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 ...

English-speaking YouTube has established tropes—workhorse video concepts like unboxing, shopping hauls, and microwaving things you’re not supposed to. Over the last few years (but especially in the ...

Move over, cooking shows. In Korea, the big food fad is eating shows, or mukbang. Korean viewers are so glued to watching strangers binge eating that the live-streamers consuming calories in front of ...

Amy McCarthy is a former reporter at Eater, focusing on pop culture, policy and labor, and only the weirdest online trends. As 10 slices of bacon sizzle on an electric griddle, YouTube star Nicholas P ...