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Geneaux486
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The way Alex talked about the Operator in entry 2 and the way he approached the thing in entry... whichever one where they were on set with Brian suggest that Alex didn't know what the thing was. The way Alex is in season 2, and the violent things he did during the summer of 06, I think the Operator indoctrinated him or something. We've seen Jay do things he doesn't remember, we've seen Tim do violent things he doesn't remember, so maybe prolonged exposure just makes the tendencies a little more permanent.

PostPosted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 9:13 pm
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Starkley
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Lithp wrote:
@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.


Well there's also all the people Alex is either kidnapping or killing and leaving for The Operator to find...unless Alex is completely batshit insane and has no motive for his actions, the only halfway reasonable one would be: "Alex is working with The Operator." The question is more whether its willingly or not.

PostPosted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 9:14 pm
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Zrob
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I'm still hoping for answers to what was going on in the beginning entries. I'm talking the iconic Entry 1, and things like Entry 4 and 6.

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pravado
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Starkley wrote:
Lithp wrote:
@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.


Well there's also all the people Alex is either kidnapping or killing and leaving for The Operator to find...unless Alex is completely batshit insane and has no motive for his actions, the only halfway reasonable one would be: "Alex is working with The Operator." The question is more whether its willingly or not.


We only know Brian's captor by his shoes, Seth was aware that something was up (alex says "i think it went upstairs" and then they find blood and seth doesn't start running), plus Tim's whack in the head can be attributed to (my theory) the fact that he is the one sacrificing people all along and alex found out

let me put it this way. if the operator needs it's victims to be knocked out before it can do anything, how do you explain entry 51? the only person in that room was tim. in entry 22, seth wasn't unconcious when he was taken. so tim's whack in the head doesn't really mean anything other than the fact that alex hated tim, no?

the only time we actually see alex "work with" the operator is entry 43 when he meets him in the woods

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Lithp
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So, Alex looked like the victim, then the grizzled hero, then the villain, then back to the hero?

Twisty.

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SheWhoSlaysMonsters
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In order for that to make sense, you'd have to ignore the fact that Alex has been shown to be more than willing to kill people. Why would he want to kill Jay and Jessica? I could see you arguing that Jay was necessary to lose after he uploaded the videos, but what about Jessica? Jessica, an innocent, was there with Jay to be used a story-device to prove that Alex is, beyond a doubt, a villain.

And, personally, after taking other factors into consideration, I believe that Alex is doing this completely of his own accord. After all, as certain TTA videos have constantly shown, you can't trust anyone because they're all only human. If a horrible Eldritch Abomination were tormenting you without stop for years, can you honestly say that sacrificing others to save yourself wouldn't cross your mind?

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Lithp
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Well, maybe "hero" is a bad term. Maybe "anti-hero" is better.

Alex believed, or seemed to believe, that Jessica was somehow "involved," & thus killing her was a necessary evil.

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Starkley
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Lithp wrote:
Alex believed, or seemed to believe, that Jessica was somehow "involved," & thus killing her was a necessary evil.


He knew that Jessica had nothing to do with any of this; that's why he tried to call her and make her think that Amy was okay. Jay was the one who made Jessica realize that Alex had been lying to her; thus, she'd have reason to suspect Alex. So yeah, Alex definitely knew Jessica was innocent, and only decided to kill her, at least, to save his own ass.

pravado wrote:

let me put it this way. if the operator needs it's victims to be knocked out before it can do anything, how do you explain entry 51?


Yeah, but then, why does Tim need to do anything to get people "sacrificed"? And, why would anyone follow Tim around? He can get Alex to go places for scouting, but not anyone else, really. Tim was there first, then Brian, and Brian had shown up with Alex.

There's evidence of some kind of treaty between TO and Alex. Not much evidence of any such thing ever occurring between Tim and TO.

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Black Sand
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Let's all have a moment of silence for the people who came here from Slender, and every other misinformed self...





Aaand, my personal favorite...



scitsofratic.

Anyway, I may post more whenever I can.

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Toadbert
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I love people who are so disappointed to find out it was fake. The reactions in the comments are great.

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Black Sand
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Toadbert wrote:
I love people who are so disappointed to find out it was fake. The reactions in the comments are great.
I also found another gem of some guy straight out of Slender...

...He thought Totheark was a digital virus, and The Operator was Jay...

PostPosted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 12:12 am
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yournotreal1
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This might sound strange, but one idea I do have is that the operator or TTA is little bit like the death note.

Anybody who has ever watched the show will know what I'm talking about.

When Light forfiets his memories of ever using the deathnote in order to draw suspicion away from himself, his shinigami takes the deathnote and hands it too someone else, creating a new Kira. However, Light carefully correlates certain events before forfieting his memories of ever having the deathnote so that when the time is right, he regains his Deathnote and all the memories that went with it, allowing him to continue his campaign.

the circumstances surrounding Tim and Jay seem to reflect this, perhaps Tim was under the influence of the operator in the same nature as Alex is, maybe The Operator abandoned Tim for Alex, taking away all of Tim's memories of it in the process.

To add to this, In TotheArks "Extaction" video, which was obviously addressing Tim, it's most likely talking about "Extracting" Tim from TTA. This leads me to wonder, maybe Tim was in a way... adopted by TotheArk,(taking his memories of TTA away) but after some time, TTa decided to release Tim for maybe a temporary amount of time. The reason I say this is because of "Observation" whch, to me personally, looks like they are expecting Tim too come back.

Ths also might explain Tim's fragile mental state.....

Whew... Embarassed

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Lithp
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So, I was marathonning the Totheark videos, & I noticed something when I hit "Memories." When it says:

Quote:
YOU'VE DONE
NOTHING


...Some of the letters kind of combine, to form new things. So, I decided to go back & see if I could decipher anything of meaning.

I got "8YY."

Fairly certain that's just meaningless gibberish, but I thought I'd mention it anyway.

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Drnothing1
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Black Sand wrote:
Let's all have a moment of silence for the people who came here from Slender, and every other misinformed self...

[Insert Pics 'o greatness]


If you post moar post them in the REAG Thread because these give me blistering furry.
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What if The Operator is really the ghost of movie critics past trying to prevent Alex from ever making his god-awful movie?

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TheSnack
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What if Troy and Joseph accidentally uploaded the next troyhasacamera video to the marblehornets account.

Imagine all those confused, terrified, angry people.

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