Ok, so @markiplier‘s vid today, 3 Scary Games #9 (https://youtu.be/abHGyg4LKn4) gave us some more to theorize on.
Lately he’s been having camera trouble, as we’ve seen in previous vids, but today I realized it’s not just the tech. Something–no, someONE–is tampering with the tech.
He loses his webcam several times…
But when it comes back, the whole video is distorted. Not just any distortion, this is classic VHS tape distortion (for you kids that grew up on DVD’s and Netflix).
A few times we see his running programs. He’s using OBS to record, which is the same program I use to make my Let’s Plays. In the few instances my webcam has frozen, there is no distortion, no static, just a silent, pitch-black blip and it’s back. That means this wasn’t the tech failing. Something is tampering with it. And given that the egos, especially Dark, wants to take control of Mark’s channel, we’re seeing more and more of this.
Also, the woman on the phone reiterates “Don’t/Can you remember?” and Mark says “I don’t remember!” which is interesting, since the static-tv video “Don’t Remember” has the voice that asks “Do you remember?”
The video ends with a distorted, slowed down outro music. Certainly not a glitch. Something else is messing with the video. Something that wants control. Mark even states that something might be messing with him.
Mark has been slowly setting up this lore, and I love it. Outside the Markiverse, this is brilliant in planning because the camera’s not working before was so subtle, it didn’t seem obvious that it was part of the lore. The genius behind it is that if anything ever happens to Mark’s cameras, mic, lights, computer, WHATEVER, everyone is going to think “IT’S DARKIPLIER!” and think Mark planned it. Brilliant.
I can’t wait to see where this leads, but I am highly intrigued.
It also makes me wonder if MatPat’s theory might not have been entirely self-inspired. But rather, suggestively whispered by a certain YouTuber…