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[parsifal]

[MorbidPuppies]

[ALEXGORDON]

I realize this is most likely wrong; I'm just trying to throw a new theory in here.

But after watching entry #47 and seeing the even further focus on that mysterious tape that Alex won't allow Jay to get his hands on. What are the chances that that's what totheark is talking about when he says, "I saw it."


This theory completely ignores everything else TTA said in this video, which is why I feel it's wrong. lol

[MorbidPuppies]

[3023ogilvyd]

First of all, whoo, first post. First time caller, long time listener.

I just wanted to add a point that nobody seems to have explicitly said in the 38-odd pages for this entry: That totheark has been famous for posting snippets of video that would have existed during periods in the tapes where there is lost time. Thus I think Classified has a good chance of being during Entry #46, between the point at which Alex's camera shifts wildly and the point at which it ends up on the ground next to him.

I've always wondered how totheark gets these snippets. Does he somehow replace the tape, record what he gets, and then put the original back? Does he steal the information right off the tapes? I don't know.

totheark is also famous for superimposing Operator symbols and other icons on things. The fact that Hoody has no Operator symbol on him in Entry 46 may be irrelevant; if you focus on the X and keep the rest of Hoody's torso in your peripheral vision from 0:06 to the end, the X doesn't appear to move with the clothing.

To make this really speculative, the idea of the Twins as X and O strikes me as being very interesting. If the Twins were against the Operator, then perhaps the symbols are just that, symbolic: In terms of power, or influence, or something along those lines, X + O = Operator. The two sides are evenly matched and are at a stalemate. Thus the Operator and the Twins may be trying to recruit Alex and Jay and perhaps more people to shift the tide in their favour to destroy the other side.

This would explain the aggression in 46: It was a sting operation designed to kill or maim Alex, because the Twins knew that Alex wouldn't fight for them. The Operator was defending his... property? Turf? Recruit? Ally? Whatever relationship Alex has with him, he most definitely has one.

Going back to the hotel and the Operator symbol in the code for the safe, perhaps The Operator gave the code to Jay. The Operator could have 'recruited' Jessica, whom Masky killed or the Operator whisked away, and this is why Masky attacked Jay when he went for the tapes. The Operator may want Jay to have the tapes, for reasons unknown.

I have no idea how much of that is rehash and what is original theory. Feel free to rebuke whatever is deserving.

[ReverendJ]

[MorbidPuppies]

[bobthecrusher]

[Soyea]

[ThinSuit]

Sorry if it has already benn said, but:

[Riovas]

^ there's been a bit of debate about this, you should go back and read some of it.

Mostly, [][] could be twins, but not in the way you are thinking. Since the message was written backwards, and you view the brackets backwards, you get ][][, which looks like the Gemini symbol for twins

[Dray]

O.o That's ingenious! Nice find, guys!

[Zarggg]

I still can't buy that the Operator has anything personally to do with the tapes. Everything I've seen points to him being an outside influence, albeit a damn powerful one, with respect to the actual video tapes.

Any drama involving who had what tapes, where they were filmed and by whom, and how Jay ended up with them in the end is most likely an interpersonal thing between Jay, Alex, and maybe Jessica (depending on how much she is actually involved in the grand scheme).

Regarding Jessica being recruited by the Operator, I don't think we've seen enough into her character to be able to say anything other than that she was Amy's roommate for a time, and she and Jay somehow ended up in The Hotel after meeting up (the details of which haven't even been revealed yet).

[Riovas]

It seems to be that Jessica is just a unfortunate observer who was sucked in, much like Jay. Although I am beginning to wonder more about Alex's motives, and why he's been getting so many people involved...

[BranRainey]

I really doubt "the twins" refers to anyone other than Tim and Hoody. This video's shot of Hoody is clearly supposed to remind us of Entry #45, which was entirely about how Tim and Hoody are working together. If Hoody really does have an X edited onto his hoodie, Masky can easily be O. His big O-shaped mouth might even count as evidence.

I'm reminded of that face with Xes for eyes that appears for a few frames near the beginning of Forecast (a video most likely shot by Hoody). If only Hoody had Xes on his mask instead of that seemingly-arbitrary frowny face...

If it had to refer to someone else, I'd say J and Alex -- the two protagonists of the story who are both film students who started filming themselves after encountering something nasty (Alex started after encountering the Operator while filming Marble Hornets, and J started after encountering Masky while filming an investigation of the filming of Marble Hornets). They may or may not be on the same "side", but they can easily be considered "twins" in a creepy horror story myth kind of way. (Like in the books from the Chzo Mythos. Something like "AND THEN THE TWINS KNEW THE NAME OF THE PRINCE" would have suited that story and MH could be doing something similar with the names (ark, operator).)