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Zantumall
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 		On Distortion
Explanations for the varying types of audiovisual distortion seen throughout the series.
Note: this is a work in progress. Feel free to add your own thoughts/observations.

From what I've seen, there are 2 primary types of video distortion throughout the series; the "fuzzy" kind and the "bar" kind.

"Fuzzy" distortion is seen throughout the series. The most recent example is in the end of entry #43.
I believe that this distortion is caused by the Operator exerting some kind of mental influence over someone present, or by lingering "residue" from said influence. Evidence for this comes from two places. For one, this type of distortion is common in older videos from when Marble Hornets was in production, and both Tim and Alex were involved heavily with that project. The second piece of evidence is entry #43. After the Operator appears, the distortion becomes increasingly intense, ending with Alex staggering towards him zombie-style. This distortion doesn't appear in other Operator appearances, such as #40, because the Operator isn't trying to mentally dominate the witness (in this case Jay).

"Bar" distortion, or video tearing, most recently appeared (correct me if I'm wrong) in entry #40, immediately before the appearance of the Slender Man.
I believe that this type of distortion indicates teleportation. Whenever this type of distortion is present, either Slender Man or Tim/Masky appears (usually as if from nowhere) immediately afterwards. This can be seen clearly in Entry 40 (the distortion occurs while Jay is looking at the chimney, and the Operator is behind him when he turns around) and Entry 33 (distortion appears in Jessica's room, and Masky appears in Jay's hotel room soon after). This didn't happen in #43 because the Operator was in the forest for Alex.

Thoughts?

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Aconti2
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 		Well, we pretty much all agree on both things you've said, that the operator distrupts the cameras somehow, or others affected by him and also that the tearing at the bottom of the screen means either Slendy or Masky are about, the idea of that signaling teleportation however is intriguing. Perhaps them coming into the vicinity of the camera causes such a great disturbance that the whole film skips.

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slendywasphone
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 		Re: On Distortion
Explanations for the varying types of audiovisual distortion seen throughout the series.
Zantumall wrote:
Note: this is a work in progress. Feel free to add your own thoughts/observations.

From what I've seen, there are 2 primary types of video distortion throughout the series; the "fuzzy" kind and the "bar" kind.

"Fuzzy" distortion is seen throughout the series. The most recent example is in the end of entry #43.
I believe that this distortion is caused by the Operator exerting some kind of mental influence over someone present, or by lingering "residue" from said influence. Evidence for this comes from two places. For one, this type of distortion is common in older videos from when Marble Hornets was in production, and both Tim and Alex were involved heavily with that project. The second piece of evidence is entry #43. After the Operator appears, the distortion becomes increasingly intense, ending with Alex staggering towards him zombie-style. This distortion doesn't appear in other Operator appearances, such as #40, because the Operator isn't trying to mentally dominate the witness (in this case Jay).

"Bar" distortion, or video tearing, most recently appeared (correct me if I'm wrong) in entry #40, immediately before the appearance of the Slender Man.
I believe that this type of distortion indicates teleportation. Whenever this type of distortion is present, either Slender Man or Tim/Masky appears (usually as if from nowhere) immediately afterwards. This can be seen clearly in Entry 40 (the distortion occurs while Jay is looking at the chimney, and the Operator is behind him when he turns around) and Entry 33 (distortion appears in Jessica's room, and Masky appears in Jay's hotel room soon after). This didn't happen in #43 because the Operator was in the forest for Alex.

Thoughts?


The video did tear in #43, it was for like 2 frames though.

I like this idea of teleporting in line with visual tearing, but in #1, Alex seems to know the The Operator is there, so thats the only thing thats changing my mind about that.

What about the audio distortion?

There seems to be about 3 types of that:

Bitcrushed Audio:
This type is clearly evident in 22 where Alex and (seth?) are in the BASEMENT-O-DOOM! When Alex asks "Is it rolling" Thats this type of distortion.

Electrical Interference:
More noticable in 33, 35 and 40, It actually sounds like somebody has a signal jammer or something that is interfering with the wavelength of the camera.

Random sounds and wooooooooooo noises.

Entry #29 right before the Operator appears, thats this kind of sound. It seems to be only around the Operator and doesnt happen very often.
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Randoman96
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 		I don't think the visual tears are teleportation indicators. It's more of a "Slendy's near" sort of thing. There doesn't appear to be any indication of teleportation in #1 and #3, yet there are tears.

Also, there's a wurrr sound that happens whenever The Operator is near. It also happens in #35 when Masky comes around the corner.
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slendywasphone
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Randoman96 wrote:
I don't think the visual tears are teleportation indicators. It's more of a "Slendy's near" sort of thing. There doesn't appear to be any indication of teleportation in #1 and #3, yet there are tears.

Also, there's a wurrr sound that happens whenever The Operator is near. It also happens in #35 when Masky comes around the corner.


Yeah, i noticed that, #1 and #3 blow that theory.

I think the best lead for any type of distortion is the visual tear.
That seems to be the one that occurs when The Operator chills near by
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The Brick
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 		To be fair, just because we didn't see any teleporting doesn't mean it didn't happen.

OOG: They didn't have a clear vision for the series at the beginning, so they have decided to make the tear part of teleporting later in the series. I'd have to watch 43 again, but if the tear happens as he goes under the branches it may still be teleporting. It seemed to me that he teleported deeper in the words as he stepped under, just my theory though.

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stigeweard
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 		I've always thought that the types of distortion didn't really mean anything other than "Oh shit nigga Slendy's about to fuck shit up."

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Yuki
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The Brick wrote:
To be fair, just because we didn't see any teleporting doesn't mean it didn't happen.

OOG: They didn't have a clear vision for the series at the beginning, so they have decided to make the tear part of teleporting later in the series. I'd have to watch 43 again, but if the tear happens as he goes under the branches it may still be teleporting. It seemed to me that he teleported deeper in the words as he stepped under, just my theory though.


If you're meaning the instant he goes into the woods and steps into the underbrush, look closer: you can see the trees from the other side just as Alex begins to bend down. It's not teleportation.

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pravado
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 		i'm going to have to agree with the tear representing teleportation. i purposely watched out for tears on a rewatch and teleportation could fit into every instance besides 1 and 3, which could have had it as well technically. again, lots of things from season 1 were put in there not knowing what they'd end up being, so there could be a more defined meaning behind the tear now.

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ScottudoDan
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 		We would see tearing in entry 23 when it seems like Slendy is messing with Jay to go into the bathroom teleporting him back into the hallway.

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BranRainey
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 		There's also #24 which has really strange music as distortion (?) but no tear even though there's nothing but teleporting...

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Randoman96
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 		^To be fair, the door thing may not be exactly the same as teleporting.

Also, have we ever figured out anything about the music in 24? Maybe that's why TTA puts various music in the responses, but what does the music mean?
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Randoman96 wrote:
I don't think the visual tears are teleportation indicators. It's more of a "Slendy's near" sort of thing. There doesn't appear to be any indication of teleportation in #1 and #3, yet there are tears.

Also, there's a wurrr sound that happens whenever The Operator is near. It also happens in #35 when Masky comes around the corner.



Well how do you know? You didn't see The Operator and then he was there...and it could just be that he showed up but just wasn't showing himself at the time( for 3. in 1 it could be he teleported outside the house and then Alex went to look outside)

Visual tear also shows up in #25 with the news footage. It is an indicator that he is there BUT it shows more signs of teleportation, since he has been seen on camera without that tear and him just showing up...

Also Masky has been shown to cause that tear and he pretty much showed up out of nowhere in the hotel so...

As to the door teleporting well...it could be that since the object in its frame of reference is being teleported it won't see the tear(ie the tear is the signal for the rip in physics, if you're the rip then you might not see it)

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 		My belief
I had an idea which explains why Slender Man is named the Operator (and actually relates to this thread).
His modus operandi / goal is to control nine people and-

I didn't think that far, honestly.

But,
During the filming of Marble Hornets,
he for some reason sets his eyes face on the crew.

With the now (even) more possible idea of ToTheArk being multiple people,
and Jay's tweet on how each video seems different in style, or tone.
mainly my idea is that ToTheArk is the Church of Slender Man (of Latter-Day-Saints)

butwhowasfone?

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 		Re: My belief
MistrPibb wrote:
I had an idea which explains why Slender Man is named the Operator (and actually relates to this thread).
His modus operandi / goal is to control nine people and-

I didn't think that far, honestly.

But,
During the filming of Marble Hornets,
he for some reason sets his eyes face on the crew.

With the now (even) more possible idea of ToTheArk being multiple people,
and Jay's tweet on how each video seems different in style, or tone.
mainly my idea is that ToTheArk is the Church of Slender Man (of Latter-Day-Saints)

butwhowasfone?


Oh crap, I'm Mormon...looks like my split personality is TTA.

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