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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Search the word “mukbang” on TikTok and you’d better have a strong stomach. It’s a Korean word for performance eating on TV, and the medium takes smackdown eating to the 10th power. Kim Nguyen and her ...

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 ...