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[Sha Noran]

I looked again, what I mentioned at the end of my last post was at about 3:07 and it was just further distorted footage of Alex adjusting the camera... Someone mentioned that this was the footage of Alex setting up the camera, but reversed? Could the distortions in filming and the all out wonkiness be indicating moments where time was subsequently changed or altered? I know people here aren't big fans of time travel theory BUT what if it was more to the point altered in a way that somehow changed a future event that is, in fact, the climax of the storyline Trosphemin have created? What if Alex gave the tapes to Jay ORGINALLY then went back and tried to stop Jay from finding something out by stopping him from leaving with the tapes? Maybe this is why Jay didn't START uncovering things until 3 years later. Maybe Alex put off fate/the inevitable by 3 years by altering this event? Maybe the Operator is a shadow of things that happened but were then altered? I'm going a bit far with this train of thought BUT I really think there's a kernal of truth somewhere in that way of thinking.

What if Alex being a bit chubby as opposed to thin and sickly is AN IDICATION that things have already been changed chronologically in the past of this taped event occuring? Joseph could have sucked his gut in, and they got enough of this scene accurate to the original post and are good enough storytellers/film makers that this is an unrealistic "oversight" aka continuity problem. What if Alex is slowly but surely undoing his mistakes in the past, and Jay is ruining this in the future, aka now? Implying that Alex was ORIGINALLY thin and sickly here but by altering his future after the fact, he is already less unhealthy and thus most likely less further along this doomed path than he was when Jay met him the first time to get the tapes, i.e. before the original CeGars SA post but after Jay started showing us things on Youtube.

As I said I know the time travel theory isn't popular but I can't help but post my thoughts and ideas here that I can see shown. I swear there's an answer somewhere in this way of thinking even if I haven't got it all right...

EDIT: Added on here to avoid a double post.

What if Alex has bribed the Operator to change his past for him? Like making a deal with the devil? Jay and TTA happen to be in the middle of where this change most abruptly occurs and thus are in the way because they have more broad memories that the general public more easily shake off as "feeling like we've met before" or Deja Vu... Perhaps occasionally when we think a person is "possessed" by the Operator they are in fact in the control of their future self, thus being a proxy of their future self who is in a bid to change the past (and thus the future) by saving someone/something... Perhaps the Ark? TTA wants to know what that thing (the Ark) is that Alex is meddling in the past with to save?

These aren't bad ideas...

[Marble Hornets]

[paladin181]

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[Lithp]

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[Lithp]

I used to be of the opinion that there was a 3rd ToTheArk, when a lot of people weren't, but then they kept setting up Hoody as this diabolical mastermind, & it began looking less & less likely.

Do I even need to point out the problem with basing too much theory on a single ToTheArk remark?

[parabolas]

We've seen Tim writhe in pain without a direct (visible) assailant before (Entry #61), I think it's pretty clear that the same thing is happening to Jay before Alex comes up to beat him up.

Anyway, conjecture time!

I have never ascribed to the Jay as TTA theory, I've pretty much always seen it as Hoody=TTA, and Hoody occasionally manipulates Tim and makes him become Masky. However, the split memory/personality theory is interesting. Tim certainly has it, and Hoody is aware of it: maybe Hoody has found a way to reconcile his psychotic Operator-influenced persona with his conscious personality, and is now seeking revenge on Alex for (presumably) attacking him and exposing him to the Operator.

One reason why the split personality theory being caused by the Operator is that when Tim and Jay are in their conscious personas, they only make extremely vague references to the Operator. I think the most descriptive they've ever been is when Tim says "that THING that follows Alex around." They never really discuss it, they never consider the implications of a supernatural being haunting them. Why? Partially because they're afraid to talk about it, to be sure, but it's also possible that they've separated that aspect of their lives into another persona. This is not to say that Jay is in fact part of TTA or the guy who runs the account (thought that would explain why he's hacked so effortlessly).

[Grumplestiltskin]

[aidansean]

Initially I thought that after this entry Alex moved to Rosswood, but then started thinking he moved to the CreepyHouse from Entry #16. But it looks as though Entry #11 took place in the CreepyHouse, and that tape was given to Jay in Entry #71. Does that mean we can assume the houses in Entry #1, Entry #11 and Entry #71 are supposed to the be same? Or did Alex do a lot of moving about while he was in CollegeTown? Do we have any reason to believe that CreepyHouse was Brian's, other than Jay's anonymous tip off about where he might find Brian?

Also, I was looking at Entry #18 again, and I noticed that masky is wearing a black jacket, a bit like the one hanging on Alex's peg in Entry #71.

[Parietal Lobectomy]

[Grumplestiltskin]

[paladin181]

I don't see the shadow moving, and it seems to gain substance from the light levels and the camera readjusting exposure. You can see the same effects with volumetric lighting and bloom management. I won't straight up say you're wrong, but it appears to me to be this.

And as to basing a lot on a single TTA statement? I'm not. I merely stated the doubt was there because of the video. I'm not saying "OMG there's another TTA member!!!!11lulz!"

So Yeah.

[Grumplestiltskin]

[FalloutGhoul]

I wonder if Jay still has that Slenderman doll.