How To Find The Blue Whale Game

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AUGUST 15, 2017 6:00 PM

Since I first wrote about the Blue Whale game, I’ve been asked many times if I can provide a link to the game’s website or tell people where they can download the game for their smartphone.

In case you’re unaware, Blue Whale is a sinister game which preys on vulnerable teens and encourages them to take part in a series of sick challenges spread out over fifty days. As part of the game the player can be asked to do anything from wake at odd times of day to performing acts of self harm.

These daily challenges are nothing compared to the game’s conclusion when the player is convinced to commit suicide, often they are told that there will be consequences if they back out. Despite this, many people have been trying to track down the game, and the list of fifty dares. They’re not trying to find it because they’re feeling suicidal or intend to obey the rules of the game and complete the tasks, but because they want to learn more about it, as well as troll and expose those behind it.

Those wanting to play might find that it’s not quite as simple to track down the game as they might think. Many people expect the game to be available as an APK file which would run on a phone, there are loads of teens searching for things like “wake up at 4:20am game download” in Google. Others seem to think its some kind of flash game that can be played on a website. Some are trying to hunt down a public group on a social media website like Facebook or more commonly, Vkontakte.

But you can’t just go to VK.com/blue-whale or grab the app from your favourite app store. There is no “game” as such, players were previously sought out through “death groups” on the social media website, VK.com. VK is a popular social network in Russia and death groups are communities where likeminded Russian teens come together online to discuss suicide, admins of these groups often glamourise suicide in order to increase the number of members of their group.

It’s claimed that members of these groups are approached by Blue Whale “curators” and the tasks are handed out to them in direct messages through VK’s private messaging tool. These private chats are always initiated by the curator, usually a player isn’t able to contact a Blue Whale curator directly themselves.

Of course as the game originated in Russian groups and was run by Russian curators, the conversations between players and curators were carried out in Russian and to date the only list of challenges published online has been in Russian.

Blue Whale Challenge – List Of Tasks & The Truth Behind The Game

Rumoured deadly suicide game originated in Russia
Russia has not been able to confirm that the game is linked to 130 teen deaths
There have been no reports of the game being played or existing outside of Russia
One Argentinian teenaged boy who claimed he was playing Blue Whale took his own life

What Is The Blue Whale Game?

It’s described as a game, but the Blue Whale Challenge is far from a game. Young teens who accept the challenge are encouraged to complete a series of tasks which get more and more sinister and at the end of the game the player is urged to take their own life in order to “win.”

The Blue Whale suicide game goes by many names including ‘A Silent House,’ ‘A Sea Of Whales’ and ‘Wake Me Up At 4:20am.’ It takes 50 days to complete and is played primarily via the website VKontakte, which is a popular social network in Russia. It gets its name from a common belief that blue whales voluntarily beach themselves in order to end their own lives.

The game is attracting teens as young as 12-years-old in Russia and Central Asian countries but recent reports suggest the game could be spreading across Europe and into the UK. The game has been blamed by the Russian media as the reason why 80 to 130 children committed suicide between November 2015 and April 2016.

How To Play The Blue Whale Challenge

The game’s administrators or curator find players through “death groups” or “suicide groups” set up on VK.com (VKontakte). Police in Russia have shut down several of these groups in recent years but say that as soon as one is shut down, another starts up and this has driven them underground.

Once you’ve been accepted by an administrator, you are given your first of 50 daily challenges, these can be anything from simple tasks like listening to a certain song, watching unsettling videos and waking up at odd times to much more extreme requests like cutting words or whale symbols into your skin. The first challenge usually comes at 4:20am. Every time you accomplish a task, you must provide photographic or video proof of completion to the admin.

A journalist working at Radio Free Europe created an account on VK, posing as a 15-year-girl they attempted to join the Blue Whale game. After making contact with a curator they were given their first task, which involved deliberate self-harm.

The transcript of their conversation with the administrator is below…

Player: I want to play the game.

Administrator: Are you sure? There’s no way back.

Player: Yes. What does that mean? There’s no way back?

Administrator: You can’t leave the game once you begin.

Player: I’m ready.

Administrator: Carry out each task diligently and no one must know about it. When you finish the task, you send me a photo. At the end of the game, you die. Are you ready?

Player: And if I wanna get out?

Administrator: I have all your information, they will come after you.

Best Keyword Research Tools For SEO: 2017 Edition

Keywords are one of the most critical and important parts of SEO. We have already discussed this in detail here.

The basic foundation of SEO is keyword research.

Afterward, other factors like on-page optimization, quality of content, a good site UI, and some other factors come into the picture.

Many companies invest thousands of dollars to pay for keyword research to get such targeted content.

But you don’t need to do that. Just follow this guide…

The keywords you choose to focus on for your search engine optimization (SEO) efforts are critical to the success of your website’s rank.

Choosing the right keywords isn’t always easy or intuitive and you need a lot of data to know whether a given keyword will work for you.

If you are completely new to keyword research tools and the process of keyword research, here are some guides from the past which will help you understand the basics:

• Importance of Keywords in SEO
• Keyword Research for Beginner’s Using the Google Keyword Planner Tool

So now you know the basics of keyword research and you have an understanding of how valuable it can be.

Fortunately, there are many tools available that can help you figure out which keywords work the best for your overall web strategy. There are mostly two types of Keyword research tool:

1. Basic Keyword research: Use the seed Keyword to find profitable Keywords
2. Competitor based Keyword research: Find proven keywords which are helping other sites to drive traffic.

Personally, I find Competitor based Keyword research to be more effective as the purpose of the Keyword research is to find profitable Keywords. What could be more profitable than something which is already working for someone?

All you need to do after that is to create a page targeting that profitable keyword & reap the benefit of keyword research.

In this exclusive guide, I have covered both the type of Keywords. Most of these keyword research tools are paid and only a few of them are free.

Here are the list of tools listed below:

1. Google Keyword planner
2. SEMRUSH  (Have given a link below to try SEMRUSH for 15 days without paying a dime)
3. Ahrefs (Offers 14 days trial)
4. LongTailPro
5. KWFinder (Have free plan as well)
6. SpyFU
7. WordTracker
8. SERPStat

11 Free Features Of Paid SEO Tools Every Marketer Should Know About

Today’s market is crowded with dozens of SEO tools for every taste and budget.

Experienced marketers and big companies usually prefer paid all-in-one platforms. They are quick and handy. They include a variety of tools to keep and manage all projects in one place. They offer a 24/7 worry-free support system and a detailed help center documentation.

Unfortunately, you need to pay for these services, and a lot of times, these plans cost hundreds of dollars.

But there’s good news. A lot of paid platforms include free or freemium tools and features. Some of them only require you to create an account, and others are free to use but come with certain restrictions.

These professional tools can still be helpful if you’re new to SEO, work with small projects, or simply don’t want to buy any expensive plans.

Let’s take a look at some of the best freemium SEO tools.

 

11 Free Features Of Paid SEO Programs

1) Screaming Frog

Screaming Frog’s SEO Log File Analyzer and SEO Spider are free to download and use.

Screaming Frog is an ultimate solution for a website’s technical SEO audit. The program crawls and scans a website’s links, images, and codes to collect valuable SEO insights and provide detailed reports.

The free version allows you to track up to 1,000 log lines and up to 500 website URLs, but doesn’t include customer support.

But the program is super easy-to-use and its limited options are enough for small and medium-sized projects.

11 Quick Things To Do To Attain Blogging Success

1. Start Building an Email List

Let me be blunt:

If as a marketer in 2017 you’re not yet building your own email list, you’re a comedian.

And you’re greatly missing out on many good things.

Having an active email list is a good way to drive repeat visitors to your website without depending much on other external traffic sources, especially when your blog is relatively new (I’m sure you’ve read much about this before).

Follow these easy steps to start building your email list in minutes:

• Sign up for an email marketing service like Convertkit or  Aweber
• Create an email form to capture email on your blog
• Design an optin form and put it in all the strategic places on your blog.
• Create a lead magnet and offer it to the people that join your list (this will help entice more people to give you their email address).

Don’t waste any more time, and start building a list right away. The earlier you start, the more your list will grow, and the more traffic and customers you’ll start driving to your site.