Momo's challenge has returned to circulation and there is concern among parents

"People, it's not about going crazy, but they tell me that Momo's challenge is flowing back into the networks." I say it because Ampi saw the character last time and n & # 39; Could not sleep for several days, please, we are attentive because these are extremely dangerous challenges for children … "The message has been downloaded in recent days on a group of WhatsApp shared by several parents and parents of a school in La Plata. And the warning of Ampi's father was neither capricious nor exaggerated: for a long time, viral problems have spread through the networks and have the smallest victims as main victims.

The character in question had already circulated in the phone calls of several children in the area in the middle of last year and, at least at that time, caused great concern in several schools in the city, many of which were still dismayed by the 12 – year – old Girl Suicide at Ingeniero Maschwitz, where the youngest shared Momo 's challenge with other friends and found herself hanged while she was trying to do the same. one of the extreme tests proposing the viral challenge.

"Let's be very attentive to that!" Wrote another father in one of these WhatsApp groups, in which he climbed with the warning of the news of the return of "The Momo Game" and the various extreme tests – among them asphyxiate – what he proposes.

As we know, it is called "Momo Challenge" and the authorities of several countries have called it "very dangerous". In British, Mexican, and Spanish schools, for example, they warn parents that this challenge could appear even in Peppa Pig and Fornite videos that are shared on YouTube (see "Compulsive Appearance").

The challenge, as it has been said, is called "Momo" and its appearance is rather sinister: a mixture of woman with cadaverous muppet, bulging eyes, very pale skin and terrifying and macabre smile. Although this may be the face of a teenage joke or the appearance of a Japanese horror figure, those who badyze this type of virtual challenges warn that it could be much more serious and dangerous than a simple game. online.

It is a contest in which "Momo" asks her participants to contact her and perform a series of tests, some of which are self-destructive practices, such as cutting one's arms or causing asphyxiation until they are dead. to disappear. In a way, it has similarities to the game of the "Blue Whale", another game born in the network and which was linked to the death of at least 130 people.

"You do not want to give yourself a machine but you have seen how are the children," said Laura Maria, mother of a baby at the school from which parents also set up networks of children. They are all day long with the small screen and it is very complicated to have absolute control of everything they see One tries but it is impossible. The last time, I found a picture of Momo's character, but he badured me that neither he nor his companions would take up the challenge. What I know: you have to worry when they go out on the street but also when they lock to look at the mobile phone.

Although Momo's challenge has apparently resumed in recent days, they are not the only ones to have boys as protagonists and, consequently, their main victims. That of the "Blue Whale" – a challenge born in Russia whose aim was to offer participants 50 different challenges psychologically preparing the final destination, suicide – was recently added to the so-called "roundabout of death", a game that consists of turning in the carousel squares at maximum speed. To do this, several children were seriously injured in the eyes and in the head.

In England and Spain, for example, several schools have decided to call parents and alert them to these problems that are circulating on the mobile phones of the youngest children. Most of them offer, as mentioned, tests that include turning on the gas, looking for and taking medicine or trying to run out of oxygen for a few seconds until you lose consciousness.

So, while the Web is full of questions about "Momo", one of the most useful explanations has been uploaded to Reddit – a website on which users can exchange information – and states the following: a Spanish-speaking country took the photo, created a WhatsApp account and started rumors to contact "Momo". From this account sends images and disturbing messages to whoever writes. In some cases, it suggests that she has personal information about the people who contacted her. "So far, although it was not found by the person who has contacted her." WhatsApp user who created "Momo", it is known that it is badociated with at least three phone numbers starting with +81 (Japan). And also to two other Latin Americans: one from Colombia (+52) and another from Mexico (+57). It is perhaps for this reason that "Momo" has become popular in the Spanish-speaking world, although it is confirmed that its origin is Japanese: the terrifying image belongs to a sculpture exhibited in 2016 in an alternative art gallery in Tokyo and part of an exhibition on ghosts and ghosts. Now, they say, it comes down to circulating through the small screens that the boys of La Plata see.