According to reports from gullible parents’ organizations, police
departments, and media outlets, Kids on the Internet are spreading memes
featuring an image of “Momo” (actually a sculpture called “Mother Bird”
created by Keisuke Aisawa for the Japanese SFX studio Link Factory)
that includes explicit self-harm and suicide instructions (the
“challenge” in “Momo challenge” is allegedly to get kids to hurt or kill
themselves).
It’s a hoax, though. There are no verified sightings of Momo Challenge
memes in the wild, and this isn’t even the first time this hoax has gone
around; it circulated in September 2018 as well.
As Taylor Lorenz writes in The Atlantic,
this is part of a genre of hoaxes that rely on parental anxiety about
kids’ use of technology to spread incomprehensible cultural ideas, from
the Satanic Panic over backmasked secret messages in heavy metal lyrics
to the “eating Tide Pods” hoax to the fictional deaths linked to the
“cinnamon challenge.”
andy’s mom doing his soldiers dirty after he leaves for college
This is so fucking funny like you see this cool, tacky golden weave bowl & look closer to see that it’s a mass of writhing bodies of fallen soilders twisted into another in agony like something out of full metal alchemist
This is like…. some kinda exaggerated metaphor about the middle class profiting from while simultaneously covering up the sacrifice of poor people to the military industrial complex, Esp since the fruit bowl is ye olde symbolism for extramagance and gluttony.
All it needs is an acousitc minor key version of “Fortunate Son” playing as the music
I was expecting them to pour in some resin, not mutilate them.
Item: Teeth on the Cob: A cob of rapidly maturing human teeth. Over a period of 30 days, teeth go from baby teeth to golden teeth, the latter of which can be easily removed. Can be harvested up to once per week.
I don’t know if either of us particularly like teeth, but I am very much enjoying waving this image around various group chats and listening to the resulting screams of horror.
intriguing thesis, but i think herons cause more existential horror
Herons are the hippopotamus of birds
i agree. hippopotamus cause existential horror and aren’t usually considered beautiful or graceful in the same way horses and swans are. it’s the combination of perceived grace and grim reality that makes a horse
