HISHE turns the Backrooms into a furniture-store attraction
Captain Clark's pirate-costumed sales pitch gives an eerie labyrinth a commercial purpose in the channel's new animated alternate ending.
Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.
How Backrooms Should Have Ended
Endless corridors, roaming monsters, melting furniture: Captain Clark sees a business opportunity. In How It Should Have Ended's new cartoon, discovering a doorway into the Backrooms is less a reason to flee than a chance to rescue his failing furniture store.
"How Backrooms Should Have Ended" turns that idea into a pirate-fronted TV infomercial, complete with customer testimonials and an owner distinctly unhappy to learn someone found another entrance without paying. Tina Alexander produced the sketch, Daniel Baxter animated it, and both share writing and voice credits.
The channel's only upload this week reached about 161,000 views in its first twelve hours. It's also the channel's most active video right now. Daily viewing across How It Should Have Ended is running nearly half above its usual level, although the subscriber count was unchanged over the week.
Viewers are picking apart the sales pitch: several discuss the instinct to monetize a supernatural discovery, while others point to the commercial remembering that the shop also sells furniture. There are calls for Doctor Strange references, too, a familiar superhero-shaped request beneath this departure into horror.
That superhero audience has other cartoons to watch. "Spider-Man Catches Jean Grey" remains active a month after publication, alongside the longer "How Spider-Man Brand New Day Should Have Ended," whose Super Cafe debate asks whether Ned and MJ should regain their memories. But this week's fresh proposition belongs to Clark: why waste an impossible dimension when you could put it in a commercial?
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What viewers say
Love how at the very end the commercial remembers "we also sell furniture" 😂😂
@gustavoc305See it on YouTubeThere is a disturbing lack of Doctor Strange references
@majorman925See it on YouTube0:40 The "Backrooms Empire" echoes gave me serious Homestar Runner vibes.
@brianlane723See it on YouTube
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Using the backrooms as a marketing tactic is definitely something they’re do in current time
@Memeguy3250See it on YouTubeThe back room should end with Clark finding the front rooms
@yourin8erSee it on YouTubenever thought I'd see the day that hishe make a backrooms video
@paulductionfilms7429See it on YouTube1:00 why doesn't he sell the infinite furniture in sale
@abdmationsSee it on YouTubeBest part is the bit where he says stay in there as long as you want.
@ollieonielSee it on YouTube
Public comments from the video's page on YouTube
The videos drawing views on How It Should Have Ended right now
- Channel
- How It Should Have Ended
- Subscribers
- 10,500,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 1,611,473
- Videos published this week
- 1
- Video published
- October 30, 2026
- Video views so far
- 161,435
The numbers
Here's how the Backrooms arrival fits into the channel's week.
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What kind of business does Captain Clark run in HISHE's Backrooms cartoon?
Clark discovers the opening to the Backrooms inside his failing furniture store.



