I disabled mobile backups but Backups still take up 36 Gb.

I dont understand how this is the case as my laptop is a week old and I only have about 4 gb of media on it. How could it possibly be using 36 Gb for backups! this is frustrating as I only have 120 Gb SSD!
Does anyone know what could be taking up 36Gb of space?
I have already entered in the command sudo tmutil disablelocal and I think it has worked as there is no mention of mobile backups in time machine preferences.
Thanks!

Thanks! The link is very helpful and I disabled the snapshots through the sudo command. I think I will sleep on it and see if they disappear overnight, and then restart my Mac when I wake up. Right now, the bar has shifted but everything has gone wacko. Backups are at zero kb but somehow the mysterious "other" section has doubled to 128 GB. Videos and music also shifted in size although I had not modified them at all. The link was great and I sure hope that was the fix. Thanks for the help so far. Here is the bar:

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