In the hallowed hall of food fads, what in the world could be weirder than mukbang? A Korean word, loosely translated it means something like eat-casting. Basically, it's watching long YouTube videos ...

For years, people have been heading to YouTube to spend upwards of 60 minutes at a time to watch strangers consume 4,000 or more calories in one sitting. Not only that, many of these viewers are ...

Vivienne Lewis works for The University of Canberra and is a member of the Australian Psychological Society. Sijun Shen does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or ...

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If the point of mukbang is to provide viewers with the secondhand satisfaction of watching someone else eat delicious food, then the ASMR mukbang videos of South Korean YouTuber Yammoo satisfy a ...

The Department of Health (DOH) is considering banning “mukbang” or eating vlogs following the death of a food content creator in Iligan due to stroke. According to Mariz Umali’s report on “24 Oras,” ...

In this video, we explore Brazilian cuisine through a mukbang featuring a variety of cheeses and cuts of meat, including ...

After a long day of work, there's only one way that 23-year-old Nadia* knows how to unwind. While eating a reasonable dinner of chicken, rice, and beans, she watches her favorite YouTube star down two ...

Efecan Kultur, who went viral on TikTok for his ‘mukbang’ streams, was admitted to a hospital for 3 months before his death. 24-year-old Efecan Kultur, who was known for his extreme eating ‘mukbang’ ...

A 24-year-old TikTok star, Efecan Kultur, who gained fame through his mukbang videos, passed away due to obesity-related complications after being hospitalized for three months. Mukbang, a popular ...