Crime News
Momo Challenge Is A Suicide Game – Experts Warn After 2 Deaths In Colombia & Near Death Experience In UK
Momo Challenge Is A Suicide Game – Experts Warn After 2 Deaths In Colombia & Near Death Experience In UK
A UK based mother is now warning all parents to watch out for the viral “Momo Challenge” that recently surfaced on the social media.
For those new to this end time trend, Momo Challenge is game played via YouTube, Facebook and Whatsapp.
It encourages players especially young kids to harm themselves.
The main character of the game is a scary looking creature with big bug-like eyes and dark hair.
A mother based in Edinburgh said her 8-year-old son is now living in constant fear since the scary avatar of the game’s main character popped up on YouTube while watching other videos.
The momo character reportedly told him to go to the kitchen drawer and take a knife to kill himself.
The same character is responsible for the deaths of a 16-year-old boy and 12-year-old girl who killed themselves in Colombia in 2018.
The character was created by Link Factory, a Japanese special effects firm.
The original intention of the creator was not to use the creepy character to scare kids, sadly, some faceless elements are using it to induce suicide.
All parents should keep a good eye on their kids activities online.
Prevention they say is better than cure.
Follow NaijaGists.com on Facebook and Twitter.
Darasimi
February 27, 2019 at 10:03 PM
It is not real. It is fake like the tropophobia sh*t that started from markiplier
This sh*t can never affect a Nigerian kid
DB
February 28, 2019 at 9:12 AM
That was how I used to say suicide bombing can never happen in nigeria until boko haram proved me wrong. A child is a child irrespective of race or colour. The devil has different packages for everyone through the power of social media. MONITOR YOUR CHILDREN AND AVOID COSTLY ASSUMPTIONS SO YOU CAN AVOID STORIES THAT TOUCH THE HEART
OBI EUGENE
February 27, 2019 at 11:21 PM
This kind can never induce any African Child into misfortune.
Fifelomo
February 28, 2019 at 7:55 AM
I tell you!
Mon
February 28, 2019 at 1:38 AM
If it’s created by African, then the World will see or know it as evil.
Bench
February 28, 2019 at 7:12 AM
Make the Momo come chalange me. Na me go kill am sef. Nonsens.
mother bird
March 4, 2019 at 12:39 PM
hi am momo want a challenge?
Rosy
February 28, 2019 at 3:34 PM
This kind image is not supposed to be seen by a pregnant woman ooo, else, i wonder how the unborn baby will look like
uzoma
February 28, 2019 at 4:45 PM
Arrant nonsense. If this was developed in Africa these bastards will come out in droves to condemn it and call Africans all sorts of ugly names. No African child will partake in such lunacy.
Oluwatobi
February 28, 2019 at 5:49 PM
Who told you it can never induce any African child into misfortune? The game is purely demonic. Even thou the victims in question are not Africans, only a complete fool or better still an insane man would commit suicide at the word of another. That is to show the words spoken are mystical and not ordinary.
Fifelomo
March 1, 2019 at 6:23 AM
This is scary….