MrBeast's IRL 'Squid Game' Has Premiered On YouTube
YouTuber MrBeast has delivered on his promise to recreate the South Korean survival series Squid Game, inviting 456 people to take part in the real-life version of the deadly games (bar the dying part).
For his ambitious video, which premiered on YouTube on Wednesday at 4 p.m. EST, MrBeast recreated all six games featured in the original South Korean TV series, including Red Light, Green Light, Dalgona Candy Challenge and other games. Only one person of the 456 participants came out victorious, nabbing the hefty prize of $456,000.
Upon release, it took the video less than 10 minutes to gain over one million views.
MrBeast promised to bring Squid Game to real life should a TikTok video he posted in October get 10 million likes, which it easily did. Before MrBeast, YouTuber Cr1TiKaL ran his own version of the games, although production values cannot be compared.
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Woooinion
>Large group of people get together to do a number of entertaining and not particularly dangerous games and contests together, while being filled to entertain an audience.
>The singular winner gets a nice amount of money.
It's literally just a normal game show.
I get it.
Squidgame the show is supposed to be a commentary on the abuses faced by people trapped in poverty, and the evil of a nebulous international cabal of old men.
Having rich people reenact it sounds incredibly tone-deaf and callous.
But they're not reenacting squid game.
This isn't squid game.
If no one is being hurt, killed, or abused, then it isn't Squid Game.
This is no more Squidgame than Jungle Quest was India Jones Temple of Doom, or two kids having a sword fight with pool noodles is a gladiatorial fight.
This contest is less demeaning that a lot of older gameshows, and there was actually guaranteed to be a winner.
This is just a wholesome online gameshow.
Kenetic Kups
Reality has become satire
WarLordM
Nothing was ever satirical. Its all just sadomasochism