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[Wondertje]

Thing is though, that Troseph couldn't have kept the mystery and the "he's not there, but wait something feels wrong, oh he his" going on forever because that would've given them no chance to end the series or provide us with answers in any reasonable way. I feel that it makes perfect sense that TO is showing up closer and more aggressively in your face as you're chasing after him trying to unravel his secrets and personally it doesn't make it/TO any less scary to me - if anything it's scarier because now the crazy entity is closer and more harmful.

[The Condor]

I think for newcomers who are unfamiliar with MH find the Entries scary but as they go deeper in and become inevitably desensitized to the creepiness, they rely more on the mysterious atmosphere rather than the scary atmosphere.

[Jordan]

For me, personally, while I found season one to be wonderfully creepy, I never found it outright scary. That's not to say I don't enjoy the series (look at my post count! I'm one of you!), but aside from entry #57 (with Alex's pursuit of Tim and The Operator's sudden apperance) and entry #55 (with The Operator slowing creeping with the cast of Marble Hornets oblivious to his presence), I've never felt scared or terrified whilist watching an entry.

[The7kproductions]

I don't think it was ever "scary" I never screamed, I never got nightmares, and most importantly I never defecated my pants.Mainly because I never found the slenderman (or the Operator in this case) particularly scary I, just thought of him as some entry level creepy pasta character. The only reason that I checked out MH in the first place was because I showed my cousin the Penpal audio book series on MCP's channel and he asked me if I knew of any other series that were good and I was like ... yeah I heard of this thing called Marble Hornets and I heard it was pretty scary.

Marble Hornets isn't scary it's just intense.

[CraicIsMighty]

It's not really scary anymore at all because they just keep rehashing the same stuff over and over again. The Operator still doesn't really do anything. He just stands there completely still hardly moving at all except on very rare occasions. When I look at The Operator nowadays I don't see a creepy monster I just see an inanimate object. It's more comical than creepy lately honestly.

[Lithp]

Firstly, I've never considered Marble Hornets to be very scary at all. It has its moments, but always came across to me as more of a mystery/character study.

It has become even less scary over time.

Yes, this is because The Operator isn't dangerous.

I do not think that it's because I'm "desensitized." I do not think that it would make it better if The Operator were confined to the background again. I think it is because they have actually taken damn near every opportunity to remove anything that could incite fear of this thing.

Veritaseum explained that "creepiness" is found in ambiguity. The Operator was initially creepy because he was strange & ambiguous. His behavior was threatening, but also detached. Was he following Alex because he was just curious, or did he actually intend to harm him?

But, as time goes on, we may not have very many answers about The Operator, but some patterns have started to emerge:

*It's really not hard at all to get away from him.

*He generally will now follow you.

*He does not present a physical danger.

*He rarely even moves or comes out of nowhere, so he's not even that startling anymore.

*Even his psychological danger seems cheap to me. If you're going to rely on mental illness for the scares, then you need to really SHOW how debilitating it is. Occasional amnesia & paranoia just comes across as moderately inconvenient.

Then we move on to Hoody, who is also not dangerous, & Alex, who is rarely around. Even if we got more danger from Alex, it is still deeply depressing that The Operator is now so tame.

[Ascalondion]

Just to drop my 2 cent here (or should I say, my 20 dollar?)

I think it isn't that scary anymore because we are used to it. Nothing bad with the show, I guess it's the longest running "horror" show that didn't changed his formula to stay interessting.

A lot of people said the error was that it's becoming stale because it's always the same. That, in my opinion, is one of the best things about Marble Hornets.

They do not jump the shark. They do not add tentacles and whatnot, no backwards time travel, no gore, no mumbo-jumbo to keep the audience excited. They're just doing their stuff, and they do it good. Keeping the audience excited it particulary tricky, and it will always scream for more, no matter how much more you give them. (At one point, it will scream "more of the old stuff!")

The reason I follow MH and not the other Slender-things is that they stay true to the formula of MH and do not try to jump the shark.

[Wondertje]

[TheOperator]

[Wondertje]

[wassupbro]

The show is more mystery than horror now but to be honest I like it better now mainly because its been like 5 years, and lets be honest, we've barely made a dent on giving light as to wtf is going on with TO

[Kraehtot]

I'd say it is not scary anymore, but not in a bad sense. Whenever they come up with a new Entry I am all the time in tension while watching it, willingly to know what is going to happen. I think they play with the mystery very well and they now how to keep you interested in the characters, not the scary jumpy thing.


And well, TO may not represent a physical danger, but what I found creepy, eerie and sometimes scary about him is the fact that it changes YOUR life: it changes your motivations, your memories, your emotions (or your state of mind, as seen in the last Entry). It makes you feel sick, obsesive and have problems with your sleep, going insane... It can even make you attack/kill people. Dying is not, of course, what any of the characters want, but they loose their way in their lifes. Even if they weren't in real danger (because, yes, a lot of times they have caused the danger to demselves), they would have a really shitty and hard time. Only having insomnia makes you go through the days tired and without energy. Imagine if you have to cope with memory loss, coughting fits, seizures...

So I think TO can be "scary" in the sense a sickness can be.

[ToTheFading]

In a word: no.

I remember when I first watched it, had the house to myself for two weeks and watched the first two seasons pretty much in a night, and spent the next two nights freaking out at the slightest sound. I don't get the creeps from it anymore, but I definitely used to. Using the same techniques/bad guy for a long time was always going to go that way though.

[Scrankles]

I am a coward. I don't really watch anything that could be classed as "horror" besides MH. That would seem to suggest I'm here for the story development, but it turns out I like the scary bits after all.

A lot of people are saying they got desensitised, but I reckon it's not the case for me. The scariest parts are still frightening, even though I no longer have the real-world paranoia that followed my original archive binge.
The new entries aren't (on the whole, there are exceptions) because they aren't trying as hard to be. But I reckon this is intentional, as story takes precedent.

My reference for lack of desensitisation is recently re-watching a whole load, and yeah, the worst ones still make me jump. First Masky encounter, TO in the maintenance tunnel, etc.

The early entries rely on jump scares all too much, and the atmosphere is good but I kind of feel cheated after one too many. Though this tended to be the main technique forever, series 2 and early s3 entries were generally more truly surprising to me, like the final act of the hotel saga.

In the latest entry I jumped simply because it'd been so long since I played "Where's Oppy?"

[Smoking_Gnu]