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[Geneaux486]

It looked like the camera, and possibly the guy holding it, was being thrown around in the air. Then there's the fact that we saw Jay's head go up against a wall, after which he was pulled out of frame pretty quickly. I'm of the opinion that the Operator went Doctor Octopus on him.

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[Geneaux486]

I think what Jay shouted was "What do you want? Leave us alone!". I'm still of the mindset that he bumrushed the Operator, who picked him up and shook him.

[Lithp]

[Oransel]

[KTsteve]

[Lithp]

I find jump scares & gorn to be cheap attempts at evoking fear even if they are successful. I also find EverymanHYBRID scarier than Marble Hornets but cannot stomach Tribe Twelve. And Jeff the Killer is not only not scary at all, but pretty much the worst piece of trash ever written. So if I don't fit into the "Unknown Category" or the "Danger Category," then it would appear that my problem is that I fear nothing at all.

Now, I suppose I could go into more detail about why I think your stereotypes are wrong, but someone would probably get all pissed off that we're not talking about the actual entry.

[Geneaux486]

[aidansean]

Gosh a lot of replies since I've been gone! Just want to clarify the whole "Jay put the tapes there" speculation because some people are still getting it wrong. It's speculation for fun, not "I think this is 100% correct" type stuff. The kinds of events, ordered from least to most credible, in my opinion are:

1) Alex burned the tapes there 7 years ago and they have been undisturbed until Jay derped into them. To me this is a total contradiction- they can't be so well hidden that nobody disturbs them, and yet so accessible that someone who isn't even looking for them can find them.
2) Jay is messing with Tim and put them there himself. Not likely, but possible, and it would take the plot somewhere quite interesting. (What I had in mind was Jay thinking "Now Tim's drawn into this, and he started it in the first place, what can I do to keep him in College Town while I disappear in the same way that Jessica did?" As I say, not too likely given the plot and character development so far, but it would lead to some awesome changes in direction.)
3) Hoody/totheark put them there for Jay to find, and they've only been sitting there for a few days/weeks. This is, I think, more likely, but then it must rely on some plan to make Jay/Tim find the tapes, and relying on someone tripping over the hole seems a little farfetched to me. Maybe they relied on either Jay or Tim would remember the distortion coming from the hole, and just got lucky with the stumble. Maybe that's the most likely explanation.
4) ??? Something else entirely. Someone suggested the operator tripped Jay up at the right point, but that doesn't seem right.

So yeah, don't take it too seriously. It's just speculation backed up with some dodgy behaviour on Jay's part. It doesn't require any reinterpretation of anything before Entry #69, and doesn't contradict anything else in the series. It's just one interpretation of the entry, to account for a) the unlikeliness of Jay stumbling upon the one place where Alex hid tapes from nearly a decade ago and b) the apparent hallucinations of Jay which could in fact be him deceiving Tim to make him more paranoid. If Jay is finally being Alexified we could be in for an interesting set of entries ahead of us! I'll stop rambling about it now. I just wanted to clear up what I thought were some misunderstandings of what I said a few pages ago. If everyone else still thinks it's dumb then... it's probably dumb.

Whatever the case there is still the issue of the Entry #51 tape. Why did Alex keep this one secret? What's the deal with the Entry #22 tape? Did Alex come to the red tower (maybe against his will) and burn everything he had with him except the one from Entry #22 for future use? Was Entry #51 in his camera, so he forgot to burn it with the rest?

Was hoping to see more at the gazebo. There was so much distortion there in Entry #5 and yet we saw nothing interesting this time.

[Jiime_6]

[Bernie Buddy]

[Ztakk]

[ChaosGamma]

While I personally feel like the "Alex burned the tapes and left them there for 7 years" theory is what was being implied in the video itself, there seems to me to be another possibility that (to my knowledge) no one's brought up yet regarding the idea that Jay put the tapes there. After enttry #37 was posted, Jay apparently woke up near the Red Tower. It is possible that they could be tapes from the missing seven months that, for some reason, Jay tried to destroy and left there and then forgot about it just like he forgot about everything else that happened during that time (getting to the Tower, possibly uploading enttry #37). It's also possible that the tapes might be the source of enttry #37.

I'm not really sure what else to say about this, and as I mentioned first of all, I think it's kind of unlikely that's what's going to happen. But I didn't see that anyone else had mentioned it, so I just thought I'd bring up the possibility for the off-chance that it doesn't turn out to be wrong.

[EmeraldWind]