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pravado
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DHawk314 wrote:
pravado wrote:
You put entirely too much faith into thinking that brian, sarah, and tim know how to edit video and add effects. The average person doesn't know how to make crazy effects that TTA does, and brian sarah and tim were just actors on some movie, not tech experts (otherwise they would have been helping seth with editing, no?)


Maybe Tim and Seth were both totheark in the sense that Tim (As Masky) would come up with totheark videos but have Seth (As Hoody) do the technical video making part.


Or maybe Tim was actually dressing up in seth's skin so that they wouldn't know that he was the one actually filming everything for the movie, and Tim made all the totheark videos but gave them to the skinless seth (he wears a hoody so nobody can see his disgusting looking body) to put up on a channel because he was too scared to upload it to youtube himself fearing that someone might call him out on stealing another person's skin

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DHawk314
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pravado wrote:
DHawk314 wrote:
pravado wrote:
You put entirely too much faith into thinking that brian, sarah, and tim know how to edit video and add effects. The average person doesn't know how to make crazy effects that TTA does, and brian sarah and tim were just actors on some movie, not tech experts (otherwise they would have been helping seth with editing, no?)


Maybe Tim and Seth were both totheark in the sense that Tim (As Masky) would come up with totheark videos but have Seth (As Hoody) do the technical video making part.


Or maybe Tim was actually dressing up in seth's skin so that they wouldn't know that he was the one actually filming everything for the movie, and Tim made all the totheark videos but gave them to the skinless seth (he wears a hoody so nobody can see his disgusting looking body) to put up on a channel because he was too scared to upload it to youtube himself fearing that someone might call him out on stealing another person's skin


I'm...not sure how to respond to that.

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Lithp
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I kind of see what he's saying, although it's a strange way of saying it.

The Totheark videos aren't so complex that they have to be thought up by & put together by 2 different people.

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DHawk314
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Lithp wrote:
I kind of see what he's saying, although it's a strange way of saying it.

The Totheark videos aren't so complex that they have to be thought up by & put together by 2 different people.


I disagree. Rewatching Season 1, there's like a million implications totheark is Masky. Seriously, over half of them either are trying to lure Jay to Brian's house where Masky lived, are from inside Brian's house where Masky lived, have Masky in them, have totheark referring to Masky as "Me" or "I", or some combination of the sort. Even if totheark does turn out as not a single non-Tim person, I'd bet money Tim as totheark was what was originally intended.

Plus Jay himself theorized totheark was multiple people. From a narrative perspective, why would Jay Tweet that if they weren't implying it? The reality is that the simplest explanation is multiple totheark members, it's the simplest way to reconcile evidence for Hoody being totheark and Tim being totheark.

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Even if totheark does turn out as not a single non-Tim person, I'd bet money Tim as totheark was what was originally intended.


What? This has to be like triple negative or something. I can't even guess at what you're trying to say here.

Other than that, just because Totheark is multiple people, it doesn't mean that X specifically comes up with video ideas & Y specifically edits them. That doesn't make any sense. Why the Hell would I need someone to come up with a 30-second script of nonsense just so I could edit it?

More likely, either only one member of Totheark actually makes the videos, or they each make their own video(s).

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DHawk314 wrote:
Lithp wrote:
I kind of see what he's saying, although it's a strange way of saying it.

The Totheark videos aren't so complex that they have to be thought up by & put together by 2 different people.


I disagree. Rewatching Season 1, there's like a million implications totheark is Masky. Seriously, over half of them either are trying to lure Jay to Brian's house where Masky lived, are from inside Brian's house where Masky lived, have Masky in them, have totheark referring to Masky as "Me" or "I", or some combination of the sort. Even if totheark does turn out as not a single non-Tim person, I'd bet money Tim as totheark was what was originally intended.

Plus Jay himself theorized totheark was multiple people. From a narrative perspective, why would Jay Tweet that if they weren't implying it? The reality is that the simplest explanation is multiple totheark members, it's the simplest way to reconcile evidence for Hoody being totheark and Tim being totheark.
You trust what Jay says? He's proven himself incompetent at best unless he's being lead by the nose to his next objective. In season 1 and season 2 particularly, he's about generally dumber than a bag of hammers.

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There's just no sense in having Jay say there's more than one person behind Totheark. Using it as a red herring is just stupid because there's nothing to distract us from. We still don't have the damnedest clue what Totheark even is.

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Lithp wrote:
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Even if totheark does turn out as not a single non-Tim person, I'd bet money Tim as totheark was what was originally intended.


What? This has to be like triple negative or something. I can't even guess at what you're trying to say here.


I was trying to say that even if totheark is one person, and (s)he's not Tim, I highly suspect the writers originally intended for totheark to be Tim, considering all the hints from Season 1.

Lithp wrote:
Other than that, just because Totheark is multiple people, it doesn't mean that X specifically comes up with video ideas & Y specifically edits them. That doesn't make any sense. Why the Hell would I need someone to come up with a 30-second script of nonsense just so I could edit it?

More likely, either only one member of Totheark actually makes the videos, or they each make their own video(s).


I was talking about how Pravado didn't find it realistic that anyone but Seth could be totheark, since no one else should be able to edit videos IG. All I was trying to say was that even if he was right about that, totheark could still be multiple people in the sense that they all come up with ideas for totheark videos, and Seth edits them.

That being said, I personally think Pravdo's thinking about that too much, I don't think who can and can't edit videos IG is a real plot point. I suspect Masky makes his own totheark videos, and Hoody makes his own totheark videos. It's not like they're very hard to make, most of them are just stock footage and some weird filter with white text and static noises.

paladin181 wrote:
You trust what Jay says? He's proven himself incompetent at best unless he's being lead by the nose to his next objective. In season 1 and season 2 particularly, he's about generally dumber than a bag of hammers.


You entirely misunderstood what I was saying. I was not making an IG argument for totheark being multiple people. If Marble Hornets was real I'd probably say ya, Jay's not that swift and totheark is probably just one crazy person. But that's irrelevant because I was making an OOG argument. The reason Jay Tweeted that is because the writers wanted him to Tweet it, and I can't see any reason for the writers having him Tweet that unless they wanted to imply to the viewers that totheark is multiple people. Unless it was a red herring, but there's a reason it's probably not a red herring.

Lithp wrote:
There's just no sense in having Jay say there's more than one person behind Totheark. Using it as a red herring is just stupid because there's nothing to distract us from. We still don't have the damnedest clue what Totheark even is.


This is the reason. I mean at the moment, there's hints totheark is Hoody, but knowing totheark is a person in a hoodie with a mask on who for OOG reasons we can't analyze the build of doesn't really tell us much.

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I have to agree that if Tim isn't Totheark now, he was indeed intended to be Totheark originally. Way too many instances where Tim's path and Totheark's path intersect for them not to be somehow related originally. For starters, you have the whole fiasco from Entries #16-#19, in which someone is separately recording what's going on around Jay.

In Entry #16, Jay falls down coughing with his camera on the floor - Totheark responds to Entry #16 with "Addition," in which someone standing behind a wall records Jay on the ground, coughing. This isn't footage that Totheark could have just ripped from an old MarbleHornets videos; it was current at the time. Tim is the only human that's running around in that house during the events of Entries #16-#19. Seems kind of explicit.

Then you have Entry #19, where Tim appears in Jay's house while he's sleeping and disappears with him for three hours until Jay slinks back home memory-dead and exhausted. This gets a video reply with "Return," where, again, due to the shaky cam, someone has to be recording Jay. Most obvious candidate? The guy who just broke into Jay's home during the events of the video. Jay himself confirms this has to take place during the missing time of Entry #19, because it was the only time he was wearing those clothes.

Other Totheark videos do this kind of thing in advance as well. "Signal," which is posted before Jay decides to go back to Brian's alleged house, leaves a message which paraphrases to "I'm waiting for you, find me." Jay shows up at the house, Tim's there.

The only way coincidences like this could keep popping up is if Tim is actively working with, as, or against Totheark. There's some conscious connection there. Some of the recent entries imply that Tim is no longer running the show on Totheark's channel, given that he's apparently being called a liar (which I'm taking with a grain of salt because Totheark has been calling people liars for over a year and EVERYONE in MarbleHornets lies), and there are a lot of Totheark videos which seem to portray Tim more as a subject than a voice.

"Messages" kind of does this with the "smile for the camera" ending using a picture of Tim's lower jaw, Batman style.

So I'm down with the "multiple Totheark users" idea. Especially because of the fact that we're still getting Totheark videos while Tim appears to be out of commission. The most recent video, "Reference," continues this trend of Tim being a subject - it would seem weird if Tim was still a part of Totheark's operations (ha-ha-ha) and was using his own non-Masky audio to make videos...

Totheark has done this to do things like mock Alex and Jay, so it makes sense for him to be doing it to mock Tim as well.

I disagree with whoever suggests that Totherark is a character we haven't met yet, because of the existence of videos like "Exit." If Totheark is gonna be near the MarbleHornets set so early in the series, I think we should have known about at least his human form (as opposed to a masked one) already.

Totheark practically HAS to be a guiding force for Jay. So many videos have been telling Jay to "do this, do that, go here, come here, find me," like "Version," which all but comes right out and tells Jay to go to the red tower. Hoody currently appears to be that kind of guiding force.

We know Hoody is sneaking around in the woods from Entries like #41. We know someone is sneaking around in the forest while Jay is in there because of Totheark's uploads like "Intermission." Pretty straightforward, it seems.

Totheark used to use the pronoun "we" a lot; lately, that's stopped, it's been more TTA referring to (itself, let's say) as "me."

So, my prediction would be that Totheark started off as Tim (there's no way Tim hasn't in some way been complicit with Totheark, from all the blatant evidence given that he has something to do with TTA) as well as another character, most likely Hoody (someone has to comprise that "us" in "Attention"). Because of the events of Entry #52, Tim lost his memory (again), which is seeming increasingly probable given that explosion in Entry #59, and Hoody got left behind. Hoody is naturally pissed, and wants its partner back.

I can't really buy that The Operator would go out of its way to hunt Jessica and Jay, memory-wipe them, and then leave Tim as a loose end when Tim is openly attacking Alex, who TO associates with in some weird way. If TTA is telling Jay that Tim is lying about something, it could easily be something else. The fact that Hoody decides to leave medical records for Jay rather than a tape or something to show Tim being all not-normal kind of supports this.

I've also thought about the fact that TTA could be trying to warn Tim that Jay is lying to him instead, but I wanna gather evidence for that before I go full throttle.

TL;DR: Too much evidence in Season 1 for Tim not to be a part of Totheark, Totheark was most likely two people or more in Season 1 due to the pronouns (don't see why we should start going on about the royal "we" or calling Totheark crazy when he seems to have a sense of what's going on), and now Totheark is one person again, due to both the pronouns, consistency in style (anger, typed letters, etc), and fact that only one person's actions (Hoody's) seem to intersect with the things posted on TTA's channel.

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^For this whole thread I've tried to make my thoughts make sense, and I have failed. But you have made your thoughts make sense, and I agree with them. So now instead of rambling on nonsensically I can just say I agree with you, and for that you have my thanks.

Also I see you joined today. Welcome to the forum! Very Happy

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 TTA Theories

Kay so here we can have a TTA guess. I believe it is Sarah because sometimes in the TTA videos, you see an S somewhere S=Sarah. Like in the one where Alex,the main dude, and Sarah (?), were talking in the TTA there is an S and the camera pans to the back but then it ends. Sarah might have been in the bake the S also appears in other videos.

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Re: TTA Theories

MHFanLuca wrote:
Kay so here we can have a TTA guess. I believe it is Sarah because sometimes in the TTA videos, you see an S somewhere S=Sarah. Like in the one where Alex,the main dude, and Sarah (?), were talking in the TTA there is an S and the camera pans to the back but then it ends. Sarah might have been in the bake the S also appears in other videos.

seth starts with s

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Am I the only one who desperately does not want Seth or Sarah to be totheark?

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The Slender Man wrote:
Am I the only one who desperately does not want Seth or Sarah to be totheark?


Probably not. Honestly unless they appear later this season in some more MH era footage, I doubt it's them. If it is it'll kinda seem to come out of nowhere. The only reason we care about them is because we analyze ever single pixel in every single entry, and because this series only has nine characters so it's easy to tear all of them apart piece by piece. Remember, most viewers probably don't really remember Seth or Sarah. That's why I suspect it's Brian. Brian's been brought up a lot AND he appeared last season. Basically everyone remembers Brian.

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DHawk314 wrote:
The Slender Man wrote:
Am I the only one who desperately does not want Seth or Sarah to be totheark?


Probably not. Honestly unless they appear later this season in some more MH era footage, I doubt it's them. If it is it'll kinda seem to come out of nowhere. The only reason we care about them is because we analyze ever single pixel in every single entry, and because this series only has nine characters so it's easy to tear all of them apart piece by piece. Remember, most viewers probably don't really remember Seth or Sarah. That's why I suspect it's Brian. Brian's been brought up a lot AND he appeared last season. Basically everyone remembers Brian.


This. It also works for the narrative of the story from an OOG standpoint. Why bring back up an old character like Brian? Because he's going to have some relevance to the story. Seth appeared once in a recent entry (#54) though, so I wouldn't be too mad if he turned out to have some importance. If we're going by body build (and yes, I know that OOG they like to use body doubles), I would discount Brian from being Hoody just because Brian seems bulkier to me than any appearance of Hoody would indicate.

Seth has also had a significant portion of screentime, considering his appearance in Entry #22 as well...so there's that. Entry #22 was kind of an important entry. Really, people should remember Seth. Aside from the fact that he's shown up six entries ago, he was also in one of the more eventful entries. And Marble Hornets isn't afraid to bring back up things from the past. So I wouldn't discount him by any means.

But if Sarah is Hoody or anything important I'm going to laugh.

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