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Squid Game Memes Are Taking Over The Internet

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Squid Game Memes Are Taking Over The Internet

The series, which is genuinely shocking in its combination of playground games and brutality has become one that we all talk about. A K-drama for Netflix had its fans hooked with a fresh take on reality competition shows as well as dramatic entertainment like K Dramas; it’s no surprise they were able to create such an engaging show from start until now!

The squid game memes are some of the best-loved and most hilarious on the internet. The meme doesn’t just prolong our suffering, it makes us laugh as well with its ability to turn any moment into something funny!

The brilliant conceit in Squid Game’s endless simplistic games is that they are just familiar enough to viewers to be understood — after all, who hasn’t played “Red Light, Green Light”? But no one ever played a version of the game in which sniper rifles were involved for those who do not freeze when the Robot Doll finishes talking. Likewise, tug-of-war is something that’s been played the world over since medieval festivals, just not nearly with such deadly results.

The combination of the familiar and the gruesome — not to mention the show’s sudden overwhelming popularity — makes the series ideal for meme-ing.

With great popularity, came even greater memes.

Here are some of our favorite picks!

Squid Gamers, rise up!

Cadet Kelly could beat tug-of-war, hands down!

The mark of any good Netflix show.

Nerd Worker seems to have taken a different direction with ‘Squid Game’ design

 

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I bet Sang-woo wouldn’t wear pink on Wednesdays.

Just end Gi-hun’s pain right there…

Who needs a yellow light when you’re playing “Red Light, Green Light”?

Anyone who grew up in U.S. middle schools knows what’s up.

 

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Player 69 with those relatable Friday feels.

YouTube Animator “somacguffin” sums up the whole show in one hilarious three-minute animation!

8 things you probably didn’t know about ‘Squid Game’

1. Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk originally came up with the idea for the show in 2008, when he was in a lot of debt and his family was struggling financially.

2. The script initially took a year to write, but it was rejected everywhere until being picked up by Netflix 10 years later, in 2019.

3. Hwang originally wrote it as a movie, and when he decided to turn it into the series, he fleshed out the games more and added characters like Jun-ho, who wasn’t in the first draft.

4. Hwang says the title and key game are inspired by the real squid game, which was his favorite thing to play as a child. He chose it because he felt that it symbolizes society.

5. Hwang had Lee Jung-jae and Park Hae-soo in mind for the roles of Gi-hun and Sang-woo from the start — but for roles like Sae-byeok, Il-nam, and Ali, he deliberately searched for actors who were not well known.

6. He says casting Sae-byeok was difficult, but as soon as he saw the audition tape of Jung Ho-yeon — who was working in New York as a model at the time — he knew he’d found the right person for the role.

7. The giant doll from “Red Light, Green Light” is based on iconic character illustrations from children’s textbooks in the ‘70s and ‘80s.

8. For the Dalgona Challenge, the crew brought in an expert to make real dalgona for three days while filming took place — meaning the set smelled like sugar.