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Blue Whale creator detained: “I don’t regret anything, I purged society.” “Actually, I don’t regret what I did.

Someday you will figure it out and thank me.” The 22-year-old Russian Philipp Budeikin, who is a self-confessed criminal, creator of Blue Whale, currently jailed, doesn’t show repentance.

The young man has been accused of driving almost 15 teenagers to suicide over the past few months, after having lured hundreds and hundreds of young people on VK, which is the most fashionable Russian social network, into accepting an extreme and terrific social-challenge.

Since he is a psychology student, it was not that difficult to instigate and get accepted as a leader figure by a crowd of young people, in many cases with familiar and psychological issues, who got lost in the perils of the web.

However, the way, the coldness and the pride with which Budeikin acted is gut-wrenching.

He was quoted by Metro.co.uk “There are normal people and misfits.

I picked the outcasts, those who were easy to manipulate.

They would just damage society and themselves.

I incited them to commit suicide so as to purge our society.

I’m the cause of those teenagers’ deaths, but I’m happy for what I did.

For the first time, I gave them everything they had never got during their lives: warmth, understanding, importance.” That’s what the young boy stated under interrogation Philipp Budeikin is currently jailed in Saint Petersburg, and everyday receives love letters by the teenagers he had lured on social-networks and drove to suicide.

However, the danger is not over, since the desire to emulate this is increasing worldwide.

Taking into account what Budeikin did could help parents understand their children’s behaviour in time, especially if they are teenagers.

As of now, due to the rate of suicide among teenagers skyrocketing also in other countries, some new platforms have been created with the aim to help thwart and prevent this widespread “Holocaust 2.0”.