Momo

[spathiphyllum]

There haven't been any threads on this ridiculous over publicised hoax?

So many people thinking it's true.. when it's not.

However, now due to people hearing about the hoax it's become a slight reality. People have started to upload edited videos to YouTube containing MOMO to unofficial channels. So when a kid searches peppa pig they may find the unofficial video which is now edited and contaminated with tripe.

There is no way someone can hack and edit an already uploaded youtube video.

If a kid is that young to get upset about MOMO, tell me this.. Why on earth are they on the internet unsupervised?

Have parents just become completely stupid?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-47359623

[calmck]

Because many parents have no idea what their children are watching. The same with not monitoring their phones. How many parents know the passwords of their kids appliances and monitor the content and messages. On another topic do parents check to see if kids are leaving home with a knife on them

[spathiphyllum]

My friend has a 9 year old, and a week ago, they ask'd the boy if they could go on hi Ipad and he went mental, screaming NO NO NO, so this obviously rang alarm bells.

all they had to do was look at his search history to see why....

[roopower]

Read somewhere the man who made the original doll has destroyed it.

[-Talbot-]

There haven't been any threads on this ridiculous over publicised hoax?

So many people thinking it's true.. when it's not.




How many is 'so many'?

[spathiphyllum]

It wasn't a doll it was a model figurine of a face on a chickens body found in some dodgy museum

https://akm-img-a-in.tosshub.com/indiatoday/images/story/201808/MOMO_2.png?242QWmasBMIeUFZcgnfafOm7CeeELLeg

[Mamyalynne]

//The image of “Momo” is actually based on a sculpture by Japanese artist Keisuke Aiso, who initially exhibited it in 2016 at a Tokyo art show.//

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/momo-sculpture-destroyed-keisuke-aiso-802627/


It was referred to on another thread here on a different topic a couple of weeks ago.

Like all myths, even when proven untrue they have done some damage.

[spathiphyllum]

Ah seems if it was a doll or a sculpture it's still been destroyed, shame really.. It was still art, ruined by a hoax. Some horrific liars out there these days, imagine telling a news paper this doll tried to kill ur kid via the internet?

[spathiphyllum]

think it says more about the parents letting their little ones on the internet unattended.

[Mamyalynne]

I thought you would.