However, it seems she’s not alone dealing with an avalanche of texts and phone calls from fans desperately attempting to secure that fictitious bag – with a phone number just two digits away from the one appearing on screen, 26-year-old Hannah Kim of Seoul says she, too, has been bombarded with messages and phone calls.
“It makes me angry because I had so much fun watching Squid Game, Kim, an office worker, told The Wall Street Journal of her predicament, which has resulted in her receiving countless messages asking her “Is this ‘Squid Game’?” – a question, when asked enough times on an endless loop, would make anyone question if they’re living in a late-stage capitalist apocalypse.
Yet amid the rise of these real-life Squid Game horror stories, Netflix has finally taken steps to remedy the matter, telling CNN they would edit the phone numbers out of the series. “Together with the production company, we are working to resolve this matter, including editing scenes with phone numbers where necessary,” they explained in a statement to the news outlet.
So, reader, until the show is phone-number-free, take it from these poor, exasperated people. Yes, we may live in a dystopian, murder-hornet-filled hellhole, however, its important Squid Game is not real – but the very annoyed people who have that cursed number are all too real.
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