The $456,000 prize was provided by an app that I dutifully downloaded after Jimmy did an ad halfway through the video.Īnd the video was good: though there was absolutely no lip-service paid to the fact that Squid Game was a nine-hour long criticism of the grinding gears of capitalism and Mr. The sets were faithfully recreated from the Netflix show and each participant was in a true-to-series costume.
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Nobody died, obviously – instead, the first contestants were handed a sympathetic $2,000 for going out early. Beast – one of the few YouTubers, like Mark Rober, who are such enormous stars in their own right that they can drop videos as and when they please, rather than having to rustle up content to feed the algorithmic beast every one or two days – launched his much-trailed version of Netflix’s Squid Game, where he … well, he just did Squid Game. Obviously, I cannot criticise the guy giving away money to the needy, no matter how mawkish and calculated I find it, so you see how Mr. giving a homeless person $10,000 and watching them sob gratefully on camera, or treating a family to a Christmas-saving no-limits trip around Best Buy.
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Beast first gained viral notoriety by gaming whatever the YouTube algorithm was at the time – one of his big early successes was a daylong video where he counted to 100,000 – then pivoted into what I can only describe as ‘stunt philanthropy’, i.e. Beast is particularly fascinating, because he does it while having a moustache and not even being especially charismatic about it.
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