It’s interesting to see everyone’s thoughts here… Indeed, the influx of users is both a blessing and a curse. It’s always good to grow the community, but that also means we’ll encounter more low-quality posts and pages and whatnot.
To kind of ”reveal” what brought this up as a question, I’ve seen a lot of debates recently over the Backrooms community. Some give the Wikis (all three of them; ours, most prominently, though) a lot of crap for some reason, claiming that videos like Pixels’ should be the new basis for the Backrooms canon, while others argue that this is just some big bandwagon thing that’ll die off like any other trend, and that all this Backrooms content is overrated. It all was really focused on the direction of the Backrooms community in a very negative way.
Personally, I think these up-and-coming content creators like Kane Pixels owe their inspiration and popularity to the Wikis, since, from my point of view, they are, each of them, responsible for keeping the Backrooms alive as a concept, as well as growing said concept into something much more vast, in-depth, and fascinating that goes beyond a simple infinite mono-yellow hallway. That being said, this influx of users has its negatives, but I think it will allow the community to grow in ways it never did before. Who knows? Maybe these new content creators will join up with us to help unify the canon a little, in a way that pulls from many different kinds of media.
That’s the hope anyways. It’ll take time for something like that to happen. For now, though, we’ll probably be stuck sifting through the low-quality posts and pages and the users behind them. It’s a huge task, for sure, but it might help improve how people see the Wiki, and thus grow the community even further.