To wonder if Momo actually exists

[Mammylamb]

Have any of you actually seen it for yourself? Or is it an internet hoax?

Oh my god! Mumsnet has been hacked by MOMO!!!

All I've seen is momo at the end of an egg opening video, behind a door. She doesn't say or do anything though just the weird face

@Heartofglass12345 that's because Momo as the internet knows it is a photo of an art piece.

oh I do understand that lots of people are using Momo....

what term do I use, if not "hackers"?

Right now, my only use of Momo would be to demand someone go to the corner shop and get me some chocolate!

It's trolling

Not hacking

It's hyped up bs. And the more hyped up it gets,the more content will be made by trolls for shits and giggles.
The "hacking" thing is because it started on IM platforms like WhatsApp and fb messenger(or it moved onto it,irrelevant really) and random people are being messages to do the "challenges ". It's not beyond belief that some people would try and take advantage of this and instead of sending "your bank suddenly needs your bank details for this amazing holiday you've won" they'd message random numbers instead and ask for private info or ask the user to click on a link etc. The more media frenzy and the more hyped up it gets the more people will try to capitalise on it or take the piss with it or even both.

It's been made real by the mass hysteria,just like all the other bs hoaxes (bloody mary,blue whale,killer clown,charlie charlie etc).

I asked my 7yo about it and he looked at me like i had 2 heads...

Doesn’t matter whether it’s real or not . It’s scared the absolute shit out of my 7 year old and she hasn’t even seen it ,just heard about it at school from a teacher .
It popped up on my friends little girls iPad when she was watching a video on YouTube .
What a sick fuck this lowlife is

What a sick fuck this lowlife is

😂😂😂

These type of posts tickle me. Like it's one weirdo person who genuinely is momo.

Why can't anyone actually name the YouTube "video"? Can it be more random and pointless than that?

Official YouTube channels and the big youtubers won't have anything like this .

#peppapigffreeforlifeclickhere username with 15 videos and 3 subscribers might have something,simply because of the hype and to troll others.

I've seen it too! It was on the bbc iplayer during docor who. The BBC is hacked!!

I genuinely think anyone taken in by this shit is too thick to have kids.

Both DS at special school and had a talk about it at assembly today. I’d never heard of it. DS1 is freaked out. He failed a horseriding grade tonight because he was shaking so hard. He’s had his melatonin but I don’t think it’s going to work tonight. He has occasional supervised access to social media and believes he will be murdered immediately he switches on a device.

DS2 lives in a happy bubble and isn’t affected. He doesn’t use any social media (doubt he’s heard of it) so hopefully he’s safe.

I have tried explaining it’s like chain letters when I was young and that I wasn’t cursed when I destroyed them but he has SN and is naturally paranoid so I’m not getting anywhere.

If anyone else has experience of reassuring in these difficult circumstances I’d be very grateful to hear tips!

It reminds me of an episode of BrassEye

Skip to 6 minutes and he shows a video of the Momo clip playing and then if you keep watching he shows the rather disturbing Peppa pig clip which I believe is where the confusion comes from. I can see why it scares the kids.

The Momo clips are on youtube and have been on youtube for ages. They are NOT randomly popping up in kids youtube videos.

The fake Peppa vids are real and youtube has been working to get rid of them.

@smashedmug you really aren’t helping here.

I genuinely think anyone taken in by this shit is too thick to have kids.

I wholeheartedly agree with this.

I've just had email from ex-H asking me to warn the kids about Momo and suggesting we set a date in the near future to sit down and properly discuss Momo with them. He wants me to turn off 'the internet' until we talk to them. I assume he means my router not the entire internet The email was filled with links from trustworthy new sites such as Facebook and The Sun.

I did the same thing I did when he warned me about Talking Angela asking them for nudes and The Blue Whale challenge and sent him links to Snopes and thatsnonsense.com.

It popped up on my friends little girls iPad when she was watching a video on YouTube .
What a sick fuck this lowlife is

Get your friend to send you the video link and post it here. Nobody on twitter or facebook has posted an actual link.

@JustOneShadeOfGrey has he had an experience of all the other hypes killer clowns,charlie charlie etc that he now knows as fake? You could explain it's just like that.

DD linked it to the ouija boards , and asked again if they're real. I told her we can buy those in the toy shops so what does she think? She decided for herself they must not be real then and just a toy and then went into a half an hour explanation of how they must work (it involved batteries,sensors and some kind of mind reading I think...🙈)

Really @hairyporker?

I’m very well educated, went through more parent training courses than you have empathy cells in your whole body before we adopted our SN kids. If you parented a child with trust issues you wouldn’t be so smug.

To them it is real. If it’s a hoax it’s too late to tell them. The damage is done.

He wants me to turn off 'the internet' until we talk to them.

Tell him to flip a switch.

From what I understand there are 2 Momo 'issues'.

The first has been going on for a year and it's people sending each other messages on social media under the imaginary identity of 'Momo' using the picture that people have seen. This is what people are talking about when they refer to 'hackers' but they aren't really hacking anything. It's the WhatsApp equivalent of cold calling. People could pretend to be momo and ask for money or bank details. This is the 'information' they are looking for.

The second is the idea that YouTube videos have been hacked. This is just not true. If you see that someone has supposedly watched Peppa Pig and seen momo, they haven't been watching the official channel or any reputable channels and the video hasn't been hacked. Maybe people are making their own videos and uploading them to their own channel. I could do that now. Anyone could buy one report and it's gone and so is the channel. We also would have seen at least one video of this by now.

The mass hysteria is actually causing more problems than the actual momo meme itself.

It is also incredibly worrying that people who
allow their children on YouTube would have this level of internet illiteracy. You can see bad things on YouTube if you dig for long enough. Its like allowing your child to stand in the middle of Times Square with no supervision. Eventually they will see someone swearing or doing drugs or being violent.

He wants me to turn off 'the internet

Send him this

The most I've seen is screenshots of the image superimposed over the top of child orientated YouTube videos. Likely, as PP have said, done as part of the hysteria that's going around. That being said, I've just banned YouTube in our house, as the image of the sculpture alone would be enough to upset DS, and TBH I just can't be arsed with it all. If he's not watching anything on YouTube, nothing real or fake can pop up. Issue solved for us.

Thank you @YourSarcasmIsDripping I will try that. He used to freak out (and I don’t use that term lightly) when he saw anyone in costume.