Check out this $ 3.5 million non-lethal recreation of Squid Game on YouTube

What just happened? Have you ever wondered how someone would fare in a real life version of Squid Game, only without the constant deaths? YouTube star MrBeast spent $ 3.5 million recreating the hit Korean show, which includes the most games, 456 contenders, and a $ 456,000 prize pool.

MrBeast’s 76.6 million subscribers make his channel one of the most popular on YouTube. Is known for creating contests in which people can earn huge sums of money, including half a million dollars for Last to leave the circle and Extreme etiquette, like Last to go $ 800,000 Island keeps it. As such, Squid Game is the perfect recreation opportunity, with no one getting killed.

The famous first Red Light game, Green Light sees players equipped with devices that explode every time they move, a non-lethal simulation of being attacked by snipers.

There were no suspiciously kind elders in MrBeast’s reenactment.

It’s entertaining to watch the honeycomb game and how the licking technique that protagonist Seong Gi-hun used on the show actually works. Meanwhile, the tug of war involves teams falling into the foam rather than dying, and the game of marbles sees best friends competing against each other, many of whom choose to play the “odd or even” game.

While the uniforms, the money-filled crystal ball, and so many other items are perfectly recreated, the final titular Squid Game has been replaced by Musical Chairs, simply because most people still don’t know exactly how to play the former, and I would. It probably ends up being a pretty violent affair.

Some have noted the mild irony of $ 3.5 million spent on a YouTube video recreating a television show that is a scathing comment on the nature of capitalism, but that’s a debate for another time.