[7] In 2015, the hoax was revived again on Facebook, prompting online security company Sophos and The Guardian to debunk it again.

[8] Sophos employee Paul Ducklin wrote on the company's blog that the message being posted on Facebook promoting the hoax was "close to 600 rambling, repetitious words, despite claiming at the start that it didn’t have words to describe the situation.

"[9] Bruce Wilcox, one of the game's programmers, has attributed the hoax's popularity to the fact that the chatbot program in Talking Angela is so realistic.

[11] Disabling child mode also enables the chat feature, which, while it is not "connecting your children to paedophiles", still raises concerns as well, according to Stuart Dredge, a journalist from The Guardian.

[10] In 2016, Outfit7 removed the chat feature along with the camera function from the app due to this controversy.