#white usamericans got from the show: we can exploit the poor via fun embarrassing games. give them false hopes for our own entertainment
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finally started squid game. I didn't know the guy from the meme was the main character wtf.... I thought it was gonna be the girl everyone was gay for
#i will say i have heard not great things about S2 so ofc keeping my standards low for when i get to that point#S1EP1 thoughts:#this shit is brutal i love it. from funny to horrifically real so quick#i really enjoy gi-hun hes fucking hilarious and even more now that i know hes the Meme#the one girl that i thought was the main character is super awesome. don't know her name yet#kaye watches sg#i know why it was so popular now. well i don't really know how it became popular in the US bc i feel like#culturally we are not quite desensitized to *checks notes* footage of mass shootings (maybe im wrong but i feel like america SUPER avoids#that stuff) and i wanna say it was popularized because of fandom brain rot / 'rooting' for certain characters and dehumanizing koreans#/ only rooting for ~specific~ characters that they like. i mean given the whole mr beast game show shit that's just about what i surmise#white usamericans got from the show: we can exploit the poor via fun embarrassing games. give them false hopes for our own entertainment#maybe that is just my bad faith interpretation but our country racist af so is it really lol. but it IS a good show anyway so im only givin#somewhat benefit of the doubt
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