Blue Whale Challenge: What is it? Simply explained
What exactly is hidden behind the Blue Whale Challenge, is quite opaque. Also not really sure if this supposed game is really in the network (see below).
- The Name of this unwelcome Internet phenomenon is to be derived from a legend according to which blue whales occasionally committed suicide to choose, by heading to a beach, and there perish. Accordingly, the participants should have the Blue Whale Challenges as a sign of recognition a whale in the palm of your hand carved.
- The suicide of the games-participants should be the stated goal of the Blue Whale Challenge. After the participant has passed a series of very strange challenges, the final task in itself to kill.
- In the case of the Blue Whale Challenge is so far primarily a Russian phenomenon. Its the beginning of the strange game took over the Russian network Vkontakte, the counterpart to Facebook. Therefore, to have participated in each of the 50-day challenge so far, especially Russian young people. Supposedly, the Blue Whale Challenge about spills, but also to the Baltic States and Western Europe and the USA.
- A game in the traditional sense, it is not the Blue Whale Challenge, of course. The participant is chatting with a stranger and gets away from this 50 tasks allocated. The level of difficulty of the individual tasks range from harmless to extremely borderline. The young people are, for example, prompted certain watch movies, to climb in the middle of the night on the roof of a house to talk for a day with anyone, or to hurt yourself.
- According to various Russian reports of between 90 and 130 young people should have found by participating in the Blue Whale Challenges the death. Whether these messages, however, is doubtful.
- The question of whether the players were driven by this macabre Internet phenomenon to the point of suicide, or whether it was a very unstable young people, which had explicitly searched in the net after a failed suicide options, is also not yet clarified.
Blue Whale Challenge: What is it?
Blue Whale Challenge on WhatsApp, the Internet, and co.
Since it is a Web phenomenon, distributed the tasks, especially through the web and social networks.
- Originally, the Challenge in the Russian network Vkontakte appeared.
- But also other places of the Internet you came across the "game".
- On Reddit, for example, the tasks have been posted.
- Also on WhatsApp, the game spills to Germany.
- Due to the high attention is to spread the game even further.
What is really tuned to the Challenge?
- The police of upper Bavaria South, warns of the Challenge, especially as a result of massive coverage of attention and thereby still more widely.
- Meanwhile, the sites have but operators of Russian and Austrian forums reported, where the Challenge supposedly took place. You make it clear that such A Challenge has never existed.
- All of the reports about this phenomenon are based on false reports. Since the media are quoting each other, it is difficult to possible, the origin of the hoax to find out. The fact is, however, that there is a Wal-Challenge.
- This is a problem, however, because the reporting can be freeloaders on the idea of the Challenge to imitate. As a mother of two bridges in the case reported to the police, because her daughter got an anonymous message about the Challenge. Warnings before the game, should be observed. The tasks and the Challenge should not be followed will be followed.
- In the USA there has been a confirmed case of death. A 15-year-old teenager is said to have various US media, according to himself in his wardrobe hung. He should have been of the "players" are threatened.
The blue whale game is circulating on the Internet and WhatsApp
Behind the blue whale-"the game"
Euronews reported about the "inventor", the behind the Blue Whale Challenge is.
- The messages page to follow the "inventor" of the Challenge "Philippe Budeikin" (aka Philippe Lis) in the network tried to Vkontakte to bring two people to suicide.
- A court in Tobolsk (Russia) should be sentenced according to Euronews, the 21-Year-old to a prison sentence of three years and four months.
Here you will find help
We have decided in this case to report about a suicide theme. It may happen, that some people see themselves according to these Reports confirmed that life had little meaning.
It should happen to you, please contact pastoral care of immediately the phone.
- Support, you will find Hotlines for free how 0800 1110111 or 0800 3344533.
- Children and young people find the number against sorrow 116 111 anonymous help.
- Parents can contact 0800 111 0 550.
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