In Russia, a wave of suicides among teenagers swept through, which also reached Ukraine. Blame the game "Blue Whale" in social networks - who killed himself, he won. This is not a new form of self-indulgence and not a spontaneous fashion for death, but a purposeful campaign using a professional methodology. It is noteworthy that the point of distribution of the suicidal game "Blue Whale" was the Russian social network VK, which is under full control of the FSB.
The rules of the game "Blue Whale". The name of the game is not chosen by chance - blue whales sometimes commit acts of suicide, just throwing themselves ashore. The scheme of the game is simple: the user publishes in any of the "death groups" any of the hashtags # yavigra, # want the game, # bluekit, # f57, # seaquets, #. , Then he contacts him. "curator". The child is explained the conditions of the game - every day to wake up at 4:20 am (thus loosening the psyche and weakening willpower) and carry out the task, providing a photo or video report.
The tasks themselves provide for pressure on the psychoemotional state - all day watching horror films or listening to depressive music. In addition, there are tasks to inflict physical pain - for example, to make cuts on the arm with a blade. If a person is ready to use physical pain, then he is ready for the next step. The child is asked to run to the car or climb the tap, which subsequently dulls the sense of fear. The last 50th task involves suicide, which is already easy to decide after a psychological zombie.
And, even the adequate children from adequate families do not have immunity to the game. After all, getting out of the game is not so easy. Tasks provide for navigation through links, through which the "curator" learns the location (IP address). And if the child hesitates or wants to give a back, the "curator" blackmails the threat to punish the family's relatives and friends. Therefore, naive children with a fragile psyche are hooked and under pain of life threatening to their parents go on about the "curator".
The role of the FSB in the game "Blue Whale" is to watch and guide in the right direction. Obviously, the "death groups" themselves developed and recruited thousands of subscribers without the involvement of any special services. But the FSB kept them under surveillance and control all this time. This is a real experiment - to bring a person to suicide via the Internet. Moreover, the stigma of the FSB in the gun. After all, the "curators" in the game that manipulate teenagers are also teenagers or ordinary users who like to feel power over others.
However, the FSB not only watched the development of the game "Blue Whale", but also interfered in the popularization of the game. In March 2017, SMS was sent to millions of phones of Russians that allegedly preparing a mass suicide of children due to the game "Blue Whale", so please do not let the children on a holiday from home. In addition to the FSB, no one has such opportunities for SMS messages on such a scale. At the same time, panic messages were spread in social networks.
Screenshot of the spread of fake about the forthcoming mass suicide of children "It is not recommended this Sunday to let go of a child - NIKUDA - even to a neighboring entrance, shop, to a friend and t. Agree, excellent testing of social engineering tools, for example, to suppress a protest against the authorities on the right day.
Also in early March, the theme of "Blue Whale" was inflated on television, dedicating a number of programs to the channels controlled by the Kremlin. For example, on the "First Channel": "Male / Female - Caution: Blue Whale!" (Part 1, Part 2), "Catch the Blue Whale!" Time will show ".
Even Vladimir Putin personally participated in the information campaign on the promotion of the "Blue Whale". All propaganda federal television channels in their news reports linked Putin's speech with this game.
"Criminals, otherwise they will not be called (you could call it if it were not for a public speech), but they are at least criminals, first of all they are aimed at teenagers and youth audiences, children with fragile mentality or in a difficult life situation. In this regard, I support the initiative of the deputies of the State Duma to supplement the legislation with the norm that extends the list of actions under which criminal responsibility for bringing to suicide occurs, "- Vladimir Putin, March 9, 2017.
The motives of the FSB - what is the use of the Kremlin from the game "Blue Whale". If the Russian government really wanted to fight a dangerous game, it would not have made it an advertisement, but silently shut down all the "death groups" by Roskomnadzor and promptly punished all the administrators of these groups. Instead, the "Blue Whale" was given the most publicity and attracted to the risky game even more children who did not know about it before that. This goes into resonance with all the rules of dealing with such phenomena and is a classic example of a self-fulfilling prophecy.
But the output received an excellent topic for discussion for a long time, distracting from all sorts of socio-economic problems. In addition, now we can safely explain the record increase in suicides in Russia (in 2016 - by almost 60%), not pessimism due to the grayness and "poverty" of today's Russia, and write off everything for the damned games in social networks. Finally, they prepared the society for bans on disagreeable hashtags and groups in social networks that want to overthrow Putin's regime.
Who is to blame for the suicides of Russians, according to the Russians? Naturally, the Ukrainians.
"Someone bought almost a thousand Ukrainian bots to stimulate attention to the game," - director of the Center for Studies of the legitimacy of political protest, Yevgeny Venediktov.
"Many accounts that I met in this story are related to Ukrainian nationalism," - Anton Yelizarov, Internet Marketing Manager of Megafon.
Life News did not surprise at all and released an article with a predictable title "Blue-Yellow Whale. Deadly tasks for teenagers were given from Ukraine ". It turns out a beautiful story - first the junta crucified Russian-speaking babies in panties, and now through the Internet makes Russian-speaking children jump from high-rise buildings.
What the author of the book about the game "Blue Whale". While in Russia they unsuccessfully search for the "Ukrainian trace", the Russians themselves see the sticking ears of their own special services. Vasily Beltsev wrote the book "The Blue Whale: Hunting for Hunters", which shows that the main reason for the popularity of the game in Russia was an unhealthy Russian society, playing in hybrid wars and propaganda of the cult of murder.
I managed to contact Beltsev on Facebook and ask him questions about the involvement of the FSB in the game "Blue Whale".
Screenshot of correspondence with Vasily Beltsev According to the author of the book about the game, the FSB did not create a "death group" directly, but watched them and studied "curators" - persons who can organize violence and terror.
Screenshot of correspondence with Vasily Beltsev Remembered Beltsev and the administrator of a "death group", known under the pseudonym Philippe Lis (Philippe Budeikin), to whom in Russia they wrote off all the sins of bringing to suicide. Although it is absolutely clear that this 21-year-old guy is just a pawn in the system.
Screenshot of correspondence with Vasily Beltsev The history of the project "Blue Whale" in VK - just one of many confirmations that Russian social networks threatened the information security of Ukraine.
And if the Russian special services want to put experiments on users of social networks, let them do it over their own citizens in their own country. Ukraine thanks to the pressure of society and the president's decree on sanctions against Russian social networks and services has already saved thousands of children from deadly "games" in Russian social networks.
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