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As the suicide of the 11-year-old boy from Naples is investigated, attention grows around the social character of the human goofy “Jonathan Galindo.” And there are those who take the liberty of doing what we assume is a terrible joke about it.
A dark beard, big yellow teeth, a haunting smile. For days the media have been talking about the web phenomenon of “Jonathan Galindo”, a name associated with the haunting mask of the “Silly human” that according to some hypotheses would be used to attract children and adolescents online and induce them to self-harm. If the message left by the 11-year-old boy from Naples before committing suicide on September 29 refers to this character, the researchers will establish it, but around this web phenomenon the attention and fear is always greater.
“Mom and Dad, I love you. Now I have to follow the man in the black hood. I have no time left. Forgive me ”, the little boy wrote before jumping, late at night, from the balcony of his house. Therefore, the Naples Prosecutor’s Office launched an investigation coordinated with the postal police to investigate the hypothesis that the little boy was somehow instigated online to commit suicide.
The profile with the name “Jonathan Galindo” associated with the “human foo” seems to be born in 2017, but the fake profiles using this name today are many. And one of them contacted us at Le Iene through our Facebook page after the publication of our first article on the matter. “Ciao, I am the real Jonathan. I am the one behind the child’s death ”. It’s probably just a terrible joke to get someone’s attention, but we still have reported the user to the postal police. The user, as you can see in the following screen, when he contacted us had the username “Jonathan Ganildo” (with the middle name misspelled). But after we told him to prove what he claimed, he disappeared and changed both the profile picture and the name.
Whether the image of the “human fool” is really linked to the suicide of the little Neapolitan or not, Neapolitan students have already launched a commendable initiative to warn through messages and phone calls and warn young people against who comes forward. with the name of “Jonathan Galindo”. “A few hours after hearing the tragic news,” the boys explained to Il Mattino, “we went to stick our noses in the profiles, and there are many, of this elusive Pippo. What have we found? A number of children among his followers. The first idea that occurred to us was to warn them immediately: they had to stop following him before it was too late. Then the reports to the managers of the individual social networks began: at this moment we managed have at least a dozen fake profiles removed from the web. Now it is very likely that whoever hides behind this false identity has nothing to do with the case of the Neapolitan child, but has already influenced other children like him ”.
Meanwhile, the opening of tablet, mobile phone and playstation of the child of Naples, whose content enters the investigation file. Look for something that may have triggered the child’s behavior. The hypothesis examined by the prosecutor is instigation to suicide. The 11-year-old boy’s friends were heard, confirming her passion for the playstation, which is also played interactively with other users.
But who was the creator of the “dumb human” mask that was later taken to create Jonathan’s character? On July 3, a filmmaker and mask maker, named on Twitter, spoke on the subject. “Dark Sam” saying, “Hello everyone. This Jonathan Galindo craze seems to be terrorizing many easily impressionable children. Photos and videos are mine, from 2012-2013. They were for my own weird personal pleasure, not for a modern thrill seeker trying to scare and intimidate people. If you get a message from someone who wants to start a game, don’t interact with him “.
A photo of the “human fool” mask, as you can see below, was posted in 2012 on Facebook from the profile of James fazzaro, who would work in the world of videomaking, with the writing “Copyright 2011”. And it seems that only years later was taken by some users to associate with the name “Jonathan Galindo”.
