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[BranRainey]

Clearly the purpose of this entry was to show how Alex got a chance to steal Jay's car for a bit, thus explaining why it was parked outside Brian's house in entry #6.

[aidansean]

Several thoughts, in no particular order, and of varying degrees of seriousness:

Thanks to whoever pointed out the 11 tapes! I counted 11 tapes too, and if we count how many were damaged in Entry #69 we can work out how many are playable. But counting is hard, best left to daylight hours.

This doesn't count as an "Amy tape" in the sense of "any mention of Amy must be expunged". It was physically impossible for Alex to give this tape to Jay because it was recorded as Jay collected the other tapes. Alex had reasons to not give this tape to Jay, but it doesn't have to be the same reason he didn't give other tapes to him.

There was a theory earlier in the thread that Alex knocked Jay out, then drove to his house and hid the tapes at the back of the closet. If that's true then what is the distorted footage of Jay looking up with a shadow over his face doing on the tape? If Alex is going to knock Jay out then hide the tapes I doubt he'd have footage of Jay conscious in there.

Someone also posted a theory that Alex was teleported to the red tower and had to drive back. If that's true then how was the car at the red tower in the first place? (Is there some kind of Hoody/masky carpool thing going on? There's a special lane for that, right?) Anyway, enough spoiling other people's ideas, I just thought these two points needed raising because they need explaining.

Alex has a bit of a belly here, yet from what I remember, Jay said he was thinner that he used to be. Alex must have had a spare tire during filming.

Alex's clothes remind me of what he wore in Entry #14. It looks like he's ready to be slendy napped at any moment.

This is the second time we've seen Alex attack someone, strangle them and then leave them for the operator (first time in the chronology, of course.) It looks like he's had practice at this. Maybe this is what happened to Sarah. (Note that with Bruce, Alex is sure to finish him off. Perhaps he learned from this encounter with Jay that he has to be sure to finish the job.)

Alex dumped Jay near a streetlight. The streetlight from Entry #2? It's probably not important, but it would be nice if they tried to tie in the older entries that suffered from Early Instalment Wierdness.

Speculation time: To me, this entry hints at one last problem that Alex had. Suppose he was ready to move on with his life (burn most of the tapes, move to somewhere else, leave no trace of where he's gone to) he still needs to stop filming at some point. Evidently he's still filming even as he's moving out, and he's doing it so that he remembers what happens. (He films himself whilst beating the crap out of Jay. That must have taken a lot of concentration to do, and there's no reason to do it except to leave a record for himself, or if the operator somehow uses the camera to "see", then to tell the operator where he and Jay are.) So suppose Alex decides to stop filming and puts the camera in a box somewhere. Then the operator arrives and wipes his memory of doing this. If that's the case, and it's a clean wipe then Alex woud genuinely be surprised by Amy's find Entry #26, because he would remember destroying everything else, and assume the camera had the same fate. There's no defence against this happening except to never stop filming himself. Didn't Jay suffer a similar problem in Entry #26? His paranoia slowly tailed off leaving him with the awkward decision of when to stop filming himself.

Alex was clearly waiting for Jay in this entry. You can tell by his actions at the beginning, an his body language throughout. I think that he had some internal conflict as Jay left. He managed to keep Jay talking for over half an hour (or Jay kept Alex talking for half an hour, whatever) and I think he was genuinely torn between letting Jay walk off with the "safe" tapes, and sacrificing him to the operator. If this is the last time Alex expects to see Jay then it's his last chance for a sacrifice. At the last moment he changes his mind, and he does so seconds before Jay is about to drive away.

Some OOG stuff:

[brianlane723]

This entry has made me think seriously about an answer I've been pondering to the question of why Jay posted no entries and no tweets during the "lost" seven months between season 1 and season 2. What if Jay DID post entries and tweets, and we all watched them unfold, but when TO wiped Jay's memory, he also erased the entries and tweets and erased ALL OUR MEMORIES? I'm not sure how they would reveal that, but it would be a great twist at the end of the series.

[Drksrpnt]

[Grumplestiltskin]

[CraicIsMighty]

It seems interesting that Tim and Jay are the only two that Alex actually attacks himself. With Brian and Tim he just led them presumably to TO. With Sarah it's not exactly clear. But he himself physically injures Tim and Jay. And he seems to go further with Jay, strangling and beating the shit out of him. This entry really solidifies for me that Alex thought Bruce was Jay in entry 49. He attacks Bruce the exact same way.

[gazza]

[harpcarp]

Okay so what if Alex was attached to slendy, but in this tape we see him transfer that attachment somehow to jay? Alex walks away from Jay, and suddenly the static doesn't happen when he's holding the camera anymore. It might explain why until years later when he was with his girlfriend that slendy didn't show up again.

Then again there are a lot of holes in that one too...

[Bernie Buddy]

[KTsteve]

I wonder if the years between Jay getting the tapes from Alex and his post on something awful are relevant?

I'm glad I wasn't the only one who thought Jay turned into sad panda.

About the "couple of bags" someone mentioned earlier, in the states we don't necessarily use words like "couple" or "few" correctly. They're pretty much interchangeable. i.e. If my grandma asked me to go to the store for a couple eggs, I'd grab a dozen. If she told me to grab a couple of eggs from the fridge, I would ask how many she needed, and it would probably be like 5.

I think we may see if Jay is "immune" to slendy rape or whatever soon here. Though I'm a big fan of the theory Jay's personality split at this point, and he now has a masked persona. It's not hoody or masky, but TTA.

[Marble Hornets]

[EmeraldWind]

This was interesting to say the least. Finally putting to light the lost time Jay suffered during the MH shoot.

I wonder what this means in the end. There must be some kind of linking thread between the previous two tapes... I guess these two and the one from the tower are the only ones that mention Alex moving. Other than Jay's first post.

Perhaps the fact he was moving is the common thread. Maybe everyone that knew Alex might be moving were dealt with by Alex (except Tim, who was probably attacked because Alex accidentally mentioned about where Amy was).

[Malckeor]

[Marble Hornets]

What if Alex was hurting all these people and wiping their minds so they would forget that he exists, and nobody remembered him until Jay watched the videos and posted them online

Edit: Actually I don't think this can be, because Tim remembers Alex

[celticsfan87]

I'm definitely a fan of the TTA = Jay theory. Looking at the characters that we've seen come out of this, Tim has a split personality (although he did before as well possibly), Hoody likely does as well given how much he has in common with Tim, and Alex has normal and insane-wolf style. Jay is the only one we haven't seen exhibiting bizarre behavior as a result of this. Maybe his "bizarre" behavior is to mastermind this whole thing.

Also, this explains how TTA has access to Jay's account to upload things, and also that he knows where Jay is at all times. In particular, he seems to know where Jay goes when he loses his memory.

There are still problems with this theory, such as TTA filming Jay at various points (beginning of season 3 and you could count Exit), but most of that can be dismissed as TTA having collaborators. Jay has speculated that TTA might be multiple people. Jay could still be the mastermind.