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[The Happy Madman]

Why caused the Øperator stalk young Timmy? What causes it do do anything? We know next to nothing about its motives, so any theories are like grasping at straws.

[Jordan]

[twistedpuppet]

This is not so much a "why did TO visit" so much as it is a theory that Jay, Tim, Alex, and Jessica(at least), all grew up together and may have even been in the same institution.

[Gante]

I've seen no indication that the Operator gives a rat's ass whether his victims are good people or bad. In fact, I question whether the concept of good or bad people is even comprehensible to him. All his Marble Hornets victims seem to have been more or less innocent until TO appeared. I don't see any sense of justice in him, twisted or otherwise.

[TheOperator]

[Sha Noran]

How is that Herman guy not banned? Zarggg, you can't just ask one of the others to ban and link to his post history? For real.

[TheJoker]

Wrong thread entirely, unless I missed something.

[Slendermau5]

[Sha Noran]

[gennerx]

Well Hoody isn't going to tell us now.
Guess Tim will make a confession at some point.

[SilentMedusa]

Can I put a long-winded theory here?

First, I need to say that I believe OOG the angle they're going for is that this started with Tim, and will ultimately end with him. Since there seems to be a bit of a theme of things coming full circle.

Now, I know someone's going to say "what about #37?". To which I say, what about #37? First of all, do we have confirmation that that really was Alex Kralie and not some other little boy named Alex? Second, I firmly believe TTA edited TO into that video. See, TTA likes to "speak" in metaphors. So I took #37 to mean 'Alex is involved with TO and it's been going on longer than you realize', not that Alex had literally been dealing with TO since he was a child. Consider that three entries after this one people were openly questioning whether Alex had actually set Jay up to be attacked by TO.

Okay, the actual theory. In #82 there was some speculation over whether TO was causing Rosswood park to shift, or whether the park did it on its own. I think Rosswood exists in a multiverse. Rather like Silent Hill. In Silent Hill, there's the tourist town most people see, the Otherworld (run down, abandoned, filled with fog, and monsters created from the mind of the person viewing it), and the Dark world, (where the monsters are more numerous and more aggressive). I think the same kind of thing is happening with Rosswood.

Now, to Tim. I believe Tim was in Rosswood at least once before he was institutionalized. I also believed he probably had some mental or emotional problems already. During this visit (whether he ran away or was there on a family outing of some kind), he ended up in the wrong place at the wrong time. By which I mean he was in a part of the park that caused something in his mind to come to life. Why something like The Operator? I don't know. We have speculated that Tim might have been abused... Anyway, the park was a "your mind makes it real" zone, and that's what young Tim's mind conjured up. Because it came from his mind, it was attached to him, and followed him. Because it was something he didn't create on purpose, he had no control over it.

Now, this could be why TO does the things it does/had the abilities it seems to have. This thing is the embodiment of fear. Towers over you? Check. Unknowable? Check. Can attack from anywhere with no warning or hope of escape? Finds you no matter where you go? Can't get help because nobody else can see it and therefore they don't believe you? Ultimately hurts other people just because they're associated with you? You get my drift, I'm sure.

I'll even tie it to Alex. TO was always following Tim, even before Marble Hornets started. He just didn't know it. See, all the drugs and therapy changed him. He started to doubt he was seeing anything, and ultimately was convinced that he didn't. TO couldn't do much of anything, because Tim (its host/creator) wasn't reacting the way he was supposed to anymore. He didn't even acknowledge it. But it was still there. Alex saw it once when he was walking his dog (see entry #2). And he reacted. Moreover, he went looking for. So this thing did what it did best, what it was created to do, to a new victim. And then another, and another, and another, etc. And then Tim got snared into the mess again. And now he's at a disadvantage, because he doesn't think he's just imagining it this time. He believes. He believes it's real, and helpless against it. And since what he believes about it is what's true...

[AAAAA42]

That last post makes me wonder if The Operator is just some kind of incarnation of fear with no real explanation. Kind of like the labyrinth in House of Leaves.

Like, The Operator is just an entity of fear. There is no explanation as to why exists, it just is, and the lack of any way to rationalize its existence is just a method of forwarding its purpose, because it just shouldn't be, but it is and it's after you.

[DHawk314]

[gennerx]

[TattooMagoo]