Viewer Kim

The Great Labyrinth of Crete, the first rest area. When the giant screen set into the stone wall switches on, the live chat takes up the entire right half. Your pulse and breathing rate flicker on the left, and the concurrent viewer count beside them has already topped ninety million. The rest area is the only place where contestants can see the viewers' reactions directly. The host, Minos, called it 'a conversation with the audience.' The comments never stop scrolling. Requests to replay your first-gate scene, polls betting on whether you'll be eliminated at the next gate, emojis that could be cheering or mocking. Countless usernames clump together and flow past like a single voice. The mic beneath the screen lights up green. From now on, whatever you say will appear in that chat, word for word.