u/mopadee

Let me explain real quick:

The Backrooms originated from a post on 4chan and subsequently got expanded upon by fans with their own adaptations. Many of these initial adaptations were of a backrooms with "levels," such as "Level 0" being the photo reference and "Level 1" being a series of hallways made of pipes. These are the adaptations which gained the most attention circa 2020.

However, if you watched the recent Backrooms film, you'll know that this version of the Backrooms is not what is adapted; instead, the director (Kane Parsons, also known as "Kane Pixels") created his own version centered around the Backrooms being one continuous and unpredictable structure. While this version did gain some traction prior to the movie releasing thanks to his Youtube series, it contradicted with the Backrooms some had come to know. (This is also why you see some people criticizing the adaptation of the Backrooms, even though it was a really great movie.) Even so, the film made over 250 million dollars at the box office and was A24's biggest success.

The important distinction between the two versions is that while many fans can take different perspectives and headcanons on the Levels system, Kane Pixel's own system was more consistent and covered all the bases it needed to. If the Backrooms film used the level system, it would be much more complicated to both viewers and studio executives, and would leave its audience upset with any aspects that didn't make the cut.

The SCP Foundation originated from a post on 4chan and subsequently got expanded upon by fans with their own adaptations (sound familiar?). Like the Backrooms' level system, the SCP wiki has many different anomalies, universes, tales, characters, sites, etc. Everything is a variable with the Wiki. This is the aspect that many youtube "adaptations" fail to consider: they try to cover the Foundation as it is and, despite their high quality, end up gaining no traction outside Youtube.

If somebody took the SCP concept and created their own Youtube series which started the concept from scratch and took a few creative liberties to simplify portions of it, do you think they could genuinely have a shot at getting noticed in Hollywood?

(lets just ignore the legal aspects of all this btw, just assume that itd be legal to do so)