Squid Game takes a jab at crypto scammers in latest season

The second season of the South Korean hit drama Squid Game made quite a few references to current real-life trends, something only a few do. One of those trends just happened to be crypto rug pulls.

In the third episode, player 333, Lee Myeong-gi, was concerned that they took his phone because he wanted to keep his eye on the crypto market. The guy turned out to be an influencer who apparently was involved in rug-pulling a bunch of the other players.

They were pretty mad, they even beat him up for it right off the bat. Per their conversation, thousands of people were scammed by the token’s creators, who were now chilling abroad with the billions of won they stole.

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Most fans have not enjoyed the second season of Squid Game. One look at its Twitter (X) hashtag will tell you that.

But for those who never tuned in to the iconic show, allow us to give you a full spoiler. It’s a story about a couple of white billionaires who just find it entertaining to bet on human lives in survival children’s games.

They send out a guy to scout players, mostly in train stations. The people they find are always in debt and/or even homeless.

He then tells them to play a children’s game with him. If they win, he’ll give them money. If you win, he’ll give you a card and tell you to call him if you are interested in playing more games like this and making insane amounts of money.

Of course, they say yes. They are then given a card with a number on it to call, and then get knocked out and taken to an isolated island where they are put in green tracksuits and made to play ludicrous games like Red Light, Green Light.

You lose, you die. A character, Seong Gi-hun (player 456), won the game in season 1, though mostly out of luck. In season 2, he gets angry and comes back to the island by finding the train station guy. Why? To take revenge.

The season ended on a cliffhanger, and it is not looking good for our unfit hero at all. However, throughout the games, the victims of that rug pull kept bringing it up and cussing the creators out.

Censored screenshot from Netflix. Credits: Cryptopolitan

Crypto was mentioned a lot. The name of the coin is Dalmatian (DAL) and the victims said the influencer told them to invest everything they had in it because it was definitely “going to the moon.”

But get this. A real-life rug pull actually happened using the movie. Oh yes. Scammers launched a coin called Squid Game (SQUID) and stole tens of thousands of dollars just like that. How hilarious is that?

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