Momo挑战：2018年全球家长恐慌，最后发现是个雕塑

In the summer of 2018, many parents in Europe and America passed around an image in chat groups: a woman with very white skin, bulging eyes, a bird's body, and thin legs, named Momo.

The claim was that Momo would add children's chat accounts, get them to complete a series of tasks, the last of which was to harm themselves. In early 2019, others said this face had been cut into children's animations, and while watching cartoons, it would suddenly pop up and tell children to do dangerous things. Police and schools in various countries issued reminders one after another, news in the UK and US was broadcasting it, and some celebrities posted warnings on social media.

That image was actually a sculpture named "Mother Bird," created in 2016 by Keisuke Aida, an artist at a Japanese special effects modeling company, and exhibited at an exhibition in Tokyo. Netizens took photos of it, and later the image was used as an avatar.

Later, UK child protection agencies and several media outlets investigated and did not find a single confirmed child harmed by this "challenge," nor any evidence that this face had been cut into animations. Video websites said they had not found any such videos. A UK cybersecurity agency said the more these warnings spread, the more likely children were to seek out that image; the real danger was instead the adults' panic.

It was a panic spread by parents passing messages to each other, passed along until everyone thought someone else's child had been affected.

The author later said that sculpture had already been disposed of.

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