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[SlenderPunk]

[shoeler]

[Salkovich]

[SticktheFigure]

Didn't catch up on the reads of this thread yet, but I wanna post this before I'm beaten to it.

I found the Wichita Article and want to post it here.
(Edit: Take note to how it says The Operator at one point. Different meaning, but still highly coincidental.)

[det slanke mannen]

Somehow, "taken in by the kind-hearted operator" is a hell of a terrifying phrase to me. I think that the MH crew is at least referencing this article, even if it doesn't actually tie into our storyline.

[[Z.E.R.O.] Ghost]

I think the idea of Slenderman being the "god" the people were "sacrificing" the people to makes some sense.

If the assumption is made that Alex has knowledge of Slenderman at the time of the filming, the way he says "And they would put them on trial before god out here" has almost a note of contempt or sarcasm to it, almost like you could imagine him doing air quotes around "god". It seems like something he would do given the state of mind he's been in, though I may be reading into it too much...

[StereotypicalName]

[yroc1234]

I can't believe nobody got this. I only looked through the first 5 pages but its pretty damned obvious. Stretched legs and arms and torso through tree torture. The operator is a escaped torture victim! Or at least he is related to the stretching in a way like that.

[Randoman96]

[yroc1234]

[carameldrops]

As intriguing as the background mythos is, I still find myself stuck on "where did this footage come from?" Maybe it's nitpicking but I'm not sure we can simply assume that Jay got back to wherever he was (that mystery location being a while other set of unknowns) and put this entry together from the tapes in the safe. Yes he says it's from an unlabeled (or unalbeled...) tape and therefore we're led to jump to that conclusion, but Jay has proven himself to be one hell of an unreliable narrator in the past, and I think he's getting worse.

It's a little bit of a leap, I'll admit, but after Jay's "tweet meltdown," enttry 37, and the increasing amounts of completely missing time/unexplained travel, I can't help wondering if we're putting way too much stock in Jay's mental stability. I think maybe that series of tweets/turning up at the tower was something much worse happening then we completely understand just yet, and the typo in the Entry 38 description is there to say that whatever went very wrong with Jay is still going on. Maybe the Jay we're dealing with now is someone much different than the one we started out with--broken and can't be fixed a la Fragments, maybe.

I dunno. This is obviously a big speculative ramble but given how few legit answers we have right now, I guess rambles aren't so bad...

[jackofnotrades]

Ok, so I haven't read this entire thread yet, but has anyone thought that maybe Alex telling that story is somewhat of a red herring, yet necessary? Perhaps he was telling the story to cause a reaction, rather than "here's 1 minute about where slendy comes from"

If slendy is brought on by emotions/feelings of anxiety and fear (possible in entry 26, and if this theory holds water maybe 23, and possibly many more examples), could he have just been trying to freak jay out as much as possible to cause something to happen (possibly involving slendy or the ark).

Idk, I for one loved the back story and the creepy tone of this entry, but I'm a little cautious about jumping to the conclusion that slendy is the big bad from FFV (A tree that absorbed all the evil from criminals throughout history until it eventually became evil and sentient).

Ok, feel free to rip this idea a new one. starting now.

[ToTheAlex]

[mokie]

[tothecarp]

Has anyone thought about a possible connection to the Version video?