Several police forces are warning parents about a social media "game" which has reportedly been linked to teenage deaths in Russia.
The blue whale challenge is reported to involve people being set a series of tasks over 50 days - ending in the person taking their own life.
There's no evidence the game has reached the UK, or whether it's real.
Newsbeat has spoken to a number of police forces who say they're aware of the challenge.
In it, individuals are given tasks by an anonymous "master".
These are reported to escalate from straightforward demands, like watching a scary film, and become increasingly dangerous.
Hertfordshire Constabulary is advising parents "to be vigilant and monitor children's internet usage".
Woodlands School in Basildon, Essex, has sent parents a letter explaining the risks involved with the game with the aim of stopping it from happening.
"There's no evidence to say anything untoward is going on with the blue whale challenge in our school, but we feel it's best to keep parents and carers informed," deputy head David Wright has explained to Newsbeat.
"We [want to] make sure they can help us. We've all got a duty of care for our young people."
Unconfirmed Russian media reports have linked the deaths of two teenage girls to the challenge.
The name of the game appears to be a reference to the way some blue whales beach themselves on purpose and die.
Bulgaria's Centre for Safe Internet has told the Balkan Insight that the game is most likely a rumour which has been spread online.
It says there's no concrete evidence for the existence of the blue whale challenge.
Police warn parents about blue whale 'game' targeting vulnerable people
Does it have any DLC
It's always teenagers.
Not a video game,
That kinda sounds like that one movie...
Barbosa here, the news have been talking nonstop about this shit. Apparently we lost some teens over here because of it, but there's no actual evidence of this game being real.
It might just be an urban myth that people are linking to the suicides.
jej
Reminder that two (2) people did this in Russia and it never got any further than that but the media picked up on it so now it's an epidemic
Nerve was actually pretty decent
Like a modern day Hackers (1995)
I hope they make a Switch version, we have too many Nintendo fans here.
Are you sure they didn't kill themselves because they live in Russia
what kind of retard goes to self-harm or suicide because some game tells him to?
This, seriously.
I'd play it, where do I download?
SCP-1883? Sounds sorta like it
>What is brainwashing
>What is mind control
Already got Sup Forums telling me to kill myself everyday, only a retard or a teenager would actually do it
Doesn't seem like it's even a real game. Calling it a game is a complete misnomer. Apparently, supposedly, someone on Facebook stalks you and then starts sending you tasks to do, like watching horror movies, cutting yourself, and then at the end finally killing yourself, and threatening to harm you if you don't do them.
This desu. Suicide is the quickest way out of Russia. And if you're sober you want out.
Attention. People on Facebook keep livestreaming murders, they'll do anything for likes even at the cost of another life + their own freedom.
This.
How often are people sober in Russia though?
Ninten-drones
Oh no, they're going to hurt me if i don't kill myself? Better kill myself to avoid getting hurt.
This is fucking mass effect reaper logic.
It has been posted on Sup Forums a few times.
It's just cutting yourself and then killing yourself with a whale theme.
they literally just stole the idea from that one Black Mirror episode in season 3 except in that they were blackmailing him by taking nudes of him fapping with his webcam
Rarely but it happens. If you fail to keep yourself intoxicated 24/7 you pull a gun out on yourself in a matter of minutes.
13 something?
Teenaged girls do some terrifically stupid shit, like those 2 girls who tried to murder another in forest to please slender man
Why whales though?
Not real.
Were they in the wrong?
good ep though
To be fair they were like 12
Did you just read the title of the thread, you anime posting shithead?
I did and it doesn't make any sense. Whales are not scary.
kys weeb fuck cuck
Mazes and monsters is a far out game
Orange sign captcha of desvío
I love this board occasionally
So it's fucking truth or dare without the truth aspect. Shitty downgrade.
Retarded teenagers
en.wikipedia.org
TL;DR
>Teenagers think slenderman is real
>Lure their friend out to the woods to sacrifice her to him
>Friend stabbed, almost killed her
>Told her everything would be okay, fled the scene
>psycho grills
>already know that society never blames girls for anything
>murder someone in cold blood
>lel we totally did it for slenderman, how stupid of us :^)
>oh these innocent girls were just corrupted by the internet, still good at heart
weew
Fuck you.
Ahab was autistic.
Tools effective only on the unintelligent and the weak-willed.
what I hated about that episode was that they claimed he was jerking off to cp, but that wasn't indicated at all to the viewer and he never really confirms whether he was or not
Tbh people are stupid enough to believe anything, so it's not far fetched that they were retarded enough to believe in slenderman.
I've played it, the soundtrack could use some work
>"WOOOP AUGH AUUGH"
>"WOOP AUGH AUUGH AUUGH"
I dont even know what genre it is
99% of mentally sane 12 year olds don't kill people
It's called Blue Whale because there's those blue whales that supposedly kill themselves. The same ones from Death Stranding.
99% of 12 year olds are retarded
The 1% is still a lot of people
The kid was watching regular porn and didn't want his friends at school to find out. The pedo was a pedo. Pretty straightforward.
Whales will buy whatever you try and sell them
Go back to facebook
Also Black Mirror episode
>kill themselves because an app told them to
>stab someone over Slenderman
>huffing poop gas
>dabs
>all-out street fights over dumb political shit
What will teens come up with next?
>>huffing poop gas
I'm curious
Exactly
As real as jesus senpai.
Google jenkem.
I played it, had a whale of a time.
Sounds like some Morrowind mod that makes people suicide creepypasta.
And its not far fetched that they murdered in cold blood and blamed a meme either.
Some retard russians from some circlejerk forums trying to get praise from each other. Just ignore this baby tier shit.
I know but that's lame. There are some ants that can blow themselves up.
Nope, the kid's mom calls at the end of the episode and starts talking about him "looking at kids"
kids
What is this fucking autism
You're naive. That's cute.
Why does Russia suck so much?
Link to an actual article faggot. I refuse to believe people are this gullible.
Go fuck yourself, bitch
Whales have a tendacy to an hero by beaching themselves (washing up on shore)
Fuck off, /x/. Your board is terrible.
>inb4 just like yours
Blocked, faggot.
if i see that fucking bear one more time
Wow user, I just looked that shit up and it was pretty cool.
how many achievements does it contain?
When you kill yourself you can not play into video games. Other words game over is blows dongs.
FUCK YOU!
It sounds like something out of a shitty movie.
Maybe we can finally do something about all those PS4fags who only play games to get trophies
Hell trips, church version.
>Russians killing themselves for no reason
Sounds about right
Women just have brain problems in general.
LET'S ALL LOVE LAIN
>beginning of episode kid goes to masturbate after watching some tweenage pop idol music video
>mom calls him over the phone screaming "Kids! They were kids!"
You could at least try to watch what you're complaining about
Kiss my ass
>>kill themselves because an app told them to
Explain.
>The name of the game appears to be a reference to the way some blue whales beach themselves on purpose and die.
Death Stranding ARG confirmed
Kojima's ruse cruse doesn't stop
Fuck
>In it, individuals are given tasks by an anonymous "master".
>tfw you will never have an user master sending you orders
;_;
Probably because you aren't cute.
>Kojima's bullshit is literally killing people
No wonder Konami sacked him
>There's no evidence... whether it's real.
This is an Onion article waiting to get published.
I'm cute on the inside!