Representational image | Photo: iStockThiruvananthapuram: India leads globally in Google search for information on the lethal Blue Whale Challenge. Among Indian states, Kerala takes the top slot. The leap in search followed after reports said that a youth's suicide in Thiruvananthapuram several weeks ago was prompted by the Internet game.
The search score on Google until August 13 was 53, but by 15th it leaped to 100. Among the most trending topics that people discussed, all nine key words of the first 30 on the list were about how to play the Blue Whale.
What is Blue Whale Challenge?
'Blue Whale Challenge' is a controversial Internet game in which a series of tasks, mostly brutal, are given to players for a period of 50 days by the administrators with a final challenge requiring them to commit suicide. The player is asked to share photos after finishing the different levels of the game. The game is spread via links on social media platforms.
The government on August 11 had directed Internet majors - Google, Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram, Microsoft and Yahoo - to immediately remove the links to dangerous online game Blue Whale Challenge, which has led to some cases of suicide of children in India and other countries.
Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan hailed the Cent re's decision to regulate the 'Blue Whale Challenge' game and urged people to alert authorities about the existence of related links and hashtags in cyberspace.
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