The Flooded Subway - Liminal Space

for many reasons liminal space photos can often look strange and unsettling i believe one of these reasons is when things look out of place for example take the most iconic and well-known liminal space photo the back rooms an office but there's no equipment and no people for that matter it is this reason why i believe that this image gives off the same amount of eeriness a subway that's flooded with just a little bit of water and there's nobody in it but is this water real i know that may sound like a dumb question but there are a lot of liminal space photos that are either manipulated or they're completely fake that's not to say they don't count as liminal space photos some of my favorites are created by people and i consider them to be true works of art but today i want to focus on just this one image is this water real and if so where did it take place this is the flooded subway the first thing i normally do when i'm making these kinds of videos is reverse image search the photo from there i try to find the first point in which the photo was uploaded to the internet or the highest quality of the photo unfortunately reverse image searching can only get you so far and in the case of this image it wasn't really any help i was able to find a decent quality of the photo with the filter stripped so i can at least get a clear view of what we're looking at but nothing really else as everything led me to a dead end the first website i found was just a collection of other assorted liminal space images put together by somebody the other three are all pinterest links and from there those also took me to dead ends the first website didn't even work the second was an instagram page that wasn't even active anymore and the third was a women's clothing website where i couldn't even find the image [Music] looking up a basic google search honestly gave me some pretty good results i was able to find a story about chinese netizens hold on a second netizen i've been on the internet for quite a while and i've never heard anybody use the term netizen before but for some reason out of all three of the articles i looked into every single one of them uses the word netizen and also this is a story about a japanese subway system why are they talking about netizens and how shocked they are about the clean water shouldn't they be reporting on like i don't know the actual flood of the subway system all right i'm getting ahead of myself at this point you're probably wondering how i even found the correct subway system as honestly it's a pretty common thing subway systems get flooded all the time and it happens more often than you'd expect it's happened in new york australia and a bunch of other places all around the world but looking through different photos i was able to find this one and the hallway and staircase seemed to match up with the iconic liminal space photo [Music] so here's the thing i'm not that adept at finding stuff on the internet a lot of the times i just get lucky these three websites were the only things i could find relating to the subway and all three of them have the same images and similar titles meaning that information is scarce in fact there really isn't much information at all one of the articles asks the question whether or not these images are photoshopped and to be fair the water does look very clean but at the end of the day it's definitely not photoshopped i just don't see the point why someone would go through all the effort to photoshop so many images and for what reaction for chinese medicines to marvel about how clean it is while there isn't enough information about the flood itself i can safely say that this image is tragically real [Music] [Music] you

Channel: Shookey

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Keywords: Liminal Spaces, Flooded Subway

Id: qHoC0wqldSU

Length: 4min 6sec (246 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 24 2020