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EverymanHYBRID 2014
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SilentMedusa
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Thanks, Loki! I'll check that out.

Now to this other business. Someone mentioned the connection to TT. If I recall, in the TT thread someone cited the fact that a disproportionate number of people had a connection to Noah, and speculated that everyone did - that he was the key, the epicenter of it all. Including the fact that all the crossover madness is through TT. That is, for some of the vlogs, the only way they're connected is Noah (that is, they crossed over with TT, but not each other).

When I read this theory stating that basically Noah was the center of this huge universe I did this: Rolling Eyes . But, if Vinny was not being literal when he said they were fiction, I have to admit, the idea does gain just a bit of validity to me. If they're people that are being put into the world over and over with only surface differences in each... incarnation, there had to be some reason for it. Maybe it's to stop whatever forces are ruining everyone's collective lives.

I had a thought as I was typing this: someone asked why Jeff's life was different from the others -why he got a brother and parents when the other three apparently didn't. Maybe that was deliberate. Someone interfered with the process, in hopes the difference would be big enough to wake them up to what was happening so they would have a chance to finally break the loop they've been trapped in for so long.

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kurthnaga
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I saw this comment on the wiki the other day, and I've been searching the wiki for the past hour and I haven't been able to find it, so I'm going to do my best to reconstruct it.

Someone moves the Mining Town Four to our time, 2009. Based upon the most recent video, where Vinny states they are fiction, all one house and all that, we can piece together something else - their entire lives in our time have been fabricated - their families, etc. However, Alex began to weaken, whether it under influence from Slendy, Habit, Rake, what have you, and began to remember the reality before Jeff was added to his life. He couldn't determine which one of them was real, leading to his eventual derailing, and then death, to prevent him from telling Jeff what was going on. Why the four were split up, I don't know. There may be a lot of holes in this theory, but I really like it more than the iteration theory, it just seems to make more sense to me.
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Lithp
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Malckeor wrote:
"Our lives were written for us", I feel, implies some Iteration Theory shenanigans (sorry Lithp) in that HABIT


Eh, I said that it bore a lot of similarities to that. Though it also clears up the major problem that people had with the time travel theory, which was that the quartet had distinctly mentioned that they were not adopted.

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Every character except for Jeff and Alex have always felt a bit more...surreal compared to the others, in that they didn't seem to ever be spending time with family or have their own lives or anything like that.


I always felt that this was just because it would be weird to have this filmed. There are a couple of times when other characters' personal lives are mentioned onscreen. Granted, the mention usually has some connection to the quartet.

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They've shot the "bored with the story" theory down a few times now, saying that the gaps are the result of technical problems. Indeed, they've had some of their biggest & most involved updates recently; sending out the Extra Innings Prizes, the crossover, getting one of the Rabbits to come onto the show....



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When I read this theory stating that basically Noah was the center of this huge universe I did this.


Oh good, me too.

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There may be a lot of holes in this theory, but I really like it more than the iteration theory, it just seems to make more sense to me.


Same here. For some reason, it seems especially odd to me that they knew Steph the whole time, but just conveniently didn't realize. I feel like you could somehow handwave that Slenderman could hide minor inconsistencies from them, but that? Now that I think about it, though, I feel like we HAVE seen that there is some ability to alter the house. I seem to recall them showing that there was no crawlspace tunnel after they went through it.

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Malckeor
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Lithp wrote:

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Every character except for Jeff and Alex have always felt a bit more...surreal compared to the others, in that they didn't seem to ever be spending time with family or have their own lives or anything like that.


I always felt that this was just because it would be weird to have this filmed. There are a couple of times when other characters' personal lives are mentioned onscreen. Granted, the mention usually has some connection to the quartet.

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
They've shot the "bored with the story" theory down a few times now, saying that the gaps are the result of technical problems. Indeed, they've had some of their biggest & most involved updates recently; sending out the Extra Innings Prizes, the crossover, getting one of the Rabbits to come onto the show....


Indeed, but seeing how much more "prominent" Jeff's family were compared to the others' combined with the recent tasty answers we've gotten makes it feel that much more surreal. Like, Jeff posted pictures of him and his mother on the Twitter and things like that shortly before they were killed by The Rake; we never saw any of the other HYBRIDs do anything like this. We also can't forget how involved Alex got in the narrative back in 2011/2012.

Whether this plotline was planned from the beginning or not, it was handled REALLY well in my opinion. I'm just EXTREMELY curious about Alex's past involvement and what it could imply or pertain to...

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Oh, I didn't know that. That's good. That puts most of my unease at rest...


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Lithp
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Glad I could be of service. Jeff & Evan, at the very least, have OOG blogs, but I never got around to bookmarking them.


I thought you were referring to the non-HYBRID characters. Yeah, the HYBRIDs never did much with their families. So that could have been foreshadowing. But, like I noted with Jessalyn, she did "exist," we saw her, & I can tell you that her hair color is black, so that raises the question:

Did the parents just never "exist," or were they just as "real" as Jessalyn & Alex, but were killed off-screen?

EDIT: OH! I'm not sure how I kept forgetting to comment on this, but HABIT also showed that guy the identities of the Voyeur, the Firebrand, & so on.

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SignerJ
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I wasn't a big fan of the whole "our lives were written for us" thing until I heard about the Time Jump theory. Within the bounds of Time Jump theory, I think that the fiction theory makes sense.

Just remember, these characters are unreliable narrators. I don't think that Vinnie would lie, but think of just how much time he has been spending with HABIT. We don't know his allegiances for certain. And, even if he isn't lying, we just learned that the boys' memories are faulty. If memories of the people closest to them can be erased, then I am sure that the idea that they are fiction can be implanted.

With that noted, I have to ask: Did anyone else see that weird PGP"signature on the front page of the wiki? The title "Human Elements" was above it. It is gone now, and I foolishly neglected to take a screenshot, but I'm just wondering what it was.

[quote=Lithp]OH! I'm not sure how I kept forgetting to comment on this, but HABIT also showed that guy the identities of the Voyeur, the Firebrand, & so on.[/quote]
He did? I didn't notice. Would you mind pointing out to me when HABIT did so?

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Notes there no update like until March 21 due to Frozen in video.

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Lithp
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Never mind, I was wrong. I thought the prophesy titles were written on the cards, but it turns out that the cards just had names written on them.

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Tails
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SignerJ wrote:


With that noted, I have to ask: Did anyone else see that weird PGP"signature on the front page of the wiki? The title "Human Elements" was above it. It is gone now, and I foolishly neglected to take a screenshot, but I'm just wondering what it was.



That was just a hacker/troll who found it funny to hack the wiki several times for the sake of it and it clearly was completely OOG.
http://everymanhybrid.wikia.com/wiki/EverymanHYBRID_Wiki?oldid=16146

Gladly the mods/admins could restore the original content on the several EMH pages that got hacked/changed by him.
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AssassinB
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Tails wrote:
SignerJ wrote:


With that noted, I have to ask: Did anyone else see that weird PGP"signature on the front page of the wiki? The title "Human Elements" was above it. It is gone now, and I foolishly neglected to take a screenshot, but I'm just wondering what it was.



That was just a hacker/troll who found it funny to hack the wiki several times for the sake of it and it clearly was completely OOG.
http://everymanhybrid.wikia.com/wiki/EverymanHYBRID_Wiki?oldid=16146

Gladly the mods/admins could restore the original content on the several EMH pages that got hacked/changed by him.


God I just read that preserved post, what a piece of shit. If he cared about the series so much like he said why didn't he go white hat and just tell the wiki owner instead of going grey hat and fucking with everyone's time and work in the process?

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bbtango
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SilentMedusa wrote:
I had a thought as I was typing this: someone asked why Jeff's life was different from the others -why he got a brother and parents when the other three apparently didn't. Maybe that was deliberate. Someone interfered with the process, in hopes the difference would be big enough to wake them up to what was happening so they would have a chance to finally break the loop they've been trapped in for so long.


Not so much a theory I guess, but this reminds me a lot of The Dark Tower.
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Roland picks up the horn at the end of the series when it resets back to the desert, and there's a heavy implication that with it things will go much better for him this time around. I'm not sure it worked for the HYBRIDs; when we did see Jeff recently in TT, iirc he was dressed like his Candleverse version (actually, that place may have been the Candleverse...) and he wasn't exactly in good spirits. So who knows if it made things better or worse for them quite yet?
Although maybe my brain made that King connection because HABIT has always reminded me strongly of Randall Flagg.

I read the whole fiction thing as more evidence for the Iteration Theory. As another poster mentioned, according to that theory it'd make sense that this reaction is how they'd come to realize something like that. They aren't "real" in the way other people are, though they still exist.

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knifebladepresents
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Four years...

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If they stick to tradition, we should have a video today.

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Carmen
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TheOperator wrote:
If they stick to tradition, we should have a video today.


Tradition?

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Carmen wrote:
TheOperator wrote:
If they stick to tradition, we should have a video today.


Tradition?


They usually release something on the anniversary of the first vid.

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