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[VIDEO] Entry #39
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morscata12
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In the original video, the figure looks like he's doing a Slendy-walk, slow and non-human. But in the cleaned-up video, the figure appears to be limping toward the car holding its chest. Since Tim broke his leg and has reason to hold a vendetta against Alex, it definitely could be Tim.

Could Tim have gotten to that specific park? Alex knows about the park, so Brian knew about it too (assuming the park is important lore-wise). So Tim, being Brian's friend, probably knows about it as well. It's been a full week, so it's plausible that Tim made it there by now.

Why'd he check out the car, and why only once? If he got there before Jay, maybe he saw his car and wanted to see if Jay was in there. He didn't come back because he had already confirmed it was Jay, and would have woken him the first time if that was his intent.

This only trims away some doubt that it wasn't Tim, but doesn't prove that it was Tim. I'm looking forward to the next Entry 'cause I want to know for sure!

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floodgateopen
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In the cleaned up version I would say it's pretty definite that the lighter spot at the top of the figure's chest is a hand. Not that it can't be a suit- it may very well be Slendy and the hand is just covering the tie. But holding his hand to his chest seems a bit out of character.

Honestly I'm kind of at a loss- The lack of hair in the shadow makes me think not Jess (my first guess), the weird timing and behavior makes me think not Alex (since he already called J- though it's possible that he's sledertranced) and the behavior makes me think not Slendy.

I don't think the walking is necessarily un-Operator, but I do think Slendy clutching a hand to his chest and peering into a car window seems... less menacing than usual? The creepiness of this entry comes from the mystery, the idea that it could be anyone outside the car, where the creepiness of the Operator had always been that he is absolutely distinctly Operator.
You get instantly panicked when you see him because he looks and acts so alien, and because he never does anything but seems to precipitate bad things. It gives him an aura of omnipotence. He's always more in control than the other characters. You can't really imagine Slendy, say, being surprised.
So him looking in through a car window- because, presumably, he doesn't know who's in it or needs to check on who's in it- makes him more human that I'd like him to be.

(Sorry, tl;dr post.)

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floodgateopen wrote:
In the cleaned up version I would say it's pretty definite that the lighter spot at the top of the figure's chest is a hand. Not that it can't be a suit- it may very well be Slendy and the hand is just covering the tie. But holding his hand to his chest seems a bit out of character.

Honestly I'm kind of at a loss- The lack of hair in the shadow makes me think not Jess (my first guess), the weird timing and behavior makes me think not Alex (since he already called J- though it's possible that he's sledertranced) and the behavior makes me think not Slendy.

I don't think the walking is necessarily un-Operator, but I do think Slendy clutching a hand to his chest and peering into a car window seems... less menacing than usual? The creepiness of this entry comes from the mystery, the idea that it could be anyone outside the car, where the creepiness of the Operator had always been that he is absolutely distinctly Operator.
You get instantly panicked when you see him because he looks and acts so alien, and because he never does anything but seems to precipitate bad things. It gives him an aura of omnipotence. He's always more in control than the other characters. You can't really imagine Slendy, say, being surprised.
So him looking in through a car window- because, presumably, he doesn't know who's in it or needs to check on who's in it- makes him more human that I'd like him to be.

(Sorry, tl;dr post.)


You touched upon a point that I want to talk about in more detail.

IF this is Slenderman then why does he need to look into Jay's car? from what we have seen Slenderman generally knows where people are without having to bend down and look, my main reference here is from Entry 1, when Alex looks out the window Slenderman just snaps his head around and looks at him as he knew he was there.

So why would he have to bend over and look in and see if Jay was in the car, and surely he could have been watching from a distance and knew he was there anyway beforehand. Hopefully I got my point across but its my first time posting here, I just think Slenderman has the power to know where the characters are at any point since he always appears on camera and stalks them, so why would he need to peak in at Jay.

Maybe it was just for the scare but I would like to think Marble Hornets is better then that.

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I'm sorry. I have to rant here. If I get demerits for this, so be it, but I can't keep this in any long.

How the hell can anyone say anything with certainty about this video? "Clearly he's holding a camera" "It's obviously a shirt with a logo" "I'm 100% certain it was female" "That's a hoodie, not a suit!"

How can you tell ANY of this? The video was grainy and filmed in low light!
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It even makes sense that this was done intentionally OOG so that the details were hard to make out!

Okay, done bitching now.

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Wingboy wrote:

IF this is Slenderman then why does he need to look into Jay's car? from what we have seen Slenderman generally knows where people are without having to bend down and look, my main reference here is from Entry 1, when Alex looks out the window Slenderman just snaps his head around and looks at him as he knew he was there.


My thoughts exactly... Slendy stalks people, he doesn't just pop up and hope they're there. Not to mention J was asleep, so Slendy's investigation got no conclusions but "Oh, still asleep? After those forty minutes? Cool, cool." (That's kind of a restatement. I guess I'm just saying I agree. Smile )

Zarggg wrote:

How the hell can anyone say anything with certainty about this video?


You're right, I'm sorry. I should have said "I think it's an arm," which is more accurate. The video is very likely intentionally blurry just to start up this whole suit-or-not debate. Rolling Eyes

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It's not you, specifically, or any one person's post. It's the fact that just about every three posts someone is saying things with 100% certainty that I have a hard time believing we could see at all.

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Ikekudeyg wrote:
Do not mouse over if you don't want a bit of the magic ruined!!!

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To those saying there is no distortion I can prove the opposite. I use Vegas Pro 10. And they definitely used the Gaussian Blur video effect for that part. For proof I can take about 5 seconds of that or any video thats dark and do the same thing. I use that effect a lot and know it pretty well. Won't have to upload video of it just a screenshot of it. Edit- Though the blur could have been done to give the illusion of fogging windows as they filmed this recently and probably wouldn't want to sit around while some windows fog when he could do a blur and make it look like it.


For those that haven't moused over. I can prove there was distortion. Doing so is all OOG information though.

And While I am blathering on I haven't read the last 10 pages. But I am with team Slender on who it was mainly cause we haven't seen him in a while. And a Slender has to Slend (by being generally creepy) to be a Slenderman.


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That is OOG distortion, though. Not IG Operator distortion. I'm pretty sure they blurred it more OOG for the sake of having Jay say it was too blurry to see who the person was IG.


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rand__althor wrote:
Yeah, they make one vague reference to the Operator in the commentaries, when they talk about a character looking for a rather tall and slender man in a business suit.


Oh, yeah. Durr, I don't know how I forgot about that one.

"Was he tall and thin? Slender even?" (Obviously paraphrasing; I know I didn't quote that line word for word.)

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eunsook wrote:
Ikekudeyg wrote:
Do not mouse over if you don't want a bit of the magic ruined!!!

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To those saying there is no distortion I can prove the opposite. I use Vegas Pro 10. And they definitely used the Gaussian Blur video effect for that part. For proof I can take about 5 seconds of that or any video thats dark and do the same thing. I use that effect a lot and know it pretty well. Won't have to upload video of it just a screenshot of it. Edit- Though the blur could have been done to give the illusion of fogging windows as they filmed this recently and probably wouldn't want to sit around while some windows fog when he could do a blur and make it look like it.


For those that haven't moused over. I can prove there was distortion. Doing so is all OOG information though.

And While I am blathering on I haven't read the last 10 pages. But I am with team Slender on who it was mainly cause we haven't seen him in a while. And a Slender has to Slend (by being generally creepy) to be a Slenderman.


Spoiler (Rollover to View):
That is OOG distortion, though. Not IG Operator distortion. I'm pretty sure they blurred it more OOG for the sake of having Jay say it was too blurry to see who the person was IG.


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But this type of blurriness has been used in previous entries as distortion. Also, if Troy was to use it as an excuse, wouldn't he have blurred the whole night part, instead of just when the mysterious figure comes?


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What if Slenderman is a other dimensional being that can pop out at different times and this is a younger him. It just seems that maybe he has grown up from being a peeping tom to full on stalker(murderer) by our definitions, dating by his definitions.

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Jsor
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Ikekudeyg wrote:
What if Slenderman is a other dimensional being that can pop out at different times and this is a younger him. It just seems that maybe he has grown up from being a peeping tom to full on stalker(murderer) by our definitions, dating by his definitions.


That would be cool, but there's not a shred of evidence to support that he's changed over time. It'd be a much safer bet to just point out the fact than in the original SA thread Slendy was able to change his height at will.

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Mariolee wrote:
eunsook wrote:
Ikekudeyg wrote:
Do not mouse over if you don't want a bit of the magic ruined!!!

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
To those saying there is no distortion I can prove the opposite. I use Vegas Pro 10. And they definitely used the Gaussian Blur video effect for that part. For proof I can take about 5 seconds of that or any video thats dark and do the same thing. I use that effect a lot and know it pretty well. Won't have to upload video of it just a screenshot of it. Edit- Though the blur could have been done to give the illusion of fogging windows as they filmed this recently and probably wouldn't want to sit around while some windows fog when he could do a blur and make it look like it.


For those that haven't moused over. I can prove there was distortion. Doing so is all OOG information though.

And While I am blathering on I haven't read the last 10 pages. But I am with team Slender on who it was mainly cause we haven't seen him in a while. And a Slender has to Slend (by being generally creepy) to be a Slenderman.


Spoiler (Rollover to View):
That is OOG distortion, though. Not IG Operator distortion. I'm pretty sure they blurred it more OOG for the sake of having Jay say it was too blurry to see who the person was IG.


Spoiler (Rollover to View):
But this type of blurriness has been used in previous entries as distortion. Also, if Troy was to use it as an excuse, wouldn't he have blurred the whole night part, instead of just when the mysterious figure comes?


The camera went out of focus when Jay got in and turned the light off. It got even more out of focus when he accidentally bumped it.

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They probably felt that it wasn't blurry enough to do what they wanted, which was mask the identity of whomever it is that comes up to the car. I get the impression that this was meant to be a red herring.


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Essentially, my biggest qualm with it being Slenderman is that usually we are supposed to know right away that we're looking at the Operator. Either he's hidden and we just don't notice right away, or boom, he's chillin' in the window two feet behind Tim. The fact that the whole purpose of this entry is generally "who IS dis bitch???" makes me think that it at least has to be human. Which human has yet to be agreed upon.

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We haven't seen The Operator in action since #29 - does everyone really think that it would be appropiate to make him return in a dark, grainy, ambiguous video?

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onetruepurple wrote:
We haven't seen The Operator in action since #29 - does everyone really think that it would be appropiate to make him return in a dark, grainy, ambiguous video?


Tru Dat

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