Talk:Anti-Bullying VHS Tape/@comment-31772644-20180925182826/@comment-24588058-20180926141822

Here's how I understand it to work (correct me if I am wrong, as I agree in terms that the effects may need a little better explained, but I think I understand it): The video itself is of an anti-bullying video, but it doesn't last the entire length of fifteen minutes. It only lasts four minutes (maybe it got overwritten?), and the remaining eleven minutes is a video of monkeys watching a jaguar eat a tapir three times repeating (which I'm guessing relates to the bullying, in a way, as the monkeys see the "bullying" but say nothing and do nothing to stop it).

When people watch the tape who have observed bullying but did nothing to stop it (perhaps it's also within the past so many days as well), they enter a state of hypnosis, where the only thing they can say for three days is, "I am a monkey". (Referring of course to the monkeys in the tape, and the three days the number of times the scene is played over again). After three days, the victims kill themselves (which I assume refers to the possible fate of some victims of bullying, and it draws attention to it). This is probably stopped if the tape is neutralized.

I'm guessing the teacher saying, "I am a Tapir" is her way of saying she is a victim of bullying, as opposed to any effect from the artifact itself. So my guess is that the origin of the tape is one that comes from a victim of bullying who was a zoologist, one who studied the behavior of monkeys in particular. Seeing this and recording it, she took it home and copied it over an anti-bullying tape that she had, copying it three times to drive the point down, and her frustration at not only the monkeys for not helping the tapir, but the children in school who saw her being bullied and did nothing to stop it, led to the creation of the artifact. And the main effect of suicide is because she had attempted suicide (obviously unsuccessfully).

The only thing I don't understand is why there is no tape in the VHS?