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South Korea's online trend: Paying to watch a pretty girl eat
- notastartup 13y agoI googled 먹방 and now I am feeling very hungry late at night. Feels like Epic Meal Time but with Korean food.
- viach 13y agoThis is probably her friend http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s99Vt2KgeXY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s99Vt2KgeXY
- notastartup 13y agodoes he have any more videos, this man should be viral
- Auguste 13y agoIt's hilarious. I have no idea what the text or comments are saying, but I can't stop laughing.
- viach 13y agoI found this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXl0HY3ujqA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXl0HY3ujqA
- jrs99 13y agoNow I'm getting into it. I want to see him finish eating it. Simply because I don't believe he'll do it.
- thkim 13y agoask an ye shall receive: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bj%20%EC%82%AC%EC%B1%84%EC%97%85%EC%9E%90%20%EB%A8%B9%EB%B0%A9&sm=3 http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bj%20%EC%82%AC%E...
- notastartup 13y agowow! thanks so much this is gonna keep me busy for a while lol
- AmVess 13y agoI clicked on this, not knowing at all what the entire thread was about. Now I am scarred for life. Have an upvote.
- rangibaby 13y agoI heard about something like years ago, but in America. Does anyone else remember? /edit Found her! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Simpson_(internet_celebrity) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Simpson_(internet_celebri...
- Auguste 13y agoYou mean the 'Crying While Eating'[1] meme? [1]: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/crying-while-eating http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/crying-while-eating
- tlrobinson 13y agoI would recommend against Googling images of her.
- politician 13y agoHonestly, 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_distribution http://www.nationmaster.com/country/ks-korea-south/Age_distr...
- hocuspocus 13y agoThere'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.
- guynamedloren 13y ago> 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.
- robbiep 13y agoLike 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
- guynamedloren 13y agoA 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.
- Joona 13y agoYou 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.
- notastartup 13y agowhat's the tech behind Twitch.tv? how do you build a service like that
- higherpurpose 13y agoReminds me of that episode in Desperate Housewives where girls were paid to clean their own homes in a sexy maid costume.
- xophe 13y agoNorth 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
- Dylan16807 13y agoThat's a recipe and cooking. There's only a few seconds of eating.
- xophe 13y ago"Watching a bearded man and friends obsess over fat. Bacon fat."
- jiggy2011 13y agoShe easily polishes off four large pizzas or three kilograms (6 lb) of beef in one sitting 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.
- krakensden 13y agoYour 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.
- jiggy2011 13y agoBut your stomach should be able to stretch to the point where it can digest far more calories than is required to maintain yourself, either that or repture.
- coldtea 13y agoThe stomach is strechable far beyond the substinence limit.
- Gonzih 13y agoIf 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.
- gaius 13y agoYou 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.
- akurtzhs 13y agoI 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.
- coldtea 13y ago>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...
- okonomiyaki3000 13y agoIt's not that crazy. They look like this when they eat. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IFCPWv5n2Y http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IFCPWv5n2Y
- tsotha 13y agoIs this like the Japanese eyeball-licking trend? Find one or two weirdos and assume all the kids are doing it?
- jrs99 13y agoNo. 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.
- gaius 13y agoI wonder what the North Koreans think about this! It could be some amazing psyops.
- rjd 13y agoI knew this had a context : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J9X9VvYQXU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J9X9VvYQXU
- jrs99 13y agothe OTHER videos are the context for THIS video.
- jrabone 13y agoRule 34; given enough Internet, "Paying to watch a pretty girl <verb>" is guaranteed to be a thing...
- eklavya 13y agoPeople 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.
- skreech 13y agoBrad Pitt eats in lots of movies, maybe a western equivalent?
- jrs99 13y agoThe western equivalent would be either Competitive Eating or going to any steakhouse in the country.
- axilmar 13y agoDoes 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.