strangers., formerly known as the “locked in community project” is a collective that was formed due to ericdoa’s own “locked in” project. Ultimately, due to eric not completing the album in the originally proposed timespan, they decided to step away from the theme of “locked in.“ Instead, forming "strangers.” which consisted of 16 founding members. The name “strangers.” originates from how each member met as a collective, not knowing each other previously, thus being strangers to each other.