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[Sha Noran]

[JAL13]

[DHawk314]

The timeline isn't THAT complex though. The first 14 entries plus 17, 20, 22, 54, 55, and 70 all take place in the summer of 2006. It's hard to say what order they go in; all we know is broadly Alex was normal and then he noticed the Operator and then he started trying to investigate and then the Operator started stalking him and then Alex started to go crazy.

Following this was 56 and 57 where Alex tries to get rid of Tim, 51 where Alex tries to get rid of Brian, 71 where Alex gives Jay the non-incriminating tapes but then attacks him and runs away, and 22 where Seth disappears in the basement and Alex leaves him there. Actually, the order around those is a bit wonky to be honest, but broadly these entries takes place around here.

Then 15, 16, 18, 19, 19.5, 21, and 23-26 are all present day. They compromise actions Jay for the most part remembers, or at least remembers parts of, so the order is actually rather concrete.

Next is the seven months, footage of which we see in 34-36, followed by 39-49, then 50 and 38 which takes place concurrently, and finally 52 at the end. We know the order of these tapes because Jay labeled them, and because the way he labeled them is consistent with the narrative we see in Season 2. The footage from 29 also takes place at some point during the seven months, presumably after 49, although it's hard to say exactly due to the entry being very out of context.

27 is the day after 52. Next is 28, followed by 30-33, which are all present day, and all of which Jay remembers fully. Then Jay looks through the footage from the seven months and posts 34-52. During this time, 37 it posted by totheark, which has footage from Alex's birthday during the 90s. I would have put Alex's birthday first in the timeline but it's completely irrelevant as well as obvious so I didn't.

The end bit of 52 is in the present and it is followed by 53, and the beginning of 54, with the present day picking up again in 58. Entries 58-66 are all present day, with 67 being the first "found footage" one for a while, although since it takes place between 65 and 66 it's barely the past and it kind of a ridiculous example. 67.5, 68, and 69 are all the present. Then, the present resumes again in 73 and it's been present day since then.

I mentioned a few times that Jay remembered parts of this because frankly the whole "Jay doesn't remember shit whose to say what takes place when" argument is kinda ridiculous. Jay has a lot of memory loss, but with the exception of the seven months which has a fairly concrete order, we rarely see footage of Jay doing stuff he doesn't remember (totheark's Return is a good exception). As such, most of the footage we see is fairly reliable, unless we're assuming Jay is a liar.

I agree with Sha Noran that Jay being a liar and the footage being a totally different order would be a total ass pull but I disagree that it would be a bigger ass pull than Hoody being future Jay - that would just be fucking stupid.

[Osttle]

Yeah, I agree with Dhawk, and (sighs) Sha Noran. Shit, I understood the timeline from the beginning. Its complicated but it makes sense. All in all, I stand by my proof of Exit. Hell. How do we even know Hoody is TTA? TBH I thought Seth was TTA and Hoody was Brian. But then Exit, and Intermission. But I do think Future Jay is Hoody.

[DHawk314]

I actually need to make a correction. 76 was also not present day; the footage took place after 33.

[Ztakk]

There's not even a real need to figure out the timeline and understand it yourself anyways now. There's tons of comprehensive timelines all over the place.

[Osttle]

I'm all for this theory. I'm pulling out my old proof, EXIT. Who else would have been filming this? Brian? No. He was oblivious to this all. Tim? Maybe, but I don't think so since the entry takes place before Alex Kraile's MH began. Alex? Nope, to busy encountering Oppy-kins. Who else would it have been then someone who knew what was going on? That's why I'm all for this theory. (Also the far apart eye holes in Hoody's mask. ( Like Jay's) )

[Osttle]

Also, the whole entry 68 thing. I have two rebuttals. Either Alex was in a fit of rage, or Jay's gotten older and unrecognisable.

Inb4

[Yahtzee]

[Osttle]

I don't think so Yahtzee. It would be pointless, and if he was playing dumb he wouldn't have gone with Alex to his DOOM

[TheJoker]

If Brian was Hoody, then it wasn't really his doom anyway, so. Exit proves nothing and debunks nothing, although most theories about TTA's origins are wrong to ignore it, since it does indicate that TTA had taken up his TTA-ish activities well before Alex started offing his cast and crew and thus revenge alone couldn't be his motivation for whatever he's doing.

[MistrPibb]

It's possible, but it would be such a stupid move on behalf of Trosephim...

[Sha Noran]

[Marble Hornets]

[Sha Noran]

Just rewatched 66 and it really seems like Hoody and Tim were "in on it" together and it was some kind of show for Jay, to give him another tape (and thus feed his addiction). It just seems so unlikely that Hoody didn't realize they were there following him and also that he somehow dodged out on Tim's pursuit. And its awfully convenient that Hoody. shows up right where Tim wanted to check for more files (yeah, paper documents in a burned down place now open to the elements... Right). Very interesting, given the content of 67 and then 68, which snowballed eventually into where we are now.