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azureillusions
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Spritey wrote:
On Jay being 'slenderized':

It would be rad if Jay was originally a member of TTA and just doesn't remember.


I've always loved this theory. If TTA are the people who survived Alex, as I suspect they are, then Jay would logically have been one of them. There'd be a certain symmetry in the latest entry: Jay is leading Tim around for his own ends, and Hoody is leading both of them around.

Also, I think 58 conclusively proves that Hoody isn't Jay, though I'm sure that point could be disputed eternally.
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semifamous13
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azureillusions wrote:
Also, I think 58 conclusively proves that Hoody isn't Jay, though I'm sure that point could be disputed eternally.

I think it's pretty safe to say that Jay isn't hoody. We've seen them be in the same location at the same time. Also, entry 45 is pretty solid evidence. Then on the dvd, Troy stood in place of Hoody during the entry 45 rehearsal but gave the disclaimer that it didn't mean he was Hoody.
However (though it isn't my favorite theory) I won't discredit that Jay could have been in TTA at some point.
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Susil
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pravado wrote:
Well jessica screamed before she was captured, and we know the operator was inside her room before (the entry where jay hears banging in the middle of the night)


How did you reach this conclusion? I'm not disagreeing, per se, I just didn't think there was ever any definite answer given as to what was going on in Jessica's hotel room. Also, there's very little indication the Operator makes much noise at all - we've never seen it hitting walls or anything.

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Jamocha101
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Susil wrote:
pravado wrote:
Well jessica screamed before she was captured, and we know the operator was inside her room before (the entry where jay hears banging in the middle of the night)


How did you reach this conclusion? I'm not disagreeing, per se, I just didn't think there was ever any definite answer given as to what was going on in Jessica's hotel room. Also, there's very little indication the Operator makes much noise at all - we've never seen it hitting walls or anything.


The most reasonable conclusion I've ever heard that may explain the thumping in Jessica's room, was that she was either having Masky-esque seizures, or nightmares. The latter seems more likely to me, though.
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 		There's no direct proof, but it seems a likely enough explanation.

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pravado
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 		In the S2 DVD they said the operator was in her room, they created a cut out to make his shadow that tim points out but it's barely visible and even they admit that

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 		I tried and failed to find the Operator cut-out, but I intend to go back and watch the entry to see if I can spot it at last. Can't remember which entry it was, though. In any event, I think it was the presence of the Operator that inevitably caused the seizure/nightmare/whatever it was. But that's a given.

EDIT: Operator could have been puppeting her around too, but I can't imagine what effective thing he would make her do that would cause the noises.
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 		knowing slendys real motives, it might have been the headboard

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rand__althor
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Jamocha101 wrote:
I tried and failed to find the Operator cut-out, but I intend to go back and watch the entry to see if I can spot it at last. Can't remember which entry it was, though. In any event, I think it was the presence of the Operator that inevitably caused the seizure/nightmare/whatever it was. But that's a given.

EDIT: Operator could have been puppeting her around too, but I can't imagine what effective thing he would make her do that would cause the noises.


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aidansean
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rand__althor wrote:
I've seen enough hentai with tentacles.....


Hentacles?

Okay, on to the main point of this post: Does the Operator stalk multiple people at the same time, or just one person at a time? It would be quite interesting if he stalks you until he finds someone else, and this could lead to some kind of game of "hot potato".

At first Alex is stalked, until he gets free somehow, giving Jay the tapes. Then Jay is stalked as he investigates (to the point where the Operator starts teleporting him.) By the end of Season 2 Jay is acting very lucid when he confronts the Operator, and not reacting with sickness as Alex did in Entry #43, even though he's in very close proximity, so perhaps he's not stalked at that point. It's also in that entry that Jessica shows signs of slender sickness, and we know that she showed signs in entries #30-something. At the moment Tim is showing signs of slender sickness again (as he first did in Entry #20, he's quite a popular target!) Looking back on the entries I can't see a time when more than one person is obviously being stalked by the Operator. Is there a counterexample that I'm missing?

The game of "hot potato" might go a long way to explaining why Alex just leads people to places. He doesn't generally kill them, just leads them to the Operator in the hopes that he'll stalk them instead of him. (For example in entries #38 and #50 he leads Jay into the woods, and audio distortion tells us that the Operator is around. Then Masky turns up and leads Jay away and into the tunnel, possibly saving him from a stalking.) Then again, Alex does a lot of stuff that probably isn't consistent with this theory (he kills Bruce, knocks out Tim, and drags Brian off. That's more than just leading them somewhere creepy in the hopes that tall and slender takes an interest in them.)

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Lithp
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Quote:
It would be rad if Jay was originally a member of TTA and just doesn't remember.


This is what I'm thinking. It doesn't seem likely that there are two different organizations harassing the original Marble Hornets cast, and we already know that Hoody & Masky are working together. That leads me to believe that Totheark is, at some point or another, everyone "infected" by The Operator.

I've also been thinking: Totheark makes a lot of mention to Jay being a liar, but these statements only really make sense if you use the extremely basic definition "to spread misleading information." That, to me, explains the line in his latest video: "Liars everywhere."

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Jordan
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 		Entry #59 is being uploaded today! Oh, the joy.


Hmm...I think we'll learn more about Tim this entry and his mental history, possibly more about his anixety attacks and nightmares, as he. I think something will happen which will make Tim open up to Jay - maybe an encounter with Slendy? I don't think we're going to get any major revelation about anything so early on in the season.

Maybe Jay goes over to Tim's house and Brian's there? Brian, like Tim, doesn't seem to remember anything out of the ordinary during filming. However, Tim has to duck out for a second, and Brian tells Jay that he discovered his YouTube channel. At first, he asks Jay if it's a hoax on his behalf and is worried about the affect that this might have on his friend's mental health, but will in a future entry, he calls Jay up and tells him that he's been having bad dreams and starting to remember. This feeds into the ambiguity where Jay and Brian are actually simply manipulating Jay, that Toteheark is neither Masky or Hoody and is the only one who has for some reason been able to retain their memories, etc.

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Whisku
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 		[OOG] My theory.
Season 3's finale will be a musical, complete with The Operator singing "I SET FI-IRE TOTHEARK.

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Randozed
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 		 My theory on The hospital
We've seen in 1991 the operator appearing Alex's birthday. Meaning that, unless the operator went back in time to change the video, that Alex has known the operator for some time.

My opinion is that the operator was a "friend" to Alex in his youth. And when Alex met Tim, they became closer friends and eventually Alex wanted Tim to meet The Operator. Once they met Tim must have refused to see the operator anymore, even though it still followed Tim, eventually leading to Tim becoming ill in 1995. As Tim's health decreased, it eventually led to Tim going insane and burning down the hospital and changing into the masky persona, even against his will, with no memory of him ever becoming masky. Which eventually led to Tim and Alex both losing memories of the operator. even though they still say him time to time. Maybe that might explain why Alex ran off in Entry 1 when he saw him supposedly for the first time.

After Jay started becoming more into Marblehornets in 2009, maybe Tim realized that Jay will suffer the same fat and insanity of Tim and Alex, so Tim tried to scare Jay off as masky and even going to the point of burning down Jay's apartment to scare him away from finding out what happened.

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Lithp
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 		@Guy who said we have no proof The Operator is against Alex:

The idea that they're working together is entirely based on the fact that Alex doesn't act normal around it. Which is a mystery for sure, but he has the most contact with it so far, so it's not entirely unexpected either.

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