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What Are These "Mukbang" Eating Videos Popping Up?

Posted on 4/11/24 at 10:41 am
Posted by Gris Gris
OTIS!NO RULES FOR SAUCES ON STEAK!!
Member since Feb 2008
47599 posts
Posted on 4/11/24 at 10:41 am
I follow a lot of restaurants and cooking pages on Facebook. Suddenly, pages I don't follow are popping up with videos of people eating mostly what they call "seafood boils" drenched in some sort of sauce with the same sauce on the side for dipping. They aren't reviewing a restaurant.

I had to look up Mukbang because I saw that word on some of the videos and I'd never heard of it. It's some sort of eating show apparently originating from South Korea.

In the videos that have popped up, these people are smacking in addition to making other noises like moaning, talking with their mouths full, have sauce dripping down their chins and dripping the sauce all over the place, taking huge bites of food and just generally pretty disgusting.

Are these people really making money doing this? It's gross.
Posted by caro81
Member since Jul 2017
5079 posts
Posted on 4/11/24 at 10:50 am to
been around for awhile now. its fricking gross.

people stuffing themselves with garbage and acting disgusting. and yes there is almost certainly a percentage of viewership that gets off on it.

Nikado Avocado is probably one of the most famous examples, and kind of a fascinating story of relatively normal person turning into a monster.
Posted by Midget Death Squad
Meme Magic
Member since Oct 2008
24920 posts
Posted on 4/11/24 at 11:25 am to
The world is full of weird people with weird fetishes. All we can do is shrug
Posted by L Boogie
Texas
Member since Jul 2009
5082 posts
Posted on 4/11/24 at 11:31 am to
It's disgusting.

I get grossed out when parents post pictures of their toddlers with food all over the face. It's not cute, it's nasty. If a kid can't be cute with a filthy face, why on earth would I want to see a full-grown adult with a functional frontal lobe covered in grease and crumbs?

Just awful.
Posted by Shexter
Prairieville
Member since Feb 2014
14173 posts
Posted on 4/11/24 at 11:31 am to
quote:

"seafood boils" drenched in some sort of sauce with the same sauce on the side for dipping.


So it's the Juicy Seafood crowd?

Posted by Darla Hood
Near that place by that other place
Member since Aug 2012
14079 posts
Posted on 4/11/24 at 1:51 pm to
I took second place in the shrimp food challenge with a stuffed shrimp recipe I got from a mukbanger.

Because she prepped annd fried the shrimp in the first half of the video, I didn’t realize it was a mukbang video at first. She didn’t actually get gross, or eat a mountain of food, but she put a dent in the dozen stuffed fried shrimp she made. She had a few good recipes so I watched her for awhile. Since she wasn’t gross, I watched one by someone else and it was gross. Maybe I watched a mukbanger-light.
Posted by BilbeauTBaggins
probably stuck in traffic
Member since May 2021
4920 posts
Posted on 4/11/24 at 2:30 pm to
It's terrible. They have been around for quite some time. As mentioned, Nikocado Avocado is the most famous of them all. Dude was a relatively lean guy until he started going all in on mukbang videos. He would consume thousands of Calories DAILY and just get bigger and bigger. SunnyV2 on Youtube has at least one video on him that will explain the entire timeline of his collapse. Overall, the guy made getting attention his lifestyle and income.

penguinz0 goes over mukbang in this video where one specific Youtuber went out of their way to tortures sea creatures. She is eating a living, breathing squid, pouring salt on it, cutting off the hood. Pure animal torture.

Mukbang is just trash in general. I enjoy ASMR things like power tools, cleaning/ car detailing, to name a few, but I do not even like hearing myself eat, so why would I want to listen to others eat? It's awful.
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