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[Monkah]

What if TTA is run by proxies?

[lonsumtravlr]

Re: What if TTA is run by proxies?

[Marble Hornets]

It would be impossible to explain, therefore it cannot be true.

[fezstudios]

There is no evidence of Tim or Brian ever being proxies as Masky and Hoody. They've worked against the Operator, but not for him.

[DHawk314]

There's lots of evidence of the Operator working with Alex, starting with Alex leading Brian and Seth to it in entries 51 and 22. There's also Alex walking directly at the Operator in 43 instead of running away. Next we have the Operator appearing in Alex's house in Entry #46 and Alex not running; he's not scared. He just shows up in 47 like nothing happened, with no answer for Jay as to how he got out of his apartment.

Next there's 49, 76, and 80 where the Operator takes away the people Alex seemingly kills. The tweets following 49 suggest all memory of the guy Alex killed was also somehow purged from any public record, which certainly helps Alex. However, he also takes away Brian/Hoody in 83, and Alex had nothing to do with that, so it's possible the Operator just has a dead body fetish.

The nail in the coffin for this theory though is entries 45 and 67, especially 67. 45 has Masky/Tim and Hoody/Brian attack Alex when the Operator presumably shows up off camera (The footage tears) and we see Masky/Tim and Hoody/Brian run away from whatever's off camera. Notice the contrast between Tim and Brian running away in 45, while Alex just stays in his apartment in 46/47. Hoody/Brian runs from the Operator again in 83.

The big deal though is the possible implication that the Operator saved Alex from Tim, who was strangling him in 45. However, it's not exactly clear that that's what's happening in 45. In 67 on the other hand, Hoody points the gun at Alex and the Operator appears almost instantly. While you could skew the scene so this is a coincidence, it's unlikely, and Jay even mentions this later:

[Monkah]

[Geneaux486]

I don't think the Operator really has "proxies" in Marble Hornets. TTA was likely, at the very least, Tim and Brian alternating at various times, so it's run by people whose minds have been broken by the Operator, and the resulting behavior has resulted several times in encounters with the thing, but I don't think there's anyone out there actively doing its bidding. I'm not convinced the Operator really thinks in terms of having a bidding to be done in the first place. It seems more like a chaotic anomaly in the fabric of reality that extends far beyond the deformed representation of a human being that appears before people than a thinking, reasoning life-form.

[TheJoker]

I don't know, some entries (82 in particular) gave me the impression that TO might actually have an agenda. Although that might just be because I personally am not so fond of "mindless force-of-nature" type villains, at least not in stories like this one.

But I don't think TO has real proxies either, at least not in the conventional TSM sense. It has Alex and it has influenced Jay in the past, but their behaviors under its influence seem to indicate more that it just warps their reasoning and rationality to its own benefit rather than outright commanding them or possessing them.