Netflix, realizing the absurd popularity of the unoriginal Squid Game, recently announced a Squid Game reality TV show and competition where participants have the chance to win $4.56 million, news that earned them scorn from Twitter’s abundance of mentally questionable individuals as they claimed “Mr. Beast did it first”.
Announced at the Banff World Media Festival, Squid Game: The Challenge pits 456 participants against each other in a variety of challenges to win the gargantuan prize of $4.56 million, said to be the “largest lump-sum cash prize in TV history”, even though it is alleged that there have been recording contracts as prizes worth $5 million.
Remarks from Brandon Riegg, Netflix’s VP of unscripted and documentary series:
“Squid Game took the world by storm with [director Hwang Dong-hyuk’s] captivating story and iconic imagery. We’re grateful for his support as we turn the fictional world into reality in this massive competition and social experiment. Fans of the drama series are in for a fascinating and unpredictable journey as our 456 real world contestants navigate the biggest competition series ever, full of tension and twists, with the biggest-ever cash prize at the end.”
An announcement video for the competition that reuses scenes from the Squid Game show:
The September 2021 debuted Squid Game was a fictional South Korean show where participants took part in a game to win money to repay their debts or die trying, and it accumulated over 1.65 billion view hours in its first 28 days.
The announcement of Squid Game: The Challenge attracted a lot of strange banter on Twitter, as a renowned YouTuber philanthropist known as Mr. Beast pushed out a video in November 2021 with a similar concept that had a cash prize of $456,000.
Mr. Beast, who often has random people take part in small challenges in an attempt to win cash or prizes (and also donates to many efforts), gained 257 million views on his Squid Game video, and boasts a subscriber count of 97 million.
Comments from Twitter users addressing the news, with many claiming that both Netflix and Mr. Beast “missed the point of the show” by doing such competitions, while others intelligently claimed “Mr. Beast should sue” or “Mr. Beast did it first”:
What the f♥♥k is Mr Beast? And isn’t this show just a ripoff of Kaiji anyway?
It’s a rip off of Battle Royale.
Which was basically a rip off of Running Man
Yeah, according to the director himself Squid Game was “inspired” by Kaiji
But goddamn it was such a pale imitation
First time I hear about Mr Beast and I still don’t know what it is
is ur father !
So what? The most watched program wins.
How is a battle royale death game even remotely a new concept?
Its literally the core concept of Saw to go through a series of challenges picking people off and that movie is old as s♥♥t and there are movies like it that are even older.
Slight alterations to the core concept don’t make it a new core concept.
The movie “Battle Royale” came out in 2000. Probably not where the idea originated, but that’s where the idea was popularized.
It was a manga first you dolt.
Might not have been the most original show, but Squid Games is still better than anything Netflix makes.
NO!
The twitter account having subhuman displays yet again its genetic inferiority and cluelessness
This trash is a zipperhead clone of Kaiji
there are many subhumans in sancuck too