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Kex
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 		Yet another LTW jumping out of the woodwork(registering, even!) to throw in HOLY FUCK SHIT GOT REAL. I've only seen the video a couple times(sneaking on during class; bad Kex!) and hopefully when I get home I can study the beginning of the tape better.

Good luck to Alex, though; having a Slender Man following you around is one thing; having a pissed off Slender Man coming after you is something entirely different.

Edit: Helo thar page 12.

Edit edit: I can't see the word 'symbol' without thinking 'operator.' This makes math homework infinitely more creepy.

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The Rogue Wolf
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Kex wrote:
Edit edit: I can't see the word 'symbol' without thinking 'operator.' This makes math homework infinitely more creepy.

If you start seeing Operator symbols in your equations... BURN THE BOOK.

I still have the feeling that Slender Man is somehow tied to memories. He seems to steal them, or even consume them, and possibly learns from them somehow. Keeping him out of mind keeps him out of sight. But when Amy watched the footage on the camera, and then showed the camera to Alex, that put Slendy right back on his trail, and boy was he ever quick to come catch up with his "old friend". Was Alex's calmness an attempt to not panic and worry about Slender Man finding him? (If so, yeah, gud jerb thar, mister.)

How deep down the rabbit hole are we, now? I can't see daylight. Shocked

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 		Operator symbol... Camera operator/s are bad? Slenderman knows, but isn't saying.

The team is definitely pushing the envelope here. I'm really hoping that Jay comes back in, but Alex is clearly the bad@$$ Slender-Fighter.

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DarkProject wrote:
Operator symbol... Camera operator/s are bad? Slenderman knows, but isn't saying.

The team is definitely pushing the envelope here. I'm really hoping that Jay comes back in, but Alex is clearly the bad@$$ Slender-Fighter.


Operator theory=sad but true

gotta admit but damn they are bad operators lol. anyway when his gf see's slendy why is it that he looks curious to see why a woman is holding the camera......

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BurritoX
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 		HOLY CRAP ON A CRAPCICLE.

And that's my initial reaction. Wow, Just wow.

WOOOOOW.

K, not that creepy of an entry luckily Very Happy

Ok so initial thought while I download the video for further analysis.

Slendy is somehow related to tapes and only appears when a cursed tape is on the recorder. It fits, alex is super calm around slenderman by now, even being able to calm down another human being, and well he is cursed.

So I think that SPECULATION.

Tim is triying to harvest slendy by using his power, somehow.
Jay is just another fool.
And Alex is triying to keep Slendy at bay by not recording, somehow.

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 		Does anyone else think that slender man is afraid or at least kept at bay by alex? This thought is in that slender-man is after the camera and that he comes at Alex's GF somewhat when she has the camera but when she is with Alex near the window at the end he just watches them.

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Aesop_Rhythm wrote:
Does anyone else think that slender man is afraid or at least kept at bay by alex? This thought is in that slender-man is after the camera and that he comes at Alex's GF somewhat when she has the camera but when she is with Alex near the window at the end he just watches them.


I noticed that too, and that may be because Alex found a way to either hurt slendy or keep him away with some item of value or relic. its possible but im just guessing. and another thing still creeps me out, someone pointed out earlier in the thread that his arms are more like tentacles, he never moved once from his spot of entry and if you look closely after he grabs amy its almost as if he retracted his arms and then sways back and forth for just a moment.

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Aerokinetic
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 		IMO the operator symbol means to not 'operate' a camera - the circle being the lens of a camcorder or similar recording device.

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Aesop_Rhythm
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 		On another note the skull looking mask could be maskies new mask because he/it hung it up in Ep.23 which could represent change or something along those lines.

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MikauTheFlower
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 		Am I the only person who noticed how much went into this entry? It seems very well made compared to other entries, speaking from a video point of view rather than the content. I mean, the creepy mist-like noise while the white text on black pops up, then back down, how much the scenes cut in the beginning. It really feels like there was just a lot more... stuff put into this one.

Anyway, about the entry. I honestly feel like this "new mask" is just the old mask drawn on with magic marker or Sharpie or something. The eyes are the same, the shape, etc. I don't see the eyebrows through the black and white, but I can definitely see the resemblance between the two masks, which makes me believe there is no second Masky. Besides, the new one looks creepier, but a bit more cheesy.

The footage from the old camera kinda creeps me out. It's pretty obvious that the tape was put there, same with the camera. Yet, you can see Alex looking at a tile wall in the beginning with adequate lighting, so it makes me believe that this tape had to be made near 2006, or the time when Alex left. So, how did this tape of Masky get on there? Just a thought.

Did anyone notice the faces after the new Masky face showed up, in that weird blobby light stuff flying around? I swear I could see Masky's face in it more than once.

Also, what did Alex instruct that girl to do? It's clear the girl bolted for the stairs, which have an eerie resemblance to the ones in The House, so how did they escape? Did they jump off of the fucking roof or something? Slendy must have caught them.

Yet, if Slenderman caught them, how the hell did the tape get out? Did Masky send it to trick Jay once again so Slenderman can finally finish the entire crew off?

Just my two cents.

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MikauTheFlower
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Aesop_Rhythm wrote:
On another note the skull looking mask could be maskies new mask because he/it hung it up in Ep.23 which could represent change or something along those lines.
Yet, in Entry #####, you can see Tim brandishing the old Masky mask. Why would he try to change, then go back to the original?

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DrDisco
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 		Maybe I'm crazy, but I believe I see a reflection of a mask in 2:56-2:57. Can somebody possibly do a frame by frame?

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badluckshadow13
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Cads wrote:
Anyone else find it slightly unnerving that Alex almost seemed EXPERIENCED with all of this? Like he's come to terms with it.

His girl is freaking the hell out as slendy approaches, and he doesn't even sound surprised. He just calmly told her to leave and go down the street, like he was about to handle shit.

I dunno, just kind of weird. Like he was expecting this to happen sooner or later and completely understood what was happening (Whatever the hell that is.)
Heh, reminds of a moment in the Squee comic book series where the kid's woken up from a horrible nightmare. He pours himself some milk and says, "the sick part is, I'm starting to get used to this."
Anyway, I don't think it was a "I can get rid of him like before" calm. I think it was a "well, better or worse, this ends now" calm
Demongel wrote:
Now...why Alex kept one tape is beyond me. The only thing I can think of there is that Alex wanted some form of proof to remind him that no, he wasn't insane.

That or Alex is trying to pawn off Slenderman to Jay through the tapes.

I once scoured my entire house for a particular dvd for weeks. Several months later, after I'd bought a new copy and moved on with life, I found it in my older dvd player.

I think Alex, in his panic, grouped all his loose tapes together, then of course gave them to Jay. Assuming his camera was empty, he kept it, it probably meant a lot to him as a film student.
But he was still too nervous to use it, so he stashed it away. When his girlfriend came in with it, he wasn't so upset at the camera's presence as the realization it still had a tape in it. Remember, she already had it open and on, it probably took him two seconds to realize "oh shit, there's a slendertape in there!"

Or maybe it's his other camera? Remember how MH was filmed on one and then Alex filmed all the time on his own? What if after he cancelled the movie he threw it in with some otherstuff, not bothering to toss it or check it for a tape?
Then when stuff got serious, he disposed of his own camera and the tapes, totally forgetting about the movie camera.
JKatkina wrote:
It being on the note felt to me like a callsign or signature. Maybe "the operator symbol" has more relevance as a title than we thought? It's TTA/Masky/'the operator's call-symbol?

Not sure about the symbol, but I think this new entry reaffirms my beliefs that Alex isn't Masky. What does an operator do? They put you through to another number.
Alex probably had whichever MHer is Masky's adress, someone else who he knew was aware of Slenderman (keep in mind he only gave Jay the tapes at the end, the others had been there with him all through his Slendencounters) and caller for help. Always the behind-the-scenes man, passed it onto Jay instead. Jay's life has been taking a parallel course to Alex's after all, they both thought they were safe. Now that Jay realizes he's not, of course he'd go straight to Alex, it's the obvious course of action.
The fact Jay had to be given a date to assure he'd stay put shows that there's someone who's been tracking him down, but whom likely wasn't sure they'd be able to find him again. It seems to me Alex is too far removed from the equation to have been stalking Jay.
TechnoViking wrote:
Alex is uncharacteristically calm. Slenderman is uncharacteristically violent. Clearly their relationship has changed in the past three years. Just look at his posture: legs apart, arms out, hunched over. Slendy is pissed. In the past, even when he did act violently he did it without breaking that calm facade (see: Entry 14). Something pretty extreme must have happened to warrant that kind of reaction.

There's an idea, somebody, likely Masky wants this all resolved, so he did something to get Slendy riled up, then led him to Alex's.
Still, it also seems likely to me that hostile-slendy was reacting to the girlfriend's scream. Or maybe her running.
Mithost wrote:
One of my major questions is...when the footage that was already on the tape was taken. Was it taken back when Alex was still there? The fact that he used a flashlight in a house to look at something (what was that, a monitor?) shows that he was investigating like Jay did. If he was a Masky, and it was more recent, he would have been wearing a mask, I would think. And if it WAS from way back when he was going through it all, then where was he? Hell, where was he regardless. It was only like half a shot, but I didn't recognize it.

Bingo. I've always figured Alex wasn't the first crew member who spotted Slendy. I think maybe one of his friends was acting odd, he started searching around, etc.
Which makes me think series two wont be as much content in the present as it will in the past. I mean, this isn't the first time we've been shown stuff from before JAy was the central character. It seems quite likely to me the MH cast had they're own series of adventures, we've seen them exploring together before.
Which might mean Alex wasn't the only one with Slender-footage.
Heck, we might even have Alex's head-bleedy explained to us... through years old footage Very Happy

It also makes me think, that they've all realized on their own that the masks work, that's why we've seen several versions. It also makes me think that the mask on the door ages ago was put there in hopes that Jay would take it and figure it out. Which of course he didn't....

It also makes it seem likely to me, that they've all been winging it since the cast split up, each of them trying to solve it in their own way. So while one may know what the ark is, the others are clueless, I bet in the end they have to all meet up to figure out how to stop Slenderman.
Or maybe the message from Masky about being led "totheark" was a separate Masky from TTA? and he literally wants to be led to that person because they both seem to have the most Slender-knowledge.

Speaking of masks and figuring things out on they're own, maybe that's why proto-Masky has that horrific grin, but the other variation looks like our Masky(the stalker Masky we were introduced to first) he did his own variation, understanding that all he needed was a mask, and the slightly different one from Warning was someone under the impression they should try to make it as close as possible to the one they'd seen, or vice-cersa depending of whether Warning Masky or OGflavor Masky came first.
KiloTwo wrote:
One thing that disturbed me is how Amy asks "WHAT is that?!" as opposed to "WHO is that?!" It took me a few entries to notice that Slendy didn't have a face, and even in the entries themselves it is difficult to tell. Clearly his physical presence is very. . . alien. The fact that both Alex and Amy maintain a relatively clear head during the incident could indicate that Slendy is no longer in mind-rape mode, but has moved into attack mode.

Dude, she was right up in his face... or lack thereof, she screamed "What" on reflex. Only later, in panic mode did she treat him like a normal human, running upstairs to get away, probably figured he was a burglar and was going to lock herself into a room

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 		I know people have suggested that there's a new "mask," and while I agree, what seems weird to me is that it looks like Alex looks down at the mask when the distortion changes. Does anybody else see that?
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 		Hello. Here's something I noticed.



Slendy strolls right past Alex, goes straight for the girl.

Thoughts?

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