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[Serum]

[Peppercorn]

[Jingleman]

Regarding the "Static Hole," I'm pretty sure that the hole wasn't the cause of the static. That was the "Red Tower" entry, "Entry #21." The hole wasn't the only place distortion occurred in that entry; it happened at the tower, and then lightly when Jay opened the silver box. That implies that Jay's camera was being distorted by somebody who's been known to cause distortion, like Hoody and the Operator, both of whom have been known to stalk Jay, unseen, in the background of these entries. The static begins right around the first sighting of the hole, at 0:38, but it continues for around four seconds after Jay stops focusing on the hole, until about 0:47. I don't think that it was the hole. If it was, and that's some critical place with residual energy from a terrible thing, then maybe we'll see it again, but I doubt it.

On another note, I like the idea that Jay might betray Tim. I'm not saying it will happen, but I think it could be a good twist. The thing is, Jay has generally tried to do right by everybody. He started looking for Alex originally out of concern for him. He tried to help Alex to find and help Amy, and he tried to protect Jessica. His relationship with Tim has been mostly about concern for Jessica and sympathy for Tim's predicament. The interesting question for Jay going forward, then, might be whether there is something that would be more important to him than doing right by Tim. What could be important enough for Jay to sacrifice Tim to get it? If it comes down to a choice between Tim and Jessica, that might be interesting.

[Foood]

[Boros7]

[CraicIsMighty]

[Jingleman]

[Foood]

[Omberto]

Tim, Alex, Jay, Jessica, they all forgot what happened the first time around and The Operator left them alone until the tapes were watched.

Maybe the only way to survive this is to forget it all.

[Lytrigian]

[Serum]

[Metzi]

Oh shit... something actually happened.

[FalloutGhoul]

[sweetgums]

[UnicronCharlie]

Hi everyone, long time lurker.
I've had an idea floating around in my head for a while now. We can't really explain how Tim was able to escape Slendyland (unless, of course, TO was just toying with him) but we have evidence that might work. During Tim's time in Slendyland, we see him having a seizure - this indicates that he's switching from Tim to Masky (Entry 61). This switch may have been triggered by Tim being under severe stress, or him being without his pills, or it is his defence against TO. We've seen Masky as being fairly strong and agressive - physical attributes that don't really matter when you're being thrown around by TO - but Masky also has little to no emotion. Perhaps Masky is a sociopath.

I've also noticed that it seems TO causes more distortion in the videos depending on the amount of fear/anger in the scene. For example, in Entry 17, TO is standing directly behind Tim, in very close proximity to the camera. Unless TO does have the ability to direct his distortion powers (as people think he did with Tim's chest cam - I'll touch on this later), that camera should have been affected. Nobody noticed TO in Entry 17; nobody was scared or angry. Now lets look at every time somebody spots TO. Even if TO is on camera, that doesn't mean it will start to create severe audio and video distortions (many instances during season 1, when TO is more creepy to the characters and less of a threat) and if the character in close proximity to TO is calm, the distortions are also calmer (Entry 43, when Alex approaches TO. Entry 44, or any entry that involves sleeping is also a good example). As soon as people begin to panic, the distortions become more intense, as if TO's powers are growing stronger. Anger also seems to incite more distortion as well. This does sound a little cheesy, but what if TO feeds off of fear/anger?

If this is the case, then Tim's mind developed Masky over the years as a defence mechanism to TO. Since Masky (presumably) feels no emotion, TO's powers are severely limited. This might also shed light on why Alex was never terribly affected by TO when they seemed to be teamed up. Alex was not being controlled by TO - Alex learned how to suppress his emotions around TO. Therefore, TO's powers were limited and decided to team up with Alex for whatever reasons, perhaps for a similar goal.

To return to "TO can direct his powers", I think that Tim was simply more scared than Jay as they were walking through Rosswood. Jay has done a pretty good job at keeping his cool throughout the series, but Tim has been incredibly hesitant throughout season 3 and I can imagine he was very terrified about the possibility of things going wrong. Anyways, I apologize for the bulky post but I just wanted to present these ideas and see what you all think.