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Totheark naming pattern?
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LoudCapricorn
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Totheark naming pattern?

Looong time lurker, finally butted in. Very Happy

I've noticed a possible pattern with the way TTA names his/her/their videos. It seems highly unlikely that they just poke words in a dictionary, right? So I tried pairing them off.
REGARDS - OPERATOR
"Regards to The Operator"
Sounds like TTA is either greeting or openly mocking Slendy (mind you, these are the first 2 videos, we know nothing about TTA). We've generally established that they ARE opposing entities.
SIGNAL - MESSAGES
"Signal about the Messages"
Basically, Totheark. Signaling about messages since 2009.
INDICATOR - MEMORIES
"Indicator of the Memories"
Memory wiping is a Slendypower. And these came out after enttry 37, which sent the show BACK IN TIME!!! *echoechoecho*
INQUIRY - CLASSIFIED
"Inquiry about/of the Classified"
Tim's medical records are the first thing that comes to mind.
observation - ISOLATION
"Observation of the Isolation"
Jay is alone in this. Alex - evil. Tim - masked. Jessica - ? (she better get back soon). Only TTA has been there for him since the beginning. Observing him.
DISPLAY - SURVEILLANCE
"Display of Surveillance"
Again, the way Totheark works. He hides in closets and displays what he sees.

There are way more examples (DELUGE of IMPURITY, EXIT the PROGRAM, WARNING to/about the FRAGMENTS, etc.), then again, I'm probably seeing clues where there are none. But I assure you, this sounded way more possible and awesome around 3 AM. It's still a good shot, right?

PostPosted: Mon Jan 07, 2013 10:03 am
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NewInTown2
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Problem is you can pretty much group any of the titles together and let them make sense somehow.

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LoudCapricorn
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Well, yeah, but I was pairing them in post order. The names CAN'T be completely random. Most of them have nothing to do with the actual video. This is just my brain, trying to find reasoning behind the names.

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LBfly
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I cant imagine how the name IS NOT related to the video... I think we just couldnt realize it yet. But what you did there is very interesting.

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LoudCapricorn
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You do have a point, I was just thinking they have nothing DIRECTLY in common with the video. As far as we know, at least. Or maybe it's a trolling attempt. EXIT the PROGRAM -> get off YouTube, the internet and GET A LIFE. I don't care if TTA calls me a nolifer, this is way too fun. Very Happy

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Here's the list of videos in order, with the preceding entry numbers beside them, just in case that's in some way important.

Regards (9)
Operator (11)
Impurity (12)
Exit (13)
Program (14)
Advocate (15)
Addition (16)
Signal (17)
Messages (18)
Return (19)
Version (20)
Attention (22)
Admission (22) (This is back to back with Attention.)
Warning (23)
Fragments (34)
Broadcast (35)
Sidetone (36)
Forecast (39)
Intermission (40)
Indicator (41)
Memories (42)
Inquiry (43)
Classified (46)
Sidenote (48)
Extraction (49)
Reminder (53)
Decay (54)
Session (57)
Reference (59)
Observation (60.5)
Isolation (62)
Display (64)
Surveillance (65)

These are suspected to be TTA but were uploaded to the main MH channel:
Entry ###### (24)
enttry 37 (36) (After Sidetone.)
entry (60.5) (This came right after Observation and became Entry 61.)

Damn. I was hoping that was the solution to the code in Surveillance, but there's not enough numbers that match up, and not enough videos to account for numbers like 79.

Interestingly, they're all nouns, although some can also be used as verbs: exit, program, advocate, signal, return, broadcast, forecast, decay, reference, display.
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I don't think there's a pattern. But I think it's driven Jay to finally write that novel...



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This all makes sense, apart from observation in which tta spies on tim for the world to see. I think observation is just observation.

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LoudCapricorn
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Slendermau5 wrote:
This all makes sense, apart from observation in which tta spies on tim for the world to see. I think observation is just observation.

Maybe that's why it's lowercase? I'm finding new pairs like BROADCAST - SIDETONE
Sidetone is technically phone feedback, so broadcasting feedback could be about this forum, even. Yeah, I'm overthinking.

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LoudCapricorn wrote:
Well, yeah, but I was pairing them in post order. The names CAN'T be completely random. Most of them have nothing to do with the actual video. This is just my brain, trying to find reasoning behind the names.


Wrong

Advocate - someone who is the helper (could mean brian is part of totheark)

Operator - was audio from entry 10 that featured the operator

Inquiry - asked questions

Almost all of the titles make sense if you think about them a little bit

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[quote="Serum"]I don't think there's a pattern. But I think it's driven Jay to finally write that novel...

[youtube] a most awesome and appropriate YouTube clip [/youtube]


That totally made my night.

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xemnasvii
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I was gonna make a thread like this..
I noticed that all TTA video names are nouns, but not actual THINGS, not physically, more symbolic things or systems.
Example:
Exit: It could be a real thing, but it is more of a concept than a physical thing.
Isolation: More of a concept again. This one can't be physical at all.
Session: Concept..
Messages: Not physical once again..
Version: Concept....
Signal: A little more physical but still.. CONCEPT.
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Lithp
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Yeah, I think that's basically it. They're all concepts Totheark is conveying, or things that he is doing. And it also serves to contrast him with Jay, who just names his videos according to their sequential order, with no thought given to context or summary.

Edit: Holy shit, that means that Totheark's titles are actually clearer & more logical than Jay's.

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LoudCapricorn
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Lithp wrote:
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Edit: Holy shit, that means that Totheark's titles are actually clearer & more logical than Jay's.

Holy shit, you're right.

>pravado
Hmmm, you made me rethink. Sure, some do have connection to the video (observation as an explicit example), but what about, say, Version, Sidetone, Impurity, Deluge, et al? There has to be SOMETHING, it can't be just empty room logic. I started this convoluted epileptic tree sometime around Fragments, I think, and it began with DELUGE - IMPURITY. So far only those two are generally never used in speech other than cryptic texts or things like that; those are MYSTERIOUS WORDS, DAMMIT. And then I noticed Regards (to the) Operator. And so on and so forth. I just have to know, what is the deal with the names.

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It's funny I was just thinking about this, wondering if the answer or key to the latest code could be hidden in the titles of his previous videos, maybe spelling it out with the first letter. But i also find it a little unlikely that they could have been planning this riddle since the first season.. Shocked

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