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 		 TTA Answers
Answers to the TTA vids, in one convenient thread.
So I was looking around the forums here, and I noticed - there's no thread for all of totheark's stuff. Sure, there's a new thread whenever he puts up a new vid, but there's not just one centralized place for all of it. And I, for one, am immensely interested in totheark and his riddles. I'm just not that great a puzzle solver myself. I have my moments, but a lot of the riddles tend to just be way over my head. So that's why I'm making this thread - for convenience, and for anyone who feels the same.

The idea of this (since it could be unknown wether or not we know the true answers) is to take multiple sources (the threads here, the wiki, and wherever else) and present the answer as the general consensus reached for the answer based on that information. The answers I choose are the ones I feel make the most sense from this info - however, if there are answers that make just as much sense, they may be added as well. If you feel an answer should be added, just tell me about it. I'll add my own comments to the answers as well.

This thread is not intended to replace the threads that are created upon a new TTA vid's release - merely to document the answers that are reached afterward.

As there are a lot of TTA vids, this thread is still a work in progress. I'll edit and add more when I can. Still not sure how I should format this; suggestions would be nice.


Season 1
  • Regards



    YouTube: Link
    Description: ////////
    Last Entry: Entry #9 | Next Entry: Entry #10
    Original Thread | Wiki Page

    [Answer] wrote:

    Wiki Page wrote:
    The number of slashes along the side of the squares translates into "LOK", by counting the corresponding number of letters into the alphabet. L is the 12th letter, 0 is the 15th and K is the 11th. Therefore, read in conjunction with "CLOSELY", the message of the video can be interpreted to mean "LOOK CLOSELY".

    If the audio is reversed and sped up 4x, a ten-note song can be heard through the distortion.

    [audio samples] wrote:
    (Taken from thread)
    Reversed 4x with distortion: Link
    Reversed 4x cleaned: Link
    Clipped: Link

    [Song Analysis] MzStock wrote:
    Alright, so the whole thing is a little hard to transcribe - and i can't promise that all the tinkering done with the speed of the sound didn't somehow morph the pitches. However - this is what I got:

    F G F F G C F G F E

    Now, these are the pitches assuming the piece is in the key of F.

    If the piece was in the key of C, however, we'd get:

    C D C C D G C D C Bb

    So...I'm really thinking this is going nowhere but at least I helped covered one of our bases. *sigh*

    I also don't recognize the piece at all, 10 pitches isn't much to go on.

    20x20 wrote:
    The description has 8 slashes in it, meaning that it could be the connected to Entry 8 or even the Letter H, Which Started "HEL" from the same video.

    [correspondence] wrote:
    Kiriyama wrote:
    Is Regards sound entry No. 4 soundtrack? or is it Entry No. 1 soundtrack?
    totheark wrote:
    regards remains untapped

    [My own comments] OP wrote:
    Fairly certain LOOK CLOSELY is the answer here. At what, I don't know. Uncertain what the significance of the ten-note song is: it could simply be for noise, or there could be another meaning behind it. It may be as simple as the 10th letter of the alphabet - J. In which case, the video is telling Jay to look closely, but that was probably obvious already. Still don't know what we're supposed to be looking closely at.

    Not sure what TTA meant that regards is "untapped". Untaped means "not recorded on film or tape", but that's only one p. I suppose TTA could've made a typo. Suppose he means the audio was never from an entry.

  • Operator



    YouTube: Link
    Description: \\\yes\\\
    Last Entry: Entry #10 | Next Entry: Entry #11
    Original Thread | Wiki Page

    [Answer] wrote:

    natas wrote:
    the capital letters in the video spell "LISTEN"

    [correspondence] wrote:
    Kiriyama wrote:
    Is Operator sound entry No. 10 soundtrack?
    totheark wrote:
    operator belongs to others

    20x20 wrote:
    The extra "S" in "Stillnesss" could be important?

    I typed in the phase in the video, and got a tumblr page. It could be important, since I found the extra S was for Sigma, and sigma is the 6th letter, and he had 6 pages. The guy who created it hasn't posted in months, and he started in January of 2012, so connection is suspect, but unconfirmed.

    [My own comments] OP wrote:
    The LISTEN message is fairly obvious, but as for the audio, TTA said it was "from others"... meaning it wasn't from 10? Not sure what to make of that. I'll try and match it up with 10 in Vegas anyway. If it doesn't match I'll try with other missing audio entries. The "S" being for Sigma could be something, as I believe there was a Sigma in a later TTA vid.


  • Deluge



    YouTube: Link
    Description: ///
    Last Entry: Entry #11 | Next Entry: Entry #12
    Original Thread | Wiki Page

    [Answer] wrote:

    [audio sample] wrote:
    Audio reversed and sped up is "Alex" spoken by a female voice.
    Cleaned (taken from thread): Link

    madebz wrote:
    In the Deluge video, we know the audio is Alex backwards with the lights flickering. But audio of Alex is said 4x. Not in a set pattern. It (Beginning)Alex, Alex (pause) Alex (Pause) Alex (Pause)(End). In morse code thats . _ _ _ which is the letter J. totheark is warning J that he is watching him, which is also seen in the Exit video.

    SXéro wrote:
    For those who are unaware, a Deluge is a severe flood, one best account being the story of Noah's Ark. totheark can be split into the words To The Ark, which is probably in reference to Noah's Ark and the story.

    [My own comments] OP wrote:
    This one is fairly straightforward. Best thing I've seen for what Deluge is supposed to mean. The only thing still troubling me is the slashes in the description - TTA is using them a lot and I'm not sure why, if they're supposed to mean anything or what.


  • Impurity



    YouTube: Link
    Description: 000000000
    Last Entry: Entry #12 | Next Entry: Entry #13
    Original Thread | Wiki Page

    [Answer] wrote:

    [audio samples] wrote:
    Impurity and Regards were both declipped and found to contain the same audio.
    Impurity (clipped): Link
    Regards (clipped): Link

    Dav Flamerock wrote:
    Counting the zeroes leads to the message "26 5 18 15" - translating that into letters gives "z e r o".

    Wiki Page wrote:
    The letters "T H E R E W A S M R E" are scattered in that order throughout the 0s at the end of the video.

    O is the fifteenth letter of the alphabet and there are fifteen zeroes between the M and the R. Rather than the O being hidden in or replaced by a single zero, it is more likely that it was a counting clue, like "z e r o" at the beginning.

    Auswelter wrote:
    Code made of zeroes? Following up on DF's codebreaking, the description would be 'I' (for 'impurity'?).

    bozmond wrote:
    One more thing - I do think the commenter on YouTube that was talking about the biblical reference to the name "To The Ark" is significant. The footage in this clip is of a rain storm. A previous clip was called Deluge. The title of this clip Impurity with the implication that a great storm will wash away impurity....Just some thoughts!

    morscata12 wrote:
    "CL0SELY" in Regards uses a zero instead of an O, and the message is "LOK" rather than "LOOK". It's possible that totheark is removing single O's from words, although the title of the video Operator and "YOU" in Deluge use the letter O instead of a zero.

    Thematically, Regards and Impurity go together ("look closely", "there was more") - both seem like friendly/helpful messages. Operator and Deluge seem to share a more threatening nature (watching you, "listen" hidden in a poem about death) and share the \ symbol. The fact that only the friendly videos are missing O's seems important.

    Noticed one more thing - the friendly videos are tagged "ark", while the menacing videos are not.

    Some B-side theories. Long-shots, but I wanted to put them out there:

    - The descriptions of the friendly videos translate to "HI" (8 /'s and 9 0's).
    - The last flash of zeroes in Impurity gives us two rows of 31 (15 18 31 31 18 15). The word "CL0SELY" in Regards translates to "3 12 0 19 5 12 25", which translated from base 10 to base 8 (description of first video was 8) gives us "3 14 0 23 5 14 31". Therefore, both videos contain the number 31.


    [My own comments] OP wrote:
    This one had more to it than it seemed. I believe I've heard the number 31 is important as well?


  • Exit



    YouTube: Link
    Description: remember me
    Last Entry: Entry #13 | Next Entry: Entry #14
    Original Thread | Wiki Page

    [Answer] wrote:

    Wiki Page wrote:
    The video starts with quick flashes of the words "Rat" "He" "Ore" and "Top" - an anagram for "the operator".
    Buzzing can be heard during this segment.

    the text "WHEREIS THEARK" is displayed on the last frame of the clip.

    As evidenced by entry 13, Alex seemed a little preoccupied during "exit." Exit has some constant distortion in it, distortion that is not present during entry 13. While this certainly isn't proof that this wasn't Alex filming J, it's solid evidence against it.

    Filby wrote:
    Assuming Totheark filmed this footage himself, this would be his earliest appearance in the story chronology. He'd been watching Jay for three years before the series started.

    morscata12 wrote:
    "Exit" is the opposite of "Entry", so it may be totheark's idea of a joke - or his/her way of pointing out that their information is the opposite of J's. Also, it acts as the footage after J's exit from Entry 13.

    "remember me" could be a question or a demand. There are a few possible audiences: Alex, J, or the outside world:
    - If this is directed toward Alex, then totheark assumes Alex is following the release of the Marble Hornets entries (which is highly unlikely).
    - If this is directed toward J, then J might "remember" who totheark was during the events of Marble Hornets (fairly likely), or totheark is trying to scare J (it's working).

    TheNightmareComplex wrote:
    There have been four Arks throughout theology.

    The Ark of the Covenant, which contains the Ten Commandments. The original stone slabs bleseed by God.

    Noah's Ark, a large wooden vessel housing the lives and future of the world, and nature itself.

    The Ark of bulrushes, the small boat that carried baby Moses into the Pharoh's palace.

    And finally, the Ark, as it is called these days. Every synagogue has an Ark, which is essentially a cabinent that houses the temple's torah.
    Maverick wrote:
    All of those also agree with the definition of it being something that shelters and protects.


    [My own comments] OP wrote:
    Still unsure who did the filming here - unlikely it was Alex, could've been Hoody, but if Hoody is Seth or Brain as some people are thinking, I don't see why they'd be watching Jay at this point, as MH was still being filmed and Alex didn't go crazy and try to kill them yet. Possibly Masky Tim, but that begs the question of if he was ever involved with the TTA channel. But If Hoody is supposed to be from the MH crew, Masky Tim is really the only person who I see could fit to be filming this at the time.

    As for "remember me" - don't think it was that important, I just saw it in a mocking sort of tone, like "Hey, remember me?".



  • Program



    YouTube: Link
    Description: 000
    Last Entry: Entry #14 | Next Entry: Entry #15 - Interview with Tim
    Original Thread | Wiki Page

    [Answer] wrote:

    Wiki Page wrote:
    Another ToTheArk post with water. Water seems to be a significant theme in the Marble Hornets series.

    Enqurier wrote:
    The Totheark video 'Operator' featured the sentence 'Lakes In Stillnesss will take every life of the night'. The word 'Stillnesss' is spelled with an extra S. Is there a theme of the letter S in further videos?

    elford wrote:
    totheark's Warning video says Regards at the end also spelled with an extra S.

    Caffeinated Civet wrote:
    I think I've figured out this entry.

    I apologize if somebody has already posted something like this.

    The trick is to translate the numbers into ASCII control codes.

    The code flashes like this:

    00
    0-
    -0
    0-

    00
    00
    00
    0-

    00
    00
    0-
    --

    00
    00
    00
    0-

    Using the key from 'advocate' you can translate these into decimal:

    25, 1, 13, 1

    in binary that's: 11001,00001,01101,00001

    The first thing you think to do is change these into ASCII letters: Y,A,M,A
    Or in ASCII binary : 1011001,1000001,1001101,1000001
    Because in ASCII, letters are encoded by their position in the alphabet plus 1000000 binary for capital letters or 1100000 binary for lowercase letters

    But considering the video's description "000" and it's name "program" it makes sense to consider ASCII without the prefix (i.e. a prefix of 000), a sequence of control (program) codes:

    25, 0011001 binary, EM "end of medium"
    1, 0000001 binary, SOH "start of header"
    13, 0001101 binary, CR "carriage return"
    1, 0000001 binary, SOH "start of header"

    This repeats three times. One thing that's strange about these commands is there is a carriage return without a corresponding line feed. If you sent that to an old dot matrix printer it would move the print head back to the beginning of the line it had just printed and start writing over what it had just written.

    This is in response to entry 14. To recap that entry:

    The footage starts with a shot from the inside of Alex's room.
    The Operator sneaks into Alex's room and walks off screen.
    Alex wakes up, turns on the light, and swings the camera around the room but does not see anything unusual.
    Alex puts the camera back on the table, gets out of bed, closes the door and turns out the light. If you pause the video at the right time you can see that Alex has dark, dry blood on his face.
    Cut to white text on a black screen "About 32 minutes pass on the tape before Alex changes it."
    Cut to a close up of Alex's face. It's covered in fresh, red blood. Alex is looking to his right. After about a minute an alarm goes off and Alex turns off the camera.

    I think totheark's message is:
    EM: the end of a tape
    SOH: Alex starts recording with a new tape
    CR: Alex stops recording and rewinds the tape
    SOH: Alex starts recording again overwriting what he recorded earlier

    Which means that the part at the end with a close up of Alex happened first, followed by the recording of the inside of his room. When the alarm went off at the end of the entry Alex didn't replace the tape, he rewound the tape and recorded the first part of the entry over it.


    [My own comments] OP wrote:
    Pretty much all that needs to be said for this one. This dude is brilliant.

    The s-looking thing appears to be either a lowercase Sigma (ς) or a Stigma (ϛ). Personally I say Sigma because multiple s's, and that I can't find how a Stigma relates at all (aside from a bunch of religious stuff maybe, but that could mean just about anything). In a quick check on wikipedia for what Sigma was used for, there was "the summation operator". I have no idea what this could mean in terms of TTA's, though it could perhaps be saying to add videos, which was what needed to be done to fully decode this.

    Further proof of this is that a Sigma appears in the next TTA. If it is indeed a Sigma and not a Stigma.



  • Advocate



    YouTube: Link
    Description: 00110111
    Last Entry: Entry #15 - Interview with Tim | Next Entry: Entry #16
    Original Thread | Wiki Page

    [Answer] wrote:

    [audio samples] wrote:
    Advocate (Cleaned and Sped Up) - Forward and Reverse

    Wiki Page wrote:
    It is from the same set as Entry 7, but the footage does not seem to match up with anything actually in Entry #7.

    Two2teps wrote:
    Entry 7 also confirmed by the description which is binary for 7.

    morscata12 wrote:
    The right column of zeroes ticks up from 1-9, then clears out with all zeroes when ten is expected. On that expected ten, the left column ticks up to 1. It would appear that columns of zeroes and dashes are to be considered a single digit in a base 10 number.

    Using this method of translation on the Program code produces four numbers: 25 1 13 1. Alphanumerically, these translate to Y A M A.

    morscata12 wrote:
    I think Advocate's message here is a question to J: "are you going to feed me Tim's lines?". This could mean "do you expect me to believe Tim's answers?". Maybe totheark believes Tim was lying. The other option is that we're supposed to use Tim's answers on totheark somehow - feed them into totheark's program to interpret them properly, perhaps?

    Clueless wrote:
    First, I thought the message was upside down, and it might be. But when I realized the "S" watermark, while in the opposite corner of where it appeared in Program, was 'right-side-up", I kept thinking about the timing as I interpreted it.

    1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,7, 8, 9
    16

    I was thinking why a jump from 9 to 16? Doing what I've seen done elsewhere, encouraged by totheark's name, of course, I went for chapter and verse. Went to Genesis, seemed a good starting point (rimshot), because that is where the ark w/ water makes one grand appearance.

    Chapt 9:16 is of course the conclusion of the flood tale. "And the (rain)bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth."


    [My own comments] OP wrote:
    Tricky, this one. The footage doesn't seem to be directly from 7. Not sure how relevant the Bible thing is because to get that result was to use TTA's binary clock the wrong way, but it was an interesting coincidence nonetheless. The main purpose of this vid seems to be to decode Program. No idea what the audio is.

    Pretty sure tick tock was referring to the binary clock.



  • Addition



    YouTube: Link
    Description: //eyes\\
    Last Entry: Entry #16 | Next Entry: Entry #17
    Original Thread | Wiki Page

    [Answer] wrote:

    [audio samples] wrote:
    Alex/Brian Sped Up

    lapierre520 wrote:
    msheadwound wrote:
    I don't know much about sound editing, but obviously "Brian" is slowed down/distorted much more than "Alex" in the audio. Is it slowed down twice as much as "Alex" or something different? Would there be any numbers involved somehow in this slowing down that might lead to clues/meaning?


    "Alex" is slowed down 100% whereas "Brian" is slowed down 150%.

    Dav Flamerock wrote:
    There is also a sound like a film reel in the audio, similar to the sounds in the program.

    zvoid wrote:
    Blured "SEE YOU" can be simple reference to conditions in which video was filmed (in darkness).
    And yeah, I am sure that anonymous tip was made by TTA.


    [My own comments] OP wrote:
    Pretty straightforward. TTA was creeping on Jay. But then, it's most likely Masky Tim was recording this - was he acting as TTA?




  • Signal



    YouTube: Link
    Description: again
    Last Entry: Entry #17 | Next Entry: Entry #18
    Original Thread | Wiki Page

    [Answer] wrote:

    Silent Snow, Secret Snow wrote:

    Article on the film here.
    The actual film: Part 1 | Part 2 (Part 2 at 4:38 is where the related audio starts.)
    Just wait till we are alone together. I will tell you something new. Something cold, something sleepy, something of cease and peace and the long bright curve of space. Banish them. Refuse to speak. Leave them. Go upstairs to your room. I will be waiting for you. I will surround your bed, close the windows, so that none will ever again be able to enter.

    wellspg wrote:
    "The progressive withdrawal from reality and social relationships, as well as preoccupation with idiosyncratically meaningful ideas could be interpreted as characteristic of schizophrenia, while the preoccupation with a specific interest could be interpreted as characteristic of Asperger syndrome."

    Could this possibly refer to one of the characters having a split personality?

    morscata12 wrote:
    The music, video, and speech comes from the episode. totheark has distorted them in the response.
    - The footage of the chandelier was played backward and the speed was adjusted. It looks like a human form in the first few seconds, which was probably the intended result.


    [My own comments] OP wrote:
    Again straightforward - TTA wants Jay to go back to the house. Text says "COME BACK" and a small "find me". I'm not sure how relevant the source material is. It seems pretty underlooked, so it's entirely possible they just took the message from it, without thinking anyone would actually find the real deal. It draws some nice parallels, at any rate.



  • Messages



    YouTube: Link
    Description: .
    Last Entry: Entry #18 | Next Entry: Entry #19
    Original Thread | Wiki Page

    [Answer] wrote:

    [audio samples] wrote:
    Anthem(?)

    morscata12 wrote:
    The description of this video is "." - I almost didn't notice it until I saw it on TTA's profile page. Here are two possible interpretations:
    - The text in the video seems to be missing a lot of punctuation: "Tell us You have been keeping secrets. Smile for the camera". "Tell us" is followed by a capitalized "You", which makes it a separate sentence in context. This sentence and "Smile for the camera" are both missing punctuation.
    - It could also be the dot in morse code - the binary equivalent to 0. TTA is a fan of hiding zeroes in his messages, so that could be all it means. Of course, the translation of . is "e", which has also shown up in previous videos.

    Dav Flamerock wrote:
    The image of the person at the end is Tim.

    The external footage has been identified as the sinking of the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor.


    [My own comments] OP wrote:
    Jay told us his "secret" in the next entry, so, again, this is straightforward - the only real question I have is why the heck there's a picture of Tim, unless he was supposed to be keeping secrets too. As for the source footage, there's the analogy of "sinking" that's apparent.



  • Return



    YouTube: Link
    Description: 91
    Last Entry: Entry #19 | Next Entry: Entry #19.5
    Original Thread | Wiki Page

    [Answer] wrote:

    Wiki Page wrote:
    The Operator seems to come out of a door which was previously locked.

    The lights are on in this video while they seemed to be inoperable in entries 16 and 18.

    Kilo wrote:
    I find it extremely interesting, though. Signal was "Find me", Return is "Found you". The fact that Signal coincided with the introduction of Mask, and Return is the re-introduction of SM (In J's story).

    Two2teps wrote:
    If TTA was looking for Slender Man because no ones seen him since the Alex video era then "found you" could easily be applied to Slender Man.

    So Slender man has returned and TTA (who I think is safer than ever to say is also Masky) has finally found him.

    kevrock wrote:
    This is without a doubt the same house he visited twice before. Check the pix below. The shot on the L is of TTA's Return, the shot on the R is from Entry 18 right before he picks up the slender doll.

    You can see that 1 corresponds to the side door that leads off the hallway; 2 corresponds to the front door; and 3 corresponds to the corner where the hallway makes a 90 degree turn.

    Also note that its a front door; you can clearly see the deadbolt and chain. This corresponds to the beginning of Entry 18 when J tries the locked front door whose handle is on the R externally (which would be the L internally).

    That means that J is sitting exactly where the slender doll was!

    Pic


    [My own comments] OP wrote:
    Yeah I don't have a clue for this one. Jay got abducted and TTA found Oppy. Hooray!



  • Version



    YouTube: Link
    Description: s
    Last Entry: Entry #20 | Next Entry: Entry #21
    Original Thread | Wiki Page

    [Answer] wrote:

    assfactor wrote:

    poison
    random
    endings
    centered
    excludes
    death
    encountering
    stale
    truth
    receives
    endangering
    every
    section

    precedes trees

    Orthrus wrote:
    I've slowed down the audio track and confirmed that is is Morse Code. It reads the following: "- .…-. .- - —- .-."
    This translates as Oscar Papa Echo Romeo Alfa Tango Oscar Romeo - Operator.

    kevrock wrote:
    But this leads me to another thought, if we read the clues in order they appeared in the video, then: Operator precedes tress waiting for you

    Debased27 wrote:
    "PRECEDES TREES" is also an anagram of "DEEPER SECRETS."


    [My own comments] OP wrote:
    Again, not really sure what the deal is here - but whether it's "precedes trees", "deeper secrets" or whatever - the message is clear that TTA wants Jay to go to the tower.



  • Attention



    YouTube: Link
    Description: .
    Last Entry: Entry #22 | Next Entry: Admission / Entry #23
    Original Thread | Wiki Page

    [Answer] wrote:

    Wiki Page wrote:
    "aiatiwnguoryrarialv" is an anagram for "awaiting your arrival".

    The black frame with white text reading "Return to us" is made with the same font as, and looks very like, J's title cards in The Entries.

    This font is Arial, one of the most universal fonts. However, the similarity to J's fonts looks deliberate.

    At the end of the video a picture is seen of the operator symbol on what seemes to be a red wall, most likely the tower wall.

    The bicycle parade shown is footage from the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition. It took place in San Francisco, and it was a World's Fair of sorts.


    [My own comments] OP wrote:
    Many more vague things in this vid - but the message we need to know is still apparent, TTA wants Jay to go back again.



  • Admission



    YouTube: Link
    Description: +
    Last Entry: Entry #22 / Admission | Next Entry: Entry #23
    Original Thread | Wiki Page

    [Answer] wrote:

    Wiki Page wrote:
    The "doors unopened" may refer to the locked rooms in the house.

    The half-door that opens and closes is very likely the half-door in the hallway of the house as seen in Entry #16, the cabinet with "BONE" spraypainted inside of it. The same style of slatted blinds are also seen when Jay enters the house. The footage, therefore, is probably from the house.

    The general consensus is that the figure moving in front of the slatted blinds is the Operator, due to the strange angle of his head and the odd "gliding" quality of his gait. However, this is not 100% certain, due to the discrepancy between his height here (shorter than the apparent doorway) and in other videos (having to duck to enter the door).

    Admission can mean two things: an admission of something, such as a crime, or admission to something, such as a theme park or a club.

    SundayRevival suggests that in this case, it could mean both: a confession from totheark that there are important things still to find in the house, and a note to Jay that he will be given entry to them.

    The "+" as the description of this video could be pointing us to the totheark video Addition, thus reinforcing the location as the house.


    [My own comments] OP wrote:
    The Wiki pretty much nails the main points here. I've just been getting more and more confused the deeper down this rabbit hole I go - a lot of the videos seem to have subliminal meanings or symbolic meanings or something, but then nothing is certain and there's so many interpretations and it's just auuggghhh. So I've just been trying to stick with the facts.

    This is also the only time that TTA uploaded something twice in a row.



  • Warning



    YouTube: Link
    Description: failure nigh
    Last Entry: Entry #23 | Next Entry: Entry #24
    Original Thread | Wiki Page

    [Answer] wrote:

    Wiki Page wrote:
    The word "regards" is seen, which is the title of the first totheark video, perhaps implying that things are coming full circle.

    "Smile for the camera" is also used, which is a quote from totheark's messages, the response to the first time Jay encountered the Masked Man. Perhaps a theme of firsts in this video?

    greenansatsu wrote:
    TALKEYES(O)PSHMBASCRSSDA

    the O is optional if you count it w/ the X through it. I just find it interesting the first page spells out Talk

    nyc_jester wrote:
    See, I think the whole "Raw footage of Alex Kralie" title card is taunting J more than anything else. It's a direct reference to the first Entry. To me, it's like Masky/TTA is toying with J here..."Oh, look at me, I'm going to sift through these tapes and get to the bottom of everything!" Now TTA's showing J where that got him and, I would guess, maniacally laughing all the way.

    morscata12 wrote:
    There seem to be two sets of messages here. The first set acts as a list of important "firsts" in the series:
    - "The following are raw footage excerpts from Alex Kralie" - Introduction (Entry 0 - first post by J)
    - "Smile for the camera - Messages (totheark response to Entry 18 - first entrance to the house)
    - "Regards" - Regards (totheark response to Entry 9 - first sighting of Seth and Tim)
    The second set acts as a sequence of warnings from Masky:
    - "Eyes Open"
    - "Stay Home"
    - "Be Alone"
    - "Smile For Death"

    As a response to J's recent claim that he is giving up, it is apparent that Masky knows this leads to failure/death ("Warning - failure nigh" is the title and description of the video). His sequence of warnings (listed above) seem to be a prediction of what will happen to J. I interpret "Eyes Open" as "heed my warning", "stay home/be alone" as a short description of J's current activities, and "smile for death" as "this is what will happen if you don't get out of the house".


    [My own comments] OP wrote:
    I have no idea. It's late and I'm tired. Maybe I'll come back to this one later.



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    [Answer] wrote:

    Tim wrote:
    We will wait for you no more. Control is being taken away from you. From the start, this has been a game for us. Not anymore. I'm coming for you, and you will lead me to the ark.

    Wiki Page wrote:
    The first image, the one of the black rectangle, may be a door or doorway.

    The image of the two grey ovals on the black screen could be the view from the inside of the masked man's mask.

    There are a number of shots in which the masked man's movements are slow and apparently dazed or stunned, as well as a number of them where his movements are very frenetic, probably sped up.

    The tones that play behind the distorted voice in the video sound as if they might have come from a piece of heavily edited or distorted music.

    The style of the video is consistent with totheark's most recent upload, Warning


    [My own comments] OP wrote:
    Real message is in the dialogue. That's pretty much it. I'm really tired.



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    [Answer] wrote:
    Evidence wrote:

    [My own comments] OP wrote:



--- Editing when I can ---

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 		I'm sure you'll be shat on by other members but I like this idea. Easy and convenient.
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 		Seconded. I've actually been meaning to make a thread like this for a while. Would also make it easier to analyze TTAs in relation to one another.

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 		I approve, I think a very good discussion can evolve about this. The overall arc of the TTA videos, and the motives of the channel's creator(s?)/controller(s?) has not been examined in a detailed enough manner when it comes to the full sequence of videos. As one overall message, or the several big picture messages, could be interpreted in a big picture sense.

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 		I wholeheartedly agree with what you are doing here.

I do have a suggestion. Maybe you could include "Next Entry" right under "Last Entry"? This is especially relevant in light of Quadrant, which we think is a response to the events of Entry #80, rather than Entry #79.

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SignerJ wrote:
I wholeheartedly agree with what you are doing here.

I do have a suggestion. Maybe you could include "Next Entry" right under "Last Entry"? This is especially relevant in light of Quadrant, which we think is a response to the events of Entry #80, rather than Entry #79.


Sure, I can do that. Thanks for the support guys.

If anyone else has format suggestions that'd be nice - because when I finish this I'd prefer for it not to be a GIANT WALL OF TEXT you need to scroll down five miles to get to the end of. I was hoping to just hide everything inside spoiler blocks you could expand to see the answers - but apparently that doesn't work here.

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 		This will be so much easier than hopping from one page to another on the wiki. Good stuff, man, good stuff.
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 		Bump

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Anyone thought that the titles have a deeper meaning? Or are they just trying to broaden our vocabulary?
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Sidenote wrote:
This is useful Smile

Anyone thought that the titles have a deeper meaning? Or are they just trying to broaden our vocabulary?


Both

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 		TTA: Hmm, now what word shall I teach the illiterate people of Unfiction today?

Oooh, I know, Quadrant! I bet a lot of them don't know anything about math!

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TTA: Hmm, now what word shall I teach the illiterate people of Unfiction today?

Oooh, I know, Quadrant! I bet a lot of them don't know anything about math!


^This XD

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 		Sorry about the lack of an update on this recently - I'm probably the worst person to be making this kind of thread. Of course I decided to start it right before the Christmas rush, so I had all that to deal with. There's still work for my classes I need to get finished. And aside from that, I've been preparing for a week-long trip I'm supposed to be going on in a few days. Also I'm just that kind of person who will unintentionally never finish what they start - though, I do want to be sure I finish this sometime, at least.

Basically OP is busy and doesn't have much time to edit this. If someone else wants to take a shot at this, message me your edits and I'll see if I can't add them to this thread. Though I really doubt anyone's going to try, and I don't expect it, but, I figured I'd mention it at least.

Otherwise, I don't really have time for this thread at the moment, so... you'll probably have to wait until January before I'll be able to get a better update in. Sorry for the inconvience.

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 		Someone get the Hoody Hub crew motivated to help; post video info using his template and I'm sure he'll add it to the OP when he has a chance.

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 		Updated for Season 1. Personally I feel I still need to work on it more but I wanted to get something up today. But for future updates, I plan to get the entire season of vids ready, and then post it all at once. So the next big update will have all the TTA vids of Season 2. Whenever I get around to that.


DrSoup007 wrote:
Sidenote wrote:
This is useful Smile

Anyone thought that the titles have a deeper meaning? Or are they just trying to broaden our vocabulary?


Both


TheJoker wrote:
TTA: Hmm, now what word shall I teach the illiterate people of Unfiction today?

Oooh, I know, Quadrant! I bet a lot of them don't know anything about math!


Due to this I plan to add a definition section in the future. The vocabulary is important. We don't know anything about math.

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