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[Karuvitomsk]

The Thirty Seconds of Turtle (which I will from this point on refer to as TToT) is indicative of the series as a whole, and all that that connotates.

Early in the video we witness Jessie pushing Jeff and Evan toward the stream, which correlates with Corenthal pushing his children through the timestream into the present day.

Evan's confused and frightened exclamations of "WHERE ARE YOU GOIN'" are indicative of his own mental instability becoming bloated from the timestream's dark energy atoms.

Evan claims he is a turtle. The cacodaemon, HABIT, is represented here, and the repetition of his representation represents the repeating events of the series represented.

Meanwhile, Jessie and the Doctor watch on, able only to marvel at the terrible thing they have prodded into waking.

It is not the end. It is only.. the first draft.

[Luipaard]

it's turtles all the way down

[Ouroborus]

Not to derail the Turtle Wagon, but something has been bothering me.


What's the motive for whoever it is that's editing the videos for helping us/giving us information.

In the last video, bits from ADITL and the morse videos were edited in..solely(I think) to just remind us of when the guys had been here before.


Why? Besides the obvious (it advances the game), what's in it for the Habit/Corenthal/Slendy/Whoever for us to have the extra insight..but not the guys?

[Luipaard]

[Ouroborus]

I just wonder if there is more to it.

It seems like a lot of work to send these messages to us for the sole purpose of second-handedly convincing the guys of mindfuckey.

I'm fine with them just being plot devices to give us, the meta-audience, more information than the players , but with the care that seems to be put into some of these edits...I wonder.

Like I said before, LW/TIB, has edits that refer back to clips from some of the morse videos and ADITL. The sole purpose of these(I believe) is to just remind us of where they actually are(Baldpate). For a straight up story, this is a fine device. But for whatever is being crafted here, it almost seems redundant OR extremely precise. It's edits like these that make me question the intentions behind the videos. We're the intended audience. These are messages that are supposed to have(eventually?) meaning to us. Again, outside of the simple plot device explanation , what motives could be driving this?

If it's Habit's round about way of "INFECTION" that's cool. Corenthal trying to get us to help the guys via whatever?
Slendy?

William?


TL/DR- If Hidden Videos and Edits are more than just plot devices , what are they to us...since we're the intended audience?

[qaqa]

I also think the recurring ADITL inserts are extremely important. Perhaps just in signifying maybe the first major instance of the guys' and/or SM's incursion into one plane/dimension or another, I don't know.

[Ouroborus]

[Verdett]

[Lewa]

Maybe the helpful editor is different from the hidden video creator. I think the latter is Habit, but the former could be someone else. However, we know that only the guys have access to the old footage, as confirmed in the last Ustream.
So, highly unlikely theory time: there is an anti-Habit. Whatever Habit is, it's the same kind of thing, but it is opposed to Habit. If such a thing exists, then Habit is clearly winning their battle. Anti-Habit is weak and can only insert brief clips into videos, to try to tell us things, unlike Habit, who can communicate with us in writing. It makes more sense to me that the clips of Habit-controlled Evan in the Ryan video would have been put there by an opponent of Habit, warning us of his intentions so that we wouldn't get caught up in the Trials.
But that's silly, because we already have too many otherworldly entities, and none of them are good.

[Glass]

oh lawd. The anti-habit. Such a thing is bound to pop up and make us read fancy poetry in an empty room.

Anti-habit saves the rabbits,
He has millions, checks and bonds.
The humanitarian within him,
Urges, that you stay strong,
Do not fight the forever flood,
Of gladness, humour, love, and life,
Because I will be with you all,
You'll always be my wife,
We'll take the rabbits together,
And together set them all free,
We'll fill our hearts with the joy of a daughter,
The joy of their hopping glee,
And as they play face up in the sun,
You will see that these rabbits were friends,
The ones you loved,
The ones who loved you,
Who kissed your nose to the better end,
And then you'll try your very bestest,
You'll try to validate us,
Until you realize that us is me,
And me is us and we are all together,
So you millions sad and weak,
Prepare for love in the nation,
Some love filled hands,
Some lovely bones,
And massive hug counts across your nations,
Because I am the shimmer in your head,
Who tucks you in when you're in bed,
Helping old ladies crossing your street,
The coolest guy you'll ever meet,
Try to help me if you can,
Cause anti-habit's just a man.
With Love,
Anti-Habit

[Pasdio]

[qaqa]

This "dueling editors" thing doesn't square with what I've seen and is another recurrence of the IMHO silly "BATTLE BETWEEN THE MYSTERIOUS FORCES BEHIND THE SCENES" trope. I didn't really buy it when people kept touting it for MH and I don't buy it here. I think there's only one editor mucking about with the videos, if any.

[Graved]

[del]
I should not have done that.

[Verdett]

Dont make me slap a bitch mate

[Porphyrophobia]

Considering this is an area for discussing/theorizing about IG things, I don't think OOG sources should be posted here.

Also, it might be a good idea to edit it out of your post to avoid confusing newcomers to the forums. Just a suggestion