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Our Response to the Momo Challenge & Character
Many of you have shared your concerns with us over the past few days about the Momo Challenge--we’ve been paying close attention to these reports. After much review, we’ve seen no recent evidence of videos promoting the Momo Challenge on YouTube. Videos encouraging harmful and dangerous challenges are clearly against our policies, the Momo challenge included. Despite press reports of this challenge surfacing, we haven’t had any recent links flagged or shared with us from YouTube that violate our Community Guidelines.
It’s important to note that we do allow creators to discuss, report, or educate people on the Momo challenge/character on YouTube. We’ve seen screenshots of videos and/or thumbnails with this character in them. To clarify, it is not against our policies to include the image of the Momo character on YouTube; that being said, this image is not allowed on the YouTube Kids app and we’re putting safeguards in place to exclude it from content on YouTube Kids.
Here's more info on our policy prohibiting harmful and dangerous challenges.
If you see someone promoting any challenge with an inherent risk or harm, please flag it to us immediately.
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Let's quickly talk numbers and statistics, and why it's important for you, as users to use the report function.
Last year, YouTube received over 90 Petabytes worth of video content.
That is enough data to fill 1.4 MILLION 64Gb memory cards.
At a nominal rate of 1080p60, that's one MILLION hours of videos. 41,666 days. 114 years.
That's far too much content for YouTube staff on their own to review and vet, and that's just what they received in ONE year, not to mention all the videos received over the lifetime of YouTube.
There are, however, 1.3 BILLION users of YouTube. YouTube depends on those users to help report offending videos and channels - they can't do it on their own.
Coming onto this thread and screaming about YouTube doing nothing is not helpful, nor is it productive. You need to SHOW us the offending videos. You need to use the report function. Otherwise, all you're doing is contributing to the hysteria and spam.
Please, do your part, and use the report function.
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Hope you hoax-promoting liars are happy - https://www.thatsnonsense.com/the-meme-momo-is-dead-says-original-sculptor-who-destroyed-artwork/
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Thanks for the information!
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This is such BS! How about all the kids who were asked if they have seen this character and all answers were YES! Its sad to know YouTube wouldn't take this more serious and out their all to stop it but chose to do nothing just so they don't lose people but what about innocent children who get brainwashed or may loose themselves or others!!! There are numerous of my own friends who asked their children about it and answers where yes and actually witnessed it ! This is unbelievable !
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@lenita - why are those kids on YouTube without parental supervision?
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When are you guys going to work on the pedophilia ring that is taking place in the comments section on the content containing minor children? Time stamping, child porn trade, and illicit comments aren’t enough? Lets look into this please.
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the letter was like
Dear mom
I am very sorry that you banned youtube due to momo something on the platform, but can you put me back to youtube list so i can watch youtube once again
15 min later
mom response was like nooo YOU ARE NOT BECUASE YOU SEEING THE MOMO CHALLENGE ON YOUTUBE SO NO IF I SEE YOU MAKING A FAKE YOUTUBE KIDS APP OR SING BABY SHARK I WILL BEAT YOU!
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