Talk:$456,000 Squid Game in Real Life!

$456,000 Squid Game in Real Life! has been listed as one of the Social sciences and society good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
Review: December 1, 2023. (Reviewed version).

A fact from $456,000 Squid Game in Real Life! appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 31 August 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that MrBeast's Squid Game re-enactment was described as "perverse" and a misunderstanding of the original?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2023/August. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/$456,000 Squid Game In Real Life!.

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Did you know nomination[edit]

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 20:01, 26 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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... that MrBeast's Squid Game recreation cost US$3.5 million to make? Source: https://www.insider.com/mrbeast-recreats-squid-game-watch-youtube-cash-prize-2021-11 https://www.pcgamer.com/mr-beast-squid-game-real-youtube/
- ALT1: ... that MrBeast's Squid Game recreation was described as "perverse" and a misunderstanding of the original? Source: https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7dd7j/mr-beasts-squid-game-ripoff-is-exactly-the-kind-of-video-youtube-rewards
- ALT2: ... that MrBeast recreated Squid Game in the style of American reality television? Source: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2021-12-09/mr-beast-youtube-squid-game-video-hit
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Netsafe

Created by PerfectSoundWhatever (talk). Self-nominated at 19:33, 23 July 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/$456,000 Squid Game In Real Life!; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Waiting on that QPQ. ALT1 preferred for being the most interesting. 〜 Festucalex • talk 12:21, 24 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Festucalex: QPQ done. Sorry for the delay and thank you for the speedy review. — PerfectSoundWhatever (t; c) 06:59, 29 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Good to go. ALT1 preferred. 〜 Festucalex • talk 07:02, 29 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

GAN?[edit]

@PerfectSoundWhatever: This article seems to meet the GA criteria. Do you plan on nominating it? Skyshifter ^talk 00:27, 29 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

You're probably right. I'll throw it in, why not. — PerfectSoundWhatever (t; c) 04:32, 30 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Ehm... would I be breaking any rules if I reviewed this now? Skyshifter ^talk 02:38, 31 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think so, technically — PerfectSoundWhatever (t; c) 03:42, 31 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Notability[edit]

Not going to bother nominating this to AfD, but ... seriously? This random video got an article?! InfiniteNexus (talk) 23:14, 30 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@InfiniteNexus: When pieces of media get significant coverage pieces in The Los Angeles Times, The Independent, The Verge, The Guardian, NME, Vice News, CNET, etc. etc. we tend to have a reason to cover them. Consider your internal biases here: if this was a television article of a big series with 3-5 high quality sources, would you be questioning its notability? Especially if 500 million people had seen it.

There is nothing random about this video: it's the most viewed (non-short) video from the second largest YouTube channel. As well, it generated significant buzz for its giant production size and its controversial nature. — PerfectSoundWhatever (t; c) 01:08, 31 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

"Random video"? I don't know if you looked at the article in its entirety or just noticed it was about a YouTube video, but PerfectSoundWhatever explained above perfectly why this article is valid. Just because the topic of this article is Internet culture, doesn't mean it isn't notable; Wikipedia also cover those topics, even if it's specifics like a single YouTube video. This article meets all Wikipedia policies and guidelines including notability. Skyshifter ^talk 02:37, 31 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review[edit]

Passed. Skyshifter ^talk 01:33, 1 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

This review is transcluded from Talk:$456,000 Squid Game in Real Life!/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Skyshifter (talk · contribs) 03:53, 31 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Will try to review this in a day. Skyshifter ^talk 03:53, 31 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Couldn't do it. But I should end it soon. Skyshifter ^talk 19:14, 1 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox and lead[edit]

Image has a valid fair use rationale
Infobox seems okay
You could add a note stating that the original capitalization is "$456,000 Squid Game In Real Life!" (with "In" instead of "in")
Is it necessary to note that it is a 25-minute video in the lead? I think you could remove "25-minute"
"YouTube video by American YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson, known on YouTube as MrBeast" — change the last "YouTube" to "the platform" to avoid repetition of "YouTube[r]"

Background[edit]

Seems fine

Production[edit]

Seems fine

Video[edit]

"and is not intended to be a parody" — according to who?
"the players competed in a series of games, each reducing the amount of players" — writing could be improved here to avoid repetition of players; maybe something like "the players competed in a series of games where losing would result in elimination".
"The winner of the grand prize was player 079." — I'm not sure if this is relevant
I feel like the last paragraph ("The video was published to the MrBeast [...]) and the entire Style section should all be in Reception, as they're not in the video. They are about the impact of the video after its release and analysis of it.

Reception[edit]

"Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk apparently responded to the video" — why "apparently"?
"other writers described it as 'perfect'" — name the writers
"Youshaei's tweet was criticized" — who criticized it?
"from the work of others (e.g. reaction videos)" — "from the work of others, such as reaction videos" for better flow
"Donaldson received criticism from a number of journalists" — "from some journalists" would be more appropriate IMO, especially if Distractify gets removed so we'll only have 3 sources, which isn't enough to say "a number"

Others[edit]

Distractify is unreliable per WP:RSP. Please remove it.
Change source 19 title to "MrBeast" and website to "YouTube"
No copyvio detected

On hold Skyshifter ^talk 02:26, 3 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the review, will get to these soon.

— PerfectSoundWhatever (t; c) 01:57, 5 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Skyshifter 46.6.57.13 (talk) 20:07, 6 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

? Skyshifter ^talk 21:11, 6 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Skyshifter, I have edited the article and have followed your suggestions. Could you please re-evaluate it? — Davest3r08 (^_^) ^(talk) 15:46, 9 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Davest3r08: Thank you, but wasn't PerfectSoundWhatever supposed to evaluate them? Skyshifter ^talk 16:44, 9 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Skyshifter, oh, sorry, I was unaware. I pinged you because you were the reviewer. — Davest3r08 (^_^) ^(talk) 16:52, 9 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I'll take a second look because I don't think I agree with everything. But overall it looks good and thanks to Davest3r08 for putting in the time to fix these. — PerfectSoundWhatever (t; c) 21:12, 9 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

PerfectSoundWhatever, you're welcome. — Davest3r08 (^_^) ^(talk) 23:24, 9 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

✓ Pass Skyshifter ^talk 01:31, 1 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.