History WMG / MarbleHornets

One hint to his presence is when a video corrupts into a crimson texture pattern of noise akin to the electronics being unable to comprehend the presence. In Entry 49, when The Operator comes to relocate a body, the audio distorts into a sort of rising pitch shriek of agony which may also tie in.

As in, it knows what path / way of life is best for people, and will put them on that path by force, if necessary.

The Operator is the personification of, or his behavior is influenced by, the criminals in the woods. Some of those people were child molesters. Child molesters target their victims when they are young, hold influence over them, and could manipulate children into leading other children to them. The Operator could create a kind of StockholmSyndrome situation to get some of his victims on his side using his mental influence over his - this is how Alex fell under his control. He also kills people or gets his minions to kill people because he's been influenced by murderers as well. The Maskies/ToTheArk were also targeted by him when they were young, but resisted his influence and joined together to fight back aganist him and the ones who fell to his side. He is really a mindless EldritchAbomination whose only instincts are to stalk, hurt, manipulate, and kill.

[[WMG: The Operator is [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Nyarlathotep's]] [[SaltAndPepper nerdy white counterpart.]]]]

[[WMG: Totheark just wanted to make a WebAnimation/YouTubePoop of Very Bad Fanfiction]]

* Entry #45 lends this theory a lot of credence. In the previous few entries, Alex has been hinted at explicitly hunting down the Operator (#43) and/or potentially trying to summon him direct (#44). Then in #45, he is attacked by two Maskies (including Tim) who come very close to finishing him off...before the camera distorts with the Operator's signature visual cue and the Maskies run off. Why would they run off if they were working for the Operator?

totheark seems to be the one screwing around with the tapes. A lot of their videos contains really distorted audio or it could go along some some of Alex's videos that do not contain sounds.

I came across this theory elsewhere (the Marble Hornets Wikidot, I think). His earlier, more random messages were to try to scare J off the trail to save him from The Operator, and he attacks J in Entry 18 for the same reason. He's just a little [[strike: crazy]] BAT SHIT INSANE.

[[WMG: The Operator thinks of itself as a “guide”.]]

Nyarly, too, is often depicted as a tall, slender, tentacle-y man with mental powers and no face, but he's much more charismatic and confident -- [[Film/BeverlyHillsCop the Eddie Murphy to The Operator's Judge Reinhold.]] At some point Nyarly and The Operator will team up [[TheyFightCrime to fight crime]]... or maybe just conduct mysterious experiments and terrorize film students.

* He is pulled into this universe by it! He kill those who know about him so he can leave, and he moves through higher dimensions to move around so he stands still when he is being watched because seeing completely traps him because seeing is believing UpToEleven!

The exact opposite of the previous entry. The Operator is not only deliberately terrorizing his victims, he’s going out of his way to prolong the horror. Sneaking into Alex’s room and not harming him but making sure to [[ApocalypticLog leave the proof that he was there]] and could have done pretty much anything he wanted, letting J think that he had escaped the nightmare only to burn his apartment and/or send Masky after him and/or send Entry #26, letting Alex think he had escaped the nightmare only to turn up and terrorize him and his girlfriend years later… the Operator is enjoying every minute of this, and is just going to keep [[UpToEleven dialing the nightmare up higher]] until he delivers the coup de grace…if his victims don’t die of heart failure first.

[[WMG: The maskies other than Tim are the people Alex lead to Slendy]]
* Whether he lead them directly to Slendy, like Brian, or were near him when Slendy showed up, like Amy, they have been [[LaserGuidedAmnesia forced into Slendy's service.]]
** [[spoiler:Hoodie is totheark and also Brian, while 'skully' was supposed to be ''Jay,'' [=THAC=] said in the Reddit Ask Me Anything.]] Other then that, we're not getting any answers. Probably not, at least.

[[WMG: Slendy is not supernatural at all]]

** Alright, this should be either the official, or at the very least alternate ending for the series. Maybe even throw some ScoobyDoobyDoors in there with Slendy chasing the cast around.

[[WMG:Slendy is not powered by our fear]]

[[WMG: Slendy is controlling J]]
* Slendy has limited mind control powers. He starts off with only a slight ability to influence people, but the more time he spends around them the better he gets at it. He is the reason J grabbed onto the IdiotBall and went into the house without telling anyone. He is also the reason Alex and J have LaserGuidedAmnesia - Slendy was building up his powers. When we saw J with his jacket on, that was Slendy influencing him to put it on.

Alex almost fell off the slippery slope, but managed to realise what was happening, and fled the state. Tim is completely under Slendy's control, and has become his slave. J is on his way to it. I have no idea what Slendy's ultimate goal is, but I doubt it's anything good.
** Entry ###### was either posted by J when he was under Slendy's mind control, or Slendy looked into his mind to get his password.
** This theory is apparently [[spoiler:proven after J's reaction to Slendy in Entry #43]]
*** [[spoiler: That's Alex, not J]].

* There's the Masked Man, totheark, and Slendy, assuming masky and totheark are different people. If not representing that, the three theme may reoccur with something else. Three random metal pipes sticking out of the tower and the triangle- two motifs of '3'.

[[WMG: Slenderman is a good, but also dead.]]
Slenderman stalks Alex because he's protecting him from the Masked man who we never see on Alex's film but is possibly stalking Alex. He then left and Slenderman began protecting Jay. The Masked Man is a psychopath and is now hunting Jay. He realizes he has to kill Slenderman first. He Kills Slenderman after the events of Return. In entry 14, Slenderman does not attack Alex, but he stops The Masked Man who had already began attacking Alex, this was The Masked Man's first encounter with Slenderman so he was frightened. This also assumes that the Masked Man is Tim. We see Slenderman in entry 23 but it is possible it is his corpse.
* [[spoiler: Jossed. Slendy has made another appearance in Entry #26.]]

[[WMG: Slender Man just wants to be in Alex's film.]]
* This troper being one who dabbles in filming, this kind of person pops up a lot when shooting scenes outside. You know, that one asshole who sees your camera and wants to be in your film, but just ends up ruining every shot by jumping in and ad-libbing even though you tell him a million times to just go away. Slender Man is that, but much more determined. It all started with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXKZlwoPfBU Entry 12]], and everything went downhill from there.

[[WMG: Slender Man just wants a friend.]]
* Slender man is obviously a scary figure just by looking at him, and a complete outcast, maybe he was even a human who was cursed. Obviously, with everyone afraid of him, he lacks any social contact at all, and this gets to him, no one has expressed such an interest in him as Alex has, and Slender Man leaps at the oppurtunity for a friend...only, Slender Man has absolutely no social skills, and with Edward-esque logic, stalks Alex in hopes of contacting him and gaining the one thing he truly wants-a friend. In Entry 14, Slender Man goes into Alex's room, yet doesn't kill him, or apparently, do anything to wake him up. My therory could fit in as Alex hit his head on the wall, and Slender Man went to care for him. Awwwww. also can explain why in the mythos, Slender Man always has his hands out. Poor guy just wants a hug.
** Of course, when Alex bails out, Slendy looks to hang with J. So J starts sneaking out at night to hang with Slendy, but denies remembering this just so he won't become a social outcast simply by associating with one.

The Masked Man isn't totheark, they're separate people with separate goals; though both are opposed to Slender Man, totheark is equally opposed to Masky.

totheark is actually Alex (Alex R. Kralie = ARK) and he's trying to help J defeat Slendy once and for all, which is why he tells him to go back to the house; he wants J to get into the bathhouse, Slendy's lair. Alex and Seth had been there before and been attacked by Slendy but Alex survived and fled, but has since gained the knowledge to defeat Slendy. When he saw that J had started looking through the tapes and uploading them online, he realised it was too late to stop J getting involved with Slender Man and instead decided to help him. This is why totheark has such good skills in video manipulation; he's a film student, he'd be knowledgeable in that area. Also, the reason that totheark starts running back into the woods at the end of Exit is because he's trying to get back to where he left J before J does; he didn't want J to find out about his encounter with Slendy and get dragged into the whole mess. After he saw J intended on going to the tower in Entry #20, he went there himself, planted the tape and then watched from a distance to make sure J got it.

Masky is actually Tim and he's trying to stop J from interfering in order to keep Slendy placated. He attacks J in Entry #18 so that J will run away before he can be teleported to the bathhouse, a stunt that he repeats in Entry #23, which instead ''causes'' J to be teleported to the bathhouse; he breaks into J's house, drugs him with the pills from #16 and kidnaps him in #19 to bring him to the house to try and placate Slendy. However, Alex rescues J, though not before Slendy shows up himself ("Return").

In Entry #23, Alex follows J to the house and waits outside to make sure he comes out; when too long passes, he realises that J has started being teleported and enters himself, where he encounters the Masked Man. After a fight, Alex kidnaps the Masked Man to stop him interfering with J, but leaves a Masky mask dangling to let J know that Masky is gone. In Warning, the reason Masky is moving so erratically is that Alex has him tied up; Alex advises J to stay indoors in order to draw Slendy there, causing J's house to start acting like the abandoned house, meaning between the two actions (the kidnapping and the staying indoors), J now has the means to enter the bathhouse without Masky interfering. Soon, once J has mastered the ability to enter the bathhouse, Alex will reveal the way to defeat Slender Man and J will try to do so. ''Try.''

** Under this theory, Entry ##### may be hinting that Masky is trying to confront totheark, and will use J as bait if neccessary.

[[WMG: The Slender Man was actually protecting Alex from the masked man/totheark]]

I've read a couple times that in the Slender Man myths from Something Awful, he acts as some sort of reluctant malevolent guardian. Also, it's been noted before that in one of the videos, Alex either running away from or ''seeking out'' the Slender Man. In many of the videos that include SM, Alex seems to running from something, however it does not seem to be from SM, since he's mostly just ''there''. The reason Alex gets freaked out when he's sees him is not because of SM himself, but because whenever he shows up that means totheark is close by and going to cause trouble.
* Entry #45 lends this theory a lot of credence. In the previous few entries, [[spoiler: Alex has been hinted at explicitly hunting down the Operator (#43) and/or potentially trying to summon him direct (#44)]]. Then in #45, [[spoiler: he is attacked by two Maskies (including Tim) who come very close to finishing him off...before the camera distorts with the Operator's signature visual cue and the Maskies run off. Why would they run off if they were working for Slender Man?]]

The flip side of the above theory. The Slender Man is evil, but totheark is actually trying to help/protect J from whatever it is. However, totheark is legitimately insane, so his attempts come off as crazy and antagonistic.

[[WMG: Slender Man will cause TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt]]

And as the above theory describes, totheark is trying to help and stop him, or at least trying to save himself. The ending lines of Entry ##### ([[spoiler: "and you will lead me to the ark"]] tie this in with a Biblical reference.

totheark is somehow trying to lure the Slender Man in order to hunt him or some other purpose. He used Alex (and possibly the other cast members) before, now its J's turn. In one of totheark's response videos titled "Return," SM shows up and the video ends with some text that can spell out "found you." Slendy's a pretty elusive...guy and Alex and co. have some sort of special connection with SM, making him appear. totheark decided to take advantage of this, manipulating Alex in order to get to Slender Man. When Alex decided to call the whole shebang quits and shut down the production, SM wouldn't come out anymore. But now that J's gotten involved totheark is taking advantage of the opportunity. "Found you" could likely be referring to totheark finding the Slender Man.

[[WMG: The doll that J finds in Entry 19 was being used to summon the Slender Man]]

[[WMG: All Slender Man wants is 20 dollars]]

* [[http://iamslenderman.blogspot.com/2010/02/give-me-20-dollars.html Confirmed!]] Although he's lately been telling people to, instead of giving him $20, give it to those poor Hatian orphans that he presumable can't MindRape and disembowel because none of them own handheld videocameras and all their notebooks are soggy. Good for you, Slendy, helping with the earthquake relief!

Perhaps masky is some kind of possessive force, taking over Tim and using him. He could also account for why totheark got footage of J and Slendy without having a camera (he might also be able to possess computers and upload his memories to youtube) and J's blank-outs, giving his victims an IncurableCoughOfDeath. (I'm well aware of how insane this sounds)

I came across this theory elsewhere (the Marble Hornets Wikidot, I think). His earlier, more random messages were to try to scare J off the trail to save him from Slender Man, and he attacks J in Entry 18 for the same reason. He's just a little [[strike: crazy]] BAT SHIT INSANE.
* Arguably not the case. Entry 26 explicitly shows Slendy freaking out Alex and his girlfriend in their apartment, at a time too recent for Alex to have been Masky all along.

[[WMG: Slender Man is [[Literature/ThePhantomTollbooth the Terrible Trivium]]]]

Alex was Milo as a child, but once he left the Kingdom of Knowledge he soon after moved and changed his name for security purposes. He has also forgotten his adventures as actually happening, possibly believe they were just a game he played as a kid. Terrible Trivium (and maybe some of the other demons of ignorance), however, found a way into this world and want to seek revenge upon Alex/Milo for their defeat. The presence of Slender Man/Terrible Trivium slowly brought back Alex's childhood memories, as well as warping his sanity, causing him to try to find a way back without using the Tollbooth. After his disappearance, his friend J was just some unlucky guy trying to figure out what was going on.

[[WMG: Slender Man was a prank...]]

By several of the cast members on Alex. However, things got out of hand, and Alex started becoming paranoid. Somehow, J was never in on the joke and though it was real too. They eventually located one of the cast members dressed as Slendy while out filmin. The two killed him, and, upon realizing what they had done, killed most of the other cast either out of paranoia or not wanting to get caught. They forcibly blocked the memories out of their mind.

** [[spoiler: Seems to have been jossed. C'est la vie.]]

[[WMG: Slender Man was after Brian BEFORE Alex, and Tim had something to do with it.]]
Obviously Brian got caught up in whatever was going on; J talks about Alex and Brian both being missing, and how they were hiding out together. In Entry 20, Brian has left to "do something", and J and Alex can't remember why. Memory loss implies either Slender Man or [[spoiler: the Masked Figure]]'s presence. Then Tim shows up and is coughing, another implication of Slendy being around. Tim is obviously hiding something, and he said earlier that he knew Brian better than Alex. Might be that Tim has some kind of deal with Slender Man, and brings him sacrifices/dupes/whatever in exchange for something, possibly powers similar to Slendy, or maybe even just to placate Slendy so he doesn't take Tim.

[[WMG: Slendy/Masky/J is a Time Lord]]

[[WMG: The house ''is'' Slenderman or somehow controlled by him]]
He is able to use it to manipulate his victims. It also allows for him to come and go as he pleases [[spoiler: such as in Entry #14, when he enters Alex's room and then disappears.]] Also [[spoiler: he can make it teleport people around, like J did in Entry #23]]. Also, many Slenderman mythos stated that he has the ability to draw his victims to him and prevent them from running away. This explains why Alex stayed there for so long [[spoiler: and J has gone back three times]].

[[WMG: Slenderman just wants a new camera]]

** This is supported by Entry #26; Slenderman only shows up at Alex's house once the camera is discovered by the woman. He's now trying to lead J into a trap with the 'HELP' message, whereupon he will beat up J and take his camera as well.

[[WMG: The House J goes into is the house from ''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'', and Slendy is The Minotaur. ]]

In the video "Warning" several blank circles are shown, and later they are crossed out in the middle. The circles represent people who have gotten involved in the Slenderman business and have been targeted. Crossing out the circles means they have been dealt with. Possibly, in earlier entry videos with Alex, when he has seen these symbols, like at the playground, or when J found one on the tower, have been put to mark the place where someone has been taken out.

[[WMG:Slendy only exists when humans are thinking about him.]]

The mysterious pills that Jay found in Alex's old house - and which he later saw Tim taking in that old recording - are actually an extremely rare, extremely [[FantasticDrug fantastic]] drug. Pretty much everyone involved in this whole thing - Jay, Alex, the whole Marble Hornets crew, and for a much longer time, Slendy - are all addicted to this drug. The drug naturally, has some pretty drastic side effects, among them mood swings (explaining Alex and Tim's behaviour) and phobia of human contact (explaining Alex and Jay's drive to isolate themselves in their homes and tell no one about anything except over the internet, even when, especially in Jay's case, practicality dictates they should really be letting someone know of their life-endangering predicament), and, after more long-term usage, horrific physical disfigurement (the reason Slendy looks as Eldritch as he does and, possibly, the reason Masky wears his mask). This whole thing started when Alex found Slenderman's drug stash in the woods (thanks to their effects, Slendy had pretty much become a hermit) and made the thoroughly stupid choice of trying them himself, subsequently both becoming a junkie and incurring the wrath of Slendy, who became insanely desperate to get his stash back, but was rendered too weak and physically dysfunctional by the drugs effects to do anything more direct than stalk Alex from a distance. Around that time, Tim would find Alex's stash, try them, and become a junkie himself...and desperate for a bigger fix, would take the guise of Masky and begin stalking Alex in hope of getting more off him...inevitably striking up a small-scale war between Slendy and Masky over who would be getting the fix.

Eventually, Alex, realising what he'd brought on himself, finally persuaded himself to abandon his stash at his old house and flee for his life. Said stash would shortly thereafter be found by Jay, making him Slendy and Masky's new target.

* You forgot that the drug causes [[LaserGuidedAmnesia memory loss.]] The reason we have jump cuts is because J is turning off the camera and moving. Also, long-term use of the drug causes something weird to happen to the body's electrical field, which is why Slendy and Masky cause the static. The one big crimp in the whole theory, unfortunately, is where the hell the drug comes from in the first place.

** The circles at the end of Warning that become covered in X's always seemed to this editor to be related to "Smile for the Camera". The audience is watching, and Slenderman is in the audience?

[[WMG:Manga/TheEnigmaOfAmigaraFault is the Slender Man's origin story]]
Well, not at the time of the manga, but still. Slendy could have entered one of the holes and became stretched out by it, but somehow managed to escape. Perhaps he was driven insane by his stay in the fault, and that's why he lurks in the woods and kidnaps people. Slender Man-like figures have been observed through the ages (fictionally - look through some of the original SA thread), and the fault is supposed to be hundreds of years old, so the man who became Slendy could have been around at the time it was originally uncovered.

* [[OhCrap Holy Shit]]. That was yesterday. I really, really hope they kill Slendy. [[ParanoiaFuel I don't want the to live with the idea that Slenderman is still out there.]]
** [[spoiler:They didn't. ''He'' found ''them.'']]

[[WMG: The Slender Man is attracted to cameras, or can track his victims by them.'']]
Slendy ''always'' appears on camera. He's always managed to find Alex or Jay, while they've been chronicling their efforts to find him. Especially since they both had security cameras installed in their house...
* This may have been proven in Entry 26, where [[spoiler:Alez has been able to evade Slendy for years, but is found the minute Alex's girlfriend turns on the camera again. That's why he was trying to get her to turn it off- he knew Slendy would find them with it.]]
* Isn't is also possible that he's simply attracted to people who are thinking about him? Perhaps Alex hadn't thought about him in so long - which is why the Slender Man hadn't been able to track him... and then his [[spoiler:girlfriend opened up the floodgates by showing Alex the camera, forcing him to remember why he was going to sell it in the first place... and thus summoning the Slender Man.]] Which means that the Slender Man CAN appear to Anyone on Earth who thinks about him... Even You... RIGHT NOW.
** So, would that mean that Slender Man is [[spoiler:The Game]]?
*** [[spoiler: Obviously not. [[IncrediblyLamePun No one can lose him.]] ]]

She had been watching J's videos and decided get information from Alex about it. Upon finding his old camera, she decided to see if Alex would tell her any information about Marble Hornets. Unfortunately [[spoiler:Slendy]] decided to show up. After running away with the camera and the tape, she was able to text J from old contact info Alex had and then tracked down where he was in order to send him the tape.

[[WMG:Slendy is just trying to save the environment.]]

Slenderman is often personified as a homicidal tree, so continuing that line of thought, why not assume Slendy represents the whole forest? Nature in general? The audio and visual distortion on the tapes is caused by him essentially being the antithesis of the rational and technological world. He wants everyone to leave the woods, and stop filming him and trampling burrows and whatnot. Plus, with all those arms and tentacle branches, he could hold a ton of signs at protests and rallies. It's a hidden gift.

[[WMG:The Operator symbol is a sort of 'dimensional eye' that allows Slendy to look upon this world.]]
As soon as Alex starts to go off the deep end in the earlier Entries, one of the most distinctive things he did was to start scribbling the Operator symbol everywhere. That symbol keeps popping up throughout the series- first we see it being scribbled on the ground in an entry, and then we see it in Alex's drawings, and then we see totheark making use of the symbol. What if, assuming Slendy is an entity from another dimension, that the Operator symbols possess the otherworldly trait of being roundabout telescopes? It explains why Slendy and totheark always know where J is no matter how much he tries to hide- J has Alex's papers, and he'll never be safe unless he burns the drawings. [[FridgeHorror But since all those images of the symbols are all over the Internet by now...]]

[[WMG:When totheark attacked J, he wasn't trying to hurt him. [[spoiler:He was shoving him out of the way when the Slender Man was about to materialize.]]]]
While the fact that totheark is nucking futs is not exactly a secret, and said quality could easily explain why he attacked J in entry 18, it's too easy of an answer. Something doesn't add up. Consider the following: in the very next entry, totheark can be seen in J's room, but he's not attacking J. He's just...hovering around, watching him, doing nothing. If totheark wanted to hurt J he could have done so right then and there; slit his throat or summoned the Slender Man to eat him, as simple as that. But he didn't. What if, right at that moment in Entry 18, when totheark attacked, the Slender Man was about to appear behind J- and totheark shoved him out of the way?

If you look carefully in [[http://marblehornets.wikidot.com/entry-18 the Marble Hornets Wiki entry on Entry 18]], the recap mentions the audio distorts ''right before totheark lunges at him.'' And after that, totheark goes into seizures for no apparent reason! You could chalk that up to RuleOfScary, but we know that Slendy's influence causes health problems, like J's IncurableCoughOfDeath. And after totheark has his seizure, J starts to go into a coughing fit, and right after ''that'', the audio distorts again. totheark's not trying to kill J at all- he's trying to protect him from the Slender Man.


[[WMG:Neither totheark or The Slender Man burned J's house down.]]

And Slendy burning J's house doesn't make sense because the whole thing reeks of FridgeLogic. Can Slendy even ''use'' matches? We've never seen him pick anything up. Unless Slendy has pyrokinesis, which is not an ability he's ever displayed, he couldn't have done it, because he can't exactly throw together a molotov cocktail [[HumanoidAbomination in his condition]], and he can't very well ask someone to do it for him. Besides, the only element Slendy ''might'' have a connection to is water, as a tape/Entry is nearly destroyed by someone taking a sip of water, and even then, that's speculation. It wouldn't make sense for TTA to want to burn J's house down and in Slendy's case it's not even physically possible. So who did?
** IIRC, some of the old Something Awful stories included [=SM=] being able to control fire as one of his powers. Marble Hornets has been using and/or playing with many of the ideas used in the stories. So, it's much more likely that Slendy set fire to the building.

[[WMG: Slenderman is somewhat similar to The Game: He can only come after you when you remember/fear him.]]
In entry #26, Jay mentions that he "hasn't been thinking about it" and feels a lot better, his sickness going away with his paranoia. Furthermore, look at Alex's reaction to his girlfriend; at first, he seems like he honestly ''doesn't remember'' he still had his camera, and attempts to just dismiss it rather than bring up more questions about it. Also, look at Alex's face when the video tears. He's obviously remembering Slendy and everything he went through, and a few seconds later, BAM there's Slendy.

If Slendy's presence is somehow memory-based, it would explain why some members of the Marble Hornets crew fared better than others - Slendy was ALL OVER the shooting of this movie, apparently, but J and Tim never saw Slendy during that time. Things only went downhill for J once he started going over the tapes.
* If this is true, this could possibly mean that something Slendy-related happened during the filming that none of them can remember, for some odd reason. [[FridgeHorror Something bad]].
** Perhaps Slenderman encounters us all but we just don't remember it.
** According to enttry 37, [[spoiler: this is exactly what happened. The Operator has been stalking Alex for years.]]

[[WMG: Slendy is a horrifying (and very real) [[HumanoidAbomination creature]], but the prank theory is also true]]
Think about it. When Alex first started encountering Slenderman when he was shooting, doesn't it make sense that he would tell his friends (or someone) that he was being stalked by an obscenely tall, faceless being? Even if he was [[GenreSavvy smart]] enough to know that no one would believe him if he started mentioning monsters, he would still at least tell his friends someone was following him. So at least one of Slendy's appearances in the entries is actually a friend attempting to scare the hell out of Alex.

[[WMG: VideoGame/ChzoMythos: Slender Man is the [[spoiler: Tall Man]]]]
Seriously, the parallels are obvious, beyond just the name. [[spoiler: He wears black clothing, is associated with trees, never speaks, teleports, warps reality, and has no face. Naturally, there are a few differences. Slender Man is much more subtle, hardly ever outright killing anyone, and has that whole memory erasing thing. This could be explained by different Princes. Possibly even different realms of Technology, both linked to the same realm of Magic, and the same Chzo]]

[[WMG: Why aren't Jay and Alex telling us how the Slenderman was made?]]

** Slenderman stopped by on his way from the Big and Tall shop to the tailor's (to have everything taken in, of course) to help them with their film project?
** ''Film/{{Eraserhead}}''? You don't mean... The actor that played Slenderman is really a golem made of sheep foetuses?

[[WMG: There were two Slendermen (Slendermans? Slendermeni? Slendermun?), one of which was not intentional.]]

[[WMG: The Slenderman is a Weeping Angel]]
The Slenderman is a malformed Weeping Angel from Series/DoctorWho. ''Don't blink.''
* And, because the Eleventh Doctor series reveals that an image of a charged Angel becomes an Angel itself, that explains why Slenderman followed the tapes. ...Oh, dear, is this going to be like the time [[Film/TheRing Samara]] [[Webcomic/{{xkcd}} got uploaded to the internet]]?

[[WMG: Slenderman is harmless/doesn’t intend to hurt or frighten anyone.]]
No, seriously. Whatever he is, for all the weirdness going on around him, it may be that all the damage/psychological trauma associated with his presence/sightings is unintentional. Sure, he just [[NothingIsScarier stands there watching his “victims,”]] [[OffscreenTeleportation disappearing and appearing at the worst possible times]], but at least we’ve never seen him directly harm anyone. It may be that for all of his [[HumanoidAbomination strange, alien nature]] that’s he’s much like [[OurFairiesAreDifferent an old-school fae]] or even a [[DarkIsNotEvil more-or-less harmless]] [[EldritchAbomination being that is simply so different from us that it cannot understand us.]] What if Slendy is just curious? Perhaps J and Alex just caught his attention that day they were scouting near the red tower and Slendy is just puzzled about these strange beings, seeking them out to observe them. Think about it: it’s similar to a human being peering at a fish in a tank and startling it: we don’t mean any harm, but we may terrify another living thing that simply can’t understand what we are or how we’re in “their” world.

This may even be supported by things like Slendy entering Alex’s room at night without doing any real harm. OK, so Alex’s head was bleeding, but we don’t know what caused that. It might be something as innocuous as Alex being startled awake and banging his head on the wall, causing the injury. Also, as above, it goes with the fact that Slendy, to the best of our knowledge, has never directly harmed anyone. For all the scary stuff that goes on when he’s around, from random appearances to tape distortion to memory loss, we don’t know for a fact that he’s ever injured anyone or…[[FateWorseThanDeath done anything else]]. He’s just a child poking at a hamster in its cage, not understanding that he’s driving another being to the verge of hysteria through fear. For all that he lurks around and “chases” the characters, not much permanent damage is really caused by him that can’t be recovered from with a little time and distance.

[[WMG: Slenderman is not only harmful, but is being as completely sadistic and cruel as possible.]]
The exact opposite of the previous entry. Slendy is not only deliberately terrorizing his victims, he’s going out of his way to prolong the horror. Sneaking into Alex’s room and not harming him but making sure to [[ApocalypticLog leave the proof that he was there]] and could have done pretty much anything he wanted, letting J think that he had escaped the nightmare only to burn his apartment and/or send Masky after him and/or send Entry #26, letting Alex think he had escaped the nightmare only to turn up and terrorize him and his girlfriend years later… Slendy is enjoying every minute of this, and is just going to keep [[UpToEleven dialing the nightmare up higher]] until he delivers the coup de grace…if his victims don’t die of heart failure first.

[[WMG: Slenderman is Masky.]]
Kind of an outre theory, I admit, but it makes sense in a way as well. Tim is widely held to be Slendy, but what if, in line with the “alien mind” theories above, Masky is just another form or appearance of Slendy? Perhaps the Operator is trying to take a shape more like ours, whether to prolong the horror, cause confusion, or simply study us more closely. This could be in line with the harmless theory, the being trying to “blend in” and be more like us, or with the general hostility consensus, that it’s just another way of messing with his victims. It could also explain in a roundabout way things like why when Masky attacked Alex he didn’t really do much more than a tackle that ended with him in palpitations on the floor--the disguise was “slipping,” for example, or physical interaction between a human and Slenderman was just too incompatible, or something similar.
* [[spoiler: {{Jossed}} by Entry #35.]]

[[WMG: Slenderman is ComicBook/TheQuestion.]]
Years of exposure to Gingold Extract have caused him to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elongated_Man develop unusually long, slightly elastic limbs]]. The memory alteration is a result of him using a colorless smoke (filtered by his mask) that erases short-term memory and makes people susceptible to being convinced of false memories, and the tape editing is done with magnets, swiping the tapes and editing them, or (in some cases) both. The Masked Man, and totheark (or ''one of'' the tothearks), [[EpilepticTrees may be]] Renee Montoya-- the only person who knows Slenderman's true identity, and that the original Question survives.

[[WMG: The Slender Man isn't the being's true form]]
The Slender Man originally started as a prank on Alex by some of his friends, basing their slender man costume off of internet culture. They intended only to freak Alex out by lurking in the background of some of Alex's shots. Unfortunately, this managed to freak Alex out more than their friends intended. At the same time, however, a time-and-space warping abomination lurking in the area began to take interest in Alex, and began appearing to him in a corporeal form for reasons unknown. He could have chosen any form, however he found the perfect shape to get the biggest reaction from poor Alex: the same form that his friends has used to prank him. He deliberately began to exhibit much of the same of the same behavior and even erase the memories of the people who saw him, just so that he could play mind games with Alex. This eventually drives Alex to a near mental breakdown, giving all the tapes to J.

This only raises the question of why Slendy chose to take the form of what J and Alex feared most. Perhaps Slendy is drawn towards, or perhaps "feeds" off of the fear of others. Perhaps it's just a prankster at heart who enjoys scaring people. Or perhaps he wants to exploit the fear of J and Alex for his own ends...

[[WMG: The Slender Man needs human agents like Masky/totheark and he is looking for more.]]
The Slender Man is beyond the comprehension of humans, but unfortunately this means humans are beyond the comprehension of him. He drives people insane so that they can operate halfway between his insane logic and human logic. For example, despite J's interest in the tapes, the Slender Man needed to catch his scent before he could properly stalk J. Masky helped by luring J back to the house and visiting J's apartment to help "infect" it.

However, this clearly has debilitating effects. totheark is clearly insane and suffers from epileptic seizures. Being around Slender Man wears people out fast. The Slender Man wants Alex and/or J to be his new liaisons. Maybe one or both of them is special in a way that will cause them to last longer than Masky is or maybe they're just better equipped to approach the Slender Man's thought patterns. It's possible this entire process was merely Slender Man vetting his candidates.

[[WMG: Slendy Operates...]]

Based on Entry #4, it is the only time we see more than one slendy on screen, but also appears that Alex is actually searching for slendy so my theory after that he ends up killing one slendy, causing the fury of the other.
** Alex was initially curious about Slender Man. He mentions looking for him in Entry 2 and does so in the entry with the abandoned playground. His paranoia, chronologically, doesn't begin until the entry filmed in the car during which Slender Man appears in the background all a sudden, resulting with Alex's mood shifting rapidly. Now remember, Jay found an empty shell casing in the house. Perhaps Alex thought he shot and killed Slender Man and his paranoia/freakout didn't begin until he started seeing another Slender Man.

[[WMG: The Slender Man is a [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 Spy]].]]

To go along with the guesses above about whether Totheark works with or against the Slender Man, Totheark must be an undercover Scout; he's relatively small, very bouncy and clearly has an attitude. He pulls his camera trickery not by cloaking like Slender Spy, but by getting high on Bonk! so he can move faster than the camera can see. It's just a question of which team he's on.

[[WMG: Slendy is after the tapes]]
The whole thing started when Alex got Slendy on tape. The video camera captures his essence and stores it on the tape. This explains why Alex constantly filmed himself, because it weakened Slendy. Totheark is trying to find the tapes and release his master's essence. Slendy found Alex when a tape with his pressence was activated!
* A variant, is that the problem isn't the tapes itself, but when people watch them, Slendy gets weak when living people remember him, that is why he erases memories/kills people.

[[WMG: Slendy is trying to warn us about something]]
Slender-Man comes from an alternate universe, one where ''everything'' works differently: space, time, physics, light, sound, everything. As such, his bizarre interactions are his honestly best effort to interact with us, specifically through J, counting on J to put the videos of him on the Internet. Why is he trying so hard to communicate when it's nigh impossible to get across a coherent message? Because he's trying to warn us about something dangerous coming, possibly from his universe. Let me say that again: Slender-Man destroys reality with his mere presence, drives anybody who sees him insane, is ChaoticNeutral at best, and he's ''terrified'' and trying to warn us about something ''worse''. We are so fucked.
* Well, as you say, Slendy is pretty monstrous, and if everything in his home universe works differently than in ours, he could just as easily be trying to [[BlueAndOrangeMorality warn us about free ice cream]].

[[WMG: Slenderman is a component of, or has something to do with, the Matrix]]
There are a couple of things that tie into this. The first, and what made me immediately think of the possible tie-in, is Slenderman's in-universe title: The Operator. It's the same thing that the human operators call themselves whenever someone in the Matrix contacts them. There is also the obvious suit-and-tie affair that Slenderman and the Agents of the Matrix share. It's possible that Slenderman is some sort of corrupted Agent - not freed of the system like Agent Smith was, but still trapped within it, carrying out whatever orders either someone is giving him or he was last given. This could help account for Slenderman's apparent teleporting and tenacity as simply bending the rules.
* It's more likely he's an exile instead of an outright corrupted program, possibly an Agent from the second version of the Matrix that was dystopian in nature and over-compensated for the failure of the first, "paradise" Matrix. In the dystopian version of the world, the image of the G-man that the Agents pattern themselves after is warped and distorted into a supernatural, twisted version we see as the Slender Man. He chose not to return to the Source to be deleted when the Matrix was re-constructed as the third version, and he's actively rebelling against the Machines, trying to open the minds of close-minded people so the resistance will take note of them and free them to increase their numbers. (This would mean that J is in for one ''hell'' of a shock when he catches up to Alex, whom he can't find anywhere because he's been freed.) After Revolutions, now that this is pointless, he'll go to work for the Merovingian like many exiles.

[[WMG: The Slender Man is Arakune from VideoGame/BlazBlue...]]

[[WMG: Alex was not investigating the Slender Man alone]]
When the Slender Man first appeared, Alex went to his friends Brian, Tim, Sarah, Seth and ''Jay'' to help him figure out what was going on. (This was mostly done off camera). Each agreed to help him, but as they progressed, each one of them suddenly forgot what was going on. As they forgot, Alex got more and more paranoid and irritable around them and eventually it was just him and Seth. After they recorded the tower tape and Alex woke up realizing that it was only a matter of time, he fled himself. But before he fled, he was confronted by an amnesiac Jay about the tapes. Alex wasn't sure if Jay was starting to remember or not, so he gave the tapes to him hoping that it would jog his memory.

So what happened that the other four lost their memory? They didn't. Each one of them ''including Jay'' fell under the thrall of the Slender Man (either to gain power from him, or to become a cult to fight him) and became one of the masked figures as sen in Entry ######. But somehow, Jay broke free and ''actually did'' lose his memory. That is why totheark tells Jay to "come back to us", he's trying to get him to remember.

[[WMG: The Slenderman is a proto Gman]]

J actually was curious and actually watched the tapes as soon as he could, but Slendy memory erasing effect made him forgot, he might had watched them several times, and eventually forgeting all about it. 3 years laters he gets the idea of posting them in youtube and this time there is to much people for Slendy to MindWipe.

** And , with the exception of Tim, they are quite literally BecomingTheMask in order to get away from Slenderman. (Although it does make This Troper wonder what happened to Sarah, as Brian and Seth both are shown to have gone missing.)

** [[spoiler: According to the creators, the skull masked one was intended to be Jay, but the idea was eventually dropped. And with Brian turning out to be Hoody/totheark, this theory works pretty well.]] The only problem is, who are the other two?

[[WMG: Slenderman is JustForFun/CandleJack.]]
Or of the same family/clan/whatever. Both Slendy and Candlejack wear a bag over their head, can float, teleport, mess with space/time, and if you discuss them, [[spoiler: they get you.]]

Either someone is marking known sighting locations, or it's for summoning Slendy.

[[WMG: The Slender Man is [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Nyarlathotep's]] [[SaltAndPepper nerdy white counterpart.]]]]
Nyarly, too, is often depicted as a tall, slender, tentacle-y man with mental powers and no face, but he's much more charismatic and confident -- [[Film/BeverlyHillsCop the Eddie Murphy to Slendy's Judge Reinhold.]] At some point Nyarly and Slendy will team up [[TheyFightCrime to fight crime]]... or maybe just conduct mysterious experiments and terrorize film students.

Masky fights J to chase him out of the house and makes himself known on the videos so that J will become frightened and conclude that the only way to stop these occurrences is to cease the investigation. When Masky kidnapped J, he showed him some atrocity committed by the Slender Man, but the Slender Man erased it from J's memory. The "ark" is safety and peace of mind, and in saving J, J will have led Masky "to the ark."

[[WMG: Everything is going exactly as Slendy planned.]]
Slendy needs/desires two things: to be feared and to be worshipped. During the filming of Marble Hornets back in 2006, Slenderman took J, Brian, Tim, Sarah, and Seth as thralls (explaining the four different masked figures in Entry 26). For some time, they operated as creepy, Totheark type characters, living a bare-minimum existence in service of the Slenderman. They had some ability to be normal, as J was able to convince Alex to give him the tapes. Alex, on the other hand, was chosen to be the source of fear. He wasn't enthralled, rather, he was hunted and psychologically tortured. Even having lived a somewhat normal life (at least until April 2010), he would always have an apprehension at the back of his head, which fed Slendy. J was then released from Slendy's control, fed a false memory and given the tapes. He posts them on Youtube, and people begin hearing about Slendy.

This lets Slenderman find and hunt them.
WebVideo/Marblehornets, as a Youtube series, is essentially a message to attract people to the Cult of Slenderman, and also to spread fear of him. Anyone who has watched the videos is now a target. This is in keeping with the fact that J's twitter has now apparently been hijacked.

[[WMG: Slender Man is "The Ark" and Totheark wants him.]]

Slender Man is some sort of supernatural being whose thought processes are alien to ours, and who is attracted to those who encounter him and continue thinking about him (he may even genuinely ''like'' humans). This is why he kept appearing to Alex. However, he has no way to communicate with people properly - Alex's drawings and Entry 14 may represent attempts at telepathic contact. Why does he want to talk to people so badly?

Totheark is another being who wants to find Slender Man. Why he wants this is uncertain, but he calls him "The Ark". He knows that Slendy hangs around with people who have encountered him before. His videos are basically goading Jay into pursuing Slender Man (look closely. listen) and keeping him in his thoughts, so that he can be brought out into the open and captured/dealt with/interacted with somehow.

The masked people are his agents, with the masks representing some form of mind control (possibly bad for their health, as they seem to cough and have seizures). Many of them encountered Slendy in the past, but Slendy knows to stay away from anyone with a mask now.

At some point prior to Alex handing over the tapes, Slender Man managed to break through and communicate on some level with him, enough to convey the basics of the situation - he may even have intervened directly to keep him from getting "masked" in the video in entry 22 by yanking him out of the ''other'' mysterious house and putting him somewhere safe. After that though, Alex decided to quit, reluctantly gave Jay the tapes, and got out of Dodge.

Why can't Jay remember any of this? He was masked - in fact, judging by "Exit" he may have been one of the first to be masked. So what happened? When Alex skipped town, Totheark lost his bait. So he "unmasked" Jay, meaning that Slender Man would be attracted to him again, and (sans large portions of his memory) Jay began to investigate the tapes, Slender Man, etc.

Entries 18 and "Return" represent a successful attempt on Totheark's part to use Jay as bait for Slender Man. (found you. forever.) Note the black around Jay's eyes in "Return" - a partial reassertion of mind control?

So why didn't Totheark capture him at that point? Perhaps because Slendy's teleportation abilities keep totheark from being able to capture him in a place that follows the normal rules of space - that's why the videos encouraged Jay to go to the mysterious house, so that Slender Man might conceivably follow him to Totheark's playground and have a trap sprung on him. Jay holing up in his apartment is the opposite of what he wants, so he has the place set on fire in order to get him moving again.

Slender Man turns up in Alex's life again, possibly seeking some sort of aid. (Note how Alex treats him warily, but without fear, as though he were a stray dog.) Alex has sent his girlfriend away, possibly because he knows Slender Man is the harbinger for trouble, and Jay is going to find Alex (The HELP at the end of the video has the "operator" symbol, indicating that totheark may have tacked it on somehow). This suits Totheark fine, as now he'll have two pieces of bait, who may well travel to the space-warping house or some other place he has prepared.

We've heard that Alex was constantly filming himself, and that his car and the like was filled with tapes, and it sounds like Slendy's been following him for quite some time now. However, while it's logical to deduce that Slendy made some appearances to Alex before he started filming himself, and while the tapes before he started doing it constantly would have been fairly disjointed, after he started constantly filming himself, a clear chronology would have started emerging. Furthermore, throughout all these tapes, there appear to be surprisingly few appearances of Slendy. It's possible that J has given an incomplete analysis of the tapes or is purposely holding back information about them.

[[WMG: The Operator Symbol is used to create Slenderman's Operators.]]
Which is to say, individuals such as totheark. Some otherworldly property of the symbol slowly drives individuals insane so that Slenderman may recruit them without scaring them off. This is because he needs to interact with our world for some undisclosed reason.

[[WMG: Slendy is stranded in our universe because Alex and the Marble Hornets crew are aware of his existence, and after proof of his existence is destroyed and all of those who know of him killed, he will be able to go home, and this is totheark's motive.]]
Like many theories above, this one is based on the concept that Slendy's appearance is based on being aware of him. He doesn't harm anyone, but simply haunts them. He is able to erase memories, but now that he's on film, his existence is harder to erase.

Enter totheark, one of the people Slendy has been haunting. Maybe he knows how Slendy works, maybe he just ''really'' wants to forget about him, but he's trying to remove all traces of Slendy from reality. He doesn't want to harm J just yet, because he needs J to find Alex, whom he will deal with first.

[[WMG:Jessica is a victim of Slendy and his memory-erasing]]

[[WMG:Jessica is an agent of Slendy or totheark]]

** There's no such thing as "Possibly confirmed." If it's not confirmed, it's not confirmed. Also Masky there has Tim's jacket, sideburns and skin tone, that's Tim, and it's not even confirmed Masky is an agent of Slendy or totheark...so ya not confirmed at all.

... by Jay. Alex's encounter with Slenderman before he began running from him was to try and convince him to seem like a creepy entity in the tapes watching the filming. Slendy was also probably asked to wipe Jay's memory every once in a while to make him try and record everything he can, for the movie. Everything else is staged and Alex is the biggest asshole in the history of student films.

The audio in question consisted of nothing but Slendystatic and Alex [[ScreamsLikeALittleGirl screaming like a little girl]]. He did not want to have himself sounding like that recorded for posterity.

Somewhat in conjunction with the committing crimes WMG above, one of the crimes could have been that Jay killed someone, under the influence of Slenderman. This coming from Entry number 29 where something that looks like blood on concrete as well as Slenderman being on the scene.

Why did Jay forget? My guess is that it's one part memory supressing it, another part pain killers that Jay found in the hotel. Take enough painkillers and it could mess with your memory.
* Since when does ''Advil'' mess with your memory? Slendy seems like a much more likely culprit.
* I think that Jay has killed Alex. He's been searching for him for an unknown portion of the seven months and probably acted under Slendy's influence. The "noentry" video from Entry 29 was probably taken after the murder.

[[WMG: Slendy feeds off of fear]]

[[WMG: J was under Slendy's domination during the seven month period]]

** [[spoiler: Possibly confirmed in Entry 35. When Alex is about to bash Masky/Tim's head in with a rock, he says, '[Tim]'s not gonna call him'.]]
*** [[spoiler: It was actually "he's not gonna ''follow us''".]]

[[WMG: I am the Slender Man.]]
I can't remember being the Slender Man, and the Slender Man has the ability to erase people's memory. Hence I am the Slender Man. This logic is flawless.
* I ''can'' remember being the Slender Man. Does that mean that I'm not him?

Slendy is just altering J's memory and placing him somewhere else every time he tries to open one of the doors, in addition to killing his camera while he does it.

She's been coughing and Jay's camera acts up around her. The only other possibility is that Slendy's after her too, which is unlikely since Jay's presence doesn't seem to bother the camera.

...is where they thanked Slendy for taking time out of his busy schedule to help them out with their project. However, even the mention of him messed up the video, even though it was made on a computer, not recorded.

[[WMG:Slendy is a time traveller.]]

Either Jay killed him or his body just gave out from exposure to Slenderman, or whatever happened, Totheark/Tim is no longer with us. That's why Totheark hasn't posted any video responses. The picture posted on halloween? That wasn't Totheark. That was Jay, wearing Totheark's mask. He wore a hoodie to cover up his lack of epic sideburns.

** [[spoiler: Entry 35 begs to differ.]]
*** [[spoiler:Actually, in Entry 33, it appears to be Tim as Masky, except with a limp. The limp could be explained if you believe Alex was stopped from bashing Masky/Tim's head in in Entry 35.]]
*** [[spoiler: In Entry #36, Jay confirms that Alex only broke Tim's leg.]] Also, totheark's account is still active a year after the events on tape took place.

[[WMG: Slenderman is from an alien race and a scientist.]]
He and a bunch of other Slenderman scientists went to other planets with scentient life to study them. Specifically their primal emotions like fear. The Slenderman we got went in a little too into his studies, mainly targeting Jay and Jessica and messing them up in the process.

* [[spoiler:CONFIRMED]], at least the first part.

Nobody knows what happened to Sarah and as of Entries 32/33, she has her own tapes and is involved in the whole affair. Assuming Slendy only stalks the cast, it makes sense.

[[WMG: Slenderman and Masky are not evil, or good.]]
Masky just wanted to see the movie in the making because he loved the idea of it so he went around looking for the tapes. When the safe in Jay's room was opened he was there to take and veiw the tapes. And the Slenderman is a creepy tall guy who's actually a Producer from Hollywood. The reason the cameras act up around them is because they all just came in at the wrong moments. Their cameras where just screwed up from the beginning. The totheark videos were just there to try and get Jay to the tower so they could negotiate the terms for it. Finally, the Operator symbol is just the icon of his company. When Alex was going crazing and drawing everything he was just considering selling the rights to Slendy.
What I mean is, everything else was just a coincidence. During the 7 month hiatus Slendy had teamed up with Masky and they had tried to whoo him by offering him 'private hotels' and all that. Yup. That's what happened.

[[WMG: Slenderman can be defeated by Sunny-D!]]
Sunny-D is to Slenderman what holy water is to vampires. Namely, acidic. [[spoiler: Please let it be true. Please let it be true. It might be less scary if it's true...]]

* [[spoiler:Jossed as of Entry 35. After the unmasking, Jay even says it's Tim.]]
** [[spoiler: Later entries even have Tim specifically refer to himself as having been Masky as well.]]

Alex didn't bash his brains in, he was hurt and was recovering by hiding in the tunnel until Jay came after him. Slenderman eventually came in to save Tim.

** [[spoiler:Jossed. Entry 49 shows Alex attacking an unknown man and killing him by beating his head in with a rock. The man's T-shirt is the same one found by Jay in the tunnel.]]

They still aren't revealing how they filmed the Slender Man, and to this day no one can say how he was filmed. If this was fake, someone could have identified how Slendy was filmed by now.

Another interesting note, in Entry 35, Masky has an open opportunity to stab Jay when he comes around the corner, but runs right past him... straight to [[spoiler:Alex]] instead.

[[WMG: Slendy is the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eq2-WH7WoE Cup-A-Soup Man]]]]
The creepily watching people through their windows fits. Maybe Slendy just wants to give Alex and J a cup of soup.

* Jay, Masky, and Alex are all friends who enjoy the chase to pass the time until the next Slendy sighting. Unfortunately, Alex just gets a bit 'extreme' in tagging "Masky" to be 'it'

** Actually, Slenderman comes about on [[spoiler:the Website/SomethingAwful forums, not Creepypasta.]] The two series are completely unrelated.

* Well perhaps Slendy, sensing Tim was the weakest of the group, stalked him mercilessly until he became a knife weilding maniac and it was Tim that made Brian/Sarah/everyone else disappear.
** Possibly [[spoiler:confirmed in Entry 51. After being tricked into entering an abandoned building to film, Brian discovers Tim coughing in a corner before the Operator appears and the camera cuts out. Tim may very well know what Alex did to Brian and be out for revenge. He DOES try to choke Alex in Entry 45.]]

If we assume that Masky and totheark are one and the same, this raises one question: why does he leave so many clues and hints toward things for Jay? One thing that I took particular note of is the "Signal" video, which seems to foreshadow the events of Entry #19 (and by extension the "Return" video) in both a mocking and warning tone. Here's the WMG: the Operator's influence created Masky, a separate identity for Tim. Since Slendy's so strong Tim can barely fight it, and his only form of resistance is shown in his attempts to leave clues in totheark's videos as a warning to Jay and/or Alex.

[[WMG: The person loudly singing "Happy Birthday" in enttry 37 was Slendy ]]

[[WMG: The Slenderman's gonna try something on April 4th.]]
Being that it should be Alex's birthday, Slenderman's gonna either give him something nice on that day, or make things worse for him.

[[WMG: There is something far worse out there than either The Slenderman or Masky/[[spoiler:Tim]]. ]]

[[WMG: Slendy got Jay to delete the footage he found.]]
It's somewhat accepted that Slendy has some form of mind control powers. There could have been something pretty damn important on the tapes to get the Slenderman to use his powers to make Jay erase the footage. Only time will tell if Jay will be able to get back the lost footage.

* Well, while this is a valid theory, it could be that Seth and Amy were taken by Slender Man. Remember the seven month gap and the ensuing video wherein Jay looks insane? It's possible they're alive and being put through MindRape.

Maybe the Operator is a supernatural being that dwells in the forest near where Alex grew up. According to Entry #38, [[spoiler:criminals were hanged there 100 years ago and stretched out to die of starvation and dehydration.]] When the Operator finally tried to take a humanoid form, he only had one kind of reference on hand...

[[spoiler:The men who were hanged and starved, who may or may not have actually been criminals, were actually sacrifices to the spirit(s) that lived in the forest. After the criminals died and stretched out, the entire tree was burned down -- and burning is a classic method of sacrifice found all around the world. Masky and Friends are the successors/revival of that cult. ]]

[[spoiler: Whatever it is that makes plants in the forest grow quickly interacted with the executions in a way that gave rise to Slendy.]] Some possibilities:

#[[spoiler: A dying criminal tapped into the energy of the forest to become something other than human.]]
#[[spoiler: Slendy is the combination of the souls of everyone executed in the forest.]]
#[[spoiler: So many evil humans being killed there corrupted the spirit of the forest.]]

#[[spoiler: The executed were stretched in a manner similar to being on the rack, and Slendy looks like he's stretched out.]]
#[[spoiler: Slendy is associated with fire, and the bodies were disposed of with fire.]]
#[[spoiler: Slendy is associated with trees, and the executed were killed on trees, in addition to being killed in a forest.]]
#[[spoiler: Slendy is reputed to kidnapped children, and some of the executed were child molesters.]]
#[[spoiler: The trials ending when a child was murdered and put up in a tree seems like a beyond-the-grave revenge from one of the child molesters]].

* [[spoiler:Jossed. The creators have stated several times that it wasn't meant to act as an origin story for the Operator, and was just Alex being creepy.]] Still, doesn't stop us from trying.

Slendy couldn't get a role in Hornets, so he went to Marik instead.

** Alternatively, totheark is looking for the "ark" so he can lead Slendy there as well. The "ark" is Ark Music Factory, and he's leading Slendy there to devour all of the children making terrible music.

[[WMG:In Entry 39, the [[spoiler:person peeking into J's car is Jessica.]]]]
In Entry 39, if you take a good look at [[spoiler:the person peeking into J's rear window while he sleeps]], you can see that [[spoiler:the person has long, dark hair.]] Now, who else [[spoiler:has long, dark hair and we know shows up alongside J later on? ''Jessica.'']]

Jossed: It was [[spoiler: totheark going by the video "Forecast"]]. Though, this will support the possible [[spoiler: Jessica is totheark]] theories.

It's a similar principle to the red tower- the fact that attention was called to such an out-of-place object is foreshadowing for it's use later on. That, and the fact that [[spoiler:Slendy was standing literally right behind it.]]

* Slendy would be defeated by their ritual, or at least they would try to do so.

[[WMG: The Ark is some sort of machine/device/thing only Slendy can use, hence his title of Operator]]

[[WMG: The Trials in 38 didn't create Slender Man, they summoned him.]]

Jay and Alex will finally reunite, and the Operator will make itself known to both of them. It will reveal its nature as a fallen spirit/angel sent to protect them from the Masked Ones (Masky and his groupies). It will also reveal that it posted Entry ###### and enttry 37, the first as a plea for assistance, the second as a desperate attempt to prove that it's been watching them from the start and isn't trying to hurt them. The three track down Masky and his friends, running across Brian and Jessica's bodies along the way. Jay and Alex take care of the groupies, and Slenderman gets into a battle with Masky, who pulls a Masky and jumps out of nowhere. Jay and Alex drop the camera and make a break for it. We can still see the feet of the Operator and Masky as they fight. Suddenly, there's a burst of distortion, worse than any ever seen in the series, and then the Operator and Masky are both gone. Jay and Alex return, find the camera, and hypothesize that the two vanished to the Operator's dimension. The final entry will be a trailer for Alex's film, and it seems the two are back to normal. But as the trailer ends, the [[OhCrap video]] [[HesBack tears]]...
* [[spoiler:Jossed.]]

In entry #39, we meet a new character who appears to be a new version of Masky. He stands outside J's car while he's sleeping and watches him. In that same entry, J recieves a call from Alex telling him to meet him at the park. J arrives but doesn't find him. Maybe Alex was there all along, but was hiding. Also, in entry #41, after J's [[spoiler close encounter with the Operator]] and J drops his camera, someone comes along, picks up J's camera and takes it back to J's car. This is where we get our first actual look at new Masky. So either Alex is disgiusing himself to secretly aid J, or he is now under the Operator's control. Another clue that Alex isn't himself is that in entry #35, when the first Masky is revealed to be [[spoiler Tim]], Alex grabs the rock and smashes Masky's leg. He might have done that just to stop Masky from attacking his friend, but I have a feeling that the Operator knew that Masky had failed him, if they were working together. So he takes a new associate to help him. The reason why Masky/[[spoiler Tim]] attacks J in entry # 33 is because he is still trying to prove that he can help the Operator stop J, for whatever reason he wants to. However, Alex might also be helping J, while pretending the help the Operator. In entry #38, J and Alex are walking through the woods. Alex tells J about the methods the townspeople would use to dispose of criminals, tieing them to trees and stretching them out so their limbs were distended and enlongated. Sound familiar? So Alex could be providing subtle hints to J about the Operator's past, as well as possible ways to destroy him once and for all.

*** Jossed. Blasky (hoodie Masky) and the actual Masky are both together in Entry 45 while Masky tries to [[spoiler:choke Alex.]] So unless two Alex's exist in the same universe, they're different people.

* This doesn't explain the totheark vids from Season 1. Considering Jessica's only tie to the crew is her roommate Amy, and Amy was only with Alex after he left town, it's incredibly unlikely. Slendy appearing to Alex and Amy happened in the "present" at the end of Season 1, so Jessica wouldn't have had any knowledge of the events on the tape before that.

* If by Blasky you mean Hoody, [[spoiler: then absolutely Confirmed.]]

* Somewhat Jossed. Considering there are several times when people other than Jay interact with Alex, it's safe to assume that Alex is indeed a real person. [[spoiler: Besides, if Alex was just a figment of Jay's imagination, then how was Alex able to keep on going after Jay was killed?]]

[[WMG: The IncurableCoughOfDeath from being around Slendy is actually just a symptom of him taking control of you.]]
Mostly based off of Entry 43 (there will be unmarked spoilers henceforth, beware!), but seen in other entries - in Entry 43, Alex meets Slenderman (still no idea why as of this writing), he initially seems panicked (judging solely from the camera movement), collapses coughing, and then - gets up and starts to walk like a zombie towards The Operator. This would explain why the cough is seen with some encounters, and not all (Entry 40 is in recent memory, among others) - because that thing isn't always trying to take control. I suppose the coughing fits are due to Slendy's total alien nature, or something, as posited in several [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos Slendy blogs]] (Namely The Tutorial in this case, I believe).

The Operator symbol is an X in a circle. It couldn't be more obvious! Slendy is obviously out recruiting for Xavier's school for gifted youngsters. This just means that Alex and Jay are also mutants.

On one final note, Slenderman's Messing with the camera could STILL apply to Jack b/c Jack Skellington was never recorded on film in the actual "Nightmare before Christmas" movie. So it's totally possible.

The DVD, the interview, even the character's "real names" are all a front. It only came to me once I read how well-acted Alex's performance has been in the past two entries: he's not acting! The entire purpose of Marble Hornets is not merely a (true) apocalyptic log, but to bring the Operator/Slender Man to a larger audience. And the more people who know about the Slender Man, the more he evolves from meme to myth, the more powerful he becomes. Marble Hornets is a vessel to ensure that he cannot be stopped.

Jessica's important for some reason. Maybe because she got away when Slenderman was at the house and now Slenderman's hunting them all down. Alex wasn't looking to make sure Jessica was okay. Maybe he was in control of Slenderman and using the "amy" excuse as a lie to get her comfortable enough to come see him and get captured. \

[[WMG: Alex is working with Slendy because he's holding Amy hostage, and subsequently blackmailing Alex]]

Think about it: why would Alex be playing nice with Slendy? Because whatever happened in Entry #43, he somehow ''did'' get in contact with Amy, and is now being blackmailed by the Operator. That would explain why he's actively seeking the Operator, as well as why the Operator would have scared off the Maskies: Alex needs to play nice and keep in contact him so he can keep Amy safe. Likewise, the Operator would be protecting Alex from the Maskies because he needs him for some purpose.

[[WMG: The [[http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?mode=attach&id=20250&thumb=1 "Panda face"]] from Entry #22 is [[spoiler:Masky #2 from Entry #45]]]]

[[spoiler:Hoody/Blasky]] returned it like he did [[spoiler: Jay's in Entry #40]].

"I know what those mysterious pills are... Ambien. People do some crazy shit on that stuff and have no recollection of it the next day. Slenderman is probably a rep for the drug company that makes it (hence the suit). As for TTA's weird, cryptic messages... Ever been on Ambien and try to write an email or text someone? That's pretty much the result."

[[WMG: Alex and Slendy are an item]]

2.) That's also why Slendy popped up so fast after Jay literally came out of the closet in episode 46. He didn't want Jay flirting with his boyfriend.

[[WMG: Alex doesn't run from Slendy because he's too busy beating the crap out of him]]

Just a random thought I had today after watching 46 and reading this page. One joke WMG states that Alex and Slendy are in a relationship, but what if our tall antagonist wants Alex's body in a different- and more literal- way? Let's go back to the entry where Alex talks about the executions/sacrifices in the forest. Lots of people think Slendy comprised his current form off what he thought humans looked like based on the remains of the executed. Now, this is kind of out there, but let's say the Operator has decided humanity is too flawed to keep around and wants to create a new, improved race- one with his powers and all under his control. Basically, he took the idea of humans being sacrificed to him to heart and now ''believes he is a god''- in addition, he intends to do what the Christian God did and begin a new species with two individuals. In this case, Alex represents Adam. The Operator had him picked out for a long time to be the first of this new species, and over time has slowly affected his mind and sanity in order to open a door to let himself in. That's why Alex has had trouble noticing Slendy at times, because the abomination is gaining a firmer hold. Alex coughing up blood is a result of the physical changes that are already happening unbeknownst to him.

The "Eve" of this scenario could be either Jessica or Amy, not sure which. On the one hand, Jessica has all the symptoms of Slender-sickness[[note]]and let's be honest, the fandom does think she's pretty hot (cough)[[/note]], but on the other hand Amy already had a romantic connection to Alex and has been absent since 26. Or Slendy is crazy prepared and left his options open so he could go with just about anyone.

The Masked Men could, given their apparent powers, be early tests Slendy ran to determine what he could do to alter his new race. Either they're his "angels" of sorts (messengers and soldiers) or are their own rogue group, but either way they don't much like Alex for being the golden boy, hence their ambush in 45. Whether they just wanted to scare him or fully intended to murder him, the Operator showing up scared them off lest they incur his wrath. As for how the masks fit into this, no idea.

Finally, the Ark that has been on the edges of this story all the time is either something that can reverse or complete the transformation Slendy inflicts on his victims, or it's supposed to be a reference to the biblical Ark and protect the first two of the new order (much as Noah's carried two of every animal). How does Jay fit into all this? I dunno, but if anything, should the Operator see himself as parallel to the Christian God he might view Jay as being the devil. (Regardless, I'd just like to throw in that I think Jay's unrevealed last name must have ''some'' significance even if it means nothing to this theory).

Didn't Tim say that he knew Alex because Alex lived near Brian? I think that Brian was watching Alex for signs of Slendernapping, and called in his ole buddy Tim to help when things started getting somewhat serious.

** [[spoiler: As stated in said entry above, Confirmed.]]

[[WMG: Slender Man is lonely and trying to create a family.]]
After putting enough influence onto any person Slender Man can make them transform. The Slender Sickness is the first signs of this; then they choose their new “face” because their human one doesn’t feel right anymore, they start wearing the same clothes because they are the only things that feel comfortable (or they just don’t care about fashion, keeping clean). After enough time they begin the proper transformation into Slendies themselves, gaining all of his powers in the process. As we have seen in Entry 19, Masky has started to effect the tapes.

** OR the maskies have been "adopted" and will remain his partially human "Slendy-babies" who can run around and do his bidding, using their human appearances to lure dinner/people home to the Slendycave.
** Recent Entries suggest that the Maskies are actually working AGAINST Alex and Slenderman.

They continued to live, even if (I say if due to the series not being over yet) the Miracle ended, and they've been driven mad. Encountering Slendy may not have helped either.

It's past midnight, so bear with me here. Slendy is a representation of the Trauma. It haunts people, it makes them sick, it makes them repress memories, and take medicine, and cut others off. The maskies...I don't know. Perhaps they are people that want to 'help' but fail at doing so and therefore make it worse. Maybe they represent people that have succombed to the trauma.

Slenderman likes to keep his victims alive to feed off their fear but they also need to eat, need a place to stay for the night and a way to get from hideout to hideout. So he panhandles to get the money needed for this.

Or a similar piece of Time Lord technology. Inside, is either The Operator's imprisoned race, or the EldritchAbomination that Slendy is part of. He is called "The Operator" because he's the only one who can properly use it.

Slender Man is dicking around with his head, but not in a way a simple as inducing a full FaceHeelTurn. When Alex asked Jay for help, it was genuine, and when he's less-than-impressed by the [[TooDumbToLive mind-bogglingly stupid]] things Jay does, the same. However, he has no memory of knowledge of such incidents as breaking Tim's leg, casually narrating the insanely creepy history of the forest, or his recent close encounters with the Operator, and consequently believes that all of Jay's frustration and anger at him is completely unjustified. In Entry #47, he doesn't answer Jay's question because he actually ''doesn't hear it'', and isn't consciously aware of his physically violent actions, either.

* While your {{Bat Deduction}} is flawless, sadly Jossed. [[spoiler: totheark is Hoody, AKA Brian.]]

[[WMG: Jay made a bet with Slenderman]]
But he didn't have the money and is currently having money troubles. Jessica is also having money troubles and made a bet with Slendy. Which in hindsight wasn't a brilliant idea for either of them to do. Which is probably why Jay owes him 20 dollars and Slendy is unfortunately the type to harass people to the point of insanity.

* Jossed, Alex wasn't killed, [[spoiler: he murdered someone.]]

One day, Alex gets an idea for a crappy movie about a guy named Brian who moves away and comes back home. Everyone starts filming it again. They go to all their old haunts, all the places they went back when they first caught the Operator's attention. At one point Alex mentions Sarah's "hunting camp." What if a camping trip in the woods is how they awoke him? Now that they're all back together and basically filming what happened, ole Slenderpuss is back.

...the [[spoiler: body of the murdered man]] in #49. The Operator appears over it, slends around for a bit, and it disappears with him. What did he need it for? [[spoiler: He makes his minions out of them. The masked men? All reanimated dead. Tim's coughing fit in that one chronologically-early entry? Yeah, we saw him ''dying.'' And the pills are what make them stay moving.]]

[[spoiler:Committing homicide]] served as a [[MoralEventHorizon sanity event horizon]] of sorts, completely removing the possibility that he might eventually realize how he's been acting and snap out of it. The best foreseeable fate for him is a DyingAsYourself scene.
* [[spoiler: Confirmed. Alex gets stabbed in the chest in the penultimate entry. And if that didn't kill him, he then gets taken by the Operator.]]

[[spoiler:Was the remains of the man he killed. The Operator was doing something with the body.]]

He's simply trying to protect J. As seen in Entry #49, [[spoiler: Alex has fits of rage and violence, which caused him to murder a completely random stranger who just so happened to walk by]]. In the next entry (50), J is going to most likely be meeting up with Alex at the park again. Alex will [[spoiler: attempt to kill J, but Masky will pull a BigDamnHeroes moment!]]
** [[spoiler: Confirmed! Although it happened in Entry ''52'' and it's still not known if he really is on Jay's side]].

[[WMG: The tunnels in conjunction with the operator symbol are what lets Slendy teleport.]]
Slendy's been known to travel distances inhumanly fast. I don't think he has the power to just poof anywhere he wants, however. First of all, the tunnel from the pump room in Entry #23 could lead to a variety of places around the town. That's why he can warp around the woods, because several small holes like the one in Entry #21 lead out from there, and why he can warp into the tunnel in 29 and 49. It must lead from there. Furthermore, the operator symbol has often been theorized as a sort of summoning circle for slendy. I propose, however that it's an invitation rather than a compulsion. That's why slendy has to walk into Alex's house near the beginning of the series but could teleport there in 44.

It is commonly believed that fear attracts the Operator and makes you weaker for his mindfuck. Now, where does anger come into play? In a few recent entries, we have seen Alex going AxCrazy (mainly 45 and 49). In 45, when he yells angrily at the [[spoiler: two maskies]] his voice is [[VoiceOfTheLegion distorted]]. In entry 49, [[spoiler: after killing the beard guy]], Alex walks past the camera that is laying on the ground a few times. When he does this, the audio of the camera is once again distorted. Distortions like these is usually associated with the Operator and the Maskies, and both of these times Alex was angry at something. Under normal circumstances he obviously doesn't cause distortions, so his state of mind most likely has something to do with it. Whenever Alex gets angry, he gets dragged to TheDarkSide a little more, which means he causes [[FanNickname slendistortion]] on his own cameras. Alex is slowly turning into something that's not human anymore.

He thought Beardy was one of the maskies. The maskies have been stalking him for quite a time, and he has attempted to kill [[spoiler: Tim]] by bashing his head in with a rock before - [[spoiler: he even used the exact same method to finish off Beardy.]] Since in Entry 50 Alex didn't try to [[spoiler: kill Jay]] in the woods, he has no real intention to [[spoiler: kill Jay]], only the maskies.

** [[spoiler:Well, it's confirmed NOW, but only because we SEE him get killed in #83.]]

[[WMG: Slendy [[DemonicPossession possessed]] Alex when he was a kid.]]
In Entry 51 we see [[spoiler: Alex "sacrificing" people to Slendy back when he was filming Marble Hornets (the student film).]] Yet at that time Alex wasn't as creepy and, well, evil as he is today. We've also seen proof that Slendy has been around Alex since he was a kid. Slendy possessed Alex when he was a kid, creating [[SplitPersonality a second, possessed personality]] that surfaces whenever Slendy comes near him. Slendy can also implant subconcious desires like "go to abandoned building, [[spoiler: bring your friend with you]]" in his mind through this link. During the second season, the "possessed Alex" has simply started merging with the "normal Alex", creating the mess we have now. In the end, the possessed Alex might overthrown the normal Alex completely.

[[WMG: Totheark is multiple people, and all those people are former victims of Slendy [[spoiler: and Alex]]. ]]
All the masked men in the series so far are members of the totheark crew. They were all people (mostly former MH crew) who got shafted by [[spoiler: Alex]]. This is supported by Entry #51, where we're shown that [[spoiler: Tim faced this fate and we know that he later reappeared as Masky]]. The Operator drove the people subjected to this "treatment" insane or nearly insane, explaining why totheark's content is so [[MindScrew Mind Screwy]]. The Masks are either their way of identifying each other while hiding their true identity, or perhaps even a defensive measure against The Operator and the creeping insanity induced by him. Now the masked people are working to stop [[spoiler: Alex]] and Slendy, as supported by Masky's recent actions, especially in Entry #52.

So far, there haven't been any red herrings in the series. They wouldn't have included [[spoiler:the gunshot]] if it were just [[spoiler:a harmless misfire into the air]], and we know Tim is alive...

It seems that the whole reason Slendy had the maskies was to get Alex, right? [[spoiler:After Tim got the sneak attack on Alex, he could have very will beaten him and brought him to Slendy]] meaning he would no longer need the maskies, and could let them go back to be normal people.

[[WMG: The Slender Man is Alex in a suit]]

That is, [[AxCrazy dangerously insane]]. At the height of his frustration with Alex, and with his whole situation in general, he was enraged enough to [[spoiler:''attack'' [[EldritchAbomination the Operator]]]]. Jay is a [[WordOfGod confirmed]] introvert who clearly doesn't [[Franchise/StarWars prefer a straight fight to all this sneaking around]]...but in the seven months he doesn't remember, he grew increasingly [[ShutUpHannibal assertive]] and, dare I say it, ''angry''. This isn't a case of "breaking out of his shell". His frustration with Alex was just the beginning. He's becoming volatile, and fast.

* In Season 3, Jay has slowly developed into a paranoid mess, refusing to trust Tim whatsoever and constantly looking out for any mysterious observers (Slendy or otherwise). By Entry 63, he's acting disturbingly like Alex--constantly filming himself and everything around him, obsessing about the Operator and, just a few Entries before, luring former friends out to dangerous situations. While the latter is to investigate instead of murder, who's to say it'll stay a mere investigation? As Jay grows increasingly uncomfortable with Tim, [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope why couldn't he perform a preemptive strike just in case Tim ended up becoming a threat?]] [[CallBack Perhaps with a rock?]]

[[WMG: Slendy has sex with Alex and Jay]]

* It's strongly implied that Slendy's hanging around in Jessica's room when Jay is talking to her through the doorway. [[spoiler: WordOfGod from the DVD commentary confirms this.]]
** Proved wrong as of Entry #60 when [[spoiler:Jay stumbles across The Operator in the tunnel and gets within inches of it's nonface]].

He lives in the area and suffers from extreme gigantism and acute vocivus facial syndrome. He is a window inspector. He accidentally wrote down the wrong address for one of his jobs, and he was inspecting Alex's house by mistake. Slendy is kind of creeped out by these kids who are running around filming him. At first he thought they were making a movie, but then they started chasing him and filming him when he's just trying to take a walk in peace. Even when he leaves town, they still follow him! He has also noticed that they seem to be taking bad care of their cameras. If they keep this up, it could result in major visual tearing and audio distortions!

[[WMG: Slenderman is a good guy while Masky is the bad guy]]
So Slendy was just trying to warn Alex, but Alex went insane so now Slendy is trying to warn Jay and Jessica, but can't because he is planning something important that will save Alex, Jay, and all the other characters from Masky and his lackeys. Slenderman is just scaring everyone away to save them from the masked men.

[[WMG:The Slenderman teaches the class Alex was making "Marble Hornets" for]]
He's still an inhuman abomination, just one that teaches film production. He's an extremely devoted teacher, and likes to watch his students as they work on projects. Alex knew that his professor was watching him, which made him progressively more nervous, explaining his behavior during the project. Eventually he became convinced he would fail the class, so he tried to bribe his professor with a human sacrifice [[spoiler:(Brian)]]. Eventually he couldn't handle the stress anymore and dropped out of film school. Slenderman knew that Alex was a good student and could succeed if he applied himself, so he started stalking Alex, trying to convince him to go back to school. Alex put that part of his life behind him and moved away, and Slenderman finally gave up on him. That is, until Amy found the camera. When he sensed that Alex's old camera was getting use, Slenderman assumed that Alex had taken up film again and went to his house to encourage him. He since found out about Jay's Youtube project and realized that he has a knack for film too, and is now trying to convince him to go back to film school, too.

** The first, third, fifth, seventh, and eight ones are at least answered on-screen. In order, [[spoiler: Alex killed them and they got taken by the Operator, Hoody turns out to be Brian, Alex believes that by killing everyone linked to the Operator/Marble Hornets will keep the Operator's evil from spreading to more people (whether he was possessed by the Operator is left up to debate), the Operator kills and/or eats them, and totheark (at least one member of TTA, if the multiple user theory is true) is Hoody AKA Brian.]]

* Tim is fine now, as of #53. He's been going to the clinic for hypnotherapy/behavioural therapy to make him forget about Slendy or break the habit of trying to look for him, having realised that trying to record it just makes things worse.

* It could also be where Slendy keeps his victims he has collected over the years.

[[WMG: Joseph is the one playing Slender Man]]
In the troyhasacamera video Joseph Listens to Jazz, Joseph is quite tall, and he's wearing a suit. He's at least a head taller than Tim, and is most likely taller than Troy. Since he's so tall, and has the suit, he would be a great choice to play Slender Man.

Already a bit loony themselves from everything, they set out to get revenge on Alex. However, in an attempt to stop them dead in their tracks, Slendy messes with their heads to the point of insanity. While still heavily anti-Operator and Alex, their way of going about things is very unorthodox and often stopped dead (for obvious reasons.) It could be possible they cannot touch Alex at this point due to The Operator’s control over him (and by extension, them.) Their Website/YouTube account with the disturbing videos and occasional appearance is enough to show Alex and The Operator they are there.

I highly suspect that ToTheArk follows Jay’s channel to find updates on Alex and The Operator to see when they need to act. Whenever Slendy shows up or weird stuff goes on, the permanently insane Ark members find Tim and he relapses into Masky for the time the crap with Slendy and Alex is going on. Why would they need Tim? Well, for one he was very close with Brian (and Sarah, probably) and two they are already insane and just want him there.

The main question everybody is probably asking is this: why doesn’t our dear Slendy just kill the bastards off? Maybe he cannot kill people, as I suspect, and just serves as an influence for others. Maybe he gets a sick pleasure out of seeing all of the chaos. Maybe The Operator itself has an ulterior motive. Or maybe his motives consist of something else entirely.

We know he did this for Alex. [[spoiler: Entry 60 gives a hint he might have done this for Tim.]] It's only a question of time since it's revealed he did it for Jay as well, and the rest of the Marble Hornets crew. Tangent to that, them ending up together to make the student film wasn't a coincidence. They were unconciously driven to it, and The Operator used their film as a tool, possibly for [[ParanoiaFuel spreading knowledge of him and thus getting more stalking targets]].
* [[spoiler: It's confirmed that Tim had been stalked by the Operator since he was a child. Whether he had done the same to the others is never stated.]]

(Note: I meant to post this theory even before Entry #60's documents) Since the beginning of Season 3, it's been hinted that Tim has had a history of psychiatric issues, most of which probably stem from being haunted by Slendy as a child. Under the guidance of him, Tim burnt down the mental hospital he was sent to as a child - the abandoned hospital currently featured in the series. This is also why he so strongly reacted to Jay's doings and having to be at the hospital, and proclaimed so vehemently that he wasn't a psychopath. He ''isn't'' one, but because he burnt down the hospital (the memories of which still haunt him), and pyromania being one of the big 3 traits of people with Psychopathy/Sociopathy, he had to consistently face accusations of psychopathy as a child, despite knowing himself that he wasn't and that it was really all The Operator's fault.

He's shown to be insane without his proper medication, possibly seeing into another dimension or [[GoMadFromTheRevelation losing it from having so much power]]. Entry 61 implies this is the case, as the distortion only starts once Tim's meds wear off. The Operator might refer to a doctor that did something traumatizing to him once. Hence, the hospital and Slendy's title.

Tim is shown taking his pills on a fairly regular basis, and when he is working with Jay no sign of Masky is shown. However, as Entry #61 showed, Tim needs his medication or he [[spoiler:turns back into Masky]]. Odds are that his parents, during one of the times when he was functioning as Tim, took him to a doctor. Upon hearing about the blackouts, nightmares, and IncurableCoughOfDoom, the doctor put him on medication that would control those symptoms. However, the medication also prevented Masky from taking control. In order to further his agenda, Masky needed to find someone else. Thus, Blasky and the others were created to operate in conjunction with Masky and, if need be, [[spoiler:take steps to make Tim become Masky again]].

* [[spoiler: Confirmed.]]

One of the trademark signatures of sociopathy is a lack of "fear" responses where one would expect them. Consider how many times Alex never even ''notices'' Slendy, even in Season 1, or never runs away when Jay does. He doesn't respond because he's physically incapable of feeling fear; the only reason to run is to make other people think he's scared.

Of course, the Operator is a central part of the events of the story - but that matters nothing to Alex. To him, Slendy's just a tool, or an excuse, or encouragement to lead as many people as he can to horrible death. Slendy could have brainwashed Alex if he was normal - but then he could have easily done the same to Jay or Jessica. There was no need to do anything to Alex.

** Jossed [[spoiler: Entry #76 implicates Tim in Jessica's disappearance/ murder a la Operator.]]
* Not quite. [[spoiler: The tape shows that Alex, after failing to kill Jay in Entry 52, had located them at the HellHotel. The fact that Jay had lost his memory and was posting Youtube videos about his location may have been a hint. Hoody and Masky got there first and tried to evacuate Jay as only they can. Alex used his gun to drive Hoody away from Jessica, and took her to the tunnel to kill her. She escaped but then the Operator got her anyway.]]

* Possibly Jossed, as the one time we've heard Hoody speak (Entry #73, Hoody says "Oh shit" when [[spoiler:Alex comes down from the attic]]), it is clearly a male voice.

* Absolutely Jossed. [[spoiler: Hoody is Brian.]]

And it's not because they want to either; it isn't because of Alex's homicidal tendencies that The Operator took Beardy. It was going to take him anyways and Alex made it easier by murdering him. This could be the same for Brian, Seth and anyone else that Alex has ever known. [[spoiler: Likewise, the same event happens to Tim and anyone ''he's'' ever known or was around... including Jessica in Entry #76.]]

** Jossed. Hoody is [[spoiler: Brian]].

** Furthermore, some fans are speculating that the message from Quadrant "Whom am I? Am I the third?" was Hoody/[[spoiler: Brian]] predicting his own death. If this is the case, then Jessica would almost certainly be alive, since the first and second deaths would be [[spoiler: Bruce and Jay]] respectively.
** Finally, again from Entry 84, now that Hoody is confirmed to be [[spoiler: Brian]], we know that at least one person who was taken by the Operator while lying on the ground unconscious has reappeared, albeit not in the best of mental health.
** [[spoiler: Confirmed in the last Entry.]]

** Close. [[spoiler:Entry #77 was apparently uploaded by Tim, and includes the message that [[IDidWhatIHadToDo He Did What He Had To Do]] because Jay was putting them both in danger]].

[[WMG: Totheark intentionally [[spoiler: made Jay paranoid to drive him away from Tim.]]]]
In Entry #72, [[spoiler: the Operator tried to abduct Jay, but Tim thwarted him.]] Totheark then sets up a number of videos [[spoiler: hinting that Tim is a liar and hiding something.]] This makes Jay [[spoiler: more and more paranoid of Tim, and when he finds the video #76 makes Jay believe that Tim is somehow still dangerous. Well, he ''is'' - to the Operator.]] And then now, in Entry #80, [[spoiler: Jay is all alone, and the Operator is able to abduct him.]] Required for this theory: [[spoiler: totheark/Blasky occasional still has some lucid moments, as Tim did when he was Masky, which is why Quadrant contains a subtle warning for Jay to not be stalking Tim.]] (Sorry for the copious spoilers, but this involves all the major plot twists of the last dozen or so episodes)

[[WMG: In Entry #80, [[spoiler:Jay isn't dead, HesJustHiding]]]]

[[WMG: Jay [[spoiler:either will return soon, or has already returned]] ]]
[[spoiler:In ''Return'', Jay was taken for 3 hours. Tim was taken and brought back in only a few minutes at Rosswood. Jay was taken and eventually returned when he picked up the tapes from Alex in the first place. Odds are that the Operator has already returned him somewhere, and his newly ventilated torso will make him more willing to trust Tim, since Alex was all too eager to open fire while Tim only [[IDidWhatIHadToDo was trying to protect Jay]].]]
* Jossed. We can see [[spoiler: Jay's dead body in Entry 83]].

[[WMG: totheark wants to be a proxy of slender]]

* Jossed. In Entry 86, [[spoiler: Alex]] shows Brian's corpse to Tim. Apparently, he was still alive when taken, so he got to die a slow death in the Operator's realm.

* Talk about [[spoiler: AccidentalTruth]]!

And true to form, every time somebody died, the Operator swooped in, brought them to its DarkWorld, and has since been doing its work on them. How effective are its methods? Who knows? It may or may not be able to bring people back from the dead. For all we know, all the characters [[spoiler:and not just Jessica]] may in fact still be alive! But because they had their memories wiped as a natural side effect of the Operator's methods (or in some cases, had their minds completely warped), they weren't able to contact the protagonists and tell them what's what. Remember, Jay couldn't find any news of Beardy's death or disappearance; maybe because as far as anyone in town knew, he never died or disappeared at all.

I realize that in game time and out of game time are no longer in sync with each other for reasons outside the creator's control. At the same time, though, Entry 87 was uploaded ''very'' quickly, with almost no explanation given for anything in it, such as the survival of both [[spoiler: Tim and Jessica]]. Furthermore, Tim's possession of his mask also doesn't make much sense, given that it was last seen somewhere in the college right before the TeleportSpam started. Finally, despite the apparently BlatantLies in the "everything is fine" message at the end, Tim was acting somewhat calm and normal throughout most of the entry, with little explanation of how we get from the end of 86 to the beginning of 87.

* The worship in TheLostWoods and subsequent birth of the Operator could be attributed to Totheark, or to a rival clan that they are trying to stop.

Slender Man is dicking around with his head, but not in a way a simple as inducing a full FaceHeelTurn. When Alex asked Jay for help, it was genuine, and when he's less-than-impressed by the [[TooDumbToLive mind-bogglingly stupid]] things Jay does, the same. However, he has no memory of knowledge of such incidents as breaking Tim's leg, casually narrating the insanely creepy history of TheLostWoods, or his recent close encounters with the Operator, and consequently believes that all of Jay's frustration and anger at him is completely unjustified. In Entry #47, he doesn't answer Jay's question because he actually ''doesn't hear it'', and isn't consciously aware of his physically violent actions, either.

* The worship in the LostWoods and subsequent birth of the Operator could be attributed to Totheark, or to a rival clan that they are trying to stop.

Slender Man is dicking around with his head, but not in a way a simple as inducing a full FaceHeelTurn. When Alex asked Jay for help, it was genuine, and when he's less-than-impressed by the [[TooDumbToLive mind-bogglingly stupid]] things Jay does, the same. However, he has no memory of knowledge of such incidents as breaking Tim's leg, casually narrating the insanely creepy history of the LostWoods, or his recent close encounters with the Operator, and consequently believes that all of Jay's frustration and anger at him is completely unjustified. In Entry #47, he doesn't answer Jay's question because he actually ''doesn't hear it'', and isn't consciously aware of his physically violent actions, either.

Tim was shown to have had very strange mental issues since childhood. Also, Alex didn't start seeing The Operator until he began spending lots of time with Tim while making the movie. It's entirely possible Tim had no idea he was being followed by something and used medication to block most of it out. It wasn't until The Operator saw that Alex was a better victim that it switched over.

* It is TribE Twelve and can be found here https://www.youtube.com/tribetwelve

Rather, it's an allusion to Tim, whose last name is Otheark [[ItIsPronouncedTropay (Pronounced Oat-herk).]]