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Philip DeFranco said Momo is just to scare parents

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Philip DeFranco said Momo is just to scare parents

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Philip DeFranco (Youtuber) tweeted that Momo is not real, it's just to scare kids and parents. With Philip's tweet he linked his video. In the video it sounded like he was blaming parents for not watching their kids but he clarifies that he wasn't actually calling them bad parents. He wanted to explain there is some parents that know more about technology than others and how to learn how to best monitor what your kids are watching.

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The police is warning parents Momo is dangerous. 

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The police is warning parents Momo is dangerous. 

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The police posted to Facebook warning parents about momo. The Police talks about how the game begins. It starts asking users to add momo as a contact, youth or young adult then momo messages you and tells you how to harm yourself or just to commit suicide. Momo contact uses bullying by threatening or sending violent images. Police then added reminders to parents to be aware of what’s on in social media, such as YouTube being a big one.  Also, the police added some tips to make sure everyone's safe one being, blocking anyone you don’t know, flag any pictures that are hard to see and limiting the time a child is allowed online.

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Beware of the “Momo Challenge”

The Momo Challenge starts as a game on the WhatsApp but also has ties to YouTube and Facebook. The challenge begins by asking the user to add Momo as a contact. The...

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This is an example of what happens when you message momo. First It starts off with asking “are you ready for the challenge”. The person would say “yes”. The next message momo would send is “I will give you a task every day”. The person that is messaging momo said “No problem”. Momo would say “I am warning you! That when you start the challenge. It’s prohibited to back out…”. The person asked momo for a favor. Momo said, “yes what is that”. In the end, she asked momo to borrow money. Momo’s message said, “the challenge is canceled bye.” This post was funny but some messages can go a different way. I found this post and I thought it would be better than some of the messages that go opposite.

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Before They were Famous / The Momo Challenge

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Before They were Famous / The Momo Challenge

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In the video "Before They Were Famous" Michael was questioning "what is momo"? He questioned what happens when you talk to her. In the video, he added the artist who made momo and his name was Keisuke Aisawa. He continuing saying the artist destroyed momo and it's dead. The curse is gone or so he thought. He explains that Kim Kardashian posted to instagram saying the challenge is dangerous and to stop. This helped mom gain popularity. On the app, the area code was from japan but momo can speak Spanish too. Some reported you can install "spyware" on your phone to contact momo on "WhatsApp".

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The Momo Challenge | Before They Were Famous | This video gonna get Demonitized 100%

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A blog about What is it and How did it begin

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A blog about What is it and How did it begin

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This blog explains how the momo scandal began. momo is featured as a woman with dark hair, pale skin and oversized eyes. Its’s a myth that is continuing to be some kind of reality. She will send you threats to harm yourself, she sends you disturbing images and tells you “I know where you live, if you don’t do what I say then I well kill your family.” The story was circulating when reports came in that two kids harmed themselves in northern Colombia in September after receiving messages. Many kids were scared, they put out a warning about momo but kids are still going to school saying “momo knows where you live, if don’t think it’s going to kill your family” and one boy went home crying telling his mom what happened.

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An online "game" that supposedly encourages young people to harm themselves and in some cases even take their own lives has been branded a hoax by children's charities.

Momo - described as a WhatsApp "suicide challenge" - purportedly features an avatar of a woman with dark hair, pale skin and oversized eyes, who sends young people images and instructions on how to harm themselves and others. But after a series of warnings about the game spread across UK social media this week fact-checkers and charities declared Momo a hoax.

"News coverage of the momo challenge is prompting schools or the police to warn about the supposed risks posed by the momo challenge, which has in turn produced more news stories warning about the challenge," says The Guardian 's Jim Waterson.

Kate Tremlett, harmful content manager at the UK Safer Internet Centre, also questioned the viral social news story, telling the newspaper: "It's a myth that is perpetuated into being some kind of reality," she said.

After a lengthy investigation, the NSPCC said there is no evidence to show the phenomenon is actually posing a threat to British children and added that it has received more phone calls about it from members of the media than concerned parents.

A Samaritans spokesperson was similarly sceptical, telling The Guardian: "These stories being highly publicised and starting a panic means vulnerable people get to know about it and that creates a risk."

They recommended media outlets read their guidelines on reporting suicide and suggested press coverage is "raising the risk of harm".

The story began circulating when reports emerged that a girl aged 12 and a boy of 16 killed themselves in northeastern Colombia in September after receiving Momo messages.

Local media at the time reported that the teenage boy knew the girl and passed the game to her before killing himself. She was reportedly found hanged two days later.

Colombian government secretary Janier Landono said: "Apparently, they practised this game through WhatsApp and it invited the young people to hurt themselves. The game has different challenges and the suicide is at the end."

Reports of the game reached the UK earlier this month when a concerned mother from Bolton wrote on a local Facebook group that her son had been influenced by the game. Her seven-year-old boy "told his school friends that doll-like creatures would kill them in their sleep", reports the Daily Mail.

She said: "When I collected him from school the teacher asked to talk to me. She said he had made three kids cry by telling them that Momo was going to go into their room at night and kill them.

"When we got home I spoke to him about this and he told me some kids at school had told him to look at the Momo challenge, which he did."

How was the Momo challenge reported?

"Users who engage with Momo on WhatsApp are sent disturbing and graphic photographs and in some cases are 'doxed' into self-harm and suicide," 9News Australia reported.

Doxing "is when someone hacks your private information and then threatens to share it online or in a public forum, akin to blackmail", the news site adds.

Fox News claimed Momo was "also linked to the theft of personal data, harassment, extortion, anxiety, depression and insomnia".

Where did the whole thing originate?

The game was said to have started in Mexico, with players "challenged" to communicate on WhatsApp with an unknown person known as Momo, according to the Computer Crime Investigation Unit of the State of Tabasco, Mexico.

The disturbing avatar was initially believed to show a work by Japanese artist Midori Hayashi, but is actually of a sculpture created by Japanese special effects company Link Factory and displayed at a Tokyo gallery.

Neither the company nor Hayashi had anything to do with the hoax, which began being shared online in August 2016, says The Independent.

According to Fox News, the Momo icon has begun appearing as an avatar or so-called mod in the popular video game Grand Theft Auto 5, while Momo content has also been added to the popular children's game Minecraft, owned by Microsoft.
Childline in the UK can be reached on 0800 1111, or by confidential email via its website. Anyone experiencing suicidal thoughts can call the Samaritans free on 116 123 or contact them online for confidential, 24-hour support.

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Momo challenge: what is it and how did the hoax begin?

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An online "game" that supposedly encourages young people to harm themselves and in some cases even take their own lives has been branded a hoax by children's charities. Momo - described as a WhatsApp "suicide challenge" - purportedly features an avatar of a woman with dark hair, pale skin and oversized eyes, who sends young people images and instructions on how to harm themselves and others.