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wassupbro
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evanx275h wrote:
Also, obvious or not, can we all agree that these events took place before Jay POSTED the Jessica tape online? His ending comments after that Entry make it seem like he's cross with Tim, even though he seemed apologetic in this new Entry.

That would also mean that he watched the tape, and rather than immediately posting it, ran out to Rosswood to continue both of their investigation.

I sort of feel really bad for Jay now.



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this might be a blooper actually


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lostlegendz
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I'm on my phone so I couldn't get a good look, but at around 8:21/22 when Jay enters the shack, there very briefly appears to be a paper with TO symbol on it. The paper also seems to have some sort of address on it, like for an advertisment, but the thing that caught my eye was that the name "Brian" looked like it was on it. It could very well be nothing but I just thought I'd mention it just in case.

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device
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Surely this isn't the first time Jay's been "Operated" on. He's disappeared from his own rooms before, he's been suffering coughing fits and memory loss for years. If Tim has no memory of being Masky, it's somewhat logical that Jay has no memory of what he's doing when under TO's inluence.

However, this is the first time we've actually seen the consequences.

I do like Silent Medusa's theory about TO being an extension or personification of Rosswood itself. Sort of a mondern demigod, demanding sacrifice? Sort of influenced by the priests of more primitive religions wearing masks as they performed the will of their gods.

I did have a giggle at the big "J" spraypainted on the side of the shack.

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blackup76
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Marble Hornets wrote:

I wonder if Rosswood is split up into quadrants, and their ultimate goal is to have enough people go through the tunnel where "the ark" is in a certain quadrant


Rosswood Park is a hypercube?

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lostlegendz wrote:
I'm on my phone so I couldn't get a good look, but at around 8:21/22 when Jay enters the shack, there very briefly appears to be a paper with TO symbol on it. The paper also seems to have some sort of address on it, like for an advertisment, but the thing that caught my eye was that the name "Brian" looked like it was on it. It could very well be nothing but I just thought I'd mention it just in case.


I think you might be right. Could be nothing. All I could make out was:

(...)ELL...A(U or O)T...(Further inspection points to the last word being "AUTO", so a car/repair shop ad)
410 Bridge
Northport, Ala...(looks like a b on the end, so possibly Alabama?)
Ph(one) 205...

So, a random auto shop in Alabama. Google Maps, anyone? Be sure to look for the sign. A lot of the series takes place nearby that location.

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JAL13
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blackup76 wrote:
Marble Hornets wrote:

I wonder if Rosswood is split up into quadrants, and their ultimate goal is to have enough people go through the tunnel where "the ark" is in a certain quadrant


Rosswood Park is a hypercube?


Wasn't there a TTA video called "Quadrant" ?

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wassupbro
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Sha Noran wrote:

Finally, one last thought in relation to my 6th point... There is another instance of a very strange phone related anomaly occurring in Rosswood, and it also happened when someone tried to go through the tunnel. Remember in 64/65 when Alex called Jay and said "Leave. Now." That was SUPER fucking random and weird and never really explained. Was that TO using a clip of Alex's voice to try and communicate with the intruders? Or was Alex temporarily in a timey wimey situation himself, calling a Jay whom he still thought was his ally? What if the Alex that calls Jay in 64 was in fact past Alex from the missing seven months in S2 when he and Jay were still allies? Just some food for thought, obviously speculation but that was never explained.


I was going to bring this up too. If you think about it, why the fuck would Alex ever say that? He wants to kill them, but when they reach the tunnel....he calls Jay and tells him to leave? That makes no sense.

The OPERATOR may very well have called and said that. On another note, the call was to Jay's phone, and Jay remained fine during that entry and was able to escape. If it WAS the Operator, he may have told Jay to leave, but not Tim. Tim was to be taken for some reason. Why? Well thats the million dollar question of the entire series right now. Why does the Operator do what it does. And to be honest, I feel like we have gotten literally nowhere from entry#1 to now.

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Lithp
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I think the most shocking thing is that The Operator didn't cockblock someone trying to go through the tunnel for a change.

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kurthnaga
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Just like my Noah's Ark theory from the Entry 81 thread, this is going to be a bit of a stretch, but I've noticed some interesting points while reading through the previous posts.

1. "Leave. Now." is being brought up again and again.
2. Alex seemed to really get mad at Jay when Jay started to show an interest in the Operator.
3. The Operator can change people into "servants" such as Alex is. The Masky stages are like a transformation period, but Tim avoided it with his meds.

This may be a horrible analogy, but think of TO as a drug addiction - or to be more specific, Alex's personal drug addiction. He's willing to sacrifice friends (Brian, Seth, etc.) to maintain contact with TO. When others start to investigate as well, he gets jealous. First he tries to get Jay to stop. When that doesn't work, he tries to kill Jay. He finally shot Jay in Entry 80, but the Operator, disapproving of Alex's selfishness, put Jay in stasis so he wouldn't die.

TO constantly monitoring Jay, Tim, and who knows who else is just his means of ensuring his business keeps going.

If this doesn't make any sense please disregard it.

tl:dr Alex is a selfish whinny kid who doesn't want to share his special advil
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TwilightEvoker
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Xman wrote:

Having the characters rarely reference it, and saying "that thing" when they do, makes the Operator seem like something no one wants to talk about because of how horrifying it is.


That's what I was thinking. This series doesn't have a batshit crazy bamf like Evan who'll openly talk about TO with no fear. These guys are just average college students, so naturally they'd be at least a little unwilling to fully acknowledge the existence of an entity that looks like a man in a suit, and whom can teleport people around and mess with their electronic equipment as well as their psyche.

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AAAAA42
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I dunno, maybe it's just a coincidence, but I thought this really looked like a deliberate similarity.





Edit: Also, did the objects scattered around the area behind the tunnel look like boats to anyone else?

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MariahTedder
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I think this entry is a nice tie-in with the Operator's name itself, as previously mentioned most likely.

He can affect PHONE CALLS and has only taken injured people to Oppy-world (Bruce, Jessica, Jay). Uninjured ones are just tormented, like Tim, and eventually stumble out with no memory unless if they have a chest cam.

And where did Tim really have the most of his early childhood encounters with the Operator...a HOSPITAL. Especially in 65 where Tim is screaming at operating doors (idk if thats the term lol)

This entry has genuinely made me afraid of the Operator because it makes it appear as if it is a sentient being with MOTIVES. It CHOSE to redirect that call, or so it seems. Whoever had the "it can only attack isolated people" theory may have just solved the Operator's motive, kinda. We'll never know wtf it wants, but this could explain part of the way it moves toward that goal.

I also like the TTA = Jay theory because it seemed like those videos were pointing Jay toward uniting with other people involved in this [Tim, Alex, etc] because TTA knows that the Operator divides its victims. Also, this could lead into TTA being some sort of being/person that has LIVED this "Life" and knows what to do to stop the Operator but can't have his/her identity revealed bc of magic time-travel laws or whatnot.

If I'm spouting nonsense, then please disregard everything >^.^<

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Scowleasy
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If Tim has no memory of being Masky, it's somewhat logical that Jay has no memory of what he's doing when under TO's inluence

If Jay was losing substantial (days/weeks) amounts of time and waking up in places he didn't recognize like Tim was, he would've had a pretty good idea of what was going on. Even if it wasn't nearly as bad as Tim's, he would've said something about it.

But then again, maybe not.

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wassupbro
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Posting to show that the circle at the bottom left is in fact not an operator symbol

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MariahTedder wrote:
I think this entry is a nice tie-in with the Operator's name itself, as previously mentioned most likely.

He can affect PHONE CALLS and has only taken injured people to Oppy-world (Bruce, Jessica, Jay). Uninjured ones are just tormented, like Tim, and eventually stumble out with no memory unless if they have a chest cam.

And where did Tim really have the most of his early childhood encounters with the Operator...a HOSPITAL. Especially in 65 where Tim is screaming at operating doors (idk if thats the term lol)

This entry has genuinely made me afraid of the Operator because it makes it appear as if it is a sentient being with MOTIVES. It CHOSE to redirect that call, or so it seems. Whoever had the "it can only attack isolated people" theory may have just solved the Operator's motive, kinda. We'll never know wtf it wants, but this could explain part of the way it moves toward that goal.

I also like the TTA = Jay theory because it seemed like those videos were pointing Jay toward uniting with other people involved in this [Tim, Alex, etc] because TTA knows that the Operator divides its victims. Also, this could lead into TTA being some sort of being/person that has LIVED this "Life" and knows what to do to stop the Operator but can't have his/her identity revealed bc of magic time-travel laws or whatnot.

If I'm spouting nonsense, then please disregard everything >^.^<




....or Tim got the call and TO wiped his memory of it.
To take my theory further I predict Tim is the one who made Jay violent. Possibly even attacking him first. This memory is also missing for him.

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