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[OOG] If Marble Hornets was real...

[Wondertje]

I think it's a fun topic to think about, and I haven't seen any specific thread for it as far as I can remember.

Personally I believe that a lot of the conversations would've been different if MH was in fact real. That's one of the things that has always grinded my gears a bit about MH, that some of the conversations are just so staggered and sound nothing like how I imagine any real life person would talk if they experienced what the characters of MH is going through.

Another thing that I've been thinkin is that if MH was real, then they certainly would have had friends and family call the police and arrange for them to be found. There would most likely be flyers up everywhere in their old hometown and possibly also Rosswood since Alex's family can be assumed to have known he lived there. Not to mention how Amy's family would've reacted when she went missing. This would've meant they couldn't have moved around so freely as they're now doing, because people would soon start to recognise them.

Those are two of my main "if MH was real" thoughts that I sometimes find myself thinking about whilst cooking dinner

[knifebladepresents]

Yes, the conversations would be different.

Dang...never thought of that. They're would be missing persons report. But then again, I assume Alex would live a very solitary life with no connections to his family. Amy--yes, people would wonder about it. And what about Tim? Is his parents still around?

[TheOperator]

Jay said on Twitter he tried to look about the bearded man but it was like all information and memory of him had been erased. I assume this is meant to imply the same happened for the other victims.

The police thing though really should be addressed. Oh and I can't imagine any real person, especially one who's had little friends in their life, just ignoring the fact that they have all these thousands of people offering help and advice and only posting something in reply like once every 6 months these days.

[TheJoker]

It's a little late to bring up the police thing now, which is a shame, because I feel like there are a lot of ways they could approach that which could add to the creepy factor quite nicely.

[Marble Hornets]

Pretty sure at some point Jay mentions going to the police and them not wanting to help due to not believing it's real

[Wondertje]

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[Wondertje]

It's a huge amount of memories to erase, if TO needs to erase the memory of a person ever existing. I mean, he'd have to go back almost to accquaintances of acquaintances to make sure he gets everyone. I know people, that knows other people - who I happen to know have children. If all of those people would start acting/behaving as if the child/person doesn't exist, I'd probably notice even though I never once met this child or her parents directly.

Basically, anyone who ever came in contact with said person that TO wants, would need to have their memory tampered with.

Do you think TO has some kind of universal power to just take a person and send out a signal to the universe that removes any memory that matches the person, regardless of who is carrying it? Or do you think TO needs to visit these people one by one to fix it?

[JAL13]

[Wondertje]

[TheJoker]

Because he's a goddamn supernatural entity, not a memory-erasing machine. We don't know how his powers work- maybe he doesn't have to actually hunt down all the specific people who have memories of the person in question, but rather can simply cause all memory of that person to be spontaneously wiped from existence.

It would be less like erasing the specific memories and more like (though not exactly like) causing that person to retroactively have never existed to begin with.

If you've ever watched the first Matt Smith season of Doctor Who, it would basically work like the cracks (and, like the cracks, it wouldn't be 100% effective- some traces of the person, such as video footage in this case, would remain.)

[Wondertje]

Now that's a super power I'd like to have - controlling people's (and my own) memories would be sweet!

[Gante]

This is a possibility almost to horrible for me to contemplate, but...What if the Operator made Jay's and Tim's parents forget them? What if somewhere out there is a Janet Wright, sadly finding photographs of a little boy she no longer remembers, and wondering what caused the huge gap in her life? What if Jay's mom and dad wake up in the small hours of the night, with a haunting feeling that something huge is missing from their world? This would be by far the most heinous and tragic thing the Operator ever did.

[Wondertje]