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| “ | There are people – and there is biological waste. Those who do not represent any value for society. Who cause or will cause only harm to society. I was cleaning our society of such people. | „ |
| ~ Philipp Budeikin |
Philipp Budeikin is the creator of the Blue Whale Challenge, a suicide game which consists of a series of tasks assigned to players by administrators over a 50-day period, initially innocuous before introducing elements of self-harm, and the final challenge requiring the player to commit suicide.
History
Philipp was a former psychology student who was expelled from his university. He claimed that he invented the Blue Whale game in 2013. He said his intention was to cleanse society by pushing persons to suicide whom he deemed as having no value.
Although originally claiming innocence and stating he was "just having fun", Budeikin was arrested and held in Kresty Prison, Saint Petersburg, and in May 2016 pled guilty to "inciting at least 16 teenage girls to commit suicide". He was later convicted on two counts of inciting suicide of a minor.