You keep worrying about that. I'll keep being concerned about this. The planet is big enough for both of us, thank goodness.

I've never even heard of this!!

True. I guess for me what makes a difference is Darth Vader and Joker are both purely fictional characters. It would be like me getting mad at people who like GTA and saying they're promoting drug dealing.

But Squid Game is too close to reality for me to comfortably engage with or make light of.

It's like Nosedive (I don't know if you watch Black Mirror.) If someone copy pasted the housing system in real life just cause they liked the pastel aesthetic. I'd be like... you missed the whole point of what the creators were trying to convey. Yeah, pastels are cute, but wtf dude.

Haha okay that makes sense. Still makes me squirm, but I get the convenience factor.

All solid points.

I guess for me my takeaway was a sort of moral shaming of the elites who prey on our desperation.

So to willingly participate in these recreations is like almost giving your approval to these people to exploit you.

But you're right in that even in the show, they chose to come back. I totally forgot that part. People willingly took part in their exploitation, just like real life.

I guess it's a case of art mirroring life, and it's uncomfortable for me to see it depicted so bluntly.

The fact that seemingly the whole world missed the point of Squid Game and just thinks "oh cool, fun games" makes me really uncomfortable.

Kids were dressing up in Squid Game costumes, Mr Beast and his whole thing, now this...

Maybe I just don't get it.