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“The real squid game is the friends we made along the way.”
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Literally everyone is talking about Squid Game. The South Korean survival drama is currently trending at No. 1 on Netflix in at least 90 countries. Fans are all discussing its twist-filled ending and hoping for a Season 2, and included in the fandom are these celebrities, who have all shared their thoughts on the hit show.
After the Sept. 17 release of Squid Game, the “Up” rapper changed her profile picture on Twitter to the show’s iconic 10-foot-tall doll with her blue hair photoshopped onto it.
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Chlöe Bailey immediately took to Twitter after finishing the show to discuss the finale with her fans: “Wow finished squid game today … let’s talk about it.” She also reposted a meme and added: “i have never felt more seen.”
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Not only did Jimmy Fallon recently interview the Squid Game cast on The Tonight Show, but he also posted a hilarious video trying his hand at the show’s dalgona candy challenge.
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“Oh hell nah!!! I would never play in squid games,” Saweetie tweeted after discovering a fan edit of her playing Episode 1’s Red Light, Green Light challenge. She added: “I’m ngl [not gonna lie] that pause made my heart drop.”
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Billie Eilish revealed she had watched Squid Game: “I finished it in two days, are you kidding me?” she said in an interview with the Australian morning show Sunrise.
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When asked by a fan on the community platform Weverse if he’d seen Squid Game, J-Hope from BTS cheekily responded by asking: “Would you like to play a round of ddakji [the paper flip game] with me?”
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Skai Jackson shared her preferred way of watching the show: with subtitles rather than the English dub. “I’m watching Squid Game in Korean with English subtitles because the English version sounds so weird to me,” she shared.
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Actor, director, screenwriter, and jack of all trades Taika Waititi shared a similar sentiment to Jackson when it came to watching the show. “You don’t have to watch Squid Game dubbed in English,” he tweeted.
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They say brevity is the soul of wit, and drag queen Katya Zamolodchikova perfectly encapsulated everyone’s response to the series by simply tweeting: “Squid Game 😭😭😭”
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“Squid Game is a lot like growing up with 5 siblings, except the winner got to pick what was on TV that night,” comedian and late night host Conan O’Brien said.
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Writer and actor Joel Kim Booster put it all in perspective when he tweeted: “The real squid game is the friends we made along the way.”
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Although he admitted he hadn’t seen the show, late night host Stephen Colbert did share that he “love[s] calamari and cooking competitions!”