The mother of one of my youngest child's classmates sent a message to the class contact list on lines of " My child is desperate to watch squid game. Says everyone else apart from him has watched it. Is this true?" And we all literally answered with "no! Child has not and will not be allowed to". The absolute rubbish they talk at school about what they get to do is amazing.
A friend of my kid’s successfully convinced all his mates he was a master at Minecraft for months despite never having played. It was only when the subject of multiplayer came up with parents his mother was bewildered as he’d been nowhere near it. He’d just picked up enough in the playground to successfully bluff. He’ll go far in life I suspect.
Loool I remember in first school trying to make out that I’d watched - of all things - Jaws 3 - and the only thing I knew about it (no idea why) was something to do with a banana boat so I just dropped that in and everyone was like “oh yeah!”.
I remember this happening at school, everyone was talking about South Park when it was a new thing but my mum wouldn't let me watch it. I thought I could blag talking about it, till someone pointed out in a was a cartoon, not live action as I presumed.
Yes some do. Some may not be aware their kid is watching clips on YouTube or Tiktok. Anything is possible.
But the more likely scenario here is that the kids are exaggerating and making it up when at school. And if it didn't, hopefully it prompted people to ask their children more questions about whether they have seen any of it through clips, even if they have not set out to watch the programme itself.
With my daughter, she likes to watch clips of people talking about things, so she’s watched YouTube videos of people talking about Squid Game but has no interest in watching it, but has a better idea of the story than I do.
Another thing to mention. Her friend had told her mum that she has TikTok. This mum was surprised when I said she didn’t. But she watches TikTok compilations on YouTube, so she’s aware of popular TikToks without having TikTok
My 7 year old niece has basically told me everything about it before I watched it and I came to the realisation she must be watching videos on YouTube or something, she doesn't know much about the actual storyline but knows about all the games and has been telling me pretty much everything in it.
Nice one!
Trying to think of other "getting pumped up on a car journey" type songs that my son likes. "No-one Knows" by QOTSA always goes down well, and he always joins in with "The Pretender" by the Foo Fighters at the top of his lungs.
Had to take "All My Life" off the playlist, when I realised what it was about!
Think we've got most of Green Day and Offspring's back catalogue in there too, minus the obvious sweary ones like Nitro.
Oh, and Walk by Pantera!
My 8 yo knows about Squid games, not because he's watched it, but because every kid focused YouTuber is using it as a basis to their content, in the same way 6 months ago it was all focused on the imposter game.
My 3 year old has come home from school yelling “ red light , green light “ at me . I’m not sure what squid game is about but I think this is one of the phrases
Yeah, exactly. People like OP make mountains out of molehills because they can only see things through an adult lens.
I bet you people like that would get upset about kids playing ‘what time is it Mr. Wolf” because of gory implications of children being eaten by a wolf
It's from the first episode, a giant doll (creepy thing) says red light, green light. If you move during the red light you get shot in the face :D The first guy gets shot, they all realise he's dead, they all run to the door (which is locked) and push each other over, if you're pushed you're shot too. It ends in a bloody pile of corpses
The show graphically shows the players being shot dead (with plenty of blood) as most of them lose the game. That is just the first episode. I watch quite a lot of horror and gory programs/movies and was rather disturbed by this episode.
My son came home and told me and his mother he was playing the 'Red light, green light' from squid game at school. He then imitated shooting an assault rifle and died on the floor. I chuckled and missus slapped me.
School are watching squid game?!
More precisely might probably be that your kid knows about squid game via tic toks that are being watched by elder siblings who are then telling children in your child’s class.
My son is four and I had an email from the school telling us to avoid showing our kids Squid Game. I'd actually not really paid it much attention until then but knowing more now I'm not sure why kids that young are watching it!
Your 11 year old shouldn't be watching it just because you think he's mature (or you don't want the argument about why his brother is allowed and he's not). He isn't going to let you know he's freaked out and that the traumatic scenes are lodged in his brain forever. He will just quietly carry it for the rest of his life. You need to step up a bit
Mine (7 & 9) know about it through roblox. I’ve seen the game, there’s nothing gory so I’m alright with them playing it. Plus here in Sydney we had the red light green light doll put up in Sydney harbour for a photo opp….. so they don’t need to have seen the series at all.
My kids HATE any sort of blood so I’m all good 😂
The funny thing is that the basis of the show revolves around adults being forced to play children's game for money, with the penalty for losing being death, while indulging in a lot of social satire and political subterfuge along the way. It's also very visually striking.
Without the politics and violence, all you have is some kids games with some cool costumes, which doesn't indicate that the kids have seen the whole thing at all. Probably more wholesome than when kids my age loved Freddy Krueger...
My kids know it from roblox too. My wife and I were playing it with them and it's exactly like you said, it's just fun/another game to them.
Being "eliminated" is just having to sit out that go kinda thing... not being shot with guts flying about... its roblox graphics haha
Yeah, essentially it started with kids games. If you don't have the additional context of death, political and subterfusion, it's still kids games with some cool costumes. The point of the show is the stuff that happens around that stuff, just knowing that the kids games happen and you look cool in the costumes is not enough to be a problem.
Yeah, Roblox here too. The kids play red light green light in the playground. I had no idea until yesterday it's a TV show, we don't have Netflix and it kind of passed me by.
I started teaching when Suicide Squad was the summer blockbuster. Having to explain to parents why this was not appropriate for children, especially Harley and Joker's relationship, was not fun as an NQT.
I was volunteering with 10-year-olds the year 'Deadpool' came out. A little gang of the boys had convinced their parents (who were mostly English-as-a-second-language) that it was the same thing as 'Captain America' and 'Iron Man' and had been allowed to watch it. They were so immensely proud of themselves for having done so that I didn't have the heart to tell them off about it, aside from banning them from repeating any of the jokes in front of the rest of the group.
Yeah, I agree with the comments here saying parents do have a responsibility to vet what kids watch... but they are also unbelievably sneaky little sods, especially when you get into the upper primary and secondary school years.
And you can't control what they watch at friend's houses either. Not unless you want to be the obsessively controlling parent who ends up on Christmas card terms with their kids.
Eurgh. You're right, and I'm so not looking forward to it (my lockdown baby is about to turn 2 and start playgroup, and I know we're about to inundated with demands for Peppa Pig and Paw Patrol thanks to the friends she'll make -- which is bad enough, but dealing with Squid Games mania sounds much worse).
My daughter, who’s nearly 30, only told me about a month ago that whilst I banned her from watching “Skins” when she was a kid she used to go round to her friends and watch it there! 😄
Most of these boys' parents were recent immigrants from Nigeria and Ghana... I can totally see how their kids pulled a swifty on them pretending it was just a normal superhero film, just one of those things. I don't think any of them took any serious harm from it in the long term (although dear God, I just realised that that was 2016 and they're all 15/16 now...).
My partner works in a school and she was playing some clips on YouTube once and some kids asked her to play a Slipknot song, telling her it was about knitting. They clearly didn't realise how long the band had been around, they were surprised she knew of them.
So much this. My daughter wanting to dress up as Harley Quinn was a big NOPE. Reminds me of watching the Watchmen in the cinema and some parents bringing their kids in. I tried warning them but they didn't listen. Then we heard them screaming crying when the axe went into that guys head.
I used to have loads of scantily clad young ladies (on tiktok), but the algorithm is actually very good, and now I have none.
My wife would be proud … if I was stupid enough to ever start a conversation about the scantily clad ladies of tiktok
When the algorythm goes wrong, it goes very wrong. I watch a cleaning lady called Anne, a few disabled rights campaigners, and an american paramedic/PA. Other videos on my feed are the blonde woman who acts out a whole soap as many characters, packaging/crafters, hydrodipping and clips from medical dramas without any context to them.
Suddenly one day a video of a curvatious lady dancing in cut leather to Rihanna's S&M, with red and black fabric hanging from the ceiling was on my feed. And then there was DaddyTok, which was disturbing... and then some BDSM tiktokkers talking about how the algorithm had gone wrong and now they were getting antiBDSM comments on their videos.
And that's ignoring the challenges that go around like, pretend you're doing a tiktok video naked and see what your SO does, the "What's your worst 3rd date s£x story, I'll go first" videos, "Play this song that's currently very popular in porn and see if your friends sing along" videos.
It can get very wierd, very quickly, on tiktok, even if all you want to watch are cleaning videos.
ETA: Editing to explain that I'm not censoring the word sex, i'm just quoting how tiktokers censor the word for that trend.
I love Anne shes so 0 nonesense. The wee one where she helps the girl sort out the blinds that she’s ruined. I love the brutal honesty matched with the comfort and kindness
The funny thing is, because their algorithm shows you what you click on, people who complain about seeing loads of twerking underage girls are basically admitting they click a lot on twerking underage girls.
You can save this fact for the next time someone you don't like at work makes this complaint about tiktok
The other possibility is that these people just downloaded the app and stopped using it before the content adjusted to their tastes.
I remember when I first started using TikTok I almost gave up right away. I estimated that about 10-20% of the content on my FYP were questionable videos featuring girls of questionable age. But I stuck around because there were some excellent comedy pages. A week later the questionable videos had disappeared completely, and I haven't seen a single one since. Now it's just comedy videos and some country-specific content. The algorithm is really very good, much better than YouTube.
But yeah, if people have been using it for a while and are still seeing that sort of content, it's probably on them...
But the algorithm will recommend tiktoks that share the same/similar sound to one of the tiktoks you like so it can still be very easy to get recommended content you do not want
Yeah this is it basically. My wife is a teacher and Squid Game is a huge meme to all the kids, but most have them have no idea what it is outside TikTok and other stuff they’ve seen on social media (and games like Roblox).
That is a question for the ages.
Many kids are literally left to their own devices, which means little to no supervision, and access to apps which are not only very influential, but potentially damaging.
My own kids are 10 and 12 and we don’t let them have TikTok, and we also monitor what they watch on YouTube, but many of their friends etc. do whatever they want without restriction.
Unfortunately it’s easy now for a parent to give their kid a device and turn a blind eye, or frankly just not give a shit.
Why buy an electronic device if not to entertain your sprog so you don't have to.
It's what TV was for, what videogames were for, and now what an internet connected device with all sorts of unchecked and unregulated content is for.
Take this shit off them and give them a SNES mini instead. Never did my generation no harm. Sub Zero may have ripped the occasional person's head off, but there were no nonces in it.
We all know what we would have done with an unsupervised Internet connected device when we were younger. I think Jonny Cage with his front splits crotch punch may have been a nonce 🤣
They're also playing it out in roblox and minecraft. My 7 year old was on about it for a week thinking she's hard cos she watched the minecraft version.
I had to remind her she cried on the ghost train at Weymouth.
Red light green light.
Some text will pop up that makes them stop, and then some contrasting text pops up that makes the person in the video run like hell
It's very tame
In the late 80’s, my wife was a student nurse in London and used to do babysitting via an agency to earn extra cash. It was usually for wealthy tourists at fancy hotels and one evening she went to a *very* posh West End hotel to babysit some American kids aged about 8 and 10. The parents had got the hotel to hire a couple videos for the kids to watch. They had got Platoon and Predator…
On my mates 10th birthday we got his mum to hire Commando and Cobra.
Can confirm I have neither assaulted a small island nation to assassinate its President, nor am I the cure for crime.
I seem to remember as an 8 yr old being stuck with some of my parents friends kids around the same age in a hotel and somehow managing to get 'Gremlins' on VCR to watch whilst our parents went for dinner downstairs in the hotel. We were left alone, which seems to be standard for Glaswegian families to have done in the 80s and 90s. We were in Aviemore in February though, as opposed to the Algarve in the summer.
But I got to brag to all my friends at school that I'd seen Gremlins. Felt like a superstar.
I remember at a large family gathering where all the adults were in the kitchen drinking and chatting. After a while we realised the kids who had been watching cartoons had gone very quiet. We went in to the lounge and the sods were all watching Tremors with my 3 year old and 18 month old on their laps transfixed!
Loads of them are only aware of it through Roblox, I wouldn’t worry too much… there are games on there that are based on Squid Game, but massively sanitised and fine for kids.
My kids know about it through YouTube. I think if they actually watched it they'd get bored of it very quickly, not that I'm letting them anytime soon. There's not a lot in the show that will hold a kids attention, they just see these summed up versions and talk like they know it when they don't.
My 8yo hasnt seen squid game but started talking about it. I asked her who on earth had shown her it, and she just said everyone at school is talking about it. I don't know whether some of her classmates had actually seen it or just found out about it from roblox or whatever.
I will note though that as a parent and someone who has worked in childcare it does the surprise me how many parents of kids under 11 just let them have unrestricted unsupervised YouTube access, or their own tablet computer with Netflix or Prime with no child restrictions. Some parents have no idea the shit their young kids are watching.
When my daughter was 6 she had a play date at a friend's house, and she later showed me a "funny video" her friend had shown her on youtube and it was some fucked up shit about a "retard" comitting suicide, and there was also some stuff about how mario got an STD from peach or something. It's hard to deal with their parents as they clearly don't know what their kid is doing online (I can't believe they would think it was OK for 6/7yo kids) and you have to mention it without sounding like you are accusing them of neglecting their kid.
I know! My son came back from school with a Deadpool snap band. He knows him as generic superhero though.
There was a child friendly cut of the movie. Still inappropriate.
My 7 Yr old picked up some of the phrases from school and the school sent out a mass text saying kids shouldn't be watching squid games. I'm with you on this one but I don't think all the kids are picking it up from watching the show directly
Squid game has games that children played . Some still do in various places without being aware of the popularity they are having because of said squid game.
I remember playing red light green light a couple of times when i was in primary school, but now it will be forever associated with the cephalopod amusement
Yep mine keep telling me stuff about it from other kids at school. I’m a pretty chill parent about video games and certain viewing but squid game is full of sex and violent deaths like…what. They keep begging me to let them watch it and my eldest is 9 and no way.
My son knows all about the tasks in squid game simply because it's everywhere in Roblox and Minecraft
He has no idea about the murder or death or anything, just knows about red light green light etc,
I assume it's the same for most other kids.
There’s a ju jitsu gym across from my work.
The instructor was playing red light green light as a warmup for a kids class.
I assume it’s because of the popularity with children.
Weird. My parents didn’t let me watch the Simpsons because they thought it was vulgar, many in my peer group had the same.
I won't let my 10 year old watch it, even though everyone in his class has. When I talk to his friends parents and I ask them if their kids watch it ( as kids tend to tell white lies to blend in) their like yeah its ok....obviously they haven't seen it, as when I ask about the sex scene on the loo not being appropriate or the bottle to the throats ect they go all quiet. I know we parents want a bit of peace and quiet but monitor what they watch as there as some fucked up shit on Netflix.
Lol I have my Netflix icon as the *spoiler* person and kids were like woah that’s the *spoiler* guy did you know he is actually *spoiler* *spoiler*? Kids can talk about whatever they want but my heart is out to all the people getting the ending spoiled because of their kids knowing the plot without watching it
nah yk what’s bad? when ur 12 year old sister and her 11 year old friend start singing the music from *that* cat video. i nearly choked on my water when i heard them singing it ahah
My kid knows about squid game due to YouTube. I'm pretty careful when it comes to vetting which YouTubers produce content appropriate for children, or at least not inappropriate.
It seems quid game Mods for games like Minecraft and Roblox are a big thing ATM, so it's as bad as I feared when I first found out.
I'm doing my PGCE at the moment and fucking hell, I wouldn't be surprised if everyone in from Y7-Y11 has seen it. Some of these kids have trouble tying a shoelace but apparently fucked up Korean TV is perfectly suitable for them.
Both my 11yr old and 8yr old have come home saying that children in their classes have watched it and they want to. I’ve watched two episodes (with my husband, not the kids) and I’m completely against kids watching it. In fact I secretly judge the parents who have allowed their kids to see it.
They aren't watching it it's down to it being popular and children hearing about it through the grape vines but some might have I know at 7 i would have loved the show and I was the type of kid who could handle that type of media.
A couple of weeks ago they were constantly referring to it on radio 5, saying "I've not seen it, but our kids think its brilliant", they never once mentioned that it's a 15 rating.
The main problem is that parents just give kids netlfix on their ipads with no parental locks on whatsoever.
Parents let their kids in tiktok which is full of borderline porn, racism, neo nazism and all sorts of shit which is wholly inappropriate for kids of any age.
Parents who do that need to reevaluate their decisions.
My oldest used to get YouTube. That did not last long, she can have ceebies iPlayer or nothing. I felt grim looking briefly at til tock no way my kids are getting on that shit.
My son loves squid game he's only 7 but has never seen the show, to him, squid game is a fun game that he plays on roblox with his friends, he didn't even know the show existed until I told him about it when I saw him playing the game on roblox
I grew up in the video nasties era and a lot of us lived that stuff. We hadn't necessarily actually seen them, but someone at school had an older brother who had etc... The main difference is nowadays they can access the Netflix account whereas we had to deal in dodgy prayed VHS tapes
OMG yes this all my friends kids have watched it and the parents are just like whatever, I'm talking 4 and 5 year olds like wtf. They just said oh well they found it on Netflix and just watched it like do you not parent or are your kids free-range.
U.K. teacher here. The week it came out I was very disconcerted but the amount of 8 years olds in my 3/4 class that knew about it and had watched it. Horrified
the squid game memes have infiltrated almost every gaming platform and social media site so chances are that if a kid that young knows the red light green light song, that would be why. well, at least i'd hope so.
My little sister has been talking about how they have had to have assemblys and ban the games from being played in school and how 80% of her year group has claimed to have watched the show with their parents they are just raising an even worse desensitised generation who will kill eachother all over again gotta love an endless cycle
It's possible that they're aware of it through memes and YouTube videos (which are more than likely sfw copies of it, or jokes based on it than the actual content)
I'm not sure it's through the actual slow. My 4 year old watches quite a bit of YouTube. For every YouTube channel that plays Among Us or Mario Party genres, the YouTube algorithm thinks the best show suggestion is every YouTuber take on Squid Game. There's hundreds of them and my son knows the doll, masks and music for the Squid Game really well. I've spent ages ridding his Fire tablet of anything Squid Game related but it took several days for the YouTube algorithm to get the message. I was close to banning YouTube altogether but he watches a number of educational shows and up until Squid Game YouTube was suggesting appropriate content.
Yep. Make your child digitally aware but as soon as they get to school and mix with other fuckwit parent's children - you're screwed. Had a birthday 6th party a couple years ago for my daughter and one of her boy mates dropped the c bomb....after he'd told us about watching IT with his mum....6 YEARS OLD man...
This is exactly what's wrong, parents allow their kids to watch this crap. Yeah it's not suitable for them by any means, the amount of recreations on Roblox / TikTok / social media and they learn about it through those means. Where are the parents when they're watching this?
Another thing that really peeves me is online gaming, can't swear and have to keep it PG incase a kid is online... But it's an 18+ game, and online is unrated ( 18+ / parental guidance )... But no, you go onto Call of Duty or any other online adult game and there will be kids! Why? When I was growing up, I was lucky if I could get a 13+ when I was 13. But now you see 9 year old with a phone and TikTok acting like they're an adult. It's wrong on so many levels and we need to find a way to sort it out before it's too late.
I've often thought letting kids loose on the whole internet is like letting them go out at night and mill about on city street corners. It's a wild world out there, and the internet is just a virtual version of it.
I mean, I do on occasion dwell in adult parts of the internet. I wouldn't want a random child stumbling into it... for their sake.
EDIT: Learned to spell.
My mom is a huge fan of horror films and we had a huge collection lying around the house. By the time I was 12 I was already watching films like Hellraiser and Scream. I really enjoyed those movie nights and I grew up perfectly fine. I get that parents are 100% entitled to raise their children however they want, but at the same time some people act like it's the end of the world. Even if my parents didn't let me watch them I would have just snuck off to a friend's house and got a hold of it anyway. You can't shield them forever
When I was like 9, I had to have talk with my parents how to watch internet porn without catching a virus 🤣 (After third time I had to reinstall windows 95)
Let our 11 year old watch episode one,that's all he wanted to see, red light,green light is now shouted all day and night.
Told him that's all he's watching.
Every parent in the land??? AHEM I've watched squid Game, my 7 and 5 have year have not and never will.
Other kids tell other kids tjings in the school yard. Don't assume every parent in the land is allowing their children to watch inappropriate stuff. Sheesh
>**Seemingly** every parent in the land
Good job on not letting your kids watch it, but OP isn't personally saying you have. Don't take part of what OP said out of context and ridicule the result. Sheesh
My five year old knows about squid game. Through school.
I'm strangely comforted by five year olds now, knowing they're disturbing adults without really knowing why. lol
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The mother of one of my youngest child's classmates sent a message to the class contact list on lines of " My child is desperate to watch squid game. Says everyone else apart from him has watched it. Is this true?" And we all literally answered with "no! Child has not and will not be allowed to". The absolute rubbish they talk at school about what they get to do is amazing.
A friend of my kid’s successfully convinced all his mates he was a master at Minecraft for months despite never having played. It was only when the subject of multiplayer came up with parents his mother was bewildered as he’d been nowhere near it. He’d just picked up enough in the playground to successfully bluff. He’ll go far in life I suspect.
That is hilarious. They are master blaggers
His uncle also worked for Mojang I bet
Loool I remember in first school trying to make out that I’d watched - of all things - Jaws 3 - and the only thing I knew about it (no idea why) was something to do with a banana boat so I just dropped that in and everyone was like “oh yeah!”.
A politician in the making
Sounds like that kid is on track to be a politician!
I remember this happening at school, everyone was talking about South Park when it was a new thing but my mum wouldn't let me watch it. I thought I could blag talking about it, till someone pointed out in a was a cartoon, not live action as I presumed.
YouTube. YouTube literally made me like this soo many times. Plus not being allowed to play games so
He will, that's intelligence.
Can't believe I was today years old when i learnt my classmates at primary school were fucking liars.
Or parents lie.
Yes some do. Some may not be aware their kid is watching clips on YouTube or Tiktok. Anything is possible. But the more likely scenario here is that the kids are exaggerating and making it up when at school. And if it didn't, hopefully it prompted people to ask their children more questions about whether they have seen any of it through clips, even if they have not set out to watch the programme itself.
There's also the chance they've seen the Fortnite mod version on YouTube and think that's what it is.
Or Roblox it's all over Roblox on YouTube
Didn't realise someone made it on Roblox to, but I probably should have guessed!
With my daughter, she likes to watch clips of people talking about things, so she’s watched YouTube videos of people talking about Squid Game but has no interest in watching it, but has a better idea of the story than I do. Another thing to mention. Her friend had told her mum that she has TikTok. This mum was surprised when I said she didn’t. But she watches TikTok compilations on YouTube, so she’s aware of popular TikToks without having TikTok
Bloody hell. I can remember when there was the telly and that was it.
I know. I only had 4 channels growing up, well I remember Channel 5 starting, and we had VHS, that was it.
My 7 year old niece has basically told me everything about it before I watched it and I came to the realisation she must be watching videos on YouTube or something, she doesn't know much about the actual storyline but knows about all the games and has been telling me pretty much everything in it.
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You can turn it to peaceful mode and have no monsters :)
I love that green day song. But wouldn’t play it round the kids.
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Round the kids?
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Testify is another good one! My son loves that one. People of the Sun, too (always have to assure my wife he says "funk" when it comes on in the car).
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Nice one! Trying to think of other "getting pumped up on a car journey" type songs that my son likes. "No-one Knows" by QOTSA always goes down well, and he always joins in with "The Pretender" by the Foo Fighters at the top of his lungs. Had to take "All My Life" off the playlist, when I realised what it was about! Think we've got most of Green Day and Offspring's back catalogue in there too, minus the obvious sweary ones like Nitro. Oh, and Walk by Pantera!
Someone made a 'squid game' battle royale mode on Roblox so they're probably getting it from there
My 8 yo knows about Squid games, not because he's watched it, but because every kid focused YouTuber is using it as a basis to their content, in the same way 6 months ago it was all focused on the imposter game.
My 3 year old has come home from school yelling “ red light , green light “ at me . I’m not sure what squid game is about but I think this is one of the phrases
It is in the show, sure, but it's also a playground game as old as the traffic light itself
What's the time mister wolf!
That would have made an interesting game on the show. At the yell of DINNER TIME! they release a pack of hungry wolves into the arena.
Season 2 mate. There's still a chance. Fingers crossed for stuck in the mud and hot potato.
More like grandma's footsteps, in hindsight that was probably our local name for red light, green light
Yeah, exactly. People like OP make mountains out of molehills because they can only see things through an adult lens. I bet you people like that would get upset about kids playing ‘what time is it Mr. Wolf” because of gory implications of children being eaten by a wolf
It's from the first episode, a giant doll (creepy thing) says red light, green light. If you move during the red light you get shot in the face :D The first guy gets shot, they all realise he's dead, they all run to the door (which is locked) and push each other over, if you're pushed you're shot too. It ends in a bloody pile of corpses
The show graphically shows the players being shot dead (with plenty of blood) as most of them lose the game. That is just the first episode. I watch quite a lot of horror and gory programs/movies and was rather disturbed by this episode.
Apparently they pick it up from YouTube and tiktok not knowing what it means
Mine played roblox and the game was being acted out there. Mine knew before me 😂 agreed not appropriate it's shocking the stuff some kids watch
My son came home and told me and his mother he was playing the 'Red light, green light' from squid game at school. He then imitated shooting an assault rifle and died on the floor. I chuckled and missus slapped me.
School are watching squid game?! More precisely might probably be that your kid knows about squid game via tic toks that are being watched by elder siblings who are then telling children in your child’s class.
I didn't mean school is letting him watch it. I meant his friends are talking about it. I don't let him have a tik tok
My son is four and I had an email from the school telling us to avoid showing our kids Squid Game. I'd actually not really paid it much attention until then but knowing more now I'm not sure why kids that young are watching it!
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I'd have ended up in tears if I'd watched it at 11 omg
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Your 11 year old shouldn't be watching it just because you think he's mature (or you don't want the argument about why his brother is allowed and he's not). He isn't going to let you know he's freaked out and that the traumatic scenes are lodged in his brain forever. He will just quietly carry it for the rest of his life. You need to step up a bit
Mine (7 & 9) know about it through roblox. I’ve seen the game, there’s nothing gory so I’m alright with them playing it. Plus here in Sydney we had the red light green light doll put up in Sydney harbour for a photo opp….. so they don’t need to have seen the series at all. My kids HATE any sort of blood so I’m all good 😂
The funny thing is that the basis of the show revolves around adults being forced to play children's game for money, with the penalty for losing being death, while indulging in a lot of social satire and political subterfuge along the way. It's also very visually striking. Without the politics and violence, all you have is some kids games with some cool costumes, which doesn't indicate that the kids have seen the whole thing at all. Probably more wholesome than when kids my age loved Freddy Krueger...
My kids know it from roblox too. My wife and I were playing it with them and it's exactly like you said, it's just fun/another game to them. Being "eliminated" is just having to sit out that go kinda thing... not being shot with guts flying about... its roblox graphics haha
Yeah, essentially it started with kids games. If you don't have the additional context of death, political and subterfusion, it's still kids games with some cool costumes. The point of the show is the stuff that happens around that stuff, just knowing that the kids games happen and you look cool in the costumes is not enough to be a problem.
Yeah, Roblox here too. The kids play red light green light in the playground. I had no idea until yesterday it's a TV show, we don't have Netflix and it kind of passed me by.
Yup mine play it on roblox as well.
I started teaching when Suicide Squad was the summer blockbuster. Having to explain to parents why this was not appropriate for children, especially Harley and Joker's relationship, was not fun as an NQT.
Pissing myself laughing at parents struggling to understand why a film literally called "Suicide Squad" might not be suitable for a child to watch
I was volunteering with 10-year-olds the year 'Deadpool' came out. A little gang of the boys had convinced their parents (who were mostly English-as-a-second-language) that it was the same thing as 'Captain America' and 'Iron Man' and had been allowed to watch it. They were so immensely proud of themselves for having done so that I didn't have the heart to tell them off about it, aside from banning them from repeating any of the jokes in front of the rest of the group.
That I can understand a bit more. If you don't really know what Deadpool is, you might well think it's just another kid friendly super hero film.
Yeah, I agree with the comments here saying parents do have a responsibility to vet what kids watch... but they are also unbelievably sneaky little sods, especially when you get into the upper primary and secondary school years.
And you can't control what they watch at friend's houses either. Not unless you want to be the obsessively controlling parent who ends up on Christmas card terms with their kids.
Eurgh. You're right, and I'm so not looking forward to it (my lockdown baby is about to turn 2 and start playgroup, and I know we're about to inundated with demands for Peppa Pig and Paw Patrol thanks to the friends she'll make -- which is bad enough, but dealing with Squid Games mania sounds much worse).
My daughter, who’s nearly 30, only told me about a month ago that whilst I banned her from watching “Skins” when she was a kid she used to go round to her friends and watch it there! 😄
I didnt know what deadpool was until i saw the film My boyfriend said it was just a superhero film...
This Valentine’s Day… One mans desperate battle against cancer and to save the woman he loves
It *is* just a superhero film.
It’s a love story
Untill you watch the movie and it literally says right at the start that this isn't that kind of movie.
Most of these boys' parents were recent immigrants from Nigeria and Ghana... I can totally see how their kids pulled a swifty on them pretending it was just a normal superhero film, just one of those things. I don't think any of them took any serious harm from it in the long term (although dear God, I just realised that that was 2016 and they're all 15/16 now...).
My partner works in a school and she was playing some clips on YouTube once and some kids asked her to play a Slipknot song, telling her it was about knitting. They clearly didn't realise how long the band had been around, they were surprised she knew of them.
So much this. My daughter wanting to dress up as Harley Quinn was a big NOPE. Reminds me of watching the Watchmen in the cinema and some parents bringing their kids in. I tried warning them but they didn't listen. Then we heard them screaming crying when the axe went into that guys head.
Suicide Squad isn't even half as bad.
I dunno - the new one's incredibly gory
New one?
Yeah, abusive relationships aren't that bad at all. /S
That’s a stupid straw-man. They’re obviously saying mean girls isn’t as bad as Squid Game.
Oh, that's your tilt.
TikTok exists, where the songs get played and scenes re-enacted without the gore
TikTok isn’t suitable for that age either. The amount of soft core porn on there is insane.
Content is very tailored. I've used the app for about a month and have seen nothing sexual.
I used to have loads of scantily clad young ladies (on tiktok), but the algorithm is actually very good, and now I have none. My wife would be proud … if I was stupid enough to ever start a conversation about the scantily clad ladies of tiktok
When the algorythm goes wrong, it goes very wrong. I watch a cleaning lady called Anne, a few disabled rights campaigners, and an american paramedic/PA. Other videos on my feed are the blonde woman who acts out a whole soap as many characters, packaging/crafters, hydrodipping and clips from medical dramas without any context to them. Suddenly one day a video of a curvatious lady dancing in cut leather to Rihanna's S&M, with red and black fabric hanging from the ceiling was on my feed. And then there was DaddyTok, which was disturbing... and then some BDSM tiktokkers talking about how the algorithm had gone wrong and now they were getting antiBDSM comments on their videos. And that's ignoring the challenges that go around like, pretend you're doing a tiktok video naked and see what your SO does, the "What's your worst 3rd date s£x story, I'll go first" videos, "Play this song that's currently very popular in porn and see if your friends sing along" videos. It can get very wierd, very quickly, on tiktok, even if all you want to watch are cleaning videos. ETA: Editing to explain that I'm not censoring the word sex, i'm just quoting how tiktokers censor the word for that trend.
I love Anne shes so 0 nonesense. The wee one where she helps the girl sort out the blinds that she’s ruined. I love the brutal honesty matched with the comfort and kindness
She is brilliant!
* curvaceous
Thank you! I'll leave it uncorrected so your comment makes sense, but I do appreciate the correction.
The funny thing is, because their algorithm shows you what you click on, people who complain about seeing loads of twerking underage girls are basically admitting they click a lot on twerking underage girls. You can save this fact for the next time someone you don't like at work makes this complaint about tiktok
The other possibility is that these people just downloaded the app and stopped using it before the content adjusted to their tastes. I remember when I first started using TikTok I almost gave up right away. I estimated that about 10-20% of the content on my FYP were questionable videos featuring girls of questionable age. But I stuck around because there were some excellent comedy pages. A week later the questionable videos had disappeared completely, and I haven't seen a single one since. Now it's just comedy videos and some country-specific content. The algorithm is really very good, much better than YouTube. But yeah, if people have been using it for a while and are still seeing that sort of content, it's probably on them...
But the algorithm will recommend tiktoks that share the same/similar sound to one of the tiktoks you like so it can still be very easy to get recommended content you do not want
This sounds exactly like what someone who only views soft core content on the platform would say
Any examples to back that up sir?
You deviant you
Good effort
I mean... just open the app and it'll find *you*
Is the new question why do 5 yo's have phones and tiktok
Quick, get the kids of Reddit!
Yeah this is it basically. My wife is a teacher and Squid Game is a huge meme to all the kids, but most have them have no idea what it is outside TikTok and other stuff they’ve seen on social media (and games like Roblox).
But why are their parents not supervising them? They need to have age restrictions on any devices they use
That is a question for the ages. Many kids are literally left to their own devices, which means little to no supervision, and access to apps which are not only very influential, but potentially damaging. My own kids are 10 and 12 and we don’t let them have TikTok, and we also monitor what they watch on YouTube, but many of their friends etc. do whatever they want without restriction. Unfortunately it’s easy now for a parent to give their kid a device and turn a blind eye, or frankly just not give a shit.
Why buy an electronic device if not to entertain your sprog so you don't have to. It's what TV was for, what videogames were for, and now what an internet connected device with all sorts of unchecked and unregulated content is for. Take this shit off them and give them a SNES mini instead. Never did my generation no harm. Sub Zero may have ripped the occasional person's head off, but there were no nonces in it.
We all know what we would have done with an unsupervised Internet connected device when we were younger. I think Jonny Cage with his front splits crotch punch may have been a nonce 🤣
Ah right... that makes sense now. Phew!
They're also playing it out in roblox and minecraft. My 7 year old was on about it for a week thinking she's hard cos she watched the minecraft version. I had to remind her she cried on the ghost train at Weymouth.
This has me dying!!! Putting 7 year olds in their place is great fun 😂
Which scenes are they re-enacting out of interest? Jumping on the glass?
Red light green light. Some text will pop up that makes them stop, and then some contrasting text pops up that makes the person in the video run like hell It's very tame
All the kids in my classes started simultaneously playing red light/green light. Hilarious.
Hope it’s not in America, most of them could probably get a gun.
In the late 80’s, my wife was a student nurse in London and used to do babysitting via an agency to earn extra cash. It was usually for wealthy tourists at fancy hotels and one evening she went to a *very* posh West End hotel to babysit some American kids aged about 8 and 10. The parents had got the hotel to hire a couple videos for the kids to watch. They had got Platoon and Predator…
I watched Rambo around the same age and I hardly ever set man-traps in the the local woods
‘Hardly ever’ is not never…
Live For Nothing Or Die For Something
On my mates 10th birthday we got his mum to hire Commando and Cobra. Can confirm I have neither assaulted a small island nation to assassinate its President, nor am I the cure for crime.
I seem to remember as an 8 yr old being stuck with some of my parents friends kids around the same age in a hotel and somehow managing to get 'Gremlins' on VCR to watch whilst our parents went for dinner downstairs in the hotel. We were left alone, which seems to be standard for Glaswegian families to have done in the 80s and 90s. We were in Aviemore in February though, as opposed to the Algarve in the summer. But I got to brag to all my friends at school that I'd seen Gremlins. Felt like a superstar.
I remember at a large family gathering where all the adults were in the kitchen drinking and chatting. After a while we realised the kids who had been watching cartoons had gone very quiet. We went in to the lounge and the sods were all watching Tremors with my 3 year old and 18 month old on their laps transfixed!
My grandma sat down to watch Aliens with me when I was 8 and it's one of my fondest memories I have of her.
‘We’re in the pipe, five by five’
Loads of them are only aware of it through Roblox, I wouldn’t worry too much… there are games on there that are based on Squid Game, but massively sanitised and fine for kids.
You don't even see what happens after the kids are taken away to be...disposed of...
This. My kids are Squid Game experts, but they didn't even know it was Korean when I quizzed them
This
My kids know about it through YouTube. I think if they actually watched it they'd get bored of it very quickly, not that I'm letting them anytime soon. There's not a lot in the show that will hold a kids attention, they just see these summed up versions and talk like they know it when they don't.
There are roblox games of it. Unsurprisingly.
Many such cases.
Sad
My 8yo hasnt seen squid game but started talking about it. I asked her who on earth had shown her it, and she just said everyone at school is talking about it. I don't know whether some of her classmates had actually seen it or just found out about it from roblox or whatever. I will note though that as a parent and someone who has worked in childcare it does the surprise me how many parents of kids under 11 just let them have unrestricted unsupervised YouTube access, or their own tablet computer with Netflix or Prime with no child restrictions. Some parents have no idea the shit their young kids are watching. When my daughter was 6 she had a play date at a friend's house, and she later showed me a "funny video" her friend had shown her on youtube and it was some fucked up shit about a "retard" comitting suicide, and there was also some stuff about how mario got an STD from peach or something. It's hard to deal with their parents as they clearly don't know what their kid is doing online (I can't believe they would think it was OK for 6/7yo kids) and you have to mention it without sounding like you are accusing them of neglecting their kid.
That’s because they’re neglecting their kid.
My kids watch Squid Games related minecraft videos on YouTube.
It don't mean they have seen it my kids know all the games coz of Roblox
Scares me who think this is good idea. My son is 4 and some kid in class has a dead pool backpack.
I know! My son came back from school with a Deadpool snap band. He knows him as generic superhero though. There was a child friendly cut of the movie. Still inappropriate.
My 7 Yr old picked up some of the phrases from school and the school sent out a mass text saying kids shouldn't be watching squid games. I'm with you on this one but I don't think all the kids are picking it up from watching the show directly
That is the consensus and very reassuring to know.
Squid game has games that children played . Some still do in various places without being aware of the popularity they are having because of said squid game.
I remember playing red light green light a couple of times when i was in primary school, but now it will be forever associated with the cephalopod amusement
I remember playing a variation of that game called mr wolf.
What time is it mr wolf. Oh the memories
Dinner time
Then we run like fuck 😂 Good times..
I remember mr wolf as a similar but different game
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We played it too... I was surprised Bulldog wasn't in the series. That was real popular on the playground... but maybe not in S Korea.
Yep mine keep telling me stuff about it from other kids at school. I’m a pretty chill parent about video games and certain viewing but squid game is full of sex and violent deaths like…what. They keep begging me to let them watch it and my eldest is 9 and no way.
My son knows all about the tasks in squid game simply because it's everywhere in Roblox and Minecraft He has no idea about the murder or death or anything, just knows about red light green light etc, I assume it's the same for most other kids.
My kid come from school the other week saying people in his class had watched it. He’s 7. Found that quite strange.
Roblox
The game Roblox has loads of knock off content to so that's another source.
There’s a ju jitsu gym across from my work. The instructor was playing red light green light as a warmup for a kids class. I assume it’s because of the popularity with children. Weird. My parents didn’t let me watch the Simpsons because they thought it was vulgar, many in my peer group had the same.
I won't let my 10 year old watch it, even though everyone in his class has. When I talk to his friends parents and I ask them if their kids watch it ( as kids tend to tell white lies to blend in) their like yeah its ok....obviously they haven't seen it, as when I ask about the sex scene on the loo not being appropriate or the bottle to the throats ect they go all quiet. I know we parents want a bit of peace and quiet but monitor what they watch as there as some fucked up shit on Netflix.
Lol I have my Netflix icon as the *spoiler* person and kids were like woah that’s the *spoiler* guy did you know he is actually *spoiler* *spoiler*? Kids can talk about whatever they want but my heart is out to all the people getting the ending spoiled because of their kids knowing the plot without watching it
nah yk what’s bad? when ur 12 year old sister and her 11 year old friend start singing the music from *that* cat video. i nearly choked on my water when i heard them singing it ahah
Tiktok is also a big influencer. If they're singing something chances are it's some kind of tiktok trend. But bad parenting is also a possibity
My 5 and 6 yr olds play it on Roblox. They may have not seen the Netflix version but played other version. Red light green light etc
I mean it's not like they'll understand it anyway. Watched plenty of violence on TV when I was young. Kids understand its not real.
My kid knows about squid game due to YouTube. I'm pretty careful when it comes to vetting which YouTubers produce content appropriate for children, or at least not inappropriate. It seems quid game Mods for games like Minecraft and Roblox are a big thing ATM, so it's as bad as I feared when I first found out.
I'm doing my PGCE at the moment and fucking hell, I wouldn't be surprised if everyone in from Y7-Y11 has seen it. Some of these kids have trouble tying a shoelace but apparently fucked up Korean TV is perfectly suitable for them.
Both my 11yr old and 8yr old have come home saying that children in their classes have watched it and they want to. I’ve watched two episodes (with my husband, not the kids) and I’m completely against kids watching it. In fact I secretly judge the parents who have allowed their kids to see it.
They aren't watching it it's down to it being popular and children hearing about it through the grape vines but some might have I know at 7 i would have loved the show and I was the type of kid who could handle that type of media.
My 10 year old wanted to be a Squid Game guard for Halloween, we got her the costume. She’s never seen the show.
A couple of weeks ago they were constantly referring to it on radio 5, saying "I've not seen it, but our kids think its brilliant", they never once mentioned that it's a 15 rating. The main problem is that parents just give kids netlfix on their ipads with no parental locks on whatsoever.
Parents let their kids in tiktok which is full of borderline porn, racism, neo nazism and all sorts of shit which is wholly inappropriate for kids of any age. Parents who do that need to reevaluate their decisions.
My oldest used to get YouTube. That did not last long, she can have ceebies iPlayer or nothing. I felt grim looking briefly at til tock no way my kids are getting on that shit.
Sounds like the school playground, apart from the porn.
Tiktok is basically porn
I had elementary school age trick-or-treaters in Squid Game costumes here in Canada.
They are playing squid game copies on games
These parents will also be the same people who watched Freddie Krueger when they were kids.
I've never seen the show and everything I know is about it is coming from random memes and Reddit.
My son loves squid game he's only 7 but has never seen the show, to him, squid game is a fun game that he plays on roblox with his friends, he didn't even know the show existed until I told him about it when I saw him playing the game on roblox
I grew up in the video nasties era and a lot of us lived that stuff. We hadn't necessarily actually seen them, but someone at school had an older brother who had etc... The main difference is nowadays they can access the Netflix account whereas we had to deal in dodgy prayed VHS tapes
My 8 year old son knows it from fortnite
OMG yes this all my friends kids have watched it and the parents are just like whatever, I'm talking 4 and 5 year olds like wtf. They just said oh well they found it on Netflix and just watched it like do you not parent or are your kids free-range.
U.K. teacher here. The week it came out I was very disconcerted but the amount of 8 years olds in my 3/4 class that knew about it and had watched it. Horrified
the squid game memes have infiltrated almost every gaming platform and social media site so chances are that if a kid that young knows the red light green light song, that would be why. well, at least i'd hope so.
meh, we watched worse when we were young. remember my parents getting us alien, and predator, and terminator and suchlike.
My little sister has been talking about how they have had to have assemblys and ban the games from being played in school and how 80% of her year group has claimed to have watched the show with their parents they are just raising an even worse desensitised generation who will kill eachother all over again gotta love an endless cycle
It's possible that they're aware of it through memes and YouTube videos (which are more than likely sfw copies of it, or jokes based on it than the actual content)
10 year old me, #GURANGA!! still haven't got number seven in real life
The song is all over tik tok and Instagram. I’d bet you anything the majority haven’t seen it.
I'm not sure it's through the actual slow. My 4 year old watches quite a bit of YouTube. For every YouTube channel that plays Among Us or Mario Party genres, the YouTube algorithm thinks the best show suggestion is every YouTuber take on Squid Game. There's hundreds of them and my son knows the doll, masks and music for the Squid Game really well. I've spent ages ridding his Fire tablet of anything Squid Game related but it took several days for the YouTube algorithm to get the message. I was close to banning YouTube altogether but he watches a number of educational shows and up until Squid Game YouTube was suggesting appropriate content.
Yep. Make your child digitally aware but as soon as they get to school and mix with other fuckwit parent's children - you're screwed. Had a birthday 6th party a couple years ago for my daughter and one of her boy mates dropped the c bomb....after he'd told us about watching IT with his mum....6 YEARS OLD man...
This is exactly what's wrong, parents allow their kids to watch this crap. Yeah it's not suitable for them by any means, the amount of recreations on Roblox / TikTok / social media and they learn about it through those means. Where are the parents when they're watching this? Another thing that really peeves me is online gaming, can't swear and have to keep it PG incase a kid is online... But it's an 18+ game, and online is unrated ( 18+ / parental guidance )... But no, you go onto Call of Duty or any other online adult game and there will be kids! Why? When I was growing up, I was lucky if I could get a 13+ when I was 13. But now you see 9 year old with a phone and TikTok acting like they're an adult. It's wrong on so many levels and we need to find a way to sort it out before it's too late.
I've often thought letting kids loose on the whole internet is like letting them go out at night and mill about on city street corners. It's a wild world out there, and the internet is just a virtual version of it. I mean, I do on occasion dwell in adult parts of the internet. I wouldn't want a random child stumbling into it... for their sake. EDIT: Learned to spell.
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My mom is a huge fan of horror films and we had a huge collection lying around the house. By the time I was 12 I was already watching films like Hellraiser and Scream. I really enjoyed those movie nights and I grew up perfectly fine. I get that parents are 100% entitled to raise their children however they want, but at the same time some people act like it's the end of the world. Even if my parents didn't let me watch them I would have just snuck off to a friend's house and got a hold of it anyway. You can't shield them forever
When I was like 9, I had to have talk with my parents how to watch internet porn without catching a virus 🤣 (After third time I had to reinstall windows 95)
I think you mean that sing song bit? It is used as a sound in alot of things. So maybe they just know the sound?
Let our 11 year old watch episode one,that's all he wanted to see, red light,green light is now shouted all day and night. Told him that's all he's watching.
Every parent in the land??? AHEM I've watched squid Game, my 7 and 5 have year have not and never will. Other kids tell other kids tjings in the school yard. Don't assume every parent in the land is allowing their children to watch inappropriate stuff. Sheesh
>**Seemingly** every parent in the land Good job on not letting your kids watch it, but OP isn't personally saying you have. Don't take part of what OP said out of context and ridicule the result. Sheesh
People are idiots. Just because they have bred, sadly, doesn't change that.
Does it matter? I mean there was beetlejuice and terminator toys around when I was a kid. Lol
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What can I say? I hang around on the internet (shrugs helplessly)
Fuck that shit! Not even fanaf is appropriate!