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Entire SNL sketch on Momo

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I recently noticed that SNL has made a sketch on Momo. How did SNL get to this point? Why is there a sketch on Momo but none on Slenderman? I didn't find the sketch very funny.
 
I don't really know what that Momo thing is, but regarding Slenderman - I would assume that mainstream comedy programs would be leery of using that character for material ever since the brutal murder attempt associated with it occurred in real life. SNL usually attempts to have a wide appeal (though I haven't personally watched in awhile), and the Slenderman reference is tainted for a lot of people.

Honestly, I don't think too many people here are going to know what Momo is, lol.
 
Momo and the Momo Challenge are stunning examples of how fast an urban legend can establish itself as being true by well meaning, but fact-checkless news media.

The story goes like this:

Kids were responding to prompts from Momo to either kill themselves or kill family or friends.

The problem is that there is no proof that this has ever really happened. The media ran with it anyway.

Here's the Snopes take:

https://www.snopes.com/news/2019/02/26/momo-challenge-suicide-game/
 
I've seen that face a bunch of times. I think it's usually a thumbnail for junk clickbait links. I don't know anything else about it, but I feel qualified to say - if SNL is using that for referential comedy, I'm probably not missing much by not watching this season.
 
Axxman300 said:
Momo and the Momo Challenge are stunning examples of how fast an urban legend can establish itself as being true by well meaning, but fact-checkless news media.

The story goes like this:

Kids were responding to prompts from Momo to either kill themselves or kill family or friends.

The problem is that there is no proof that this has ever really happened. The media ran with it anyway.

Here's the Snopes take:

https://www.snopes.com/news/2019/02/26/momo-challenge-suicide-game/
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Apparently, I have read that article before? Didn't retain it at all. Wow. I seriously have no recollection of it, but my browser says I've read it.
 
It's part of a by this point well-established pattern, I think. Some image or video is produced that passes for whatever the internetariat lately considers "OMG creepy!" and/or "nightmare fuel!", and if said image or video goes viral, eventually is appropriated into a story about some threatening online "challenge" that will place people in danger. Curiously, South and Central American countries are where many of the "challenge" stories tend to originate.

A more recent and much more hilarious example than Momo is called "Ayuwoki". The whole business actually started with this video about a really, really awfully-constructed animatronic statue that was intended to look like Michael Jackson, but ended up looking like a corpse of Michael Jackson. The video is, aptly, titled "My Ghoul Jackson":



The statue is really just bad; but weird or ugly mask-like faces, again, is what counts for "omg sooo scary" these days among the softer set, so the video was widely shared as "creepy". Someone at some point joked that the video was similar to the video in The Ring: if you watch it, animatronic Michael Jackson will appear in your room at night and whisper "HEEEE-hee-he".

Someone in Mexico saw the joke but didn't get it - or got it, but decided to pretend they didn't, and now there is a viral panic in Mexico involving people sharing an image of the animatronic character, renamed "The Ayuwoki" (derived from "Are you okay?", a lyric from the song Smooth Criminal), claiming that like Momo it is some internet account that is trying to collect users' addresses so the person behind it can come terrorize them. It got bad enough that a government cyber agency in Mexico made an official statement reassuring people that no, The Ayuwoki will not appear in your house at night and go "Hee-hee" at you.
 
novaphile said:
That Momo "sculpture" is rather disturbing...
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The guy who made it is a master of FX, IMO. He was disappointed to see it'd become some sort of online Jack the Ripper, causing havoc among young Peppa Pig enthusiasts.

Just your average modern legend being panicked about like the bloke dressed like a clown craze, etc. And Slenderman, never understood that one. Just some really thin bloke stirring fear up online like a malnourished Ted Bundy.

Back in the day, people put more effort into their pranks and myths. These days, you steal a generic piece of artwork or a picture of some random FX work and you post it online and try to be all ominous. Amateur hour.
 
isissxn said:
I don't really know what that Momo thing is, but regarding Slenderman - I would assume that mainstream comedy programs would be leery of using that character for material ever since the brutal murder attempt associated with it occurred in real life. SNL usually attempts to have a wide appeal (though I haven't personally watched in awhile), and the Slenderman reference is tainted for a lot of people.

Honestly, I don't think too many people here are going to know what Momo is, lol.
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Is the same show that ran sketches about a pedophile uncle?
 
Checkmite said:
It's part of a by this point well-established pattern, I think. Some image or video is produced that passes for whatever the internetariat lately considers "OMG creepy!" and/or "nightmare fuel!", and if said image or video goes viral, eventually is appropriated into a story about some threatening online "challenge" that will place people in danger. Curiously, South and Central American countries are where many of the "challenge" stories tend to originate.

A more recent and much more hilarious example than Momo is called "Ayuwoki". The whole business actually started with this video about a really, really awfully-constructed animatronic statue that was intended to look like Michael Jackson, but ended up looking like a corpse of Michael Jackson. The video is, aptly, titled "My Ghoul Jackson":



The statue is really just bad; but weird or ugly mask-like faces, again, is what counts for "omg sooo scary" these days among the softer set, so the video was widely shared as "creepy". Someone at some point joked that the video was similar to the video in The Ring: if you watch it, animatronic Michael Jackson will appear in your room at night and whisper "HEEEE-hee-he".

Someone in Mexico saw the joke but didn't get it - or got it, but decided to pretend they didn't, and now there is a viral panic in Mexico involving people sharing an image of the animatronic character, renamed "The Ayuwoki" (derived from "Are you okay?", a lyric from the song Smooth Criminal), claiming that like Momo it is some internet account that is trying to collect users' addresses so the person behind it can come terrorize them. It got bad enough that a government cyber agency in Mexico made an official statement reassuring people that no, The Ayuwoki will not appear in your house at night and go "Hee-hee" at you.
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Okay, now that is funny! :roll:
 
ahhell said:
Is the same show that ran sketches about a pedophile uncle?
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Yeah, they do go quite edgy sometimes, but still. I can't see them approving a jokey Slenderman sketch after that thing with those schoolgirls stabbing their friend "in his name" or whatever. There's dark humor, and then there's just tone-deafness to cultural associations. One usually goes over better than the other.

That's just my guess, though.
 
Why didn't they do a sketch on Slenderman BEFORE the stabbings? How is internet stuff approachable now when SNL hasn't done that for the rest of its history?
 
Sad. I always saw SNL as some kind of wall against these ridiculous internet memes. Hiring Pete Davidson had already given them a connection to a younger demographic. Why this thing with Momo? Momo is just a sculpture. How can a meme with a creepy smile serve as the foundation for a fake fast food commercial?
 
hank hill said:
Why didn't they do a sketch on Slenderman BEFORE the stabbings? How is internet stuff approachable now when SNL hasn't done that for the rest of its history?
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Slender Man was never an international news item before the stabbings. It's likely the SNL writers never heard of the character prior to the crime.
 
hank hill said:
Sad. I always saw SNL as some kind of wall against these ridiculous internet memes. Hiring Pete Davidson had already given them a connection to a younger demographic. Why this thing with Momo? Momo is just a sculpture. How can a meme with a creepy smile serve as the foundation for a fake fast food commercial?
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I'm way too old to be modern SNL demo, had never seen the Momo meme, but got the gist immediately. And tying it to a chicken fast food was... perfect.
So what are you going on about? They should have done both? They shouldn't have done either?
Meh... it's just SNL. Get over it. [emoji2]
 
Best SNL sketches:

More Cowbell
King Tut Song
"What the hell is that?"
Space Pants
Mermaids
Andy Kaufman's Mighty Mouse
Chippendale's Audition
Coneheads at Home
Diner Lobster
 
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