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 ...

Experts warn about the potential dangers of excessive eating in videos. Trisha Paytas caught on to the "mukbang" trend early, garnering millions of views of herself eating on camera. Over the last 11 ...

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 ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Design by Maisie Derlega. However, many modern mukbangers take eating to an extreme. In a study ...

A “mukbang” is a video dedicated to eating in front of a camera. The video style originated in 2010 in South Korea, becoming a trend of someone filming themselves preparing and/or eating a meal, and ...

A 24-year-old extreme eater, who gained fame on TikTok, died due to complications from obesity, according to a report. Efecan Kultur, 24, well known in his native Turkey for his ‘mukbang’ streams, in ...

China has made the decision to outlaw overt gluttony, which also targets Chinese mukbangers who gorge on camera to the enjoyment of millions of viewers. Getty Images The internet’s “mukbang” trend is ...

Spread atop a wooden board are about half a dozen small octopuses, alive and squirming. The Korean "mukbang" influencer Ssoyoung warns her viewers not to try the delicacy—a known deadly choking hazard ...