The Blue Whale Challenge

Teacher:

Upper Intermediate

May 6st – 2017

A call to someone to participate in a competitive situation or fight to decide who is

superior in terms of ability or strength.

(the situation of being faced with) something that needs great mental or physical effort in
order to be done successfully and therefore tests a person's ability
The Blue Whale suicide game is believed to be an online social media group which is
encouraging people to kill themselves.

It’s thought a group administrator assigns daily tasks to members, which they have to
complete over 50 days.

The horrific tasks include self-harming, watching horror movies and waking up at unusual
hours, but these gradually get more extreme.

On the 50th day, the controlling manipulators behind the game reportedly instruct the
youngsters to commit suicide.

Blue Whale Challenge, also known as the Blue Whale suicide game, is an online game in
which participants are purportedly assigned a curator who provides various acts of self
harm to be committed over the course of 50 days. On the final day, participants are urged
to win the game by committing suicide. While over 100 teen suicides have reportedly
been linked to the game, no direct evidence has been found.

Investigative newspaper Novaya Gazeta reported: “We have counted 130 suicides of
children that took place between November 2015 to April 2016.

“Almost all these children were members of the same internet groups and lived in good,
happy families.”

Two schoolgirls Yulia Konstantinova, 15, and Veronika Volkova, 16, fell to their deaths
from the roof of a 14-storey apartment block.

Another unnamed 15-year-old girl was also critically injured after falling onto snowy
ground from a fifth floor flat in the city of Krasnoyarsk, also Siberia.

Two days earlier, a 14-year-old girl from Chita was reported to have thrown herself
under a commuter train.

A 13-year-old boy was also saved from killing himself after he was spotted perching on
the edge of a roof in Lviv, Ukraine.

In all cases, state investigators are probing whether the controversial social
media suicide game had influenced the girls to take their own lives.
Yulia left a note saying “End” on her social media page after she posted a picture of a
big blue whale.

A family raced to stop a 15-year-old girl from killing herself, with the young girl
reportedly now recovering in a hospital in Barcelona.

I believe all “the challenge” of game and shelf-harming is silly because you won´t be
best person, also the people of game were minors so they were manipulative.

They would be alive if they don´t have social networks unfortunately social networks site
will grow more if we don´t do something but if we had spoker the blue whale
challenge,they won´t have played the challenge.

I think who ever played this game is sick because I don´t self-harming for game or
challenge, If you don´t fight for you own happiness,you won´t never be happy.

¡DON´T FORGET!
 Yulia Konstantinova
(15) fell to her death in February
2017

Veronika Volkova (16) fell to her death

off a 14-story building

Work cited
Gemma Mullin. CHILLING CHALLENGE What is the Blue Whale suicide challenge,
is it now in the UK and what are police doing to stop it? May 2,2017 THE SUN.co.uk.
May 4,2017.
< https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/3003805/blue-whale-suicide-game-online-victims/>
Adam. BLUE WHALE CHALLENGE May 3,2017 know your meme.com May
4,2017.
< http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/blue-whale-challenge>