The page was full of eerie sketches, including one that showed a bloodied male figure hurting himself with a knife. When this journalist created an account on VKontakte, and asked a few users about Blue Whale, she was sent a link to a page that claimed to add people to the Blue Whale network. There are pictures of self-injury, ghosts and horrifying sketches of people bleeding and trying to kill themselves. Their profiles are as macabre as it can get. 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. One can easily create a VKontakte account. What is worrying is that despite the common knowledge that the deadly game started and spread on VKontakte, which is a hugely popular site in Russia, no checks were brought in place to contain the network. He used to encourage teenagers to hurt themselves and eventually commit suicide. Other reports claim that the mastermind behind the game, a postman called Ilya Sidorov, 26, was arrested in Moscow, Russia. Budeikin, who was thrown out of his university, said he was attempting to weed out the society by encouraging those who have no value to take their lives. Philipp Budeikin, a psychology student claimed that he invented the game. It allegedly led to its first suicide in 2015. It has already claimed over 130 lives in Russia. This psychopathic game started in Russia four years ago on a social networking site called VKontakte. Manpreet Singh, who jumped off the terrace of a seven-storey building on Saturday, could be the first victim of the network. It seems that the deadly game that originated in Russia has taken the life of a 14-year-old boy in Andheri East, Mumbai. Carving out a whale shape on the arm is one of the task assigned. Those who want to back out on the last day are threatened that their family members will be hurt if they don’t abide by the game rules. On the last (50th day), the game admin ask the youngster to commit suicide. The task keeps getting tougher with each passing day. It includes inflicting self-injury, watching horror movies, waking up at odd hours to wrap the task and even carving a whale shape on the arms. After signing up, the youngster is assigned daily tasks for the next 50 days. It also promises to make his exit from this world fun by turning the suicide into a thrilling game. The group encourages him to take his life. A depressed youngster comes across a social media group called Blue Whales. Something macabre has been brewing on the internet, and it sounds like the perfect plot for a third rate horror film.
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