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[VIDEO] Entry #25
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The Rogue Wolf
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Dray wrote:
He obviously doesn't realize how that internet thing works, if the 'burn the tapes to get rid of the evidence' thing works. Waiting for youtube to die a fiery death now. Razz

Yeah, I'm just sort of waiting for "Massive fire at YouTube headquarters" to show up on headlines. Shocked

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Dray
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Slender Man's next facebook update: "Organs taste delicious, roasting over an open fire!"

XD

PostPosted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 7:44 pm
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Apologies if this or similar things have been posted before.

A thought. It is known that TTA has had access to the tapes, yes? It is assumed that Masky is Tim. If Tim had previously had access to the tapes, why would he not have edited all of his strange behaviour (taking the same pills that Jay found in the house) out of them? Especially if he knew he may at some point have to go to such extreme lengths as arson to achieve his aims whatever they may be?

Thus

Tim (probably) = Masky

But

Masky =/= TTA

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Dray
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Are you suggesting that while Tim doesn't want Jay to know that he's Masky, TTA does want him to know?

It seems odd to me that if that's the case, TTA would get such clear footage of Tim putting on his mask with his back to us in ######.

If Tim is Masky is TTA, though, it would be odd that he doesn't want Jay to see his face in #18, when Jay goes to lift his mask, but then includes clues later on. It could be that there's a chronological reason (Masky growing impatient, or playing games, then dropping the pretense of 'wooooh, I'm a myyyystery!' in order to get down to business....)

Anyways, I'm having a bit of trouble following your leaps, there. Are you saying that the apartment complex was burned down to destroy the tapes, and that that's more inefficient than having Tim go in and edit himself out of the footage to begin with, hence he isn't TTA? There seems to be a disconnect going on there for me between 'editing footage' and 'Tim/Masky's not TTA'.

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Arison wrote:

For people who think the series has become boring and full of filler, look at earlier entries like Entry 8 and Entry 3. Nothing happens in Entry 3, and Entry 8 is only a few seconds long. Even though the nature of the videos and the entries has changed, it's still a mix of so-called mundane things happening and paranormal things happening. I don't know, not directed at anyone, but that's just what I think of when people claim and entry is just filler.

Exactly! It's not filler, it's pacing! Remember how terrifying it was in the beginning, with every entry slowly building up more fear in you?
Pacing I tell you!
Also, I've always wanted to point out that your username makes me think of "arson", this seems like the perfect occasion.

morscata12 wrote:
For me, the most surprising part of this entry was that Jay still has people who keep in touch with him. I figured he had isolated himself from his friends at this point - maybe there's hope for him yet.


It actually troubles me. If you've left home because someone displayed the possibility to get into your youtube account, why for the love of god would you call people?! Christ, whoever's responsible seems more than capable of listening in on a phonecall!
Seraphic Adonis wrote:
If Slenderman causes the fire (as seen in Sighting #3), he would not need to get into the building as shown in Sighting #1. Sighting #2 makes it unlikely that Sighting #3 is Slendy; Slendy would have had to go from a place of safety (the crowd) back into the blaze he may have caused; of course, this could be explained as Slendy saying to anyone who can see him "Fire cannot stop me! What makes you think you can?"

Of course, I am leaving out the "Slendy behind the curtain" sighting (Sighting #1.5?) in these counts.

Any problems with this?

Not taking into account the "Slendy is protecting" Jay theory, it still makes sense to me that those sightings all make sense if Slendy wasn't the one to start the fire.
He's baffled by it, he tears down the door.
He wants to see what's become of Jay, he checks around the apartments.
He makes no conclusions, he stands in the crowd, baffled.

Ignoring the teleportation theory as well, maybe Slendy simply doesn't see time quite the way we do. Have any of you read Dan Simmon's Endymion series?
Slendy reminds me a little more of the Shrike everyday...
Dray wrote:
SF: You gave me a chuckle with that. XD I can't imagine that ANYone would go to those lengths to make TTA look genuinely insane. They'd have to be insane, themselves.

So uh... I'm lazy, but I'll just point out, and ARG that's about an ARG that crosses over into reality would be awesome.
You'd start a new forum or blog or something, dissecting the ARG, then you'd slowly veer into darker territory and-and... getting carried away now so I'm gonna stop...
spaekle wrote:
I'm pretty sure this is TTA's doing; Slendy doesn't seem to care as much about Jay as he did about Alex, and I don't think now would be the time for him to decide to burn Jay's apartment complex down. If burning down buildings is Slendy's thing here, then why is the house still standing?

Reinterpretation of slender-mythos?
Perhaps Slendy only got a reputation for being around when fires are because people have tried to kill him with it before? Short of a machine guy, that would likely be my last-ditch effort for disposing of a freakish, otherworldly stalker...

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Okay, all that out of the way... and I know this is just gonna get burried and be brought back up by someone who doesn't want to read the whole thread, but the video's real, they're competent with editing as we can see.
They probably could've done all that with a dozen other old clips. They picked that one.
They obviously wanted something they could edit to make it seem like Slendy was there.
A telephone pole, firefighters, etc. can all be Slendy if the whim takes the MH crew.
'course, I guess we wont know until the end which Slendy sighting are real and which are just us arguing that those petunias in the background look a little too slender...
Heh, we oughta ask them that at the very end, just rattle off a list of possible sightings, allowing for convenient yes/no replies.

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CatasTrope
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Dray wrote:
Are you suggesting that while Tim doesn't want Jay to know that he's Masky, TTA does want him to know?

It seems odd to me that if that's the case, TTA would get such clear footage of Tim putting on his mask with his back to us in ######.

If Tim is Masky is TTA, though, it would be odd that he doesn't want Jay to see his face in #18, when Jay goes to lift his mask, but then includes clues later on. It could be that there's a chronological reason (Masky growing impatient, or playing games, then dropping the pretense of 'wooooh, I'm a myyyystery!' in order to get down to business....)

Anyways, I'm having a bit of trouble following your leaps, there. Are you saying that the apartment complex was burned down to destroy the tapes, and that that's more inefficient than having Tim go in and edit himself out of the footage to begin with, hence he isn't TTA? There seems to be a disconnect going on there for me between 'editing footage' and 'Tim/Masky's not TTA'.


OK, sorry, its late here. Think I'm gonna call it a night for now and hopefully come back tomorrow with a better explanation of what I meant

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On another note, YouTube's auto-captioning functionality is horrendously bad.
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Fiasco
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badluckshadow13 wrote:
Arison wrote:

For people who think the series has become boring and full of filler, look at earlier entries like Entry 8 and Entry 3. Nothing happens in Entry 3, and Entry 8 is only a few seconds long. Even though the nature of the videos and the entries has changed, it's still a mix of so-called mundane things happening and paranormal things happening. I don't know, not directed at anyone, but that's just what I think of when people claim and entry is just filler.

Exactly! It's not filler, it's pacing! Remember how terrifying it was in the beginning, with every entry slowly building up more fear in you?
Pacing I tell you!
Also, I've always wanted to point out that your username makes me think of "arson", this seems like the perfect occasion.

If you look at it entry-wise, it's pacing, but if you look at it chronologically, the earlier videos were posted much more frequently. We get new content once a month at this point.

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Deimos
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Catastrope wrote:

A thought. It is known that TTA has had access to the tapes, yes? It is assumed that Masky is Tim. If Tim had previously had access to the tapes, why would he not have edited all of his strange behaviour (taking the same pills that Jay found in the house) out of them?


perhaps tim is schizophrenic and isnt aware of his TTA (yeah thats right) persona, similar to james and n.n in the "who are you" side story

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BUT HE HAS THE EVIL SIDE-BURNS! HE MUST KNOW! XD

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Holy crap!!! I thought I recognized that news anchor. That footage is from my hometown! I went to school in Corunna. I remember that fire!

Weird. Now I wanna know how the creators found it.

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Deimos
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Dray wrote:
BUT HE HAS THE EVIL SIDE-BURNS! HE MUST KNOW! XD


True, not many eople are capable of producing such epic sideburns

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The wonderful part of all of these supposed sightings is that they may as well ALL be Slenderman. I've noticed that ever since I was exposed to the mythos, I've seen that fucking guy in everything. I'm programmed to spot him, even when he's not there, everywhere from news footage to old movies to my own goddamn street. I'm sure I'm not alone. And I'm sure the MH crew is more than aware of that phenomenon.

In short, if you think you see Slenderman... you do.

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First reaction: "What, Marble Hornets updated YESTERDAY?! *mad clicking*"

Second reaction: "Haha, what's it gonna be, Masky leaving chocolate on Jays hotel pilloooooh my god, his house is on fire!"

Third reaction: "Wait, Jay has living friends?!"

Fourth reaction: "SHIT JUST GOT REAL."

So finally, the infamous fire in Brians painting comes to light? Or are we gonna get some news footage of a forest fire near the end of the series? How much stuff has been thrown into MH to give us clues as to what's gonna happen?

I'm sort of on the fence about who set the fire. I mean with Slendy, it fits in with his original mythos. But so far in MH, he hasn't been violent at all, (assuming Alexs head wound that one time was self-inflicted) just seeming sort of... curious, in an eerie way.

But TTA/Masky continues to attack him, stalk him, hack his interwebs and make vague threats. And this definitely fits into "THIS ISN'T A GAME ANYMORE JAY" thing. What better way to stress that than burn down his house?

I just hope Jay crawls out from his hotel room all "now it's PERSONAL" and actually do some serious investigating again. We're telling you dude, GO YELL AT TIM. Because if he seriously doesn't know who Masky is yet, his brain has been turned to Slendergoo.

Also it's not too hard to believe that Jay still has contact with other people. Ever since shit started going down, he probably tried to cut all ties with them. Hell, I'd be concerned for a buddy too, if I hadn't seen them in months and suddenly their apartment is burning down on the news.

And this entry was sort of a slap in the face. With all this weird time-warping, creepy people stalking you in the dead of night, and the only people we see being the rather small cast (and we ain't seen them in FOREVER) suddenly seeing a news report with a crowd andrealizing "Hey, they're still on earth, there are still people outside of MH land!" is like WHOA.

Maybe it was just me, but it was a bit trippy.

My hopes for #26: "Be vewwy, vewwy quiet, I'm huntin' Maskies!"

I don't know about you guys, but I'm diggin' act III so far.

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RatheadSyndicate wrote:
The wonderful part of all of these supposed sightings is that they may as well ALL be Slenderman. I've noticed that ever since I was exposed to the mythos, I've seen that fucking guy in everything. I'm programmed to spot him, even when he's not there, everywhere from news footage to old movies to my own goddamn street. I'm sure I'm not alone. And I'm sure the MH crew is more than aware of that phenomenon.

In short, if you think you see Slenderman... you do.


O_____________O

In that case....HES OUTSIDE MY FRICKEN DOOR RIGHT NOW

NOOOO! MY HOUSE IS FIRST D:
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