Another Beautiful Day Not To Be On TikTok
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rynlingWhat Is the Momo Challenge?
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/what-is-momo-challenge-800470/
Even if the risks associated with challenges like the Momo Challenge are overblown, that’s not to say that children aren’t at risk of being exploited by predators on the internet. Per a 2017 viral essay by tech writer James Bridle, popular platforms like YouTube are flooded with content creators who exploit the platform’s algorithm in order to create disturbing and often violent videos that are specifically targeted at children, often using popular kids’ characters; YouTube, by all accounts, has done little to crack down on such content.
This is from 2019, but YouTube continues to be creepy. Compared to the actively corrosive cesspool of Twitter and TikTok, however, the atmospheric creepiness of YouTube is almost quaint. Also:
But while the risk of seeing disturbing content on social media is all too real, the idea of a mysterious cabal of tech-savvy sociopaths communicating with kids via WhatsApp and urging them to kill themselves is too ludicrous to maintain an air of plausibility. “If you think about it, adults have a hard time getting teens to clean up their rooms, much less get kids to perform a series of increasingly bizarre tasks for 50 days consecutively,” says Radford.
I don't actually think there's anything wrong with "teens" or "kids these days" or whatever, but for real. It's hard enough to do something like Inktober, and now some internet cryptid wants me to stay up until 3am watching horror movies? Not gonna happen.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/what-is-momo-challenge-800470/
Even if the risks associated with challenges like the Momo Challenge are overblown, that’s not to say that children aren’t at risk of being exploited by predators on the internet. Per a 2017 viral essay by tech writer James Bridle, popular platforms like YouTube are flooded with content creators who exploit the platform’s algorithm in order to create disturbing and often violent videos that are specifically targeted at children, often using popular kids’ characters; YouTube, by all accounts, has done little to crack down on such content.
This is from 2019, but YouTube continues to be creepy. Compared to the actively corrosive cesspool of Twitter and TikTok, however, the atmospheric creepiness of YouTube is almost quaint. Also:
But while the risk of seeing disturbing content on social media is all too real, the idea of a mysterious cabal of tech-savvy sociopaths communicating with kids via WhatsApp and urging them to kill themselves is too ludicrous to maintain an air of plausibility. “If you think about it, adults have a hard time getting teens to clean up their rooms, much less get kids to perform a series of increasingly bizarre tasks for 50 days consecutively,” says Radford.
I don't actually think there's anything wrong with "teens" or "kids these days" or whatever, but for real. It's hard enough to do something like Inktober, and now some internet cryptid wants me to stay up until 3am watching horror movies? Not gonna happen.
