Things That Should Scare You More Than Momo

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🗓️ 6 March 2019

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The Momo challenge doesn’t appear to be much of a threat, but the fact that parents are worried about it reveals a real anxiety about the videos that YouTube pushes toward kids. Guest: Taylor Lorenz, writer for the Atlantic. Tell us what you think by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts or sending an email to [email protected]. Follow us on Instagram for updates on the show. Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Jayson De Leon, and Anna Martin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I invited Taylor Lurens from the Atlantic magazine to come into our offices and watch this video with me.
0:10.4	Yeah, I saw this before.
0:12.6	Mom, Mom, Mom, Mom, I'm gonna kill you.
0:16.6	So what happens in this video?
0:18.3	So basically there's this little girl, she's really cute, she's swaying back and forth and she's singing this song.
0:23.6	Like, Mom, Mom's gonna kill you.
0:26.2	If you see her in the hall I see will kill you.
0:30.4	Mom, Mom, Mom, Mom, Mom will kill you.
0:35.7	That's it.
0:37.3	This little girl, she looks like she's in a school uniform.
0:40.9	She's clutching a stuffed animal.
0:42.8	I think it's a gray fox with a big pink bow on it.
0:45.7	This is my six year old, almost seven year old daughter that knows all the words to this song because she has seen it on YouTube.
0:54.3	And then the mom kind of who's filming her pulls away and is basically like this is a warning to all parents.
1:00.4	Tell your children not to listen to this.
1:03.8	That's right.
1:04.6	We know that Momo can't hurt you, right?
1:07.5	That's right.
1:08.5	I mean, when I see my videos I cannot help but roll my eyes at this point.
1:12.4	I have all these crazy messages from parents this week telling me like, no, Momo is real.
1:16.8	She actually hacked my child's Facebook page and it's like, no, she did.
1:20.0	That's not even a thing.
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