As for the Operator, Alex is both terrified of, and obsessed with him, seeking him out one day, and screaming at Jay for "leading him" to his apartment the next. Jay himself is terrified of the operator, but never seems to actively seek him out until 40, but even then he was there on Alex's orders. In my opinion, the Operator himself, while the key factor in events, is little but a red herring to the actual story, aimed to distract Jay and the by proxy the audience from what is really going on.
My theory is that Alex is a serial killer, who murdered the Marble hornets cast and crew hence the title of the series being Marble Hornets, as it is the story of what happened to the people making the film one by one in the Forest, and later the old factory we saw in 22 and other entries.
He also killed Amy after 26 hence his lies to Jay and Jessica that his actions are to try and find her and possibly others if totheark's "classified" message referencing what he did to "the twins" is anything to go on.
The maskies who are Tim, the guy in the black mask and possibly if they are not the same the guy in the "skull mask" glimpsed in entry 26, eventually found this out during his spree which itself infers the other maskies are survivors of, or related to the Marble Hornets crew and are trying to stop him.
Their attempts to scare Jay off, their watching him in his sleep, have all been in their twisted minds to protect him from Alex, and they have also been doing the same for Jessica. As for Alex, they have been tracking him down since the murders, and thanks to him getting in contact with Jay again, they now know where he is, and began to hunt him down and try to kill him.
All of which while horrific would be fairly mundane had these events not been complicated by the Operator. Amid these events, "the Operator" came into play. Alex saw him when he was committing his crimes Alex's reason for seeking him in 2 because the operator "scared his dog" just seems a little off , or was already being stalked by him as 37 would indicate , and is thus terrified of him both because of him being well The operator in turn became or always was extremely interested in Alex, and thus has been stalking him and watching his crimes.
To date all of his appearances have been in places where Alex has either killed someone, or is about to. The evidence for this is that all of his appearances have been in either remote or secluded areas like under bridges, alleyways, derelict structures, deep forest, or in buildings Alex lives in, which are thus extremely convenient areas to kill, and dispose of bodies.
Also in entry 46 he appeared just as Alex was getting seriously pissed off with Jay, or in 26 when he seemed to be getting unduly irritated with Amy for playing with his camera, possibly in anticipation of Alex snapping again. Possibly Alex discovered the Operator when revisiting his crime scenes which is a noted habit of serial killers like Ted Bundy , and realized after seeing him in so many of these places that it was following him.
It is also possible that he has been manipulating the events for his own reasons like removing memories of important events from characters apart from Alex in order to ensure they do not find out his crimes until he has done this so many times, they build up a resistance to this, but go insane and become a Maskie instead. Alex in turn both hates and fears the maskies as they know what he did. When Jay first encountered one or more possibly in Brian's house, they were trying to find Alex themselves, and became obsessed with Jay both to protect him, and to try and access Alex through him.
As for Jay, when he got the tapes from Alex who wanted to dispose of evidence and to escape the guilt of his crimes which is why he told Jay to never mention them again , he was just another bystander during Alex's crimes, whose mind was messed with by the operator into amnesia.
However both the Maskies and Alex have been using him for their own ends, the Maskies as mentioned earlier to get to Alex, and Alex to appease the operator by giving him Jay as a "sacrifice" as he believes the story he told Jay in 38 about his origin , which is shown by Alex making Jay go to areas Alex is sure he will appear.
However, as of 47 Jay has finally realized that Alex has been lying to him the whole time, and not just that but lying about the safety of someone Alex supposedly deeply cares for. Now I predict Jay will begin to take a much deeper look into Alex's actions Either way if season 2 is the same length as season 1, we are drawing nearer to the end of the story.
What they didn't count on, however, was The Operator, a powerful supernatural being who is watching over and protecting Alex, and apparently has been since his youth. Once filming begins, the crew begins to spy on and intimidate Alex under the guise of the Maskies, either searching for an opportune time to kill him, or frightening him to the point of madness and then recruiting him for their ultimate goal.
Alex, seeing the strange events on his tapes, begins to investigate and slowly descend into insanity, just as the Maskies wanted. Eventually, The remaining Maskies retreat and go into hiding, while Alex gives up on the project and seeks to destroy the footage he's collected, never to speak of it again.
And so, the Operator can return to his normal duty of watching Alex quietly from afar. With Jay now reviewing the tapes and foolishly posting them on the internet for all to see, the remaining Maskies are now either working to silence Jay and keep their organization a secret, or have found another important individual ripe brainwashing. The Operator now has to keep watch over Jay and keep him safe from the Maskies as well.
Unfortunately, this means keeping watch over two people, as the videos have since revealed Alex's current whereabouts and put him on the run once again, meaning he can't protect them both at the same time. The Maskies are using this to their advantage; attacking one while The Operator is looking at the other.
The Operator is doing all he can to make them stop their research, from scare tactics to massive memory erasal, but their driving curiosity and the Maskie's efforts keep them going. Which leads into The Operator cannot physically communicate with Jay, for one reason or another.
As such, he is trying to warn him of the dangers he's walking into by replying to most of his videos with a psychically created video of his own. Of course, since the Operator's thought process is probably WAY different from ours, the videos he makes cannot be as easily understood by us. The crossed-out O symbol isn't a cultist banner. It's a signature, a calling card, a way to let you know that it's HIM talking.
Also, I don't think it's explicitly stated the it was totheark who posted Entry , so I'm led to believe that it was made by the Maskies, directed not to Jay, but to the ever-watchful Operator as a challenge. They will wait for him no more, his absolute control is being taken from him, and their attack on Jay will begin Due to Entry 48's information, I'm guessing that Jay went to the tunnel to see what was there, and found Alex waiting for him.
They fought and Jay killed him in self defense. That's what the blood and torn clothing was in the tunnel and that's how he got Alex's tapes and hard drive because they were in the camera bag.
And the key is to a storage place or something where he hid Alex's body. The more we think about him, the more real he is. Hence, all this thinking about him makes him stronger than ever. In Entry 49, we will learn that Alex was killed in the tunnel by Jay. After he kills Alex, Jay is confronted by the Operator and subsequently loses his memories.
Since Jay won't have any more videos from his seven-month amnesia period to post, Entry 50 will be set in the present day. The characters in Marble Hornets the student film all have the same names in Marble Hornets the web series. Brian moved away and it all stopped. Years later, Brian came back but no one could remember anything. Or alternately, Brian doesn't even remember leaving. 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. Now that they're all back together and basically filming what happened, ole Slenderpuss is back.
He's simply trying to protect J. As seen in Entry 49, 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.
To explain Alex's creepiness, he's cottoned on to something and realises he's in serious danger - he mistakenly killed the guy in entry 49 and left his body for The Operator as a decoy, but he hasn't killed anyone else. He's not actually evil, but he is doing questionable things to keep himself safe. He's not necessarily out to endanger Jay, but he is willing to sacrifice Jay if needs be.
He waits in the woods when Jay says he's leaving, because he figures that Jay being on his own would be a decoy for The Operator if needs be. Of course, the memory reset probably put the process on hold, but there's always the chance that something in his season three experiences will jump-start it right back up However, Alex slowly came to learn that victims of the Operator are slowly erased from memory of those who knew them unless they have contact with the Operator. So he intentionally made sure that Jay was kept away when he summoned the Operator and left the tapes with Jay so there would always be proof of his existence.
Due to it's likely nature as more "behind the scenes footage" taken at the same time as Season 1, it will reveal the truth behind some of the mysteries of the Season 1. Here are in my mind some likely subjects. Everyone involved in the whole thing was completely fine up until they started investigating Marble Hornets or filming themselves:. This is because The Operator is a quantum boogieman - he only settles into a form when observed, and the only way to observe him is with a camera because of the effects he has on people's minds.
If he isn't observed he ceases to exist, or at least ceases to have any power. Sidetheory - The Operator's purpose and reason for existing is to observe the universe so that it can exist, and being observed himself causes some kind of crazy feedback.
The Marble Hornets crew have been insistent on calling their friendly neighbourhood abomination the Operator, not Slender Man. There's the link between pressing the zero button on a phone and the Operator's symbol, a zero with an 'x' through it. But now with entry 57, and all this business increasingly centering around an abandoned hospital In the To The Ark Videos Decay, Reminder, Memories, Inquiry, and Classified, and even certain Entries both recently in 57, and even all the way back in Season 1 in Entry there is seen a pair of glowing eyes shining out from the darkness.
Not only is this clearly not the Operator, but this is clearly not the Maskies either, though they do seem to be connected, and when To The Ark directly addresses Jay, the eyes appear, which implies they belong to To The Ark. In short, my theory is that this is the sign of a newly emerged Major Player making his presence the series, one who was possibly active in the background throughout the whole thing, but was just acting through the Maskies.
This would be a full on Humanoid Abomination opposed to the Operator and to Alex, but also one that may well be just as bad if not worse, and whom also has an interest in Jay as first seen in Season 1 where he seemed to be sadistically hunting and harassing him through both TTA and Tim. He is also shown extremely dangerous, even in comparison to the Operator. Where Exactly this puts Alex and the Operator is unknown, but it seems clear that Whatever is behind TTA is just itching to make himself known.
He knows that Alex has been up to no good for years now. He knows about the existence of the Operator. And he knows what Jay is really up to. In fact, he probably follows the Marble Hornets channel just like the rest of us. And in fact, all this time, he's been conducting an investigation into Alex and the Operator himself. However, Tim's methods have been a lot more subtle and secretive, and as such, he's been obfuscating ignorance in all of his recent interactions with Jay.
Jay's a bit of a wild card, a Doom Magnet of sorts, and may not be entirely trustworthy, hence his caution. Tim is happy to coyly share some of what he's uncovered, like the tapes in Season 3, but it's not because he wants to collaborate with Jay. Rather, he shares things that he's sure will goad Jay on. Tim's a bit of a Manipulative Bastard who's using Jay to do the dirty work as well as be the one who gets all the attention from the unnatural forces he's disturbing.
Overall, it's win-win for Tim; he furthers his own investigation without putting himself at risk. 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.
Their YouTube account with the disturbing videos and occasional appearance is enough to show Alex and The Operator they are there. He varies between the personality The Operator corrupted and his real self.
The Operator cannot control this anomaly. 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. They were never out to hurt Jay, quite the contrary. When Tim chases him out of the house and hotel Entries 18 and 33 , it is to get him away from danger.
They may have the capacity to realize they cannot get to Alex or The Operator, only Jay can. He is their last hope to stop this and fix what has been broken. Even if that chance is getting slimmer and slimmer with each passing day.
Their too stone cold crazy to care about the probability of success. 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. Jay has had three close encounters with The Operator in the woods, in the hotel, and in the tunnel and has come away from them with nothing worse than the usual Ominous Cough and Laser-Guided Amnesia. However, when Alex had his close encounter, he came away from it with a changed personality and apparently in The Operator's thrall given that he attacked Brian, Tim and possibly Seth while The Operator was in the vicinity.
Jay has managed to not only escape from The Operator on two seperate occasions, but has actually tried to fight back against him. This is why Totheark and Masky are aiding him in their own ways : because he can't be controlled, he can be used to fight back in ways that Totheark and Masky either can't or won't. Blasky's first probably appearance is in Entry 39, which according to Jay is about a week after Entry 35, when Masky is revealed to be Tim. Obviously this doesn't make Masky completely useless, but whatever entity controls Tim when he's Masky decided that it needs an agent whose identity is still hidden, so somehow it "recruited" someone else to be Blasky, this time making sure they dressed so that their identity is even harder to determine.
The events of Entry 62 follow those of Jay leaves to look for Tim, and eventually finds him with his mask.
Jay wakes up in an abandoned shack the next day, with his camera in front of him, the batteries almost dead. Tim wakes up outside the shack soon afterward. Tim is not actually part of totheark; he is simply an Unwitting Pawn like Jay. He used it to kill his production team after getting fed up with them during production.
He accidentally unleashed it on his girlfriend after she brought up bad memories and put him in a bad mood. He's spent most of the series since then trying to find a way to bring her back.
But even then, both Alex and Tim have shown moments of relative sanity and normality. Now why is that? There are already WMG's basing on why Alex is insane. And if that's the case, then it could probably be assumed that Tim's in it for the same reason: to get The Operator out of his life.
Consider the following quote from Entry "And I start getting better. And I can hold steady work, I can function like a normal human being for once in my life. Tim might have done anything to be "a normal human being", and that could just as well include assisting in Alex's murders, if not even performing a few himself.
As for Entry 56, it's entirely plausible that Tim might have done some things that even Alex might find reprehensible. This implies two things: Even Alex has standards, and that Tim is even worse than Alex could be.
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. You would think at first that getting increasingly violent is a sign that whatever entity Jay and co. After all, he was no less murderous with Brian than he was with that passerby.
There's also the implication that everything Alex said about "not knowing what happened" to the cast is a lie. He was quite good at covering his tracks - that is until Jay broke in and stole his tapes, or got some footage of his own. 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. And those early videos of him apparently being scared shitless, or constantly checking behind or out the window, or all those notes with crossed circles? That's all fake too; he deliberately does that to cover himself. It's like they're being made by different people. That theory was proven wrong however, since Jay revealed that Alex's middle name does not begin with an R.
Based on the name, it is apparent that whoever totheark is is looking for the Ark. Why and how is not stated, but the name implies a search for it. The channel was created on July 22, , almost a month after MarbleHornets was created. Out of the ark, means out of his control. In summary, Seth aka Totheark wants to save his friends to help them recover back to their normal state. This website saves cookies to your browser in order to improve your online experience and show you personalized content.
Read our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy to get more information and learn how to set up your preferences. Curatorreview PastaTheory Marble Hornets. Likes Comments 3. Totheark first posted Regards as a response to Entry 9, where Alex yells at the cast of Marble Hornets and doesn't act like himself.
According to Jay, he believes that Totheark is the Masked Man, but looking at his responses, he believes that the videos were created by different people who may make up totheark.
Totheark's messages even get threatening towards Alex, for in Deluge, it appears to be somekind of ransom note for Alex. Totheark is also the only person in Marble Hornets to refer to the Operator by name. However, it seems like Jay knows what he is talking about, for in one response Messages Totheark talks about keeping secrets which leads to Jay revealing that he has been recording himself for a month.
Totheark's responses also show events that weren't caught on footage by Jay or Alex Return shows where Jay was in the 3 hours he was absent in Entry 19, Addition shows Jay colllasping in Entry 16, etc.
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