Is Momo Challenge Fake?

Alvin Ilustrisimo

After getting the attention of the world, the what we know Momo challenge declared as fake by many news outlets around the world. Recently, news about a game which the participants especially younger ones are tolerating to hurt someone or to persuade them to commit suicide.
In an article written in the BBC News they stated that Snopes declared that the story about the Momo challenge was a hundred percent fake and just an urban legend created by someone. Police on the UK haven’t received any reports regarding a child hurting themselves because of the aforementioned challenge.
However, there are a lot of reports that linked to the challenge like a case here in the Philippines where one child was killed himself inside the school premises. The other of the child saw that the victim and one of his classmates is talking about the said challenge.
Meanwhile in Japan, the artist who created the horrible mannequin Keisuke Aisawa finally destroyed the what we known as ‘Momo’. According to him he feel responsible for having an internet hysteria. He said that the curse of Momo has been broken.
Like the Momo challenge BBC News also write about an article about the Blue whale challenge saying both of the challenge or internet stories were fake. In an interview Alexandra Arkhipova, professor in Folklore Studies at Russian State University for the Humanities says that the what they called the ‘curators’ of the Blue Whale challenge were just copycats and was acting up step by step in the parts of the game that was being widely report in the news. Arkhipova also says that the game itself never start.
Both of the said internet games were falsified. They are just a product of internet cover up stories that created a mass hysteria. After all the claims that internet challenges like Momo challenge were real they we just a product of some random entity behind the ocean. Whether it is true or not we must be always careful to our actions most especially in the internet. Is Momo challenge a real thing? Or it was just an overused urban legend circulating around the internet.