"Squid game has officially reached 111 million fans - making it our biggest series release ever," Netflix wrote on Twitter.

The series mixes survival drama on stylized playing fields with engaging characters and social critique, and has taken the streaming world by storm.

Netflix has previously been restrained with viewer numbers, but at the end of September, the streaming giant revealed which were its most popular series and movies, according to the number of viewer hours in the first 28 days after release.

At that time, the Squid game, which was released on September 17, had not yet made it into the top ten list, which was topped by the Bridertons' first season, followed by the fourth season of La casa de papel and the third season of Stranger things.

For films, Bird box had then attracted the most viewers, followed by Extraction and The Irishman.

It is worth mentioning that the Netflix viewer base has grown over the years, and that the figures thus do not say much about the proportion who watch.