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The Influencer Fans Deem Jin Yong-Jin the Secret Mvp For His Surprising Strategy - Main Image

Of the 30 online content creators, YouTube influencer Jin Yong-Jin rose to the top in The Influencer fans' eyes in episode 2. When participants had to hold the highest number of viewers, Yong-Jin unveiled his secret weapon that landed him in the fourth rank.

The Influencer's Jin Yong-Jin's Streaming Strategy Lands Him on Top Five

The second round of The Influencer involves testing each participant's capability to grab the attention of their subscribers and non-subscribers and hold them for the average total viewers on their live stream.

The main goal is to land among the top five most streamed videos for episode 2. While others chose to bring outside guest stars and perform for the competition, Jin Yong-Jin had a simpler approach to the task.

Jin Yong-Jin, who garnered 2.69 million subscribers on his YouTube channel, decided to...

The Influencer Cast Places Jang Keun-Suk On Top of 'Most Disliked' Right Off the Bat - Main Image

The Influencer premiered its first four episodes on Netflix, introducing a massive cast of 76 online idols. Initially fooling contestants into thinking he's the reality show host, "Asia Prince" Jang Keun-Suk re-enters and takes the stage as The Influencer's 77th running competitor.

In a Sea of Online Celebrities, Jang Keun-Suk Rises to the Top of The Influencer

The cast of the newest Korean reality series on Netflix, The Influencer, shot down longtime singer-actor Jang Keun-Sun after the premiere episode.

Considering that in the sea of online influencers, Keun-Sun is the only actual celebrity in real life, the participants found it unfair that he's on the running list in the first place.

However, since the reality show is all about online niche influencers, Keun-Suk declares himself to be a "newbie influencer", counting him in the game.

What Are the Collars For in Netflix's The Influencer? Game Rules Explored - Main Image

What's up with the collars in Netflix's The Influencer? The newest reality show flaunts Korea's biggest celebrities and trendsetters to compete in this battle for popularity using their total number of subscribers. As fun as the show is, fans find the game rules to be quite weird and they're not wrong about it, either.

Netflix's The Influencer Leashes Contestants For the Game

Bringing together 77 of the most popular South Korean content creators in make-up, fitness, fashion, acting, etc., The Influencer pits each contestant based on their following from YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, AfreecaTV, and more.

However, this isn't the normal reality show K-Wave fans might immediately grow fond of, especially considering the controversial electric collars strapped around the idols' necks. What's up with that?

While it's easy to understand that the display of each...

Every time I’m asked to write about a reality show, I wonder what sin I committed in my last life. I’m only joking; it’s just that reality shows just don’t tickle my fancy. Now, when I heard about The Influencer, it certainly piqued my interest, but to what extent? I don’t know about you, but Korean reality shows just don’t work for me. I don’t want to generalize, but they’re tinted with misogyny and hatred for fellow contestants and just seem rather bleak for my liking. I don’t know what I was expecting with The Influencer, but this was certainly not it. This is what Netflix calls a “social survival game,” and in a sense, you might’ve realized by the name of the show. The last survival show on Netflix I watched was Physical 100, and I’ve got to admit...

Summer may start winding down next month, but Netflix is charging full steam ahead. From the highly anticipated return of “The Umbrella Academy” to cult classics like “White Chicks” — the August 2024 Netflix streaming catalogue will have you glued to your couch all month long.

To cure the post-Olympics blues, Lily Collins and Ashley Park will be taking audiences back to Paris for the fourth and final season of “Emily in Paris.” The fan favorite is returning after a two-year break, with the first five episodes. Speaking of fan favorites, “Wednesday” star Emma Myers is returning in “Good Girl’s Guide to Murder,” a Netflix/BBC coproduced murder mystery series. To round off the Netflix original content, there are three buzzy comedy specials heading to you this August — from Langston Kerman, Joe Rogan and Matt Rife.

Along with originals, subscribers can look forward existing content like all eight seasons of “Fear the Walking Dead,...

Emily is still in Paris, Zack Snyder unleashes his latest “Snyder Cuts,” the Hargreeves children have to save the world one more time, the Terminator goes animated and a host of AMC gems are among the highlights of a busy month of new releases on Netflix.

On Aug. 1, the six-part mystery series A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder debuts on Netflix. In the show, Wednesday star Emma Myers (with a solid British accent!) plays a teenage gumshoe who gets to the bottom of a homicide case years earlier in a small English village in this adaptation of Holly Jackson’s popular YA novel. Created by Poppy Cogan the show has Miss Marple vibes and also stars Zain Iqbal, Asha Banks, Mathew Baynton, Gary Beadle and Anna Maxwell Martin.

Hoping to repeat the “Snyder Cut” magic on Aug. 2, Netflix releases director’s cut versions of Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon – Part...

August is a big month for Netflix with lots of new originals hitting the streamer. The Umbrella Academy returns for its fourth and final season with the Hargreeves siblings forced to save the world one last time. Part one of Emily in Paris season 4 arrives this month as well, and Emily’s (Lily Collins) love life is as complicated as ever.

The director’s cuts of Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon: Part One and Rebel Moon: Part Two will also be available to watch from Aug. 2, both offering an even more hardcore, bloodier version of the director’s sci-fi saga.

There will also be a selection of AMC shows available on Netflix starting this month, including the first seasons of the hit series Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches, and The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon. If you’ve been wanting to catch up on these series and others,...

Netflix will debut a new Korean unscripted series every month until the first quarter of 2025, including The Devil’s Plan 2 and the fourth season of dating reality show Single’s Inferno.

The streamer has invested heavily in its Korean unscripted slate, with 10 shows premiering this year — more than double the number from two years ago. Some of these shows were announced at its Korean slate launch in February this year.

Social survival show The Influencer will debut on August 6, pitting 77 of South Korea’s top influencers against each other. Together, they have a total of 120 million followers across platforms such as YouTube, TikTok and Instagram, with figures like Jang Keun-suk, Risabae, PaniBottle, Jin Yong-jin, Shim Eu-ddeum, and DaeDo set to feature in the show. It comes from Kakao Entertainment.

A-list to Playlist will be released on August 30, featuring veteran actor Cho Jung-seok from the hit drama series Hospital Playlist as he...

The Netflix August 2024 originals, movies, and TV shows have been revealed. The streaming service has also announced which movies and TV series will be leaving next month.

The August lineup includes CoComelon Lane Season 3, Emily in Paris Season 4: Part 1, Gabby’s Dollhouse Season 10, A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, Incoming, Love is Blind: Mexico, Love is Blind: UK, and Pokémon Horizons: The Series Part 3.

The Netflix August 2024 slate also features Rebel Moon: The Director’s Cut, Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie, Terminator Zero, The Umbrella Academy Season 4, The Union, Unstable Season 2, and new installments of Untold.

Netflix August 2024 Schedule

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The Frog (Kr) — Netflix Series

The Frog is a suspense thriller revolving around the story of people whose peaceful lives are upended and thrown into uncontrollable incidents due to a mysterious guest who arrives in the middle of summer.

Kengan Ashura Season 2: Part.2 (Jp) — Netflix...

Hang onto your ear holes! You can finally add “made someone in the audience puke” to the growing list of accolades recommending “Dream Creep.”

Among the best and buzziest ideas to come out of the festival circuit this year, writer/director Carlos A.F. Lopez’s brilliant horror short — about a couple awakened in the night to “sounds emanating from an unlikely orifice” — debuted at Sundance in January. Since then, it has won Scariest Short at The Overlook Film Festival and snagged the special mention for Worst Nightmare at Palm Springs ShortFest. “Dream Creep” has also screened at South by Southwest and other shorts showcases where its nightmarish reputation as “That ear movie” tends to precede it.

“I’ve had this idea for a long time,” Lopez told IndieWire, describing an epiphany he had while sleeping next to his wife, executive producer Cathy Lopez. “It sprang very organically from me waking...

Netflix revealed its annual slate of Korean films and series on Monday, and 2024 is shaping up to be another strong year of K-content, including returns for some of the streamer’s most popular global shows.

As previously announced, there will be a second season of Netflix’s marquee international show Squid Game coming this year but no release date has been confirmed yet. There will be second seasons for reality survival series Physical 100, the fantasy series Hellbound, the reality show Zombieverse and mystery drama Gyeongseong Creature.

Among the new series, the standout is the period drama Uprising which is co-written and co-produced by famed Korean auteur Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, Decision to Leave). There is also a host of series adaptations of popular webtoons including A Killer Paradox, The 8 Show and Parasyte: The Grey.

Netflix will also debut some intriguing Korean reality shows this year, that have the potential to get people talking.

Zack Snyder’s latest big-budget effects-driven feature, an awards contender from Todd Haynes, Bradley Cooper’s sensitive portrayal of an American icon, a beloved follow-up to an Aardman classic and the conclusion of The Crown are some of the highlights of a jam-packed December schedule on Netflix.

Haynes’ drama May December debuts on Netflix on Dec. 1. Loosely inspired by the story of Mary Kay Letourneau, the film, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival this year, is led by A-listers Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore and also stars Charles Melton, who was named best supporting actor by New York critics this week.

Sam Esmail’s feature Leave the World Behind is another heavyweight addition to Netflix in December. Starring Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali and Ethan Hawke, the psychological thriller tells the story of survival in a world on the brink of collapse. Written, directed and produced by Esmail, the film...