Most Controversial Game of 2017

There were many controversies in this year 2017 which may be considered not so new to most of people. But if we say a game that had created a controversy might seems to be weird but, its a truth.

The year 2017 will always be remembered for the Contrastial app. From Google this year, the Indian government banned many Chinese apps. The applications which were banned or deleted were accused of stealing user data. With this, this year the discussion of the Controversial Game Blue Whale continued to be consistent. It is said that many users playing this game have suicides. Here we are talking about similar applications and contraverses of the year.

Perhaps the name of the blue whale game you have heard many times in a year. It was such a game that more than 250 people had suecided around the world. This game was not on the Google Play Store, but it could be installed with the help of an APK file. There are several websites that setup an app's APK format.However, the Android operating system does not allow them to be installed. Even after this, the user changed the phone's settings and installed the game in the phone. This game user was given some tasks daily and asked to suicide in the last task.

About Blue Whale Game:

The Blue Whale Game, also “Blue Whale Challenge”, is an Internet “game” that is claimed to exist in several countries.The game allegedly consists of a series of tasks assigned to players by administrators during a 50-day period, with the final challenge requiring the player to commit suicide.The term “Blue Whale” comes from the phenomenon of beached whales, which is linked to suicide.Blue Whale began in Russia in 2013 with “F57”, one of the names of the so-called “death group” of the VKontakte social network, and allegedly caused its first suicide in 2015. Philipp Budeikin, a former psychology student who was expelled from his university, claimed that he invented the game. Budeikin stated that his purpose was to “clean” the society by pushing to suicide those he deemed as having no value.In Russia in 2016, Blue Whale came into broader use among teenagers after a journalist brought attention to it through an article that linked many unrelated suicide victims to the Blue Whale, creating a wave of moral panic in Russia.Later, Budeikin was arrested and pled guilty to “inciting at least 16 teenage girls to commit suicide”, leading to Russian suicide prevention legislation and renewed world-wide concern over the Blue Whale phenomenon.It has also been linked to other rising self-harm trends, such as “human embroidery” in China.

Source: Bhaskar, iasabhiyan