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 ...

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 ...

A man records himself eating fast food amid piles of cheeseburgers, fish sandwiches, chicken nuggets, hashbrowns and fries, and, of course, copious amounts of sauce — all with heightened sound to hear ...

Amy McCarthy is a former reporter at Eater, focusing on pop culture, policy and labor, and only the weirdest online trends. Usually within about 30 seconds of opening the TikTok app on my phone, I can ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers in Korea have uncovered how the rise of digital food shows, from Mukbang feasts to Cookbang tutorials, is quietly reshaping when, what, and how people eat. Study: Association between ...

It’s maybe 10 inches long, thick and hard as a rock, and Kim Thai is about to film herself putting the entire thing in her mouth. “This is going to get dirty,” she says eagerly, before eventually ...