虚拟世界及其在很少或根本没有监督的情况下接触到的年轻人正在给家庭和执法机构带来新的心理健康和网络犯罪挑战。互联网(Internet)上漂浮的新蓝鲸挑战敢于游戏(Blue Whale Challenge Dare Game)就是一个很好的例子。据报道，全球有几起自杀事件与这款致命的电子游戏有关。
远离蓝鲸挑战冒险游戏(Blue Whale Challenge Dare Game)
Blue Whale Challenge Dare Game由Philipp Budeikin创建。据报道，这款游戏四年前在俄罗斯首次亮相。(Russia)游戏以各种错误的原因开始成为新闻后不久，西伯利亚一家法院以煽动俄罗斯青年自杀的罪名判处这位 22 岁的俄罗斯游戏创作者三年有期徒刑。创作者承认了杀戮，但对事件并不十分抱歉，迫使法官怀疑他的理智。
以下是他在接受圣彼得堡新闻(Saint Petersburg News)采访时为自己辩护时所说的话——
There are people – and there is a biological waste. Those who do not represent any value for society. Who cause or will cause only harm to society. I was cleaning our society of such people.
更令人担忧的是什么？他声称这款游戏直接影响了100 多人的死亡(100 deaths)，更多的人准备结束自己的生命。
开发者的学术和家庭背景——Budeikin已经完成了三年的音响工程和心理学课程，直到被开除。他的童年似乎并不值得，因为他是躁郁症，在他成长的过程中，他的母亲和哥哥打了他。正是这种敌意的对待，让他完全变了一个人。
蓝鲸挑战敢于游戏(Blue Whale Challenge Dare Game)如何 运作
Blue Whale Challenge不是可以下载的应用程序，也不是可以安装在计算机上的游戏。这是一种已经扎根的社交媒体现象。
该游戏的名字来源于游戏中第一个令人不安的挑战，玩家被要求在一张纸上(paper)画出一条蓝鲸(draw a blue whale)，然后将其刻在他们的身上(body)。其他任务包括独自看恐怖电影(horror movies)或伤害自己(harming oneself)。
主要目标受众(main target audience)是通过“蓝鲸挑战”游戏在线联系的易受影响的青少年。一旦参与，群组的创建者不允许参与者离开。
第二步(second step)涉及向社区介绍自己并在开始游戏之前执行与游戏相关的任务，例如在线观看血腥和令人沮丧的内容。
所有玩家都有50 天(50 days)的期限来完成50 项任务(50 tasks)。游戏从相当简单的任务开始，例如凌晨 4:20起床(getting up early)，在纸上画一条鲸鱼，正如前面提到的最可怕的那些（自杀）。它也标志着所有 50 次挑战的结束。
50 天规则如下所示：
- 永远不要与任何人分享有关此游戏的任何信息
- 每天凌晨 4 点 20 分起床
- 每天听推荐的歌曲和恐怖电影。
- 切(Cut)自己。（不同的日子，不同的剪辑）
游戏要求对每个任务进行拍照或录像，以提供完成和真实性的证明(furnish the proof)。Instagram 上(Instagram)有数以千计的与病态趋势相关的帖子。关于蓝鲸挑战Dare Game(Blue Whale Challenge Dare Game)流行的谣言已经存在了很长一段时间，但直到现在，这种威胁才出现了上升趋势并被多方面升级。
小心这个游戏！
有几个人在玩这个游戏时死亡或自杀。印度青年是这场致命游戏的最新目标。居住在孟买(Mumbai)郊区的一名 9 年级学生最近自杀。据称这名男孩曾与他的朋友讨论过这个游戏，他们最初并不关心这个游戏，直到他谈到自杀。他甚至表达了不再来学校的愿望。这位 14 岁的少年在自杀前告诉他的朋友，他说——
I am going to the building to jump.
片刻之后，他从一栋大楼的五楼跳下。正在进行调查以确定死亡与游戏之间的联系。
综上所述，蓝鲸(Blue Whale)不是游戏，而是杀戮任务，教唆人们通过自愿、故意自杀的方式犯罪。因此，需要立即采取行动制止这种“游戏”的传播。
生活在农村地区的人们对这种攻击有些免疫，因为他们的生活方式与城市地区完全不同。在城市地区，父母对孩子的控制似乎较少。
因此，您必须教育您的孩子远离这种游戏。(It is therefore imperative that you educate your children to stay away from this game.)
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What is Blue Whale Challenge Dare Game
The virtυal world and its exposure tо young minds under little or no supеrvision are throwing new mental health and cyber-crime challenges for families and law enforcemеnt agencies. The new Blue Whale Challenge Dare Game floating on the Internet is a case in point. Several suicides worldwide have been reportedly linked to the deadly video game.
Stay away from the Blue Whale Challenge Dare Game
Blue Whale Challenge Dare Game has been created by Philipp Budeikin. The game reportedly debuted in Russia four years ago. Soon after the game started making news for all wrong reasons, a Siberian court sentenced the 22-year-old Russian creator of the game to three years in jail for inciting Russian youths to kill themselves. The creator acknowledged the killings but wasn’t quite apologetic about incident, forcing the judge to doubt his sanity.
Here’s what he had to say in his defense during the interview with Saint Petersburg News –
There are people – and there is a biological waste. Those who do not represent any value for society. Who cause or will cause only harm to society. I was cleaning our society of such people.
What’s more worrying? He claimed the game directly influenced over 100 deaths and more people were ready to end their lives.
The developer’s academic and family background – Budeikin had completed courses in sound engineering and psychology for three years until he was expelled. His childhood didn’t seem to be quite worthwhile as he was bipolar and his mother and older brother hit him while he was growing up. It was this hostile treatment that transformed him into a different person altogether.
How Blue Whale Challenge Dare Game works
Blue Whale Challenge is not an app you can download or a game that you can install on your computer. It is a social media phenomenon that has taken root.
The game derives its name from one of the first disturbing challenges of the game, where players are asked to draw a blue whale on a piece of paper, and then carve the same onto their body. Other tasks include watching horror movies alone or harming oneself.
The main target audience is impressionable teenagers contacted online through ‘The Blue Whale Challenge’ game. Once participated, the creators of the group do not allow participants to leave.
The second step involves introducing oneself to the community and performing game related tasks like watching gory and depressing content online, before starting the game.
All players are given the deadline of 50 days to complete the 50 tasks. The game begins with fairly simple tasks like getting up early in the morning at 4:20, drawing a whale on paper, as mentioned earlier to the most horrific ones (suicide). It also marks the end of all 50 dares.
The 50 days rules appear something like this:
- Never share anything about this game with anyone
- Wake up at 4:20 AM every day
- Listen to the recommended songs and horror movies, every day.
- Cut yourself. (Different day, different cuts)
The game requires photographing or video graph every task, so as to furnish the proof of completion and authenticity. There are thousands of posts relating to the sick trend on Instagram. Rumors about Blue Whale Challenge Dare Game prevalence existed for quite some time, but it’s only now that the menace has witnessed an upward trend and has been escalated by manifolds.
Beware of this game!
Several have died or killed themselves playing this game. The Indian youths were the latest targets of this deadly game. A class 9 student living in the Mumbai suburb recently committed suicide. The boy had allegedly discussed the game with his friends, who weren’t initially concerned about the game until he talked about suicide. He even expressed his desire of not coming to school anymore. The 14-year-old before committing suicide informed his friend, saying-
I am going to the building to jump.
Moments later he jumped off the fifth floor of a building. Investigations are underway to ascertain the link between the death and the game.
From the above, it’s starkly clear that Blue Whale is not a game but a killing mission, abetting people to commit a crime by taking one’s own life voluntarily and intentionally. As such, it warrants immediate action to stop the spread of such a “game”.
People, living in rural areas are somewhat immune to this attack as they have a lifestyle quite different from the urban regions. In urban areas parents seem to have less control over their children.
It is therefore imperative that you educate your children to stay away from this game.
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