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edit: Blech, ignore.
It is most definitely Alex, after Jay walks out of the room, but during the static.

[DrStevzious117]

Hmm, nah, his eyes are still there. And that's definitely Alex. I can just tell by the features and his facial hair.

[Zarggg]

[Star Kindler]

So, theory on why the tapes are unlabeled:

The cases all were originally labeled. But Alex never intended to burn the ones he gave to Jay. He was always going to give them to Jay, possibly on The Operator's orders. So, either he takes the tapes out of their little plastic cases, or just slides the labels off the cases. Voila, instantly unlabeled tapes. But he holds back the ultra-incriminating ones, because he is going to burn those.

Theory on "So why didn't Alex just take the tapes back after trying to murder Jay?" :

So, Alex and Jay ended up in a field at some point during the fight, possibly teleported there. The Operator takes Jay, but now Alex either has to walk or drive home. In the time it takes Alex to get there, Oppy drops Jay off by his car, because for some reason Oppy wants Jay to take the tapes. Jay, not remembering what happened beyond unease over the tapes, gets in his car and heads off before Alex gets home.

[elford]

Is this Alex moving to live with Amy?
He doesn't tell Jay, but if it is when he moves in w/ Amy then that is probably to protect her.
But, here is what I'm thinking over today : In 70, Alex tells Amy they might shoot some stuff for MH. So, by the time he is moving out to go live with her, (if that is what he's doing here) he will have to tell her why he has given up shooting his movie, and even given up his camera, as she doesn't know he had one.
Did he do this amnesia bit to Amy so she would forget too, and to try and protect her from The Operator? And maybe the camera was a little gift from Hoody, not Alex just having it around.

[Boreamor]

About Jay filling in the blanks of his own memory this could happen. It's a psychological thing where if you remember a part of a memory, your brain will fill in the blanks using "schema". Schema are scenarios your brain has created using your own experience, and vicarious experience into an idea of what you would do, or what would have most logically happened.

So to be honest, most of MH could be schema, and the camera is the only truth.

[Jiime_6]

On the subject of the distortion in #22 and #71 being similar: not only the "melted" faces are. I also found this:

The #71 screenshot is from 4:26, right before we see Alex on top of Jay. There are about 7 frames with this kind of distortion.
The #22 one is from when Seth has just fallen onto the floor.
Similar distortion = similar events?

And another thing: the description of the video is "Another burned tape". Does that suggest that there are still more? I'm not sure because I'm not a native English speaker. What do you think?

[Ztakk]

[toclafane212]

So I just watched this and I had an idea. What if this is Alex "planting" something to make jay forget. It works slowly at first. Altering the memory and then starts erasing memories. Also I think Alex wanted jay involved considering he put the tapes in the wardrobe seconds before jay comes

[BronzeHornets]

So Alex has been beating Jay up in the past and letting The Operator mindfuck him to make him forget about stuff? (I'm assuming our slender friend mindwiped Jay that night even if we didn't clearly see it since we had that distortion when Alex was filming the KOd Jay and The Operator is known to be able to make people forget things.)

What is the nature of Alex's "deal" with The Operator? It seems as Alex himself is afraid of it, even if he's willing to work together with it. Did Alex communicate with The Operator, or did he simply end up beating someone up and then noticed that it came in and mindwiped them for him, and since that he's been "feeding" people to it? The more we get to know about Alex, the more fucked up he seems to be.

[Silverspade92]

[matixzun]

I really, really think it isn't Jay's "sacrifice". Alex just beats Jay up. Honestly, My guess is that Jay's "sacrifice was among the tapes alex gave him, but then he remembered that and knocked him out to recover the incriminating evidence (or at least most of it), afterwards Jay returned to his home with the tapes, and forgot about that, but I don't think he really tried to kill him here, as he does with the "sacrifices".

[Jiime_6]

Alex puts 11 tapes into the box. Not that it is important right now, but I thought I'd point it out.

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[richrock]

Also long time lurker (signed up on some other escapade).

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