So, throughout this video (I'm halfway through) I notice Stephanie Soo/MissMangoButt is appearing. The clip about the Golden Gobble featuring her in a thumbnail is questionable. I get that as Westerners it is easy to say that another culture's practices are weird when we don't understand. It's not acceptable but I get it. I also get that in any culture a number of these cases took everything too far. Stephanie is not exactly one for me. I recently found her and have been watching her videos which feature true crime stories and other things. Yes, she eats those foods but where are the clips of her eating each mukbang with her fiance, and on other occasions friends/family. She isn't the only one eating during her videos and not all the food gets finished. I will finish the video... Almost finished watching! Saw Stephanie again with Zach Choi. Anyways, I think assuming mukbang is a fetish does a disservice to a cultural trend. I personally am not a fan of mukbangs and don't watch any other channel but Stephanie's and she also provides other content. Keep in mind, I started watching early 2021. She also has the food elevated on a tray and positioned close to the camera. Watching this video was a trigger and I have a terrible gag reflex that activates at the mere sight of large amounts of food being eaten. Not gonna lie, I do have the urge to eat some yummy recipes I see. All in all, not a bad video but comments are interesting. Maybe, if possible, next time reach out to some of these mukbangers for a better understanding of what they feel towards their content. Those with food issues are responsible for their own actions and choices. Mukbang is something that can be twisted and judged without a thought to specific people and why they may create such content.
But i thought it was for companies to sell their food.. korean people are known for smacking and slurping in a satisfying way, and many advertisements here in south korea always show someone biting into chicken or slurping ramen when they are advertising their food products. Atleast, being in korea its what i saw it was mostly for since people always had some sponsors or something
@@chaldeokpai this is the point op is making. Especially in Korea, where meals aren't meant to be made for one, family style is the only style, and sharing (even with two people) is automatic. Maybe I can go to a 김밥 shop and eat alone, but the food and social cultures, in the modern technological era in societies that are infamous for studying and working yourself into isolation, the point is to feel connected. Many people watch these and eat with the creators, and this is a bit sad. But doesn't have to necessarily be so.
I was just about to leave this comment. The intention Mukbangs had wasn't wrong, it was to give people who were alone some eating company. The thing that's wrong is what people made of it
When I was struggling with anorexia, I watched hours upon hours of mukbangs. Not only did I get vicarious satisfaction, but it was also a way for me to hyper-fixate on food without physically having it around or eating it.
@@q7zjdwomfvkbj74 you'd be surprised how common it is. It's practially ED culture to watch this shit. It's like watching someone like you do everything you can only dream of. And make no mistake, these people are severely disordered. No healthy, well fed person can shovel 6000kcal in one sitting and still have room for more. It's something you can do only if you've been severely restricting.
i think the only mukbang id watch would be one where theyre actually polite. they chew with their mouth closed, dont talk with their mouth full, and just enjoy a nice proper lunch thats ONE serving while talking about their day with a livestream. thatd be nice content to watch, it just sounds cozy, like youre out to lunch with your friend
Personally, I think watching someone eat is pretty gross 😂 I hate the sound of chewing, even if I’m eating next to the person chewing irl. It can actually make me lose my appetite
same!! i rarely watch mukbangs but when i do, i love watching the ones where its just two friends talking about their day as they eat, while i do something else. its like a podcast with a side of asmr.
as an overweight woman, I sometimes watch mukbangs to deter me from eating. Watching people eat a grotesque amount of calorie-dense foods really helps to suppress my appetite. They also give me an insight into what life could be like if I continue to overeat in terms of weight gain.
I used to binge but yeah seeing the Mukbangs with the massive people eating equally massive unhealthy foods just make me cringe. They make me want to go on a diet and exercise even when I do generally enjoy Mukbangs.
It's sad how a concept meant to help lonely Korean people to enjoy some kind of company turned into a twisted excuse for people to gorge themselves with food and enable feederism for views and money.
@@johnnydion9511 Amberlynn Reid, Foodie Beauty and Nikocado Avocado are only a few examples of mukbangers that use this trend as an excuse to binge eat with no regard to their health, so I'm afraid it's an excuse for them, at least.
@@bananatiergod I agree with you...For these individuals that do want go stuff their face despte their serious health problems is only reinforced by the fact that they also make money out of it
Ikr??? I didn't know it started like a way of getting some sort of virtual company while eating since so many ppl get lonely yet it completely deviated
I think I’m mesmerized by mukbangs because I get to live vicariously through them. I’ve struggled with eating disorders, food insecurity, allergies, and serious weight fluctuations for most of my life and watching mukbangs or competitive eaters is a relatively harmless way for me to indulge in a way I never could in real life.
Using this logic sex addicts should watch p@rn to help them reduce the damage of their sex addiction... Instead of I don't know going for a run or painting..
It's so sad to know this all started as a way to feel like you're eating with someone and somehow it turned into copious amount to food, torture, acting, or something sexual. Can't anything just be normal it somehow HAS to turn into something horrific???
When I first heard of Mukbang, I was at a loss for why? It felt like it maybe was a sexual thing that I don't understand. As someone that has a hard time watching food contests, I was mortified at this new world I had stumbled upon.(especially Nikado Avacado) Then I learned Mukbang started so people were watching so they didn't have to eat alone.(😢 which made me feel awful) It still horrifies me, I still don't completely understand.
@@kristinwood8884 I heard of it ways before the likes of Trisha and nick got to it. Ive lived alone since 18 and I'd often watch streamers (gaming) or find interesting videos to watch while I eat, so I could understand it from that point. I enjoy watching people make food, there's something really satisfying about cooking sounds. Seeing different food people make, plate and eat. It helped me get ideas about making new food or enjoy my food. But i never got into mukbangs cause this madness that it became of eating ungodly amount of greasy food. It's not appealing and whatever they pretend to talk about was never interesting enough to me
💛 i struggle with binge/restrict cycles (starting to calm) and have done it once or twice in attempt to reinforce a restrict phase. (Did pick up the idea somewhere else though.) No judgement here. Try to keep kind with yourselves if you can
Yes, its used to stop binging urges, and the one that are most wached are the most repolsive ones. A lot of people with ED will want to feel repulsed by food.
The original purpose of Mukbang was to "eat with a friend". In most East Asian countries, people usually eat together with their families, but because of school and the work culture, people rarely have time to do that anymore. The original mukbangs were just people hanging out and interacting with the streamer/mukbanger (bcs it was usually livestreams) and told stories and how their day went, etc etc. But now it's become bloated to this amalgamation of eating obnoxious amounts of food, potentially wasting food, animal torture, and other disgusting things.
I remember when I found out how it started, and I just got depressed. Like, just, "let's have a normal lunch with this creator" to CHOMPCHOMPSCHLLLOOORRPPP in your ear, and food waste and fat fetishism and ugggh.
I started watching mukbangs and food/calorie challenges when I was diagnosed with anorexia. It was a way for me to become mesmerised with the food that I told myself I will never eat so it was like watching a fantasy
@@humansolarian not the person, but this happened to me too and worked for me very well. My longest fasts (a few days) were done cuz i would just spend hours watching mukbangs instead of eating
@@PrincessPikka Eating more in Korea was recent. And the react bros would probably just pick the most outlandish clips. When it first started, it would just be a random chick eating a normal portion of ramyun on livestream. Over time, just like in the US, they probably saw that bigger portions got more views.
@@vulpixelful I used to watch Mukbangs since like 07 and they always had bigger portions but ate slow and/or wouldn’t finish it. The food was also typical Korean food and wasn’t made to look bright, colorful and exaggerated.
I developed anorexia nervosa during quarantine when i came across mukbangs. I used to weight a healthy 58kgs and now I weight 43kgs since I started to fulfil my eating desires through mukbangs. ;-;
"Millenials and Gen Z are the loneliest people" Kiana, sweetie, I came here for a good time not to be attacked Edit: this is a joke, calm down can't believe people actually thought I was offended
I have that too. Chewing and random heavy breathing noises while eating. I’m not fussy about it but it’s definitely annoying, I just leave the room politely. It’s called misophonia I think
The thing that makes me weirded out by mukbangs is how similar it is to ED behaviors. And you can actually stretch your stomach so badly it can burst if you force that much food into your stomach.
@@tjman4616 it's not that easy to do. Usually, you'll throw up before you get to that stage, or feel too full to be able too continue 😊 so dont worry, you wont accidentally burst your stomach 😊
17:19 seeing my sad tired eyes reflected in the phone screen and then the direct cut to Nikocado drowning a cheeseburger in an ungodly amnt of nacho sent me 😂😂😂😂
The excessiveness, the unhealthy aspect of it, the disturbing chewing and slurping sounds, the half chewed food falling out of their mouths. It seriously turns my stomach. Never understood it, and I don't think I ever will.
Same! This is the reason I watch some selected mukbangers only. But I sometimes end up watching some messy & people who don't finish their food later on too just because of the food they eat. I crave for all that food they eat but most of 'em aren't available here Imao so I go to the kitchen & end up making something for myself Imao
i used to be heavily anorexic and have a “cheat day” where i would binge thousands of calories and thought i was doing okay because i was eating one day a week. then when i physically couldn’t function i began going on binges constantly and gained tons of weight. i can no longer watch mukbangs because it is so triggering for me. i’m healthy now and in the process of just eating balanced!
Glad you're doing better! Like I swear, mukbang is promoting every eating disorder on the planet. I used to use it to put myself off food when I was restricting: the image of people messily downing thousands of calories reminded me of my own binges and they always made me feel ultra gross and guilty by proxy.
I’ve been on a weight loss journey now for a year, have lost over 70 pounds, and weigh 169, I still have about 30 or so to go and have been so worried something in my life might cause me to fall off the wagon. Watching your channel has helped me so much to give me that drive to continue on. Appreciate you.
I can't stand cruelty to dogs or cats or hamsters or whatnot. I would literally smash someone square in the face should I see someone hitting a dog. But come on, it's fish or octopi, they have as much brain cells as you, their "terror" and "anguish" and "pain" are negligible. They don't even perceive these things to any meaningful extent. Remember kids, neurons firing doesn't equate to experiencing pain. You animal protectors go over the top as these crazy mukbangers who play with their food slightly longer than necessary.
I'm glad you brought up Ssoyoung as she definitely shows a darker side of Mukbangs to a an extreme level. The fact that some people are willing to literally torture animals for people's amusement, while youtube let the content stay up, is bewildering.
Look I'm not going to defend anything but my two cents is unless you are a vegan you really can't act better than she is. Animals are treated horribly in general if they are raised to produce food. I'm not a vegan so I wont pretend to be better. That said the milk that goes into our cereal or our coffee.... You are kidding yourself if you don't acknowledge an animal is suffering. Only difference is you see the final moments where as in the others you don't. People go on about how to "ethically" prepare seafood bit let's be honest. There really isnt an ethical way to kill something. End of the day you are killing an animal to consume its flesh. Even if you didn't kill it yourself your purchase justifies the torment it endured. Its no different than paying for elephant tusk products, without demand there would be no need for poaching. Sad fact of life we live in a world were people can recognize the trouble of " a blood diamond" but don't even realize "blood avocados" have become a thing. We all just point to what seems obvious but can't seem to see how we are no better ourselves. I'm not a vegan but its to the point I can only respect their opinion regarding such topics because coming from anyone else it comes off as hypocritical.
You did a excellent job on this documentary and should be so proud of yourself… As a mother of four these Mukbang videos are very frightening for my children sensory overload’s through social media in general but teaching them how to properly listen to their body cues for hunger versus this lustful indulgence is just so scary!!!!
Well when i had anorexia, i used to watch mukbangs to make me feel like i hade eaten. And it made me feel like i was filled with food in my stomach in a weird kind of way.
same. when i was struggling with an eating disorder, would pull up mukbangs of people eating food i enjoy/was craving and then would imagine myself eating it so i would feel satisfied enough to not engage in eating myself. the only time i watch mukbangs is when i’m falling back into eating disorder habits
@@pixelated.peachyangel true! As someone who had to tightly budget my money for food and sometimes barely had anything on hand a few years ago, seeing this waste makes me SUPER uncomfortable.
@@thehillisalive When I see so much food in the thumbnails I can't help but think of how many could have eaten it...food waste is a big problem. Eating a lot in one sitting isn't healthy either...
Depending on someones body condition, it might be or might not be disgusting. There is this youtuber of Mukbang that I know named Yuka Kinoshita. As far as I know, she has a condition where she needs to consume a large amount of calories. That's why she is lean no matter how much food she has eaten. She always keep her food neat and clean so, it is enjoyable to see the process of cooking until the food is gone into her tummy. I don't feel disgusted at all. Another story of again a youtuber of mukbang where all she did is just eat the ready prepared food and the way she eats is messy. I knew this girl named Kate Yup whose the mukbang show I hate but then again it's said she was forced and tortured to do so. Honestly, I just knew about her when accident of her being killed spread around social media and when I checked her youtube I was surprised with that many subscribers no one find her somehow not really enjoying her food. All of those bruises, broken teeth, etc while eating is very concerning.
When I went on my weight loss journey, I came across Mukbang. They didn't make me hungry, they revolted me. I ended up using them as a form of "food aversion therapy"...watching them made me lose my appetite. My "journey" took 6 months. I was glad to stop watching those videos. They served a purpose, but as I move into weight maintenance, I didn't need them anymore.
*Korean here* Mukbang in it's original sense was about socially connecting with each other through online while eating what you would normally eat in front of a live camera. Think about it as if though you are going to a restaurant with large group of friends sharing a meal while interacting with each other, but just doing it online. Originally in Korea people would live-stream what they were eating and share it online, because in Korea it can get difficult to make friends and socially interact with others in real life. As a result there are significant number of people who are loners but at the same time want to interact with others and be able to get that experience of sharing a meal with others as if they are in the presence of group of friends are at a restaurant interacting and talking while eating a meal. That's the original concept and the basis of mukbang. But nowadays with content creators more concerned about making a profit rather than interacting and connecting with audiences and people, it's become all commercialized and all about how to get the most views so to make the most profits. This means mukbang content creators are mostly about creating some shock value content such as eating absurdly large amount of food or some exotic foods we have never even heard of.
I only watch a select few mukbang creator like sio asmr and all the others are mainly Korean as well cause you guys just do it best and it’s not just about eating the biggest McDonald’s meal you can get
call me weird but i don't like to eat with large group of people. when i eat, i want to eat in peace, watch movie or read. not socialize. i don't want to talk while chewing and don't wanna see people mashed food in their mouth when they open their mouth when talking while chewing. so this trend just not for me but you do you. my strategy is just being in peace with loneliness.
The thing that really makes me sad is the disrespect towards food. On one end there are people who go to bed empty stomach and here we have an entire industry fetishizing food and binge-eating.
@@dawidek4267 I'd love to show you around the world because there's people in North America, South America, Asia, Europe everywhere that go without eating. Being poor in any country can lead to not eating. Maybe for a day, or a week.
I feel like they’re going to tear their mouth open. And it’s amplified by the fact that I can’t open my mouth too big, so imagining myself opening my mouth that big is *shudders*
Honestly what scares me the most is that it’s not humanly possible to eat as much food as they do and stay skinny, so there’s a huge possibility that the majority of mukbangers have bulimia or some type of eating disorder. I only came to that conclusion cause I use to be bulimic in middle school, but I gave it up pretty soon and grew up to be 300 pounds by the end of my freshman year of college. Then I got down to 145 in two years through hard work and exercise and I now understand calorie intake more than I ever did before. I know some people have fast metabolisms, but I also know that no metabolism is fast enough to burn off the amount of calories they consume.
For real though...you only need to look at Nikocado to see what really happens when someone takes this up, and it’s worrying both what they’re doing to themselves and also what they’re teaching people subconsciously
The people who do it and are normal size, I would guess they work out a lot post feast, like spend a good few hours walking and they probably eat very little other food than the mukbang, especially if they do it regularly. Very worrying from a nutrition point as healthy mukbangs aren't the norm, it's usually junk food
@@eleanormason2647 Oh for sure there has to be some mukbangers that actually watch their calorie intake, do intermittent fasting, and workout regularly. But what worries me is m that you can see who works out because they’re physically fit. Then you have the ones that are visually skinny and they never gain any weight. From what I can see most of these mukbangs can have about 10,000+ calories in them, so even a few hours of working out wouldn’t burn that off. It could take almost a week of intense exercise, and I know a lot of them are not doing that. So I don’t wanna make assumptions about these people or offend them, but something like bulimia is very possible because it’s easy to keep it hidden. That scares me cause these videos are making them money so they’re gonna find a way to keep making them without gaining weight. I still love these videos regardless cause it keeps me from eating bad, and watching people gorge the way I use to when I was fat makes me run to healthy food. But I still can’t help but ponder over how these people stay skinny when I have to work so hard for it.
I was exercising in my room while watching this. The number of times I had to run to turn down the volume so that my parents wouldn't assume that I was watching something else actually made for a pretty good workout
It’s weird because I have an eating disorder so I like refuse to eat for days or weeks at a time, but I still like watching mukbangs. They don’t make me wanna eat either
well yeah that's the charm of mukbangs lol the hunger lures you into watching them. I have a hard time not doing that when I'm hungry and then I get worse
the first "mukbang" i watched wasn't meant to be a mukbang. but i wanted cake so bad one day and couldn't get it. so i looked up "eating cake" on youtube and clicked on a vid of a young man eating a small rectangle of vanilla cake with his hands outside. i enjoyed it and one of the comments even said "this was exactly what i was looking for when i searched eating cake" with a fair number of likes. and this was years ago, like maybe in 2008 or something
oh hey as someone watching have Chinese cultural background, the main reason they banned the mukbang is not because they eat food in a sexual way, but mainly because they are wasting food because multiple mukbangers in China are being exposed spitting the food out after eating it. And the government believe this is teaching audience a unhealthy and harmful diet and promote wasting food Also great video!
food waste is the only beef i have with mukbang like we all know these people don't eat 15k calories in a sitting without vomiting out later watching people eat is an evolutionary social trait so i get the appeal; but food waste is a no-no, especially in today's world
@@commonomics I agree that one should be wary about defending decisions of an authoritarian government. That said, this particular case actually doesn't look like a restriction of free speech to me. In fact, mukbang videos might be the least likely videos to contain any worthwhile political information. And how would they - the people are busy stuffing their faces. It's almost literally just "food porn" that appeals to primitive urges and runs on luxurious food waste.
@@commonomics It's a very specific form of showing content. No international human rights would be necessarily violated if this kind of content would become more regulated at least. For instance, there are obscenity laws that do restrict self-expression if it causes strong offense if the general public. Admittedly, that doesn't quite match the common consensus of mukbang. But I think it's at least different from merely uploading a video of the dinner at your wedding for instance.
Honestly I just watch Gordon Ramsay since he is entertaining or if Tasty has an interesting video that isn't just about cooking like if they make something for a sumo wrestler or if Markiplier is on it
Mukbangs make me lose my appetite. The gorging is nauseating, i love eating with friends and sharing stories and whatnot but when they treat it like an eating competition, no talking, just shoveling pounds of food(hopefully) into their mouth.. i cant. And i hate the sounds. And the sexualization of it. I love slime asmr. No talking, just pretty slimes and pops and crunches for a couple minutes. I understand people liking asmr and how sounds can be relaxing. I dont like slurping sounds personally but to each their own. Textures and messes also mess with me a ton so when i see mukbangs where they gorge and have sauces all over their hands and face, i automatically feel it on myself and feel so gross and sick and have to look away. The health risks also bother me. I love food, i eat junk food but try to keep it balanced and i overeat bc i get excited about a meal and eat too fast, it happens. But when people do it for attention and get that attention consistently, they'll do what it takes to feed that addiction, literally in this case. Eating beyond what they can handle, eating things not meant to be consumed, some post daily mukbangs so they gain a ton of weight and get all the health issues that come with that too. There are better ways to do it, like once or twice a month and staying healthy in between videos. Keeping up with exercise as well. Its still not great for you but better than daily. Nickado was posting all the time and had a lot of health issues from it, hes doing better now and dropped a lot of weight, but hes not the only one. Tldr; mukbangs arent inherently bad i dont think, at least not the original idea, but what we did with that idea is. Hopefully we can end the trend and they can get on a better track and focus on content thats better for themselves and their viewers
Yep, i kinda feel that, but with a twist. I llllooooove cheese to the point where you can hand me a mozarella ball for breakfast and im completely happy. But when watching so much cheese being eaten, i feel like i ate it. So i was happy and full. An a kilo lighter after a few days without food
I watched mukbangs sometimes because it started to appear on my TH-cam suggestions but I continued watching them because I was starving and seeing them was similarly to eating but as well as made me feel disgusted with food so I wouldn't really want to eat.
this is definitely going to be an entire video on its own!!!! but... not for a few mos cuz i've been srsly enjoying the break from mukbang content lmfao
The spaghetti dinner done in a microwave only took 14 or 15 minutes. Wow. That’s nearly as fast as cooking a spaghetti dinner normally. 😮 what an age we live in!
@@anamethattellsastory6648 to make spaghetti you need literally the time it takes to bring water to a boil, plus the 10 minutes you need to boil the pasta. While the pasta cooks you can make any simple sauce and then combine. Unless you want to make an elaborate sauce like bolognese, but most pasta sauces don't take more than 10 minutes Source: I'm italian I eat pasta almost every day lmao
When muckbang started in S.Korea, it was more like online social eating. Someone eats live so that other people can interact with them and even eat at the same time to feel less lonely, but Americans took it to the extreme, some creators even made it sexual 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
Nah Koreans do the same thing lol go watch Korean muckbang channels, they’re pretty much the same thing as some American ones. Obviously they started it but the whole extreme aspect is in both sides to be honest.
@@yoomsuu yeah, but you can’t put all the blame on Americans when Korean mukbang channels are also eating extremely large quantities of food. But I do understand initially this was not the purpose of them, it’s just escalated to what it is today because of the views and earnings.
what happened to Nikacado Avacado has to be the saddest thing. he went from a vegan, clean eating, healthy man to.....well, that. i truly believe it’s because he knew that he had to be over the top in order to ever succeed in mukbang.
@@itss_janicee i cannot stomach his videos anymore. he is an absolute train wreck. i can’t tell if it’s an act or the desperation to succeed has turned him this way.
@@LemonDeadly i do believe he presented and promoted himself in a much healthier (for the viewers) and less extreme way back then. whatever was going on behind closed doors, it was never really brought onto the channel. but this new life he leads is documented and broadcasted and promoted, which i just think is the saddest thing i’ve ever seen.
@@lenamariejackson I get what you're saying, he does definitely present his unhealthy way of living a lot more in his more recent videos, but in his earlier videos, he would literally only eat 5 avocados for dinner, and constantly show off his underweight body. I wouldn't go so far as to say it was pro-ana, but it was definitely teetering on that extreme as he demonstrated a very unhealthy way of eating.
For those who didn’t know. The word “mukbang” comes from the combination of the Korean word “Muk-ja,” which means “to eat,” and “bang-song,” “to broadcast.” Hence, “mukbang” was born, and with it the potential for another viral video. In South Korea, eating in restaurants is very much a social activity, and eating outside of the home alone is frowned upon.
maybe not frowned upon like it's a weirdo freak thing but "they seem lonely :( " type of way esp when eating meals is usually w/ friend/s or family. not exactly towards u but just some Xtra info
Yeah from what I know when it started in Korea the idea was to watch someone eat while you also ate, so the streamers would stream during lunch and dinner times. It was the company of eating not about binge eating, the portions were big because Korean portions are usually family sized as most ppl live and eat with their families, and eating alone is something new and unusual, but the streamers wouldn’t necessarily eat everything, it would be on the screen for show, and they chatted with viewers while they ate.
I would actually say that it got less extreme the more Americans got on. Like in the beginning I remember little Korean girls eating a whole table of food (like waay more than now), and they would actually eat ALL of it. Nowadays I see smaller portions and people stopping when they're full instead of finishing the entire table. There are some extremes, like say Trisha Paytas, but nowadays mukbangs are pretty tame.
Its also still more extreme on the Asian side of things, Chinese mukbangers love to eat weird things in order to get more views. And there's that crazy korean lady that likes to beat/hunt her seafood before cooking and eating it *shivers*
I feel like Mukbang lost its purpose when it became about the spectacle of engorging oneself. It was originally made for community and belonging for lonely people. I just don’t feel kinship or companionship with someone being a glutton. I feel that when I sit across from someone eating a NORMALLY prepared and portioned meal who just talks to me. If Mukbang went back to that, it would be less repugnant.
That opening with the quail egg was horrifying. Not only because of how uncomfortable it is to be so close to someone's mouth, and seeing them chew but also... Ugh. Having gotten eggshell in baked goods accidentally, the idea of intentionally chewing a whole eggshell makes me cringe.
The idea of eating a live octopus is the same as eating a live dog. They're recording as being the same intelligence but because they can't scream, cry and more importantly aren't seen as an animal people love and adore - it's FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINE to torture them on camera. She really makes me sick to my stomach.
Looooved this documentary!!! I always wondered why I felt so starved after watching Mukbang even if I had just eaten a full meal!! I didn’t know the science, but I knew it was a trigger so I walked away from these channels and social media accounts lol! Thank you for this!!
I want to also add some more context to the origin of Mukbang. Mukbang became popular at a time where there were more and more people living alone in apartments. There is a big thing in Korean culture about family, and dinner time was the time families would all sit down together after long days of work and school and finally spend time together. Eating dinner was more than food, but important bonding time. Now that people were living alone, they were eating alone, and feeling even lonlier and homesick. People began to turn to Mukbang to have someone they could eat their meals with; while they'd watch this person eat a massive meal, they would eat their own dinner (usually not as big haha) and chat in the chatbox on the side with other viewers they were eating their meal with and the streamer. It was a way for people to still feel that bonding over mealtime instead of just... eating. That cultural importance was renewed. But holy hell has it become something entirely different today EDIT: I made this comment while watching the Mukbang history section, however she talks about it in the connection part. My bad!
Me too. All mukbangs make me sick to my stomach. I'm only like five minutes into this and I probably won't even be able to watch this because of food sounds, eating noises, people moaning and stuffing ridiculous amounts of food into their mouths. 🤢🤢🤢
Poor nikacado avocado... I go on his TH-cam every 5 months to check up on him and he just keeps getting bigger and bigger and killing himself slowly. It’s sad to watch
I actually hate watching people eating on camera (in real life I don’t care), so I never paid attention to this type of content. However once I found one girl on Instagram who was eating on camera and talking about her ED and giving positive affirmations to those who are recovering. Basically the idea was to make eating feel more “normal” for them. I thought it was very nice. Of course it has very little to do with weird/gross mukbang videos.
I'm the same way, even if people in a movie are at a restaurant and the people next to them are eating I'm so grossed out. I'm not exaggerating, I would be less grossed out if they started having sex on the table lol
@@Aaron-kj8dv I just don't like watching others eat, but getting grossed out by just people eating in a movie seems quite a bit extreme for me... although, I get it, I get grossed out with some kissing scenes and family kisses over the phone (my mom and grandma do that all the time, the smooch sound or the word "kissing you" both just seem ridiculous... I barely tolerate that)
I'm totally opposite. I'm grossed out by watching people eat in person. First complaint is I hate certain food odors such as fish. Another problem I have is people talking while they eat and they have food hanging out of their mouths. Last but not least is the slobbering and slurping noises.
Well done👏🏾! You were quite spot on about everything from start to finish. From touching on both the positives (providing sense of not feeling lonely etc), negatives (the creepy fetishization, sexualization feederism etc) and even the in-betweens to mukbangs' history and the way it has becoming. I especially relate to your points on 1) the viewer living vicariously through the mukbanger's content by wishing i could try that food w/ out the consequences, 2) the thoughts of the viewer of the curiosity of these people consume sooo many servings of food at once and what they are doing to "maintain their weight" & 3) just the enticement of simply looking at amazing food being enjoyed 😅!
A huge part of the audience is definitely people with disordered eating habits and eating disorders. At the height of my eating disorder, I’d consume so much food p0rn and watch mukbangs throughout the day either to suppress my appetite or disgust myself until I lost my appetite. And I’m fully aware of how common it is, as I used to read through pro-anorexia forums regularly. Now that I’m in recovery, I can’t imagine watching mukbangs and enjoying them.
i can totaly relate to what you're saying because i experienced the same ! wishing you all the best for your recovery, especially in exhausting and confusing times like these. you can be so proud of yourself for taking a step towards being healthy and even though it takes time, i'm sure you can do it 🌞
For me.. I'm just very skinny and obviously I want to change that, but I don't eat a lot of food so I never gain weight. The mukbang I watch is just someone eating normal food in a clean way which makes me hungry and then I eat more food. I've gained a little weight so I'm proud of it and I'm probably gonna keep watching until I'm happy with my body weight.
@@PurplePinkRed I like watching people try new foods, but mukbangs...yuck. I mean, some people really like that and I guess I say “you do you boo.” But that’s not my cup of tea.
One thing that was missed, is that this isn't even a new phenomenon. In Bourbon-era and Imperial-era France, the royalty and nobility actually made a fair amount of money by charging people to watch them eat. It was more of a social-status "lifestyles of the rich and famous" sort of thing, rather than strictly focused on the food; but it was quite popular.
When I'm having cravings and I want to eat some savoury, highly processed food like instant ramen, I always just play Nicocado Avocado, he just makes me not want to look at food anymore. Weight loss hack
@cheesesmiles No joke, I think some people actually stan hating on him. He makes himself "hateable" with the over the top acting and played out drama with his bf. He knows how to put on a show and his audience loves it. Thats why theres so many viewers who have left hundred of hate comments. Nike has mental problems and so do his hate viewers.
The thing about imagining ourselves eating food is so true. I had never understood the whole point of mukbangs and had never watched smth like that before until I got into a hospital just a week ago. I got food poisoning so it was really strict on meals there. There were maybe only 8 types of food that they served for patients to eat. I was passing my time at the hospital watching TH-cam and the more I stayed there the more food videos I ended up watching. I was literally imagining how I would come out of the hospital and eat that specific type of food. I think people definitely like watching smth that they can't have at the moment.
I was starving once, not bc of a body disorder, but bc I was poor and had almost nothing to eat on the daily. And I watched mukbangs relentlessly. Vicariously eating like that made me super hungry but satisfied at the same time. Once I could afford to eat well, I watched it less and less.
S.Korea: The thought behind Mukbang is for decreasing loneliness because eating with someone is an intimate act. USA: Let's take that and act like the cavemen we are in front of the camera YAY
@@TibbyMissRiot you are reaching, koreans are the ones eating alarming amount of food, doing extremely big bites, have weird challenges, do extreme stuff for the views whereas some of the americans are just messy. So your comment is invalid since they are not doing what it was originally meant to be.
I guess I’ve been living under a rock because I had no idea this was even a thing, and I gotta be honest, I couldn’t even watch most of the clips. I had to look away because I found the spectacle of people gorging themselves beyond nauseating. I can’t decide if I wish I were still living in ignorance of this trend. Thanks for breaking it down though. I always appreciate the context you bring to these bizarre internet trends.
All these clips just wierdly motivated me to save myself and eat healthy. I understand that some people might feel hungry seeing this, but I just felt this sudden hatred towards my bad food habits.thank you, I guess
I'm grossed out with that stuff i guess having etiquette is better than mukbang. I even have this two year old cousin who watches McDonald's mukbang and the mom's ok with it I was disgusted after realizing he watches the stuff. I'm also curious what happens if he watches that a lot is he going to think that eating large amounts of fast food is normal.
I didn't even want to watch from his channel when i first heard about him. Hahah i watched a reaction video from other channels when i was curious about what he does. Didnt want to give him views😅
@@MarieTilly I don't get it, whenever I watch somebody eating food I immediately want to go get something to eat. LOL not that I do, just saying the urge is there.
bingo, I watch people eat like this because i know I could never do that without feeling horrible. its honestly pretty sad, I spend hours watching mukbangs to fill my hunger.
If you don't eat your food like you're making love to it, you're obviously not an emotional eater or have no eating disorder (tendencies). Some people just don't understand the struggle. Food is almost a religious experience 😋 It makes you cry; it makes you sing. Yeah, sometimes there's moaning. It's not on purpose 😕
I hate everything about mukbangs: the chewing sounds, the creepy staring at the camera while they stuff their faces, the moaning, the disgusting way they eat
Sometimes tiktokers will do little vids where they “eat with you” to help people get through that first initial fear of food and those really work sometimes. To just have someone else, who can’t see me or what I’m eating, take the first bite and tell me that I should take one too works really well. So the live ones sound like they could be really nice for stuff like that.
On my fyp a while ago, therE was a girl who recorded herself eating along in a duet filled with tears because the video she dueted was a girl eating with the viewer, it was so heartwarming and heartbreaking at the same time
As an art history nerd: oftentimes European still life paintings of feasts show half-rotting or peeled food in order to make a thematic commentary on the transience of life on Earth in comparison to an eternity in heaven. Choices of different foods and items carried strong symbolic meanings in context. So... Not JUST food porn !
@Leslie Arias Did you not watch the video? She starts off with food images-- literally what this post was talking about. Food used to be used differently in images than it is today, that isn't at least a little interesting to take note of?
I can’t be the only one who actually *prefers* to eat alone..I find eating around people to be rather uncomfortable. Could be a social anxiety thing maybe? Idk. I just like to eat alone is all I know 😅
Lol same here! I don't like when people are trying to talk to me while I'm eating and trying to chew my food, or glancing over at me while taking a bite haha. It is so much more peaceful to eat alone 😊
I'm definitely more reserved eating in front of friends. Making sure I close my mouth, wiping off my mouth, taking small bites, not talking while eating. I just don't want to appear any bit disgusting to friends.
i'm exactly the same, and it's definitely because i have anxiety about eating in front of people and most other tasks in life in general e.g. buying food. i do this in front of family too and they think i'm only doing it out of etiquette. little do they know, i'm having intrusive thoughts about my appearance during the whole meal.
Definitely anxiety. I used to eat alone at a restaurant once a week just to enjoy time by myself. Focusing on just me. I would splurge on a meal I knew I wouldn't finish and a delicious cup of coffee. Afterwards I realized I stopped caring about how big of a bite I took in front of my friends. It helped. I suggest you give it a try when you are able to.
Those who have eating disorders play a huge role of audience members. Especially those who have anorexia and binge eating disorder. Also as someone who had an ED some of us have had to do treatment programs where we are supposed to sit down together for a meal so we destigmatize eating around others or making sure we are eating multiple meals a day. Online was a way to do if for those who graduated from a program, we just did so through skype/zoom style meetings instead of recording it and putting it on TH-cam.
Yeah I was looking through her chapters and was like is she not going to talk about how this viewed and can depending on the person: help or hinder those with Eating disorders. Not only the viewer but the binge and purgers with in the creators. Personality it’s helped and Also hurt my ED depends on who and how I watch like nick made me quick eating for a week but watching better creators help me get over people watching me eat.
It's horrible...I can't understand how you can torture living beings willingly. I mean for the meat you eat, you don't directly get involved with how the animal is raised and killed. (an if you watch your sources, those animals will be treated well along the process too). Not saying that we shouldn't think about that and reflect on our food choices anyway but it just gives you this distance from something many people couldn't do. Which makes me wonder how this girl can do this....
@@andresvos Obviously. I was trying to say something different. Namely that most people would be reluctant towards killing an animal themselves, even the way the industry does. Yet here we have people like her, who for some reason, feel no remorse when mistreating and unnecessarily torturing animals. And that I just find it hard to understand how she can do it. Personally, I think, theres still a difference between torturing an animal and merely killing it. However, everyone is free to decide if he thinks the latter is unacceptable. Myself, I find the treatment of animals before the killing the much bigger issue most of the times.
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Finally someone said something about this stupid nasty stuff.
Please put a pinned warning about animal mistreating. That was horrible.
I don't like the sound of people chewing so thank you for keeping it to a minimum ☺️
@@notanymore8802 that was the most disturbing thing about this. That woman should have her channel banned for doing that.
So, throughout this video (I'm halfway through) I notice Stephanie Soo/MissMangoButt is appearing. The clip about the Golden Gobble featuring her in a thumbnail is questionable. I get that as Westerners it is easy to say that another culture's practices are weird when we don't understand. It's not acceptable but I get it. I also get that in any culture a number of these cases took everything too far. Stephanie is not exactly one for me. I recently found her and have been watching her videos which feature true crime stories and other things. Yes, she eats those foods but where are the clips of her eating each mukbang with her fiance, and on other occasions friends/family. She isn't the only one eating during her videos and not all the food gets finished. I will finish the video...
Almost finished watching! Saw Stephanie again with Zach Choi. Anyways, I think assuming mukbang is a fetish does a disservice to a cultural trend. I personally am not a fan of mukbangs and don't watch any other channel but Stephanie's and she also provides other content. Keep in mind, I started watching early 2021. She also has the food elevated on a tray and positioned close to the camera. Watching this video was a trigger and I have a terrible gag reflex that activates at the mere sight of large amounts of food being eaten. Not gonna lie, I do have the urge to eat some yummy recipes I see.
All in all, not a bad video but comments are interesting. Maybe, if possible, next time reach out to some of these mukbangers for a better understanding of what they feel towards their content. Those with food issues are responsible for their own actions and choices. Mukbang is something that can be twisted and judged without a thought to specific people and why they may create such content.
The saddest thing about this is that everything started because there are so many people out there who feel lonely and just want some company
But i thought it was for companies to sell their food.. korean people are known for smacking and slurping in a satisfying way, and many advertisements here in south korea always show someone biting into chicken or slurping ramen when they are advertising their food products. Atleast, being in korea its what i saw it was mostly for since people always had some sponsors or something
@@chaldeokpai this is the point op is making. Especially in Korea, where meals aren't meant to be made for one, family style is the only style, and sharing (even with two people) is automatic. Maybe I can go to a 김밥 shop and eat alone, but the food and social cultures, in the modern technological era in societies that are infamous for studying and working yourself into isolation, the point is to feel connected. Many people watch these and eat with the creators, and this is a bit sad. But doesn't have to necessarily be so.
Yeah, that's why mukbang for me is so disturbing and depressing to watch.
@loveless ai
That’s Japanese, not Korean.
I was just about to leave this comment. The intention Mukbangs had wasn't wrong, it was to give people who were alone some eating company. The thing that's wrong is what people made of it
The image of a topless Nicokado "seductively" eating a chicken wing will now haunt me forever
Jasmin Johanna who watches this guy? He's horrible.
Twitter leaked his only fans and I’ve never been the same since
I shudder to think what is on his Only Fans account...dear lord.
@@julietijerina8176 Alizee paid for and reviewed it, just hearing her describe it was traumatic
@@ALBUMOF2008 same
When I was struggling with anorexia, I watched hours upon hours of mukbangs. Not only did I get vicarious satisfaction, but it was also a way for me to hyper-fixate on food without physically having it around or eating it.
Saaaame
sorry to hear that
@@q7zjdwomfvkbj74 you'd be surprised how common it is. It's practially ED culture to watch this shit. It's like watching someone like you do everything you can only dream of. And make no mistake, these people are severely disordered. No healthy, well fed person can shovel 6000kcal in one sitting and still have room for more. It's something you can do only if you've been severely restricting.
I would actually assume it would make it worse
that’s what i am doing now, it kinda satisfies my cravings
i think the only mukbang id watch would be one where theyre actually polite. they chew with their mouth closed, dont talk with their mouth full, and just enjoy a nice proper lunch thats ONE serving while talking about their day with a livestream. thatd be nice content to watch, it just sounds cozy, like youre out to lunch with your friend
That's- TheReportOfTheWeek
Personally, I think watching someone eat is pretty gross 😂 I hate the sound of chewing, even if I’m eating next to the person chewing irl. It can actually make me lose my appetite
YES SAME
I do like sas asmr, she doesn't talk usually but she eats lots of Thai foods, vegetables and reasonable portion sizes
same!! i rarely watch mukbangs but when i do, i love watching the ones where its just two friends talking about their day as they eat, while i do something else. its like a podcast with a side of asmr.
as an overweight woman, I sometimes watch mukbangs to deter me from eating. Watching people eat a grotesque amount of calorie-dense foods really helps to suppress my appetite. They also give me an insight into what life could be like if I continue to overeat in terms of weight gain.
Same. Those and ALR/Foodie Beauty compilations.
Watching Nik eat ten thousand calories a day helped me lose weight and I'm not even kidding. It would be a struggle to end up like him
@@elliQaz yeah definitely,, I'm not exactly over weight but I've gained weight and i wanna stop eating so much as well so this might help me
I used to binge but yeah seeing the Mukbangs with the massive people eating equally massive unhealthy foods just make me cringe. They make me want to go on a diet and exercise even when I do generally enjoy Mukbangs.
@@canela.v2836 yes! This is exactly how I feel about mukbangs
"...dating all the way back to our ancestors."
*shows trisha*
I LAUGH SO HARD KAMZKSOAK
we are all trisha
Reject humanity. Return to Trisha.
@@ijakkottad Makes sense because she loves Jesus
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It's sad how a concept meant to help lonely Korean people to enjoy some kind of company turned into a twisted excuse for people to gorge themselves with food and enable feederism for views and money.
Allow me to add this: I do not thing that they use these shows as excuses for over eating but rather for the potential income they could be having
@@johnnydion9511 Amberlynn Reid, Foodie Beauty and Nikocado Avocado are only a few examples of mukbangers that use this trend as an excuse to binge eat with no regard to their health, so I'm afraid it's an excuse for them, at least.
@@bananatiergod I agree with you...For these individuals that do want go stuff their face despte their serious health problems is only reinforced by the fact that they also make money out of it
Ikr??? I didn't know it started like a way of getting some sort of virtual company while eating since so many ppl get lonely yet it completely deviated
@@bananatiergod it's chilling to think this is gonna be their demise
I think I’m mesmerized by mukbangs because I get to live vicariously through them. I’ve struggled with eating disorders, food insecurity, allergies, and serious weight fluctuations for most of my life and watching mukbangs or competitive eaters is a relatively harmless way for me to indulge in a way I never could in real life.
Literally same
Yeah, it keeps me from binging...
Using this logic sex addicts should watch p@rn to help them reduce the damage of their sex addiction... Instead of I don't know going for a run or painting..
It's so sad to know this all started as a way to feel like you're eating with someone and somehow it turned into copious amount to food, torture, acting, or something sexual. Can't anything just be normal it somehow HAS to turn into something horrific???
I think its because normal is boring? Creators need something that will make people click their vids, the crazier, the better.
When I first heard of Mukbang, I was at a loss for why? It felt like it maybe was a sexual thing that I don't understand. As someone that has a hard time watching food contests, I was mortified at this new world I had stumbled upon.(especially Nikado Avacado)
Then I learned Mukbang started so people were watching so they didn't have to eat alone.(😢 which made me feel awful)
It still horrifies me, I still don't completely understand.
Human history in a nutshell.
@@kristinwood8884 I heard of it ways before the likes of Trisha and nick got to it. Ive lived alone since 18 and I'd often watch streamers (gaming) or find interesting videos to watch while I eat, so I could understand it from that point. I enjoy watching people make food, there's something really satisfying about cooking sounds. Seeing different food people make, plate and eat. It helped me get ideas about making new food or enjoy my food.
But i never got into mukbangs cause this madness that it became of eating ungodly amount of greasy food. It's not appealing and whatever they pretend to talk about was never interesting enough to me
when something becomes too popular/mainstream it ALWAYS differs from its roots. that's just how it be.
I've also seen that some people who have anorexia will find gross/"gross" mukbangs and watch them to reinforce their food avoidance
I'm bulimic and I can confirm xd I do that sometimes
Me. I’m sorry, but, me.
💛 i struggle with binge/restrict cycles (starting to calm) and have done it once or twice in attempt to reinforce a restrict phase. (Did pick up the idea somewhere else though.) No judgement here. Try to keep kind with yourselves if you can
Yes, its used to stop binging urges, and the one that are most wached are the most repolsive ones. A lot of people with ED will want to feel repulsed by food.
Im anorexic and I can also confirm that they gross me out so I watch them to prevent myself from eating.
The original purpose of Mukbang was to "eat with a friend". In most East Asian countries, people usually eat together with their families, but because of school and the work culture, people rarely have time to do that anymore. The original mukbangs were just people hanging out and interacting with the streamer/mukbanger (bcs it was usually livestreams) and told stories and how their day went, etc etc. But now it's become bloated to this amalgamation of eating obnoxious amounts of food, potentially wasting food, animal torture, and other disgusting things.
What about animal torture 😳??? What are you talking about??
Ok I didn't know about that. I have just watched the video and saw that stupid woman torturing animals for views during her mukbang.
@@Aegan-po6se eating animals alive
@@Aegan-po6se Theres a specific youtuber who essentially eats her food alive, or she'll torment the poor thing until she kills it
I remember when I found out how it started, and I just got depressed. Like, just, "let's have a normal lunch with this creator" to CHOMPCHOMPSCHLLLOOORRPPP in your ear, and food waste and fat fetishism and ugggh.
I started watching mukbangs and food/calorie challenges when I was diagnosed with anorexia. It was a way for me to become mesmerised with the food that I told myself I will never eat so it was like watching a fantasy
Hope you are doing better now.
But Did it work?
I can see mukbangs for a different audience repulsive and the engagement is purely shock value retention
That’s why I watch them It really is an addiction
@@humansolarian not the person, but this happened to me too and worked for me very well. My longest fasts (a few days) were done cuz i would just spend hours watching mukbangs instead of eating
I was looking for this comment because same I hope you’re doing better now
Mukbang in Korea: "Let's eat this normal ass lunch together virtually"
Mukbang in America: "WATCH ME EAT MOUNTAINS OF FRIED CHICKEN"
I wouldn't call the portions they are eating normal, it might be slightly healthier than American food but it's the same thing..
@@PrincessPikka Eating more in Korea was recent. And the react bros would probably just pick the most outlandish clips. When it first started, it would just be a random chick eating a normal portion of ramyun on livestream. Over time, just like in the US, they probably saw that bigger portions got more views.
Nahhhhhhhhhhh incorrect
@@vulpixelful I used to watch Mukbangs since like 07 and they always had bigger portions but ate slow and/or wouldn’t finish it. The food was also typical Korean food and wasn’t made to look bright, colorful and exaggerated.
The origin of the trend looked so wholesome 🥺
As someone with an Eating disorder I think a large part of the audience likely also has ED tendencies...
I developed anorexia nervosa during quarantine when i came across mukbangs. I used to weight a healthy 58kgs and now I weight 43kgs since I started to fulfil my eating desires through mukbangs. ;-;
Weigh*
Yup
im so sorry you have to go through that :/ you're stronger than this and i hope you'll be able to get out of this addiction🙏
Yes
"Millenials and Gen Z are the loneliest people" Kiana, sweetie, I came here for a good time not to be attacked
Edit: this is a joke, calm down can't believe people actually thought I was offended
😂😂😂
😂 funnyyyyy
Kiana is living vicariously through offending you online. 😃
@@rachel935108 i was joking lol i know that she isn't being mean
@@alixrandall3476 i know that i was just joking
when she said 'you might get hungry' I thought "that's okay, I'm about to have lunch anyways" but now I feel like throwing up 🙂
Same
I'm glad that my hatred of eating noises has shielded me from this trend.
@@dallypurcy3113 no u
@@dallypurcy3113 it's wierd
@@dallypurcy3113 just about as weird as watching strangers eat?
@@dallypurcy3113 I hate them too. I have misophonia. Look it up.
I have that too. Chewing and random heavy breathing noises while eating. I’m not fussy about it but it’s definitely annoying, I just leave the room politely. It’s called misophonia I think
That avocado guy literally makes me want to throw up .
me too...
Same! 🤢
He said the n word
@@hoesmad4400 at this point i think hes crazy
i hate when they purposefully eat so grossly.
The thing that makes me weirded out by mukbangs is how similar it is to ED behaviors. And you can actually stretch your stomach so badly it can burst if you force that much food into your stomach.
Mukbang with tons of food is ed recorded and uploaded to yt
Of course, it’s a binge eating disorder documented.
It's really popular in ed communities for restrictives to watch these to deliberately put them off of eating or to "eat" vicariously through the MBers
Thanks now I'm scared to eat a lot of food lmao
@@tjman4616 it's not that easy to do. Usually, you'll throw up before you get to that stage, or feel too full to be able too continue 😊 so dont worry, you wont accidentally burst your stomach 😊
17:19 seeing my sad tired eyes reflected in the phone screen and then the direct cut to Nikocado drowning a cheeseburger in an ungodly amnt of nacho sent me 😂😂😂😂
You never thought you'd ever be in this situation 😭
The excessiveness, the unhealthy aspect of it, the disturbing chewing and slurping sounds, the half chewed food falling out of their mouths. It seriously turns my stomach. Never understood it, and I don't think I ever will.
It’s the story time that gets people to stay. Otherwise, it is weird to watch people on TH-cam eat in silence lol.
honestly they dont really eat it tho they put it in mouth then spit then cut the only real ones are on livestreams .-.
Same! This is the reason I watch some selected mukbangers only. But I sometimes end up watching some messy & people who don't finish their food later on too just because of the food they eat. I crave for all that food they eat but most of 'em aren't available here Imao so I go to the kitchen & end up making something for myself Imao
Agreed I find it so repulsive 🤢
@@candice446 it's weird because I hate when people chew loud in real life but I can listen to mukbang/asmr all day
I was biting into an apple at the same time that person bit into an onion my brain didn’t know how to act 💀💀💀
Ew lol
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Your brain was probably thinking, forbidden apple
i used to be heavily anorexic and have a “cheat day” where i would binge thousands of calories and thought i was doing okay because i was eating one day a week. then when i physically couldn’t function i began going on binges constantly and gained tons of weight. i can no longer watch mukbangs because it is so triggering for me. i’m healthy now and in the process of just eating balanced!
Good for you dude
Glad you're doing better! Like I swear, mukbang is promoting every eating disorder on the planet. I used to use it to put myself off food when I was restricting: the image of people messily downing thousands of calories reminded me of my own binges and they always made me feel ultra gross and guilty by proxy.
Congrats, Libby💕💕💕
Good for you!!💜
Nice
I’ve been on a weight loss journey now for a year, have lost over 70 pounds, and weigh 169, I still have about 30 or so to go and have been so worried something in my life might cause me to fall off the wagon. Watching your channel has helped me so much to give me that drive to continue on. Appreciate you.
I like the mukbangs where they eat a normal amount of food and tell a storytime, it's like having a meal w a friend hahahha.
i like watching kashi star
I just started the video, but from my understanding, that's what it was actually *meant* to be. Not these insane people gorging themselves to death. 🤢
Stephanie soo
@@modestbykaoutar101 stay in school children.
Right. Like Mama Tang. But then ppl to it to an extreme and my stomach aches.
It disturbs me when you see people playing with live animals they are about to eat. And laughing at the assumed terror of said animal.
Ngl im a meat eater but i don't want to abuse my meals like eat then be grateful why playing with its and make their suffering more
Yeah it seems freakishly detached or callous. 0 compassion
That's why I only watch the Tanhgulu ones
thats a really disgusting thing to do, its almost along the lines of animal cruelty
I can't stand cruelty to dogs or cats or hamsters or whatnot. I would literally smash someone square in the face should I see someone hitting a dog. But come on, it's fish or octopi, they have as much brain cells as you, their "terror" and "anguish" and "pain" are negligible. They don't even perceive these things to any meaningful extent.
Remember kids, neurons firing doesn't equate to experiencing pain.
You animal protectors go over the top as these crazy mukbangers who play with their food slightly longer than necessary.
I'm glad you brought up Ssoyoung
as she definitely shows a darker side of Mukbangs to a an extreme level. The fact that some people are willing to literally torture animals for people's amusement, while youtube let the content stay up, is bewildering.
The worst part is that she blows up because TH-cam promotes her content. 1 question, how is this not flagged as animal abuse.
@@user-rg7vr1kd1w There isn't even an option to choose for animal cruelty if you're trying to report her channel :/
But they’ll take videos down for someone saying Corona Virus in their video:/
I'm perplexed at how she's getting away with it, what a foul creature she is
Look I'm not going to defend anything but my two cents is unless you are a vegan you really can't act better than she is. Animals are treated horribly in general if they are raised to produce food. I'm not a vegan so I wont pretend to be better.
That said the milk that goes into our cereal or our coffee.... You are kidding yourself if you don't acknowledge an animal is suffering.
Only difference is you see the final moments where as in the others you don't.
People go on about how to "ethically" prepare seafood bit let's be honest. There really isnt an ethical way to kill something. End of the day you are killing an animal to consume its flesh. Even if you didn't kill it yourself your purchase justifies the torment it endured. Its no different than paying for elephant tusk products, without demand there would be no need for poaching.
Sad fact of life we live in a world were people can recognize the trouble of " a blood diamond" but don't even realize "blood avocados" have become a thing.
We all just point to what seems obvious but can't seem to see how we are no better ourselves.
I'm not a vegan but its to the point I can only respect their opinion regarding such topics because coming from anyone else it comes off as hypocritical.
You did a excellent job on this documentary and should be so proud of yourself… As a mother of four these Mukbang videos are very frightening for my children sensory overload’s through social media in general but teaching them how to properly listen to their body cues for hunger versus this lustful indulgence is just so scary!!!!
Mukbangs remind me of the scene of Spirited Away where Chihiro's parents eat until they turn into pigs.
OMGG yeah...
that scene give me nightmares when i was younger
I loved that scene they made the food look really good😂
@@gracefulswans io
What a coincidence! I was planning on watching that 👁. 👅 👁
Well when i had anorexia, i used to watch mukbangs to make me feel like i hade eaten. And it made me feel like i was filled with food in my stomach in a weird kind of way.
Would it make your mouth water alongside the satiation?
They used to make me feel sick (especially the ones with people gorging themselves) so they turned me off eating for quite some time afterwards
@@absolutetrash8118 Samee sometimes it depends for me it either disgusts me to not eat food or full my body like i ate ut
same. when i was struggling with an eating disorder, would pull up mukbangs of people eating food i enjoy/was craving and then would imagine myself eating it so i would feel satisfied enough to not engage in eating myself. the only time i watch mukbangs is when i’m falling back into eating disorder habits
That's exactly what I was wondering.
Glad you are out of there now. Stay strong.
Glutttony is disgusting, muk bang isn't about eating a meal anymore, it's about watching one person eat a meal for 6. Its gross.
That's what makes me nauseated. It's wasting food.
@@pixelated.peachyangel true! As someone who had to tightly budget my money for food and sometimes barely had anything on hand a few years ago, seeing this waste makes me SUPER uncomfortable.
@@thehillisalive When I see so much food in the thumbnails I can't help but think of how many could have eaten it...food waste is a big problem.
Eating a lot in one sitting isn't healthy either...
Depending on someones body condition, it might be or might not be disgusting. There is this youtuber of Mukbang that I know named Yuka Kinoshita. As far as I know, she has a condition where she needs to consume a large amount of calories. That's why she is lean no matter how much food she has eaten. She always keep her food neat and clean so, it is enjoyable to see the process of cooking until the food is gone into her tummy. I don't feel disgusted at all. Another story of again a youtuber of mukbang where all she did is just eat the ready prepared food and the way she eats is messy. I knew this girl named Kate Yup whose the mukbang show I hate but then again it's said she was forced and tortured to do so. Honestly, I just knew about her when accident of her being killed spread around social media and when I checked her youtube I was surprised with that many subscribers no one find her somehow not really enjoying her food. All of those bruises, broken teeth, etc while eating is very concerning.
*MUKBANG = SHITTING THE BED!*
When I went on my weight loss journey, I came across Mukbang. They didn't make me hungry, they revolted me. I ended up using them as a form of "food aversion therapy"...watching them made me lose my appetite. My "journey" took 6 months. I was glad to stop watching those videos. They served a purpose, but as I move into weight maintenance, I didn't need them anymore.
Very true, I was slightly hungry cause of a slight calorie defecit and now im just so disgusted watching them eat those noodles
*Korean here*
Mukbang in it's original sense was about socially connecting with each other through online while eating what you would normally eat in front of a live camera. Think about it as if though you are going to a restaurant with large group of friends sharing a meal while interacting with each other, but just doing it online. Originally in Korea people would live-stream what they were eating and share it online, because in Korea it can get difficult to make friends and socially interact with others in real life. As a result there are significant number of people who are loners but at the same time want to interact with others and be able to get that experience of sharing a meal with others as if they are in the presence of group of friends are at a restaurant interacting and talking while eating a meal. That's the original concept and the basis of mukbang.
But nowadays with content creators more concerned about making a profit rather than interacting and connecting with audiences and people, it's become all commercialized and all about how to get the most views so to make the most profits. This means mukbang content creators are mostly about creating some shock value content such as eating absurdly large amount of food or some exotic foods we have never even heard of.
this seems useful. what its become (thanks america) is just unnecessary. sad its been so far removed from what it should be💔
That was interesting and very informative! Thank you!
@@kingmionidas and what it's become has become a huge waste of food too just for the shock value its really sad
I only watch a select few mukbang creator like sio asmr and all the others are mainly Korean as well cause you guys just do it best and it’s not just about eating the biggest McDonald’s meal you can get
call me weird but i don't like to eat with large group of people. when i eat, i want to eat in peace, watch movie or read. not socialize.
i don't want to talk while chewing and don't wanna see people mashed food in their mouth when they open their mouth when talking while chewing.
so this trend just not for me but you do you. my strategy is just being in peace with loneliness.
The thing that really makes me sad is the disrespect towards food. On one end there are people who go to bed empty stomach and here we have an entire industry fetishizing food and binge-eating.
true
Yes we should not waste food and birng the food to the starving children in Africa
@@dawidek4267 why do yall think africa is the only place with starving kids..?
@@dawidek4267 I'd love to show you around the world because there's people in North America, South America, Asia, Europe everywhere that go without eating. Being poor in any country can lead to not eating. Maybe for a day, or a week.
Eh doesn’t bother me
This has criminally low views rn
Our girl made a whole ass documentary on a perplexing youtube niche and 14K? Yt do something
lmaoo
Yeah I'm subscribed and have the bell on and I didn't get a notification..
I guess TH-cam likes the views Mukbangs bring in
at 108k now,,,,, yt listened
Who made an ass documentary?
207k views now, but only 14k likes.
I just hit the "No words..." part of the video, and I already no longer want to live in this world anymore. 😒
I swear I have this phobia that someone's jaw is going to break or a muscle when they eat huge chunks of food to the point they could literally choke.
I'm always afraid they're going to choke. :))))
I feel like they’re going to tear their mouth open. And it’s amplified by the fact that I can’t open my mouth too big, so imagining myself opening my mouth that big is *shudders*
@@safala I don't blame you
Well now you extended the fear down to me
@@PoptartParasol What can I say except, you're Welcome! :D
Honestly what scares me the most is that it’s not humanly possible to eat as much food as they do and stay skinny, so there’s a huge possibility that the majority of mukbangers have bulimia or some type of eating disorder. I only came to that conclusion cause I use to be bulimic in middle school, but I gave it up pretty soon and grew up to be 300 pounds by the end of my freshman year of college. Then I got down to 145 in two years through hard work and exercise and I now understand calorie intake more than I ever did before. I know some people have fast metabolisms, but I also know that no metabolism is fast enough to burn off the amount of calories they consume.
For real though...you only need to look at Nikocado to see what really happens when someone takes this up, and it’s worrying both what they’re doing to themselves and also what they’re teaching people subconsciously
The people who do it and are normal size, I would guess they work out a lot post feast, like spend a good few hours walking and they probably eat very little other food than the mukbang, especially if they do it regularly. Very worrying from a nutrition point as healthy mukbangs aren't the norm, it's usually junk food
@@eleanormason2647 Oh for sure there has to be some mukbangers that actually watch their calorie intake, do intermittent fasting, and workout regularly. But what worries me is m that you can see who works out because they’re physically fit. Then you have the ones that are visually skinny and they never gain any weight. From what I can see most of these mukbangs can have about 10,000+ calories in them, so even a few hours of working out wouldn’t burn that off. It could take almost a week of intense exercise, and I know a lot of them are not doing that. So I don’t wanna make assumptions about these people or offend them, but something like bulimia is very possible because it’s easy to keep it hidden. That scares me cause these videos are making them money so they’re gonna find a way to keep making them without gaining weight. I still love these videos regardless cause it keeps me from eating bad, and watching people gorge the way I use to when I was fat makes me run to healthy food. But I still can’t help but ponder over how these people stay skinny when I have to work so hard for it.
@@oreogurl1234 Different people different metabolism.. I can eat twice as much as my brother and he's bigger than me.
Exactly I was expecting her to touch on this more. Glad you said it.
That microwave spaghetti was so sad looking
Ikr
lmfao yeah
Weber cooks was so fuckin hilarious
Yep ahaha
@Anna Elan lmaooo fr
That lady eating and then passing gas on camera FORCEFULLY is so chaotic and sickening >.
I think she deserves more appreciation for the effort she put in making this video.
It probably takes over 5 hours to do all of this
@@Prettyordying 8i8888i8i8uu888i88u8i88888888888888i888888888888888888888888u888
@@Prettyordying that's a big understatement, probably like a week
this is one of the most well researched videos I've ever seen on such a **casual** topic
For fucks sake stop copying comments for likes I've seen this same comment on 10 different videos
I was exercising in my room while watching this. The number of times I had to run to turn down the volume so that my parents wouldn't assume that I was watching something else actually made for a pretty good workout
Girl me tryna watch anything on TH-cam🤣🤚
SAME LMFAO
There's something called headphones.
@Řęx You answered your own question.
@Řęx No you don't but if you don't want your parents hearing it then you should. It's not like they cost a lot.
Let’s be honest: I think one of the main reasons that “mostly normal” people like to watch mukbangs is because they themselves are hungry.
Yea i cant eat those foods so i watch mukbangs
Or can’t afford all that food! Mukbangs look expensive
@@goldenapple3952 word
It’s weird because I have an eating disorder so I like refuse to eat for days or weeks at a time, but I still like watching mukbangs. They don’t make me wanna eat either
well yeah that's the charm of mukbangs lol the hunger lures you into watching them. I have a hard time not doing that when I'm hungry and then I get worse
the first "mukbang" i watched wasn't meant to be a mukbang. but i wanted cake so bad one day and couldn't get it. so i looked up "eating cake" on youtube and clicked on a vid of a young man eating a small rectangle of vanilla cake with his hands outside. i enjoyed it and one of the comments even said "this was exactly what i was looking for when i searched eating cake" with a fair number of likes. and this was years ago, like maybe in 2008 or something
oh hey as someone watching have Chinese cultural background, the main reason they banned the mukbang is not because they eat food in a sexual way, but mainly because they are wasting food because multiple mukbangers in China are being exposed spitting the food out after eating it. And the government believe this is teaching audience a unhealthy and harmful diet and promote wasting food
Also great video!
Not a great video if she didn’t research enough to find that out!
The CCP says that but it’s really just because the content is edging on pornographic, they’re not some woke organisation about food waste
food waste is the only beef i have with mukbang
like we all know these people don't eat 15k calories in a sitting without vomiting out later
watching people eat is an evolutionary social trait so i get the appeal; but food waste is a no-no, especially in today's world
@@commonomics I agree that one should be wary about defending decisions of an authoritarian government.
That said, this particular case actually doesn't look like a restriction of free speech to me.
In fact, mukbang videos might be the least likely videos to contain any worthwhile political information.
And how would they - the people are busy stuffing their faces.
It's almost literally just "food porn" that appeals to primitive urges and runs on luxurious food waste.
@@commonomics It's a very specific form of showing content. No international human rights would be necessarily violated if this kind of content would become more regulated at least.
For instance, there are obscenity laws that do restrict self-expression if it causes strong offense if the general public.
Admittedly, that doesn't quite match the common consensus of mukbang. But I think it's at least different from merely uploading a video of the dinner at your wedding for instance.
ofc it was TRISHA who made the first american mukbang
She didn't 💀💀 but became one of the most controversial
@@littlebean7764 so who was first then
@@floraice. some random people that didnt become popular lol
Lol imagine being naive enough to think this
She want the first American lol hella American mukbangers have been doing this
I'm more attracted to the cooking process than the food itself. The before and after of anything is my obsession.
Me too.. I love cooking tree and similar channels
Same. Cooking Tree is my favorite. But I do like asmr Pham because she don’t eat giant portions
Honestly I just watch Gordon Ramsay since he is entertaining or if Tasty has an interesting video that isn't just about cooking like if they make something for a sumo wrestler or if Markiplier is on it
mee toooo
Same, I love watching Dianxi Xiaoge videos
Mukbangs make me lose my appetite. The gorging is nauseating, i love eating with friends and sharing stories and whatnot but when they treat it like an eating competition, no talking, just shoveling pounds of food(hopefully) into their mouth.. i cant. And i hate the sounds. And the sexualization of it. I love slime asmr. No talking, just pretty slimes and pops and crunches for a couple minutes. I understand people liking asmr and how sounds can be relaxing. I dont like slurping sounds personally but to each their own. Textures and messes also mess with me a ton so when i see mukbangs where they gorge and have sauces all over their hands and face, i automatically feel it on myself and feel so gross and sick and have to look away. The health risks also bother me. I love food, i eat junk food but try to keep it balanced and i overeat bc i get excited about a meal and eat too fast, it happens. But when people do it for attention and get that attention consistently, they'll do what it takes to feed that addiction, literally in this case. Eating beyond what they can handle, eating things not meant to be consumed, some post daily mukbangs so they gain a ton of weight and get all the health issues that come with that too. There are better ways to do it, like once or twice a month and staying healthy in between videos. Keeping up with exercise as well. Its still not great for you but better than daily. Nickado was posting all the time and had a lot of health issues from it, hes doing better now and dropped a lot of weight, but hes not the only one.
Tldr; mukbangs arent inherently bad i dont think, at least not the original idea, but what we did with that idea is. Hopefully we can end the trend and they can get on a better track and focus on content thats better for themselves and their viewers
I used to watch cheese mukbangs to stimulate my anorexia. They would make me feel so disgusted that I wouldn’t need any more food that day.
I hope you’re recovering!
Yep, i kinda feel that, but with a twist. I llllooooove cheese to the point where you can hand me a mozarella ball for breakfast and im completely happy. But when watching so much cheese being eaten, i feel like i ate it. So i was happy and full. An a kilo lighter after a few days without food
yes exactly I was wondering why there are so few comments about it triggering ED
I watched mukbangs sometimes because it started to appear on my TH-cam suggestions but I continued watching them because I was starving and seeing them was similarly to eating but as well as made me feel disgusted with food so I wouldn't really want to eat.
I thought I was the only one who did this.
A whole ass documentary for free ?! The queen of dietary education is back - every video of yours is fascinating 🥺💖
LOOL love you !thank you!!
10 ad spots does not a free video make
@@horacegentleman3296 are you gonna cry about it
@@lieutenantlobster6395 nah nah
@@horacegentleman3296 hey she’s gotta make money working so hard on these videos.
and she even didnt get in the zone of mukbangers faking their eating, bulimia etc
omg fr. i believe some of these people must overuse laxatives all the time too
@@isaacezekiel941 was waiting for this comment lmfaooo
@@mountpom2000 lol
@@mintkasa for sure, or starve for days so they can binge for their videos
this is definitely going to be an entire video on its own!!!! but... not for a few mos cuz i've been srsly enjoying the break from mukbang content lmfao
I've been binge watching the hell out of your videos I've been loving them. Very entertaining
The spaghetti dinner done in a microwave only took 14 or 15 minutes. Wow. That’s nearly as fast as cooking a spaghetti dinner normally. 😮 what an age we live in!
Had the exactly the same thought!
Homemade sauce player no way at least your grocery store essentials anyways 😮
What are you talking abt? It takes me like 2 damn hours
@@pooheadlou Same, haha! I could certainly improve the dish in that time!
@@anamethattellsastory6648 to make spaghetti you need literally the time it takes to bring water to a boil, plus the 10 minutes you need to boil the pasta. While the pasta cooks you can make any simple sauce and then combine. Unless you want to make an elaborate sauce like bolognese, but most pasta sauces don't take more than 10 minutes
Source: I'm italian I eat pasta almost every day lmao
When muckbang started in S.Korea, it was more like online social eating. Someone eats live so that other people can interact with them and even eat at the same time to feel less lonely, but Americans took it to the extreme, some creators even made it sexual 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
Wow that’s interesting. I started watching mukbangs because I didn’t want to eat alone so it’s cool to know that it’s their intended purpose haha
Nah Koreans do the same thing lol go watch Korean muckbang channels, they’re pretty much the same thing as some American ones. Obviously they started it but the whole extreme aspect is in both sides to be honest.
@@yoomsuu yeah, but you can’t put all the blame on Americans when Korean mukbang channels are also eating extremely large quantities of food. But I do understand initially this was not the purpose of them, it’s just escalated to what it is today because of the views and earnings.
Sexual ones? Where?!?
That's the yanks for you no class or respect
what happened to Nikacado Avacado has to be the saddest thing. he went from a vegan, clean eating, healthy man to.....well, that. i truly believe it’s because he knew that he had to be over the top in order to ever succeed in mukbang.
After the whole Stephanie thing I had to unsubscribe he got too crazy
@@itss_janicee i cannot stomach his videos anymore. he is an absolute train wreck. i can’t tell if it’s an act or the desperation to succeed has turned him this way.
He was in no way healthy before, he was extreme to the other extent, he was basically starving himself.
@@LemonDeadly i do believe he presented and promoted himself in a much healthier (for the viewers) and less extreme way back then. whatever was going on behind closed doors, it was never really brought onto the channel. but this new life he leads is documented and broadcasted and promoted, which i just think is the saddest thing i’ve ever seen.
@@lenamariejackson I get what you're saying, he does definitely present his unhealthy way of living a lot more in his more recent videos, but in his earlier videos, he would literally only eat 5 avocados for dinner, and constantly show off his underweight body. I wouldn't go so far as to say it was pro-ana, but it was definitely teetering on that extreme as he demonstrated a very unhealthy way of eating.
For those who didn’t know.
The word “mukbang” comes from the combination of the Korean word “Muk-ja,” which means “to eat,” and “bang-song,” “to broadcast.” Hence, “mukbang” was born, and with it the potential for another viral video. In South Korea, eating in restaurants is very much a social activity, and eating outside of the home alone is frowned upon.
maybe not frowned upon like it's a weirdo freak thing but "they seem lonely :( " type of way esp when eating meals is usually w/ friend/s or family. not exactly towards u but just some Xtra info
Broadcast n eat
everytime nickocado is on clip, I feel like throwing up.
Me too
Same. Just 🤮 He's the human equivalent of the word disgusting.
😭😭🤮 same here
I agree so much, that man is so disgusting 🤮🤮
It's like some people exist only to be disgusting
Feels like the Americanisation of mukbang is the reason why it’s become so extreme
Yeah from what I know when it started in Korea the idea was to watch someone eat while you also ate, so the streamers would stream during lunch and dinner times. It was the company of eating not about binge eating, the portions were big because Korean portions are usually family sized as most ppl live and eat with their families, and eating alone is something new and unusual, but the streamers wouldn’t necessarily eat everything, it would be on the screen for show, and they chatted with viewers while they ate.
I would actually say that it got less extreme the more Americans got on. Like in the beginning I remember little Korean girls eating a whole table of food (like waay more than now), and they would actually eat ALL of it. Nowadays I see smaller portions and people stopping when they're full instead of finishing the entire table. There are some extremes, like say Trisha Paytas, but nowadays mukbangs are pretty tame.
Its also still more extreme on the Asian side of things, Chinese mukbangers love to eat weird things in order to get more views. And there's that crazy korean lady that likes to beat/hunt her seafood before cooking and eating it *shivers*
@@AllthatmakesFall what are you trying to say about Chinese people?
@@Have_Some_Brot that we like money and we're down to eat weird shit for views bc we already eat weird shit in the eyes of westerners.
I feel like Mukbang lost its purpose when it became about the spectacle of engorging oneself. It was originally made for community and belonging for lonely people. I just don’t feel kinship or companionship with someone being a glutton. I feel that when I sit across from someone eating a NORMALLY prepared and portioned meal who just talks to me. If Mukbang went back to that, it would be less repugnant.
exactly!!
@@nodrvgscan i have a hamburger cheeseburger big mac whopper big mac whopper big mac big mac
Nikocado Avocado basically doubled his body weight. He went from this fun guy into this unhealthy angry overly dramatic monster.
That opening with the quail egg was horrifying. Not only because of how uncomfortable it is to be so close to someone's mouth, and seeing them chew but also... Ugh. Having gotten eggshell in baked goods accidentally, the idea of intentionally chewing a whole eggshell makes me cringe.
YOU DONT KNOW HOWW HARRDD I LUAGHED WHEN TRISHA PAYTAS SHOWED UP ON THE SCREEN TO BE THE FIRST AMERICAN TO DO MUKBANG 💀💀😭😭
@@j0sH092 I thought it was 💀
I LITERALLY YELLED TRISH OMG 😭 SHES SUCH AN ICON
ME TOO LOL I fucking love her
I can’t believe she was the first!!! Honestly she is so iconic
I can't believe people are calling her an icon when it's gross
The idea of eating a live octopus is the same as eating a live dog. They're recording as being the same intelligence but because they can't scream, cry and more importantly aren't seen as an animal people love and adore - it's FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINE to torture them on camera. She really makes me sick to my stomach.
I hate how many people are defending it too. Its disgusting
It's cruel in every way
i agree with you, eating is something but torturing them is a completely different thing
There is no "humane" way to eat animals. It's all cruel. They all die anyway.
@@xx_49172_vitaminc there's a difference between a quick death and torture, whether animal or human
this woman understood the assignment.
The smart girl who you feel blessed to be in a group project with
agree
She always does haha
Looooved this documentary!!! I always wondered why I felt so starved after watching Mukbang even if I had just eaten a full meal!! I didn’t know the science, but I knew it was a trigger so I walked away from these channels and social media accounts lol! Thank you for this!!
Politely eating pretty desserts: good
The original idea of a Mukbang: good
Rudely stuffing ones face with loads of messy food: 🤢🤢🤢 gross!
my exact thought
The way they stuff their faces are SO unattractive. Especially that nikkolodeon (whatever his name is) is so gross 😩🤢 I don’t get it...
im a sadist
@@theblandcharlie822 ok??????
Just curious, what was the original idea of Mukbang and how it evolve into.. this
And of course it all starts with TRISHA PAYTAS lmaooo, peak negative American stereotypes/attributes 💀
I want to also add some more context to the origin of Mukbang. Mukbang became popular at a time where there were more and more people living alone in apartments. There is a big thing in Korean culture about family, and dinner time was the time families would all sit down together after long days of work and school and finally spend time together. Eating dinner was more than food, but important bonding time. Now that people were living alone, they were eating alone, and feeling even lonlier and homesick.
People began to turn to Mukbang to have someone they could eat their meals with; while they'd watch this person eat a massive meal, they would eat their own dinner (usually not as big haha) and chat in the chatbox on the side with other viewers they were eating their meal with and the streamer. It was a way for people to still feel that bonding over mealtime instead of just... eating. That cultural importance was renewed.
But holy hell has it become something entirely different today
EDIT: I made this comment while watching the Mukbang history section, however she talks about it in the connection part. My bad!
She talks about exactly that at around 29:30 ...
@@Orangecatenergy if u read my edit...
Now it’s pet of American vocabulary and they made it strange lol
@@jeb284 yeah, Americans always have to be different
8:00
Fantastic in-depth and incredibly well edited documentary. Thank you. Learned so much about this. Will be sharing. Peace.
People moaning into the mic as they eat makes me so uncomfortable.
Same here
Me too. All mukbangs make me sick to my stomach. I'm only like five minutes into this and I probably won't even be able to watch this because of food sounds, eating noises, people moaning and stuffing ridiculous amounts of food into their mouths. 🤢🤢🤢
@@---nobody--- ikr its disgusting
@@---nobody--- same
Right
Poor nikacado avocado... I go on his TH-cam every 5 months to check up on him and he just keeps getting bigger and bigger and killing himself slowly. It’s sad to watch
If he does mukbang so many times until his death, he'll be the devoted Mukbang saint.
@@sukarnos3xy definetely
The pound-for-pound the worlds best Mukbanger to date
Omg I literally forgot about him until you said
Lol you got a point he used to be slim
@@marieann5887 He used to be vegan as well
I actually hate watching people eating on camera (in real life I don’t care), so I never paid attention to this type of content. However once I found one girl on Instagram who was eating on camera and talking about her ED and giving positive affirmations to those who are recovering. Basically the idea was to make eating feel more “normal” for them. I thought it was very nice. Of course it has very little to do with weird/gross mukbang videos.
I'm the same way, even if people in a movie are at a restaurant and the people next to them are eating I'm so grossed out. I'm not exaggerating, I would be less grossed out if they started having sex on the table lol
Let me guess, Rorecovering (now Ro Mitchell)? I love her!!
@@Aaron-kj8dv I just don't like watching others eat, but getting grossed out by just people eating in a movie seems quite a bit extreme for me... although, I get it, I get grossed out with some kissing scenes and family kisses over the phone (my mom and grandma do that all the time, the smooch sound or the word "kissing you" both just seem ridiculous... I barely tolerate that)
Same - I’m not even keen on seeing people eat irl either. I don’t mind eating with people, but won’t look at other people when eating with them.
I'm totally opposite. I'm grossed out by watching people eat in person. First complaint is I hate certain food odors such as fish. Another problem I have is people talking while they eat and they have food hanging out of their mouths. Last but not least is the slobbering and slurping noises.
Well done👏🏾! You were quite spot on about everything from start to finish. From touching on both the positives (providing sense of not feeling lonely etc), negatives (the creepy fetishization, sexualization feederism etc) and even the in-betweens to mukbangs' history and the way it has becoming.
I especially relate to your points on 1) the viewer living vicariously through the mukbanger's content by wishing i could try that food w/ out the consequences, 2) the thoughts of the viewer of the curiosity of these people consume sooo many servings of food at once and what they are doing to "maintain their weight" & 3) just the enticement of simply looking at amazing food being enjoyed 😅!
A huge part of the audience is definitely people with disordered eating habits and eating disorders. At the height of my eating disorder, I’d consume so much food p0rn and watch mukbangs throughout the day either to suppress my appetite or disgust myself until I lost my appetite. And I’m fully aware of how common it is, as I used to read through pro-anorexia forums regularly. Now that I’m in recovery, I can’t imagine watching mukbangs and enjoying them.
i can totaly relate to what you're saying because i experienced the same ! wishing you all the best for your recovery, especially in exhausting and confusing times like these.
you can be so proud of yourself for taking a step towards being healthy and even though it takes time, i'm sure you can do it 🌞
For me.. I'm just very skinny and obviously I want to change that, but I don't eat a lot of food so I never gain weight. The mukbang I watch is just someone eating normal food in a clean way which makes me hungry and then I eat more food. I've gained a little weight so I'm proud of it and I'm probably gonna keep watching until I'm happy with my body weight.
@@frieda9745 tysm!
Ohhh. I would have never considered this. Thx for sharing.
i actually watch mukbangs to encourage myself to eat food! although i don’t really watch the content creators who go over the top.
I like watching people cook food, but not eating it.
Yup! I get very hungry watching cooking shows, so I only watch them if I have a meal to eat. Mukbangs and watching people eat grosses me out.
Same! For example, I love and enjoy cooking ASMR, but Mukbang ASMR gives me the creeps.
@@awsome182 oh yeah! The sizzling, the boiling😋! But I don’t like listening to people chew🤢
@@PurplePinkRed I like watching people try new foods, but mukbangs...yuck. I mean, some people really like that and I guess I say “you do you boo.” But that’s not my cup of tea.
I agree! Baking ASMR is the best!
Kiana puts in the work not gonna lie.. Full on commitment!!!
💅LOL thank you!!! I appreciate it
It is like a documentary
As someone with ARFID, I can’t deny how SATISFYING it is to watch people be so care-free with food.
One thing that was missed, is that this isn't even a new phenomenon. In Bourbon-era and Imperial-era France, the royalty and nobility actually made a fair amount of money by charging people to watch them eat. It was more of a social-status "lifestyles of the rich and famous" sort of thing, rather than strictly focused on the food; but it was quite popular.
Whoa that’s crazy! Do you happen to know the original name of the practice back then? As a history buff, I am intrigued 😆
Mukbangs in the past
That's disgusting. Come watch me eat, something you wish you did.
@@pookiehoney Yep it’s so tone deaf like damn French aristocrats you really had to do that
Oh really? Very weird.
When I'm having cravings and I want to eat some savoury, highly processed food like instant ramen, I always just play Nicocado Avocado, he just makes me not want to look at food anymore. Weight loss hack
Totally agree 🤣
i agree with Dio
Genius. I'll start doing that when i get cravings 🤣
Try his OnlyFans. You'll never eat again.
Same, I do this with Amberlynn Reid and I seeing her constantly deny reality helps to ground me.
Why does Nikocado avocado represent the mukbang community? I hate it seriously.
@cheesesmiles No joke, I think some people actually stan hating on him. He makes himself "hateable" with the over the top acting and played out drama with his bf. He knows how to put on a show and his audience loves it. Thats why theres so many viewers who have left hundred of hate comments. Nike has mental problems and so do his hate viewers.
Because he's the most disturbed with the most drama and problems.....people seem to love it.
@lis te Stephanie has much more followers than Nik tho
He is so wild literally out of his mind and ugh
@@dinsun1111 totally agree
The thing about imagining ourselves eating food is so true. I had never understood the whole point of mukbangs and had never watched smth like that before until I got into a hospital just a week ago. I got food poisoning so it was really strict on meals there. There were maybe only 8 types of food that they served for patients to eat. I was passing my time at the hospital watching TH-cam and the more I stayed there the more food videos I ended up watching. I was literally imagining how I would come out of the hospital and eat that specific type of food. I think people definitely like watching smth that they can't have at the moment.
I was starving once, not bc of a body disorder, but bc I was poor and had almost nothing to eat on the daily. And I watched mukbangs relentlessly. Vicariously eating like that made me super hungry but satisfied at the same time. Once I could afford to eat well, I watched it less and less.
I can see why…..it is brazenly disgusting to have people be gluttons while many are not even able to feed themselves or their children
Same qhen I had nothing to eat I used to watch the yummy food I was craving thinking about eating it when I had money
4:29 this is the most disappointing looking spaghetti
Iws likee...it just looks so sad and bland 😭
Those recipe videos are so sad lol . There’s a video from H3H3 reacting to it if you wanna know what’s up w that poor old dude
Looks like ketchup on boiled noodles
S.Korea: The thought behind Mukbang is for decreasing loneliness because eating with someone is an intimate act.
USA: Let's take that and act like the cavemen we are in front of the camera YAY
Couldn't agree more
Trueeeee
South koreans are disguting mukbangers as well..
@@rafaelabortolini7558 sure there are some. I'm talking about the original thought behind it and how american people translated that
@@TibbyMissRiot you are reaching, koreans are the ones eating alarming amount of food, doing extremely big bites, have weird challenges, do extreme stuff for the views whereas some of the americans are just messy. So your comment is invalid since they are not doing what it was originally meant to be.
I guess I’ve been living under a rock because I had no idea this was even a thing, and I gotta be honest, I couldn’t even watch most of the clips. I had to look away because I found the spectacle of people gorging themselves beyond nauseating. I can’t decide if I wish I were still living in ignorance of this trend. Thanks for breaking it down though. I always appreciate the context you bring to these bizarre internet trends.
All these clips just wierdly motivated me to save myself and eat healthy. I understand that some people might feel hungry seeing this, but I just felt this sudden hatred towards my bad food habits.thank you, I guess
Mate I’m grossed out rn.
Sameeee
Same they made me want go on a diet and everytime i watch mukbangers i just get grossed out and my cravings for fast food dies lol
@@ewe2630 not to mention the sexualisation of food.
I'm grossed out with that stuff i guess having etiquette is better than mukbang. I even have this two year old cousin who watches McDonald's mukbang and the mom's ok with it I was disgusted after realizing he watches the stuff. I'm also curious what happens if he watches that a lot is he going to think that eating large amounts of fast food is normal.
No one in the world thinks nichacodo avocado is calming lol
Agreed! All I feel is chaos from the few clips I’ve seen around social media. 🥴
I didn't even want to watch from his channel when i first heard about him. Hahah i watched a reaction video from other channels when i was curious about what he does. Didnt want to give him views😅
His are feeder fetish videos
Our favorite professor released another documentary!!!🤩
lmfao 🤗
I like mukbangs with absolutely no talking, reactions, or mouth sounds. Minimal slurping, “maximal” crunching. Zach Choi is my absolute favorite.
The truth is a lot of people who watch mukbangs have eating disorders and enjoy watching people eat to fulfill their longing
Yea, I'm always starving, that's why I watch so many mukbang... Kinda sad actually
@@MarieTilly I don't get it, whenever I watch somebody eating food I immediately want to go get something to eat. LOL not that I do, just saying the urge is there.
bingo, I watch people eat like this because i know I could never do that without feeling horrible. its honestly pretty sad, I spend hours watching mukbangs to fill my hunger.
Yeah when things get bad I usually fixate on mukbangs
If you don't eat your food like you're making love to it, you're obviously not an emotional eater or have no eating disorder (tendencies). Some people just don't understand the struggle. Food is almost a religious experience 😋
It makes you cry; it makes you sing.
Yeah, sometimes there's moaning. It's not on purpose 😕
I hate everything about mukbangs: the chewing sounds, the creepy staring at the camera while they stuff their faces, the moaning, the disgusting way they eat
Me too, I. Any understand why people watch it
Same!! The sounds make me anxious and angry
I absolutly HATE it
Yes. I agree. There are some mukbangers that are tolerable, like Boki (personal favorite)
Me too. I prefer it when people chew as silently as they can.
Sometimes tiktokers will do little vids where they “eat with you” to help people get through that first initial fear of food and those really work sometimes. To just have someone else, who can’t see me or what I’m eating, take the first bite and tell me that I should take one too works really well. So the live ones sound like they could be really nice for stuff like that.
On my fyp a while ago, therE was a girl who recorded herself eating along in a duet filled with tears because the video she dueted was a girl eating with the viewer, it was so heartwarming and heartbreaking at the same time
Fear of food? Wtf am i missing ? Is this some type of gen z fear of food?
@@PrmtymeTheGamer84 Probably not a gen z thing. This may be related to anorexia, bulimia, or some other food related phobias.
Could this help me with my fear of eating in front of others?
this is actually very heartwarming
Wow! this video is so interesting, and very impressive. I love how you talked about every aspect of it, even the part of the EDs.
As an art history nerd: oftentimes European still life paintings of feasts show half-rotting or peeled food in order to make a thematic commentary on the transience of life on Earth in comparison to an eternity in heaven. Choices of different foods and items carried strong symbolic meanings in context. So... Not JUST food porn !
Yes, I believe these are called vanitas paintings. They do these with other rotting objects too like flowers or skulls.
@@adria317 these sound wonderfully goth thank you
@Leslie Arias Did you not watch the video? She starts off with food images-- literally what this post was talking about. Food used to be used differently in images than it is today, that isn't at least a little interesting to take note of?
I can’t be the only one who actually *prefers* to eat alone..I find eating around people to be rather uncomfortable. Could be a social anxiety thing maybe? Idk. I just like to eat alone is all I know 😅
Lol same here! I don't like when people are trying to talk to me while I'm eating and trying to chew my food, or glancing over at me while taking a bite haha. It is so much more peaceful to eat alone 😊
I'm definitely more reserved eating in front of friends. Making sure I close my mouth, wiping off my mouth, taking small bites, not talking while eating. I just don't want to appear any bit disgusting to friends.
i'm exactly the same, and it's definitely because i have anxiety about eating in front of people and most other tasks in life in general e.g. buying food. i do this in front of family too and they think i'm only doing it out of etiquette. little do they know, i'm having intrusive thoughts about my appearance during the whole meal.
Definitely anxiety. I used to eat alone at a restaurant once a week just to enjoy time by myself. Focusing on just me. I would splurge on a meal I knew I wouldn't finish and a delicious cup of coffee. Afterwards I realized I stopped caring about how big of a bite I took in front of my friends. It helped. I suggest you give it a try when you are able to.
Might be an introvert thing. Sometimes I need that alone time at breakfast or lunch to collect my thoughts and recharge during a busy day.
I got so angry when I saw her handling that poor octopus like that I'm absolutely disgusted
Yeah how is that allowed on youtube, its animal abuse wtf
@@castleofnothing its just food
Its just food
@@averyharper239 not if she was eating alive animal... That is sick and disturbing, because animals are in pain.
@@vanjalasko4685 the animal is going to die anyways. Im vegetarian and I honestly don't care. Food is food. And for some people animals are food.
This was the wrong thing to watch on a day that I’m fasting.😅🍻
I've been raised with parents telling me to respect the food i have on my plate...
This trend triggers me more than you could imagine
Same. Especially when i heard some dont really consume them or spit them out.
Fr I wasn’t even aloud to play with my food
This, thank Allah for table manners
Exactly just watching these makes me wanna grab the belt on these people
Food shouldn't be toyed with like that
I get anxious whenever I see food bloggers/content creators waste food. Wasting food was a big no-no for almost all of my family members.
Those who have eating disorders play a huge role of audience members. Especially those who have anorexia and binge eating disorder. Also as someone who had an ED some of us have had to do treatment programs where we are supposed to sit down together for a meal so we destigmatize eating around others or making sure we are eating multiple meals a day. Online was a way to do if for those who graduated from a program, we just did so through skype/zoom style meetings instead of recording it and putting it on TH-cam.
i've been called out 😥
Yeah I was looking through her chapters and was like is she not going to talk about how this viewed and can depending on the person: help or hinder those with Eating disorders.
Not only the viewer but the binge and purgers with in the creators.
Personality it’s helped and Also hurt my ED depends on who and how I watch like nick made me quick eating for a week but watching better creators help me get over people watching me eat.
I'm not vegetarian nor vegan but Ssoyoung's content makes me understand vegetarians/vegans a lot more 😓
It's horrible...I can't understand how you can torture living beings willingly. I mean for the meat you eat, you don't directly get involved with how the animal is raised and killed. (an if you watch your sources, those animals will be treated well along the process too). Not saying that we shouldn't think about that and reflect on our food choices anyway but it just gives you this distance from something many people couldn't do. Which makes me wonder how this girl can do this....
@@stilloslachen6519 I have been many types of eater. As long as one is mindful of sources of said food, I'm ok with a person's choice.
i dont understand why ppl watch her videos
@@stilloslachen6519 you actually do get involved, as you are paying for an animal to be slaughtered
@@andresvos Obviously. I was trying to say something different. Namely that most people would be reluctant towards killing an animal themselves, even the way the industry does. Yet here we have people like her, who for some reason, feel no remorse when mistreating and unnecessarily torturing animals. And that I just find it hard to understand how she can do it.
Personally, I think, theres still a difference between torturing an animal and merely killing it. However, everyone is free to decide if he thinks the latter is unacceptable.
Myself, I find the treatment of animals before the killing the much bigger issue most of the times.