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[VIDEO] Entry #44
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ICEAL3X
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ICEAL3X wrote:

It also really seems like the Operator is gaining power. He was just kinda hanging out in season 1, but now that everyone is terrified after teleportation and other strange happenings, there is a strong fear of anything Slendy related. I'm not sure if I would go so far as to say he is gaining a face or whatever, but he seems to definitely be getting stronger.


This seems quite possible, considering the fact that the amount of video taping and interaction with TO has increased since the beginning maybe he is growing stronger to combat what he sees as a threat. Maybe that's what he sees us and the camera as, a threat. So he has to destroy/damage people and their equipment to keep itself safe. And maybe that is why TO came back after Alex because there was one tape left with images on it and he had to go protect himself in a way?? Not really sure where i was going with that but it is curious to wonder why TO does what he does.

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ALEXGORDON
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 		I don't think TO is necessarily gaining power, but instead showing his power more often. In the past he's mostly just stalked to increase paranoia, but now he's - for lack of a better word - attacking. I'm not sure why, (Spec: Jay & Alex learning too much?) but I figure that he has always had these abilities.

I think that would explain why in some instances we've seen our protagonists get within feet of TO but not suffer the effects Alex did in #44. TO was attacking in #44 but not so much in some of the other entries. It all depends on its intentions.

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ICEAL3X
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ALEXGORDON wrote:
I don't think TO is necessarily gaining power, but instead showing his power more often. In the past he's mostly just stalked to increase paranoia, but now he's - for lack of a better word - attacking. I'm not sure why, (Spec: Jay & Alex learning too much?) but I figure that he has always had these abilities.

I think that would explain why in some instances we've seen our protagonists get within feet of TO but not suffer the effects Alex did in #44. TO was attacking in #44 but not so much in some of the other entries. It all depends on its intentions.


Then maybe that does explain Alex's intentions in entry 43 and possibly 44. He wants to communicate with TO and tell him to stop. I've read some theories about why Alex is acting shady towards J and why he lies about Amy to Jessica., and I wonder if since he has had the longest exposure to To he's is beginning to understand things about it that we(or J) do not. And with that knowledge he's trying to get it to stop and go away

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 		Maybe, but I don't really like the idea that TO is communicable and/or even conceivable. That ruins some of the mystery, interest, and horror for me.

I want to say that Alex's shady behavior has some sort of connection with totheark. As if the member(s) of that 'group' are people who have had long term exposure to TO.

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 		all i wanna know is how alex knows Jessica? He has mentioned her name a couple of times now. Maybe Jessica is tied to both jay and alex.

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 		Jessica used to be Amy's roommate for something (maybe college?).
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aidansean
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 		(Apologies if this has already been discussed, I didn't read through all the old pages.)

It seems that the operator can be summoned just by seeing someone's face on camera. This happened most obviously in Entry #26 where Alex appears on screen, the camera freezes, then tears, then the operator arrives. It seems to appear again in this entry as Alex just stares into the mirror for minutes, letting the operator know where he is, and shortly afterwards the operator arrives. So maybe the masks are used to prevent the operator from identifying people on camera. We only ever see the masks in use when they expect to see Jay turn up with his camera.

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Starkley
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aidansean wrote:
We only ever see the masks in use when they expect to see Jay turn up with his camera.


This doesn't break your theory, because they'd know that Alex would be constantly recording himself, but, #45 had nothing to do with Jay, and both masked men attacked Alex.

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Starkley wrote:
aidansean wrote:
We only ever see the masks in use when they expect to see Jay turn up with his camera.


This doesn't break your theory, because they'd know that Alex would be constantly recording himself, but, #45 had nothing to do with Jay, and both masked men attacked Alex.


Oh yeah. In fact the operator only shows up after Alex's face appears on camera in that entry.

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 		In entries like #43 though, there's a very significant time lapse and distance lapse between when people's faces appear on camera and when TO appears. Alex records himself just outside of the forest clearing, and it's not until he enters it and wanders around a bit that TO is there.

In #13, Alex isn't even the one being recorded, but TO shows up for him anyway. It just seems somewhat inconsistent.

Ditto for #60, where it takes A WHILE before TO shows up to chase Jay out of the maintenance tunnels. And TO didn't always appear at MH shoots, not obviously, anyway. #55 and #9, for example.
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DHawk314
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 		In Entry #2, Alex also mentions seeing the Operator while walking his dog, and he wasn't filming.

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aidansean
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 		I've probably not explained myself well enough, I'm just suggesting that the operator can recognise a face on camera and teleport there. There doesn't have to be a 1:1 matching of face:teleporting for this to work, and it would only work with familiar faces (ie Alex. Maybe Tim and Hoody.) Without this ability I can't really see how the operator teleported in Entry #26, and I can't see why Alex would film himself in Entry #43. This may even explain how the operator found Jay's hotel room in Entry #52, because by then they'd seen each other face to face a few times.

Is there a better explanation for Entry #26 that I've missed? (I considered the footage may have been tampered with by Alex, but then Amy's screams seem a little too realistic for that.)

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Starkley
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 		Alex lived near enough to Rosswood in #26, no? No reason why TO couldn't show up there whenever he wanted.

A lot of people have speculated that it just happens when you mess with something related to the Marble Hornets shoot. Hell, maybe TO can key into objects as well.

"Why Alex would film himself" - Because he's Alex. Mr. Paranoid. He always films himself. This is supposed to be weird. Also, the big thing about The Operator AND the Masked Men is that they do things when you're not looking behind you or around you. Also, if you get your memory wiped and need to look back, you'd probably want to be able to confirm that the footage you're recording is of and by you.

EDIT: Anyway, he just sets the camera down. Jay's done the same thing plenty of times. Like in #50.

Also, TO went after Jessica first, apparently. So it wouldn't explain #52.
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aidansean
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Starkley wrote:
Alex lived near enough to Rosswood in #26, no? No reason why TO couldn't show up there whenever he wanted.


Well yeah, but if he showed up all the time presumably Alex would need to live alone. I get the impression that it's been a very long time since Alex saw the operator in Entry #26, and that his life is back to "normal" again until Amy get the camera out.

Starkley wrote:
A lot of people have speculated that it just happens when you mess with something related to the Marble Hornets shoot. Hell, maybe TO can key into objects as well.


Yeah, I suppose that works too. It's a little less well defined, but it could work.

Starkley wrote:
"Why Alex would film himself" - Because he's Alex. Mr. Paranoid. He always films himself. This is supposed to be weird. Also, the big thing about The Operator AND the Masked Men is that they do things when you're not looking behind you or around you. Also, if you get your memory wiped and need to look back, you'd probably want to be able to confirm that the footage you're recording is of and by you.

EDIT: Anyway, he just sets the camera down. Jay's done the same thing plenty of times. Like in #50.


That's not what I'm talking about though. In Entry #44 at 1:05 he's standing in front of a mirror just filming himself standing there, and he probably does it for a lot longer than we see. Admittedly the operator takes a while to show up, and Alex draws the symbol over and over again in the meantime. To me that suggests he's doing everything he can to get the operator's attention.

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Also, TO went after Jessica first, apparently. So it wouldn't explain #52.


Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Screams first, operator second. (Although just for lulz, it would be funny if the operator kept getting the wrong room. "Hey Alex! Dammit, it's Amy." "Jay! Over here! Wait, you're Jessica.")

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Starkley
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aidansean wrote:
That's not what I'm talking about though. In Entry #44 at 1:05 he's standing in front of a mirror just filming himself standing there, and he probably does it for a lot longer than we see. Admittedly the operator takes a while to show up, and Alex draws the symbol over and over again in the meantime. To me that suggests he's doing everything he can to get the operator's attention.


You said #43 originally so I was looking at that. :S But this still isn't that unusual for Alex. Alex stares blankly a lot in his videos. I don't think he even records himself in #49, but he's still staring into the tunnel.
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