#Marble Hornets theory

[clownsmarblesarelost]

Reminder -totheark

Reminder is definitely one of my favorite videos despite it being one of the shorter ones because it's so few words but so much meaning. Here's my interpretation. For clarification I believe TTA to be made up of Brian, Tim's alter ego/psychosis and possibly Seth (this is my blog if you don't like my takes on it simply click off)

"Do you remember me? I have not forgotten."

Do you remember me <- Brian referring to the amnesia Jay, Tim and Jessica get everytime they encounter the operator, Brian trying to see if Jay remembers when they were friends and who Brian really is

I have not forgotten. <- Im p sure Brian doesn't experience the amnesia that the others do, he has watched every atrocious thing to happen and hasn't forgotten a second of it

In conclusion it's my personal belief that Reminder is by Brian. It's one of my many beloved totheark videos :3

[antlergrave]

slowly creeping back to my eyestraining bg phase ew

[ngage2003]

The idea that Masky could be anything but an alter was always a bit laughable to me, especially when considering how much Tim hits DID key points. Yeah, it probably wasn't intentional, but it doesn't change the fact that Tim is a character with DID rep.

Like, we know the Operator can induce paranoia and fuck with people's brain electricity to induce seizures, but that wouldn't explain why Tim's masked persona literally :

◉ Has different mannerisms from him ◉ Seemingly has different verbality from him ◉ Only shows up coinciding with specific triggers (I.E. seizures, and imo also Operatorture which could be a trigger tbh due to it happening in the past) ◉ Has different (and seeming coherent) memories and emotions separate from Tim's, which even after seeing footage of Tim can't remember

Sidenote: Saying this judged on the fact Masky concretely hates Alex while Tim doesn't (at least not fully, he empathizes with him and tries to reason with him until the end). Also basing it off the fact Masky never works with Brian again after him inducing a seizure in Tim, along with him always remembering to wear his jacket and mask, and knowing the way to the hospital and his room there, along with how to drive, etcetera etcetera

When combined with the fact that we know Tim had a rough childhood—his mom is only mentioned like three times, and it is implied she put him in a psych ward at around 10-11 years old based on the fact he is college in 2003 and was admitted in 1995, which doesn't imply good parenting and thats not even getting into the Operator harassing him ToT—it seems like Masky is just such a textbook example of an alter in my opinion, and Tim is 100% a case for DID. The coding is practically being screamed through a megaphone. Its like Theodora from Haunting of Hill House levels of coding, man, except for having freeloaders in your head rather than being a muff diver.

[holywooffle]

bugs when you lift up a rock

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My Updated Headcanons for Seth Wilson

Since a lot of my attention is on Seth right now, I'm writing some updated headcanons for him with things I've learned over the past 4 years! I'm starting with my HCs with evidence and will write my HCs without evidence later >:3c

HEADCANONS WITH EVIDENCE:

- Seth's dog name is Link (Joseph mentioned in a livestream that's Seth the actor's dog's name so in typical MH fashion I imagine dog actor Link also plays dog character Link)

- Seth is about as tall as Brian (this isn't even really a hc but I used to draw him short so I wanted to clear that up)

- Seth did all the TTA entries that include fried images and red motifs (based off of Night Mind's theory that Tim-themed entries are black and white, Brian-themed entries are stereoscopic, and Seth-themed entries are deep-fried/red. They used these colors to both communicate who's speaking AND to let the recipient know who the message is for.)

- Seth used to be Christian but fell out of it by Season 2 (I think Seth is responsible for all the Christian iconography in the first season i.e. stigmata, ark, deluge, etc. considering neither Brian nor Tim were part of TTA yet, and he slowly abandons that faith because.......)

- ...Seth thinks he is a messiah of some kind (from TTA's "Forecast" where he says "AMIAPROPHET." [TW DEAD ANIMALS & ANIMAL CRUELTY FR PLS READ WITH CAUTION] Forecast uses footage from the USSR's "Experiments in the Revival of Organisms: 1940" in which you see a disembodied dog's lung being inflated and deflated by a machine in an effort to keep a dismembered dog's head alive. I don't think it's a coincidence TTA used a dismembered dog to refer to Seth ((or what Seth has become)) and that Seth is both alive(-ish) and has saved others from death, but only in the same fucked up corrupted way you see in the USSR's footage. Which leads me to...)

[END TW]

- ...Seth is trapped somewhere between the line of life and death and is sticking around for the unfinished business of revenge killing Alex (in the TTA entries, while many things are convoluted and unclear, one thing that is very consistent is TTA's hatred of Alex. Seth is vengeful for the death of himself, the attempted and successful murders of his friends. From TTA's "Decay" where Seth is clearly addressing Alex, he says "HE[Jay] WILL LEAD ME[Seth] TO YOU[Alex], LEAD ME TO DEATH[because his job will be done then], LEAD ME TO THE ARK[salvation and an end to his and Alex's suffering])

- Seth is the one responsible for Brian, Tim, and Jay surviving during Alex's first murder attempt (Alex couldn't bring himself to *actually* kill his friends back in 2006, so he lured them to the park and used blunt force trauma to knock them unconscious hoping leaving them for dead out in the park would be enough. Seth, however, had already caught on that something was wrong after Sarah's disappearance (I am going to write a whole thing about this eventually hehehe) and so he knew to be at the park, and after Alex left them, Seth made sure they were safe (there is also info I have here about a lake but that's worth a whole other post, send an ask if you're curious <3)

- And finally, Seth had been well ahead of everyone else in figuring out what was going on (Seth was the camera and tech guy, so it would make sense he would be the first to see what's happening on these cameras, and investigating what might be causing all of this. Seth was the one who coined the term OPERATOR. He understood Alex's actions were being influenced by this creature Seth was seeing while editing Marble Hornets. And I also think Alex knew Seth was catching onto his murder attempts, and that's why Alex took no chances and shot Seth (the first instance of Alex using a gun in the series) instead of hitting him over the head with a pipe and leaving him for the Operator like the others.)

I WOULD LOVE TO KNOW WHAT YOU THINK AND IF YOU GUYS HAVE ANY OF YOUR OWN THEORIES THIS WAS REALLY FUN TO WRITE AND I CANT WAIT TO MAKE PART 2 <3

[inurehuman]

Slendersickness Theory because i can and im a faggott

I've seen a lot of videos/posts about the slender sickness stating that the slender sickness starts because the victims are getting stalked by slenderman, however in my theory this is only half true. As we all know and have seen in the Slenderverse slenderman has the ability to manipulate electronics and if we look at it from a scientific way it could be due to a radiation that he spreads around him. If we take Marble Hornets for example, we know it all started with Tim due to his schizophrenia; and because Tim waas friends with Brian and Brian friends with the others etc etc. Slenderman started stalking them too. Now due to the radiation that Slenderman perhaps spreads around him, it affects the others. Seeing how there is a radiation proven by Evan in EverymanHYBRID when he compares his and Alex's (Jeff's Brother) blood, it only further proves that this theory might be true. Lmk what you think about it.

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[whyamiherewhosummonedme]

hi i discovered you through the virus drinking post and i will now be following you for marble hornets content

BASED BASED BASED FUCKING BASED. WATCH MARBLE HORNETS.

[jester-lover]

Matpat making a Slenderman vid with marble hornets mentioned in 2023 is so out of left field and so incredible

[lemondoddle]

How does this keep happening why does his hat look SO GREEN and then ITS NOT YOU SEE THE GREEN RIGHT

[purplecatghostposts]

I’ve seen a few people suggest this as either a theory or an AU but the idea of Sarah and Seth surviving Alex’s attempt to kill them and just left afterwards and never was seen by him again is a little funny to me. Alex just assumes they’re dead so he never goes after them. They’d probably still have the Operator Sickness but like, they’re alive at least?

Imagine you’re Tim, Post-MH and grieving the fact that all your college friends are dead, then one day you walk into a store and make eye contact with a very not dead Sarah and Seth getting groceries and you all just FREEZE. How would you even deal with that.

[clownsmarblesarelost]

blog n2 maybe?

this blog has no viewers at the time of me posting this because I made it only a few moments ago but I was wondering if anyone would like to see a blog where I post my interpretations and opinions of every entry and tta video? Idk if that'd be enjoyable for you all but I wouldn't mind deep diving into MH and analyzing all the videos to the best of my abilities considering its my special interest anyways and I feel the need to be educated all the time so uhh yeah lmk if that's something anyone would be interested in I suppose.

[ngage2003]

Ok so, I've kind of mentioned it already in my two kinda long fuck-off rant posts, but I have very specific thoughts on Operatorture. (i.e. the event we see in Entry 65, where the Operator teleports Tim around and basically tortures him.)

This is obviously very different from how the Operator will take dying bodies to the Ark, and my theories on its purpose tie into my greater theories around the Operator's nature.

See, I think the Operator is almost like, this massive animal we can't comprehend. It isn't quite eldritch, because eldritch monsters don't care about humans (that's like you caring about an individual atom in the air) but it is paranatural, as in above or beyond nature.

We never see its full body, but the Ark is it's face in an abstract sense, the center its throat, the Operator one cruel hand.

I think, somehow, it feeds off people. Not in a literal sense of eating our muscle and sinew, but in the sense it feeds off the human mind. It rips away your very self for scraps, strips you of your sympathy and passion—a process that leads to someone getting exceedingly agitated and paranoid and more or less falling apart on a mental level.

My main point towards this theory is Alex Kralie himself. Sure, maybe he might've always been a bit of an jerk to some extent, or entitled, or whatever! But in Entry 54, we get to see Alex before this all happened, and he seems to be a regular, sarcastic kind of guy. He was passionate about a project that definitely was too grandiose for what they had, but that's pretty normal, especially fresh in college. It is only after prolonged Operator exposure and it stalking him that he really fell apart though.

But, while exposure to the Operator causes obsession and paranoia though, (probably in part due to it being beyond human understanding,) that doesn't immediately turn you into a violent dickhead! Jay is a text book example of that, he is only violent or aggressive until after Entry 72. Before then, he is rather passive and quiet—not meek, but definitely quiet with how he is just willing to follow Alex around and slowly try to wheedle answers.

In that very Entry though, Jay does disappear out of the blue when he and Tim are fleeing Alex's house, and when Tim turns back to find him, he seizing on the ground in front of the Operator. In my opinion, its possible and even likely here that the Operator could've briefly taken Jay here, given how he just vanishes before his seizure, which we have seen happen to Tim when he was taken too! (Honestly, his seizures could only be as bad as they are because of how often he was taken as a kid.)

The strange part though is that for Jay, even when he gets Tim's seizure medication, there is a remarkably negative change in his self and attitude as opposed to with Tim. He is extremely out of it, more so than his paranoia has ever left him before, and in Entry 75, he attacks Tim over a tape of all things! Tim, who, mind you, has continuously looked out for him and who Jay has continuously worried about until now.

I think would make sense that the Operator incites violence in people vulnerable to it through Operatorture though. After all, if it can feed off dying people (as we see it probably doing with Jay in Marble Hornets comic 3.5, ToTheArk) then of course it would want those vulnerable to it become violent and take down as many people as possible! It is like this animal that just wants to eat and eat and eat.

An important thing to note though, is that after the incident where Jay attacks Tim over the tape, he regrets it and tries to call him, the Operator's conditioning of him isn't absolute and some of his self remains. But then however, the Operator shows up and he is made to have a seizure again. To me, it is almost is like it is purposefully doing this to him to break him down and cause him to be more and more violent, and it succeeds because after that incident he tries to stab Tim!

In season 1, only see a small fraction of the tapes from the filming of Marble Hornets the in universe media, and in my opinion it is more than possible that Alex's violent tendencies only started after he was taken by the Operator himself and Operatortured. We know based on entries like 70 that it was probably possible for the Operator to take him! And in Entry 66, Tim even implies he thinks Alex was/is getting Operatortured, when he asks, "what if what happened to me is happening to Alex right now."

Even into season 3, it almost definitely seems to continue to wear Alex, as he starts to corrupt video at all times rather than just when he is angry, and he seemingly gets more and more unhygienic. (He is living in Tim's attic, not getting new glasses after Brian knocks his off in Entry 67, etcetera.)

The Operator tears people apart with its torture, tears away their self like meat off the bone, and the man we see is practically a husk. That is why despite being able to talk as he died, he is animalistic and screaming in the Ark, in Comic 3.5 of Marble Hornets, ToTheArk. The Operator has taken everything from him but fear and confusion, these base instincts.

What a horrible fate.

[bleed-more]

YALL ARE SO SWEET

I know its a controversial theory that he is TTA but I just feel like it adds so much to the story and it makes me so happy seeing other people excited to see him too <3

[inurehuman]

UPDATED SLENDERSICKNESS THEORY

Okay so I've posted my slendersickness theory before but I'm just going to rewrite it!! OKAY SO I've seen a lot of videos/posts about the slender sickness stating that the slender sickness starts because the victims are getting stalked by slenderman and that they get mentally ill just purely off the fact that he is there, however in my theory this is only half true. As we all know and have seen in the Slenderverse slenderman has the ability to manipulate electronics and if we look at it from a scientific way it could be due to a radiation that he spreads around him. If we take Marble Hornets for example, we know it all started with Tim due to his schizophrenia; and because Tim was friends with Brian and Brian friends with the others etc etc. Slenderman started stalking them too. Now due to the radiation that Slenderman perhaps spreads around him, it affects the others. Seeing how there is a radiation proven by Evan in EverymanHYBRID when he compares his and Alex's (Jeff's Brother) blood, it only further proves that this theory might be true. Also that the others are gegting mentally ill and insane might also be because if you see a 7 feet entity staring at u like "hi." What would you do?!?@?@? Stay calm and drink tea? Probably not. Anyways so uh due to the radiation that spread around slenderman he is able to manipulate the human body. E.g. the brain ,blood wtv.This is what he does to have a better control/grip on his victims AND DUE TO MOST OF HIS VICTIMS being like teens which are definitely unstable its easier for him to have a girp on them because young minds are more susceptible to manipulation, i feel ilke he also uses his time manipulation powers to casue the amnesia and to get full conrol over the person he hunts for some time

[brittlebutch]

Desperately trying to make sense of Alex's motivations in Season Two and you know, I do eventually have to wonder if maybe Alex wasn't actually lying in the majority of those tapes.

Like, we tend to assume that Alex's motivations have been a consistent throughline since the college years, but do we actually know that that's the case? Do we know for sure that Alex was acting in deliberate, calculated ways in 2006; or could it be that he's telling the Truth on those olds tapes when he says he's blacking out and can't remember what's happening to anyone? After all, if we're assuming that Season 2 Alex's motivations are the exact same as his motives in Season 3, then it doesn't make any sense at all that he spend months working with Jay to try to find Amy; Season 3 Alex would have attempted to kill Jay like, on sight just to get things over with as quickly as possible and contain the spread of contamination as best as he could.

But, maybe, if Alex really had been separated from Amy after the events of the 04-04-10 tape, and if he really doesn't know where she is, then maybe that could make things start to make more sense. Maybe he really had been watching Jay's channel, and seeing Jay start going through the same things he went through in college without things devolving into violence and disappearances, and wondered if things maybe could play out differently this time. Maybe he really did send that tape to Jay to ask him for help, maybe he really was just trying to find Amy.

But then, instead of actually being helpful, Jay makes it extremely clear that he's a lot more interested in stalking Alex than he is in finding Amy. Alex asked for help, and instead there's a bunch of masked dudes on Jay's heels that keep attacking him, Jay is breaking into his house, stealing his things, leading the Operator right to him all over again, keeps trying to get other people (namely: Jessica -- if Alex is being honest when he says that his call reassuring her that Amy had been found was an effort to make Sure she stayed away from everything that was happening) involved; and instead of anything getting better, instead of anyone finding Amy, things are just getting worse all over again.

It's not until after the incident at the tunnel that things seem to start rapidly devolving. Rather than a calculated attempt to finally follow through with his need to curb the spread of contamination, this is very clearly an outburst of rage and terror. Alex's "I told you not to follow me" line in conjunction with Jay speculating that Alex didn't know who that guy was, to me, pretty firmly seems to speak to Alex having mistaken that stranger for Jay. From his point of view, Alex knows that Jay and totheark know where he live, have broken in before, he suspects that Jay stole a key to make it easier to get into his house, and he's been followed on the daily for months -- Alex is sitting at the tunnel because he doesn't know where else he can go without being constantly surveilled, hunted, and assaulted. And instead of getting a moment by himself to breathe, Jay followed him out there all over again (it feels like Alex looks directly at the camera in Jay's footage of him from this day; he knew for a fact that Jay was there), and then to make matters worse now 'Jay' won't even keep his distance anymore.

So Alex lashes out. And it's not until afterwards that he looks down and finally recognizes that this wasn't Jay -- it was someone completely innocent. Things have finally reached the low point he was at in college all over again; maybe even worse this time. If Alex doesn't remember attacking anyone in college, but he was at least partially conscious of it this time, then things have reached an entirely new rock bottom, they've reached an absolute point of no return.

He has no idea what happened to Amy, and he's spent months trying to find her with no hint of where she could be; he doesn't know where Jay actually is or what additional trouble he could be causing at this point; he does know that now innocent people are getting caught in the crossfire (in regards to the stranger in the tunnel, and also Jessica now that Jay has her phone number, and the untold number of people Jay got involved when he started posting videos to the Marble Hornets channel); things are spiraling out of control and there's no one left to ask for help. The situation isn't getting better, it's getting worse; things aren't getting easier to handle, they're just getting more out of hand; the negative impact is spreading and who knows how much further it can still go?

So, Alex decides to go scorched earth. He disfigures the body with the rock either to hide evidence or to make sure the guy would actually stay dead and not just get back up to start his own cycle of contamination in a few years. He tries to give Jay one last chance to back off, and Jay instead admits he's been talking to Jessica, acts obstinate and lies about not having Alex's spare key, and then breaks into Alex's house a second time (minimum). If Alex doesn't stop him now, who will? Alex met with Jay planning to kill the others, and then himself, so he could put a stop to this once and for all and keep things from getting any worse than they already were.

Maybe it makes a lot more sense if, rather than being a strangely incomprehensible detour on what should have been a straight path, the events of Season Two were the breaking point that put Alex on that path to begin with.