The Blue Whale is an online game with negative content, charged with incidents of suicides among teenagers, apparently as a consequence of the regulations of the game. Its transmission began through the internet in May 2016 and began on the Russian social networks vkontakte. The expression Blue Whale is about the phenomenon of cetacean stranding, which is compared to suicide. This challenge comes from Russia and has numerous groups on social networks.
The game was founded by Russian Philipp Budeikin, he was a former psychology student who was dismissed from the university. Budeikin assured that the reason why he created the game was to try to purify society, inciting suicide to anyone who he thought was useless. The game of the blue whale began in 2013 as F57, one of the pseudonyms of the aforementioned group of death. At first, the suicides that were reported in Russia failed to determine that it had a direct link to the game.
The game consists of inviting children and adolescents to complete a test every day for fifty continuous days. That is what the so-called online tutors are for, who manage fake accounts on Facebook to distribute messages with the challenges determined for each of them, through that social network, or through WhatsApp in private groups.
The game is based on a link where the participating players and the leaders associate. One of the tests they placed consisted of making incisions in the arms.Some of these tasks can be facilitated beforehand, while third can be assigned by the leaders the same day, the last challenge placed is suicide. After several investigations, the first suicide case that was connected to the game became known and it originated in Russia in 2015. The authorities discovered a total of 130 suicide cases that are directly related to the blue whale game.
