Netflix’s Squid Game was a huge hit and may very well go down as the new decade’s Battle Royale. The show has already inspired a whole genre of Roblox fan projects, and a few content creators have even organized events based on the hit Netflix show.

YouTuber Mr Beast recently hosted a real-life Squid Game. He recreated every challenge from the Netflix show, offering 456 contestants a chance to win $456,000. While Mr Beast’s version is significantly less bloody than its inspiration, it still attracted some controversy online.

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The video of Mr Beast’s Squid Game currently just sits at just shy of 115 million views on his YouTube channel. The content creator and Forbes and Time contributor Jon Youshaei noticed its popularity back when the video hit 113 million views, noting that it beat the Netflix show’s 103 million views. “More views, less time, fewer gatekeepers,” Youshaei tweeted out, celebrating what he sees as a promising future for the creator-driven media economy.

Many replies shared Youshaei’s enthusiasm, but not everyone agreed with his interpretation of events. YouTuber Last-Line argues that it isn’t a fair comparison. He points out that Mr Beast’s recreation of Squid Game is absolutely an impressive achievement, but it only exists because the Netflix series came first. There’s also a pretty big difference between producing a 25-minute game show and an 8-hour drama. Not to mention that watching a single YouTube video is more accessible and significantly less of a time investment than a complete series on Netflix.

Last-Line wasn’t the only one to disagree with Jon Youshaei’s take, with many repliers agreeing with him or expressing similar opinions. However, a few took their criticisms even further, dismissing Mr Beast’s video as a “copy-pasta.” While such a statement may seem harsh, Squid Game indeed provided both the concepts and visual design. Additionally, others pointed out that just because Director Hwang Dong-hyuk started writing Squid Game ten years ago, doesn’t strictly mean it took ten years to make.

Youshaei responded to some of the criticisms, countering that the gap between writing and production actually supports his argument about Hollywood gatekeepers. He also clarified that his comment was more to demonstrate how far content creators have come, rather than disparaging the Netflix show. Unfortunately, there seems to be little Youshaei could do to halt the tide of angry tweets.

This may come across as a great deal of controversy over a harmless comment, and it probably is. Still, Jon Youshaei was unquestionably correct about one thing, and it’s that Mr Beast managed an impressive feat with his version of Squid Game based on the hit Netflix drama. Arguing on Twitter that one is better than the other seems like not seeing the forest for the trees.

Squid Game is available on Netflix.

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