The biggest streaming phenomenon of 2021 wasn't a Marvel series, a Star Wars show, or even a long-awaited sequel. Rather, the biggest streaming phenomenon of the year was the brutally violent South Korean thriller Squid Game. Hwang Dong-hyuk's death game series smashed every Netflix record, with over 1.6 billion hours viewed in its first 28 days on the service. Bridgerton, the next biggest show in the Netflix library, recorded less than half of that with 625 million hours viewed. With that in mind, it's no surprise that people are trying to recreate the games from Squid Game in real life.
We actually wrote about one of the competitions in October. But it truly pales in comparison to what James Steven Donaldson (aka MrBeast) put together for his YouTube channel.
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