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-{{Short description|American animator and YouTuber (born 2005)}}
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-| birth_name         = Kane Parsons
-| birth_date         = {{Birth year and age|2005}}
-| nationality        = American
-| occupation         = {{Hlist|Animator|[[YouTuber]]|director}}
-| known_for          = [[Short films]] on [[YouTube]]
-| notable_works      = ''[[Backrooms (web series)|Backrooms]]'' (2022{{endash}}present)
-}}
-'''Kane Parsons''' (born 2005), known online as '''Kane Pixels''', is an American animator and filmmaker known best for his [[Found footage (film technique)|found footage]] [[Short film|short films]] on [[YouTube]]. When Parsons was 16, his 2022 short film based on an online [[urban legend]] known as [[the Backrooms]] went [[Viral video|viral]]. Supported by an eager fanbase, Parsons expanded the short into [[Backrooms (web series)|a web series]], earning him millions of views and popularizing the Backrooms. In 2023, [[A24]] hired Parsons to direct a film adaptation of the series.
-Inspired by [[Liminal space (aesthetic)|liminal spaces]] and vague, dream-like memories, Parsons uses the software [[Blender (software)|Blender]] to create atmospheric horror. His other work includes shorts based on ''[[Attack on Titan]]'' and another found footage series called ''The Oldest View''.
-== Career ==
-Kane Parsons created his [[YouTube]] channel in 2015.<ref name=":8">{{Cite web |last=Grobar |first=Matt |date=February 6, 2023 |title='The Backrooms' Horror Film Based On Viral Shorts By 17-Year-Old Kane Parsons In Works At A24, Atomic Monster, Chernin & 21 Laps |url=https://deadline.com/2023/02/the-backrooms-a24-developing-feature-based-on-viral-horror-shorts-1235249413/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230206160550/https://deadline.com/2023/02/the-backrooms-a24-developing-feature-based-on-viral-horror-shorts-1235249413/ |archive-date=February 6, 2023 |access-date=February 6, 2023 |website=[[Deadline Hollywood]] |language=en-US}}</ref> Under the [[User (computing)|screen name]] "Kane Pixels",<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Dennison |first=Kara |date=February 7, 2022 |title=See Attack on Titan Through the Eyes of Backrooms Director Kane Pixels |url=https://otakuusamagazine.com/attack-on-titan-backrooms/ |access-date=March 31, 2024 |website=[[Otaku USA]]}}</ref> teenage Kane Parsons started uploading [[Short film|short films]] on [[YouTube]] in the style of [[Found footage (film technique)|found footage]] horror.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Mills |first=Jack |date=March 7, 2024 |title=The Backrooms: how Kane Parsons turned creepypasta into cinema |url=https://www.dazeddigital.com/film-tv/article/62125/1/a24-youngest-ever-director-kane-parsons-the-backrooms-creepypasta-into-cinema |access-date=March 31, 2024 |website=[[Dazed]]}}</ref> In 2021,<ref name=":3">{{Cite YouTube |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIyWp3cNg3M |title=I spent a day with BACKROOMS CREATOR KANE PIXELS |date=May 20, 2023 |last=Parsons |first=Kane |type=Interview |language=en |publisher=[[Anthony Padilla]] |via=[[YouTube]]}}</ref>{{Rp|location=1:09}} Parsons recreated scenes from the [[anime]] series ''[[Attack on Titan (TV series)|Attack on Titan]]'' to look like old archival [[War photography|war footage]].<ref name=":0" />
-=== ''Backrooms'' ===
-{{Main article|Backrooms (web series)}}
-On January 7, 2022, 16-year-old Parsons uploaded a short film based on [[the Backrooms]], an online horror story which originated in 2019. The Backrooms is an impossibly large [[Multiverse|extradimensional]] space consisting entirely of "randomly segmented empty rooms". People are apparently transported there when falling out of reality in certain areas.<ref name=":1" /> Parsons' film "The Backrooms (Found Footage)" is animated from the [[Point-of-view shot|point of view]] of a teenager who is trapped in the Backrooms. Desperately searching for an exit, he slowly discovers that a mangled monster lurks there with him, culminating in a sudden chase sequence.<ref name=":1" /> The short went [[Viral video|viral]], garnering millions of views. A few journalists, mostly from niche websites such as ''[[Dread Central]]'', reviewed the video and praised it as effective atmospheric horror,<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Russell |first=Erica |date=17 January 2022 |title='The Backrooms' Viral Horror Short Explained |url=https://wpst.com/is-this-viral-found-footage-horror-short-the-scariest-video-on-the-internet/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220131223735/https://wpst.com/is-this-viral-found-footage-horror-short-the-scariest-video-on-the-internet/ |archive-date=31 January 2022 |access-date= |publisher=[[WPST]]}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite web |last=McAndrews |first=Mary Beth |date=14 January 2022 |title='The Backrooms' Is A Found Footage Nightmare Freaking Out The Internet |url=https://www.dreadcentral.com/news/421920/the-backrooms-is-a-found-footage-nightmare-freaking-out-the-internet/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220131223734/https://www.dreadcentral.com/news/421920/the-backrooms-is-a-found-footage-nightmare-freaking-out-the-internet/ |archive-date=31 January 2022 |access-date= |publisher=[[Dread Central]]}}</ref><ref name=":5">{{Cite web |last=Anderson |first=Kyle |date=March 22, 2022 |title=TERRIFYING BACKROOMS SHORT FILM IS ALSO SUPER IMPRESSIVE |url=https://nerdist.com/article/backrooms-horror-found-footage-short-film-kane-pixels/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221231070822/https://nerdist.com/article/backrooms-horror-found-footage-short-film-kane-pixels/ |archive-date=December 31, 2022 |access-date=February 11, 2023 |website=[[Nerdist]]}}</ref><ref name=":7">{{Cite web |last=Beschizza |first=Rob |author-link=Rob Beschizza |date=1 February 2022 |title=Explore The Backrooms in this short found-footage horror flick |url=https://boingboing.net/2022/02/01/explore-the-backrooms-in-this-short-found-footage-horror-flick.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220201134907/https://boingboing.net/2022/02/01/explore-the-backrooms-in-this-short-found-footage-horror-flick.html |archive-date=1 February 2022 |access-date= |website=[[Boing Boing]]}}</ref> a "cunningly slow build" in tension.<ref name=":6">{{Cite web |last=Walker |first=John |date=April 4, 2023 |title=The 4Chan Creepypasta That's Taking Over The World (And You May Not Even Realize It) |url=https://kotaku.com/best-creepypasta-what-is-backrooms-tiktok-steam-reddit-1850298058 |access-date=April 10, 2023 |website=[[Kotaku]]}}</ref> In December, it was revealed to be the seventh-most watched video of 2022, with 42 million views.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-12-01 |title=Google Shows Off the 10 Most-Watched YouTube Vids for 2022 |url=https://gizmodo.com/youtube-google-mrbeast-top-youtube-videos-1849843728 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231128223500/https://gizmodo.com/youtube-google-mrbeast-top-youtube-videos-1849843728/slides/5 |archive-date=November 28, 2023 |access-date=2023-11-28 |website=[[Gizmodo]] |language=en}}</ref>{{Efn|This figure did not count music videos, which were measured separately.}}
-The short film's success, ''[[Kotaku]]'' contributor John Walker asserted, lifted the Backrooms from obscurity and ignited the concept's unexpected popularity in video games and [[social media]]. To support his point, Walker pointed out that while four Backrooms games were released on [[Steam (platform)|Steam]] from 2019 to 2022, at least 41 came out in 2022.<ref name=":6" /> Encouraged by the attention, Kane Parsons expanded the video into a [[Backrooms (web series)|''Backrooms'' web series]]. One of its connecting threads is ASYNC, a secretive organization which created a portal to the Backrooms in the 1980s.<ref name=":12" /> It sends researchers into the ever-perplexing and hostile area to explore and build bases within it,<ref name=":6" /> while also dealing with the politics of the [[Federal government of the United States|U.S. Government]].<ref name=":12">{{cite web |last1=Dobuski |first1=Michael |date=November 6, 2022 |title=The Backrooms: Horror storytelling goes online |url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/backrooms-horror-storytelling-online/story?id=92623707 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221108110834/https://abcnews.go.com/US/backrooms-horror-storytelling-online/story?id=92623707 |archive-date=November 8, 2022 |access-date=17 June 2023 |website=[[ABC News]] |ref=2}}</ref> ''Backrooms'' now has 16 installments, while other series from creators unaffiliated with Parsons have emerged.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Burton |first=Carson |date=February 7, 2023 |title=YouTube Horror Series The Backrooms Is Getting Turned Into a Feature Film |url=https://www.ign.com/articles/youtube-horror-series-the-backrooms-is-getting-turned-into-a-feature-film |access-date=March 31, 2024 |website=[[IGN]]}}</ref> [[View count|View counts]] number in the tens of millions.<ref name=":12" /> During the [[12th Streamy Awards]], [[MatPat]] accorded to Parsons a "Creator Honors", a way for past awardees to recognize creators they have noticed.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Grein |first=Paul |date=December 4, 2022 |title=Mark Rober, MrBeast Win Big at 2022 YouTube Streamy Awards (Full Winners List) |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/awards/2022-youtube-streamy-awards-full-winners-list-mark-rober-mrbeast-1235180954/ |access-date=April 1, 2024 |website=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]}}</ref>
-Parsons stumbled upon the original Backrooms story by chance.<ref name=":12" /> In a 2023 interview with [[YouTuber]] [[Anthony Padilla]]{{Emdash}}his first in-person{{Emdash}}<ref name=":3" />{{Rp|location=0:48}} he claimed he was completely unaware of the online community surrounding the Backrooms, and was surprised to find angry comments from a minority who disagreed with his take on the concept.<ref name=":3" />{{Rp|location=2:57}} However, in March 2024, Parsons told ''[[Dazed]]'' that he came up with his version after seeing the then-deteriorating quality of Backrooms content. He remains largely uninterested with the overwhelming amount of fan-created lore, preferring instead to expand on his own story. He also told ''Dazed'' he still plans to continue ''Backrooms''. At the time, Parsons had 2.88 million subscribers.<ref name=":1" />
-After "The Backrooms (Found Footage)" went viral, Parsons was approached by studios to adapt it. He initially pitched a potential adaptation as a [[comic book]]{{Endash}}style [[Serial (literature)|serialization]].<ref name=":1" /> On February 6, 2023, [[A24]] announced that they are working on a film adaptation of ''Backrooms'' directed by Parsons,<ref name=":8" /> making him A24's youngest director.<ref name=":1" /> [[Roberto Patino]] is set to write the screenplay, while [[James Wan]], [[Atomic Monster]]'s Michael Clear, [[Shawn Levy]], Dan Cohen, and Dan Levine of [[21 Laps Entertainment|21 Laps]] are set to produce.<ref name=":8" />
-=== ''The Oldest View'' ===
-After ''Backrooms'', Parsons began working on another found footage web series in 2023. Through four loosely connected short films, ''The Oldest View'' follows an online [[content creator]] who discovers a [[Lovecraftian horror|Lovecraftian]] subterranean complex. It carries a similar ambience to ''Backrooms'', with slow, deliberate pacing designed to instill dread and tension.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hall |first=Jacob |date=November 29, 2023 |title=The Scariest Movie Of 2023 Isn't In Theaters – It's On YouTube |url=https://www.slashfilm.com/1458471/the-oldest-view-scariest-movie-of-2023-youtube/ |access-date=March 31, 2024 |website=[[IndieWire]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Williamson |first=Samuel |date=December 24, 2023 |title=2023's Creepiest Horror Release Is a 12-Minute Short Film |url=https://collider.com/kane-parsons-the-oldest-view-youtube/ |access-date=March 31, 2024 |website=[[Collider (website)|Collider]]}}</ref> ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' staff writer Jen Yamato listed the series on her [[Halloween]] film recommendations, describing it as the most discussed horror film of the season.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Yamato |first=Jen |date=2023-10-26 |title=Demons, killer sloths, analog terror: The 13 best new horror movies to stream this Halloween |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2023-10-26/best-new-horror-movies-streaming-halloween-2023 |url-access=limited |access-date=2023-12-08 |website=[[Los Angeles Times]] |language=en-US}}</ref>
-== Artistry and influences ==
-A self-taught animator, Parsons uses the [[Computer animation|animation software]] [[Blender (software)|Blender]] and edits with [[Adobe After Effects]].<ref name=":13">{{Cite web |last=Lloyd |first=Andrew |date=March 29, 2022 |title=The Backrooms: How a Creepy Office Photo Became an Internet Bogeyman |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dga98/is-the-backrooms-real |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221130030756/https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dga98/is-the-backrooms-real |archive-date=November 30, 2022 |access-date=November 30, 2022 |website=[[Vice (magazine)|Vice]]}}</ref> His influences for ''Backrooms'' include [[Liminal space (aesthetic)|liminal spaces]], the [[environmental horror]] of ''[[Portal 2]]'' (2011)'s near-empty labyrinthine [[Salt mining|salt mines]], a game from his childhood,<ref name=":0" /> and [[Nostalgia|nostalgic]] but noncommittal memories, like brief glimpses of photos from the 1990s and 2000s: "The flash is always on, the lighting is gross looking, there's yellow walls, the white balance is all off."<ref name=":13" />
-== Personal life ==
-Born in 2005,{{Efn|Birth year based on Parsons' age as stated in the articles {{Harvard citation text|Mills|2024}} and {{Harvard citation text|Williamson|2023}}, two to three months apart.}} Parsons is based in [[Northern California]]. Not much is known about his personal life; he was still in high school when A24 announced he was directing a film.<ref name=":8" />
-== Notes ==
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-== References ==
-<references />
-== External links ==
-* {{YouTube channel|handle=@kanepixels}} on [[YouTube]]