{"id":49775,"date":"2025-01-28T17:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T17:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/how-mrbeasts-squid-game-held-up-to-netflixs-hit-show-dexerto\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T17:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T17:37:08","slug":"how-mrbeasts-squid-game-held-up-to-netflixs-hit-show-dexerto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/how-mrbeasts-squid-game-held-up-to-netflixs-hit-show-dexerto\/","title":{"rendered":"How MrBeast\u2019s Squid Game held up to Netflix\u2019s hit show &#8211; Dexerto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How MrBeast\u2019s Squid Game held up to Netflix\u2019s hit show YouTube: MrBeastMrBeast has finally unleashed his rendition of Netflix\u2019s hit show, Squid Game, after a month of teasing the $2 million project \u2014 and the YouTube star\u2019s version is nothing short of jaw-dropping. Over the past several weeks, YouTuber Jimmy \u2018MrBeast\u2019 Donaldson has been dropping small teasers for his highly-anticipated Squid Game reenactment. The influencer is known for his intense, high-budget projects, and as one of YouTube\u2019s most popular creators, this video was bound to happen in wake of the show\u2019s worldwide acclaim. On November 24, MrBeast finally uploaded his rendition of Netflix\u2019s #1 show, Squid Game, which pits desperate debtors against each other in various children\u2019s games for a massive cash prize. MrBeast\u2019s Squid Game rendition goes viral While fans have seen MrBeast share in-progress pictures of his crew building out the sets for his Squid Game (or rather, MrBeast Game), his attention to detail in each set was mind-blowing when the full scale of the project was actually revealed. The creator included several games from the show, including Red Light Green Light, Tug of War, Dalgona, and, of course, marbles. However, MrBeast\u2019s versions of the deadly show were decidedly less life-or-death; the YouTuber outfitted all 456 players with props that would explode with a \u2018bang\u2019 when they were eliminated, and would \u2018play dead\u2019 after losing a challenge. MrBeast also had a different spin on certain games; rather than allowing the nighttime beatdown that happened in episode 3, he made players compete against each other in a game of \u2018ddakji.\u2019 The influencer also switched up the show\u2019s final challenge, \u2018Squid Game,\u2019 instead opting for a high stakes game of musical chairs set to music from the series \u2014 and although they created a full-scale model of the Red Light Green Light robot, she didn\u2019t have any motion detecting sensors or swivel her head around. In keeping with the show, player 456 lasted right up until the final game \u2014 but it was player 079 who ended up bringing home the $456,000 cash prize. This latest work from MrBeast shows that the content creator is pulling out all the stops to stay on top of the YouTube game, and it\u2019s clear that his efforts aren\u2019t going to waste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How MrBeast\u2019s Squid Game held up to Netflix\u2019s hit show YouTube: MrBeastMrBeast has finally unleashed his rendition of Netflix\u2019s hit show, Squid Game, after a month of teasing the $2 million project \u2014 and the YouTube star\u2019s version is nothing short of jaw-dropping. Over the past several weeks, YouTuber Jimmy \u2018MrBeast\u2019 Donaldson has been dropping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}