24-year-old ‘mukbang’ streamer dies from obesity-related issues: report

New York Post ^ | March 11, 2025 | Shane Galvin

[nickcarraway]

Why do people do this, and even more so, why do people watch this?

[BenLurkin]

The world has gone mad. It could stand a good hard flush.

[BipolarBob]

This puts a crimp into my latest job venture. I wanted to be a mukbanger. I wasn’t sure what it was but I knew I wanted some of that action. Now I have to go back to being a WalMart greeter.

[BipolarBob]

It wouldn't kill ya' to resize these monstrosities.

[Blue Highway]

Mukbang doesn’t sound like a Turkish word, and the guy looks Asian. What’s up with this?

[nickcarraway]

I looked it up, and it comes from the Korean word for eating, but I think it’s worldwide now.

[SkyDancer]

How much did he weigh?

[Apparatchik]

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

[Larry Lucido]

I can think of much hotter Korean babes who I wouldn’t mind watching eat an ice cream cone or a banana. But not this.

[BitWielder1]

It is cruel but this is what Natural Selection is supposed to take care of.

[catnipman]

“Efecan Kultur, 24, well known in his native Turkey for his ‘mukbang’ streams, in which he would gorge on massive amounts of food — died on Mar. 7 after spending three months in the hospital due to obesity-related health problems”

well, at least he died doing what he loved: massive grotesque gluttony ...

[catnipman]

“I wanted to be a mukbanger. I wasn’t sure what it was but I knew I wanted some of that action”

sigh ... you MADE me look up what a mukbanger is:

“A mukbanger is a person who eats large amounts of food in front of a camera and interacts with their audience.”

at least the capital outlay to enter the muckbanging racket is pretty small: internet camera and food ... plus muckbanging is MUCH easier than podcasting, as long as the food supply holds out ...

[PGalt]

Gluttony

[BipolarBob]

Gluttony sounds disgusting BUT . . you tell your friends your a mukbanger and it sounds impressive.

[heavy metal]

wonder if toilets have load ratings...

[ansel12]

Toilets will handle about 1,000 pounds, wall-mount toilets about 500.

[Organic Panic]

Prize won.

[EvilCapitalist]

Eat to live, don’t live to eat.

[redfreedom]

LOL. Your remark reminds me of a hot blonde licking an ice cream cone many years ago. It was quite entertaining, and I think she knew exactly what she was doing.

[Larry Lucido]

:)