South Korea's online trend: Paying to watch a pretty girl eat(edition.cnn.com)
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South Korea's online trend: Paying to watch a pretty girl eat
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/01/29/world/asia/korea-eating-room/index.html?hpt=hp_c3
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Your stomach is not a combustion engine nor a magic bag of holding. If you eat more than you can digest, you will poop out incompletely-digested food.
Please resume your regularly scheduled insane internet calorie conversation.
Please resume your regularly scheduled insane internet calorie conversation.
If you eat a lot just few times a day here what is going to happen:
1) you stomach size will increase 2) you will eat less often 3) but you will eat more 4) you body will detect inability to get food often and will start storing fats just in case 5) you body won't be pooping incopmletely-digested food out. It's just insanely ineffective for survival. (unless you get diarrhea) 6) you will get fat
Please resume your regularly scheduled insane internet pooping conversation.
1) you stomach size will increase 2) you will eat less often 3) but you will eat more 4) you body will detect inability to get food often and will start storing fats just in case 5) you body won't be pooping incopmletely-digested food out. It's just insanely ineffective for survival. (unless you get diarrhea) 6) you will get fat
Please resume your regularly scheduled insane internet pooping conversation.
You can absorb about 8000 calories a day, if you optimize it in terms of timing. This is a problem for polar explorers who burn about 12000 calories a day.
The something else is: someone is lying, or she's two-fingering in between takes (likely).
At my peak, I was consuming 4000 calories a day doing some pretty hardcore construction work for 12 hours a day, 6 days a week. Even then, I could only eat 3/4 of a large Pizza Hut pizza for dinner (and not all that often).
At my peak, I was consuming 4000 calories a day doing some pretty hardcore construction work for 12 hours a day, 6 days a week. Even then, I could only eat 3/4 of a large Pizza Hut pizza for dinner (and not all that often).
"I could only eat 3/4 of a large Pizza Hut pizza for dinner "
When I took a vaction in the US the huge size of all things food suprised me a lot. I'd rather eat something of good quality than a lot of stuff of poor quality. (And I never should have tried fried pickles at BB Kings club).
When I took a vaction in the US the huge size of all things food suprised me a lot. I'd rather eat something of good quality than a lot of stuff of poor quality. (And I never should have tried fried pickles at BB Kings club).
This was back when they made good food. Now, they make utter junk.
I might not have been clear in my previous post. I was burning 4k calories a day. 3/4 of a large pizza wasn't even half the calories I needed just to get out of bed the next morning.
I ate healthy most of the time, but there were days when I'd put down 4 Big Macs for lunch and be hungry by dinner.
I might not have been clear in my previous post. I was burning 4k calories a day. 3/4 of a large pizza wasn't even half the calories I needed just to get out of bed the next morning.
I ate healthy most of the time, but there were days when I'd put down 4 Big Macs for lunch and be hungry by dinner.
I'm 5'9"/Male and well while I was sad and depressed due to various circumstances, I was consuming around 5000+ calories. I would literally stay up late into the night consuming 1.25+ Large Pizza Hut Pizzas with stuffed crust. Add to that the free bread/cheese rolls you get for being the first time buyer. So I auto generated codes for [email protected] where N starts at 0 and goes up to whatever you want.
Thankfully I was a heavy gym user prior to the period and I got some sanity back by the time I hit 225 lbs, my peak weight, and I've now again come down to 185 lbs.
During this period I'd just eat and I could eat a lot, there wasn't much to my day so I wasn't doing back breaking work AT ALL.
- Just another perspective.
Thankfully I was a heavy gym user prior to the period and I got some sanity back by the time I hit 225 lbs, my peak weight, and I've now again come down to 185 lbs.
During this period I'd just eat and I could eat a lot, there wasn't much to my day so I wasn't doing back breaking work AT ALL.
- Just another perspective.
You can vomit and get rid of extra calories after. This of course can cause much more issues in the future.
> For Park, online eating is not just a niche hobby but a significant source of income — she makes up to ₩10 million ($9,300) a month from her broadcasts alone.
> Afreeca TV, the publicly-listed social networking site that hosts her channel, allows users to buy and send virtual "star balloons" which can be monetized after the site takes a 30-40% commission.
30-40% seems like a massive commission. She's losing out on about $5,000 a month, or $60k a year. That's significant. Live streaming and virtual payments are commonplace at this point, so I imagine there are many options out there. Her fans will follow her wherever she goes.
> Afreeca TV, the publicly-listed social networking site that hosts her channel, allows users to buy and send virtual "star balloons" which can be monetized after the site takes a 30-40% commission.
30-40% seems like a massive commission. She's losing out on about $5,000 a month, or $60k a year. That's significant. Live streaming and virtual payments are commonplace at this point, so I imagine there are many options out there. Her fans will follow her wherever she goes.
Like apple's (or amazons, or any number of other companies) 30% share of revenue from AppStore sales?
They're even better than most salesman commissions I have seen which typically have a base salary until a sales target then offer up to 50-80% of any sales above that
A little different. Not very many ways to get an iPhone app onto and iPhone and get paid for it. Streaming video is anyone's game. iPhone apps are Apple's game.
You have to realize that she wouldn't be able to broadcast without Afreeca. Bandwidth is pretty expensive, although I'm not 100% sure if Afreeca works on P2P. Twitch.TV (English alternative) takes a 50% cut from subscriptions for example.
what's the tech behind Twitch.tv? how do you build a service like that
North America's online trend: Watching a bearded guy and his friends eat bacon and amalgamated fast food
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9FRSghXhDM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9FRSghXhDM
That's a recipe and cooking. There's only a few seconds of eating.
"Watching a bearded man and friends obsess over fat. Bacon fat."
This is probably her friend http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s99Vt2KgeXY
I clicked on this, not knowing at all what the entire thread was about.
Now I am scarred for life.
Have an upvote.
Now I am scarred for life.
Have an upvote.
does he have any more videos, this man should be viral
I found this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXl0HY3ujqA
Now I'm getting into it. I want to see him finish eating it. Simply because I don't believe he'll do it.
It's hilarious. I have no idea what the text or comments are saying, but I can't stop laughing.
ask an ye shall receive: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bj%20%EC%82%AC%E...
wow! thanks so much this is gonna keep me busy for a while lol
Rule 34; given enough Internet, "Paying to watch a pretty girl <verb>" is guaranteed to be a thing...
I heard about something like years ago, but in America. Does anyone else remember?
/edit Found her!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Simpson_(internet_celebri...
/edit Found her!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Simpson_(internet_celebri...
You mean the 'Crying While Eating'[1] meme?
[1]: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/crying-while-eating
[1]: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/crying-while-eating
I would recommend against Googling images of her.
I went into the article assuming it was going to be the usual "Here's a strange thing done by a few people that we're going to call a trend".
Assuming that viewership at Afreeca TV is split among rooms equally, they're talking about 150,000 people watching these eating rooms daily on that site alone. Impressive.
Assuming that viewership at Afreeca TV is split among rooms equally, they're talking about 150,000 people watching these eating rooms daily on that site alone. Impressive.
>I went into the article assuming it was going to be the usual "Here's a strange thing done by a few people that we're going to call a trend".
Hmm, you'd be surprised. Check out following for bizarro trends in Japan for example...
Hmm, you'd be surprised. Check out following for bizarro trends in Japan for example...
Honestly, my first thought was 'demographic dividend', but it doesn't look like South Korea's gender ratios are skewed at all.
http://www.nationmaster.com/country/ks-korea-south/Age_distr...
http://www.nationmaster.com/country/ks-korea-south/Age_distr...
There's some gender imbalance. Marriage and fertility rates have also been falling steadily in recent years, you aren't that far off.
Most of people I know here still get married for all the wrong reasons (social status, money, family and social pressure, ...), and you need to add the fact that career-wise, males are typically lagging 2-3 years behind females because of the military conscription.
Antiquated Confucian values and breakneck development of the country are a terrible mix in my opinion, and I believe it'll affect the society in ways that are more extreme than anything we've seen elsewhere (the comparison with Japan is easy). But I reckon that Korea is also able to react quickly, sometimes with drastic measures, let's see.
Most of people I know here still get married for all the wrong reasons (social status, money, family and social pressure, ...), and you need to add the fact that career-wise, males are typically lagging 2-3 years behind females because of the military conscription.
Antiquated Confucian values and breakneck development of the country are a terrible mix in my opinion, and I believe it'll affect the society in ways that are more extreme than anything we've seen elsewhere (the comparison with Japan is easy). But I reckon that Korea is also able to react quickly, sometimes with drastic measures, let's see.
Is this like the Japanese eyeball-licking trend? Find one or two weirdos and assume all the kids are doing it?
No. these trends are legitimate. It's not everyone. Nobody says that. But it gets enough fans that it is a legitimate trend.
Just like ASMR is a kind of weird trend in America, and now around the world.
To me, it's not weird at all that many people find it interesting to watch. I certainly type up "Chocolate ASMR" into youtube and watch a lot of those videos of people eating chocolate quietly for fun.
Just like ASMR is a kind of weird trend in America, and now around the world.
To me, it's not weird at all that many people find it interesting to watch. I certainly type up "Chocolate ASMR" into youtube and watch a lot of those videos of people eating chocolate quietly for fun.
I wonder what the North Koreans think about this! It could be some amazing psyops.
It's not that crazy. They look like this when they eat. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IFCPWv5n2Y
People will get into just about any fad these days it seems. Well, this world is bizarre. There is just too much free time in some places and just too much hunger in some.
Does she really eat all that food or some of it and the rest of it is thrown out by a magic finger trick? she would have quite an economic incentive to do that.
I knew this had a context : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J9X9VvYQXU
the OTHER videos are the context for THIS video.
Reminds me of that episode in Desperate Housewives where girls were paid to clean their own homes in a sexy maid costume.
I googled 먹방 and now I am feeling very hungry late at night. Feels like Epic Meal Time but with Korean food.
What on earth , that is like 9000 calories or over 4x the recommended daily calories for an average woman. That is more than a professional athlete or bodybuilder would eat.
Even with a fast metabolism, it seems impossible that somebody could eat that much without getting very fat , very fast.
Even if she ran for 8 hours a day every day she would only use about half of that.
There must be something else going on here.