MOMO 'CHALLENGE': THE TRUE STORY BEHIND THE HORRIFYING TREND POLICE SAY IS TERRORISING CHILDREN скачать в хорошем качестве

MOMO 'CHALLENGE': THE TRUE STORY BEHIND THE HORRIFYING TREND POLICE SAY IS TERRORISING CHILDREN

The image known as "Momo", now apparently being used to torment and horrify children on messaging apps such as WhatsApp, has once again been the subject of a series of warnings. Police have this week expressed concern about the image, which they say is being used by cyber criminals and other malicious actors to add people on messaging services But it is a long-running trend that has spread across the internet in a variety of different forms, with a true story that is almost as strange as the often troubling false stories that are told about it. Where did Momo really come from? Relatively little is known about where the Momo image, name, or story came from. But it is far from supernatural and mostly explicable. What is the Momo "challenge"? As with many things now referred to as "challenges" by newspapers, the new Momo trend is not really a challenge in the traditional sense, or even in the more recent interpretation of the word that has flourished through popular phenomena such as the Ice Bucket Challenge. Instead, a more accurate descriptor might be a meme, though of course this is not one filled with the kind of fun or joy that word might normally be associated with. There is no real challenge involved, more just a diffuse set of different things people are using the image for. "Adding someone on WhatsApp may seem harmless or even fun at first but it can be very damaging in the future once they are a 'contact', especially if this new connection then asks you to act out something you usually would not feel comfortable in participating in," said Jake Moore, cyber security specialist at ESET. Credit: Independent.co.uk Sound: the ride of valkyries (Richard Wagner)