Netflix is now running a series called “Thirteen Reasons Why,” which details a girl’s suicide. Parents are understandably concerned that the series glamorizes suicide, and counselors are worried that it may incite copycat behavior.
On the other side of the Big Pond, however, Europeans are dealing with something that may be more sinister. It’s called the “Blue Whale Challenge,” and reports about it make “Thirteen Reasons” look like an After-School Special. Here’s how it works:
Moreover, reports say that over 100 teens have killed themselves through this game. That’s frightening.
One teenage girl described her experience:
‘It was middle of a night, my alarm rang, I woke up and got straight to my phone.
‘I had to watch videos with pictures flicking every two seconds of teenagers jumping off roofs, close ups of bodies, bloodied mouths, pools of blood under bodies.
‘It was accompanied by very unpleasant, haunting music with screams of animals and pets, and cries like children were being tortured.
‘I felt so awful after watching them I wanted to do something physical to either myself or somebody, to kill, to destroy.’
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