This time, they are jump rope and hide-and-seek.
Five days after the release of ‘Squid Game’ Season 3, nearly 30,000 videos of the jump rope challenge were posted on the video platform TikTok alone.
In addition, various parody videos of hide-and-seek will follow on Reels and others.
Following the 2021 season 1’s “The Mugunghwa Flower Is Blooming” and “Ttukchigi” and the season 2’s “Air Play” in December last year, the “Game in the Squid Game” challenge is a craze led by overseas netizens. TikTok is bombarded with challenge videos using the “Squid Game 3 Jump Rope” game filter.
A game filter refers to an effect filter that performs a specific mission or scores by interacting with the filter during video shooting.
For the jump rope filter, the character in the video can cross the line at the right time. As of the 2nd, there are more than 27,000 posts using the editing effect. The background music of the challenge video is “Open Dongdaemun.”
TikTok overseas user “AHa***” filmed the challenge video with a name tag with “456,” the game participation number of Sung Ki-hoon (Lee Jung-jae), the main character of “Squid Game,” on his chest. The moment the character on the screen jumped, he was also seen jumping together. Another user, “Mr.r***,” posted a video with the message “Squid Game 3 jump rope is so hard,” which has more than 5.9 million views. Reels and other videos will also feature videos of children from around the world experiencing “Squid Game Jump rope.”
A group jump rope set actually installed in Thailand’s Bangkok tourist attraction “Sao Qingcha” is also a hot topic.
When an Instagram user named “hu***” shared the video clip, the comment “Fantastico” (user “silo***)” was posted. A video clip of “Jump Rope Game Tutorial” uploaded by YouTube channel “Netflix K-Content” is also drawing attention. The story is about soldiers in the play explaining the five stages of jump rope play.
It says, “That’s cool. English comments such as “Now I know how to play” (“YouTube user ‘howd***”), “I love this game” (‘sofi***’) and “I used to play this all the time in elementary school, but it was called ‘Teddy Bear’ in England” (‘itsa***’).
Jump rope is a game with a long history regardless of East and West.
In ancient Egyptian murals and records, you can see jumping with ropes or vines.
It is unclear when rope-based play began in Korea. However, according to the National Folk Museum of Korea, it seems that they enjoyed jumping rope according to various rules in the modern era after Japanese colonial era. A video related to hide-and-seek will also follow.
The number of posts on TikTok using the editing effect of “Squid Game 3 Hide & Seek” amounts to 19,000. It is a method of catching characters who open the door and run away 100 times within the time period.
The challenge video uploaded by TikTok user “Gom***” while singing recorded 7.1 million views.
In addition, on Reels and YouTube, experience and parody videos taken while playing hide-and-seek in various configurations while dressed as soldiers or game participants are coming up.
“Squid Game 3,” which was released on the 27th of last month, took the most viewed content place on Netflix in the first week.
According to the Netflix’s official site TO DOOM’s ‘Netflix Top 10’ on the 2nd, the viewing time of the original series ‘Squid Game 3’ from the 23rd to the 29th of last month was 368.4 million hours.
It means that it watched 370 million hours worldwide in just three days of its release. By country, it was ranked first in 93 countries worldwide, including the U.S., the U.K., Japan, and Argentina.
SALLY LEE
US ASIA JOURNAL
