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[Randoman96]

[SPEC] What is The Operator?

[Tipttt]

Maybe the operator is named operator like the slang term for a special force unit.

Maybe the army was scavenging for some cadavers for something like a supersoldier project that would create soldiers with parapsychic capabilities like the ability to disrupt electrical equipment, make people forget stuff, be a creepy stalker, etc, etc and they found those tall dead dudes in that forest. And when they found out about the story of the place, they told themselves "they're psychos so they won't have problems with killing and stuff" and they preffered them for that as well as the fact that they weren't too decomposed du to being hung in a tree for so long.


Or something like that. Maybe the other way around.

[MDS1138]

I still think he's like a forest deity, and that's what I'm sticking with until they suggest otherwise.

[Randoman96]

Things like 21, 23 and 40 make me think The Operator doesn't care about Jay too much. All of those circumstances just have TO just kind of looking at Jay like "The fuck you want?".

40 makes me think he's just waiting for Alex, and Jay wandered into his Slendy-turf.

[WhyYouBawwing]

[MDS1138]

[bobthecrusher]

He's just the physical manifestation of a supernatural force that clung to the image of a human it found, a grossly distorted body hanging in the woods. In order to prolong its own life the creature feeds on the potential life that all creatures have. The creature only targets children, however, because they have the most life left to live and targets memories to make sure noone comes back and tries to stop it. it causes such distortion because it's trying to get the evidence off of the video.

[Randoman96]

[bobthecrusher]

[WhyYouBawwing]

To be fair, Jay has the common sense of a child.

[chaos_angel]

I like the theory that he is some kind of quantum beinng; he can be everywhere at once until observing him collapses the waveform and binds him to that particular spot where you are seeing him. This theory is currently thought to apply to elementary particles. Perhaps in the Operator's case, he can travel temporally as well, and so having a permanent record of his whereabouts in the past *binds him to that particular spot in the past*. In other words, he can't be anywhere else at that point in time other than the place you have observed him. Maybe this is why he wipes your memory, and why he hates cameras so bad; videos are permanent evidence of his whereabouts and much harder (as we've seen) to wipe than a human memory, and also have the chance of being seen and remembered by more people. This prevents him from travelling freely and so he is doing his best to destroy the footage via electronic distortion and the mental evidence (Alex and Jay's memories) by stalking them and wiping their minds so that no past record of him exists and he is once more free to roam the earth. *whew! *

Edited to add: Interesting point: I don't believe we've seen the Operator's infuence affect any electronics besides cameras. This may be because we haven't had much chance, but I would be greatly interested to see what happens around computers/mp3 players/etc. (That guy with the earbuds at the park from #42? Early warning system?)

[Ikekudeyg]

[chaos_angel]

[Karmisael]

Interesting!

[Susil]