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The Momo thing was a pretty big deal -- Just calling it a random Japanese sculpture is ignoring everything that happened around it on various social media outle

by m10y 5y ago

The Momo thing was a pretty big deal -- Just calling it a random Japanese sculpture is ignoring everything that happened around it on various social media outlets. I can understand why Facebook would remove references to it pretty much forever. Its fame was never tied to anything but the controversy. Are there other examples of autobans that are more egregious? Just curious.

fennecfoxen 5y ago
https://www.insider.com/momo-challenge-hoax-japanese-sculpture-mother-bird-2019-3 https://www.insider.com/momo-challenge-hoax-japanese-sculptu... > The sculpture appears to be Aisawa's interpretation of the Japanese folklore character, Ubume, the representation of the ghost of a woman who died during childbirth ... parents started claiming the image was popping up in YouTube videos, instructing children to kill themselves and keep the clips secret from parents ... There were no screenshots or recordings of such appearances, but the hoax was spread by celebrities including Kim Kardashian and Kehlani.
- ronsor 5y ago
  > hoax was spread by celebrities including Kim Kardashian and Kehlani > listening to celebrities That's your real problem right there.
  - pphysch 5y ago
    With the important caveat that most American politicians and intellectuals are essentially celebrities -- they are not focused on governance or discovery but rather on promoting and monetizing their personal image & power, because that's what our society incentivizes. Someone who blindly follows the Kardashians is not necessarily worse off epistemically than someone who blindly follows Biden/Trump/AOC/Boebert or the Experts on NPR/Fox/CBS/HN.
- guerrilla 5y ago
  Sounds a lot like Satanic Panic [1] 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_panic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_panic
petercooper 5y ago
There has been hardly any evidence that the "Momo thing" was anything at all, and that's being generous. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momo_Challenge_hoax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momo_Challenge_hoax: "web security experts and folklorists studying urban legends have stated that the phenomenon is likely a case of moral panic: a sensationalized hoax fuelled by unverified media reports" Maybe the image was inserted into undesirable videos, but the image itself is harmless and inoffensive. It's simply a (model of a) girl with enlarged eyes. Automatically banning specific legal and inoffensive images is a huge overreach by Facebook, because what other images could they be banning?

by m10y 5y ago

fennecfoxen 5y ago

https://www.insider.com/momo-challenge-hoax-japanese-sculpture-mother-bird-2019-3 https://www.insider.com/momo-challenge-hoax-japanese-sculptu... > The sculpture appears to be Aisawa's interpretation of the Japanese folklore character, Ubume, the representation of the ghost of a woman who died during childbirth ... parents started claiming the image was popping up in YouTube videos, instructing children to kill themselves and keep the clips secret from parents ... There were no screenshots or recordings of such appearances, but the hoax was spread by celebrities including Kim Kardashian and Kehlani.

ronsor 5y ago
> hoax was spread by celebrities including Kim Kardashian and Kehlani > listening to celebrities That's your real problem right there.
- pphysch 5y ago
  With the important caveat that most American politicians and intellectuals are essentially celebrities -- they are not focused on governance or discovery but rather on promoting and monetizing their personal image & power, because that's what our society incentivizes. Someone who blindly follows the Kardashians is not necessarily worse off epistemically than someone who blindly follows Biden/Trump/AOC/Boebert or the Experts on NPR/Fox/CBS/HN.
guerrilla 5y ago
Sounds a lot like Satanic Panic [1] 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_panic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_panic

petercooper 5y ago

There has been hardly any evidence that the "Momo thing" was anything at all, and that's being generous. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momo_Challenge_hoax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momo_Challenge_hoax: "web security experts and folklorists studying urban legends have stated that the phenomenon is likely a case of moral panic: a sensationalized hoax fuelled by unverified media reports" Maybe the image was inserted into undesirable videos, but the image itself is harmless and inoffensive. It's simply a (model of a) girl with enlarged eyes. Automatically banning specific legal and inoffensive images is a huge overreach by Facebook, because what other images could they be banning?