In November 2021, a then-unknown college student named Camilla Araújo appeared in one of YouTube’s most-watched stunt videos of all time: MrBeast’s $456,000 “Squid Game” recreation. Camilla is only in the video briefly, but her dark hair and stunning eyes make her stand out in a sea of contestants in matching green track suits. In one viral clip , MrBeast approaches Araújo and asks her if she even watched the original Squid Games show. She admits she didn’t.

In the end, Araújo didn’t win the cash prize, she wasn’t even cast as a central star in the video. But when it dropped, fans were captivated by her.

“I gained like 145,000 followers overnight,” she tells Rolling Stone . “I’m literally the only one that got that much fame from it, even the guy who won the video didn’t blow up. It’

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