What is the Blue Whale Challenge?

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h2 class="synopsis" itemprop="description" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6b6b6b; font-family: "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px;"> 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</h2> <div> <img alt="blue whale, blue whale challenge, blue whale game, play blue whale game, how to play blue whale game" class="wp-image-4637614 size-full" data-lazy-loaded="true" src="http://images.indianexpress.com/2017/05/blue-wale-suicide-game_759.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #747474; display: block; float: none; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; width: 640px;" /></div> <div> <span style="color: #747474; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Blue Whale: A reported suicide game (Source: Twitter)</span></div> <div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "Droid Serif", serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px;"> The <span style="color: #346f99; font-family: inherit;"><span style="border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-style: initial; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial;">Blue Whale game</span></span> or <span style="color: #346f99; font-family: inherit;"><span style="border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-style: initial; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial;">Blue Whale Challenge</span></span> 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.</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "Droid Serif", serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px;"> 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 <span style="color: #346f99; font-family: inherit;"><span style="border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-style: initial; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial;">Facebook</span></span> 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.</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "Droid Serif", serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px;"> <img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4776783" data-lazy-loaded="true" height="706" src="http://images.indianexpress.com/2017/07/curator-list.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 640px;" width="759" /></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "Droid Serif", serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px;"> 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.</div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "Droid Serif", serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px;"> 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.</div> </div> <div> <span style="color: #747474; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div> </div>

What is the Blue Whale Challenge?

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