooms footage would be completely incomprehensible, making the cost of the movie ticket a total waste as referenced in the title.
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bad movie didn't understand a thing 0/10

Overview

This meme is shot from the perspective of a person sitting in an empty movie theater. The theater screen displays imagery of the Backrooms, a famous internet liminal space creepypasta that depicts endless, empty, monotonous pale yellow rooms with no narrative content. Sarcastic review text is overlaid at the bottom of the screen reading 'bad movie didn't understand a thing 0/10'. The joke relies on the fact that the Backrooms has no plot, so a film consisting only of Backrooms footage would be completely incomprehensible, making the cost of the movie ticket a total waste as referenced in the title.

Origin notes

This meme is sourced from the Reddit Meme subreddit, as specified in the provided RSS source information. It is an edited work that combines existing Backrooms creepypasta imagery with a stock photo of a movie theater, with added sarcastic review text to create the humorous effect.

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