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mommy2B3
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Re: You Tube & You Tube Kids - Momo Challenge and Suicide Instructional Videos
Just an FYI, but my brother actually saw MOMO, so it’s actually not a hoax or urban legend. He was watching a fortnite video with his girlfriends daughter and it popped up, it spoke and said if they told parents they and their family would be stabbed to death. Luckily she is 12 and understood it was just a stupid thing, but my brother let me know about it because I have young kids and my 10 Yo watches fortnite on YouTube through our TV and didnt want my 3 and 5 YOs seeing it. He did say he tried playing the same video for the mom later that day and it was no longer embedded into that video. So I’m not sure if YouTube is actively removing them or if it actually is a hacker being able to remotely add it randomly. I’m not tech savvy enough to know if that’s possible.
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Re: You Tube & You Tube Kids - Momo Challenge and Suicide Instructional Videos
Posted by mommy2B3
Just an FYI, but my brother actually saw MOMO, so it’s actually not a hoax or urban legend. He was watching a fortnite video with his girlfriends daughter and it popped up, it spoke and said if they told parents they and their family would be stabbed to death. Luckily she is 12 and understood it was just a stupid thing, but my brother let me know about it because I have young kids and my 10 Yo watches fortnite on YouTube through our TV and didnt want my 3 and 5 YOs seeing it. He did say he tried playing the same video for the mom later that day and it was no longer embedded into that video. So I’m not sure if YouTube is actively removing them or if it actually is a hacker being able to remotely add it randomly. I’m not tech savvy enough to know if that’s possible.
Yes, but my thing is what came first- the video or the urban legend? Know what I mean? I actually think people are making these videos now BECAUSE the news is sensationalizing it so much.
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| Posted 3/1/19 8:59 AM |
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Sash
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Re: You Tube & You Tube Kids - Momo Challenge and Suicide Instructional Videos
Posted by MC09
Eh this Momo challenge thing may be an urban legend, but there's plenty of other inappropriate stuff on youtube and youtube kids. Youtube isn't able to monitor the millions of videos posted daily, and literally any psycho in any corner of the world can upload whatever they want.
Yes they can if they invested and really improved their security and fraud detection. They just don’t have the pressure yet.
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| Posted 3/1/19 9:02 AM |
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MC09
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Re: You Tube & You Tube Kids - Momo Challenge and Suicide Instructional Videos
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Posted by MC09
Eh this Momo challenge thing may be an urban legend, but there's plenty of other inappropriate stuff on youtube and youtube kids. Youtube isn't able to monitor the millions of videos posted daily, and literally any psycho in any corner of the world can upload whatever they want.
Yes they can if they invested and really improved their security and fraud detection. They just don’t have the pressure yet.
True, and even if they did at the end of the day it's on the parent to monitor this stuff, and since that can be impossible I see no benefit in young kids watching youtube. It's not exactly quality content. The fact that anyone can upload any video they want is creepy af.
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| Posted 3/1/19 9:12 AM |
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mommy2B3
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Re: You Tube & You Tube Kids - Momo Challenge and Suicide Instructional Videos
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Posted by mommy2B3
Just an FYI, but my brother actually saw MOMO, so it’s actually not a hoax or urban legend. He was watching a fortnite video with his girlfriends daughter and it popped up, it spoke and said if they told parents they and their family would be stabbed to death. Luckily she is 12 and understood it was just a stupid thing, but my brother let me know about it because I have young kids and my 10 Yo watches fortnite on YouTube through our TV and didnt want my 3 and 5 YOs seeing it. He did say he tried playing the same video for the mom later that day and it was no longer embedded into that video. So I’m not sure if YouTube is actively removing them or if it actually is a hacker being able to remotely add it randomly. I’m not tech savvy enough to know if that’s possible.
Yes, but my thing is what came first- the video or the urban legend? Know what I mean? I actually think people are making these videos now BECAUSE the news is sensationalizing it so much.
He told me about the video on Sunday, and I didn’t hear about it on the news until Tuesday. So I actually think it started and then just got a lot worse after the media took off with it. But YouTube needs to do a better job monitoring everything being uploaded, the fact they are pretending it’s not happening is alarming.
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| Posted 3/1/19 9:23 AM |
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Momma2015
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Re: You Tube & You Tube Kids - Momo Challenge and Suicide Instructional Videos
Posted by mommy2B3
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Posted by mommy2B3
Just an FYI, but my brother actually saw MOMO, so it’s actually not a hoax or urban legend. He was watching a fortnite video with his girlfriends daughter and it popped up, it spoke and said if they told parents they and their family would be stabbed to death. Luckily she is 12 and understood it was just a stupid thing, but my brother let me know about it because I have young kids and my 10 Yo watches fortnite on YouTube through our TV and didnt want my 3 and 5 YOs seeing it. He did say he tried playing the same video for the mom later that day and it was no longer embedded into that video. So I’m not sure if YouTube is actively removing them or if it actually is a hacker being able to remotely add it randomly. I’m not tech savvy enough to know if that’s possible.
Yes, but my thing is what came first- the video or the urban legend? Know what I mean? I actually think people are making these videos now BECAUSE the news is sensationalizing it so much.
He told me about the video on Sunday, and I didn’t hear about it on the news until Tuesday. So I actually think it started and then just got a lot worse after the media took off with it. But YouTube needs to do a better job monitoring everything being uploaded, the fact they are pretending it’s not happening is alarming.
Hmm I mean I heard about this last year then it died down and ramped back up again last week. They really do need some security upgrades. There's SOOOOOO much inappropriate stuff on there.
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| Posted 3/1/19 9:29 AM |
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nraboni
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Re: You Tube & You Tube Kids - Momo Challenge and Suicide Instructional Videos
Yesterday our school district sent home a note to parents talking about the Momo Challenge and encouraging parents to have a talk with our children about internet safety.
My DD came home with the note and told me that her teacher mentioned something briefly about it but ALL of the kids in the school are talking about MOMO. She is in 2nd grade and the stuff she is hearing from her classmates and other kids scared her.
When I had the conversation the other day with her I just told her that there was a scary video that has been popping up on YT and YTK and that we needed to delete it for now.
Last night after she had gone to bed she came into my room hysterically crying because she was thinking about all of the scary things her classmates were saying and she had made up this scary image of MOMO in her head. I asked her if she had seen a picture and she told me no.
So I told her that it's not real and that as she knows there are some not so nice people in this world and some of those people created this scary image of a woman that is telling kids to do bad things. She was scared because her classmates told her that MOMO could just appear as she is watching TV and Netflix. I told her that wasn't true and if her classmates continue to talk about it just tell them you don't want to hear it and you don't think it is true and you are going to ask your parents about it.
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spartagoose
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You Tube & You Tube Kids - Momo Challenge and Suicide Instructional Videos
I'm really sorry this is freaking kids out. My older daughter is a kindergartener and unaware but if she were to hear stories, they would absolutely scare her.
I keep thinking about how we (any older millenials, gen x-ers, and baby boomers reading this!) grew up, often consuming plenty of traditional media without a ton of parental oversight -- FCC regulations were and are pretty stringent so our parents trusted that we weren't watching inappropriate stuff. Media consumption is super fragmented now and I think people were already anxious about the specifics of our kids' consumption and our lack of control. What exactly are those family vloggers (and are they exploiting their kids' privacy for fame and money!?)/what are these toy unboxing videos teaching our kids, am I really familiar with the gamers streaming on twitch, etc etc.
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alli3131
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Re: You Tube & You Tube Kids - Momo Challenge and Suicide Instructional Videos
Posted by mommy2B3
Posted by Momma2015
Posted by mommy2B3
Just an FYI, but my brother actually saw MOMO, so it’s actually not a hoax or urban legend. He was watching a fortnite video with his girlfriends daughter and it popped up, it spoke and said if they told parents they and their family would be stabbed to death. Luckily she is 12 and understood it was just a stupid thing, but my brother let me know about it because I have young kids and my 10 Yo watches fortnite on YouTube through our TV and didnt want my 3 and 5 YOs seeing it. He did say he tried playing the same video for the mom later that day and it was no longer embedded into that video. So I’m not sure if YouTube is actively removing them or if it actually is a hacker being able to remotely add it randomly. I’m not tech savvy enough to know if that’s possible.
Yes, but my thing is what came first- the video or the urban legend? Know what I mean? I actually think people are making these videos now BECAUSE the news is sensationalizing it so much.
He told me about the video on Sunday, and I didn’t hear about it on the news until Tuesday. So I actually think it started and then just got a lot worse after the media took off with it. But YouTube needs to do a better job monitoring everything being uploaded, the fact they are pretending it’s not happening is alarming.
It’s been around for years in other countries so it’s nothing new it’s jsut new to us and social media is buying into the hype!!!
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Sash
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Re: You Tube & You Tube Kids - Momo Challenge and Suicide Instructional Videos
I just asked my 10yr old son and he never heard of it. His device activity is limited but no one in his school talks about it at all.
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pumpkinmom
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Re: You Tube & You Tube Kids - Momo Challenge and Suicide Instructional Videos
Posted by nraboni
Yesterday our school district sent home a note to parents talking about the Momo Challenge and encouraging parents to have a talk with our children about internet safety.
My DD came home with the note and told me that her teacher mentioned something briefly about it but ALL of the kids in the school are talking about MOMO. She is in 2nd grade and the stuff she is hearing from her classmates and other kids scared her.
When I had the conversation the other day with her I just told her that there was a scary video that has been popping up on YT and YTK and that we needed to delete it for now.
Last night after she had gone to bed she came into my room hysterically crying because she was thinking about all of the scary things her classmates were saying and she had made up this scary image of MOMO in her head. I asked her if she had seen a picture and she told me no.
So I told her that it's not real and that as she knows there are some not so nice people in this world and some of those people created this scary image of a woman that is telling kids to do bad things. She was scared because her classmates told her that MOMO could just appear as she is watching TV and Netflix. I told her that wasn't true and if her classmates continue to talk about it just tell them you don't want to hear it and you don't think it is true and you are going to ask your parents about it.
My DD is in 1st and was scared by what her classmates told her too.
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| Posted 3/1/19 6:18 PM |
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soontobemommyof2
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Re: You Tube & You Tube Kids - Momo Challenge and Suicide Instructional Videos
So it seems to be a real thing...
Momo
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