The Blue Whale Game also "Blue Whale Challenge", is an Internet "game" that is claimed to exist in several countries. The game allegedly consists of a series of tasks assigned to players by administrators during a 50-day period, with the final challenge requiring the player to commit suicide .

The term "Blue Whale" comes from the phenomenon of beached whales , which is linked to suicide.


Blue Whale began in Russia in 2013 with "F57", one of the names of the so-called "death group" of the VKontakte social network, and allegedly caused its first suicide in 2015.


Philipp Budeikin, a former psychology student who was expelled from his university, claimed that he invented the game. Budeikin stated that his purpose was to "clean" the society by pushing to suicide those he deemed as having no value.



In Russia in 2016, Blue Whale came into broader use among teenagers after a journalist brought attention to it through an article that linked many unrelated suicide victims to the Blue Whale, creating a wave of moral panic in Russia.


Later, Budeikin was arrested and pled guilty to "inciting at least 16 teenage girls to commit suicide", leading to Russian suicide prevention legislation and renewed world-wide concern over the Blue Whale phenomenon.It has also been linked to other rising self-harm trends, such as "human embroidery" in China.

GAME STRUCTURE


The game is based on the relationship between the challengers (also called players or participants) and the administrators.

It involves a series of duties given by the administrators that players must complete, usually one per day, some of which involve self-mutilation .
Some tasks can be given in advance, while others can be passed on by the administrators on that day, the last task being suicide .
The list of tasks, to be completed in 50 days, includes waking up at 4:20 A.M., climbing a crane, carving a specific phrase on the person’s own hand or arm, doing secret tasks, poking a needle to the arm or leg, standing on a bridge and roof, listening to music, and watching videos sent to the challengers by the administrator. One of these music videos was originally for Norwegian singer Emilie Nicolas ' upbeat song "Pstereo" (filmed in Scotland). It had been dubbed by the administrator and set to BENY's hauntingly somber remix of Australian singer Sarah Blasko's country-folkish song "All I Want" (video filmed in Victoria, Australia).

LIST OF TASKS
1. Carve a specific phrase on the person’s own hand or arm.

2. Wake up at 4:20 a.m. and watch a scary video (sent by the curator.)

3. Make lengthwise cuts on the person’s own arm.

4. Draw a whale on a piece of paper

5. Write “yes” on the person’s own leg if ready to be a whale. Otherwise, they should cut themselves multiple times.

6. Secret task (written in code.)

7. Scratch (a message) on the person’s own arm.

8. Write a status online about being a whale.

9. Overcome a fear.

10. Get up at 4:20 and go to the roof.

11. Carve a whale on the person’s own hand.

12. Watch scary videos all day.

13. Listen to music the “curator” sends.

14. Cut your lip.

15. Poke the person’s own arm/hand with a needle.

16. Make yourself hurt or sick.

17. Go to a roof and stand on the edge.

18. Stand on a bridge.

19. Climb a crane.

20. At this step, the “curator” somehow checks to see if the participant is trustworthy.

21. Talk with a “whale” on Skype.

22. Sit down on a roof with legs dangling over the edge.

23. Another job that is in code.

24. A secret mission

25. Meet with a “whale”.

26. The “curator” assigns a date that the person will die.

27. Visit a railroad.

28. Do not talk with anyone all day.

29. Give an oath/vow about being a whale

30. After these steps, steps 30-49 involve watching horror movies and listening to music that the curator picks, talking to a whale, and making cuts.

31. The last task is jumping off a building.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Whale_(game)

Reported deaths have been mostly among teenagers, so, parents be watchful of what your young ones do on the internet and take note of their psychological status not just beating upon beating