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[Saevitia]

Okay, this might be dumb, but hear me out.

What if, instead of having stalked Alex since he was a child, Slender Man attached to him as an adult during Marble Hornets and NOW went back into the past to stalk him?

[Demongel]

Saevitia comes out with a Doctor Who style theory!

Chronologically, from Alex's point of view, he's been stalked since he was a child whether he remembers or not. Your theory would only be relevant from the Slender Man's own perspective, and we as an audience aren't even sure how he perceives the world around him. Still, it's an interesting take on the theory that anyone stalked by Slender Man was stalked by him as a child. It could be that he warps back into the victim's childhood to implant himself in their psyche like some sort of brain Boogeyman.

Because childhood fears are so much more powerful than adult ones.

Edit: I also like Saevitia's theory because it explains a lot when it comes to the memories of the victims. They usually claim to suddenly "remember" being stalked as a child, or seeing Slender Man in places they hadn't before. It could be that they didn't forget...Slender Man went back through their personal time line and, as he did, the new memories surfaced in the victims. Sort of like hypnotists being able to implant memories that people believe are real.

[Zalen]

[Demongel]

If you mean the Operator Symbol that looks like this...

(X)

...Then I doubt it. From what I've seen in the videos the Operator Symbol seems to be a marker showing where Slender Man has been, is currently, or will be. If anything the symbol would draw him in like a fish to a worm.

[Jsor]

I don't think the fact that the Operator Symbol happens to look an awful lot like a target, or "crossing something off a list" to be wholly coincidental.

[Demongel]

Correction: I don't like theories that involve Slender Man being a guardian, helpful watcher, protector, or good guy. It's like suggesting Raj Al-Ghul is a misunderstood hero because he always has good intentions and has a relatively well adjusted moral compass, despite him stealing, killing, and generally being a massive douche.

[Jsor]

[Demongel]

All true Jsor. My point is that Slender Man's actions don't paint him as any sort of benevolent being in relation to humanity. Suggesting he's such a being seems silly to me. Is he a neutral observer? Does he even realize what he's doing? Does he realize anything at all? Good questions. The answers aren't going to be "He's Batman."

[Nickjackal]

I don't immediately have the entry on hand to look at again. I'm going to download and look at it again, but I just thought of something.

Are the candles on the cookie/cake thing shaped like an X?

[axilog14]

[Frodiddly]

[Zarggg]

[Kilo]

I don't really believe that the dates hold any kind of significance. I imagine that it's just a result of Operator-presence. We don't see many videos with timestamps on it, and the only one we have did something similar.

Concerning the footage on the video: The Operator's... silhouette, or whatever you wanna call it, coinciding with Alex blowing out the candles seem to be a sort of running theme on the MH side of the videos. It's a very loose connection, Jessica and Alex (And Mask, I suppose) seem to be the only people that cause distortion. And, while the evidence for this is pretty spotty, it seems like they cause it during highly emotional periods. In entry 23, towards the end of the video, things start getting washed out in static as he starts talking about how he's going to burn the tapes and leave. Jessica as well- the distortion that she caused seemed to become far more pronounced during an emotional state, as seen in 32. I feel like a little kid, blowing out candles, would be super excited, and have a more pronounced effect on the distortion then an adult. Mostly because children aren't quite as... balanced. And Tim, as Mask, seems to do nothing but throw off distortion, while Tim, as himself, doesn't. Seems to imply some kind of changed emotional/mental state (Big surprise there). This ability to distort cameras somehow attracts the Operator, or maybe once the Operator marks you, you cause this effect. Alex is obviously in pretty deep with the Operator, and Jessica is implied to be due to the dreams she mentioned. It could also explain the convenient cut-off at the end of 35, right before Tim's leg got broken.

I know that not all videos support this, and some shoot it to absolute shit. Entry 9, for example. But it seemed like it might be a connection worth noting.

Who knows, maybe I'm totally off-base, and the Slender silhouette is displaying that by blowing out the candles, the family has performed some kind of bizarre summoning ritual through Alex.

[IonCharge]

Considering what someone posted a while back about how Troy went to the extent of taking down the video first, just to remove Spongebob, (may we never speak of this incident again) shows that he is trying to keep the rule of Immersion, it shows that the green envelope a couple of entries back actually has significance.

[onetruepurple]