Teenage Boy Who Invented Online Game That Has Left A Kenyan Dead And 100 Others Speaks

A teenager who is behind the deadly online game that has left at least 100 teenagers dead has said he was trying to cleans the society.Philipp Budeikin, 21, from Russia is being held by the police for investing the game called Blue Whale that has led to the deaths including a recent one reported in Kamkunji, Nairobi.The 21-year-old, who has now confessed to the crimes, says he thinks his victims were just ‘biological waste’ and told police that they were ‘happy to die’ and that he was ‘cleansing society’.The game entails participants completing a number of tasks over a 50 day period, with the final task involving one committing suicide.Anton Breido, a senior official from the Investigative Committee in Russia, said: ‘Budeikin very clearly knew what he had to do to get the result (he wanted).Police, however, say teenage girls adore Budeikin and have already written dozens of letters to him at Kresty jail in St Petersburg.Claims that the victims were happy to meet their death.“They were dying happy,” he said. “I was giving them what they didn’t have in real life: warmth, understanding, connections. Worryingly, despite Budeikin being detained, the suicides are reportedly continuing to be promoted by death groups.”The latest victim of the devilish game was James Njenga, a student at the JG Kiereini Secondary School in Kiambu County, who fell for the game and ‘won the ultimate prize’.The latest victim of the devilish game was James Njenga, a student at the JG Kiereini Secondary School in Kiambu County, who fell for the game and ‘won the ultimate prize’.“Blue Whale is not a game in the sense of being a video, or an app, or a website, or any structured product. If it exists, it is an activity, just as ‘Truth or Dare’ has been a ‘game’ played by teenagers over the decades,” said Ben Roberts, the Chief Technical Officer of Liquid Telecom Group and Chairman of Liquid Telecom Kenya.