To be fair, the majority I have seen on my Facebook wall (which is a tonne because it's become so popular) have been more about making people laugh and people are seemingly trying to outdo each other by necking disgusting things rather than dangerous things, or by putting it alongside an entertaining monologue. I think that considering it's so popular and only 2 (1 confirmed) lads have died, then it isn't worth the outrage.
People play drinking games. People drink. People get hurt when making poor decisions regarding alcohol.
Blaming the game, as some have done, without attributing any blame to alcohol is frankly bizarre.
Yes and No While the majority may be harmless fun as you say, the undertone of the whole thing as I see it is followed by public ridicule if you don't conform to what is nothing more than mass pressure via social media sites. That in itself is very dangerous ground and there are many many cases of ill that has followed from things like that.
I agree drinking games can be fun, and again I have partaken i them before and probably will do so again in the future, BUT they are usually within a closed set of people. The fact that social media is driving this makes the comparison against drinking games in a pub for instance a very grey area because IMO the two are certainly not alike.
If some want to gain credibility and standing through this, then I suspect they have a few issues that need resolving. But that is probably just me thinking like that.
Edit: Oops I thought it was Ben (Stevo) that replied to me - apologies for any confusion