The Mingle game appears in Squid Game season two, released on Netflix in 2024, where players rotate on a large carousel platform while a children's song plays. The melody is based on the Korean children's song often translated as Round and Round, sung in a bright, repetitive style in the show. Online, editors began pitching and distorting that cheerful tune to heighten its creepy contrast with the game's deadly stakes, and the warped version spread through meme edits, fan videos and soundboards as a shorthand for innocent music turning sinister.