Parents and children alike are being traumatized by the new internet trend “Momo.”

Momo is a sculpture that was made in Japan. The sculpture was originally made in 2016, but the “Momo Challenge” did not start until July 2018. It is a challenge that has been going around social media allegedly telling kids to harm themselves. The challenge went away for about a year until Kim Kardashian tweeted about it asking YouTube to remove the videos.

“I don’t necessarily think that they are hacking into the videos, but they are stealing, downloading the videos, then editing the videos, and putting the voice inside of it. Then they are uploading it with the same title,” teacher Tyler Wolf said.

According to IFLscience! about 200 teens and children have been involved or contacted by Momo. They are contacting her through multiple numbers using WhatsApp. If the teenagers and kids involved with Momo do not complete the challenges they are “cursed with an evil spell”. There are about 10 different places that Momo has affected including, Argentina, Brazil, United States, Europe, etc.

“I think that any kid needs to be monitored until they know right from wrong. If your kid cannot distinguish that this thing is inherently bad or just bad just in general you should be monitoring their every move,” Wolf said.

According to Youtube the number of people who have watched the Momo song is 545,896.

“I think that parents need to have a conversation about it with their kids. It’s not something that they should avoid, because they’d rather have the conversation about it before something happens,” Wolf said. “I think there’s too much content that gets uploaded to Youtube or KidsTube to monitor everything.”

Parents can limit their kids’ internet time by putting locks on it. At night they can also check their kids’ search history.

“I wanted to show my older daughter just in case she on a device and it (Momo) popped up. So she would be prepared. If a kid is easily influenced and alone and you don’t want that to be the case I was gonna be like here is this thing if it’s scary get over it,” teacher Paul Musselman said. “So I think my wife removed KidsTube off of our devices. Even though we are like other parents and sometimes kids wander off and they find ways to get that stuff still.”

BHS student who have younger sibling that they are worried about.

“I feel like whoever did something like that there is something wrong with them. I mean if this was going on when we were kids it would certainly be frightening, I guess. I hope when I was younger I wouldn’t have believed it,” freshman student Charles Reynolds. “If I knew my sister would be listening to the commands I would say grow up.”