In this post I want to share with you information about the famous stuffed animal that has become fashionable lately. In case it can be of help to someone.

Does this doll sound familiar to you? Is called Huggy Wuggy. He is the main villain of a horror video game called Poppy Playtime.

It's a blue stuffed monster killer, with a big mouth and sharp teeth.

The game takes place in an abandoned toy factory where the player must overcome challenges to escape the evil toys that threaten to overtake him.

Huggy Wuggy, with his sharp teeth, chases you saying that he is going to “hug you until your last breath is taken away.”

Although the video game is not suitable for children (recommended minimum age: 12 years) has become fashionable through videos on Youtube, Youtube Kids and Tik Tok.

It has been such a success that they are selling it in many colors, in addition to the original blue.

Childhood and access to inappropriate content

At an early age, children do not differentiate between fantasy and reality.

Exposing a young child to horror content can cause:

  • New fears (example: of the dark or elements that you associate with what scared you)
  • intrusive thoughts
  • Imitate scenes they observe
  • Normalize violence

My son knows him, what can I do?

  • Ask him what he knows about the character and what he thinks about him.
  • Clarify that he is a fictional character
  • Adapt the explanations to their age
  • Accompany your emotion
  • Denormalize violence
  • Explain what to do if You find content on the Internet that makes you uncomfortable

Probably the parents of the children who have this doll do not know this information. Or maybe they do and they don't give it much importance. “It's just a stuffed animal.”

All parents want the best for our children. We are not here to judge or blame.

Information empowers us. And making conscious decisions based on information gives us peace of mind.

  • Probably most children ask for it because they have seen it in a store, at the fair, or their friends have it.… and they see nothing but a blue doll with a big smile. They play with him with total innocence, like with any other doll.
  • Then there will be another small group of children who have not played the video game either, but have heard something about the doll and They use it to play to scare and scare.
  • And there will also be any child who has played the video game and therefore know the history of the character. They are probably the minority.
Let's be attentive to what our children see and follow the age recommendations.

It is our responsibility.

The problem is not the doll itself, but what may be behind it.

The idea of ​​the post is to give information to open dialogues if we see something strange.

I want to emphasize that the objective of this publication is not to find culprits or point fingers at anyone. We all do what we can with the information we have.

Now that you know what is hidden behind the stuffed animal, what do you decide to do?