#Squid game

[im-the-antonymph-of-your-mom]

*looks at post date* 2023 was the year people's behavior helped me understand that people don't want thought-provoking stories and prefer simple pleasant storytelling too. But that was more about narrative literacy than media literacy.

[netflix]

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[journallain]

[kibiruui]

Splatoon Captain 3

[dihuh]

I made this last year after I watched Squid Game

[ayeforscotland]

Quite like the idea of everyone involved in creating the actual ‘real-life’ Squid Game show being fired into the sun.

[kramerblogrealgood]

Webweave for The Unknown from Glasgow's Willy Wonka Experience

[would-you-punt-them]

Imagine watching a show with probably the most surface level potrayal of the message of "rich people suck and will use poor people for money" only to be like "hm. as the total anthesis of this message i should totally recreate this"

It's made even worse when you consider the fact that this isn't the first "IRL Squid Game" ever attempted, Netflix UK did one that was specifically based on the actual show in January 2023 called "Squid Game: The Challenge".

(I've seen people in the tags get these two shows confused, they are different - Beast Games is on Amazon, not Netflix, was filmed at the end of July this year, and hasn't come out yet).

But Netflix UK have their own scandal to answer for.

That original British Squid Game was also a disaster. "Beast Games" was filmed in the middle of one of Nevada's hottest Julys on record, hence why so many contestants suffered from extreme dehydration due to the lack of water. On the other hand, "Squid Game: The Challenge" was filmed during an unusually cold British January.

The players had been given coats, leg warmers, space heaters, and so on during the lead up to the game, only to have those warm clothes taken away before the first challenge began, because they needed to wear those paper thin canon-accurate Squid Game tracksuits. They weren't even allowed to zip them up, because the cameras needed to see the numbers on their shirts, and the fake blood spurting out when they were eliminated.

They then had to play Redlight-Greenlight in the blistering cold, holding poses, completely still, for increasing lengths of time (2 minutes at the start of the game, 30 in the late stages). Players starting collapsing from the cold, and had to be rescued by medics.

The game started with 456 competitors on Day 1, and ended up with 228 by Day 2.

Here's the Variety article: Inside Netflix’s ‘Squid Game’ Reality Show Disaster: ‘The Conditions Were Absolutely Inhumane’

TL;DR - Here are some choice quotes in case you want to read them:

“The second time the song played, I saw in my left peripheral vision that this girl was swaying. Then she just buckled, and you could hear her head actually hit the ground,” says Marlene. “But then someone came on the [microphone] and said to hold our positions because the game is not paused. After that, people were dropping like flies.”

Jenny, a player from outside the U.K. who had been flown in for the game, tells Variety: “I’m infuriated by the narrative that Netflix is putting out there, that only [a few] people were injured…we were all injured just by going through that experience.

“I’ve never been that cold for that long a period in my life. We couldn’t feel our feet or our toes. It was ridiculous,” she says. Jenny also claims that while the game was in production, restroom or water breaks weren’t allowed.

“Take some responsibility for the fact that you were ill-prepared for this kind of thing, with this number of people,” continues Jenny, between tears. “There were some things I guess [producers] didn’t think about, but when they saw the weather was going to be that way, they should have made adjustments.”

All three players [John, Marlene and Jenny] say they returned to the hotel between 7 p.m. and midnight without having dinner. Dinner orders had been taken at lunch, but because the game had run longer than expected, contestants were transported back to their central London hotel without having eaten. Production had ordered pizzas for those arriving, but there wasn’t enough food to go around, and some people went to bed hungry.

“In the morning, I woke up and there was a cold hamburger from McDonald’s and a side salad in front of my door that had been there for God knows how long,” says Marlene.

(Variety, Feb 3, 2023)

(Also, "Marlene and Jenny" are pseudonyms, because like Beast Game they signed NDAs.)

There are some other similarities with Beast Games - denial of bathroom breaks, lack of food, lack of water, inadequate medical care, and so on.

Netflix is denying these claims, or at least denying that they are as bad as contestants are suggesting, and said that while it was undeniably cold on set, "participants were prepared for that". Participants have claimed that they were, in fact, in no way prepared for that.

We know MrBeast has probably seen "Squid Game: The Challenge", because they've tried to one-up it. The British show originally had "the biggest cash-prize ever offered in reality TV" ($4.5 million), until Beast Games showed up with an ever bigger prize of $5 million.

So, it's not just "Jimmy recreating the Torment Nexus after watching the show "Don't recreate the Torment Nexus".

It's closer to "Jimmy recreating the Torment Nexus from the show "Don't create the Torment Nexus", after watching the show "This is what happens when you create the Torment Nexus".

[paper-mario-wiki]

i fucking hate squid games because it came out the same month as Midnight Mass and absolutely buried it, which is a CRIME.

watch Midnight Mass.

[texaschainsawmascara]

i-D magazine covers

[thundergrace]

Look, I had no interest in season 2 after a while anyway. It's very easy for me not to watch this shit. I know it's hard for women in Korea to trust any man in their lives. If you have no idea what the 4b movement is, I highly recommend looking into it.

Edit: to expand on the last point, I just mean look into the 4B movement to understand what women in Korea are experiencing and why they felt the need to create such extreme/"radical" feminist movements. And especially what is happening with digital sexual harassment. There's an epidemic of deep fake/AI p^rn, hidden cams, fake nudes, you name it - and much if it involving minors as young as elementary school age.

[xiaolanhua]

LEE YOO MI as Ji Yeong in Squid Game (2021) Lee Na Yun in All of Us Are Dead (2022) Kang Nam Soon in Strong Girl Nam Soon (2023)

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[thecoffeelorian]

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[kirks-slutty-red-tights]

its so fascinating to me how every attempt made to make a "squid game in real life" has gone terribly and all of the contestants involved were severely mistreated and the entire thing was really dystopian. Like Girl we warned you. The Show did you watch it.

[4ceily]

DRDT SPOILERS

Sigh…the new episode is not real, is just part of my imagination!!!