Okay, so an update - this insane thing is actually gaining traction here :: I teach 1st 2nd 3rd year advertising students :: of those 9 classes i have about 35 students that have started. Parents are concerned... They are mostly white /mixed, privileged, and bored... with possible underlying psychosis /addiction issues. Some are misunderstood, I give them that. They are all incredible people. My director has asked me (um, who me?!) to talk to my students (& I'm waiting for them to pressure me into giving them a list of names)...it came up in my 3rd yr ethics class, (so I won't) now every class has asked me. Fuuuck.
I just don't like #bluewhales 'secrecy', the latent /and obvious grooming, the making it permissible, i didnt like my 'curators' in the previous game. Cold fucking fish, so typical me I got argumentative and rebellious. the 'competetive communal psychopathy' and the resultant obsession is mental. These are talented, bright kids that feel short-changed by life (pandemic isolation already has us in freefall), I've told them my feelings, I don't wanna get old. I live 20 minutes away from the city on my farm, I'm not 'busy' like they are...im not looking for life to have meaning. what concerns me is that young adults that never before would, are self harming. It makes that all ok. awesomely scary where is this going? ...who am I to judge, I guess.
My students know my contempt for this game, its developers, its purpose... Haven't figured it out, my stuff in all this. Am i a fraud, by being secretive about my own si? Outing myself would get me into hearings and I'm not sure what wld happen then... thanks for the overshare, but this time it isn't all about me (yuk! yuk!).. please if u have an opinion, let me know?