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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhatsis MOMO challenge I just heard about? It's all over the local nooze...
and looks like scary stuff when kids take it seriously.
Takket
(21,587 posts)what stupid thing are they up to now.......
hlthe2b
(102,307 posts)Momo Challenge
Description
The "Momo Challenge" is a hoax Internet challenge, which was spread by users on Facebook and media outlets. It was reported that children and adolescents were being enticed by a user named Momo to perform a series of dangerous tasks including violent attacks and suicide. Wikipedia
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Momo Is Not Trying to Kill Children
Like eating Tide Pods and snorting condoms, the Momo challenge is a viral hoax.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/02/momo-challenge-hoax/583825/
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)hlthe2b
(102,307 posts)WhiskeyGrinder
(22,364 posts)RockRaven
(14,977 posts)seems to be a bogus moral panic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momo_Challenge
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)hlthe2b
(102,307 posts)child ever taking his or her own life after participating in this phony challenge."
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)And isn't this how the Tide pod thing started? "Only" three or four kids died from that.
Anyway, it's still not nice to throw spells and curses at impressionable 8 year olds.
RockRaven
(14,977 posts)"Despite claims that the phenomenon had reached worldwide proportions in July 2018, the number of actual complaints was relatively small and no police force has confirmed that anyone was harmed as a direct result of the phenomenon." and there's 4 citations.
Now, maybe that is out of date, but I would ask to see the evidence for any such claim.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,364 posts)cwydro
(51,308 posts)Im in Europe, and Ive heard nothing about anyone dying over this.
scheming daemons
(25,487 posts)TwilightZone
(25,472 posts)Reality, on the other hand, is "fake news" to Trump.
blogslut
(38,004 posts)The "challenge" is a hoax that's been trolling around for a few years now.
https://www.snopes.com/news/2019/02/26/momo-challenge-suicide-game/
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47393510
https://www.wired.com/story/momo-hoax-viral-scares-advice/
Eugene
(61,914 posts)https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/feb/28/schools-police-and-media-told-to-stop-promoting-momo-hoax
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)Retrograde
(10,137 posts)is a kind of Nepalese/Tibetan dumpling. If there's a challenge to make batches of these and send a few my way I'm all for it.
Dorian Gray
(13,497 posts)in the Nepalese Momo challenge. YUM!
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)I'll take a momo challenge any day. Yum!
RandiFan1290
(6,239 posts)a bunch of morons thought Ozzy Osbourne was going to make me commit suicide
Petosky Stone
(52 posts)dustyscamp
(2,224 posts)both were designed by sadistic trash who want to shock and scar children
xmas74
(29,674 posts)Missouri's version of Bigfoot is called MoMo and he supposedly hangs out in the woods by Truman Dam. A friend claims he met him and fed him pancakes while camping. My friend does lots of acid.