Blue Whale Challenge
The term Blue Whale game (Template:Lang-ru) refers to a trend on Russian-speaking social media, linked to a possible increase in child and teenage suicides,[1] though no suicides have been definitively linked to the game.[2][3] There have been photos of self-cutting wounds shared on social media alongside the game's hashtags.[4] The term "Blue Whale" comes from the phenomenon of beached whales, which is likened to suicide.
The game is based in the relationship between the challengers (also called players or participants) and the administrators.[5][6] It involves a series of duties given by the administrators that players must complete, usually one per day, some of which involve self-mutilation.[7][8] Some tasks can be given in advance, while others can be passed on by the administrators on the day, the last task being suicide.[9][10]
The game was created by Philipp Budeikin, a former psychology student who was expelled from his university. Budeikin stated that his purpose was to "clean" the society by pushing to suicide those he deemed as having no value.[11][12][13][14][15] Blue Whale began in 2013 with "F57", one of the names of the so-called "death group" of the VKontakte social network.[16] It is believed that the first case of suicide related to the game occurred in 2015 in Russia.[7][17]
The phenomenon has provided fodder for conspiracy theorists, some of whom claim it is an organized campaign run by Ukrainian nationalists.[18]
Events
Argentina
In San Juan Province, Argentina, a 14-year-old boy was admitted to intensive care after participating in the Blue Whale.[19][20][21][22]
In La Plata, the grandparents of a 12-year-old girl complained to a police station and expressed concern that she had wounded her arm with a sharp object due to Blue Whale.[23][24][25]
Brazil
In Brazil, the game left victims in Mato Grosso,[26][27][28] and in the cities of Uberlândia,[29] Manhuaçu,[30][31][32] Pará de Minas and Belo Horizonte, in Minas Gerais,[33][34][35] as well as in Feira de Santana, Bahia.[36][37][38][39] In Juazeiro, also in Bahia, a girl supposedly disappeared because of the game.[40] In Rio de Janeiro a mother managed to prevent the suicide of her daughter who played Blue Whale.[41] In the state of Paraná, the game made another victim in Florestópolis.[42][43][44][45] In Maceió, Deputy Pastor João Luiz (Christian Social Party) reported in the Legislative Assembly of Alagoas that his niece practiced suicide under the influence of the game.[46][47]
In Paulista (Pernambuco), a girl gave testimony after being threatened in the challenge of the Blue Whale,[48][49][50] and in Recife a 19-year-old girl got to the penultimate stage of the game.[51][52] Also a 15-year-old student living in the municipality of Cabo de Santo Agostinho in the Recife metropolitan area was found by a man when she was on the parapet of the Buarque de Macedo Bridge in Recife, to jump from it.[53] With several cuts on her arms, including one in the shape of a whale, she would be trying to complete the last phase of the challenge.[54][55]
In the state of São Paulo, in the capital, the couple of lovers Luis Fernando Hauy Kafrune and Kaena Novaes Maciel, aged 19 and 18 respectively, stayed at Maksoud Plaza, a luxury hotel in the region of the Paulista Avenue, and hours later, Luis killed Kaena with a bullet in the head and committed suicide. Authorities link this crime with Blue Whale.[56][57][58] A 17-year-old boy from Bauru, a town from São Paulo, wrote on Facebook "A culpa é da baleia" ("Blame it on the whale") minutes before attempting to jump an overpass,[56] being saved by firefighters.[59][60][61][62]
In the Federal District, on May 5, 2017, four hearing impaired adolescents playing Blue Whale were prevented by the Military Police from committing suicide.[63][64][64] In Estrela (Rio Grande do Sul) a mother avoided the suicide of her daughter, who played Blue Whale.[65][66]
In Teófilo Otoni, in the region of Vale do Mucuri, Minas Gerais, a 17-year-old female participant of Blue Whale jumped from the six-meter wall of the property where she lives with her family.[67][68] The young woman was rescued immediately and was hospitalized in the city hospital.[69] The teenager told the police that she had already cut her arms because of the game and that she had been given the challenge of taking her own life.[70][71][72]
In Paraíba, police identified 20 young people involved with the game.[9] In Pernambuco, seven.[73][74][75][76] Altogether, seven Brazilian states had cases of suicide and mutilation under suspicion of connection with the game.[77][78][79][80]
Chile
In the Chilean city of Antofagasta, a mother reported to the police that her 12-year-old daughter had 15 cuts on her arm that formed the design of a whale.[81][82][83][84] After being interviewed by police officers, she confessed that she followed game administrators instructions while playing this game.[85][86][87][88]
A 13-year-old girl in Padre Las Casas played the game along with three other friends. The girl reached the tenth stage, making cuts in her arms.[89]
An 11-year-old boy in Temuco accepted an invitation in his Facebook profile to join the game, from an unidentified woman, but declined to participate after being contacted by a profile named "Ballena Azul".[90]
Colombia
The Criminal Investigation Directorate (Dijin) of the National Police of Colombia began an investigation into three adolescent deaths that could be related to the game.[91]
Kenya
In Nairobi County, Jamie Njenga, a Form Two student at J. G. Kiereini Secondary School in Kiambu County, had played the Blue Whale challenge. He later committed suicide on May 3.[92][93][94] He hanged himself on the balcony of a hotel owned by his grandfather in the city centre.[95][96][97][98]
Paraguay
Federico Pedro Aguilera, a 22-year-old computer scientist, was found with a sprat, a type of sword, that pierced his chest in Coronel Bogado after playing Blue Whale.[99][100][101][102]
Portugal
An 18-year-old girl was admited to hospital with mutilations in her body in Albufeira after she threw herself from an overpass to the railway line.[103][104] Police, parents and friends said that the girl had been motivated to do that by a person on Internet named as "Blue Whale".[105][106] Also, a 15-year-old boy from Sines was admitted to the Setúbal Hospital after having "drawn" a whale on an arm with a sharp object.[107][108][109] There are already at least eight victims of the Blue Whale challenge identified in Portugal.[110]
Russia
In March 2017, authorities in Russia were investigating approximately 130 separate cases of suicide related to the phenomenon.[111] In February, two teenagers, 15-year-old Yulia Konstantinova and 16-year-old Veronika Volkova, threw themselves off the top of a 14-story building in Irkutsk, Siberia, after completing 50 tasks sent to them.[112][113] Before they killed themselves together, Yulia and Veronika left messages on their pages on social networks.[113] Yulia published the photo of a large blue whale and then wrote "End".[114] Veronika used to post things like "Do you feel that you become useless?" and "I am just a ghost". On the day of her death she wrote "Sense is lost... End".[115] Also in February, a girl known as Ekaterina, 15, was in critical condition after throwing herself out of an apartment and falling on snow-covered ground in the town of Krasnoyarsk, also in Siberia.[116]
Serbia
On 14 May 2017, a 15-year-old teenager jumped off his house in Vinča, 14 kilometers away from Belgrade. His parents claim he was playing the Blue Whale game.
Spain
In Spain, a teenager was admitted to a psychiatric unit of a Barcelona hospital after her family said she started playing Blue Whale.[117][118][119][120][121]
Uruguay
In the city of Rivera, 450 kilometers from Montevideo, a 13-year-old girl was hospitalized at a local hospital after employees of the school she attended reported injuries to her left arm.[122][123][124] In total, adolescents victimized by the Blue Whale game are investigated in six departments: Montevideo, Canelones, Colonia, Río Negro, Salto and Rivera.[125][126]
Venezuela
in the east of the country, a 15-year-old student from Nazareth College in the city of Puerto Ordaz committed suicide after taking part in the Blue Whale on the night of April 27.[127]
Online search trends
Search Trends
The search term "Blue whale game" didn't get much attention before February 19, 2017, when Google hits started spiking from 0-1% of searches to peaking on April 29.[128]
Search Locations
Six countries across the world have searched for the term "Blue whale game" over the past year, most of which being European or Asian countries with the exception of the United States. Such countries are Romania, Finland, United Kingdom, India, Brazil and the United States.[128]
Reactions
In March 2017, Romanian Minister of Internal Affairs Carmen Dan expressed her deep concerns about the phenomenon.[129] Mayor of Bucharest Gabriela Firea described the game as "extremely dangerous".[130]
The game has caused significant concern in Western Europe, including France[131] and the United Kingdom.[132]
In Brazil, in response to the game, a designer and a publicity agent from São Paulo created a movement called Baleia Rosa (Pink Whale),[133][134] which became viral and relied on the collaboration of hundreds of volunteers.[135][136][137] The movement is based on positive tasks that value life and combat depression.[138] Also in Brazil, Sandro Sanfelice created the movement Capivara Amarela (Yellow Capybara),[139] which proposes to "combat the Blue Whale game" and guide people seeking some kind of help.[140] Participants are separated between challengers, who are the people who seek help, and the healers, who are kind of godfathers of these people.[141] An Adventist school in southern Paraná, in partnership with other education networks, also sought to reverse the situation by proposing another charity game, the "Jonas Challenge" (referring to the biblical character Jonah, who was vomited up by a large fish three days after being swallowed by it).[142][143] Other games created in Brazil in response to the Blue Whale were the Baleia Verde (Green Whale) and the Preguiça Azul (Blue Sloth).[144][145][146][147]
Author Glória Perez stated on April 21 that she plans to include the Blue Whale game in her new telenovela, A Força do Querer.[148][149][150][151][152] The media also stressed that the phenomenon coincided with the controversy surrounding the web television series 13 Reasons Why, which addresses the issue of teen suicide.[153][154]
In Belo Horizonte, in April 2017, many schools promoted lectures to talk about the Blue Whale game.[155] The Police Specialized in High Technology Crime Repression (Dercat) in Piauí is preparing a digital primer to warn young people about the dangers of the game.[156][157][158]
In May 2017, authorities of the Mexican state of Michoacán issued an alert warning about the possibility of the Blue Whale challenge to invade the country.[159][160]
In May 2017, Tencent, China's largest Internet service portal, closed 12 suspicious Blue Whale-related network groups on its social networking platform QQ, as the number of this kind of groups is on the rise.[161] The search results of related keywords was also blocked in QQ.[162][163]
See also
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External links
- Movimento Baleia Rosa (Pink Whale Moviment, in Portuguese)