What Is The Blue Whale Game? How To Play The Blue Whale Challenge
- Rumoured deadly suicide game originated in Russia
- Russia has not been able to confirm that the game is linked to 130 teen deaths
- There have been no reports of the game being played or existing outside of Russia
- One Argentinian teenaged boy who claimed he was playing Blue Whale took his own life
What Is The Blue Whale Game?
It's
described as a game, but the Blue Whale Challenge is far from a game.
Young teens who accept the challenge are encouraged to complete a series
of tasks which get more and more sinister and at the end of the game
the player is urged to take their own life in order to "win."
The
Blue Whale suicide game goes by many names including 'A Silent House,'
'A Sea Of Whales' and 'Wake Me Up At 4:20am.' It takes 50 days to
complete and is played primarily via the website VKontakte, which is a
popular social network in Russia. It gets its name from a common belief
that blue whales voluntarily beach themselves in order to end their own
lives.
The game is attracting teens as young as
12-years-old in Russia and Central Asian countries but recent reports
suggest the game could be spreading across Europe and into the UK.
The game has been blamed by the Russian media as the reason why 80 to
130 children committed suicide between November 2015 and April 2016.
How To Play The Blue Whale Challenge
The game's administrators or curator
find players through "death groups" or "suicide groups" set up on VK.com
(VKontakte). Police in Russia have shut down several of these groups in
recent years but say that as soon as one is shut down, another starts
up and this has driven them underground.
Once
you've been accepted by an administrator, you are given your first of 50
daily challenges, these can be anything from simple tasks like
listening to a certain song, watching unsettling videos and waking up at
odd times to much more extreme requests like cutting words or whale
symbols into your skin. The first challenge usually comes at 4:20am.
Every time you accomplish a task, you must provide photographic or video
proof of completion to the admin.
A journalist
working at Radio Free Europe created an account on VK, posing as a
15-year-girl they attempted to join the Blue Whale game. After making
contact with a curator they were given their first task, which involved
deliberate self-harm.
The transcript of their conversation with the administrator is below...
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