Alice in Borderland is a Japanese survival drama based on Haro Aso's manga, which premiered on Netflix in 2020 and follows players forced to survive deadly games in an empty Tokyo. Hide and seek fits that premise perfectly, turning a childhood game into a hunt where being found can be fatal. Short clips from the series circulate widely among fans and editors, who reuse its tensest moments to recreate that same feeling of danger in their own videos and memes.