It’s Kane Parsons who is studying the Backrooms in the YouTube series. The series follows the company Async , which is researching and documenting the liminal space, but Parsons is the creator behind the videos themselves.

Quick Scoop

  • Kane Parsons made the original Backrooms YouTube series and built the lore around it.
  • The in-story group doing the studying is Async, a research company focused on the Backrooms.
  • Recent coverage of the Backrooms film and lore still points back to Parsons’ YouTube series as the source material.

TL;DR: If you mean the creator, it’s Kane Parsons; if you mean the fictional investigators in the series, it’s Async.