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The ‘Blue Whale Challenge’ Reveals the Importance of ‘Hope'

From the pre-2024 archive · original publication date not recovered · 1 min read · By Sameer Ahmed Khan
#mental-health

From the archive. Written in an earlier era of this blog; the exact original publish date was lost in a platform migration.

The ‘Blue Whale Challenge’ reveals the importance of seeding ‘hope’ into youngsters.

Teach your children to have ‘faith’ whenever times get tough. Don’t abandon them with their miseries, nurture their strengths, if they fall, pick them up, challenge them further. Win their trust so that they never hesitate to share anything, good or bad, with you. Turn their dreams into ambitions worth living for.

Deaths you see now cannot entirely be blamed on the game. The game is manipulating the darkness that was already inside them. It should be your ‘voice’ in their ‘head’ ridiculing the game anyway…

PS: It’s not cool when you post a status on Facebook saying, ‘Playing Blue Whale Challenge’. Someone somewhere might be broken, sad and in despair who might play the game just because you made it look cool on Facebook.

Sameer Ahmed Khan

Cofounder & CEO, Social Champ

Wrote my first line of code at the University of Karachi (1st in class). Built three failed startups (GameOChat, Educating Dreams, RemindZapp) before Social Champ, which now publishes tens of millions of posts every month across 100+ countries and was endorsed by Guy Kawasaki. Accelerated by Techstars Toronto '22. TEDx speaker, mentor at Founder Institute Toronto, four-time P@SHA ICT winner, APICTA award recipient. YouTube Silver Play Button for spearfishing vlogs. INFP. Pakistani. Karachi.

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