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Head ups parents momo suicide game is back (UP: Appears to be a hoax, see threadmark)
- Thread starter PadWarrior
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Spreading a horrific meme to children via hacked YouTube videos is hard. Spreading a horrific meme to children by tricking their parents into spreading it to each other and their children, now, that's easy.
One good thing that comes out of this, though; it encourages some parents who might not otherwise do so to talk to their children about internet safety and put suitable restrictions in place. So many of my son's friends have unrestricted access to some of the less palatable corners of the internets (*cough*YouTube*cough*) because their parents don't understand the risks.
Spot on, I teach block coding to elementary kids and one lesson is internet safety. I guess this Momo thing will be added to the pile of questions they'll ask me about.
Much more likely they'll demand the government do something and let uniformed representatives take overreaching action.
Thank god this has been revealed as a hoax so we as a society can get back to the real dangers facing us, such as gang initiates murdering people who flash their headlights at them, or killers who pose as clown statues in children's bedrooms and make vaguely menacing calls to the babysitter downstairs.
I remember reading about this shit when I was a teenager. It scared me for a good week lol.
Huh. This sounds like a creepy pasta that someone read and thought was real. Never heard of it before now.
its almost like all the fake news from 2016 might as well not have happened if people in general are still not looking at their sources for what they're sharing
what to watch for:
what to watch for:
- does the site have any clear agendas? this can be seen in the header of the site or the headlines of other articles.
- do you know this site as a reputable source? if you don't, google the site and the word "trustworthy"
- does the article itself have any other links to any other sources?
This is barely different than the "share this post or a ghost will kill you in your sleep" bs. Obvious hoax.
AFAICS, this 'Momo' thing seems to be interactive on Whatsapp, so probably has a larger impact. Seems to have spread to my local primary (elementary) school.
The only way it's interactive is if some kids read about it and created a fake account to mess with their classmates. It's well documented to not be real and belongs in the same category as the tide pod challenge and the condom snorting challenge. They're urban legends amplified by overanxious parents and signal boosted by the media.
Yeah I guess that makes sense. How else would they get the child's number?
I guess a phone ban in school wouldn't help. Probably just need more education on child Internet safety.
Or just stop reporting on it and let it die.
dont believe the media my son's friend's cousin met momo irl after momo jumped out of the youtube screeen into real life and said he will kill EVERYONE on https://www.resetera.com/threads/he...up-appears-to-be-a-hoax-see-threadmark.102385 if they dont stop saying momo is fake i asked my son for more details on this cousin of his friend but he didnt tell me has anyone else heard of this i am possibly concerned?!?!?!?
I'm so shocked how much people have lost their minds over this one. I get that YouTube had some issues lately but the thought that YouTube was waitiing until parents left the room, then playing a video that tried to get children to kill themselves is some crazypants nonsense.
Secretary at work yesterday walked in and was gossiping about this, how fucked up it is, telling everyone to warn their children about it. I knew instantly it must be some bullshit hoax when she said she'd heard it on the radio. Even after showing her an article that explained that it's a hoax she's like "well, I'm going to tell my brother to have a talk to his children about this anyway".
But that does beg the question, is shoving it in kid's faces and telling them to avoid these things and report them if they come across anything similar just whipping up an unnecessary moral panic?
Yes.
But that does beg the question, is shoving it in kid's faces and telling them to avoid these things and report them if they come across anything similar just whipping up an unnecessary moral panic?
Yes.
I don't get it. What do we mean "hoax"? I had never heard of this until yesterday because my nephew was telling me about it and that he actually ran into it. (He talked to me about it, calling it the "momo virus") and said he doesn't watch YT on his tablet anymore and that it was saying "bad things" and that he had trouble sleeping the night it happened.