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[GnomonRose]

The Operator

[GnomonRose]

wordsallstucktogetherwithoutanyspacesatall?

[BaronVonCakeman]

I just wanna state that hotels aren't that expensive. It's maybe $80-ish per night depending on where you go, and if they all pitched in, it'd only be like $10-$20 each.

[Pactin]

@Gnomonrose: I had the exact same thought (regarding operators connecting different lines). I believe the Operator is Slenderman, because in Entry#11, one of Alex's wall drawings depicts Slendy with the operator sign where his face should be.


So I watched through a couple of TTA videos again. Forgive me if this is, what is the word, trout? But I've noticed some pretty interesting coincidences-to say the least.

In TTA's "Signal", an excerpt from H.G. Well's Silent Snow, Secret Snow is read aloud. Upon wikipedia'ing the story, it is mentioned that the boy's condition is possibly Asperger Syndrome.

[Guest]

[quote="Pactin"
In TTA's "Signal", an excerpt from H.G. Well's Silent Snow, Secret Snow is read aloud. Upon wikipedia'ing the story, it is mentioned that the boy's condition is possibly Asperger Syndrome.
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*cough*Conrad Aiken*cough* *cough*1977 short film for both audio and video*cough*

[theonewhoquestions]

[Pactin]

[Stevie D]

[distilled]

I'm fairly new to this, Slenderman only came to my attention a couple of weeks ago when I stumbled onto /x/. So Marble Hornets is a totally new thing to me. Neither had I heard of ARGs till yesterday, and now they fascinate me. Excellent work.

Anyway, to the matter at hand:

I always assumed that the operator symbol is a symbol of SM anyway, the circle with a cross symbolising that he has no face - and of course the fact that it crops up where slenderman does - such as in the park near that building in Entry #13.
I think and interesting question lies in the placement and creation of this symbol, who scrawled the operator symbol on the slab in #13 (and on the wall behind it, too)? If we knew the timeline exactly we could ascertain whether the operator symbol crops up in Alex's pictures before or after he encounters it on the slab in the park - or whether he comes across it by other means (or, interestingly, whether he put the symbol there and forgot).

[theonewhoquestions]

[ptlundholm]

Something struck me regarding the electricity-theory, and how it could relate to the Operator-symbol, which I dont think has been mentioned yet.

At first, I assumed it referred either to Slendys face (or lack of it), or a sort of crossed wire-thing, referring to teleportation.

HOWEVER! then it came to me. The crossed circle is a schematic symbol, generally symbolizing...

A light bulb. To be more precise, "A transducer which converts electrical energy to light"

As I've stated before, there's a lot of hints dropped regarding electricity, and almost as many regarding lights/lack of lights/flickering lights.

- The flickering lights in Return, as well as Deluge.
- The house doesn't seem to have any functioning sources of light at all.
- During an early entry (forgot which one) Alex is seen drawing, suddenly stops, and gets up to turn off an often mentioned lamp, the one with the lampshade.
- Slendy is first seen by Alex standing by a street light.
- As the video freaks out during #23 and J seems to be howering above he's bed, the lights get stronger/more intense. (This could of course be attributed to the effects used to alter the image, however, it doesn't really exclude the observation.)

Now, as I've just learned, not only does the crossed circle symbolize a light bulb, but a source of indication;

"This symbol is used for a lamp which is an indicator, for example a WARNING light on a car dashboard."

Coincidentally, the totheark-video "Warning" contains a fuck load of crossed circles, or "Operator"-symbols. Seems to me that totheark at thes point feels forced to shout it out since Jay, daft motherfucker as he is, doesn't seem to get the message.

Of course, it could also point towards some other kind of indicator, such as the red light on a recording camera or an EXIT-sign.

[Dray]

Dude, awesome observation! Seems that there are a few different ways that the (X) symbol could point... but that one seems pretty accurate across the board (why it might be used on Slendy's face, vs. on the ground, vs. hanging over a door). Just a big ol' warning sign. XD

[lifegospel]

[distilled]

I believe I read somewhere that Slendy operates through fear and the control of dark and light. Maybe Slendy's power eminates through some kind of electrical interference - he can certainly affect bulbs and lighting, and we have seen that his presence affects the video cameras as well as the audio recording.

Perhaps the "warning" is: when you see light flicker or bulbs brighten/dull its time to get outta there?

[JKatkina]

Also (just to bring up the idea again since there seem to be a number of new folks in the audience today) if Slendy functions by electricity, MaskyTim's meds could be helping him resist Slendy's powers, if they're meds for seizures -- seizure medications function by reducing or preventing unusual electrical activity in the brain.