Liminal Space Malls

I was born in 1989 and so I really appreciate you making these video's. I hope you keep doing them in all sorts of ways. I have been really noticing just how bland and soulless everything has gotten in our current era & I don't understand why we would stray away from rewarding a optimistic creative Retro Futurism type vibe aesthetic of all different types..? That should be our mindset. We should strive to constantly be improving our quality of life. I hope our society snaps out of this depressing tunnel visioned capitalistic perspective that really makes society feel so dystopian and dysfunctional.. it's so hard to even afford to exist at the most basic level. Which is sad because We have so much creativity, advancements, technology, ideas, motivation, to create a awesome environment. Improve our quality of Life, improve the quality of our media, games, homes, living situations... Yet for now... Our society is really in a sorta new age low point.. just being brutally honest. So these videos and thinking about things of this nature are very therapeutic and uplifting in a otherwise bleak point in time. Glad I found your channel 👍🏻

Maybe it is just me but In furniture stores you definitely loose your sense of time. Especially when it has 3 -5 floors it's enormous. Greetings from Vienna

I was in an empty mall with my family once, not a soul in sight, lights were shutting off, we had to run through this concrete hallway outside because everything, all the doors, passageways were locked off, still remember the wind in my ears the run to the car, the emptiness of the mall, honestly a nice break from all those eyes though

Thing is.. malls haven't died, they just changed format. The outdoor artificial "small town" ones are hopping.

Imagine exploring a flooded mall after a hurricane or something

my local mall is dying and it makes me really sad, i grew up going there and i hate seeing it so empty. i haven't been in a long time because of covid but i know it's not doing too well

I’ve actually been to the Washington Square mall location dozens of times. From what I was able to gather, it used to be a daycare which explain the colors, and it has a children’s mural on the other side of the shop. It used to be a LensCutters and I think either a furniture or antique shop. The mall itself is eerie to walk around, you just hear your own footsteps, buzzing of the lights and sometimes the kids car ride would play a child’s laugh. This is a very good video, I always find these locations fascinating and it’s nice to learn about them.

Just discovered your channel and its perfect, love this content

when you said "the thing" i thought you were being creepy but then i remembered it was 2021 lol

i've lived in myrtle beach all my life and that mall is actually completely torn down now, that picture sadly doesn't exist anymore, the lot is now used yearly for carnivals and car shows

You are scarily underrated

You know how to edit You dont sound monotone Amazing video man

Ahh, White Flint. Growing up in the DMV, this was a staple of my childhood. It’s been torn down for a few years now.

Hi, as a dead mall lover it made me so delighted to see a video like this! Amazing job, keep it up! :D

The mountaineer mall is my favorite liminal space picture cause it's one of the few I genuinely connect with. It reminds me not of a mall, but of a rec center 5 minutes from where I live, combined with a mall that no longer exists near me

I predict that this channel will grow

Once you understand the meaning of liminal spaces, that your childhood is gone and your memory is full of empty memories, you realize that these kind of photos are art

A couple of weeks ago, I was having a rough day. And as I so often do when I have rough days, I dressed in my finest 1980's themed attire; All three feet of hair, teased to perfection, and my face was adorned with every kind of makeup you could imagine. I decided to go the the mall in the next town over, somewhere I had fond memories of but had not visited in years, with the intention of reliving those quickly fading memories (thanks memory disorder). But when I stepped through those doors, I was greeted with an empty shell of what once was. Over half the stores were closed and derelict, and there were maybe nine other families in the whole building. I meandered about for a bit, got my little brother some freeze-dried ice cream, but eventually I left without much fuss. It was a really, truly disheartening experience. I never got to live through the 80s or the golden era of the shopping mall. I feel like I've missed out on something that I was meant to see. I dunno lol. I just gotta hope someday they'll come back.

Liminal Spaces are a comfort of mine. It’s hard to describe. I used to visit malls as a kid, too. Every second I got to myself, I’d grab my buddies and head to the Hot Topic, Spencer’s, and a few others. It wasn’t a retro looking mall. To this day, nothing has changed and yet it still remains busy. Happy to have discovered this video. Nice channel.

Great video! I remember when I first discovered Vaporwave (around 2015, but I've come to recognize that I've been experiencing the feelings for longer) and that was when I first started noticing the feeling that comes with Liminal Space images. Just like you said, there's a lot of overlap with Vaporwave and Liminal Space. I didn't have the words to describe it at the time, and as such I thought I was the only one who felt that way about these nostalgic and somewhat unsettling spaces. I'm really glad that things like the Backrooms and other such internet trends brought it enough into the spotlight to actually be defined and easily understood by others for the most part, it makes me really happy. As always keep up the great work!