Squid Game was one of those unexpected, unheralded Korean shows that spread like syphilis in Alberta 3 years ago.

Four hundred fifty-six people playing life or death games to win 4-5 MILLION. The roller coaster of emotions and suspense was make-believe, but it was still a fucking stressful ride to watch.

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Official trailer for <Squid Game: The Challenge>
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NETFLIX is bringing back season 2 and a reality-based version of the show called “Squid Game: The Challenge” where 456 normies compete for real money. And if you can find a contestant to tell you about it, you might need to wait until said contestant(s) has been through a few months of therapy.

Rolling Stone: When Netflix announced its reality game show Squid Game: The Challenge, it immediately drew the ire of fans who’d sat through the original twisted South Korean thriller, about a group of poor people recruited to compete in a series of deadly games for millions in prize money, and wondered: How could this possibly end well?   

Still, the ambitious competition managed to find 456 contestants willing to compete for a $4.56 million prize — earning the show the bragging rights of boasting the largest cast, and cash prize, in TV history. But the first day of filming had barely wrapped last Monday when reports began to trickle out about how the show’s production was a complete disaster. 

“It was just the cruelest, meanest thing I’ve ever been through,” one former contestant tells Rolling Stone. “We were a human horse race, and they were treating us like horses out in the cold racing and [the race] was fixed.”  

“All the torment and trauma we experienced wasn’t due to the game or the rigor of the game,” another former player adds. “It was the incompetencies of scale — they bit off more than they could chew.” 

Four former players have detailed their experiences to Rolling Stone, confirming earlier reports that contestants were forced to play the show’s “Red Light, Green Light” game in inhumane conditions, spending up to nine hours inside a freezing airport hangar, unable to move for 30-minute stretches, with medics rushing in to tend to people who were unable to take the extreme cold. All requested that their names be withheld, citing their NDAs.

Netflix previously said in a statement that three sought medical attention for minor conditions, but defended the safety of the production. In a joint statement from Netflix and co-producing studios The Garden and Studio Lambert on Friday, the production companies denied claims of a fixed game, saying “any suggestion that the competition is rigged or claims of serious harm to players are simply untrue.”

“We’ve taken all the appropriate safety precautions, including aftercare for contestants – and an independent adjudicator is overseeing each game to ensure it’s fair to everyone,” the statement added.

But sources allege that Netflix, Studio Lambert and The Garden, have downplayed the gravity of the hellish day. Additionally, they believe news coverage missed a key point in their complaints: that the game seemed to be rigged to begin with.

The former players claim that some contestants — several of whom were TikTok and Instagram influencers — appeared to be pre-selected to advance to the next round no matter the outcome of the first game, and were fully mic’d up while a majority of the eliminated contestants had dummy microphones around their necks. One former player claims rules were bent to heighten a contestant’s storyline, and another says they witnessed an eliminated player being put back into the game. 

“It really wasn’t a game show. It was a TV show, and we were basically extras in a TV show,” one explains.

Three former players describe what contestants are now calling the “38-second massacre,” when a large group of contestants made it across the finish line with time remaining on the clock, meaning they had successfully made it through to the next round. However, as they waited for producers to go over footage and get drone shots from the round, their blood squib packs went off minutes later, and they were told they had been eliminated, despite making it across the finish line. “They went crazy,” one contestant recalls. 

How much worse can “Squid Game: The Challenge” be than life as we know it?

These whiny contestants got to play the Squid Game, and some took two months off work with a chance to win millions, and they are pissed they had “a tough time?” It’s a televised summer camp with millions on the line, you ungrateful boobs. You spent a few days or weeks (depending on how good you were at the game) hanging out with new friends, and everyone got a new tracksuit. You all got to sleep in bunkbeds staked 8-10 high after playing fake deadly Red Rover.

If you signed up for the Squid Game Challenge, you knew what you were getting into with the underlying fact that you wouldn’t die, so suck it up, softies.

Squid Game: the Challenge will be a massive hit, and you better beleive Netflix will gamble with the well-being of the cast members for those streaming numbers. And EVERY reality TV show is rigged, so once again, suck it up. They didn’t create this Reality TV version of Squid game for the contestants; Netflix knows a few hundred million subscribers will watch it like they’re going to the electric chair.

Including me. Knowing all the contestants are soft AF makes me want to watch it more.

You?