Momo Challenge - Parents beware

[Rabbuk]

Teaching her that life is tough.

Not because the game is inherently tough but horribly made and impossible to tell what's going on

 

[VeloClone]

I agree with you that secretly inserting footage into a YouTube Kids video is entirely believable.

I'm convinced that there is no more secure location in the world, to store sensitive information, than the 8 minute mark of a Peppa Pig video. My eyes glaze over long before I would ever get to that point. You could put alternate footage of the Kennedy assassination in there, and I'd never know it. Beats any encryption that I can think of.

As long as you are talking about Peppa Pig and conspiracies, I believe that Peppa Pig is actually just "The Nose" from the old Pink Panther cartoons dressed up in drag.

 

[CycloneErik]

Not because the game is inherently tough but horribly made and impossible to tell what's going on

SO much hope destroyed so thoroughly.

 

[mapnerd]

SO much hope destroyed so thoroughly.

So, that game is impossible to win on the 'difficult' setting or whatever it's called, right? ET moves so slow and the government agents just zoom across the screen, if memory serves right. I actually have that game at home and 2 2600's, so I could test it out. But I would rather step on a room full of Legos instead.

 

[CycloneErik]

So, that game is impossible to win on the 'difficult' setting or whatever it's called, right? ET moves so slow and the government agents just zoom across the screen, if memory serves right. I actually have that game at home and 2 2600's, so I could test it out. But I would rather step on a room full of Legos instead.

Could try both and report back about which hurts more.
I think the agents skip past obstacles and went at angles ET couldn't, too, or something like that. Escape was virtually impossible.
And the sound was really bad.

 

[CycloneErik]

And on the Peppa front, I love Peppa Pig videos. We've gone to the live show twice, and it's a blast.

 

[Dopey]

Yep 3 of them, and do you even know the story of the slender man, and the 2 girls in Wisconsin.
I've had to defuse this **** with my oldest daughter constantly, yes she was terrified when everyone was telling her about the slenderman, which was a hoax, it was a scary story on a forum that people added to randomly, like a campfire story. Those girls used it as an excuse, they claimed it was a real person, that someone online was telling them to do things, like the hoax was told. When in reality it was a hoax made up about the story that was being told on a website for horror stories.
Now today my daughter tells me she is worried about momo, and that someone is going to Hack into my other 2 kids youtube videos and tell them to kill themselves. IT is all Fake. And I had to defuse it because people are sharing something that is fake and making a story a fake made up hoax into something real.
Do I worry my kids will see something on their kindles or on one of our other devices playing Youtube videos, or watching Nick online. NOPE. Literally if something comes on that my kids don't like they scroll to the next one in 2 seconds. Do I think some rando is going to magically going to hack into their Kindles and tell them to kill themselves, Yeah not really.
I guess every time I see this BS on FB I realize it is just that BS, but it Pisses me off when I see dozens of people sharing the same **** then my daughter starts worrying about it because people are to stupid to realize its fake or do a little research and realize someone took a picture made by a graphic artist and made up a story to go along with it and spread it to a few people on FB and Boom you have mass panic. Going through life scare of the boogie man is not something I choose to do and trying to shelter my kids from an imaginary threat is something I don't plan on doing either. That is why I actually take 2 minutes to look into these so called threats.
Not every post on FB, not every meme, and not every story you read on the internet is real, not all of them are truthful and most of the time they aren't especially if politics are involved. If you think they are, I have some used siding for a spaceship I will sell you.

I don't see how this is a hoax. It may have started as such, but either way, it completed it's intent which was to spread fear. I had 3 co-workers up all night with scared kids because of the Momo thing this week. Good kids, good parents, good people, but they were affected by it.

I totally agree with your message and opinion on this stuff. But I'd be careful assuming your kids are above it. Social media and peer pressure can be rough.

 

[CyCrazy]

And on the Peppa front, I love Peppa Pig videos. We've gone to the live show twice, and it's a blast.

I am glad my kids have moved on from this abomination. Just brutal, now that being said the youngest is in love with Llama Llama and if I hear that theme song one more time I will snap.

 

[CycloneErik]

I am glad my kids have moved on from this abomination. Just brutal, now that being said the youngest is in love with Llama Llama and if I hear that theme song one more time I will snap.

Good news. No one will be able to tell that you snapped.

 

[CyCrazy]

Good news. No one will be able to tell that you snapped.

Well played sir

 

[Tailg8er]

I don't see how this is a hoax. It may have started as such, but either way, it completed it's intent which was to spread fear. I had 3 co-workers up all night with scared kids because of the Momo thing this week. Good kids, good parents, good people, but they were affected by it.

I totally agree with your message and opinion on this stuff. But I'd be careful assuming your kids are above it. Social media and peer pressure can be rough.

I think it's a hoax cause if it wasn't shared to oblivion, none of those people would have ever heard of it.. it's not embedded in random youtube videos, it's just blasted on FB and social media..

 

[SpokaneCY]

Yep 3 of them, and do you even know the story of the slender man, and the 2 girls in Wisconsin.
I've had to defuse this **** with my oldest daughter constantly, yes she was terrified when everyone was telling her about the slenderman, which was a hoax, it was a scary story on a forum that people added to randomly, like a campfire story. Those girls used it as an excuse, they claimed it was a real person, that someone online was telling them to do things, like the hoax was told. When in reality it was a hoax made up about the story that was being told on a website for horror stories.
Now today my daughter tells me she is worried about momo, and that someone is going to Hack into my other 2 kids youtube videos and tell them to kill themselves. IT is all Fake. And I had to defuse it because people are sharing something that is fake and making a story a fake made up hoax into something real.
Do I worry my kids will see something on their kindles or on one of our other devices playing Youtube videos, or watching Nick online. NOPE. Literally if something comes on that my kids don't like they scroll to the next one in 2 seconds. Do I think some rando is going to magically going to hack into their Kindles and tell them to kill themselves, Yeah not really.
I guess every time I see this BS on FB I realize it is just that BS, but it Pisses me off when I see dozens of people sharing the same **** then my daughter starts worrying about it because people are to stupid to realize its fake or do a little research and realize someone took a picture made by a graphic artist and made up a story to go along with it and spread it to a few people on FB and Boom you have mass panic. Going through life scare of the boogie man is not something I choose to do and trying to shelter my kids from an imaginary threat is something I don't plan on doing either. That is why I actually take 2 minutes to look into these so called threats.
Not every post on FB, not every meme, and not every story you read on the internet is real, not all of them are truthful and most of the time they aren't especially if politics are involved. If you think they are, I have some used siding for a spaceship I will sell you.

Thanks for your public service!

Question - can I really not take the tag off my mattress? I've heard the mattress police can come in while you sleep and if the tag is gone, they steal your underpants. Read about it on Reddit...

 

[SpokaneCY]

Honestly, I'm kind of disappointed. Just once I want one of these parental freakout hoaxes to be true:
Knockout Game
Momo
Dungeons & Dragons Santanism
and perhaps most of all, the jelly bracelet sex club.

Why couldn't that one have been real?

I just think that the world is a more magical place when vicious packs of wild dogs are roaming around the countryside and trouble youths are assaulting old people in complex gang initiation rituals.
Living in fear is so much more exciting than reality, dammit!
At least the Smiley Face Killers are still around to be terrified of. That's comforting.

Knockout game is a real thing with more than a few assaults in Spokane.

 

[SpokaneCY]

The Tide Pod thing was barely real either.

The internet in itself is somewhat dangerous. Social media with any random moron creating the content and "real" media then parroting it is really dangerous.

So Trump ISN'T a russian sleeper agent?

 

[HFCS]

So Trump ISN'T a russian sleeper agent?

He believes Putin and Kim. His own words verbatim.

 

[SpokaneCY]

As long as you are talking about Peppa Pig and conspiracies, I believe that Peppa Pig is actually just "The Nose" from the old Pink Panther cartoons dressed up in drag.

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Still not sure why a pig has a peni$ for a head. This show might not be made for me.

 

[Cyclone.TV]

I had to google rainbow parties.

I’m shocked.

 

[2speedy1]

I don't see how this is a hoax. It may have started as such, but either way, it completed it's intent which was to spread fear. I had 3 co-workers up all night with scared kids because of the Momo thing this week. Good kids, good parents, good people, but they were affected by it.

I totally agree with your message and opinion on this stuff. But I'd be careful assuming your kids are above it. Social media and peer pressure can be rough.

You are right, in today's age of Social media etc, it did what it was designed for, but the actual threat is the fake part. The rest is the BS and we are all our worst enemies in that because we spread and perpetuate it.

That is the problem the craze is what is causing all the fear, not the actual threat. It is the problem with all the social media and even regular media in this day.

2 people in a burger joint get sick and suddenly every one of the thousands of that franchise are near bankrupted because now the media spreads the fear, a few years ago, those couple people just got the ***** for a couple days and thought nothing of it.

The media and social media create this huge fear craze and causes everyone to blow all these things way out of proportion from these hoaxes and urban legends to guns. And people blindly believe it, spread it, and exaggerate it further, without checking the facts.

Its like we all forgot those games we used to play in grade school where you tell one person something and pass it along through the class and see how it changes by the last person. This is the one thing I hate about the social media era, and the even the news media era, there is actually nothing you can take at face value, and you have to consider the source of everything.

 

[Cyclones_R_GR8]

 

[throwittoblythe]

You are right, in today's age of Social media etc, it did what it was designed for, but the actual threat is the fake part. The rest is the BS and we are all our worst enemies in that because we spread and perpetuate it.

That is the problem the craze is what is causing all the fear, not the actual threat. It is the problem with all the social media and even regular media in this day.

2 people in a burger joint get sick and suddenly every one of the thousands of that franchise are near bankrupted because now the media spreads the fear, a few years ago, those couple people just got the ***** for a couple days and thought nothing of it.

The media and social media create this huge fear craze and causes everyone to blow all these things way out of proportion from these hoaxes and urban legends to guns. And people blindly believe it, spread it, and exaggerate it further, without checking the facts.

Its like we all forgot those games we used to play in grade school where you tell one person something and pass it along through the class and see how it changes by the last person. This is the one thing I hate about the social media era, and the even the news media era, there is actually nothing you can take at face value, and you have to consider the source of everything.

This is my biggest problem and I don’t know what the solution is. Personally, I rarely have time to dig through and find source material on any story. So, when CBS News runs with a story, I’m still used to believing it’s based in fact so I tend to believe it.

However, now all the news networks are competing for eyeballs instead of being focused on giving sound journalism (not hating on them, they’re trying to survive after a huge paradigm shift). So, everyone wants to get the story out as fast as possible to draw in clicks and views. Solid sourcing and judgment are often lost in that. Unfortunately, I have no idea what the solution is.