It Was Astonishingly Alarming

According to Major-General Moshkov, although the Blue Whale game was probably the leading suicide game online, it wasn’t the only one. His department was able to find ‘a total of 1,339 online suicide groups’ in the year 2017 alone. And as if that wasn’t scary enough, there were over 12,000 people accessing them, as well as ‘over 200,000 posts’ about the games alone.

Russia Was In A Panic

Sadly, although the game only started in 2016 and began gaining notoriety in 2017, there have been hundreds of Russian teenagers who have committed suicide precisely because of this Blue Whale game. It was becoming an epidemic, and parents had the right to be fearful that their kids were going to join the bandwagon.