![]() Blue Whale: A reported suicide game (Source: Twitter) The tasks were self-harming in nature including carving and cutting oneself making different shapes and writing certain letters, standing on the edge of a bridge, punishing oneself and vowing to become a whale, talking to other ‘whales’, several secret tasks and eventually committing suicide. The curator would assign the players an administrator who would set out 50 tasks spread over 50 days to the participants. Read | Blue Whale challenge: These are the 5 suspected cases in India Although there is no academic endorsement that it can wipe out the Blue Whale challenge or defeat the suicidal tendencies, it seems to be an attempt at handling the issue on a core psychological level. The Pink Whale was started by a publicist and a graphic designer in the wake of the spread of the Blue Whale challenge. Read | What’s the Internet ‘game’ killing young people worldwide? The Pink Whale Challenge sets out daily tasks and has not limited it to the 50 day period of the notorious Blue Whale Challenge. It includes tasks like writing how you would help someone who’s being bullied, smiling at each person that passes you for an entire day, posting on your social media pages with the lines ‘I am beautiful’, learning something new from an internet tutorial, forgiving someone, apologising to someone, talking to someone who doesn’t talk much et al. Unlike the Blue Whale challenge, the Pink Whale’s challenges don’t encourage self harm. We are not a self help group! We just believe that we are all capable of promoting love and good!”ĭaily challenges for participants on the platform encourage goodwill and boosting self confidence and happiness. The challenge was started in April and Baleia Rosa, as it is called, has already set out 107 daily tasks for its participants.ĭescribing the projects aim, the administrators of the verified Facebook page Baleia Rosa (Pink Whale in Portuguese) said, “In order to prove that the internet can be used to viralize the good, the Pink Whale was born. The Pink Whale Challenge ‘encourages positive and generous acts and attempts to bring happiness in the participant’s daily life.’ The idea of the Pink Whale challenge was conceived in Brazil and the Facebook and Instagram pages where the tasks are set out already have over 3,40,000 followers. But this challenge is diametrically opposite to the Blue Whale suicide challenge which has been linked to many deaths. The Pink Whale Challenge is an easily accessible challenge available online that sets out daily tasks for those who participate. Photo reads “Spread the Pink Whale wherever you go. The Pink Whale Challenge sets out daily tasks for participants that aim to spread happiness and positivity.
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