[herbie]

What about scary to adults? Like that absolutely creepy kid on the McCains dessert commercial who's just a little too excited to chow down on that frozen chocolate flavoured latex?
THAT kid is scary!

[Coach85]

You guys know it's all a hoax, right? It's been around for years. The modern day boogey man.

Nobody is killing themselves over this.

[Tricks]

Coach85 Coach85:

You guys know it's all a hoax, right? It's been around for years. The modern day boogey man.

Nobody is killing themselves over this.

Yeah I saw a video today about. Had never heard of it before. Glad that it's fake.

[BeaverFever]

Apparently this was hoax as nobody has actually seen it but in the race to clicks off of momo hysteria at least one fake momo video was made (already gone) by someone but it’s not very scary or convincing

[N_Fiddledog]

Coach85 Coach85:

You guys know it's all a hoax, right? It's been around for years. The modern day boogey man.

Nobody is killing themselves over this.

I know untrustworthy outlets like the BBC and Snopes say that but I remember when people were saying similar about Slender Man then one day...

$1:

On May 31, 2014, in Waukesha, Wisconsin, 12-year-olds Anissa E. Weier (born November 10, 2001) and Morgan E. Geyser (born May 16, 2002)[2] lured their friend Payton Leutner into the woods and stabbed her 19 times in an attempt to impress the fictional character Slender Man. Leutner crawled to a road where she was found; she recovered after six days in the hospital. Weier and Geyser were found not guilty by reason of insanity and, by February 2018, convicted and sentenced to long periods in mental health institutions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slender_Man_stabbing

There's claims similar things have happened as a result of the Momo meme.

I think the below is a pretty fair assessment of the "MoMo Challenge":

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-styl ... 98591.html

It's true the image first appeared on instagram about 3 years ago. It was a picture of a sculpture by some Japanese special effects guy that was displayed at a Tokyo gallery.

The gradual evolution from there to this...

$1:

Police in the U.K. are warning parents about online videos that direct children to harm themselves and threaten them with severe consequences if their instructions are not followed.

The warning was issued Monday by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), which said it was working with other U.K. policing agencies to determine “the extent of the problem” posed by the Momo Challenge.

is explained by a youtuber here:



Technically he's not saying anything BBC and Snopes aren't saying he's just giving you better detail. So yeah, it's a hoax but that doesn't mean bad things can't and haven't come out of it. And if you're feeling above all this because the BBC is telling you not to worry about it well...maybe you should Google "BBC Jimmy Savile."

[DrCaleb]

Coach85 Coach85:

You guys know it's all a hoax, right? It's been around for years. The modern day boogey man.

Nobody is killing themselves over this.

So what are you saying; that some people are easily duped into believing internet memes about memes?

[llama66]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

Coach85 Coach85:

You guys know it's all a hoax, right? It's been around for years. The modern day boogey man.

Nobody is killing themselves over this.

So what are you saying; that some people are easily duped into believing internet memes about memes?

Memeception.

[DrCaleb]

It's Matryoshka dolls all the way down, man.

https://slate.com/technology/2017/11/wh ... -lies.html

[N_Fiddledog]

And the purpose of the recent articles and police warnings about it are "Parents be careful."

That's what you're puffing yourselves up to mock.

There's no lie about what Momo is. It is what it is. And parents should be careful of what their kids see on the internet and with the new phone tech. Things like MoMo.

And Slate mocking the gullible is pretty funny. Without them there'd be no Slate.

[BeaverFever]

N_Fiddledog N_Fiddledog:

Coach85 Coach85:

You guys know it's all a hoax, right? It's been around for years. The modern day boogey man.

Nobody is killing themselves over this.

I know untrustworthy outlets like the BBC and Snopes say that but I remember when people were saying similar about Slender Man then one day...

$1:

On May 31, 2014, in Waukesha, Wisconsin, 12-year-olds Anissa E. Weier (born November 10, 2001) and Morgan E. Geyser (born May 16, 2002)[2] lured their friend Payton Leutner into the woods and stabbed her 19 times in an attempt to impress the fictional character Slender Man. Leutner crawled to a road where she was found; she recovered after six days in the hospital. Weier and Geyser were found not guilty by reason of insanity and, by February 2018, convicted and sentenced to long periods in mental health institutions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slender_Man_stabbing

There's claims similar things have happened as a result of the Momo meme.

I think the below is a pretty fair assessment of the "MoMo Challenge":

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-styl ... 98591.html

It's true the image first appeared on instagram about 3 years ago. It was a picture of a sculpture by some Japanese special effects guy that was displayed at a Tokyo gallery.

The gradual evolution from there to this...

$1:

Police in the U.K. are warning parents about online videos that direct children to harm themselves and threaten them with severe consequences if their instructions are not followed.

The warning was issued Monday by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), which said it was working with other U.K. policing agencies to determine “the extent of the problem” posed by the Momo Challenge.

is explained by a youtuber here:



Technically he's not saying anything BBC and Snopes aren't saying he's just giving you better detail. So yeah, it's a hoax but that doesn't mean bad things can't and haven't come out of it. And if you're feeling above all this because the BBC is telling you not to worry about it well...maybe you should Google "BBC Jimmy Savile."

I don’t know what you’re referring to about Slenderman, it’s not the same at all. That was just a popular “creepypasta” internet short story character much like how Freddy Krueger or Jason were to horror movies. A mentally ill girl stabbed another girl because she had delusions about it but it has nothing in common with this topic.

[PluggyRug]

Momo's a wimp in comparison.....

[Coach85]

N_Fiddledog N_Fiddledog:

And the purpose of the recent articles and police warnings about it are "Parents be careful."

That's what you're puffing yourselves up to mock.

There's no lie about what Momo is. It is what it is. And parents should be careful of what their kids see on the internet and with the new phone tech. Things like MoMo.

And Slate mocking the gullible is pretty funny. Without them there'd be no Slate.

Speaking of gullible.

We don't need people telling us to be careful that have no idea what's really going on.

[N_Fiddledog]

BeaverFever BeaverFever:

I don’t know what you’re referring to about Slenderman, it’s not the same at all.

There are already allegations of MoMo incidents similar to the Slenderman stabbings but they involved suicides so there's no witnesses to cross examine on a public witness stand. Thus the allegation is not unmitigated as was the direct cause/effect relationship with the Slender Man stabbings.

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/after-t ... ge-1906357

http://caracol.com.co/emisora/2018/08/2 ... 37173.html

[N_Fiddledog]

Coach85 Coach85:

N_Fiddledog N_Fiddledog:

And the purpose of the recent articles and police warnings about it are "Parents be careful."

That's what you're puffing yourselves up to mock.

There's no lie about what Momo is. It is what it is. And parents should be careful of what their kids see on the internet and with the new phone tech. Things like MoMo.

And Slate mocking the gullible is pretty funny. Without them there'd be no Slate.

Speaking of gullible.

We don't need people telling us to be careful that have no idea what's really going on.

I'm sorry Coach. It sounds like you're telling me I need to bow to your superior expertise.

Very well...what are your credentials? Are they superior to this pediatrician's who's advising it's wise for parents to watch out for possibly dangerous memes embedded into places children can access like what's up apps on phones and kid vids on the internet.

https://fox59.com/2019/02/25/mom-finds- ... tube-kids/

[llama66]

He only bows to my superior expertise.