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SticktheFigure
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 		Weird thought popped into my head just now. (As it usually does while lurking these forums.) What if the slender man's face can be seen on a camera if you are really close? J was in the whole slender place and his camera disappeared (...I think) only after he got fairly close. We also never see his face when he gets really close (i.e. Return). This could be a plot hole, so as to not see the actor inside, but I wanted to point it out.

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Hadn't thought of the not selling it part. He does act protective of Amy, perhaps he actually had been thinking about what would happen if someone else got their hands on the camera. But then, why wouldn't he have burned it or smashed it or something? Unless the camera had some kind of restraining properties to actually capture him? (For instance, when Jay films Slendy close up, his camera winds up mangled -- Slendy escaping, maybe?)

I think that, because the camera already had the tape in it, it probably wasn't being used to make TTA videos. That footage seems fairly similar to what we saw in #22 and Alex was nearing the end of his running around, so the tape remaining inside the camera this entire time does make sense, at least to me!


I think it wasfor a just in case situation, in case he needed to find Slendy for whatever reason. Or maybe the camera repells him, we don't really know. But I agree it most likely was not used for TTA.

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SticktheFigure wrote:
Weird thought popped into my head just now. (As it usually does while lurking these forums.) What if the slender man's face can be seen on a camera if you are really close? J was in the whole slender place and his camera disappeared (...I think) only after he got fairly close. We also never see his face when he gets really close (i.e. Return). This could be a plot hole, so as to not see the actor inside, but I wanted to point it out.



At around 5:15 of Entry 22, you can see something like a face in the static. I've always thought this was a close up of slender man's face, or slender man trying to imitate a face.

Also, I forget which entry it is, but in the one where Alex is filming himself and shows his drawings on the wall, one of the drawings has the operator symbol atop slenderman's body, which a) makes me think that the operator symbol stands for slenderman, and b) makes me think that slenderman's face resembles an "X".

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 		Just throwing this out there guys, but wasn't one of the early rules of Slenderman that he came after those who knew. I remember one of the quotes to go with the original pictures was "dont look at its pictures it dosent want to be known about dont loo." So wouldn't it be logical to assume that when his girlfriend sees those images on his camera, Slenderman comes to claim her, Alex and the film? Just an idea.
I can elaborate more on my reasoning as to why he didn't take Jay or Alex before, but I wouldn't like to take up space with stuff that people aren't interested in.

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theonewhoquestions wrote:
Dray wrote:
A brand new thought!

PP99, 98, 97, etc. stands for 'power play' along with a count down. Yup, the ensuing showdown must have been excessively epic; too epic for a pitiful human-made camera to comprehend. Hence the fade-to-white!


Power play? A power power play?


What? Not a hockey fan? Any fight against slender man is a power play.

Actually it's more like your Slava Kozlov and he's Scott Stevens... Except more missing organs.


Edit: The first part of this post is directed to the belief that somehow Slenderman is attracted to "the camera" or the specific tape. I'm basically saying that he's attracted to neither. What he is attracted to is the fact that someone else now has seen him. And Slenderman doesn't like that. Not. one. bit.

Just clarifying.

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DoctorOdd wrote:

theonewhoquestions wrote:

Power play? A power power play?


What? Not a hockey fan? Any fight against slender man is a power play.


What? Not an... Eddie & the Tide fan? I can't really blame you, if not.

That is an interesting theory. Curious why he was standing around in the field (though the "What's he doing?" thing might indicate they couldn't see the guy and just thought Alex was crazy) they were filming and under a light pole then.

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Lilithia
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 		OH MY GOD. My friend showed me the entire series & #26 was amazing! I've caught up &... OMG. That's all I can say! Why is slendy so violent now? Alex seemed so calm too... Wonder what's going on... Shocked

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OH MY GOD. My friend showed me the entire series & #26 was amazing! I've caught up &... OMG. That's all I can say! Why is slendy so violent now? Alex seemed so calm too... Wonder what's going on... Shocked


i'd guess at first this was just a game for slendy, he found it amusing watching both alex and jay getting freaked out. e.g peering into the room when they're sleeping, "abducting" the others. but he knows he has to do his job eventually or things like the entries get out. and because of this he got pissed, jay had the tapes, he was on the run. slendy had no idea where alex was up to this point. the game drew out. if alex hadn't filmed him in the first place, it wouldn't have gotten out of hand. I guess you could say with #26, when you first spot slendy, he hadn't seen alex just yet. and when the chick freaked out, alex came into the scene and so slendy got all aggressive.

Also i guess this could do with the operator symbol meaning "don't film slendy on camera, it attracts him" alex had moved away for fair while, assuming nothing had happened until that point. they seemed fairly set in. he left the tapes behind. he told Jay to burn them. he was "free" of the slenderman until the chick played the tape in the camera. though this is what makes me rather curious, when alex first visits one of the locations they were going to film at, there is the operator symbol drawn on that little cement mound. which i have no clue what to make of. Its a warning, but to who?

Something had to have happened within that time alex had moved, he is fairly calm when he first spots slendy in the house, and he has an idea something is up when his girlfriend confronts him about it. he's eluded slendy for awhile once, why not again?

maybe he had the camera stashed away in a "manly things women shouldn't touch box" or something. he doesnt seem all that surprised but does tense up when she asks him about the camera and continues doing whatever he was doing on the macbook. i think anyone else would have gone up and at least had a look at it. based on that, he knows that the existence of the camera. if it was a completely odd thing, alex should have clued on a slendy confrontation was going to happen and taken some form of action. but he just continued doing whatever he was doing. he's had more than enough experience with regards to confrontation of slendy to get an idea.

also has anyone thought of tta being anyone slendy had abducted? both alex and jay experience times where they don't remember anything (also that time where jay wakes up, opens the door and the video showing the other side doesnt open) i wouldnt pass of the idea of slendy being able get the abductees to film and edit the stuff like the tta responses.

well feel free to poke any holes, i've still got a lot of reading to do on others people theories.

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 		Just an idea I'm quickly throwing out there, the circle with a x through it could be a symbolic equivalent of "No face," as Slendy has "no face".... Well he does, just not in the incarnation. (Read some of the original mythos. Damn freaky.)
Personally I don't like the camera explanation because... well I just don't like it. How many other people have filmed Slender Man? And of those people who would leave the warning? It doesn't quite make sense to me. It seems to mean specifically Slender Man. If it means no camera's then why would people with slendy-sickness film themselves drawing it. I know there are a few holes in that argument, so feel free to point them out.



...Wait, any notice the prevalence of circular shapes in this series? In 22 when we look down that seemingly significant tube, then it flashes to a shot of slendy crawling through it. Then in the most recent entry when we see Skully looking through what appears to be another pipe(?) or something. I'm sure there's more than that too.
Maybe the symbol has something to do with the pipes. I remember that at one point we had a theory on here that slendy sometimes moved through the pipes. I know the teleportation thing sort of canceled that out, but then what explains the interference we hear in 21 when he walks past that hole in the ground? Maybe it's where he stores his slendy bags? I don't know.....

I guess I'm just typing out loud.

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theonewhoquestions
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 		Maybe the pipes were somehow... infected. No, not infected. Like a television when it has been near a magnet too long, and it has that spot in the corner that is tinted green. Which may explain the audio static when the camera got close in Tim in Session #20, if Tim had been in extended proximity to Slenderman. Kind of like radiation sickness.

None of my theories have much to do with each other, but I enjoy making them.

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DoctorOdd wrote:
Just an idea I'm quickly throwing out there, the circle with a x through it could be a symbolic equivalent of "No face," as Slendy has "no face".... Well he does, just not in the incarnation. (Read some of the original mythos. Damn freaky.)
Personally I don't like the camera explanation because... well I just don't like it. How many other people have filmed Slender Man? And of those people who would leave the warning? It doesn't quite make sense to me. It seems to mean specifically Slender Man. If it means no camera's then why would people with slendy-sickness film themselves drawing it. I know there are a few holes in that argument, so feel free to point them out.


well if we go off that, would tta's last response mean there are multiple slendermen?

also with the infection thing, plausible, extended exposure? i guess to slendy eventually leads to sickness. similar to radiation sickness.

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Unicorn wrote:
DoctorOdd wrote:
Just an idea I'm quickly throwing out there, the circle with a x through it could be a symbolic equivalent of "No face," as Slendy has "no face".... Well he does, just not in the incarnation. (Read some of the original mythos. Damn freaky.)
Personally I don't like the camera explanation because... well I just don't like it. How many other people have filmed Slender Man? And of those people who would leave the warning? It doesn't quite make sense to me. It seems to mean specifically Slender Man. If it means no camera's then why would people with slendy-sickness film themselves drawing it. I know there are a few holes in that argument, so feel free to point them out.


well if we go off that, would tta's last response mean there are multiple slendermen?

also with the infection thing, plausible, extended exposure? i guess to slendy eventually leads to sickness. similar to radiation sickness.


Was that a response to my post? I'm confused how does that have anything to do with multiple slendies... slendys? Slendi? I don't know.
Anyway, which post are you referring to? ######? because I'd like to hear your reasoning around that

Anyway, I was just saying that that the symbol represents slender man in general, not that each one represents a particular slender man. Posted in the woods the sign would mean "this is slender territory," not "there is one, count them, one slender man here."


In any case, if Slendy was aggravated by tapes or cameras he probably would have killed Alex and Jay, then destroyed the tapes. I mean he is a supernatural being who likes the taste of human flesh and can not only teleport but can also control minds. It has to be something other than "no cameras, folks."


By the way, this is a pretty ineffective symbol in under any circumstances. The only people who would know what it means would be people who have already seen and/or filmed Slenderman. So who is it helping.

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GhostK wrote:
Also, I forget which entry it is, but in the one where Alex is filming himself and shows his drawings on the wall, one of the drawings has the operator symbol atop slenderman's body, which a) makes me think that the operator symbol stands for slenderman, and b) makes me think that slenderman's face resembles an "X".


I would have said that the cross through the circle represents the Slender Man's lack of any face at all, but yeah, I'm 90% the Operator symbol... symbolises the slender Man.

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Tekyro wrote:
GhostK wrote:
Also, I forget which entry it is, but in the one where Alex is filming himself and shows his drawings on the wall, one of the drawings has the operator symbol atop slenderman's body, which a) makes me think that the operator symbol stands for slenderman, and b) makes me think that slenderman's face resembles an "X".


I would have said that the cross through the circle represents the Slender Man's lack of any face at all, but yeah, I'm 90% the Operator symbol... symbolises the slender Man.


Thank you for posting this. Someone found actual evidence. BAM. Thank you GhostK and Tekyro. Finding conclusive evidence... in Marble Hornets... Damn.

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 		(X) probably has different meanings in different contexts. 'Here thar be Slender Man' is the most common. In the context of Warning I think that it's used as a symbol for Jay's options running out, or else for people in his life disappearing. In ######, it seems to be more of a 'hark this extremely fucking important message!'

Honestly, I think that it probably doesn't have a single, solid meaning. It seems like a catch-all for Slender-related shenanigans. I don't even know if the creators have a solid definition for it!

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Honestly, I think that it probably doesn't have a single, solid meaning. It seems like a catch-all for Slender-related shenanigans. I don't even know if the creators have a solid definition for it!


I considered the same thing. Like one of the creators started drawing it, then decided to put it every where to be a sort of Marble Hornets logo. One of those things that you do but really don't know why, then just let everybody else come up with the symbolism. Always a great trick to pull in art.

But I want it to mean something damn it! Just like everything else in this series!.... Grrrr.....

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