Obi-Wan Has My Heart

[WIP] Feeling sad about Obi-Wan hours

Star Wars: Obi-Wan (2022) issue 1 - variant cover by Peach Momoko.

one of the most obvious metaphors in the backrooms movie that i somehow haven’t seen anyone talk about yet is how the backrooms represents generative ai. nothing the backrooms creates is original; it only can create copies of what’s directly fed into it, and it still makes mistakes. from afar it looks normal, but the second you actually look at it, nothing makes sense. everything even has the same ugly piss filter on it. the movie perfectly encapsulates the uncanny valley that came with early ai images. clark uses the backrooms to escape from reality and even replaces the relationships he has with the still lifes, just like how some people today rely entirely on ai to comfort, help, and talk to them. both genai and the backrooms are destroying peoples humanity and relationships. both are inanimate, non-sentient monsters that are more deadly than any creature.