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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

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 ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Health (DOH) will not immediately issue a ban on the showing of “mukbang” videos online while it studies whether these promote unhealthy eating habits. For now, ...

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 ...

Mukbang is a global social media trend that originated in South Korea in the early 2010s. Mukbang involves videos of people who eat very large amounts of (often calorie-rich) food in a single sitting.