A24's copyright strikes on Backrooms community creations landed on the wrong side of the story, and director Kane Parsons has stepped in to confirm the errors. Multiple artists and indie devs reported DMCA notices from "A24 Films LLC" hitting Redbubble listings and Google Play apps, including pre-existing wallpaper designs based on the original 2019 4chan image and a small studio that lost its entire developer account after three strikes on games like Exit the Backrooms: Level 94. Parsons replied directly on Reddit: "I'm looking into this. Should not be happening," distancing himself from the automated overreach on public-domain liminal space folklore that predates his film.

The strikes targeted unrelated fan work — one artist lost listings for designs explicitly tied to the 2002 photographer image that started it all, while Davilkus Games and at least three others had titles scrubbed or accounts banned despite no connection to A24's adaptation. X users and Reddit threads lit up with the same frustration: the studio is treating a crowdsourced creepypasta like proprietary IP, even as Parsons has previously stated there was "no interest in going after anyone." Community pushback forced the director's hand, exposing how corporate enforcement bots don't distinguish between movie-specific assets and decades-old internet myth.

Parsons' intervention shows the difference between the filmmaker who rose from YouTube and the machinery protecting a blockbuster, but it doesn't erase the damage to small creators already fighting for visibility in a genre built on shared weirdness. A24 has stayed silent on the claims despite Kotaku outreach. The pattern fits recent PR headaches for the studio, and the message is clear: don't weaponize the DMCA against the audience that handed you the IP in the first place.