The Squid Game
Soon after its release, Squid Game gained immense popularity and attention worldwide, from audiences and critics alike. Here is some data we collected to explain the phenomenon. Significantly, the drama entered the chart of the top 10 daily popular content on Netflix (different for each country) in regions including Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, India, Hong Kong, Israel, Singapore, Vietnam, and many more. Our dashboard below provides the reputation overview of the episode.
The currently most popular TV show on Netflix, Squid Game, which tells of a contest where 456 players having financial crises play a series of Korean children's games, including Red Light Green Light, Sugar Honeycomband Tug of War, to win a large amount of money, reaches high points on Netflix worldwide.
In the following dashboard we created, according to the data collected from FlixPatrol, the show reached a peak of 396 points in Kuwait and the lowest 352 points in the Dominican Republic. The difference is 44 points which is slight. Meanwhile, the points on Netflix in Hong Kong are 381 which is also a considerably high point.
In addition to that, since the popularity of Squid Game has been rising on Netflix, the heated discussion about the show spreads over the internet. The show has become the spotlight in Twitter and there are a number of verified Tweet users talking about Squid Game worldwide. As stated by the data in the dashboard, Squid Game has become almost 8 millions user favourites among the verified Tweet users, more than 150 millions users followers and more than 1500K user friends in October 2021.
It proved that children’s physical games used as the theme in Squid Game have successfully attracted people all around the world. It also shows that games act as one of the global and influential human game entertainment in history.