“ | The twins. Do you know what he did. I saw it. | „ |
~ Totheark's message in the video Classified. |
Totheark is a major antagonist in the horror webseries Marble Hornets. It's a YouTube channel run by an unknown individual (or individuals), containing many cryptic videos filled with various codes and symbolism that are uploaded as a response to Jay Merrick's investigation.
The owner of the channel has never been revealed although due to the appearances of Masky and Hoody on some of the videos either one of them are possible candidates.
Biography[]
The channel was created on July 22, 2009, at the time where one could make video responses directly to another channel, totheark posted their first response to the Marble Hornets channel, which was "Regards", a response to Entry #9.
Throughout most of the video responses there was not only strings of text or symbols of variable significance, but some contained missing or distorted audio of the Entries uploaded by Jay on the Marble Hornets YouTube channel. Sometimes the user even hacked the main channel an uploaded an Entry by themselves.
Along with the occasional appearance of both a masked man and a hooded man, most of the videos seemed to contains messages that antagonized Alex Kralie, leaving very clear that whoever was or were behind the channel wanted to get rid of him.
The responses towards certain videos continued until February 20, 2014, when "Null" was uploaded as a response to Entry #82, being the last video on the channel.
Identity Speculation[]
There's been a lot of speculation regarding whoever was or were behind the channel. The general consensus is that totheark was someone involved in the original filming of the Marble Hornets movie, as its the case with most characters in the series that are haunted by The Operator. Due to the hatred the user has for Alex, and Jay's own speculation regarding that the channel could be run by more than one person as well as their appearances on said videos, a lot of people believe that either Masky or Hoody or both runned the totheark channel.
However, and while both of Masky and Hoody seem to be clearly part of the channel, there seems to be a third member running the channel, who also seems to be the main member. The evidence of this is shown in the videos "Classified" and "Extraction", where the uploader seems to be referring directly to Masky and Hoody, either berating or taunting them for their actions. The creators of the webseries also revealed after the finale that they knew who was behind the channel but were not gonna reveal it, which seems pointless if totheark was either Masky and Hoody.
Another theory is that totheark is Seth, Alex's camera man who experienced most of his abuse during the filming of Marble Hornets. Due to his role he could have access to footage that Jay would not have gotten from Alex, including the missing audio from the videos. Seth is also mentioned in the Marble Hornets website as a video editor. There's also been speculation regarding Sarah and Amy, whom, like Seth, were not seen die despite us being told they did.
During a 10th-anniversary Twitch stream, when asked if totheark was Seth, Joseph DeLage mentioned that he didn't liked the idea that every character we saw on the series had to be integral to the plot, leaving the possibility that the totheark channel was being run by someone we never met in the series.
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