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re: Apparently MOMO is back. Any of you with kids run into it yet?
Posted on 2/28/19 at 9:38 am to Salmon
Posted on 2/28/19 at 9:38 am to Salmon
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YT claims that they haven't even received a single flag for it.
Doesn't it seem obvious that YT would deny this even if they have received flags for it? They wouldn't want this to come out that their medium is being used for these "attacks". particularly YouTube for kids
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Posted on 2/28/19 at 9:38 am to Salmon
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YT claims that they haven't even received a single flag for it.
Link?
I found a Vox article where it just says that YT denies that the challenge is being promoted on its site.
Posted on 2/28/19 at 9:40 am to Paddyshack
It would be easy for someone to screenshot it or show a log of having reported it to youtube. It is much more likely that this was social media sharing hysteria. Everyone knows someone who saw it but never saw it themselves and in reality, they just read about it on facebook.
Everyone asking for a link YouTube tweeted a statement about it.
Everyone asking for a link YouTube tweeted a statement about it.
This post was edited on 2/28/19 at 9:42 am
Posted on 2/28/19 at 9:41 am to uway
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Link?
LINK
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Many of you have shared your concerns with us over the past few days about the Momo Challenge--we’ve been paying close attention to these reports. After much review, we’ve seen no recent evidence of videos promoting the Momo Challenge on YouTube. Videos encouraging harmful and dangerous challenges are clearly against our policies, the Momo challenge included. Despite press reports of this challenge surfacing, we haven’t had any recent links flagged or shared with us from YouTube that violate our Community Guidelines.
It’s important to note that we do allow creators to discuss, report, or educate people on the Momo challenge/character on YouTube. We’ve seen screenshots of videos and/or thumbnails with this character in them. To clarify, it is not against our policies to include the image of the Momo character on YouTube; that being said, this image is not allowed on the YouTube Kids app and we’re putting safeguards in place to exclude it from content on YouTube Kids.
Posted on 2/28/19 at 9:45 am to Salmon
Youtube kids has bigger problems than this Momo thing. My son wanted to watch youtube kids one time, after seeing his friends watch it. So i sat down with him and we watched an episode. It was a badly drawn japanese version of blaze and the monster machines. It was showing the monster machines stealing jewelry from people sleeping on the beach and laughing about it. I waited to see if at the end, there was a moral to the story, and the theifs got in trouble, but no. The show just ended. That was the first and last time my son ever watched youtube kids.
Posted on 2/28/19 at 9:46 am to Salmon
My sister told me that she walked in on her six year-old watching MOMO on her Ipad and that the person in the video knew her name, her parents' name, and also that her dad owned a F250 truck and what color it was.
She said that she turned the Ipad off but it kept turning itself back on and automatically restarting the video. She finally set it on fire and it literally screamed as it burnt up.
She said that she turned the Ipad off but it kept turning itself back on and automatically restarting the video. She finally set it on fire and it literally screamed as it burnt up.
Posted on 2/28/19 at 9:49 am to Blaeke
Posted on 2/28/19 at 9:49 am to Dizz
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It would be easy for someone to screenshot it or show a log of having reported it to youtube
I don't know how people can't understand this
Posted on 2/28/19 at 9:50 am to Salmon
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YT claims that they haven't even received a single flag for it.
Maybe they have not, but some of the video links posted on reddit and other places are no longer there and have been removed.
Could be truth, but Youtube is already a proven lying organization.
Momo was proven to have appeared in other social platforms, it is weird everyone here thinks YT is immune to that. YT has a lengthy history of hosting questionable stuff. Nudity, sex, suicides, murders have all been posted before getting removed.
Yes, start the conversation.
Here is a video (middle of page) showing kids how to slit their wrists
https://pedimom.com/youtube-protectourkids/#comment-564
Nothing to see here though.
Posted on 2/28/19 at 9:57 am to DarthRebel
Nobody denies that there isn't creepy shite all over the internet and no parent should just let their kids have unfettered access to the internet.
This seems like common sense.
This seems like common sense.
Posted on 2/28/19 at 10:04 am to Ed Osteen
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It would be easy for someone to screenshot it or show a log of having reported it to youtube
I don't know how people can't understand this
How is a screen shot any more proof than what is out there? And again, my wife isn't going around facebooking and Instagraming and screen shotting crap. They take it, share it, or whatever with links and sharing posts.
I'm not a conspiracy theorists, I agree it was blown up. But I'm not convinced that Youtube could not outsmart social media moms either.
Posted on 2/28/19 at 10:06 am to Salmon
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Nobody denies that there isn't creepy shite all over the internet and no parent should just let their kids have unfettered access to the internet.
This seems like common sense.
You are missing the entire point here. This is like if the Disney Jr channel ran an advertisement for lube. The entire point of Youtube kids and similar apps is to Parent this for the PARENTS. Its supposed to be a safe place.
The idea that parents are bad parents for allowing their kids to watch a "safe" app is laughable.
Posted on 2/28/19 at 10:10 am to Salmon
There is creepy shite all over YouTube this seems more than likely to just be facebook sharing BS.
Once again, it is way to easy for people to have either screenshotted the video or a log of a report having been made.
Once again, it is way to easy for people to have either screenshotted the video or a log of a report having been made.
Posted on 2/28/19 at 10:12 am to baldona
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The entire point of Youtube kids and similar apps is to Parent this for the PARENTS. Its supposed to be a safe place.
then show me some of these videos on these apps
y'all are kinda all over the place on where these videos actually appear
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The idea that parents are bad parents for allowing their kids to watch a "safe" app is laughable.
I'm not familiar with YT Kids. Is it still user uploaded videos?
Posted on 2/28/19 at 11:19 am to DarthRebel
It’s pretty fascinating how our ability to create far reaching urban legends constantly adapts and evolves. You would think that there would be a point where we would be able to debunk anything through technology and the speed of communication nowadays, but here we are.
Posted on 2/28/19 at 12:11 pm to CaptSpaulding
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It’s pretty fascinating how our ability to create far reaching urban legends constantly adapts and evolves
Sometimes they become flesh
This post was edited on 2/28/19 at 12:13 pm
Posted on 2/28/19 at 12:27 pm to Dizz
My kid was watching a re-enactment of some Disney movies like Frozen and Beauty and the Beast. It was innocent cosplay for 2-3 minutes then I hear a guy calling a princess a bitch and trying to kill her.
There’s a lot of bad shite for kids to watch.
There’s a lot of bad shite for kids to watch.
Posted on 2/28/19 at 12:36 pm to baldona
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You are missing the entire point here. This is like if the Disney Jr channel ran an advertisement for lube. The entire point of Youtube kids and similar apps is to Parent this for the PARENTS. Its supposed to be a safe place.
The idea that parents are bad parents for allowing their kids to watch a "safe" app is laughable.
No, you and other parents like you are that are using YouTube kids or similar things to babysit your kids and be hands off then bitch and complain when something from a USER SUBMITTED content provider has questionable content. Refer to my previous post about Netflix kids content as another example.
People need to understand that the internet is way more than google and Facebook and there is bad shite out there. People want to frick with other people and if that means making a transformer knockoff stealing from people on the beach or a Momo character and tagging it as a kid show them that’s what will happen. If all these parents that are in full uproar were actually involved with what their kids watched and interacted with on YouTube, Netflix, ROBLOX, etc then all this crazy shite wouldn’t be an “epidemic.”
Posted on 2/28/19 at 12:44 pm to oreeg
This post was edited on 2/28/19 at 12:45 pm
Posted on 2/28/19 at 12:48 pm to brass2mouth
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No, you and other parents like you are that are using YouTube kids or similar things to babysit your kids and be hands off then bitch and complain when something from a USER SUBMITTED content provider has questionable content.
Thank you Mr. Helicopter parent. I’m not sorry I don’t watch every single move my kids make. You are right I give them some freedoms. If you are not allowing your kids to use technology, well then your kid is in for a rude awakening and likely going to be behind educationally. So you don’t allow your kid to watch any tv, movies, or online unless you have watched it already and know exactly what’s going to happen?
So I should just shelter my kids? Until when? 12? 14? 18? Lol. At some point you allow them some freedoms and sure they overstep and you help them find the right way again.
Let’s get this straight, I wasn’t the one on social media complaining. I was simply giving my first hand experience. We have deleted YouTube kids and my wife is going through the ‘kid’ friendly apps. Again this is more a business decision on how we spend on our money and what we allow our kids to view than any complaining I am doing.
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