9/16/2023 0 Comments Goofy im blueSome have trouble pronouncing the name “Galindo” and most refer to a TikTok account that is now down. Good on them! Some are gamers with significant followings. What I’ve seen more and more of over the past few days is helpers promoting skepticism. There are the opportunists just capitalizing on the sudden notoriety to get more followers, sleep-deprived video streamers glad to have something to say nothing about, the scammers trying to get you to click on links to bad pages, creeps looking for vulnerable people to manipulate, trolls trafficking in fear and genuine helpers giving good advice. If you see versions of it on YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, Discord or TikTok-all platforms where it has appeared-they’re not all bad, and they represent a whole range of intention. name in social media screen names and accounts-with intentional misspellings, numbers and keyboard symbols (usually trying to bypass algorithms). There are different variations on the J.G. The artists seem to have nothing to do with this. Just as with Momo, the artist’s work has been misappropriated because it’s creepy. meme came from film industry artist and mask maker James Fazzaro, aka (Dusky Sam) on Twitter and on Instagram. And we’re already pretty sure the “Goofy Man” face of the J.G. We know the Momo image was misappropriated from a sculpture created by the artist Keisuke Aiso who runs the Japanese special effects company Link Factory. says this version started on TikTok a fairly credible Redditor who put some time into researching it says it started on Discord and independent news site reports that it first appeared on Instagram! You pick. This latest viral meme, oddly, has a human name: “Jonathan Galindo” (hereafter J.G.), also called “Cursed Goofy.” The rest is murky-what platform, when and where in the world it first appeared-murkier than B.W., which got its start in Russia, and about the same as Momo. In any case, its predecessors were both hoaxes, so it would be hard for this one not to be. This time it’s a weird, scary version of the cartoon character Goofy. challenge, or self-harm “game,” has been warmed over and repackaged with a new name and face with the creepiness of a Momo. Remember “ Blue Whale,” then “ Momo”? Well, the B.W.
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