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[Eleven]

[Telos954]

[HyperCubed4]

[nyc_jester]

[Droshi]

[Droshi]

Posted this on YouTube, but I thought I would put it here too.

I think there is more to Jay. What if he is the one who made this new totheark video? What if he, at least in part, IS totheark? Maybe not initially, but what if he is now? What if it got passed onto him?

If you notice, this video looks very different from other totheark videos. For instance, like I said before, "Return to us" is in the exact same font and style as Jay's text in his Entries (dating back to the Introduction). That has never happened before.

Maybe "Wake up" is him telling himself to snap out of it and realize that he is actually communicating with himself.

[BaronVonCakeman]

[Badgerconda]

Guys, it's not that people who think that Tim= Masky aren't aware that you can change clothes, it's that it wouldn't make any sense to put the two characters in the same, very noticeable yellow jacket in two consecutive entries unless it meant something, it would just be crappy storytelling. Almost a Chekov's Gun type of scenario.

And let's continue to try and focus discussion on the new TTA video in the appropriate thread, rather than here. It makes it much easier to access all the information without wading through pages of duplicated (or near-duplicated) posts.

[Telos954]

[RatheadSyndicate]

In regards to Tim:

The simplest solution is often the most likely. The similarities of the jacket are almost certainly intentional. Could the masked man (I'm sorry, I can't use "Masky," it's just too vomitously cute) have stolen Tim's jacket, or bought the same jacket? Sure, but that's simply poor story building, and I think these guys are smarter than that. Either this is a red herring, or Tim has some connection to the masked person (who Jay appears to believe is TTA). If it's a red herring, it's a poorly executed one, one with the potential to spin out into an absurd deus ex machina resolution. Like, "Hey guys, I know we were purposefully pointing you toward Tim and that we have, as of this point, not presented any compelling evidence that the masked man is anyone else, but, SURPRISE! It's Jay's dad!"

Either that or the dudes in charge made a really amateur mistake and used the same piece of clothing for two distinct characters.

[Telos954]

[TNC]

It's possible all of Slenderman's minions own that jacket, because it means they're part of his posse. And everyone knows, when you're a Jet, you're a Jet till your very last breath. Or maybe all of them have that jacket, in the same vein as being a member of the crew, we just haven't seen anyone wearing it.

This is the problem with everyone's suggestions; They hold them as the candle that will lead them through the darkest valley, no matter how little the wick is. These are all just speculation; Mine, too. They MIGHT be right, but it's still speculation.

[Badgerconda]

[DLT]

Has anyone tried analysing the video distortion, in the sense of, where were they/what was happening/who was around at the times that the video/audio becomes distorted, and how much?

It was my initial understanding that Slenderman's presence caused video disruption, this seemed clear, but others have given examples (that I have yet to check) of the audio/video becoming disrupted without Slenderman having ever been seen. Then there is of course the disruption caused by the presence of "Masky", but no Slenderman.

Slenderman seems to cause loss of memory though, he does this to Jay on more than one occasion and it seems to be exclusive to Jay, until entry 22 whereby we discover that Alex suffered memory loss from apparent contact with Slenderman too, which is a fairly big development IMHO, even if I'm not sure what it means yet. I was tempted at first to believe that it was to hide himself from those he wasn't stalking (everyone but Alex) but now this doesn't seem so.

I think the video filming is the key here. I think it is more than just a filming technique, I think its intergral to the plot. I think Slenderman stalks people for whatever reason and does not want them to know, but when Alex starts digging, Slenderman ups the assault and starts to severly stress out Alex. Think about it, Alex has a camera and cameras seem to mess up when Slenderman is around, as if its a defense to stop being caught on tape, but he still is and perhaps this is why he targets Alex to turn him crazy until the point where he wants to burn the tapes - and thus destroy the evidence of Slenderman. But then Jay convinces Alex to give him the tapes instead, and so he becomes Slenderman's target? That would certainly make me think that Alex is Masky/totheark and that, knowing what is instore, he adopts a cryptic anonymity (perhaps to hide more from Jay than Slendy) to try and protect him. First, by trying to scare him off (as the wiki suggests) and later by physically trying to keep him "alive" (or sane?)

Thats my theory so far anyway, admittedly it suddenly came to me as I was typing this treply and my ideas were coming together.

**Forgive me if I've posted (a) theory(ies) that have been presented before, I'm joining this ARG/story pretty late and have tried to catch up - have read this thread through and a fair bit of the wiki, but I may still have missed things.

[Telos954]