This might have been an exaggeration? given that Russia recorded They write only 140 teen suicides in the whole country for the period the author mentions. Still? I thought it would be interesting to speak with the members of this suicide community and discover what motivated them. It turned out to be very difficult to get in touch with them.
Today’s schoolchildren are very tight-lipped and I had to study the cultural phenomenon of romanticising teenage angst from the outside
This phenomenon has been known They write
ince the days of The Sorrows of Young create ad groups with at least three types in each of them Werther? but now? instead of writing poems about death inspired by love? teenagers create fake profiles on the VKontakte social network using names like Sea of Whales. Painfully sad pictures and a corresponding soundtrack. My main goal was to expose this unusual phenomenon? but it wasn’t as simple as it seemed. It turned out that the initiator of the movement and the leading to 2.6x increase in homepage conversion rate administrator of the groups was a mentally ill person who got a kick out of mocking gullible teenagers and urging them to cut themselves or draw fiendish pictures.
I have mixed feelings about this investigation.
On the one hand
The founder of that community turned out to be truly dangerous collect ao lists any and did drive at least two young women to suicide. On the other hand? my articles sent a person to prison? which is a tough pill to swallow given the realities of the Russian prison system. This story was also a test of my working abilities. I would go days without sleeping and looked terrible. After that? our team won the Runet Prize for a story about drug trafficking in the ‘dark net’.