The Blue Whale Games suicide challenge!
The Blue Whale Games suicide challenge
What
is the Blue Whale Challenge?
Blue Whale Challenge Game: It must be noted, however, that there still is no confirmation of the existence of the game, and suicides linked to it are from personal accounts of families/friends of those deceased.
The Blue Whale game or Blue Whale Challenge is believed to be a suicide game
wherein a group of administrators or a certain curator gives a participant a
task to complete daily — for a period of 50 days — the final of which is the
participant committing suicide. Participants are expected to share photos of
the challenges/tasks completed by them.
These daily tasks start off easy — such as listening to certain
genres of music, waking up at odd hours, watching a horror movie, among others,
and then slowly escalate to carving out shapes on one’s skin, self-mutilation
and eventually suicide.
There is still uncertainty over how a participant plays the
game. While some say the user has to install some app on their smart phone,
others say it’s via social media platforms such as Instagram and Facebook where
the administrators get in touch with the participant after those interested
throw out postings on social media asking for a “curator”. A number of
different hashtags— #bluewhalechallenge, #curatorfindme, #i_am_whale — act as
signals for the anonymous curators.
It must be noted, however, that there
still is no confirmation of the existence of the game, and suicides linked to
it are from personal accounts of families/friends of those deceased who claim
they have seen their loved ones performing tasks. While reports of suicides
linked to the game have surfaced across the globe, authorities claim that the
origin appears to be in Russia, which has reportedly seen about 130 related
deaths and at least two arrests.
Schools as well as police officials in Europe and America have
begun issuing advisories to parents urging them to be vigilant and to keep an
eye out on what their children are sharing on their social media accounts.
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