Ecuador: Police Issue Alert For Children Regarding Blue Whale Game

ELUNIVERSO.COM (machine translated) reported the Ecuadorian Police last night launched a campaign aimed at parents to prevent their children and teenagers from falling into what is known as the ‘Blue Whale’ game.

“Remember that your life is not a game.” #NoJuegoLaBallenaAzul. “Speak,” wrote the police, hanging a warning in which he asks the parents to be alert.

But, what is the so-called Blue Whale game? The game “Blue Whale” is a sinister challenge that invites children and adolescents to surpass 50 tests, one per day, such as marathons of several days without sleep watching horror movies; Self-injury by tattooing a whale with a knife on the skin or looking for a skyscraper to launch itself, as with each level the difficulty increases until the suicide.

According to the Russian media Siberian Times, this macabre challenge began in Russia, especially in the social network Vkontakte (Vk) and that could have caused more than 130 suicides among adolescents who practiced it.

The phenomenon spread rapidly through the internet and social networks. The BBC reports that there are groups in Spanish that have more than 15,000 members, but also in English, Portuguese, French, Russian and other languages, on Facebook as well as YouTube, Twitter and other social networks.

In Mexico, Colombia and Brazil there is already research on possible suicides of adolescents caused by this game.

In Colombia, the suicide of three minors in mid-April has been linked to this phenomenon. Yesterday, Colombian police reported a red circular from Interpol to find the leaders of these challenges leading to death.

In Ecuador there are no reports of deaths caused by practicing this game, however, the Ecuadorian Police has already alerted on the issue in their social networks. Read Article

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