r/mildlyinfuriating • u/slick7studios • Jul 16 '26

I just wanted a hot dog Apperantly A24 suddenly thinks they own all of the backrooms.

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Many people have been reporting copyright strikes for backrooms fan games, textures, and other references on Google play, Twitter and other spaces. Apparently the company thinks if they make a movie that suddenly they own the source material that existed years before the movie was even conceptualized. For an idea of how ridiculous this is, it's like saying James Cameron owns the Titanic and every survivor's story because of the movie he made.

With how shitty the world is becoming at what point is it enough, it's literally 1984, can't have shit anymore, even decades old community internet creepypastas apparently.

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u/LitLitten Jul 17 '26

there’s something fucking insidious about independent work or an amalgamation of independent creative minds being suddenly stolen and privatized by the executive class

Shit, the Disco Elysium debacle still makes me pissed.

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u/JackWickerC Jul 17 '26

What's the Disco debacle? I only just started it a week ago

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u/The_King_Of_Muffins Bah-doink Jul 17 '26

The post-release section on the Disco Elysium Wikipedia page seems to cover everything

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u/meerwednesday Jul 17 '26

I felt this way about There Is No Antimemetics Division, which was an SCP story that went to a big glossy publisher and had lots of other SCPs and lore woven through it. It's been recommended to me a lot and none of the people who have recommended it even know the back story at all. It just felt very very shitty to me for an author and publisher to make money and reputation off not just his own idea but off lore that's been communally developed over many many years, without any serious acknowledgement.