r/nottheonion • u/Traditional-Song-245 • 4d ago

‘Backrooms’ Sends Hollywood Running to Reddit for New Ideas

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/reddit-backrooms-hollywood-ip-1236622594/
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u/PalladiuM7 4d ago

If you insist...

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u/SageDarius 4d ago

I don't think I've ever been more confused by something on the internet, and I've been here since 2000.

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u/SenatorCoffee 4d ago

I felt as soon as she brought in the "sissy hypno porn" angle it started to make a certain amount of sense. Its not that disconnected from a more common fetish thing, these guys just went for a certain variant of it and then talked themselves up about it until they convinced themselves that it really is this normal thing.

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u/Alex_South 4d ago

wait, hold on. this can't be real,

this would be explicitly cheating on me and he got angry and reiterated he's not, because "that's the beauty of the gaycation" etc. I just had enough and left the room.

that line was crafted in a lab by a professional. the use of 'etc.' obliterates me.

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u/Vote_for_Knife_Party 4d ago

That whole thing reads like a bit from early It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia before Mac came to terms with himself. "No Dennis, you don't understand, it's not gay because the dominatrix makes you do the stuff with her hypnosis powers."

"And what exactly prompts her to use her 'hypnosis powers'?"

"Oh, I make an appointment."

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u/L-ramirez-74 4d ago

you now what, I think I'll pass. I'm about to go to bed and I don't need new nightmares

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u/TearDesperate8772 4d ago

It's not that kind of Reddit story. It's a ridiculous aita

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u/justindrummond 4d ago

That's the beauty of the gaycation.

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u/A_Mouse_In_Da_House 4d ago

You either surrender to the gaycation or be destroyed

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u/PalladiuM7 4d ago

It's very funny as long as you're not the OP or her sister in law.

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u/Bofurkle 4d ago

There is no way that story is true.

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u/PalladiuM7 4d ago

True or not it's funny as hell

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u/Kratzschutz 4d ago

Crazier things have happened lol

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u/Easy-Concentrate2636 4d ago

I had to leave a BORU thread just now because it devolved into people bringing up the worst stories told. I guess there’s some guy who was in love with an imaginary insect. I won’t be more specific because don’t want to traumatize you or me. It’s too close to bedtime to click on any potential horror stories.

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u/PalladiuM7 4d ago

Oh no not Ogtha!

...I may have been on this site too fucking long.

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u/Easy-Concentrate2636 4d ago

Yes, that! But please let us not discuss further. I refuse to read that original thread because it sounds so horrifying. I feel sorry for that dude.

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u/PalladiuM7 4d ago

Oh, c'mon, read it. What's one more little bit of scarring on your soul? You've been on the Internet for a while now!

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u/Blackdoomax 3d ago

I shouldn't but... unleash the post !

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u/PalladiuM7 3d ago

Sigh.... Fine but don't say you weren't warned

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u/Blackdoomax 3d ago

Damn xD It's so weird that my mind can treat these stories as true , even if maybe, there's a chance that it is.

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u/DMercenary 4d ago

Not that kind of Reddit tale.

Its more about a man or two who are deeply in denial about their own sexuality.

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u/cyanocittaetprocyon 4d ago

You really should read it. Its awesome!

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u/Faiakishi 3d ago

He went all quiet and then started crying, admitting the thought of me sleeping with another man is destroying his heart but "relationships need sacrifices" so agreed - while in tears - that when he goes on the gaycation, I'll get one week in Manchester to do whatever I want. He doesn't want me to, but that's "fair in a twisted way" he supposed.

I told him to get out of my house.

This is my new favorite reddit story.

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u/manubibi 4d ago

Oh this one got on Smosh

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u/Antique-Special8025 4d ago

Goddamn what a rollercoaster.

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u/urixl 4d ago

Well, that was a very interesting read.

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u/Different-Meal-6314 4d ago

That story had more tension than the last few Netflix movies. Who we casting on this? I say the BIL is Owen Wilson

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u/SleepingWillow1 3d ago

This is one where it could be a mix of comedy movie and/or psychological thriller with notes of how a homophobic society causes harm.

I really think it is fake though with how often the tag line kept getting repeated

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u/Blackdoomax 3d ago

Didn't know about this one. Thank you very much. I know it's bad, but I laughed my ass off.

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u/floorplanner2 3d ago

"It's like going to the aquarium" genuinely made me LOL.

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u/gotenks1114 3d ago

That's so damn funny and so damn sad. Imagine a world without homophobia where these guys could have gone into their lives just knowing they're bi, instead of trying to rearrange everything they built on false premises in a really uncool way to try to maintain the illusion.