Dining Room or There is Nothing refers to a minute long short film that features a girl sitting at a dining room table, and things get weirder from there.

Origin

The short film was created by David B. Earle and uploaded to his YouTube channel in 2006. It depicts a gray skinned girl sitting at the dining room table with spoon in hand. In the background, a fire is visible through the window. She starts off with her eyes closed, before opening them, where she proceeds to talk nonsense to the viewer (this phrase is actually backwards). As she does this, the camera zooms slowly out down the table. As we move back, the girl faceplants in her bowl. After a while the camera stops moving, and it lingers on the scene for a bit until the scene starts reversing. The girl ends up getting back to her previous position and speaks clearly "There is nothing". She then closely her eyes again, ending the film.

The film was meant to show a scenario that can be looped infinitely.

Spread

The video was a viral hit. On his website, Earle states that the download file for the film has over 3,000 downloads now.

In recent years, the video has been the subject of reaction videos, explanation videos, and general parodies. Many videos related to scary videos have brought up this video quite a bit, too.