Rest easy: the “MickMo Challenge” is a hoax — mostly
It turns out they’re just normal Disney Parks commercials. UNCLE WALT’S H.Q., SVALBARD — Rumors have swirled for years about children being influenced by videos in which an image of Mickey Mouse appears and entices the children to beg their parents for a trip to a Disney park. The videos reportedly show images of people…
![Creepy mouse photo by Phil Scoville [CC BY 2.0] via Flickr (altered, thankfully).](https://unclewalts.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/mickmo-challenge-768x432.jpg)


![The Country Bear Band, now with earworms. Photo by Josh Hallett [CC BY 2.0] via Flickr.](https://unclewalts.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/country-bears-with-earworms-768x432.jpg)
![Mickey Mouse. Not Marty. Image by Loren Javier [CC BY-ND 2.0] via Flickr.](https://unclewalts.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/not-me-as-mickey-e1591114467404-768x404.jpg)