
Aisawa also said that he salvaged an eye from the original sculpture.Īfter the 2019 spreading, the YouTube company responded to all of the controversy, stating that they didn't find and receive any videos which are promoting the Momo legend on YouTube. As Aiswa states "The children can be reassured Momo is dead - she doesn't exist and the curse is gone". In response to the controversy, Aisawa had confirmed that he had dismantled the original sculpture when it began to rot. Police have said that two teenagers have committed suicide because of Momo. She then threatened the viewer that if they didn't do this, she would find them in their sleep. She then instructed the viewer to cut their wrists with the sharp tool, and to not stop until they see a lot of blood coming out. In the video, Momo told the viewer ("kids" as she referred to them as) to grab a sharp tool from either their dad's garage or to get a knife from their mom's kitchen.

The boy was watching a cartoon, and the video cut to a photograph of Momo, threatening the boy that she is going to kill him.Īnother video showed Momo's face with a hypnotic spiral in the background. A 5-year-old boy called the police because of Momo. In 2019, a famous American actress widely known as Kim Kardashian, shared on her Instagram profile a post created by another woman, which warns the parents about the Momo challenge, because Momo started appearing in various YouTube videos and cartoons. Momo in a video on the YouTube Kids app, instructing the viewer to grab a sharp tool to cut their wrists. The girl recorded the activities prior to the suicide onto her telephone. The investigation goes on the say that the motive for her suicide was having a contact with Momo. It was also reported that a 12-year-old girl committed suicide by hanging herself on a tree in the family's backyard. Momo sent the boy a photo of a drawing, and two graphical disturbing videos, which escalated in the boy having a seizure, making the mother bring the boy to the hospital.

When the mother of the boy entered the room, she found the chat-log with Momo. It was reported that a 14-year-old had contact with Momo, which escalated in the boy screaming rapidly. Sometimes, Momo will start even sending very graphical images towards the people that contacted her. Once the person gets in contact with Momo, the person behind Momo will start leaking all of the personal data and information about the person. He goes on to say that there are different phone numbers which you can use to contact Momo on Whatsapp.

The story of Momo started spreading on July 14, 2018, when a YouTube user GloomyHouse created a video talking about the legend. The real name of the sculpture is Mother Bird, and the artist who created it is known to make strange statues like Momo. However, she was actually created by the Japanese company named Link Factory. There were speculations that she was created by either of these two makeup Instagram users: barbierena and nanaakooo. He also says that he has complexed feelings about Momo existing, and he enjoyed reading various urban legends such as "a mouth split woman" and "human dog".Īso stated that he is highly against the idea of children getting harmed, especially over his sculpture and the legend, which makes him lose interest. In 2018, people started stealing images of the sculpture, and started building the name Momo for the sculpture, which would lead Momo to start giving children dangerous tasks to harm themselves.Īso did not give any permissions or allow anyone to create a legend out of his sculpture. On August 15–27, 2016, he gave the sculpture to the group exhibition known as The Ghost Gallery, in Tokyo.

Aso created the sculpture in the summer of 2016, which he named the sculpture Geisha Bird or the Tiger Bird. Originally, Momo was created by Keisuke Aso Aisawa.
