2023-12-14 11:12:07
Joanna Mutton
❘ Published: 2023-12-14T10:41:50 ❘ Updated: 2023-12-14T10:42:11
The first season of Squid Game: The challenge has just ended with May’s victory. but there could only be one winner, and the other 455 participants left empty-handed… maybe not so much!
Squid Game: The challenge became a sensation on Netflix, with millions of viewers around the world tuning in each week to find out which of 456 players would come out on top in the games – and which were ruthlessly eliminated.
Obviously, reality TV couldn’t only make people happy: out of the 456 players, there could only be one winner. And the competition was all the tougher as the price amounted to a dizzying amount of 4.56 million dollars. A jackpot that Mai Whelan (number 278) pocketed.
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As for the rest of the players, they didn’t see a cent of the show, as expected. But some of them have found an original way to make money from fans.
Fans of Squid Game: The challenge pay players who didn’t win
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Dozens of players Squid Game: The challenge are now paid by fans for personalized videos on Cameo – with a total of 54 contestants from the Netflix show now offering their services on the video-sharing platform.
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Prices vary greatly between players, with some fan favorites available for Cameo clips. If you would like to gift a loved one a personalized clip of Trey Plutnicki (Player 301) or his mother LeAnn (Player 302), for example, at the time of writing, it is possible to do so by paying as little as $35 .
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Some go so far as to raise their prices up to $70, like team leader TJ. As for Phill (451), the finalist who lost at the last moment to Mai, he is also “available” for 40 dollars.
If there’s one person we probably won’t see, it has to be Mai, winner of the $4.56 million (excluding US taxes).
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