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[pravado]

[pravado]

[ieisuk]

Looking back at #37, notice that TO appeared once Alex blew out the candles. That could mean lights out, but is it possibly that even as a kid Alex was gaining some kind of desire of power right from an young age? That Alex wished for something to make him more "powerful", and that TO was the result of that wish?

And with that, new speculation time!!!!

Alex knew slendy as a kid, and slendy was for a lack of better words, his guardian. Slendy is tall and wears a suit.... Possible father figure? However as he grew up, he was told that it was just his imagination. Years later something triggered his "guardian"/demon to come out again, and however this time it became more real than he knew. Eventually he accepted it and rather than be the good guy he took out his issues on others through TO. Masky could have been the same sort of thing for Tim. It would also mean that a lot of what they turned the series into once it became more than trolling took a lot of influence from Johnny the Homicidal Maniac and his personalities represented in the form Mr Eff, Psychodoughboy, and Nail Bunny. This also makes Tim going to the mental health clinic make sense, he's quite possibly suffering from some extreme form of a Multiple Personalities disorder. As far as who or what Hoodie represents, well that could very possibly be Jay's guardian, just Jay doesn't control him or lose control to him like Tim and Alex do to theirs. The question then becomes do any of the rest of the cast have these guardians that come out as a result of Alex's TO attack on them?

[Jamocha101]

[pravado]

[Jamocha101]

I kind of agree with Pravado, here. Although the concept wasn't too bad, it's too light to be considered for the actual canon; esepcailly when the myth of Slenderman existed long before Marbled Hornets, which pretty much gives away that it couldn't be because Alex "wished" for him on his birthday. I have a feeling that Alex didn't know about Slendy until the start of Marble Horbets when he went insane, and the aforementioned tall entity was simply strategically making himself scarce because it's all part of his evil complex plan.

[baseballfuries08]

[ieisuk]

Slenderman is something made up on the internet. Some back story or not, every slendy vlog is slightly different. The only completely out there supernatural being is Slenderman himself. If my suspicions are correct about Hoodie, then he too would be in the WTF stages. But to call this series 100% realistic, I'm calling bullshit on that pravado. We will see, but don't count the possibility out completely. There are others that will come to light this season as they wrap it up.

[Jamocha101]

[sp103]

My understanding is the slenderman legend is based off a German tall tale of a large man who roams the woods abducting children-kinda like a boogeyman to keep kids from wandering off. TribleTwelve touched on this in their series.

It got a little warped over the years that Slenderman was around kids who died or disappeared.. So it can always be interpreted that Alex's involvement is all the way back to when he was a young kid..

[jenni42ld]

I...what? No one believes that the slenderman is real. Not yet at least, I don't think. It's not real. People on the SomethingAwful forums were talking about urban legends and decided to make one up, to see if they could get it to start propagating on its own, to get people to believe it was real. Troy started right in, said it reminded him of his friend who disappeared, leaving him some tapes...BAM, Marble Hornets.

It was a deliberate act of people making it up, and The Operator, here in Marble Hornets Land was Troy and Joseph's way of differentiating from the slenderman, so they didn't have to strictly follow the made up details from the SomethingAwful forums.

Long story short...so, if you believe that the slenderman predates the internet meme, I guess they were right. Fun sociology experiment, everyone! Good job!

[pravado]

The Operator and the Slenderman are two different things. Outside of initial appearance they share very few similarities.

And yes, I can dismiss this theory. Think about this:

Alex: Ok Jay, we have to work together to stop this thing. I'll tell you everything. On my birthday one year I wished for a friend because I was lonely, only he didn't appear until 15+ years later because I got really angry that Tim didn't remember his lines. He was my father figure growing up.

I agree that Hoody is Jay's guardian (although to put it more simply i just think that hoody is watching over jay to make sure he doesn't land into trouble and continues his quest) and that Tim has a split personality, but that other part of your theory will never happen.


Anyone who thinks Slenderman is real is either underage or has a low IQ, enough said.

[Geneaux486]

[Zarggg]

To be fair, the purpose of the thread the Slender Man came from was to create fake paranormal images and stories that could be turned into urban legends. It's just the Slender Man became so popular, that kind of happened on its own.

But now we're getting off-topic and crossing over into OOG territory. That doesn't really belong in video discussion.

[Jamocha101]