‘Squid Game’ Is Now The #1 Show In 90 Different Countries
www.forbes.com
Netflix’s focus on global content has paid off in a big way with Squid Game, which has planted itself not just as the #1 show in its home country of Korea and in Netflix’s home country of the United States, but now, the show is #1 in at least 90 different countries around the world.

I did. We all did. Still happy to see it.

Korean cinema has really seemed to break through in the US since Parasite. I will say I am not very exposed to Korean culture outside of what makes it over the Pacific to bleed into US culture. Which in my opinion makes it all the more impressive that two anti-capitalist Korean productions became international sensations after exploding in the US.

Can you all feel it? They tried to make us feel like the energy was gone, but it's still there, and it's not just Squid Game that's showing it.

EDIT - on a show related note, Oh-Il Nam was a total surprise to me, biggest twist I'd say.

  • ssjmarx [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    If the dollar crashes no way isn't crypto going with it.

    • cpfhornet [she/her,comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      Yep, guess who owns a large portion of Bitcoin and Crypto now? All your favorite banks and hedge funds. And guess what they like to do during market crashes? Sell to oblivion and then buy even more at the bottom.

      That's a no thank you from me for crypto as long as it's tied to the USD which the fed literally prints double existing supply every year and then decides who to give it to.

    • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Crypto has been tied to the first for a while now. It's the only reason it's worth anything. Also the reason or needs to be do energy intensive, it's literally petro-dollar 2.0. Only this time instead of being backed by car consumption, it's backed by something that can't even be remotely linked to human enterprise.

      • ssjmarx [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Almost all of crypto's value comes from speculation, and I don't think that libertarians who truly believe in the project of decentralized currency are the majority stakeholders. I think if there's a market crash big firms that hold crypto will dump it, trashing the price, and then look to buy it back up at the lower price, the same way they do other commodities/stocks during a crash.

        I could be wrong and the fundamental differences between crypto and other commodities could mean that it really is crash proof.