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Just Because It's Online, Doesn't Necessarily Mean It's True

The first time the image above was shared on Facebook, there were some immediate comments and shares with some people who appeared shocked based on their comments when they saw the caption of the photo. The last time I checked it, the image had 5,419 shares last Friday, June 15, 2012.

This is not really true, read more details about it below.

First thing I noticed was the escalator. Clearly the rails are made for escalators, but the steps are green tiles. That looks like they were made for swimming pools and bathrooms. Clearly this was made to be underwater. So this may be some amusement park of some sort.
UPDATE (6/17/2012): After further staring at this picture... the escalator does look real, the tiles idea came from the greenish hue of the steps. And looking at some areas of the railing, also have this green coloration. Probably caused by the photo editing of the file when trying to match up the colors of mixed images. Which made the dark black escalator steps look like green tiles.
Upon searching some images online, it appears like the sharks have been "photoshopped" into the image. Since the shark on the left is a popular shark used in many photo edited images. ( source)

Upon researching further, it appears this image first came out on an internet meme site, where users upload funny pictures relating to basement floods that happened in Toronto. The photo above was said to be taken at Toronto's Union Station during a recent flood last June 1, 2012.
Update (6/18/2012): The Inquisitr posted the original image without the sharks. And as they were explaining this was a hoax, they were also talking about other people referring this photo as "Sharks at the Mall". The original "photoshopper" was also found to be Jamie A. King and confirmed by a tweet to Mashable writer Christine Erickson that he made the image. Now Mashable is even interested in probably giving Jamie King some spot on Mashable for photoshop tips. Interesting how a hoax photo can turn into something positive for the hoax maker. 🙂
In the information age, everyone is a publisher

Since everyone can publish anything online these days on blogs or contributing to community sites such as online forums, social media sites; anything can go online. With the use of SEO and Social Media, it can even spread to a larger amount of people whether the news is good or bad, true or false. Content and information can be easily taken out of context because it is just so easy to do so. A simple copy and paste, save and upload that even the average pre-teen kid can do.

I am not here to talk about responsible blogging, or proper use of information, since I believe that is something you cannot stop and regulate the actions of other people online. And some people out there will purposely use SEO and Social Media to spread hoaxes online that is sometimes beyond anyone's control. However what everyone can do is taking everything online with a grain of salt. You can always research and find several reputable resources online before making any conclusions.

Take advantage of online memes that are about you or your company and leveraging it to turn into something good

This hoax collapse shark tank image seems to be a harmless prank, and I even doubt there were any effects on Kuwait's Scientific Center. If ever there was an effect, it may even be a good one, making the Kuwait science center more popular. If I were them, I would be more "noisy" about it online, on a blog and on social media sites, even press releases and saying it isn't true and how they had a good laugh, then you can always integrate some call to action for tourist to visit the center, specifically to check out the shark tanks.

Has any other business done anything like this? A natural occurring prank that they have taken advantage of to gain more popularity? If you are aware of any, tweet this using the twitter buttons bellow or on the left and share your thoughts.

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The first time the image above was shared on Facebook, there were some immediate comments and shares with some people who appeared shocked based on their comments when they saw the caption of the photo. The last time I checked it, the image had 5,419 shares last Friday, June 15, 2012.

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In June 2006, a 16-year-old girl began a video blog on YouTube. Her name was Bree, she'd been lurking in the burgeoning community for a while. She was a self-described dork, she thought her hometown was really boring - "Maybe that's why I spend so much time on my computer ..."

She was funny, friendly, had great eyebrows. Her first few videos were relatable and cute, introducing her friend Daniel and complaining about being home-schooled and having to do homework in June. It soon became clear she was pretty lonely, which was probably why her username was Lonelygirl15.

Bree was one of a slowly-growing community on YouTube of confessional video bloggers. They poured their lives into their webcams, not yet an automatic feature on laptops as they are today. Their follower bases grew slowly but steadily, with regular, and often grainy, videos about their day-to-day lives. They were largely ignored by the mainstream media, who at the time dismissed YouTube as just a repository for cat videos.

Lonelygirl15 changed all that. Her followers quickly ballooned and she became one of the young site's most popular stars. The New York Times had a recurring blog about her. She had her own forum. Hundreds of people wanted to be her friend on Myspace.

The thing is, Bree wasn't real. Lonelygirl15 actually had a small team of writers. Bree and her best friend Daniel were played by actors.

YouTubers and the media had been duped. Yet this was no mere flash in the pan hoax - this was YouTube's first web series. This was the first time someone proved you could actually make money on YouTube.

And that changed everything.

Remember Lonely Island's "Lazy Sunday" video? It was the one where Andy Samberg and Chris Parnell rapped about a Sunday getting cupcakes and going to the movies. Miles Beckett does. Because that's the video that began his obsession with YouTube.

"Someone posted it on Myspace, I think it was in December 2005?" he says. "And that's how I found out about YouTube."

Back then, YouTube was just getting started. It wasn't yet a year old, but it was growing quickly. The next summer it would be one of the fastest growing sites on the internet and would go on to be bought by Google for $1.65bn. Then a doctor, Beckett was among the millions of visitors to the site in its infancy, following the community and learning from it.

One of the most-viewed videos from the pre-Lonelygirl15 era of YouTube was of two guys lipsyncing to the Pokemon theme songs. It was all filmed on their webcam and netted them about 24 million views before it was removed.

Beckett had a thought. How could you really tell what was real and what was fake on YouTube? Anyone could buy a webcam or cameraphone and upload what they wanted. So how easy would it be to create an entirely fictitious YouTuber?

"I thought it would be really cool if there was a video blogger and you told the story just like you would a TV show," he said.

He sat on this idea for a while. Then, one evening at a karaoke bar in LA, he met Mesh Flinders.

The two hit it off so well, Beckett took a chance. He told Flinders about this new medium and his idea for a new story on it. Within a matter of days, they began writing the script. Within two weeks, they had the entire plot points for the first three months of videos.

The story goes like so: our protagonist, Bree, is a homeschooled 16-year-old who doesn't have a lot in the way of friends. Her days are spent on the internet, doing homework or hanging out with her one friend Daniel. She seems like a happy-go-lucky teenager, curious about science and history ... except her parents are part of some strange religion, possibly a cult.

For Flinders, who grew up on a commune in Northern California, it was actually a story which was a long time in the making. "I didn't see the outside world 'til I was 14/15," he says. "So I knew what a girl who had been homeschooled her whole life would be like - because that's what I was like."

The most important thing? People needed to believe Bree was real. Beckett and Flinders watched all the main YouTubers, studying how they spoke and what kind of set up they used. So with Lonelygirl15, they did everything they could to make it feel completely authentic.

The first couple of videos they put up didn't feature Bree at all - they were video replies to some of the site's biggest stars, designed to take advantage of the close-knit community feel YouTube had at the time. They did the job, piquing people's interests as they encouraged Lonelygirl15 to post more.

As far as Beckett was concerned, it was a race against time before someone else pipped them to the post.

He said: "Somebody was going to create a scripted show on YouTube that uses the vlogger format and if they were marketing savvy they would make it feel real so there would be talk about it.

"If we didn't do it, then somebody else would."

The business side was headed up by their friend Greg Goodfried, a lawyer who later became one of the show's producers. His wife Amanda, then working at the Creative Artists' Agency (CAA), was tasked with maintaining Bree's Myspace page.

They had a plan, they had the webcam, they had the scripts. All they needed now, was the right girl for the part.

Jessica Lee Rose was not interested in the internet. Sure, she had a Myspace profile, but it wasn't something she used every single day.

She had just moved to Los Angeles after graduating from New York Film Academy in Burbank, working two jobs while pursuing a professional acting career. Her LA life was just getting started when, one day, she stumbled across a casting call on Craigslist for a project called The Children of Anchor Cove.

She got an auditon - but she almost didn't make it. "I wasn't that familiar with traffic in LA yet," she remembers. "I didn't allow enough time and I almost called to say I couldn't make it!"

It's just as well she got there. It was only her second or third audition - and she nailed it.

Though she was 19 at the time, it wasn't a huge stretch for the casual viewer to think she could be 16. It also turned out she too, like Bree, had been home-schooled at one point. Best of all? She was fresh off the plane. No casting agency in the city had seen her yet. Rose was perfect for the part in so many ways.

They also needed the best friend - Daniel, AKA Danielbeast. That role went to Yousef Abu-Taleb, then a bartender and a waiter. He'd moved to Los Angeles a year before and was one of the few who came into the audition not looking like he stepped out of an Abercrombie & Fitch catalogue - Daniel was always meant to be kind of dorky, so his look clearly worked in his favour. All he'd seen of YouTube at that point were a couple of videos of people falling over.

Neither of them knew until after they got the part that it would be on the internet. The creators explained the project to them in a cafe in LA. Abu-Taleb was totally fine with it. He says: "You could have told me I was performing on a street corner and I'd have been like, yes!"

But Rose was heartbroken. Suddenly her first part didn't seem such a golden opportunity.

"When you're 18/19, you think about going to LA, and how you're going to be in a movie or a TV show," she said. "Then I found out it wasn't a movie and it was going to be on the internet I instantly though this is some scam. I really thought this was what I'd been warned about moving to Los Angeles."

The notion of a web series as a mainstream product, as it can be now, just didn't exist at the time. Neither did the slew of YouTubers who had made it big enough to make money out of their video blogs. It was no wonder she thought it seemed dodgy. She called Abu-Taleb about an hour after the meeting, distraught. "She was like, I can't do it," he says. "I think she thought it seemed a little sketchy because online all there really was, was porn. She almost thought she wasn't going to do it."

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Jessica Lee Rose as Bree (Lonelygirl15) and Yousef Abu-Taleb as Daniel (DanielBeast). Photograph: YouTube/Lonelygirl15

In the end, they both decided to give it a shot. Whatever existed of their actual internet profiles had to be deleted or made private.

Now the work could begin.

"Hi guys! so this is my first video blog, I've been watching for a while and I really like some of you guys on here."

"My name is Bree, I'm 16 ..."

That's how the first LonelyGirl15 video featuring Bree starts. It's just Rose and the camera and a touch of goofiness. The bed behind her is decorated with cuddly toys and a floral bedspread. On the door is a big, pink, fluffy feather boa.

This was actually Flinders' room. They'd bought a bunch of stuff from Target so they could make it look like a typical teenager's room.

The first few videos followed the same formula as other popular vloggers. Here was this cute girl, speaking into a camera about her life. Slowly they introduced Daniel, who mainly sat on the bed in the background while Bree recorded her video. People took to her - they found her charming, cute and funny.

Behind the scenes, Beckett was obsessing over how YouTube worked. How did a video get on the most viewed section? How did it climb the charts? When they realised YouTube counted every single comment including the ones you made yourself, they would make it their mission to reply to every single one - so they appeared in the most commented section constantly, boosting their profile, adding more views.

"If you could just get it into the most viewed for the week, you might get into the most viewed for the month," said Beckett.

They also mathematically figured out at what point in the video YouTube's algorithm would scrape the preview image. Flinders said it made a huge difference. "If it was a good freeze frame, you would get like 100,000 more views.

"Miles figured out the algorithm - from then on we could choose our freeze frame. We could make a freeze frame that was thematically connected to the episode."

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The team behind Lonelygirl15 mathematically figured out exactly how to get the best preview image for their videos. Photograph: YouTube/Lonelygirl15

Their efforts paid off. The viewer counts kept rising. Lonelygirl15 appeared in the most viewed section more and more.

The original plan was to create about six months' worth of episodes, create a buzz and then disappear to create an indie blockbuster. But YouTube's burst in popularity changed all of that.

In the summer of 2006, YouTube became the fastest-growing website on the internet. People were flocking there to watch what it had to offer. And if you, like Bree, were a YouTuber who updated every two days, you were guaranteed to build a following.

The first video starring Rose went up on 16 June. Two weeks later, a video they posted on 4 July, Independence Day in the US, got 50,000 views within two hours. It was called My Parents Suck and it was the first time Bree got upset on camera. It was also the first time she hinted at her family's mysterious religion.

Up until that point, previous videos would reach the 50,000 - 100,000 mark within a week or so. By the end of the week, it was at half a million.

Flinders says they soon realised the audience they'd have with an independent film just couldn't compete with the audience they found on YouTube. He says: "Far more people were following her on YouTube and interacting with her on YouTube than would be interested if we went to direct a film and get it into Sundance."

But as her popularity grew, so too did the suspicions.

Beckett thought people would figure out the truth a lot sooner than they did. "I didn't think it would go on as long as it did. I was a little surprised that the mystery of whether or not it was real lasted as long."

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What YouTube's most viewed section looked like in July 2006, with Lonelygirl15's video at the top Photograph: YouTube/Wayback Machine

As Lonelygirl15 became the most-subscribed channel on YouTube, beating Peter Oakley AKA geriatric1927, speculation grew. People had questions, but they never had any hard evidence.

One of the main giveaways was the increasingly obvious plot line developing. Bree found out Daniel definitely did have a thing for her, posting a video about it, of course. They fell out, made up - standard teenage drama. There were lighthearted videos about science and hiking ... except when Bree talked about her mysterious religion. It then turned out she had been chosen to participate in some sort of ceremony, one which even her parents wouldn't be able to attend. Fans' questions inevitably built to a crescendo.

Yet all the while, none of the videos were discussing the controversy. Usually, YouTubers would respond to the constant questions about hoa

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The " Momo Challenge" was a hoax and an Internet urban legend that was rumored to spread through social media and other 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, self-harm and suicide. Despite claims that the phenomenon had reached worldwide proportions in July 2018, the number of actual complaints was relatively small and no law enforcement agency has confirmed that anyone was harmed as a direct result of it.

The challenge was reported to become "a worldwide phenomenon" in 2018 after an Indonesian newspaper reported that it had caused a 12-year-old girl to kill herself. Awareness grew in February 2019 after the Police Service of Northern Ireland posted a public warning on Facebook, and American media personality Kim Kardashian posted on her Instagram Story pleading for YouTube to remove alleged "Momo" videos. The challenge has (or claims to have) existed in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, India, Luxembourg, Belgium, Iran, Pakistan, the Philippines, France, Switzerland, Indonesia, Brunei, Hong Kong, Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Argentina and Brazil.

The Momo Challenge gained the public's attention in July 2018, when information on the supposed challenge was outlined and discussed in videos produced by a YouTuber, ReignBot. Targeting teenagers, people presenting themselves as a character named Momo on WhatsApp messages try to persuade people to contact them through their cell phone. As with other Internet hoaxes presented as challenges such as " Blue Whale", players are then instructed to perform a succession of tasks, refusal to do so is met with threats. Messages are subsequently accompanied by frightening or gory pictures. Although the panic eventually died down throughout the rest of 2018, it returned in a much more pervasive form in early 2019, when it was claimed that Momo was being inserted into seemingly innocuous YouTube and YouTube Kids videos about Peppa Pig and ; these claims were repeated by the group National Online Safety.

Although authorities have not confirmed any physical harm resulting from this, or even that a sustained exchange of messages took place between the Momo character and anybody, police forces and school administrations on several continents have issued warnings about the Momo Challenge and repeated common advice about Internet safety. WhatsApp is encouraging its users to block phone numbers engaging in this practice and to report them to the company.

Commenting on the numerous rumours of suicide related to the Momo Challenge, web security experts and folklorists studying urban legends have stated that the phenomenon is likely a case of moral panic: a sensationalized hoax fuelled by unverified media reports. Benjamin Radford says "the Blue Whale Game and the Momo Challenge have all the hallmarks of a classic moral panic", "fuelled by parents' fears in wanting to know what their kids are up to. There's an inherent fear in what young people are doing with technology." By September 2018, most phone numbers supposedly associated with "Momo" were out of service. The founder of fact-checking site Snopes, David Mikkelson, doubts anybody actually came to any harm and said the whole thing "may primarily be a product of bullies and pranksters latching onto a handy mechanism to goad and torment vulnerable youngsters rather than an intrinsic part of a particular social media challenge."

In response to the reports in early 2019, YouTube has said that it has "not received any links to videos showing or promoting the Momo challenge on YouTube" but permits news stories and videos intended to raise awareness of and educate against the alleged phenomenon. The website has demonetized all videos mentioning Momo, including those of news organizations, saying such content violates its advertiser-friendly content guidelines. It has also placed advisory warnings on some Momo videos alerting viewers of "inappropriate or offensive" content.

In India, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in West Bengal indicated on August 29, 2018, that claims reported in the media about the death of two teens being linked to the Momo Challenge were "far fetched and devoid of any evidence". CBI believes most of the large volume of Momo Challenge invitations in India originate locally as pranks sent to spread panic. A CBI spokesperson stated that "so far, the game has not claimed any victim, nor has anyone approached us saying they have played even the first level of it." The CBI statement followed weeks of news coverage about unconfirmed cases. After being alerted by a youth who received a Momo Challenge invitation, police in West Bengal issued a warning, and the cybercrime unit opened an investigation. The Mumbai police had previously started to warn the population, although no complaints were filed. Police did not confirm any role the Momo Challenge might have played in the death of a girl in grade 10 who committed suicide after leaving a note expressing discouragement with low grades or the suicide of an engineering student in Madras. The Odisha Police, while issuing an advisory asked the media to refrain from publishing unconfirmed reports linking teen death to the Momo Challenge.

Pakistan's Minister of Information Technology announced the government intended to draft legislation making it a crime to distribute both the Momo Challenge and the Blue Whale Challenge.

Police authorities in the Philippines issued warnings to parents to be vigilant of their children's online activity after an 11-year-old boy died from apparent suicide by drug overdose on 11 January 2019, linking the incident to the viral challenge, although no official confirmation of direct relation to the incident has been established by the authorities. In the aftermath of the reports, Raffy Tulfo and other YouTubers voiced their condolences to the family, encouraging that children be monitored by their parents. They also linked the Blue Whale Challenge to the incident.

In France, a group at the State Department was reviewing the situation daily in late July 2018. A complaint was filed in November by a father whose son committed suicide.

In Germany, the police were only aware of mentions made in chain letters. They are asking the population to act prudently when faced with that kind of cell phone contact.

The Luxembourg police confirmed one case on its territory, but no harm was caused.

The Belgian Public Prosecutor's Office reported on 6 November 2018 that a 13-year-old boy had been the victim of the Momo Challenge and hanged himself.[better source needed ]

Spain's National Police warned people to stay away from new "challenge" applications that pop up on WhatsApp, indicating the Momo phenomenon was in vogue among teenagers.

In the United Kingdom, some school administrations relayed warnings about the phenomenon. Reports on and awareness of the alleged challenge rose in February 2019 after the Police Service of Northern Ireland issued a public warning. British authorities say the challenge is being used by cybercriminals to gain personal identity information. Responding to tabloid coverage which asserted the challenge to be true, the NSPCC, the Samaritans, and the UK Safer Internet Centre have issued statements stating that the Momo Challenge is a hoax. The parent who alerted the press to the Momo Challenge subsequently said her child had not received messages from "Momo", but was merely told about it in a school playground conversation. Nevertheless, authorities and the media issued online safety precautions. Nicola Harteveld (who said her son was targeted by the challenge) and clinical psychologist Anna Colton warned on ITV's daytime TV show This Morning not to search for Momo online and advised parents to be aware of their children's activity online.

In the Canadian province of Quebec, local police forces of Longueuil, Sherbrooke and Gatineau indicated that people in their jurisdiction had been approached to participate in the Momo Challenge but did not report any victims. They asked people not to use the phone number provided in the WhatsApp messages and to send screen capture images of their phone to police authorities. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police and other police forces say they are monitoring the spread of the phenomenon but could not confirm any actual victim.

Mexican authorities investigating Internet crimes distributed detailed information to parents about the methods of the scheme. They suspect it has spread through a Facebook group frequented by young people. They warned those caught in the scheme risked self-harm, hacking and extortion.

In early August 2018 in the United States, various local police forces warned the population about the dangers of the phenomenon. Some jurisdictions have received several complaints, but no jurisdiction reported anybody being harmed. The Momo character has also appeared in the popular game in the form of in-game skins and unofficial mods created by the game's users. A police officer in Ohio was concerned to see Momo in his son's copy of the game, worried about the possibility that the mod could lead to participation in the Momo Challenge. After news reports started to outline the link between the Minecraft mod and the Momo Challenge, Microsoft announced it was taking measures to "restrict access to the mod" in question.

In Argentina, despite several media reports tentatively establishing a relationship between the Momo Challenge and the suicide of a 12-year-old girl from Ingeniero Maschwitz, no link has been confirmed by authorities.

Authorities in Brazil have not confirmed any case linked to the Momo Challenge. The national SaferNet non-profit organization has been approached by concerned parents and warned that this is only one of a variety of schemes to extort money and information from people.

The Colombian police have not confirmed news reports linking the death of two youths in Barbosa to the Momo Challenge in early September.

Early news reports stating the image of Momo was of a sculpture by Japanese artist Midori Hayashi turned out to be incorrect. Hayashi indicated that it was not her piece, and Internet users identified Link Factory, a Japanese special effects company, as the correct author of the sculpture.

The sculpture has bulging eyes and a beak-like mouth. It also had human-like breasts. Pictures of the sculpture were first posted online in 2016, when it was publicly exhibited. The firm denies any involvement with the hoax. Japanese artist Keisuke Aiso confirmed in March 2019 that the sculpture had been thrown away in 2018, after its materials ( natural rubber and plant oils) had decomposed.

Video games based on the Momo Challenge have been published by various independent developers; in July 2018 by SirFatCat and Indie_RU, in August 2018 by Dymchick1 and in October 2018 by Caffeine. The player has to do various tasks and the goal is usually to survive before getting rescued.

The Momo Challenge will be used as a plot device in an upcoming teen horror film called Getaway, produced by Emagine Content, November 11 Pictures, SorenFilms Productions and Lady of the Light Productions. Stef Beaton, Alex Brown, Georgie Storm Waite, Rianne Sensing and Charlotte Spencer will play hapless youths who experience strange phenomena after one of them tells a story about Momo.

In July 2019, Orion Pictures announced the development of a film adaptation, with producers Roy Lee (with his production company Vertigo Entertainment) and Taka Ichise.

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The " Momo Challenge" was a hoax and an Internet urban legend that was rumored to spread through social media and other 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, self-harm and suicide.

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Why people keep falling for Viral Hoaxes

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