The Blue Whale Game is named for blue whales because of how common it is for whales of this species to beach themselves. Most of the reports about the Blue Whale Game are of children and teenagers participating in it and then either taking their own lives or coming close to doing so. Children and students who suffer from depression are especially susceptible to the Blue Whale Game. A psychiatrist reportedly told that two young men sought treatment from him after they began suffering from depression.
Both had played the Blue Whale Challenge, but as it progressed, they began to realize that it was hurting them. He also said that most of those who start playing the game suffered from mental illness even before they began playing it. Social networks have tried to keep children and young people from being able to download Blue Whale Game, which is also not available through the Google Play, Apple App Store or other main app stores run by major tech companies for uses of their devices.
According to The Express Tribune, people share links to the game private social media groups on networks such as WhatsApp, and when they tap or click on the link, their device downloads the game. The former psychology student who claims to have invented it said he wanted to incite people he saw as having no value to commit suicide. Updated on Sep 25, , am. Sign in. Log into your account. Privacy Policy. Sign up. Password recovery.
Monday, November 22, Forgot your password? Get help. Create an account. Click Here. Table of Contents show. Cut your lip. Make yourself hurt or sick. Go to a roof and stand on the edge. Stand on a bridge.
Climb a crane. Sit down on a roof with legs dangling over the edge. Another job that is in code. A secret mission. Visit a railroad. Do not talk with anyone all day. After these initial steps, the additional steps involve watching horror movies and listening to music selected by the curator, talking to a whale and make cuts on your hands.
The last and final task is to jump off a building. Psychological manipulation is real and can truly affect those we love. The Novaya Gazeta report estimated that children might have killed themselves between November and April because of their participation in these groups.
It would come to be known worldwide as the Blue Whale challenge. It did not take long for the story to cause considerable alarm. The governor for Ulyanovsk in western Russia went on television to compare the Blue Whale challenge to the Islamic State group. Soon the panic spread outside Russia. In Georgia, US, a year-old girl killed herself. It was only later when her family had learned about the Blue Whale challenge that they realised the significance of the metre-high paintings she had finished at school shortly before she died.
A few days before she died, Konstantinova had posted an image of a blue whale on her Instagram account. In November , year-old Philipp Budeikin was arrested, charged with inciting teenagers to suicide. Budeikin appeared to admit culpability.
He told Russian media outlet Saint-Petersburg. I was cleansing our society of such people. Sometimes I start to think that it's wrong, but in the end I had the feeling I was doing the right thing.
He liked computers and was an aspiring producer of "witch house", an electronic music genre with occult themes. A former psychology student, the impression given by the media was that he had used highly developed tactics to manipulate teenagers into killing themselves. He said he had created the game in under the name "f57", combining the sound of the start of his name, Philipp, and the last two digits of his phone number.
On 10 May he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to three years in prison. It seemed like an open-and-shut case. Further investigation, however, has revealed that little about the Blue Whale challenge was quite as straightforward as it seemed.
Evgeny Berg was on his way to work when he first read about the Vkontakte chat rooms. It was May but it was very gloomy. I thought 'Oh my God, there is a man out there who is trying to kill a lot of children in Russia. Berg, an investigative journalist at Meduza, a Russian-language independent media organisation, decided to dig deeper.
His research took him to Sergey Pestov, the father of one of the girls who died around Christmas After his daughter's death, Pestov and his wife founded an organisation called Saving Children from Cybercrime. They produced a brochure. It implied that foreign intelligence might be to blame for their daughter's death and that operatives were destroying the Russian people by inciting their children to suicide. Pestov became a key source of statistics for the original Novaya Gazeta piece.
This is the same number that was first quoted in the Novaya Gazeta piece. In a story shrouded in rumour and hearsay, this figure is one of the very few widely reported "facts". But even though it is still being used by many news outlets, the figure is tenuous. According to Evgeny Berg and Meduza, it originates with a parent trying to unravel the reasons behind a personal tragedy.
The Novaya Gazeta article has been viewed over one and a half million times, according to the paper. More from BBC Trending.
We took Evgeny Berg's allegations - that the foundations of the Novaya Gazeta article were, at best, unsteady - directly to the reporter, Galina Mursalieva. She rejected the claim that her report relied on a single flawed statistic. This is absolutely wrong. It was based on the conclusions of over parents who lost their children. The father of the girl who died just helped during that period of time. I don't have any reason not to trust them. I checked many things.
Mursalieva had worked on the story for months and included interviews with the parents of deceased children and experts in law and psychology. She says she published it because she wanted to spur into action investigators who she thought weren't taking the problem seriously enough.
But despite the considerable column inches dedicated to the "challenge" over the years, not a single suicide has so far been proved to be linked to these groups, neither by journalists nor police. How can it be confirmed?
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