UGH!

UGH!

UGH!

Has it been three years?

How long has it been?

Mukbang was the new genre that took YouTube by storm in 2018, so popular that it made it to YouTube Rewind.

Wowee!

I want to eat something-

MUKBANG!

MUKBANG!

Yeah!

Korea!

Let's do it!

Korea style!

It's fun.

It's innocent.

But of course then YouTubers come in, and they gotta take everything to the next level, to the extreme.

Not that I've ever done that, of course.

What is this thumbnail?

I gotta hand it to Mukbang Channels, they always know how to make a good thumbnail.

Does anyone actually click on that and be like, wowee!

I can't wait to see her eat all that!

Mukbang for those of you who don't know is basically just people eating food on camera.

You know, even though I know that, any time I click on the video and all I hear is-

Right?

This for example.

I really shouldn't be surprised, right?

It is what it is.

It's just one of those things where you're like, that can't be it.

People just eat, oh wait, that's it, okay, alright.

But like I mentioned before, YouTubers come in, and they always take it too far.

It's sort of become a trend to eat.

The nastier the food looks, the more sort of interesting, I guess, people click on it, they wanna see.

This is called Mukbang ASMR.

If ASMR is supposed to be something nice and pleasant, this is doing the exact opposite for me.

I don't know what you would call that.

Oh, that's Mr. Krabs, no, oh, Mr. Krabs!

God, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it so much.

YouTube, please, bring it back.

Oh God, she's one of those YouTubers that like all the comments, so that you can't tell what people actually think.

It's really good, YouTube removed the dislikes, and now they have this.

There's nothing left.

She likes all the good ones, so they show up, right?

Whatever, I don't care.

This is so gross.

I get, I love seafood, but this is f***ing nasty, dude, stop it.

I don't know what it is with like, young Asian girls eating really nasty food.

Why?

Why?

Stop!

Stop it!

We're not watching that.

I've decided.

You're welcome.

Then, of course, there's this.

This happened in 2019, after I made my video, and it's just, uh, it's just wild.

Octopus attacks live streamer as she tried to eat it alive, in China.

Jesus Christ, this feels like straight out of a nightmare.

This is the stuff I, that shows up in my dreams, and I go, oh God, you wake up and you're like, oh God, thank God that didn't happen.

I never thought I'd actually root for the, for the octopus.

This octopus accomplished something great in his life.

He will be an inspiration for generations to come.

You can do it, man.

Come on, man.

May this octopus rest in peace for being a great hero.

That's right.

I actually agree.

No!

No!

But it didn't end well.

But she's playing it up, right?

It's like, haha, look, it's sucking my face off.

Haha, it's so funny.

But she later begins to panic.

Yeah.

No.

Mm.

Nah.

Mm.

Yeah.

My skin is broken.

I will eat it in my next video.

My face is disfigured.

The industrial revolution and its consequences.

To be fair, there are some funny mukbangs, like the guy that did the cheese thing.

That was funny, right?

Bro, just turn it off.

Jesus Christ.

I love when he actually managed to do it too.

Nice.

But some good doesn't outweigh the bad.

Oh, God.

This girl again.

Dislike button.

Bring it back.

Thank you.

Comments turn off.

Pussy.

God damn it.

Dislike button.

It still hurts, man.

I know.

Listen, I know.

It's a fucking fish who gives a shit, right?

But still, there is someone mistreating an animal at the end of the day.

I don't mean to be gay or moral.

It's moral.

Poor.

But, like, it's done on camera in front of millions of people, and it's fine, apparently.

And it's also weird.

Like, I'm not allowed to say what I actually think about this without YouTube coming in and being like, that's bullying.

You can't say that.

And we also have this girl.

I guess she's like the last boss.

I don't know what she eats, and I don't want to know what she eats.

What is that?

Don't answer.

Only wrong answers are allowed.

She always pours that sauce on, too.

That does not make it better.

She eats it like it's Chinese propaganda.

Oh, so good.

So yummy, yummy.

So she tries to pull out this snail thing.

I don't know what it is.

I don't care.

I don't care.

Stop telling me.

So she can't get it out.

So she just tries to, like, again, pour the fucking sauce on it.

And then bite it.

She clearly can't bite it.

Now, like, what are you doing here?

I don't want to know what that is.

I don't know.

That's fermented soybeans.

I actually know what that is.

That's a Japanese thing.

I don't know why they eat that.

Yeah.

Yeah.

All right.

Anyway, long story short, I hate it.

Now, I made this video about Mukbang three years ago, and there was two YouTubers I brought up.

One of them was Nikan Avocado, and I kind of wanted to check in, see how they're doing.

This is from 2018.

Let's check them out today.

It's funny.

He's trying to sell his own clothing that he doesn't even fit into.

Nikan Avocado is the American final boss of Mukbang.

I gotta hand it to him.

Like, no one does thumbnails better than Nikan Avocado.

Because no one else can go from the spiciest instant noodles in the world to we broke up.

Extreme fire noodle challenge with Hungary.

I feel like I always hear something going on in the background of Nikan Avocado, and I just cannot be bothered to figure out what is actually happening.

But I do remember he did a response to my video, and, you know, at least, you know, I know he can laugh at himself.

He's not taking it too seriously.

My viewers, I'm doing this for life.

Once I hit 30, I'm done.

I'm going back to a healthy diet.

I remember that.

He said once I'm 30, he's done.

He's 29 now.

I feel like if he managed to just, like, lose all his weight and come back super ripped, that would be the funniest sh**.

That would be such a funny conclusion to his whole saga of degeneracy.

I don't know what to call it.

I literally keep revising this channel every once in a while to see if he's still...

I feel like that's the whole reason we made this video.

I'm like, ah, I wonder what they're doing.

Oh, it's the same old thing.

Except it's blue now.

I really appreciate the Coke Zero as well.

It's good to cut down on your calories.

Sometimes.

I guess my final take on mukbang is that I hate it.

It grosses me out.

Clearly, people like it.

Anything YouTube related is gonna be, uh, exploited to the max, I guess you could say.

I just find it weird how this kind of stuff YouTube is just...

And I'm not saying they should do anything about it.

I'm just saying, observing how it works, like, this is all fine, like, it's treating animals, just blatantly promoting obesity.

I know they're not condoning it, especially Nikado has never condoned it, but, you know, it has its effect still.

Kids are impressionable, right?

As someone who's dealt with so much censorship on this platform, it's like, what? Really?

I'm just baffled by it.

I'm not saying I disagree with it existing at all.

It's just weird when you find these different corners on YouTube, and you're like, oh, this is fine.

Oh, why? Okay.

Anyway, what do you think?

Let me know in the comments.

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