![]() ![]() And it’s more than a little funny watching TikTok turn a show about the ethics of spectatorship into yet another spectacle to be viewed and consumed and replicated. The shows main character is played by Lee Jung-jae or better known as participant 456. ![]() It’s a little uncanny, if not unexpected, to watch (in many cases, mostly American) users debate whether they’d survive a game that preys on the despair and strain of insurmountable debt. The Korean thriller is a battle-royale-like competition, only its indebted participants are forced to play childrens games in a life or death game for an insane amount of prize money. Squid Game memes are, however, another example of how quickly the internet, and TikTok specifically, manages to turn everything-even a gruesome piece of social commentary about financial desperation-into a joke. And unlike Bridgerton: The TikTok Musical, which saw users writing and performing musical renditions of scenes from the show, taking part in Squid Game content requires little to no musical talent. Originating from a viral Reddit post, the format gained notable prominence online in October 2021. The show’s popularity, along with its inclusion of easily mimicable games made it ripe for a trend cycle, of which this very website is taking part in. Your Next Task Is refers to a series of exploitable image macros based on a still image of Player 369 from the South Korean survival drama series Squid Game in which a particularly difficult challenge is being announced. It’s not surprising that TikTok has latched onto Squid Game: It’s currently Netflix’s most-watched show, surpassing Bridgerton, another TikTok phenomenon in and of itself. In Defense of Ted Lasso, the Show Everyone Now Loves to Hate This content requires consent that you have not granted on Slate. And a lot of general horniness for South Korean model and actress Jung Ho-Yeon, who plays Kang Sae-byeok (or Player 67) in the show. Of the hundreds of thousands of videos collected under #SquidGame, many are what you might expect: simple clips of the show set to sad music or fan theories. 17, the TikTok hashtag #SquidGame has been viewed more than 39 billion times (yes, you read that correctly: billion with a B). The overall premise of the Korean-language drama is fairly straightforward: A group of people who have each racked up millions of won in debt are invited to compete in a series of games where the potential prize is a huge cash reward and the penalty is death. Which, of course, makes Squid Game perfect fodder for the TikTok meme machine. The deaths-and there are hundreds more over the course of the show’s nine-hour runtime-only get grislier and more emotionally fraught as the show goes on. Within the first hour of Netflix’s new blockbuster show Squid Game, more than 200 people are gunned down in the highest-stakes game of Red Light, Green Light known to man. ![]()
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