I think people like food challenges including mukbangs because they allow viewers to live vicariously through the youtuber and have a grand indulgence. However, some of this appeal is lost when the videos are inauthentic, e.g. when people fake 10,000 calorie challenges. Perhaps that is why inauthentic, e.g. deliberately misleading volumes of food are not in good faith with what mukbang is.ridethewaves wrote:If anyone is looking up to a mukbanger then they got more problems than that. Everyone knows mukbangs are extreme so why would they be imitated or make others feel bad? I call bs. It's not stephanie's responsibility
I suspect Stephanie feels pigeonholed as a mukbanger when all she wants to do is vlog for validation. She never has anything interesting to say about the food itself and seems to drag a storytime through the meal. She totally lacks personality or interests/hobbies or creativity to carry a channel otherwise.
As if the troll of this board, Stephanie seems to have quite a few non-North American/non-primarily English speaking viewers follow her....in that context she seems like a loud, fun American. I find that some people from this demographic can be especially fanatical about their idols. Or it could be Rui, who also fits this profile