Squid Game is the most stressful TV show of 2021
Squid Game has taken the world by storm, and for a very good reason. It’s got everything that makes it a phenomenal show to watch: a cast of good characters, an intriguing storyline and a premise that we know gamers love if the popularity of Fortnite is anything to go off.
According to a study from Buzz Bingo, the Battle Royale-inspired Netflix drama is also the most stressful TV show of 2021. And we do mean the most stressful, beating shows like The Walking Dead, Ted Lasso, and even American Horror Story! Considering that two of those shows are horror-related, that’s really saying something about Squid Game’s ability to stress its audience out!
To find out how stressful Squid Game was, the study from Buzz Bingo collected date for each showing using their generic Twitter hashtag (e.g: #SquidGame, #TWD, #TedLasso) that was posted within the past 12 months. They then analysed the tweets using something called a TensiStrength tool. This tool estimates stress levels in short texts “based on the classification of words related to stress, frustration, anxiety, anger and other negative emotions.”
According to the tool, the scale used to measure tweets works in the minus numbers. -1 means no stress, -2 is low stress, -3 is moderate stress, -4 is high stress, and -5 is very high stress. The study’s final ranking was based on the TV shows which had the highest proportion of tweets classified as -2 (low stress) to -5 (very high stress). Squid Game ended up being at the very top.
The full list is as follows:
- Squid Game (190,897 tweets)
- Sex Education (57,256 tweets)
- Lucifer (52,025 tweets)
- American Horror Story (50,657 tweets)
- Ted Lasso (48,354 tweets)
- The Walking Dead (46,088 tweets)
- Loki (34,678 tweets)
- Stranger Things (33,456 tweets)
- The Handmaids Tale (13,283 tweets)
- Bridgerton (7,6559 tweets)
Squid Game certainly is a TV drama that has all of us on tenterhooks and it isn’t hard to see why. There’s something inherently captivating about it, and if we do get a Season 2 we hope its characters will be just as meaningful and touching as Season 1.
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