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.
The Blue Whale game or Blue Whale Challenge is a game in which the participant is given a task on daily basis, which the person is expected to complete within a period of 50 days. A group of administrators ask participants to share photos of the challenges completed by them. The final task generally is committing suicide. Daily tasks include things like listening to certain genres of music, waking up at odd hours, watching a horror movie, among others. Subsequently, nature of tasks start to become bloody and dangerous. The participants are asked to carve out shapes on one's skin, self-mutilation and eventually the extreme step. As per the reports this bloody game originated in Russia. There are other names of the game including - A Silent House, A Sea of Whales, F57 or F-57. The game is mostly played on Instagram and Snapchat.
The first case of death due to 'Blue Whale Dare' in India was reported on August 1, 2017 when a 14-year-old boy from Mumbai jumped off the terrace of his Andheri residence.