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[Mr.Beyond]

Unless of course Alex is the one that sent the "help" video. Because if he's really good at running/disappearing (which he appears to be) he could also be really good at finding people who've run/disappeared. The way J said it, it seemed like someone was keeping tabs on him, but we don't know for sure TTA sent that video. The video was definitely aimed at helping Alex, and i'm not sure if that's TTA's objective yet.
The 0A0 BOO tag on the box seemed like a totheark-style tease, but that may not be as important as I'm making it.
There's also the theory that TTA planted the camera in Alex's house, however, which might also disprove that Alex is the Ark.

[Sylocat]

And Alex was at his computer when we first saw him in #26... wow, that's actually rather plausible.

And if TTA is Alex, it explains why TTA doesn't use original video footage, at least none that wasn't taken three years ago... he's showing off the A/V editing skills he learned in the film class for which he made Marble Hornets, and he knows that cameras attract Slendy.

I wonder why he waited two weeks to send Jay the tape, though...

[Mr.Beyond]

Except there's some footage that TTA could have only gotten access to if he was around J... a'la Return, and the video after the first trip to the house that shows J collapsed and coughing. Unless he had Masky send him those tapes, going with the idea they're separate. The footage of Masky from Warning and #### might have been current, too, we don't know. Alex certainly wouldn't have filmed it; if anything, he might only be responsible for the cut-and paste "stock footage" videos that make up the majority of TTA's account.
If Alex IS TTA, then he's working in conjunction with Masky, and if Masky is TTA then we have no idea what his relationship to alex (besides former actor in his movie) is.
And as for why he took two weeks to send the tape, it may have taken him that long to get himself and Amy to a safe place where he could send it from. He probably had to leave that house as soon as he saw Slendy in it, and I'm sure it took him a while to shake our tall friend off his trail.
DX aaaaagh, everything is "either this" "or this". How can everything be so perfectly ambiguous? At this point I should be waiting for the hiatus to end, because new videos will (HOPEFULLY) answer questions, but I'm damn impatient

[Dray]

This isn't helpful to the current debate, but how about this?

TTA/SM encounter Alex and Amy on April 4th. They capture the both of them. The tape falls into TTA's hands and he realizes its use, and texts Jay with a date two weeks in the future, potentially so that SM can get comfy at Alex's new digs the way that he seemed to be at Brian's house.

Two weeks later the package arrives, luring Jay to the return address, as per plans. Jay's doom ensues from there?

It would mean that TTA works for SM, which I really don't like but which seems to be the case. If TTA knows that SM is called 'the operator' (which the recent Q&A would seem to call SM out of character as well) then he's probably working for him. I don't know... I still think it'd be neat if TTA was a third party who is playing SM of of Jay and perhaps Alex and vice versa to buy himself time. But it seems more likely that he's under SM's influence after all. D:

[Mr.Beyond]

I'm not a fan of TTA works for Slendy/Operator either, but it does seem to fit in that scenario.... Heh, I kind of like him as a double agent, just using the entire situation for his own ambitions.
If that situation is true the it seems likely TTA IS the one that planted the camera in Alex's house, since supposedly Alex didn't have a camera.

I had forgotten to take into account the text- it was definitely warning J that something was going to go down on the 18th, and if it was "Alex sent the tape asking for help" then why would he text J in advance letting him know when the tape was going to get there?

It could also be that TTA doesn't necessarily WORK for SM, but he has some ambition that he needs J to fill for him (he's said J will lead him to the ark, of course, which means he can't get there himself) so he plants the camera, leads SM back into Alex's life, then gets the tape and sends it to J so that J has no choice but to get back into the investigation he was all but prepared to drop.

[Sylocat]

[Dray]

Okay, so they don't want to off Jay. Maybe they're just desperate for attention and want him to keep socializing with them. This is the only way that they know how to get that to happen.

[Sylocat]

Well, that's certainly possible too.

[Kassel]

[Sylocat]

Wait. Wait, I got it, I got it, I got it. This is it, I can feel it.

Copied and pasted from the SM Mythos page:

[SticktheFigure]

Sorry to debunk your idea, but there are many times where bodies are found. They end up skewed through trees. With their organs in plastic bags.

[Sylocat]

[SticktheFigure]

Doubly wrong
It was thought up by Victor Surge on SomethingAwful, and he is the one who made the skewered tree pictures.

[Sylocat]

Oops... never mind then.