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Lithp
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 		Oh, also, I don't know if this is the place for this, but I was thinking that we might see some of these locations again soon. Not the Red Tower, because it is apparently now unusable, but the gazebo, playground, & Alex's old house might be viable.

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aidansean
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Hazman wrote:
aidansean wrote:

Entry #4: The operator moves like a human, even if it is very fast. Maybe it's trying to trick Alex into thinking it's just a fast human. Later on it teleports on camera and doesn't even try to hide this.


Does it teleport between the tree? I can't actually see where it teleports to. I Always assumed it just teleported away.


Ah, I didn't really explain myself very well there! It teleports in at 0:17 (as we can see from the tearing) but out of sight of Alex so he doesn't notice. But it gets seen at 0:23, and instead of teleporting away it just runs, as if to try to convince Alex it's a real human. Alex probably isn't fooled though, as he loses track of the operator almost immediately.

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aidansean wrote:

Entry #7: The operator teleports out of view and then moves into the middle of the frame. Sneaky thing.

The only time I can see it is when it's leaning out from behind the building when Alex sees it and drives off. Is there another time it shows up?


That's right, it only teleports once, but the teleporting happens at 0:45 (visual tearing again), and we can clearly see down the alley and it's empty, but by 1:36 the operator is there. That means it was savvy enough to teleport in somewhere out of sight, and then move into position to watch Alex. The operator is smarter than I initially gave it credit for.

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Hazman
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 		Hey so does any distortion mean TO is near? Or just visual, cause in Entry 5 there is a lot of audio distortion

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KTsteve
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Hazman wrote:
Hey so does any distortion mean TO is near? Or just visual, cause in Entry 5 there is a lot of audio distortion


We're not sure. Audio distortion is more common when slendy sick people get emotional, and video seems to happen more often with slendy nearby. Though there have been a few cases where people may have caused video distortion, or slendy may have caused audio. The most agreed upon one is that video tears are caused by teleportation.

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Hazman
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KTsteve wrote:

We're not sure. Audio distortion is more common when slendy sick people get emotional, and video seems to happen more often with slendy nearby. Though there have been a few cases where people may have caused video distortion, or slendy may have caused audio. The most agreed upon one is that video tears are caused by teleportation.


So does that mean Alex had Slender sickness right from the start? Is that what is causing the audio distortions?

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aidansean
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Hazman wrote:
KTsteve wrote:

We're not sure. Audio distortion is more common when slendy sick people get emotional, and video seems to happen more often with slendy nearby. Though there have been a few cases where people may have caused video distortion, or slendy may have caused audio. The most agreed upon one is that video tears are caused by teleportation.


So does that mean Alex had Slender sickness right from the start? Is that what is causing the audio distortions?


Not necessarily. There are two kinds of audio distortion in the series. The loud white noise type that overpowers everything else (like in entries #5, #20 and #23) and we don't know for sure what caused those. In Entry #23 the only two characters present are Jay and the operator, so the loud noise was probably due to the operator in that case. It would also make sense that the operator cause it in Entry #5, but there's no obvious cause in Entry #20.

Then there's the distortion of ambient noise. Ambient noise distortion is often caused by people who have been exposed to the operator, and for a good example see Jessica in Entry #30. Jay is not immune- when he shouted in the tunnel in Entry #50 it came out distorted, even though it was nowhere near the maximum tolerable volume.

However it makes sense that Jay has slendersickness in Entry #5 since he coughs while Alex is talking near the red tower. Given that he coughs again in Entry #67.5 it's a fair chance he's being stalked again and is not immune to all the effects of the operator.

For a good example of the visual tearing, see the end of Entry #56, where the operator teleports on camera. It doesn't happen often, but it's awesome when it does!

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Hazman wrote:
Hey so does any distortion mean TO is near? Or just visual, cause in Entry 5 there is a lot of audio distortion


The Operator IS in Entry #5. I didn't saw him the first time I saw the series, but the other day I noticed he is there. When they are in the "red tower" zone, TO is nexto one of the trees in the left. If you look closely you can see him, because they focus the place he is more than once. I think when you can best see him is at 2:13. I don't know how to do a good screenshot of a video, so I can not show it to you in a better way :S
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pravado
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 		i think we can break down the slender sickness a little bit, and the operator distortion effects

screen tear - operator is teleporting into the area
audio/video distortion - operator is nearby and most likely in a hostile mood
audio distortion on people's voices - people with the slender sickness get distroted voices when they get worked up, usually out of anger


stage 1 of slender sickness: blackouts, mild coughing (jay level of sickness)

stage 2: harder coughing feeling of lungs collapsing at times (do you feel like drowning?), strange dreams about the operator (jessica level of slender sickness)

stage 3: mental side effects kick in, coughing up blood, strange attachment to the operator (alex/tim level of sickness)

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Lithp
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 		There was also once a hole in the ground that caused heavy audio distortion.

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pravado
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Lithp wrote:
There was also once a hole in the ground that caused heavy audio distortion.


I'm still going with that's non-canon. People will say unless they say otherwise it's canon, but certain things just don't add up in the story anymore, such as entry 29's t-shirt being there

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Geneaux486
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Lithp wrote:
There was also once a hole in the ground that caused heavy audio distortion.


Yeah, I always thought that was interesting. Maybe the Operator's presence was eminating from there or something, or the hole led to an area where it was, or had been. I chalk it up to the same kind of thing as the distortion Brian's house, and the coughing fits. We don't see the Operator around when those things happen, so maybe it leaves some kind of... residual presence or something of that nature.

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I'm still going with that's non-canon. People will say unless they say otherwise it's canon, but certain things just don't add up in the story anymore


We're dismissing moments in the series that contradict our theories as non-canon now? : p

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Lithp
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 		"Non canon" isn't the right term, but he has a point, there are a bunch of plot holes & inconsistencies from earlier in the series, & I'm not positive that many of them are ever going to be explained.

As for the hole itself, my best guess is an Operator footprint.

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Geneaux486
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Lithp wrote:
"Non canon" isn't the right term, but he has a point, there are a bunch of plot holes & inconsistencies from earlier in the series, & I'm not positive that many of them are ever going to be explained.


Yeah, I was mostly being facetious. What you've said is true, but I don't think that things relating to the Operator's physical behavior or influence over audio/video equipment can really be placed into that category. Nothing to really suggest that the Operator operates by any sort of rule or consistency in the first place, and it already breaks the laws of physics, so if something regarding the Operator doesn't add up, I'd sooner chalk that up to the thing being an incomprehensible being as opposed to there being a plothole.

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As for the hole itself, my best guess is an Operator footprint.


Something like that, yeah.

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Lithp
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 		I don't expect the distortion to behave by super hard rules, but I expect something general, such as "everything affected by The Operator can exhibit distortion." Which seems to be the case right now.

With that in mind, possible in-context explanation for the fact that there is very little distortion in the earlier entries: The distortion is effectively the camera being "slendersick." The more often it is exposed to The Operator, the more likely it is to distort whenever The Operator or something affected by it is around.

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Hazman
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Kraehtot wrote:
Hazman wrote:
Hey so does any distortion mean TO is near? Or just visual, cause in Entry 5 there is a lot of audio distortion


The Operator IS in Entry #5. I didn't saw him the first time I saw the series, but the other day I noticed he is there. When they are in the "red tower" zone, TO is nexto one of the trees in the left. If you look closely you can see him, because they focus the place he is more than once. I think when you can best see him is at 2:13. I don't know how to do a good screenshot of a video, so I can not show it to you in a better way :S
So sorry!


Ah I see him. Leaning against the tree?

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