Police Are Issuing Warnings About Poppy Playtime's Huggy Wuggy
Police forces are issuing warnings to parents due to a series of videos surrounding Poppy Playtime character Huggy Wuggy. The warnings are due to the character's initially child-friendly visuals, which very quickly turn nightmarish. A juxtaposition of child-friendly themes in a frightening setting is nothing new to the horror genre, and previous games like Five Nights At Freddy's have set the stage for such terrifying excursions.
Poppy Playtime follows a former Playtime Co. employee as they revisit their ex-employer's abandoned toy factory upon receiving a letter from the staff who were thought to have disappeared without a trace 10 years prior. During their visit, the player soon finds that the toys within the factory have consciousness and are vengeful because of the experiments Playtime Co. carried out on them. As is evident from this synopsis and the game's age rating, Poppy Playtime is not child-friendly, but due to the nature of the game's antagonists being toys — which Poppy Playtime fans can also buy real plushes of — and initially having child-friendly visages before unleashing their monstrous side, the uninitiated may not be any the wiser.
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As a result a series of TikTok videos featuring Huggy Wuggy, the 10-foot tall stuffed blue bear who exposes a grinning mouth full of sharklike teeth whilst singing menacing songs, has gone viral and has become a point of controversy, as unsuspecting children have stumbled across the horror-based content when scrolling through the popular video app. As reported by Portsmouth News, this controversy has led to police forces issuing warnings to parents, with Chris Conroy, a cyber-protection officer for Dorset Police, informing parents of
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