LOS ANGELES – Prime American YouTuber MrBeast has provide you with a real-life model of Squid Sport, with a money prize of US$456,000 (S$623,000) for the winner.
For the reason that video was uploaded final Friday (Nov 24), the 25-minute video has garnered greater than 133 million views in a single week.
The hit Netflix drama – a couple of group of desperadoes enjoying lethal childhood video games to win 45.6 billion received (S$52.9 million) – had 111 million views in lower than a month, making it the preferred present on the streaming platform.
The video’s meticulously recreated video games – minus the violence and dying – passed off on units which faithfully copied these from the Okay-drama.
These included the enormous creepy doll, bunk beds, big piggy financial institution of money and even a “glass” bridge suspended excessive up within the air.
Identified for costly stunts and beneficiant money prizes, MrBeast – whose actual identify is James Donaldson – revealed on Twitter that recreating the present value US$2 million, whereas the prizes totalled US$1.5 million.
A complete of 456 gamers in inexperienced numbered tracksuits took half, simply as within the present. Not like within the present, nonetheless, a few of those that didn’t make it to the ultimate spherical nonetheless took dwelling money prizes starting from US$2,000 to US$10,000.
The video is on observe to turn into the 23-year-old YouTube star’s hottest one since he began in 2012, however the viral hit has drawn blended reactions from followers of each Squid Sport and MrBeast.
Whereas most commenters on YouTube praised the eye to element and generosity of the sport, others identified that the real-life sport appears to have missed the anti-capitalism message of the present.