Squid Game: Streaming Spectacle, Social Commentary, or Just Clickbait?

Squid Game is back — and so is the discourse. But beyond the jump suits, viral memes, and algorithmic hype, what is Squid Game really telling us?

In this episode of FUNK !T, Sascha slices through the pop culture noise to ask:

Is Netflix giving us real critique or just aestheticized capitalism?
What does the success of this franchise say about global storytelling — and Western consumption of “foreign struggle”?
And what can we learn from the media logic driving its viral comeback?

With references to McLuhan, Hall, Sontag, and a few wildcards you didn’t see coming, this episode digs into the spectacle, the structure, and the subtext — all through the lens of communication theory and media critique.

Because sometimes, the biggest games aren’t played on screen — they’re played in how we watch.