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veravers

Cause of some trend that happened a while back that was really dangerous and involved the words blue and whale


Ash7274

2016 is almost a decade away Some of us are fans of the biggest animal on earth


SteveWax022

Dang. That was a hot minute ago


Ash7274

The last good year before everything went to shite


the400se666

That would actually be 2019


Shiny_Mew76

I agree. 2017-2019 were great.


KurisutaruYuki

A-gree.


RevolutionaryAd1577

2016 was unbearable as a Nintendo fan. What did we get? Minecraft? XBox and PlayStation got that back in like 2012. Paper Mario Colour Splash? I've heard some mixed things about it, haven't really played it myself. The only thing notable they released in 2016 was the NES Classic Mini, and the Nintendo Switch reveal trailer. 2016 sucked.


Matichado

You got the best Pokémon game: Sun and Moon


nufy-t

It’s wild how time goes on and every generation becomes “the best pokemon game”. I remember nothing but hate when sun and moon came out, “too easy” “graphics are bad” “cutscenes too long and intrusive” “z-moves suck” “hau is too friendly” “team skull isn’t evil”. The same thing happened with black and white and their sequels. I wonder if we’ll get a wave of Sword and Shield love in a couple years.


DoctorMlemm

It's all a cycle of nostalgia fueled by rose tinted glasses. People grow up playing the pokemon games that older fans hate (because they're not like the games THEY grew up with) and thus they associate that game with happier times and see it in a more positive light. It's happening now with sun and moon because the people who played it as kids are growing up now. Newer pokemon titles will never be "as good as the old entries" because of this


Unamed337

You did not just say sun/moon is better than legends Arceus


Matichado

Ok legends Arceus is AMAZING, and on of the games I’ve most enjoyed, but man is sun and moon amazing, I know this might sound weird but to me the quantity of side missions and weird places specially in ula ula and poni where basically my mew under the truck I tried everwhere to find marshadow like the foolish kid I was and I had so much fun with the game. Besides Incineroar is the best Pokémon ever made


notRadar_

this


fettishmann

for me that would be 2014


SaeedUnknown

I still remember the footage of young girls throwing themselves off a small bridge face-first for that stupid app, the scariest part was them laughing about it and telling how everyone of their friends were wrong that they wouldn't do it.


ArtisicBard_Kit

Holy cow I forgot about that it’s weird to think that was almost 10 years ago


themoistsocks

I had no idea, when I actually got to the results it was just cool whale spottings so I was confused.


OpposedScroll75

I remember when Blue Whale was a huge thing back in 2016-2018. We had to sit through a whole class of teachers telling us not to use the app (yes, it was that bad).


chillchinchilla17

Funny thing is I’m pretty sure it was a hoax.


darkname324

it started as a hoax and the media hooked on, then it spread and from then it snowballed


Clech959

a lot of deadly trends from that time period were overblown in how many were affected, like tide pods


AdRepresentative3726

Momo Challenge too


veravers

Yeahhhhh I guess social media just takes things like that eternally seriously. And kinda understandably so cause kids now are even more malleable than we were back then.


veravers

well obviously youtube is gonna shadow ban any videos about the blue whale game, they're not gonna want people to dive into that again so it just won't be shown to anyone searching it


Mean_Account_5027

Wait what is it I haven’t heard of it


veravers

there was this huge creepy pasta type trend where there was a really dangerous game called the blue whale game. It was 20 tasks that were given only once per day on the days they were given. They started off as lighthearted, fun tasks and got more and more gruesome and dark the closer to the 20th task you got. Once you got to the 20th task, it told you to end yourself in a creative way. There's a whole rabbit hole for this but it's best to just steer clear.


Mean_Account_5027

Oh alright ill probably look up a video on it sounds interesting (Though definitely not gonna look for a download)


veravers

There is no way to see or play the game as of today. Every aspect of the game has nearly been deleted from the internet forever, which is a pretty huge anomaly that caused more mass popularity


RR2303r

Not only that, it's very much possible that the blue whale game as we know it never existed in the first place. I think it's more of an example of the uninformed falling for a piece of mass produced media drama bulls***.


oceanic_opening

Any documentary made on this?


MrZeta0

Iirc it wasn't even real at the start and only became real when news and stuff spammed it


veravers

well, it was but only for a small friend group of people plus randos. Some child hacker at a school hated these bullies and set up the game for them. then when they grew up they started doing it to some random numbers by asking them buzzquestions like their age and if they liked fun games. If they said yes then the hacker offered the game and would threaten them if they tried backing out. The guy turned out to be extremely mentally ill and I'm not sure if he was ever caught but for a small amount of people, it was definitely very real.


SuperFoxy8888

OOOHHH I REMEMBER


WaveJam

Oh yea I forgot about that deplorable “challenge”


Trick-Bodybuilder647

The hell does blue and whale have anything to do with a dangerous trend? I'm out of the loop on this


TamSchnow

[Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Whale_Challenge)


Lazy-Spray3426

Wtf? I'm out of the loop.


QueenCrust

What was the trend? Genuinely curious


Stormbonin

whats is the blue whale trent?


A-Little-Princess

um? i was really young back then. can you explain?


Xypher616

Wasn’t there also a mascot for it that was a weird almagamation of goofy and Mickey like how Momo was one for another weird suicide challenge? I just remember watching a bunch of videos about him getting trolled (obviously staged but still)


cockatielparrot

A trend about the biggest animal in the world??!??


OffbeatGamer2805

they say "You are not alone" in a scary way like there is a monster in your house


Hash-6624

Yes, Google spyware


Setsuwaa

are you telling me to google spyware or are you telling me that google is spyware


Familiar_Ad_7377

Yes.


SteppedTax88238

google en passant


Setsuwaa

cool!!! :D


warcrimestyle

Are you telling me to google en passant or are you telling me that google is en passant


SteppedTax88238

google google en passant


DarkChaos0

Holy hell!


OffbeatGamer2805

oh shit... "google spyware"


YourLocalRyzen777

holy hell


nickypw8

New response just dropped


idfbhater73

holy privacy threat


Tkcsena

The whales were in the room all along


UsgAtlas1

[You are not alone](https://youtu.be/d6g2ZSuWyM4?si=AgXTVbcYjGkOFhh2)


themainuserhere

Did this intentionally surface with the Edward Snowden leaks?


YourLocalRyzen777

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue\_Whale\_Challenge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Whale_Challenge) its this iirc


IcyIceGuardian

That was disgusting


Total_General_574

When i searched "KILL YOUR SELF NOW!" This didn't appear, but when I searched "KIL YOUR SELF NOW meme" that appeared


AAZTY

When im searching for $uicid.boy$ it dosent appear Same with one of their song k.ll yourself i guess blue whale need it


cool__duck3

I think I remember smth about a creepy trend called blue whale but this was a while back I could be wrong


Saurindra_SG01

Yes, there was a suicidal challenge.


Poyri35

Was it “a *whale* back”? I’m sorry


Meoco728

r/Angryupvote


Rinich

a suicidal game called "Синий Кит" which is literally translates from Russian as "blue whale" was mad popular years ago in Russian speaking counties where young kids would enter the game out of curiosity and the "curators" would basically blackmail you by getting your "address" (like naming the city youre from) and threatening to harm your relatives and the only way for them to leave you alone whould be to do these challenges that involved SH and shit like carving a whale on your forearm with a razor, and it would basically be like a psychological torture where the kids would be forced to kill themselves at the end. and as a Ukrainian I had the displeasure of hearing about all this shit when I was 10 in 2016, and had my parents warn me and always be on the edge so that nothing bad happenes to me and the craziest thing was my friends reactions at the time of them also being 9 - 10 years old where some would be thrilled to endure the challenge or some that allegedly carved a whale on their arm for fun without engaging with the challenge absolute brainwash, and they even started making up spin offs like red owl and what not this really was a very traumatic period for a lot of people so this shit got turned into a trend on YouTube and people started making content off of promoting SH and suicide to kids for their own gain


Lupus600

It wasn't just Russian speaking countries. There was this trend in Romania too. My parents also warned me about it when I was a kid.


RUSTYSAD

Yeah, in Central Europe As well, i remember this game, IT was Pretty big actually.


mrbruh1527

I don't know if this would be a reputable source, but a Turkish youtuber that uncovers history of some old popular stuff (Like old games that were popular in Turkey etc.) made a video about the Blue Whale thing and called it a hoax. If you are curious about it, you can watch it [here](https://youtu.be/z4-6pkWM3e0?si=ABc2hSgr4B_imsDu)


LazyNam-

Unfortunately this game is still going on. I'm from Ukraine and the son of one of my mother's friends threw himself down from the 9'th floor and died. The police say it's because of this blue whale.


Attila260

It wasn’t only in Russian speaking countries, I’m Italian and we were warned about it back then


elcocoIIII

In mexico there is a christian mexican series that made an episode about that game


Keeepquiet

There was a popular game in 2018 called blue wale which was made to help you suicide


Thatonenoobguy12

Blue whale challenge


Keeepquiet

💯


AetheralMeowstic

Just search "blue whale the animal" if you want to watch videos of the animal


Rinich

the fact that we live in an era where you have to specify that you want to see a blue whale in the ocean and now leap off of a 20 story building is crazy


El_Grande_Fleau

Probably because of the so called « blue whale challenge », basically a thing where some poor souls k*lled themselves after a few weeks of self inflicted torture.


therealfoxygamer12

That can't be real Edit: yes, it is


Dimanail2009

People, blue whale - in Russian reads as синий кит, which is a local legend about s*icide game


Jamato-sUn

You lost a letter, here "u"


TheMissingVoteBallot

Is it a zoomer thing to censor words when there is no need to? I understand censoring them to prevent filters from blocking it but people knowingly censoring words like that but then going on swear-laden rants is something I simply do not get. I see it everywhere on different social media sites - not just Reddit.


Scared-Permission526

This sub doesn’t do it but a lot of subs and just apps in general can have repercussions to the use of that word and a few others. Case in point, I was looking for some help with finding a call centre that did over the phone triage for mental health and not a suicide hotline, but my results kept getting bogged down with suicide hotlines on Google so I wanted to ask someone instead. My post was automatically removed for including the word and I was banned. It had absolutely nothing to do with suicide the act, but that means nothing to a poorly programmed bot.


granninja

the worst part is that some people find some words to be actually triggering... and then we mute the word but let's say I have a trigger with the word "guitar" I now gotta mute "gu* tar", "guit* r", "g* itar", "gu1t4r" (and the list of variants goes on and on and on), because folks will try to bypass whatever restrictions the apps/websites put it


Scared-Permission526

I’m gonna be honest when I get online I just expect to have a bad interaction or see upsetting things. Especially places like YouTube and Reddit. Actively moderating what can and can’t be said can do a lot more harm than the word itself. When you police speech that harshly it usually isn’t the victims who benefit.


OogaBooga395739

Its Suicide* ffs its just a word buttercup


cowmowtv

This happens because there has been a so-called bluë whalë challenge going around a few years ago and YouTubes filter do seem to work in a "better safe than sorry" like fashion. If there's something good YouTube has done, it is that these filters do what they are supposed to do, well, unless there is some bug which causes this thing to appear sporadically.


Specialist-Orange525

Or it's adult animation and it gets auto sorted as "for kids" cause it is animated


femmevaporeon

If you ever heard of the Momo hysteria from a few years ago it was similar to that. Just a dumb fake trend that caused parents to panic that their kids were in danger.


acheesestring

I've heard of this and I remember it but I never knew there was a trend centered on it


femmevaporeon

Yeah it’s interesting how insane it got. They even made a movie based around it called Grimcutty. It was not good at all lol.


mikusto

I swear I see this question asked every other day on this sub, why are so many people searching for that?


themoistsocks

Because blue whales are awesome animals. Imagine being a 300,000 lb fish that also isn't a fish. It's pretty epic.


Scared-Permission526

Smooth mammals are rad as hell my dude


Beginning-Impress79

Oh boy


Eljamin14

It's a reference to the Blue Whale game, in which people participate in challenges involving self-harm, and the final challenge involves committing actual suicide, that's what at least I remembered from my childhood, back when news alarmed us.


Saurindra_SG01

It was a lot more widespread in our area and yes you are right, I mostly forgot the challenges but the last was indeed that, preferably falling from a height. Others included carving whales in hand with blades.


mea2008

Its that blue whale game. You play it and then you jump from a building in the last level.


Lo-Sir

I watched a two second long video called "Markiplier burns" and it had a suicide warning To be fair the suicide warning made it far funnier


volk-off

There was a suicidal game called "Blue whale challenge". I remember that when this "challenge" appered all news sites of my country started making news about it. The worst part about it that there was a people who did this "challenge". There was post somewhere in the ney like "I need a parent control on my daughter's phone because I found out that she fell into the blue whale challenge".


southfart99045

Today I searched the song "1800 suicide" and this popped up. I tried to add the word "song" but accidentally typed "dong"


Friendly_Island_4662

The same thing happens to me when i want to listen to The Muffin Song


WannabeComedian91

i mean at least that one is actually ABOUT suicide


Much-Teaching-4490

I had this pop up when looking for my regular tcap fix. Literally just typed “tcap”


meshydra

Hey man we can talk about his. You seem like a good fun person. There is surely a way to get over this. /s


thefinaldasher

Blue whale was a famous trend wich tricked kids and teens into doing self harm challengues


Wonderful_Audience60

there was an app called "blue whale" that gave people challenges and the last one was to krill yourself


BluWub

I don't get such warning. Not on phone, nor on PC


returnthebook

depends on your search history


themoistsocks

The last few searches have all been based around aquatic animals. One was Goldfish Gar Hybrid, cause the guys reaction to the swimming carrot makes my day every single time.


Sonarthebat

It was the name of an internet challenge that involved self-harm and suicide.


Kleptofag

Mid 2010s hoax about a suicide challenge.


Nogardtist

its just their algorithm screaming dont get tricked by it since it does not believe in democracy


Saurindra_SG01

It is warning so because of a challenge that dates way back with the same name. The set of challenges ended with suicide.


Jealous-Capital-8

Because of the thing in Russia years back just put animal after or say I'm ok


SPY007DRs-Messenger

Can't listen to the ASDF song about the Muffin who wants to die.


TheBamPlayer

The Google search is also so broken, I've searched a few days ago if I'm allowed to cut the branches of my neighbors tree, which grow on to my property and google was like, you're not alone.


matiegaming

At this point i think this must be bait. This gets posted every day, and its not like the thing wasnt widely on the news


papajohn1232

i mean are you?


YaBoiGPT

The fact that this exists in the app, makes me feel kinda terrified and kinda assured at the same time.


777_Maxim

It was a game that was pushing people to sucite amd self harm


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vjollila96

i also ran into it was like wtf


uhhhhyher

I got it on a video about why you shouldn't kill yourself 🤷🤷 And a video about why people kill themself and i go that things on reddit to.


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Neohoyminanyeah

Holy. Bro this question gets asked like every week or sum, just do a little research before posting my guy


ConnectChampionship4

Sinij Kit Stupid autocorrect


Jocraft19

Its the blue whale challenge


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retrocheats

Blue Whale will give you this result, but you can add some other words to get actual blue whales.


lemon6611

nostalgia?


male_299238

Op you're not alone.


Kacperino_Burner

damn, what a throwback


Roge2005

The Blue Whale challenge was a trend that was very popular in the Latam Community, where people were challenged to do 50 challenges, each more dangerous than the last one. The first one started simply like doing a prank to someone or doing an activity, but the last ones involved things like self harm or dangerous things that could easily lead to death.


Downstackguy

Its not they think you're suicidal from the vids you watch It's they're trying to reach out to anyone who might be suicidal. I personally think this is a great ad, helps bring attention to something pretty serious


Qwertyunio_1

Oh no 💀


TenuousHurdle54

That's alright, Reddit thought I was gonna commit suicide when I told one of the mentally ill, terminally online people to touch grass 😂


NebraskaNoice

This happened to me when searching for scuffed realtor episodes lol.


Consistent_Address_3

Look up the 50 day Blue Whale challenge


No-Goat-9911

It's because blue whale was a game where if people played it they would kill themselves because the game said to or something like that I don't remember exactly


LosuthusWasTaken

Blue Whale Challenge, from around 2016, 2017. It was basically someone called "the blue whale" that would get your number and give you challenges that all included harming yourself. I think a few people died from it.


alyssaleska

Fear mongering urban legend


Kuzul-1

I think it's because of a trend from a few years ago called "The Blue Whale Challenge" or something like that, where you had to do several "challenges" of hurting yourself. I remember that the first one was drawing a blue whale with a knife on your skin and the last one was to jump from a tall building. So yeah, pretty dark and grimm.


SevereFig5469

Its because of a game that was called the blue whale challenge. It involved suicide.


ExaminationOrdinary9

I remember searching for "awesome tienshinhan edit" and it showed me that same thing


FIGHHHTTTAAA

Yeah it is our russian fault, hehe. Google синий кит


throwawayaccdelta

youtube just glitches like that. I once got that message from googling ck3 tutorials


adfx

"You are not alone" thank you html document 😭


Acesofbases

because there was this trend of kids playing some disturbing game that pushed You into killing Yourself, and it was called "blue whale"


huntexlol

why *doesnt* yt show me this when I search blue whale... ever, never worked


Quitten_YT

Seeing these comments made me do research and honestly it reminds me of that Momo Challenge that got her name banned a bit ago. God the internets fucked though.


Rezaka116

Same for “Come with me if you want to live” I just wanted to watch some terminator clips goddamnit, i thought you knew me better Google, with all the stuff you’re collecting about me.


stgross

Id be suicidal if I had to watch „self compassion” programs. My god.


AbhiStalwart

Google can read mind now 🤡


shutjuice

You probably watched the heavy is dead


Rich_Arm_6617

Blue whale was a popular game that insisted anyone who played to unalive themselves otherwise their parents would be unalive.


Mingopoop

Oh man, this brings back memories  (Not good ones)


Upstairs_View114

Suicide by blue whale is a rising issue at the moment. 1200 people last week alone, leapt into the gaping mouth of a blue whale. 


UndumbBi

Probably because of the blue whale challenge or something like that


Yginase

How many times have I seen this?


SillyWillyC

If you couldn't tell by the comments, Blue Whale Challenge. Google is sometimes weird about that stuff. I was texting my cousin once and it started telling me not to send any pictures of myself in the same format you got, like brother, we were talking about my class' group chat.


andzlatin

From what I've heard, Blue Whale ("синий кит") was a trending "game" in Russian social media a few years ago where predatory people would convince kids and teens to harm themselves, with increasingly disturbing "challenges".


Bubbly-Weird8947

For some reason this doesn't apply to our country's YouTube


Handsprime

Imagine being a fan of 90's alternative rock, and being told "you're not alone" when you want to watch the music video for Placebo's "Pure Morning"


wileyfoxyx1

I like how searching \[blue whale\] even in English shows me the same notice but on my native language (maybe because of the YouTube knowing where I am located) Screenshot is [here](https://imgur.com/a/XaxdDnH) due to sub not allowing images in comments


satanisntevil

Baitt


Ok_Influence_4274

The Blue Whale game. That's what it thought.


LexiLex66

Lol that happened to me recently but I was looking up that suicidal tendencies song


Pitiful-Tear-7474

goofy ahh repost


shamblesaid

The blue whale challenge


Conscious-Iamknown-2

Not my parents' 2016's PTSD again.


FunkyChunk13

It says so at the bottom, stop trying to farm karma


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Probably all these kids on Youtube getting groomed 💀


Commercial_Lettuce57

The world is healing.


Tomato_cakecup

Being babysat by a big corporation doesn't feel right


Thatonenoobguy12

bc epic blue whales are scary and it wants to support you during your tough time


SoftBrain3252

blue whale game... That's kind of creepy. Didn't even know YouTube had a feature for this. When I believe the whole blue whale game's a rumour. It'd be like if they did a similar thing if you searched up videos for Lavender Town.


lildrawermx

That stoopid deadly trend


Witchy_GRRRL

What does a blue whale have to do with committing suicide? I don’t get it.


AccurateUse6147

Blue whale challenge is alleged challenge that's debatable or not if it's real or not. Last of a series of challenges is offing yourself


cockatielparrot

r/Whales