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Mar. 4th, 2019 04:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
evening_tsarThe thing that bugs me most about the "Momo challenge" is that now everyone is going to associate the name with a nasty internet meme rather than the wonderful book by Michael Ende.
I also find it rather odd, that among the dozens of articles discussing the hoax, no one writing on it seemed willing say the one thing children would find most reassuring: that the damn thing was just a statue. A grotesquerie from a Japanese museum.
TO be fair, I only just learned it was a statue. I thought it was a composite image put together by photoshop or some such software (the kind Conan O'Brian used to use on celebrities). But there was not even this kind of dismissal. Instead we got descriptions of a "creepy girl" or "gothy girl", as if it were those twins from "the Shining" or that kid from "the Grudge". Not "creature", not "thing" or "demented chicken thingy", but girl, as if it were human. I found that odd.
I also find it rather odd, that among the dozens of articles discussing the hoax, no one writing on it seemed willing say the one thing children would find most reassuring: that the damn thing was just a statue. A grotesquerie from a Japanese museum.
TO be fair, I only just learned it was a statue. I thought it was a composite image put together by photoshop or some such software (the kind Conan O'Brian used to use on celebrities). But there was not even this kind of dismissal. Instead we got descriptions of a "creepy girl" or "gothy girl", as if it were those twins from "the Shining" or that kid from "the Grudge". Not "creature", not "thing" or "demented chicken thingy", but girl, as if it were human. I found that odd.
