We are told that the Blue Whale Challenge is responsible for hundreds of suicides, including many in India in the past few days alone. If his death was a result of mental torture, he would have made much of it in his suicide note. The most successful myth of activism, though, is the idea of “farmer suicides”, the simplistic notion that poverty and debt drive farmers to kill themselves. This has been the story over the past 15 years, a period when activists and the media successfully branded “farmer suicide” as a special form of suicide. In the Blue Whale Challenge, there is one person in the chat room who is not expected to kill himself—the curator.

Source: Mint August 26, 2017 03:11 UTC