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Horror film 'Backrooms' makes box office history 87%

6/1/2026, 10:44:17 AM

Topics: Video
Keywords: Youtube

BS Summary: This video contains 29 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Authority, Anchoring Bias, and Availability Heuristic, with Hasty Generalization as the most egregious example at 33.1% saturation with 99 hits. Analysis detected 1,025 faulty-reasoning hits from 299 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 79.2% and a BS Rank of 87% (2,957 of 21,886 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 86.50% of the video peer group.

Independent horror film Backrooms is a box office stunner. 
>> Found a place. 
It's massive in there. 
>> Taking [snorts] in $82 million in domestic ticket sales in its opening weekend. 
It's budget just $10 million, making it one of the most profitable movies of the year. 
And the film's director, YouTube star Kane Parsons. 
He's only 20 years old, now the youngest director ever to debut at number one with a feature film. 
>> Migrating here to this version of filmmaking under the sort of Hollywood notion, 
if you want to call it that, I think feels 
like I I have an engine for what I do. 
>> Backrooms is based on Parsons' YouTube horror series about a furniture store owner who finds a secret doorway that leads him to an endless stretch of nondescript rooms. 
>> If this is what we can expect from young filmmakers, like we are in for some good movies. 
>> It's not just Backrooms generating massive appeal for the Gen Z crowd. 
>> I thought we were having a nice day. 
>> We we are. 
>> Obsession, another low-budget horror film also directed by a YouTube star, 
has taken in more than $104 million, posting three consecutive weekends of growth, the first non-Christmas release to enjoy such a streak since Jaws in 1975. 
And earlier this year, Iron Lung, a horror movie from YouTube star Markiplier, brought in more than $50 million on a $4 million budget. 
Industry observers are left to consider whether this is the beginning of a paradigm shift for Hollywood. 
>> There's already talk of a Backrooms sequel. 
Parsons, who turns 21 this month, says despite making this movie for the big screen, he's still committed to his fans on YouTube. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 14.4%ABC News: 2.2%Confirmation Bias14.4%This article: 22.1%ABC News: 0.7%Anchoring Bias22.1%This article: 18.4%ABC News: 3.0%Availability Heuristic18.4%This article: 14.0%ABC News: 0.9%Representativeness Heuristic14.0%This article: 5.7%ABC News: 0.5%Hindsight Bias5.7%This article: 11.7%ABC News: 1.1%Overconfidence Bias11.7%This article: 15.4%ABC News: 6.8%Framing Effect15.4%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.3%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.4%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 17.4%ABC News: 2.4%Optimism Bias17.4%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 1.0%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 6.0%ABC News: 7.7%Negativity Bias6.0%This article: 11.0%ABC News: 1.5%Self-Serving Bias11.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.7%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 4.3%ABC News: 0.8%In-Group Bias4.3%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.4%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 16.7%ABC News: 2.2%Halo Effect16.7%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 16.1%ABC News: 1.3%Recency Bias16.1%This article: 6.4%ABC News: 0.4%Primacy Effect6.4%This article: 3.3%ABC News: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias3.3%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.5%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Straw Man0.0%This article: 29.4%ABC News: 3.3%Appeal to Authority29.4%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.9%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 5.7%ABC News: 0.3%Slippery Slope5.7%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 33.1%ABC News: 2.8%Hasty Generalization33.1%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.4%Red Herring0.0%This article: 9.4%ABC News: 0.4%Bandwagon9.4%This article: 6.4%ABC News: 4.3%Appeal to Emotion6.4%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.7%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 4.7%ABC News: 2.1%Post Hoc (False Cause)4.7%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 5.7%ABC News: 0.4%Burden of Proof5.7%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 8.0%ABC News: 0.2%Composition/Division8.0%This article: 10.4%ABC News: 1.2%Anecdotal10.4%This article: 6.4%ABC News: 0.1%No True Scotsman6.4%This article: 17.1%ABC News: 1.8%Ambiguity (Equivocation)17.1%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.0%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 10.4%ABC News: 1.9%Unattributed Quote10.4%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 1.0%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 7.7%ABC News: 3.1%Biased Writer Voice7.7%This article: 5.7%ABC News: 0.6%Indoctrination5.7%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.7%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 1.0%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

299 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker7.7%attributed speech276writer words
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Selected voice

Kane Parsons

100%flagged-word coverage
23 attributed words100% of attributed speech97% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice+100.0 ptsWriter: 0.0%Kane Parsons: 100.0%100.0%Unattributed Quote+97.1 ptsWriter: 2.9%Kane Parsons: 100.0%100.0%Indoctrination-6.2 ptsWriter: 6.2%Kane Parsons: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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