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Online suicide games are claimed to involve a series of challenges, ending insuicide. A whole succession of these such as the Blue Whale Challenge, Momo,the Fire Fairy and Doki Doki have appeared in recent years. The challengeculture is a deeply rooted online phenomenon, whether the challenge isdangerous or not, while social media particularly motivates youngsters to takepart because of their desire for attention. Although there is no evidence thatthe suicide games are real, authorities around the world have reacted byreleasing warnings and creating information campaigns to warn youngsters andparents. We interviewed teachers, child protection experts and NGOs, conducteda systematic review of historical news reports from 2015-2019 and searchedpolice and other authority websites to identify relevant warning releases. Wethen synthesized the existing knowledge on the suicide games phenomenon. A keyfinding of our work is that media, social media and warning releases byauthorities are mainly just serving to spread the challenge culture andexaggerate fears regarding online risk.

Online Suicide Games: A Form of Digital Self-harm or A Myth?