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Originally Posted by Vicky.
It appears to have been an urban legend, however people ran with it and it was a self fulfilling prophecy..not sure I would say 'hoax' exactly as that implies it didn't actually happen to anyone, it did, just it was not some random internet stranger targetting random kids, it was people they knew. TS went into this in a bit of detail in the other thread.
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Yeah it's basically the same as the "Killer Clown" thing. It went viral but was obviously untrue, but then (inevitably) kids everywhere started using Killer Clown pranks to scare the **** out of each other (sometimes as a joke on friends, sometimes to deliberately really scare people as a form of bullying).
Ironically, people freaking out about it so much that it ended up mainstream news is the REASON that it became an actual thing
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(But that school putting up big Momo posters is still brilliant
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