Marble Hornets/Fridge

Fridge Logic:

 * A kid in the background of enttry #37 was wearing a Spongebob shirt.
 * The video was quickly taken down, and re-uploaded with the Spongebob shirt edited out. You'll notice a slight jump-cut at :14 where it used to be..
 * Amnesia or no, it seems atypical of Jay's behavior to not update his twitter or youtube channel for seven months.
 * Fridge Brilliance (with a twinge of Fridge Horror): Who says he didn't? His entire memory of those seven months got erased, and his Twitter and Youtube accounts have been screwed with before... what if a lesser Mind Rape happened to the viewers as well?
 * Fffffff-- new personal canon, and thank you for giving me the "someone is right behind you watching you" feeling. .-. Adding on, if Slendy/Masky/TTA could erase all the viewers memories of Jay's 7 months, the next obvious question is: (if Slendy did it) Does that mean we're all on the list of "next victims"?
 * It's always been thought that Alex was pissed at Jay for leading the Operator to him, but later it's kinda conflicted by the fact Alex seems to go looking for him. Who's Alex mad about that Jay led to him? The Maskies. Alex wasn't looking for his girlfriend, he was looking for a way to get the Masked men off his back...

Fridge Brilliance:

 * Why were the comments enabled for a short while on Entry #####? At first you'd think it's a slip up on the part of the creators, but
 * Confirmed as of Entry 36.
 * Minor, but still might count:
 * The terrifyingness of Marble Hornets, to me, was always amplified by the fact that the entries resembled the recurring nightmares I had when I was little, oftentimes involving darkened gardens and houses, distorions of time (everything was in fast or slow motion) and being stalked by an invisible figure (my nickname for him/it was literally "Invisible").
 * The scariness of Marble Hornets owes a lot to how the makers utilised Primal Fears and Childhood Fears that we forget but remain with us for the rest of our life. It is the boogeyman of a generation spoilt by CGI and grew up knowing that the boogeyman doesn't exist.
 * In enttry 37,
 * At almost the exact moment
 * Alex refers to people as being 'gone' in episode with the abandoned underground building. In 44,  What was thought to be a case of Never Say Die was actually planned out in advance to have unclear wording, making this revelation fit easily without seeming like an Ass Pull.
 * Entry #49 raises the possibility that they're gone
 * Fridge Horror from this
 * Possibly unintentional but even more awesome if so: the name Jessica means 'one who sees/beholds/seeks out' depending on what source you're using. All of these readily apply to the character.
 * Technically, Jay's excuses for why he's staying at the hotel are all true: He's making a documentary, which is indeed about a hotel at this moment, his apartment building is most likely being renovated currently, and he pretty much does this for a living now, as far as we can tell.
 * We all like to get on Jay's case for being Genre Blind and going into Brian's house during the night. However, one has to remember, since no one was living there, and he already knew Brian was long gone, Jay was technically breaking-and-entering. Horrific story about Eldritch Abominations aside, he's still got to worry about the law too.
 * Technically, Jay's excuses for why he's staying at the hotel are all true: He's making a documentary, which is indeed about a hotel at this moment, his apartment building is most likely being renovated currently, and he pretty much does this for a living now, as far as we can tell.
 * We all like to get on Jay's case for being Genre Blind and going into Brian's house during the night. However, one has to remember, since no one was living there, and he already knew Brian was long gone, Jay was technically breaking-and-entering. Horrific story about Eldritch Abominations aside, he's still got to worry about the law too.

Fridge Horror:

 * In entry #9, children can be heard in the background of the park, and Alex even complains about them ruining the sound of the shot. Then the camera turns off for a second, Alex freaks out about it being off...and the sound of kids has completely disappeared. Now think about one of Slendy's canonical preferences for victims...
 * As noted on the main page, Alex's dog is mentioned in Entry #2, and never mentioned again. However, in the often overlooked Entry #15, Tim mentions Brian finding dead animals in his front yard. When Jay asks whether or not was somebody's pets, Tim changes the subject and tells him to talk to Brian about it.
 * Considering who, it opens up a whole new realm of possibilities on who put the dead animals in the yard.
 * Don't worry! It Gets Worse! Totheark's video Forecast, has some distorted footage of what appears to be
 * Heart? This troper was told it was an animal lung. Which doesn't make it ANY better. In fact, in some way, it's worse!
 * When we first see Masky, where is he? Calmly sitting and waiting for Jay, right in front of the glass sliding door that Jay came in from. Blocking the only quick entrance/exit that wasn't locked. Now let's think about what could've happened had not Masky went into seizures.
 * Entry #36 isn't too scary... until you realize that given how distorted the footage is, anything could be happening in the background. Additionally, a lot of the tape is so badly corrupted it can't be played at all. Despite everything that's happened, there's only been one other segment like that so far. What the hell happened that could have damaged it that badly?
 * Jay said that the dropped camera messed up the tape or something on his twitter.
 * enttry #37 is already scary enough, being an old video of Alex on his birthday with the requisite audio and visual distortion, but then you realize what this implies:.
 * Don't forget though,.
 * Enttry. Ent being a tree based monster, and "try" being pronounced as tree.
 * Entry #38 is creepy enough on its own, but when taking into context the fact that, the previous entries of the Operator stalking and snatching characters, especially enttry 37 become far more sinister,.
 * I interpreted it more as or the legend being fictional, but inspired by him. Neither of which is really any better.
 * This would make sense when you remember the execution method that Alex mentions. They were tied to split-growing trees that grow apart so fast that they act as torture racks. The Operator has long limbs, almost like they've been stretched out by something.
 * This one deals with the peculiarities in Entry 38 and 37. Jay likely didn't post "enttry #37" of his own volition, considering the misspelling and the fact that his twitter reference wasn't neatly updated. Now, consider "Entry #38." Properly spelled...but the description, until recently, wasn't ("unalbeled"). For a brief time, comments were also open for a brief time before being shut off again.
 * The real clincher, though? Didn't he say on his Twitter that he lost all his tapes? And speaking of Twitter...he hasn't said one word about this entry yet. Someone is making a conscious effort to pretend to be Jay, or Jay is lying about the tapes being gone.
 * It might not be though. He's gone a couple of days without updating his twitter before.
 * Looks like it's indeed debunked.
 * The terrifyingness of Marble Hornets, to me, was always amplified by the fact that the entries resembled the recurring nightmares I had when I was little, oftentimes involving darkened gardens and houses, distorions of time (everything was in fast or slow motion) and being stalked by an invisible figure (my nickname for him/it was literally "Invisible").
 * In Entry #40
 * Which leads to the question of just what the hell Jay got involved in near the end of the 7 month gap. Also on a bit of an interesting Fridge Brilliance, there is a lot of speculation that it was at that point he bought his chest camera, thus leading him to end up filming with two cameras during Entry #29. Looks like we may be getting a clear chronology of events.
 * Fridge Brilliance: Intermission suggests that Totheark watched Jay in the woods, meaning that he very well could have retrieved the camera later. It would explain how he got the tapes in the first place, too.
 * As of Entry 41,
 * In Sidetone, we get a close-up of a phone's digits. Scary enough on its own, but we see that the camera is focused on the number zero. For those who don't get it, the zero key is the key for an operator.
 * Even better, in Indicator we see a twisted little baby doll with the 0 key in its eye. Perhaps an idication that the Operator has seen them since they were children?
 * Since it's a baby doll, it could imply he was there even when they were babies. Which would explain why babies scream and cry randomly...
 * Seth, although a very minor character, manages to get this.  If the implications aren't already horrific enough, pause and realize this minor character was the only person prior to Jay (years later) who knew what was going on with Alex. After that Alex was completely alone in his fight against the Eldritch Abomination. And people wonder why he's experiencing Sanity Slippage.
 * Not necessarily.  Although, that kinda makes it worse.
 * He might be alive as one of the Maskies. Which would involve years of Mind Rape, since it's been two years since Jay got involved and he was late to the party in the first place. There's Fridge Horror on top of Fridge Horror here.
 * Thankfully Jossed. In the gap between seasons, Alex has had the help of . Still, what happened to Seth is up in the air.
 * Since in 44  gone might actually truly mean gone and not dead. He might even have woken up afterwards with no memory of the whole thing. Everyone else seems to have been memory wiped to varying degrees.
 * As of Entry #42, we find out that This makes the implications about the   a bit more bleak.
 * Entry #43 does  look a little familiar?
 * In Entry 3, Alex is seen tearing up paper and setting it aside while sitting on his couch. In Entry 16, Jay finds an overturned couch in the same color, paper scraps littering the floor all around. Was he the one sleeping in the closet in that house? Was he already insane that soon into this?
 * The implication of what would've happened to Jay if he was close enough for Alex to grab in Entry 49 is terrifying.
 * Not to mention that
 * The guy that Alex killed was the civilian that Jay passed on the way to his car. Jay might not only have inadvertantly caused his death by following Alex, but he might've been the last person to see him alive.
 * When Alex drops the camera in #49
 * Cool!
 * In 49, Jay edits the footage, but he had to see the unedited footage of some of the most disturbing events of the series. He had to watch that. It's official, he is now a case of Break the Cutie.
 * Especially since one of the people involved is someone he would've called a close friend at one time. Imagine Jay's position- watching someone you cared about being driven slowly insane by supernatural forces you can hardly comprehend, coming to a head when that person . That would be heartwrenching. Even though we never see it, I'd be willing to believe that Jay's probably had more than a few emotional breakdowns during this whole thing.
 * Entry 26 can be seen in a completely different light considering the evidence from later entries that Alex's descent into madness may have been going on longer than we thought. We see evidence in Entry 51 that Alex may have led Brian and Tim to the Operator to begin with. Now, go back to Entry 26 and wonder why Alex is so calm and rational.
 * All the way back in Entry 16 Jay found (among other things) a bullet casing when searching through where Alex had lived. Due to the other events of both season 1 and season 2 this is quickly forgotten. however in entry 52  pulls a gun on   and is about to kill them to "tie up loose ends". Seeing as it is now all but confirmed that , one wonders how many other times he had to "tie up loose ends".
 * One of the reasons Alex was furious with Jay was for showing the videos to the world. This chewing-out occurred the day before Entry #27. Jay has just spent nearly an entire year posting even more videos, and seriously incriminating ones for Alex at that. If he was pissed enough back then to try and ...one wonders what he might be thinking now.
 * On a related note to above, since all of the TOTHEARK messages took place after entry #52, some of the messages they contain become far more sinister.
 * Fragments says "you are Broken" and "you cannot be fixed". As chronologically this is the first thing TOTHEARK relays to Jay after #52 when he was  this raises the question of what the hell actually happened to Jay
 * The closet in the house was terrifying until quite late in the series. Imagine being stalked by the Operator in your own house, and you retreat to the only space left (or the only room with one door that you can keep watching/filming) with nothing but some blankets, a bottle of water and maybe a gun. All the while there's this thing outside, making you more paranoid, fearful and sick. Then we see the room again in a later entry and things have moved around. However, later on we find out that . But until then, that was a very disturbing scenario, and one that gets worse the more you think about it.
 * It may not be so disturbing for Alex, but what about Jay? In Entry #16, the screen tore while he was exploring the house for the first time...right when he was inside the closet! It's probably a good thing he never found out about it.
 * At the end of the footage on the DVD, during the end credits, the video tears during the cast roll. This could be considered unsettling.
 * In Entry #26, Jay makes it clear that for the past couple of weeks, he's been drifting from one hotel to the next, never staying in one place for too long. Despite this, Alex is still able to track him down and send him a package. How could Alex have possibly done this? If Season 2 is anything to go by, probably because a little bird told him...or rather, a tall faceless thing told him. Which means that despite Jay's apparent recovery to his mental well-being during that time, he was still being unknowingly stalked!
 * In Entry #26, Jay makes it clear that for the past couple of weeks, he's been drifting from one hotel to the next, never staying in one place for too long. Despite this, Alex is still able to track him down and send him a package. How could Alex have possibly done this? If Season 2 is anything to go by, probably because a little bird told him...or rather, a tall faceless thing told him. Which means that despite Jay's apparent recovery to his mental well-being during that time, he was still being unknowingly stalked!