[NEWS] welp guys we hit a new low: blue whale challenge

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Trymos:

--- Quote ---The Blue Whale reportedly targets players between 10 and 14 year old, pushing them into completing a list of pained daily tasks such as waking up in the middle of the night, cutting shapes into their skin or contemplating death.

As the game progresses over several week, participants reach a final task - committing Self Delete.

The game that has been spreading online among teens has led to warnings from police across Europe and Russia, Central Asia and North and South America.

Concerns were further realised when an 18-year-old Ukranian girl threw herself off a bridge onto a rail line in Portugal earlier in April.

She remarkably survived the fall, suffering a broken leg.

“For the last 10 days, the player needs to wake up at an appointed early morning hour, listen to music, and contemplate death,” cybercrime expert Robert Muggah told Bloomberg.

“Those who get cold feet and want to leave the game receive threats, often that their parents will be killed.”
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https://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/35221009/police-issue-warning-over-spreading-blue-whale-Self Delete-game/#page1

here are the supposed commands that people who partake in the challenge are given:

--- Quote ---Carve with a razor "f57" on your hand, send a photo to the curator.

Wake up at 4.20 a.m. and watch psychodelic and scary videos that curator sends you.

Cut your arm with a razor along your veins, but not too deep, only 3 cuts, send a photo to the curator.

Draw a whale on a sheet of paper, send a photo to curator.

If you are ready to "become a whale", carve "YES" on your leg. If not-- cut yourself many times (punish yourself)

Task with a cipher.

Carve "f40" on your hand, send a photo to curator.

Type "#i_am_whale (rus. #я_кит) in your Twitter status.

You have to overcome your fear.

Wake up at 4:20 a.m. and go to a roof (the higher the better)

Carve a whale on your hand with a razor, send a photo to curator.

Watch psychodelic and horror videos all day.

Listen to music that "they" (curators) send you.

Cut your lip

Poke your hand with a needle many times

Do something painful to yourself, make yourself sick

Go to the highest roof you can find, stand on the edge for some time.

Go to a bridge, stand on the edge

Climb up a crane or at least try to do it

The curator checks if you are trustworthy

Have a talk "with a whale" (with another player like you or with a curator) in Skype

Go to a roof and sit on the edge with your legs dangling

Another task with a cipher.

Secret task

Have a meeting with a "whale"

The curator tells you the date of your death and you have to accept it

Wake up at 4:20 a.m. and go to rails (visit any railroad that you can find)

Don't talk to anyone all day

Make a vow that "you're a whale"

30-49. Everyday you wake up at 4:20 a.m., watch horror videos, listen to music that "they" send you, make 1 cut on your body per day, talk "to a whale".

Jump off a high building. Take your life."
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on top of all of this, if you try to refuse the commands given, they will try and use the info they have gathered (often times through methods not dissimilar to private investigating) to get you actually do it to make the threats a bit more credible.

keep an eye out for handicaps doing this
https://twitter.com/search?q=%23i_am_whale&src=typd

Ipquarx:
What kind of sick forget does this to people???? I legit have trouble putting into words how rage inducing this is.

Unwritten Calender:
wtf is this garbage
no one actually does this right

Foxscotch:
sounds made up

SlayerZ99:
This is a decent idea because anyone dumb enough to kill themselves over this will probably be a burden on society anyways

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