Contestants reside in an apartment building where they showcase an infamous circle outside. Living as literal neighbors but never meeting face-to-face, they communicate through "The Circle," a social media app that allows them to create profiles as themselves or adopt fake personas for gaming purposes. Players regularly rank each other based on impressions gathered from social interactions and determine influencers by their ratings. Influencers can then choose to block or eliminate players until one winner is crowned.
The experiment starts as the players craft their profiles and begin connectin...