After weeks of news coverage about unconfirmed cases and warnings issued by the West Bengal police and the Mumbai police, India's Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in West Bengal indicated on August 29, 2018, that claims reported in the media about the death of two teens being linked to the Momo Challenge were "far fetched and devoid of any evidence".

Other people have claimed their interactions with Momo included being sent violent images during the night and the unknown person threatening to appear while they are sleeping and curse them. The Blue Whale was a similarly sickening online game that challenged impressionable youngsters to complete set tasks for 50 days. On the final day the players were told to kill themselves, resulting in at least 130 deaths across Russia.At that point, people reported seeing Momo pop up on a variety of platforms, including YouTube and YouTube Kids videos about " Peppa Pig" and Fortnite.

A police officer in Ohio was concerned to see Momo in his son's copy of the game, worried about the possibility that the mod could lead to participation in the Momo Challenge.

By March, several experts including the Children's Commissioner for England were asking the media and authorities to cease amplifying what increasingly looked like a case of moral panic. The horrifying character is known as Momo and is a part of a disturbing viral challenge where kids are dared to message the character on WhatsApp. The narrator says, "We promise, Bok Bok is not Momo in a chicken suit," despite also being "a human-bird hybrid that loves the company of children. Later it would be named as the cause of a gruesome attempted murder where two 12-year-old girls lured their classmate into the woods and stabbed her 19 times.

Responding to tabloid coverage which asserted the challenge to be true, the NSPCC, the Samaritans, and the UK Safer Internet Centre declared the Momo Challenge a hoax. These Momo cloth face masks are not designed for medical use, or as personal protective equipment against coronavirus (COVID-19). Despite claims that the phenomenon had reached worldwide proportions in July 2018, the number of actual complaints was relatively small and no law enforcement agency has confirmed that anyone was harmed as a direct result of it.

We may receive payment from third parties for publishing this content or when you make a purchase through the links on our sites. Japanese artist Keisuke Aiso confirmed in March 2019 that the sculpture had been thrown away in 2018, after its materials ( natural rubber and plant oils) had decomposed. After examining the girl’s phone, police are now questioning an 18-year-old the girl allegedly met on social media, local media reports. The viral game gained major attention after a 12-year-old girl was found dead in her backyard near Buenos Aires, Argentina, after allegedly having an online conversation with Momo. As with other Internet hoaxes presented as challenges such as " Blue Whale", players are then instructed to perform a succession of tasks; refusal to do so is met with threats and gory pictures.

WhatsApp encouraged its users to block phone numbers engaging in this practice and to report them to the company. The real title of the artwork is Mother Bird and was on display at Tokyo’s horror art Vanilla Gallery. In February 2019, the Police Service of Northern Ireland posted a public warning on Facebook, and American media personality Kim Kardashian posted on her Instagram Story pleading for YouTube to remove alleged "Momo" videos. The Odisha Police already issued an advisory asking the media to refrain from publishing unconfirmed reports linking teen death to the Momo Challenge. After news reports started to outline the link between the Minecraft mod and the Momo Challenge, Microsoft announced it was taking measures to "restrict access to the mod" in question.It was reported that children and adolescents were being harassed by a user named Momo to perform a series of dangerous tasks including violent attacks, self-harm, harming others, and suicide. Pakistan's Minister of Information Technology announced the government intended to draft legislation making it a crime to distribute both the Momo Challenge and the Blue Whale Challenge. They believe the teenager’s intention was to “upload the video to social media as part of a challenge, crediting the Momo game” for the suicide.