{"id":1175,"date":"2025-05-22T15:39:51","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T14:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unglossedmag.co.uk\/?p=1175"},"modified":"2025-05-28T17:03:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T16:03:58","slug":"opinion-is-mukbanging-only-cute-when-you-are-thin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jusmedia.co.uk\/unglossedmag\/2025\/05\/22\/opinion-is-mukbanging-only-cute-when-you-are-thin\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Is mukbanging only cute when you’re thin?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Mukbanging, a fun word and even funner concept. But the mentality behind watching someone eat may be a little more complicated than we think.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For some of us, there is absolutely nothing worse than watching someone eat. The sound of someone slurping their drink and smacking their lips is enough to turn our stomach and put our food in the bin. But for others, watching someone eat is calming, it\u2019s interesting, it\u2019s fulfilling and it\u2019s a form of escapism like watching a movie or reading a good book. And albeit it’s slightly more messy than these more traditional mediums, the world of mukbanging has become a genre in its own right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In one (very full) corner of the internet, lives creators like Trisha Paytus, Janemukbangs, and Anali, all of whom eat excessive amounts of fast food in front of a high- quality camera and crisp mic, for the world to enjoy. Some of the love for mukbanging apparently comes from living vicariously through the person- it gives you all the sounds and sensations of amazing food, without the calories or the cost. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some<\/a> suggest that watching a mukbang can be a sort of solution for loneliness. With lots of people finding themselves eating alone, it makes sense that mukbang would appeal to lonely people as a video form of communal eating. Which is quite a wholesome concept really. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You also may fantasise about eating a huge amount of food, so watching someone else do it allows you to vicariously let your inhibitions go, without actually dealing with the intense stomach cramps and regret actually<\/em> eating it might give you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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