The Blue whale Controversy, Decoded.

Hruday Charan
9 min readMay 8, 2017

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These days, there Is a game prevailing called Blue Whale, in Most parts of Russia, Chile, Brazil, and many parts of the World. It is reported to takeover more than 120+ Lives in Russia. It took 7 Days and more to decode the topic. Many Sources were involved, and they are linked down below.

What Is Blue Whale Game?

The blue whale is a Suicidal Physical Game, Which is Dubbed for the people who are involved in online groups and activities such as Self Harming, Death, and Suicidal groups. With some particular Hashtags and some selected people, The Curators of the game are secretly selecting some people and sending them an application, A Suicidal game application to motivate them for the Suicide. That in turn was a Remote Administrative Application, A Malicious mobile application reportedly, Which can takeover the Victim’s Mobile, Their Accounts, and everything related to the user. As it Attacks the Root of the System, It cannot be deleted so that the users are forced to play the games with a particular set of rules for 50 Hell Days, with a Fixed condition to prove the curators, the completion of the task. The very last day, They are forced to jump from the top most floor of a place near them, and that is how the game is complete.

The First suicide took place Unveiled, Philipp Budeikin, who is a Thrown-out psychology student who claims to be the inventor of this Suicide game. “I Was just attempting to eliminate the people who don’t want to stay in this society anymore,” he stated. Some other sources claim Ilya Sidrow From Russia encouraged the teenagers to install this game and get victimized. Both were arrested. It’s believed the game was named after blue whales because of the belief that they wash up on beaches to die. Blue Whale began in Russia in 2013 with “F57”, one of the names of the so-called “death group.” It’s a sick, twisted, psychologically manipulating game where people willingly sign up and complete a variety of strange tasks (waking up in the middle of the night, watching a scary movie) and self-harm every day.

Only a small percentage of teens facing depression, especially if isolated from supportive friends and family, are known to venture into these groups, but the effect of multiple visits can be aggravating to their behavior, writes Child Psychologist Michele Ybarra, who is working in the field of internet victimization and cyberbullying, on Psychology Today. So they targeted the World’s Second largest Social networking website.

“Such people believe that they are larger than life. They are on a special mission, and they have a weird agenda that makes sense to them. They are fanatical and psychopathic. They see things in extreme, in black and white, the way the alleged creator of the Blue Whale network believes that if he eradicates depressed people, this world will be a happy place,” he says. Such a psychopathic mind could be an outcome of extreme childhood abuse, neglect, and trauma.

Birthplace(The Origin) of the Worst.

It was born in The Russian Social networking platform called VKontakte, Where the curators of the Game manually select the victims from the groups which are related to Self harming, Suicidal, Mental illness groups. Users who are interested in quitting their lives are messaged by the Curators of the Blue whale, with the download link of a Malicious application which is somewhere related and let them install in their devices as Google Play Store and iOS AppStore do not allow (but they do) to air the applications, they are personally sending the malicious application directly to the user. Once the user downloads and starts using the Application, It completely takes over the user’s mobile device and Establishes a connection from the curators to the internal mobile files.

That became a hugely depressing site ever to post Ghostly drawings and Most unpleasant pictures, And once you log in and search for #bluewhale, you come across psychotic, extremely depressing messages of young people desperately wanting to play the game and end their lives. Their profiles are as macabre as it can get. There are pictures of self-injury, ghosts, and horrifying sketches of people bleeding and trying to kill themselves.

It is said to brainwash the users for increasing their paranoia about suicide and then flood their emotional balances with blackmailing, Pushing their Tasks directly into some of their lifestyle like, Waking up at 4:20 AM and watching psychedelic shows, Visiting railroads, and all. After the user installs the application, they have 50 Days to let them un-love their existence and preparing them for the final Suicide. They are forced to photograph the completion of the task, and then they have to proceed to the next. It really needs people who are really prone to Suicides and self-harm things. They are strictly vulnerable to these activities.

What are Tasks and what sources Reveal?

Tasks are pretty destructive and hazardous even to know. The tasks are seriously designed for the people who are in real distress and in a trance to commit suicide.

List of tasks from the victim who was claimed to be taken up by the curators.

shamil.azizov@shamil.azizov : GOD STOP, DO NOT play this game! !
painful to watch DEAR PARENTS BE CLOSE TO THE CHILDREN MAY YOUR they lack warmth and care. CHILDREN NEED YOU AND YOUR LOVE !!
NOT YOUR MONEY !! Every Parent Should Know !!!!
Game Suicide.

An Instagram image posted by 15-year-old Yulia Konstantinova before she jumped off a 14-storey apartment building. Credit: The Siberian Times.

Multiple Suicides Reported In Only Days

Just days later, a 15-year-old known only as “Ekaterina” was critically injured after she fell to the snow-covered ground off of a flat in Krasnoyarsk. Only two days before Yulia and Veronika’s accident, a 14-year-old girl from Chita reportedly threw herself under a commuter train.

While the horrifying social media trend appears to have started on VKontakte, it is no longer contained in the area. The different hashtags have been beginning to make their rounds on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and other social media websites with the tags #F57, #F58, #I_AM_WHALE, and related tags.

Fifteen-year-old Isaiah Gonzalez from Houston, Texas, committed suicide on Saturday, July 8. The teen was found hanged in his closet and he filmed his death using his cell phone. According to reports, Gonzalez broadcast his death on Facebook Live.

Reddit User Claims to Be Playing the Game :

Instagram:

Instagram, The second home of these scary and horrific videos also hosted some of the Videos which are related to #F58, A user named “@91bosya” related to the trend. In one video, strange music plays as we see an arm that appears to have a very deep, and presumably self-induced, cut across the wrist. The hand bends around, forcing the wound to leak blood as the music plays.

“@91bosya” posted another video that that shows a young girl standing on a roof crying. The video is high quality, and clearly not taken with a cell phone by other teenagers. The girl’s sleeve is exposed, showing a whale drawn on her arm out of what is meant to be blood. The video zooms in on the girl’s face just before she jumps off the roof. She then wakes up on the ground and stands up. The girl’s parents run out of a building and see their daughter on the ground. The girl tries to speak to her parents, but they run past her and that is when she notices that her body is still on the ground.

The Lead From the News:

According to many reports in this particular case, including one by Ekaterina Sinelschikova in Russian Beyond the Headlines, “the names of these [death] groups may appear harmless at first glance — “Silent House”, “Sea of Whales” or the mysterious “#f57,” but they contain pompous, eloquent quotes about the meaninglessness of life and popular songs on the same theme.” According to Novaya Gazeta, there are no fewer than 1,500 VKontakte communities that can be seen to encourage children to commit suicide in one way or another.

Russian Government Reviews the issue.

On the Instagram account of russian_policy_today, a video was posted that shows a girl jumping off a roof. The poor quality and quick cut from the first clip have led some to believe the footage to be from a real suicide. As the first girl on the video jumps, it cuts to the anti-suicide video above. The rough translation on the post reads as follows. the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta states the Affirmation of the Cases.

russian_policy_today @ Regrann from @kremlin_video — The girl was in the “whales game.”
Dear parents, please keep track of your kids!

“Sea of ​​whales.” “Blue whale.”
“Silent House” — groups in social networks, which promotes the idea of ​​suicide, it is proposed to come into play, the finale of which is to commit suicide.

In this game moderators have information about the player needed to provide the emotional impact on the immature child’s psyche.

Dear subscribers, please repost MAXIMUM and dissemination of this information.

What should pay attention:

Teen wakes up early in the morning, about 4 am;
Lack of sleep and a complete removal from the world.

Check cuts on hands.

Draws whales, unicorns and butterflies.

Member of Group “Sea Whale”, “Wake me up at 4:20,” “Silent House”, “F57”, “F58”, “Whales float up”, “Nyapoka”, “50 days before my …”

In correspondence your child has the phrase “Wake me up at 4:20 am,” “I’m in the game.”

If there are anywhere from 50 digits or less.
Hashtags, which extends morekitov game # # # tihiydom hochuvigru mlechnyyput # # f53 # f57 # f58 # d28 # siniykit tihiydom # # whale — #regrann

The Another Case. #Wake Me Up at 4.20

On Christmas Day 2015, 12-year-old Elya Davydova fell off a 14th-floor apartment block to her death. Elya’s mother Elena said she discovered that her daughter had been secretly getting online at night.

Elya was a member of the group “Wake Me Up at 4.20.” The group convened at 4:20 am and had over a quarter-million subscribers before it was shut down. It was common for Elya to stay online until after 6:00 am while her family slept. Shortly before her death, Elena claims Elya received a phone call and rushed out of the house to answer it. Elya never returned. Elena believes the phone call was from whoever was manipulating her daughter. After her daughter’s death, Elena joined several of the online groups pretending to be a teenager. It was on these sites that she learned the term “cutting out” meant to commit suicide.

Elena told TheDailyMail that each of the members of one of the groups received a date, time, and a place for their suicide. The map also predicted future suicides as well.

The Conclusion, How to Be aware.

Moralistic approach to the context: Children needs care. The problem the curators rely on is the Self-Harming people, who are really vulnerable to this kind of activities among emotionally or socially mingled persons — sadly which is a multi-border phenomenon, Which is prone through the Internet to various countries. It is yet prone in the dark, in Russia and Some other countries. However, all the social networks banned the users related to the Whale tags. Anyways, keep safe and be aware.

which is obvious as guardians and teachers in different nations are additionally worried about the universe of web-based social networking and online recordings progressively devouring the psyches of adolescents. A school in Singapore as of late attempted mindfulness and questioning talk sessions around the issues tended to the prevalent Netflix arrangement 13 Reasons Why with its Students, as the show extravagantly performs a young person’s suicide.

Edit (1st August 2017) :

Former Indian Cyber Security Enthusiast and Deep Web Analyst Speaks about The Blue whale challenge and Helped to Decode some of the mystery. He says “This Blue-Whale game a Twisty Psychological Game. The main victims are likely from the age group 13–18 and most are the residents of Russia. People who were affected by Restrictions, Parental Pressure, Peer Pressure, Or any disturbance in their Priority List, are Tend to be Sadder and More likely Vulnerable to this. The First task starts with Craving the Image of a Blue-Whale and posts it to the Curator as proof to the challenger. Even If they accept or Don’t, They are going to be killed either way. It takes advantage of your Emotions and Lets them Control you.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Whale_(game)#Reported_cases, This Wikipedia article shows the Possible and Reported Cases around the world.

Credits, References.

TheDailyHaze. Anonymous Deep Web enthusiast from India.

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Hruday Charan

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