What Next - Things That Should Scare You More Than Momo
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2019
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
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.
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| 0:00.0 | I invited Taylor Lorenz from the Atlantic magazine to come into our offices and watch this video with me. |
| 0:10.2 | Yeah, I saw this before. |
| 0:12.3 | Momo, Mama gonna kill you. |
| 0:17.1 | So what happens in this video? |
| 0:18.5 | So basically there's this little girl. She's really cute. |
| 0:21.2 | She's swaying back and forth and she's singing this song like, |
| 0:24.4 | Mama's gonna kill you. |
| 0:26.2 | If you see her in the hallway, she will kill you. |
| 0:30.9 | Mama, Mama, Mama needs to kill you. |
| 0:36.2 | That's it. |
| 0:40.3 | This little girl, she looks like she's in a school uniform. She's clutching a stuffed animal. |
| 0:42.3 | I think it's a gray fox with a big pink bow on it. |
| 0:45.3 | This is my six-year-old, almost seven-year-old daughter |
| 0:49.3 | that knows all the words to this song because she has seen it on YouTube. |
| 0:54.5 | And then the mom kind of who's filming her pulls away and is basically like, this is |
| 0:58.9 | a warning to all parents. |
| 1:00.5 | Tell your children not to listen. |
| 1:03.0 | To this. |
| 1:04.0 | That's right. |
| 1:05.0 | We know that Momo can't hurt you, right? |
| 1:07.0 | Mm-hmm. |
| 1:08.0 | That's right. |
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