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MILWAUKEE \u2014 Long before the horror\/sci-fi flick \u201cBackrooms\u201d hit theaters nationwide on Friday, an old picture of a former backroom in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, started to get some unanticipated traction on the internet.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were going viral on TikTok because of the back rooms, which I had never heard about,\u201d said Mike McArthur, the local history and genealogy librarian at the Oshkosh Public Library. \u201cIt was all connected to this picture, this famous picture you\u2019ve been seeing with the yellow walls with no one in it that had been floating around the internet for years, and what happened is that people finally found where that picture came from.\u201d<\/p>\n
That picture \u2014 tied to Rohner\u2019s Furniture in Oshkosh and posted by HobbyTown USA \u2014 has gone on to internet infamy, as things with unanticipated starts tend to do, serving as a backdrop for internet memes, GIFs and creative videos. And now it\u2019s been elevated to the inspiration for a potential Hollywood blockbuster.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s kind of neat being at the center of that,\u201d McArthur said. \u201cIt\u2019s amazing to see high production and movie stars in this thing that all got started by a picture taken by someone here in Oshkosh.\u201d<\/p>\n
Watch the full interview above.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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